Oh, in case you're wondering, mine had always been a cat. First time was during the PostPet fever back in god knows when (1997?), after that was a few years back (less than six years ago, but no definite date) when Tiffany and I wanted to play around with virtual pets again. Today though, right after installing it and loading it up, my first thought was, "Oh. My. God. It's so grainy!"
In fact, I think it's probably so old now that Sony doesn't even bother running maintenance on it anymore. But it was so cute though when everyone's got one and the pets just started journalling as well (mine was just a horny little cat!). ^^ I think it was one of the kawaii things that the Japanese devised up to introduce email to children - and what an encouragement to reply to emails too, especially for lazy shites like me! - a bit like Windows Bob (which was a failure, but I liked it because it was so cute!). What's cuter than having a virtual pet that you not only feed, pet, play with, take care of, but it delivers your mail whilst out visiting other people's virtual pets (you can feed a visiting pet too if it's hungry), write a journal entry on the visit (and it'll tell you whether it's been smacked by your heavy-handed friend!) and collect "treasures" on its way home?
Unfortunately, the teenagers took it up because us aZns are lovers of Hello Kitty and cute shit like that, and infected our friends too. :P It only really started going downhill when Sony tried to make money out of it by coming up with shit like PostPet World, and after that limiting it to only Japanese, which sucks for the rest of us who don't read Japanese.
Wonder how long this renewed fascination is going to last. :P But yeesh, I have a cat who is a picky eater. He just shook his head and refused to eat a biscotti even though he's "Absolutely famished"!
*bribes with catnip*
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