Pets "Petoeläin" Rex

Pets "Petoeläin" Rex is Finland's answer to the Tamagotchi craze of 1997. The original FILE_ID.DIZ proudly introduces it as "suomalainen DamaCochi" — a Finnish Tamagotchi — and asks whether you are already tired of your friend's or neighbour's pet, or perhaps green with envy. Instead of a cute chick, however, the creature in your care is a petoeläin, a beast of prey, named Rex.

It is a virtual pet for DOS: you look after your animal much as you would one of the Japanese keychain toys, just with a noticeably rougher sense of humour. The game comes from the Finnish home-computer scene of the 1990s, where jokes and parodies like this spread over BBSes and among friends, and remained almost unknown outside Finland.

You can adopt Rex right in your browser on OldGame.cz.