To cut a long story short, The Learning Company ('TLC') purchased Mindscape, then Mattel bough TLC, then Ubi Soft bought the Entertainment Division of TLC and on the 20th June 2002 announced they would release Petz 5 due to popular demand. They also took the game in a slightly different direction and launched Babyz, virtual babies in an adapted version of the petz game/world. Magic and the Petz range and went on to produce Petz 3 in 1998 - which first introduced the possibility of breeding - and Petz 4 in 1999 - with new landscaped, voice recognition and new Pigz and Bunniez. The next thing to happen was that Mindscape bought PF.
I should also mention that in each Petz upgrade you buy your old pets can be imported into the new game. At this point over two million people worldwide owned Petz. So suddenly your puppy can play with a kitten for the first time and you can see how they get along. So where did the term "Petz" come from? Well, from version two of the titles onwards when both 'Dogz' and 'Catz' are installed on the same computer they combine to make a single game called 'Petz' in which both the dogz and catz live, sharing the same environment. The games did well and Dogz 2 and Catz 2 were launched in 1997 with much improved graphics, along with an unusual title known as Oddballz that I will come to in a minute.
Magic released Dogz 1 and then in 1996 Catz 1, two titles in which you could raise your own virtual dog or cat, provided you fed, groomed and took good care of them.
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