- Cat virtual pet games
- Felix a great virtual cat site from the U.K. sponsored by Purina
- Meow Pal virtual cat from Meow Mix
- ShowCats virtual cat game from makers of ShowDog
- Kitten Tracks virtual cat
- Pure Felinity buy, sell, breed and show virtual cats. Genetic traits
are passed on.
- Catsup Cat SIM game - in Sept 2007 URL said it was Closed
- Virtual Kitty has lots of advertisements
- Dog AND Cat virtual pet games
- Net Pet cats and dogs from American Girl
- Fish virtual pet games
- Virtual Fishtank design virtual fish and release them in a virtual
fish tank
- Insaniquarium interesting virtual aquarium game where well tended fish drop coins you can use to buy more fish and stuff
- Virtual Cattle, Cow, Steer, Bull virtual pet games
- Show Cattle raise and show cattle (from same company with ShowDogs.com)
- Virtual Sheep pet game
- MoutonKing interesting "sheep raising" game from France, now online in English. This one is worth a look for its uniqueness.
- Camel virtual pet game
- Llama virtual pet games
- Virtual Horses
- There are dozens of online Horse SIM games. Here are a few:
- Several virtual horse racing games are online, some cost real money to play
- Virtual Ranch & Muliple Types of Animals
- Render Ranch a nice virtual ranch, you can bree, raise, show and sell all sort of animals. Basic game is free, upgrades cost real money.
- Best of Breed SIM game raise and show dogs, cats and horses
- Creature Breeder raise, breed, and trade
pets on customized farms. Back online after being down a long time
- Adopt Me several pets
- SimLife developed by MAXIS and published
by Electronic Arts in 1992
- Plant virtual pet games
- Virtual Communities of Virtual Pets, humans, avatars, and dolls
- NeoPets
- GoPets somewhat similar to NeoPets, read more about it in an interview with IGN insider.
- Barbie Girls a virtual Barbie World from Mattel launched 26 April 2007
- Furcadia you play an animal that walks around in a SIM world.
Requires real money for some upgrade items
- Second Life live your second / other life as an avatar (you are sort
of a self controlled, virtual pet)
- Monster, Dragon, Alien virtual pets
- Creatures / Norns Creature Labs, formerly CyberLife
- PetNebula has some dragon and alien virtual pets that live in a SIM type
world. Basic site is free, upgrades cost real money
- SobaPets
- Wajas "Wolf like" creatures
- Fighting , Battle Virtual Pets
- Fantasy Virtual Pets
- Virtual Pet Sites catering to young children
- Miscellaneous Online Virtual Pets
- International Virtual Pet Games
- Saibaa no Tomodachi interesting Asian virtual
game with a young girl and a chicken, graphics are great, sounds are unusual.
Adopt Virtual Pets and Adopt Computer Pets Safely
- Many cyberpet game sites ask for personal information!
Use caution in providing personal information. Children should
get their parents involved, before supplying family information.
Install a good virus protection program and use it when downloading
software. Virtual Pet Adoption can be a lot of fun, just
be careful. For those interested in learning more about "safe"
practices on the Internet, see CyberSavy.
- Birthday sites - The sites below ask for your specific birthday information. We strongly suggest not providing that information online to them or other similar sites. You can just make up a birthday a year or more after yours and put that in if it forces you to supply your birthday. Some sites ask for your birthday to provide different content to different groups, others use it to direct specific advertising to you or to sell your name to advertisers. Whatever the intended purpose, it could one day be used for bad purposes.
- Nutrino Pets
- PowerPets this site asks you for your birthday, we suggest you not give them that correct information, just make your self a couple years younger with a different birthday.
- Marapets this site asks you for your birthday, we suggest you not give them that information, just make yourself a couple years younger with a different birthday.
- ZetaPets this site asks you for your birthday, we suggest you not give them that information, just make yourself a couple years younger with a different birthday.
- Zunipets another birthday pet
- Dog Freak World
- Creature Village from Canada - beautiful artwork
- WebKinz ties in with a plush toy
- Subeta.org
- Bunny Hero Labs create your own vp that can be reached from a bookmark or web page. Tries to get you to take a personal survey including financial information - dont take the survey.
- Online Virtual Pets not recommended for children
- Alien Adoption Agency well designed virtual alien game for folks 16 and older, great graphics, some bad words
- Jbum previously Charles Manson Tamagotchi
- Desktop Virtual Pets
- Robotic Virtual Pets
- Small Plastic Virtual Pets With Some Movement
- My Aquapet Puku, Miku, Tu
- Purse Pals similar to Aquapets, except for use with a special purse
- Walkie Bits
small plastic turtles that walk, race, and sing from Takara.
- Virtual Aquariums (robotic ones)
- Therapeutic Virtual Pets (robotic pets designed for sick, elderly or mentally ill people)
- "Live" Pets or Seemingly Live Pets You Grow
- Test Tube Aliens you actually "grow" these pets in a test tube,
then interact with them with your computer.
- Chia plants grow over a shape
- Self Contained "real" Worlds
- EcoSphere a water based ecosystem enclosed in a glass ball
- Beach Sphere closed world similar to EcoSphere above, but from Bio-Spheres
- Antquarium "real" ants life in a closed world, by Bio-Spheres
- Music Virtual Pets: MP3 Virtual Pets
- Otoizm Virtual Pet that eats music
from your MP3 player, doubles as a Yo-Yo, an grows up according to the type of music you listen to.
- Mobile Phone Virtual Pets
- Virtual People
- Manquarium women can build a boyfriend, including using
their real boyfriend's face, then keep him in a desktop aquarium and let him compliment them all day. Is by Proctor
& Gamble.
- Cube World several small screens that can be
linked together. Small stick people live, work, and play in each block, and can interact with
one another. From Bandai.
- Human Player small pet represents you and takes
on your personality. Uses only a few pixels. Is from Bandai.
- Frepar Networks POD 3D virtual human interaction coming soon
- Little Computer People from Activision was
one of the early "virtual pets". You watched a man walking around a three story house on your Commodore 64. Was also one of the
early games to use "digital DNA" (your man had a distinct personality). This review is from Unsung Heroes.
- Virtual Pet Ant Farms
- Ants Life Studio virtual
ant farm from Bandai
- Sim Ant developed by
Maxis and published by Electronic Arts in 1991. One of the many great Sim games
Virtual Pets Software Programs downloads
This download category used to have a lot of pets in it, but most have since gone online. It is refreshing to see
some new entries here. They can be played without tying up your phone line.
MacIntosh Virtual Pets
Palm Pilot Pets
- Little Palm Pet cute dogs for your Palm Pilot
- Fish Tycoon breed and care for fish in an Aquarium with
your Palm Pilot or Pocket PC
- Plant Tycoon plant and care for a garden with your Palm Pilot or Pocket PC.
- Village Sim care for a whole tribe of villagers
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Our Coverage of the Best Known Virtual Pet Games and Electronic Pets
Pages by Others About Virtual Pets and Related Interactive Toys
- Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pets large line of virtual pets from Hasbro
- Tamagotchi Pages
- Digimon
- Nano Pets
- Octagochi 8 in 1 Virtual key chain pet
- Kugigi Virtual Frog key chain pet
- Virtual Varmints lots of photos of Japanese keychain pets no longer available
- ReX-10 / Robo-Dog Barking Dog Alarm security alarm using x-10 technology
- Petster an 1980's robotic pet (dog, cat,etc). These
were forerunners of todays robotic pets.
- Petz from PF Magic was one of the greatest CD Rom games in the early days of virtual pets. The company sold a few times, and some of their games (Dogz, Catz, Babyz, Oddballz) went online.
- Petz home of Dogz and Catz. Was previously at petz.com (petz.com was just an achive of their 1995 to 1998 for a while, but now appears rejuvenatated (Aug 2004), then gone by March 2005)
- Babyz from Petz
- Tama Robo Cat by Omron
- Pet Rock new version of the
original pet by Bear Rock Productions. Site now seems to be closing out (Aug. 2004)
Pokemon
Virtual Pet Cemeteries
Virtual Pet Social Research
Virtual Pet Newsgroups
Note - some of these groups are not monitored and the language or topics may not be fit for children at times. (Maybe not fit for adults either). You can usually tell by the message's subject line, if it is "fit to read" or not.
Miscellaneous
- Virtual Pet Cemetary virtual burial of real pets
- Virtual Reality Horse Racing this site provides links to and coverage of several of the play for "real money" virtural horse racing games and a few free games. Most are not for kids.
- Reality Works Baby Think it Over, RealCare® Baby II and BeginnnerCare Baby high tech dolls for teaching teens and adults about the responsibilities of caring for a baby.
Click on Parenting Education to view info on them.
Virtual Pet Manufacturers
Virtual Pet Technical Research
Polson Enterprises
We have been covering the virtual pet industry since mid 1996.
Some of our coverage is child oriented, while other areas range from
entertaining to instructional to very technical. We also provide
technical and market research assistance to firms developing virtual
pets in all formats and frequently assist the media in covering the
virtual pet industry.
A few other examples of our work are:
The Sun Never Sets on Virtual Pets
Polson Enterprises
polsong@virtualpet.com
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Virtual Pet Sites No Longer Online and related sites NO Longer Available
We moved the List of Virtual Pet Sites and Related sites No Longer Online to its
own page in August 2005. It provides nice list of many virtual pets no longer available online along with their original URLs.
and the approximate dates they were removed from service. Sometimes we list a few recent removals below that have not yet been
moved to that page.
Return to Virtual Pet Home Page
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