Horse Hoofs virtual horses, miniature horses
and UNICORNs, interesting graphics and music, girls might like this one. - said no more signups in Oct 2006
Small Critters with Attitude virtual rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, hamsters, ferrets, gerbils, chinchillas. Basic game is free, upgrades cost real money.
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.
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.
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
Choro Mode Pet series of small mechanical, robotic
pets that can be controlled with a cell phone
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.
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.
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.
MOPy Fish fish with lots of toys and accessories, high quality graphics
Happy Hamster cute game,
one of the early virtual pets
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)
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.
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
Near Life developing virtual life entertainment in many media forms
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.
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.
