Catz (Jewel Case)

by Creative Wonders

Product Details

• Our recommended age: 5 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002SAI1
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,283 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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As landlords become pickier, this may be where all of uspet-loving people end up. Catz (the program) lets you make a playpen for your Catz (the "pet") on your desktop, and as long as you keep the program running, your electronic friend can frolic to its heart's content. It's up to you to play with your Catz, pet it, feed it, groom it, lure out a mouse for it to chase, or do basically anything else you could do with a real cat except feel the fur between your fingers. Of course, considering you don't have to deal with hairballs, litter boxes, or broken crockery, it might not be such a bad exchange.

After the simple installation, you choose your adoptee fromfive types (my fave is Pouncer). You can rename your pet, paint it a new color, and then plop it into its new playpen, which you cancustomize with parquet floors, carpet, etc. There's a shelf full of useful items (such as a brush, food, water), toys (the "cat dancer" bobs around amazingly accurately), and a mouse hole, from which a mouse occasionally pops for your Catz to chase - Catz never kill the mice though, no matter how much I cheer on my little Pouncer (renamed Kitsune).

Catz also has a practical side. You can set your own Catz to be a screen saver (CatNapz), and even enable password protection. You can also put an Adoption Kit onto two floppies and give them to a friend, who'll then have a limited-time version of Catz, which can be upgraded into a full version through the Web site or by calling the company.

At first, I was put off by the cartoon-style depictions, but PF.Magic did such a good job of programming realistic cat behavior that I soon overlooked it. I found myself spending inordinate amounts of timepetting Kitsune, brushing him, and whirling around the cat dancer.

So, yes, it's just a computer thing, but it's a lot more fun on your screen than fish. - D. D. Turner

Good News: Inexpensive and causes no problems - except that you may waste a lot of time with your virtual pet. Very Cute.

Bad News: Forces the screen to 256 colors. May slow 68K Macs. Very Cute.

Rating:3/4

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very fun and cute!, March 15, 2001

By	L. Martin (MO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I recently bought this game abd Dogz on eBay. I think Catz is a lot more fun than dogz! There are five breeds to choose from(siamaese,persion,calico,etc.) You can pet your catz,you can give them a bottle,give them food and water,treays,and give them all kinds of toys to play with. There is even a mouse and you can ise the sheese to lure it out of its hole so your cat can shase it and even catch it(the mouse gets away though)! You can paint your catz many colors including browns,black,yellow,pink,blue,orange,gray,red,white,etc. You can even paint the mouse! VERY fin for ALL AGES! I am 13 and LOVE the game!

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Catz, Your computer petz., November 20, 1999

By A Customer

I have Catz1 (I know, its old compared to Catz 4 or whatever) and its pretty good -- for a while. You just feed 'em, play with 'em, and all that, and you can watch 'em on an included screen saver, nothing happens except it gets a little bigger in the program. I don't know how to teach it tricks its not like a real cat or whatever.

Anyway, its fun when you first start...