Before You Read Any Further...
Read The (Slightly Bitter) Introduction
Hello, and welcome to Aurora Minui's Virtual Pets and More Page!
This page will make a lot more sense if you Read The (Slightly Bitter) Introduction. Trust me on this one. It's kind of like a FAQ, or Frequently Asked Questions page dealing with various questions that might be running through your head, or various questions that people have e-mailed me OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again until I want to rip their little heads off with my teeth like sticky little gummy bear candies and...
*ahem*
Anyways, I strongly suspect that you didn't come here for my ranting and raving, as entertainingly misanthropic as it may be, so on with the show!
NEW STUFF
The Virtual Pet Diary and Virtual Pet Reviews have been updated as of September 4th, 2000.
Also, I decided to add non-computer virtual pets to the V-Pet Reviews, coz recently I've been
paranoid about downloading new freeware/shareware virtual pets. So now you can read about some
of the hardware (i.e., Tamagotchi-type pets) upon which I've had the time, money, and energy to
lavish.
The Virtual Pet Diaries
This is the continuing saga of my various virtual pets (and more). Not nearly as good as The Country Mouse's Virtual Pets and More diary, but we can't all be charming, sweet diarists...
*wink*
I also have a diary dedicated to my *sniffle* Osuchi Mesuchi Mateable Tamagotchi (aka the Wedding Tam Diary). I suggest you go to the Tamagotchi Area to do some quick research before you read the actual diary, as there are heaps of references that don't make all that much sense out of context.
*smile*
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Virtual Pet Pages and Reference Sections
- Tamagotchi by Bandai
The Original Portable Virtual Pet!
This section is dedicated to... you guessed it... one of the first and most famous (and most often knocked-off) keychain virtual pets, the Tamagotchi by Bandai of Japan. Including, of course, the more evolved species of Tamagotchi such as Tamagotchi 2, Tamagotchi Angel, Tamagotchi Ocean, and even Mateable Tamagotchi!
- PostPet by Sony
BURP: The Bureau for the Understanding and Research of Postpets!
My little site dedicated to one of the first e-mail virtual pets to be released outside of Japan. Some dog-owners brag that their real-life pets can fetch the newspaper and bring them their slippers... but my PostPet bunny can deliver my mail, and bring me a Muramasa samurai katana! (For the terminally dense: Samurai = A Japanese Feudal Warrior, somewhat like a "knight". Katana = traditional Japanese sword.)
Includes information and screen captures from PostPet 2001, as well as several addresses you can send your pet to if you want a picture of your pet with a PostPet 2001 Pet!
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Pocket Pikachu by Gamefreak and Nintendo
Also some stuff on Pocket Monsters/Pokemon, the Japanese video game phenomenon that sprouted an empire of comics, animated shows, and more!
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PocketLove By Sanrio
A strange little game teaching the perils and thrills of dating... cats. Includes astrological/blood-type "matchmaker" function... sorta. Blood types being a popular way of determining personalities and romantic compatibility in Japan.
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KingPet by ?????
The Eight in One Virtual Pet, or a Good Reason NOT to impulse-buy things. Also includes a great deal of cruel mockery regarding Unhelpful Instructions in Bad English,
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Penpy by ?????
And other unusual, rare, or penguin-y v-pets, often using mysterious and arcane batteries
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Computer Virtual Pets and Downloads
This section is a brand new one for me, and for that very good reason, is *not* backed up in any way or form on my old Geocities site. So if Xoom decides to play its little "let's hide the homepage and replace it with a "404 Not Found And Since You Have Nothing Better To Do, Join Us!" page" game, I'm kinda in trouble.
*hides*
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All Hail the Hand!!!
A page dedicated to Creatures 2, the artificial life "game" by Cyberlife Technologies. And blatant self-promotion, of course, Includes the inevitable Critter Animal Shelter , where you can adopt your own Creature for your homepage, or your Creatures 2 game!
(Adoptable Creatures will probably be rotated, since I don't have that much space on this server. *sniffle*)
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Finfin: An Elegy
The tragic true-life tale of an artificial life form, and the girl who loved (and lost) him...
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Aurora Minui's Virtual Pet Reviews
Reviews of Freeware and Shareware (and trial) virtual pets you can download online. Created out of necessity, as far as I'm concerned... the hit-and-miss approach to finding the perfect computer pet is very unsatisfying.
The Menu is roughly listed in order of "freshness'. However, that does not guarantee that all the information in the top sections will be totally new or updated all the time.
Aw, who am I kidding. The Menu is really listed according to what Virtual Pets I still have time to play with and cherish...
*sniffle*
Ah, to be young and carefree and energetic enough to play with my v-pets and update my page...
Virtual Pet Fans have been by Since November 1997!
