Post by bex on Apr 18, 2022 12:31:39 GMT -7
I've had a pretty rubbish week, I've had covid and barely left the sofa all week so feeling pretty ill, however this little surprise arrived in the mail today and had me crying with joy.
Earlier in the year my parents were sorting out random junk cupboards in there house and came across some old floppy disks and asked if I wanted any - initially I said no, they're ancient... but one was labelled 'petz stuff' and so I took it... I sent it off to a computer geek friend who managed to get the files off and onto a usb for me which turned up today and I came face to face with my oldest petz for the first time in probably about 20 years, petz that I thought were LONG gone are now running around in my game again, I've spent hours just playing with them, reliving my childhood, and just had to share them with you all.
When we got our first family computer (1997 I think) it came with dogz and catz one as part of the package and I was hooked, I never owned petz2 but I begged and begged for dogs 3 when it came out, my mum thought at the time it was too expensive for a computer game - it 'didn't do much' and I'd soon get bored :who's laughing now: but I insisted on asking for nothing else for Christmas, so Christmas 1998 I received dogz 3 and adopted my first pair (and also imported my dog was dogz 1)... and here they are....
Here's boots.... looking good for 25 years old eek... (yes my names were SUPER original back then). And his profile shows the date he was imported into dogz3 sadly I don't have his original petz1 file so I don't know his actual adoption date, but it was sometime during 1997....
Then here are Tess and Rufus my first pair of dogs, these were also adopted on the day I got the game, Christmas Day 1998....
Then here's Bissie, my heart dog, she was the second pet I ever bred and fell head over heels in love with her (although in my memory she wasn't a halfie, I guess I painted her bum white with the paint can lol), I'm not gonna lie about how much I cried when I realised I actually had a copy of this girl I'm totally over the moon. Plus surprisingly I also had a file for her older brother, Rusty who was the very first pet I ever bred (both are out of Tess and Rufus), I didn't realise it at the time but how awesome was that to get a mutation on my first breeding!!! unfortunately I never got to know rusty, as he ran away when he was still young, and I never realised I'd saved a backup of his file.
And lastly here's little Benjamin, who never got to grow up as his file on my computer was corrupted, but look he LIVES... Benjamin is so gorgeous and I'm in love he is bred from Bissie and Bootz, is a sweet little trotter and maybe wins the prize for being the longest lived puppy in history... 24 years old and still just a pup.
I'm not sure what to do with these guys, I'm tempted to age them down to pups and raise them again, getting to know them all over again one at a time (or together for Tess and Rufus). It would be awesome to show these guys, as we didn't even have internet back when I played with them.
Earlier in the year my parents were sorting out random junk cupboards in there house and came across some old floppy disks and asked if I wanted any - initially I said no, they're ancient... but one was labelled 'petz stuff' and so I took it... I sent it off to a computer geek friend who managed to get the files off and onto a usb for me which turned up today and I came face to face with my oldest petz for the first time in probably about 20 years, petz that I thought were LONG gone are now running around in my game again, I've spent hours just playing with them, reliving my childhood, and just had to share them with you all.
When we got our first family computer (1997 I think) it came with dogz and catz one as part of the package and I was hooked, I never owned petz2 but I begged and begged for dogs 3 when it came out, my mum thought at the time it was too expensive for a computer game - it 'didn't do much' and I'd soon get bored :who's laughing now: but I insisted on asking for nothing else for Christmas, so Christmas 1998 I received dogz 3 and adopted my first pair (and also imported my dog was dogz 1)... and here they are....
Here's boots.... looking good for 25 years old eek... (yes my names were SUPER original back then). And his profile shows the date he was imported into dogz3 sadly I don't have his original petz1 file so I don't know his actual adoption date, but it was sometime during 1997....
Then here are Tess and Rufus my first pair of dogs, these were also adopted on the day I got the game, Christmas Day 1998....
Then here's Bissie, my heart dog, she was the second pet I ever bred and fell head over heels in love with her (although in my memory she wasn't a halfie, I guess I painted her bum white with the paint can lol), I'm not gonna lie about how much I cried when I realised I actually had a copy of this girl I'm totally over the moon. Plus surprisingly I also had a file for her older brother, Rusty who was the very first pet I ever bred (both are out of Tess and Rufus), I didn't realise it at the time but how awesome was that to get a mutation on my first breeding!!! unfortunately I never got to know rusty, as he ran away when he was still young, and I never realised I'd saved a backup of his file.
And lastly here's little Benjamin, who never got to grow up as his file on my computer was corrupted, but look he LIVES... Benjamin is so gorgeous and I'm in love he is bred from Bissie and Bootz, is a sweet little trotter and maybe wins the prize for being the longest lived puppy in history... 24 years old and still just a pup.
I'm not sure what to do with these guys, I'm tempted to age them down to pups and raise them again, getting to know them all over again one at a time (or together for Tess and Rufus). It would be awesome to show these guys, as we didn't even have internet back when I played with them.