Egg pet 64 (C64)

A virtual pet in your pocket… well, on your Commodore 64.

Remember those egg-shaped keychain pets from the 90s? EGG PET 64 brings the feeling back to the C64. On screen is a pink egg-shaped handheld with a grey dot-matrix LCD. Your pet lives on that little screen, drawn in chunky black pixels just like the real thing.

Hatch an egg, raise your pet from baby to child to adult, and keep it happy for as long as you can. Neglect it, and it won't be around for long…

CHOOSE YOUR PET Five animals to raise, and each one plays differently:

• Blob: the easy-going all-rounder, perfect for your first egg.
• Dog: gets sad quickly, but loves games more than anything.
• Cat: always hungry, but doesn't mind a bit of dirt.
• Duck: very messy, but very playful.
• Capybara: the most relaxed creature you'll ever meet.
• ???: a surprise egg. You won't know what's inside until it hatches!

Every animal has its own favourite snack: a bone for the dog, a fish for the cat, bread for the duck and an orange for the capybara.

FEATURES

• Watch your pet hatch from an egg and grow from baby to child to adult.
• Feed it a meal or a snack, play with it, clean up after it, give it medicine, turn the light off when it sleeps, and scold it when it's only faking.
• It gets hungry, bored, dirty, sleepy and sick. When it needs you, the attention icon blinks and the handheld beeps.
• Your pet may pretend to need you just to get attention. Scold it when it's faking to raise its discipline, but scold it when it's innocent and it gets sad.
• Play a guessing mini-game: which way will your pet turn?
• Check its status screens for age, weight, hunger, happiness and discipline.
• Score points for every second your pet stays alive and for taking good care of it.
• Beat a top score and enter your name in the top-5 Hall of Fame, which also shows the animal each player raised.
• Calm title music using all three SID voices, with a fat filtered bass and punchy drums, plus sound effects for everything your pet does.
• A two-page "How to play" screen, available from the title screen.
• Custom characters and sprites, with drifting clouds and buttons that press down.
• Written in 100% 6502 assembly.

CONTROLS Keyboard or joystick in port 2:

• A / joystick left: select the next icon
• B / fire: confirm
• C / joystick right: back / cancel
• Q: quit to the title screen (the score is lost)
• I / joystick up (on the title screen): how to play

ADDITIONAL DEMO VERSION

Not sure yet? A free demo is still available to download. It has only one animal, the Blob, and it won't receive any updates. The full version adds four more animals, the surprise egg, animal-specific snacks, the title music, the instruction screens and everything else listed above.

REQUIREMENTS

• A Commodore 64  or an emulator such as VICE.
• Load the .prg file and type RUN, or drag it onto VICE.

Game is compatible also with:

Updated 1.01 version:

Fixed a faint background hum that could linger after sound effects on newer versions of the VICE emulator, so the game is now perfectly quiet between sounds on every version.

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