Underplayed Gems

Ganbare Morikawa Kun 2nd PET ON TV (1998)

Ganbare Morikawa Kun 2nd PET ON TV cover
Publisher
Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios
Platforms
PlayStation
Genres
Simulator
The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A gentle, unhurried experience of caring for and training a quirky virtual pet as it slowly grows under your patient guidance.

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About

Taking the nature of virtual pets to an altogether deeper level, Pet in TV lets you raise an artificial pet (P.I.T.), train it to obey you, feed and pamper it, and teach it everything it needs to know about its new virtual world. Though the P.I.T.'s outward appearance is akin to a robotic motorised egg, with the right nurturing it can grow and become more intelligent just like a real pet. Once it is fully trained, your P.I.T. can then explore its virtual world in search of valuable AI-chips that can later be used to build the ultimate Gold P.I.T. pet. Each P.I.T. has its own personality, which you can choose before it is "born"; cheeky ones tend to be more adventurous, quiet ones more obedient - the choice of P.I.T. personality governs just how you and your P.I.T. will get along!

Screenshots

Ganbare Morikawa Kun 2nd PET ON TV screenshot 1

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.