Regarding the gender thing, I was raised as a girl and BEGGED my dad to let me play TS3 when I was 11 (the age limit was 12) and he was VERY strict that I absolutely could not play until I turned 12....but my younger brother got to play COD when he was 13
Indeed. A lot of the time if you write the authors they will just send it to you for free (when they are not contractually obligated not to of course). They are making pennies on the publications if they're making anything at all so they're just happy you're interested XD
OMG YES! SO sorry my intent was more frustration towards the system and not the researchers themselves but thats obviously not what I managed to say ahah 🫡 only respect for ya'll
Was just coming here to say this! We don't make money directly from our own publications. But if you have someone with a university email (employee or student) they often can utilize their school's library resources to get many papers. It absolutely is a messed up system. Publicly funded research should be free for the public to access.
@@humanperson568 Even when contractually obligated you can ask if there's a way they could send a redacted or draft version instead, I've had success each time I said I'm fine with un-proofed drafts/missing pages. (I'm not a rigorous scientist, just a writer too serious about research, so my standards aren't too high and mostly I just need enough data for technobabble or magibabble.)
7:19 this EXACT thing happened to me when I was kid trying to buy a Sims 2 expansion cause it was rated T for teens and I was like eleven or twelve. The gamestop employee tried so hard to not get my mom to buy for me he started listing the warnings off the back. Luckily my mom didn’t care since I had been playing it for years already but that still pisses me off to this day.
I was also raised a girl, but I'm so glad my parents never tried to age restrict me from video games or movies. They trusted me to be responsible with stuff so I absolutely just played the same games my dad did, including playing the diablo series when i was like. 6-7 lmao
I always played the same games as my dad, but my dad is very against guns so we never played shooters. I do remember we frequently played “The Visitor” though lmao
I wasn’t allowed to play Skyrim until I was 16, but my brother was able to play stuff like borderlands at 13. And I was also banned from first person shooters. And anything that was “too real” or that had so much as a boob half exposed. And I couldn’t play dating sims. And I wasn’t allowed to play ZELDA until I was 15 either. I may be a guy now but I was born a chick and trust me it was the WORST!
I'm a woman, and I grew up with video games. I had a NES when I way very young. My family never had this concept of "video games are for boys", or "specific toys are for boys", for that matter. I had Barbies and action figures and Legos. I also played T rated games, like GoldenEye, before I was 13 with no issue. This idea of letting a boy play a higher rated game than a girl is completely foreign to me. That being said, I never even wanted to play an M rated game until I was an adult, I may have played GoldenEye as a kid, but things like Call of Duty never interested me, I didn't like horror, and I didn't get into series like Metal Gear or Persona until i was an adult.
In the late 90s when I was a teen, I remember educating my parents on what an "Explicit Language Warning Sticker" was on CDs. Because I wanted a few rap albums for Christmas. I told them I wanted the ones WITH the label, because otherwise its censored and it sucks. They got me exactly what I wanted. My parents grew up with David Bowie and KISS, Led Zeppelin and Ozzy Osbourne. They knew back in their own childhoods how ridiculous censorship and how people clutch pearls over the dumbest stuff. It was a big deal when the first Mortal Kombat came out on SNES in like the early 1990s. The 'blood' was seen as HYPER REALISTIC VIOLENCE and you wouldnt believe how many articles and news stories there were about how Mortal Kombat was corrupting youth.
I had to double-take when seeing the title cause "Hollywood pets" is the name of the doggy daycare that my dog goes to. the logo is very similar except it's red instead of pink. They chose the name because the last name of the man who owns it is "Holly"
My dad had no double standards, I wasn't even allowed to play video games until I was like 9, and that includes the cutesy games. Yes, I am a girl, but like he used to complain to my aunt that she shouldn't let her sons play violent video games until they were 16 because it wasn't good for their brain, so I very much know I wouldn't have been aloud regardless of my gender. I mean, I played resident evil and silent hill way before then at my friend's house, not that he knew. Sorry dad 😅
Honestly with the way the Silent Hill puzzles are on harder difficulty modes, I feel like those probably stimulate people's brains harder than a good lot of educational games.
My parents were extremely strict about the ESRB ratings when I was growing up and I remember that I would have to hide the M-rated games that I would go and buy with my own allowance from them. Stores never seemed to have any problem selling them to me though, but this was back in the original PlayStation era. Now I'm curious about whether this would have been the case if I was a boy.
Growing up, my dad was super strict about "electronics" in general, so unless i snuck onto the computer while he was at work or got to play at grandma's, gaming was off the table. Oregon Trail was one of my main gaming memories, though we had burned copies of stuff like Freddie Fish and , funnily enough, Barbie Fashion Designer and Barbie Hair Salon
I love that you desaturated the color during TragicStoryTime™... it was a nice touch! Totes added to the pathos. (btw, that would have WRECKED me, too! One time when I was a kid, the game erased my score after dozens (hundreds?) of hours of game play, and I damn near had a psychotic break 😱)
Word on the street is, if you email an author on an academic journal directly and ask about their paper/mention it's behind a paywall, they'll send you a copy for free. Not always, but worth trying
Ugh the gender thing with growing up as a “girl gamer” is so real. I’m a trans guy and I’ve always been so jealous of all the other boys who got the “real games” that were considered works of art and got awards while I got the “barebones girl games” that looked like there were made in afternoon and were sold in a 6 pack for 20 bucks 😭 Which is a little overdramatic because this is what made me respect video games as an art and I still loved most of those games. It’s just extremely funny to me that a lot of guys don’t understand the insanity of the girl gamer sphere that was shovelware games from the 2000s. Would love to hear you talk more about virtual pet stuff! That genre is a rabbit hole and I say with a lot of love. ALSO 12:17 THAT IS NOT A FOX TERRIER
omg my heartttt i also owned games for girls volume 4! my dad bought it for me at a staples when i was a kid. i could never get fetch to work which was depressing and i ended up insanely scared of nancy drew curse of blackmoor manor for a few years but i eventually came around and became obsessed with nancy drew games. omg the memories seeing that picture brought back was crazy.
As a fan of tamagotchi, I'm sad that after the 2000s connections, the shell designs are all very girly and sparkly. I'm happy that the newer releases and re releases that they've gone back to more varied designs.
Did they ever make clear shells again??? asking for old me, who got a defective one that would slowly get more and more out of real world sync until the darn thing needed care at 4am, the longest I got one to live was 2 years, and it died because it woke at said 4am one time too many and I only woke up at 5:30... (yes I may be interested in trying to get a clear shelled one that won't cross like two time zones the wrong way)
25:00 this sort of happened to me when i was like 10. My grandma got me Pony Friends for the DS and my cousin got Disneys Bolt for the DS. And that made me mad because i was OBSESSED with Bolt and i already had Horsez on the DS, like i dont need a million horse games.
As someone that was born a girl in the mid 2000s (2005) I wasnt forced to just play these games, my parents let me play whatever I wanted so its such a blessing "girl" games werent my first games.. But I'd lying if I say I didnt enjoy nintendogs!
I was a big tomboy, so I wasn't that into dolls (except Bratz, i guess I liked their aesthetic) but oh lord did I love virtual pet games. I also knew people of all genders who liked the early Petz games (I'm talking Catz 3/4 on the PC and stuff) ^_^ I'm an only child, and was allowed to play M rated games (namely Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead 2) around middle school. But, I was only given the chance to play those games once my parents trusted me not to imitate any violent behaviors, I guess? I did have to agree to not play as a bad guy in FO3 lmfao. I guess its different since they weren't raising any boys or anything.
i'm so glad my parents didn't gender-restrict me as a kid. age restrict sure, but i had a younger brother and i was always allowed to play with hot wheels and "boy toys" as well as barbies. my brother would sometimes play barbies with me, but he was more concerned with taking their clothes off and making them fight 💀i was super into pokemon and yugioh and digimon. i had a lot of pokemon stuff as a kid and fire red was my first gameboy game. i didn't get video games until i was around 11 because we was po but i ended up with a lifelong love of the pokemon games. the amount of hours i put into raising my charizard was a little alarming lmao. i also later got into nintendogs and while i didn't put as many hours into it, i did use my brother's action replay to unlock all the dogs LMAO and i had a little corgi and a labrador (named after my doggy!) i loved dearly
As a certified gamer girl, I was *allowed* to play all the same games as my brother but I just really had no real interest in violent games. I’d play a few rounds of Mortal Kombat or Quake with my brother, but only on the condition that he would play Mario Kart or Donkey Kong with me afterwards. Pet games were definitely a frequent part of my gaming rotation, but I also liked life simulators, fantasy RPGs, platformers, kart racers, puzzle games, and of course, fashion games. To this day I don’t really play FPS games, I just don’t like them that much and most online multiplayer experiences are just filled with people screaming at each other.
I definitely got that Puppy Luv game for Christmas in 2006-ish and it was straight up broken out of the box. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get my dog to stop being miserable and dirty. My dad returned it to the store. As a kid who was obsessed with pet simulators and pet care games, there was unfortunately A LOT of shovelware out there. Petz was the SHIT though
What the industrie thought girls would like: pet games, dress up games, zoo games.. What my sister and I played: Complex japanese RPGs, fight games, jump´n´runs, raxcing games..
I absolutely had puppy luv and might have had this one. It looks too familiar not too. Like i know those photo poses. Also as someone who only rarely got to pick out there own games i can attest that my parents would pick games to me almost universally based off the packaging. I think the only reason i ever managed to have a copy of magical starsign was one of my parents figured the box art was pretty cute. Meanwhile my brother got sonic, spyro, mario, and all these not typically shovelware games
Side tangent, but 1:03 putting Syberia in a bundle like this is CRAZY, that game is extremely moody and it gives me an intense feeling of melancholy whenever i play it. Weird gender target demographic shenanigans aside (when the game doesn't really reflect this), it's more insane to me to sell it to a beginner demographic (at least based on the other games and the fact it's a bundle). I think putting the game in a bundle like that would be an easy way to put someone off it if they were expecting something based on the other games. Imo even if the atmosphere didn't put you off, the mild clunkiness could. And I feel like that's a shame, because I feel like despite the pace (to me, at the start, it kind of moves like molasses) and melancholic atmosphere, the first game feels extremely memorable (I haven't played in years and I still remember most if not all of the screens in Valadilene). I guess bundling the game with anything other than itself is a bit baffling to me, it'd be like bundling something with a jarring difficulty gap in a "Point-and-Click Essentials Bundle", like say, King's Quest and maybe Putt Putt or something, lmao For me the perfect time to dip my toes into the series was when i was 14 and a little emo, but not too much yet Tbh I'd put Beyond Good and Evil in the bundle instead
@neoqwerty while I can't say it's everyone's cup of tea, I feel like the series has incredible atmosphere and if you happen to enjoy its pace, I do recommend the games! I don't think I've played anything quite like Syberia, so it makes me happy to hear that more people are interested in the series.
I had this game! I thought it was so boring, with only one thing to do. I got it from a book fair thing, I think? I would start new games over and over hoping it would be different.
It sucked being a young girl in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The most popular games didn't appeal to me and the ones I liked weren't considered real games by Cheeto Gobblers. Nintendo games are waaaay more expensive than any other company in my country but I was mostly stuck with them. Welp, at least I had Kirby 🙃
There's actually a DOS Barbie game that predates the Barbie Fashion Designer game, though it's similar in concept. The title I see it commonly referred to with is Barbie PC Fashion Design and Color, which basically let you put together an outfit for Barbie, pick an environment and then you can either print it to colour it in like a colouring book page or you can colour it in digitally.
Totally off topic but have you noticed whenever they have dog games majority of them seem to think all dogs lift their leg to pee. The girls actually don't do that. Given that you gave the gender of the dog as female in the game there should be some kind of change to represent the fact that it is that gender.
This is less like shovel-ware and more like "poop scoop ware"...in that it's literally dog sh*t!! This video is infinitely more entertaining than the game looks to be, thank you for all your hard work!
also, in my country in the 2000s the only accesible/popular hand-held console was psp and in general you had to be kinda well-off to game, so i could only own games like puppy luv, since it was cheaper and would run on our family dell laptop. loved every second tho lol
re paywalled papers: they’re often on multiple sites, some for free(search the paper name in quotations) someone also mentioned contacting the authors directly which usually works out as well
Honestly…I’m glad these were not my first exposure to video games. My Dad had an NES he let us play with while I was growing up. I played a lot of platformers.
omg your wizard cat in the background! i have the exact same one and its still one of my favorite things i own!! 🤝 great video btw, i will def check out more of ur stuff 👀
the pinscher named bbbbbbbbb is wild, I used to have a miniature pinscher growing up, we called her bb. And I called her a wrinkly necked deer (for some reason she had loose wrinkly neck skin)
I though this would be more like Dogz Fashion, and it is very not. Also fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know, the Petz series isn’t even actually a series with a few exceptions to some of the sequels. They are mostly just a ton of completely different games that all got licensed by Petz lol
I had Catz (1 I think?) and one of the Dogz games (3 I think?) when I was a kid. :) Big nostalgia. Honestly they should rerelease them as freeware or something for modern PCs. They had a fun thing where you could have your Catz wander around your desktop background.
1:12 oh my god pet vet! I played so many hours of that, struggling the entire time because I didn’t know how to read yet some I was just going mostly vibes because there was basically zero visuals to help 😂 I’m also 90% sure my family had the “let’s ride” game next to it, but I know we didn’t have that full collection of 4 Edit: assuming those later shots of the horse game are from “let’s ride” yes that was the horse game I had 😂
My dad had the opposite experience with me lol. He’d try to introduce my sister and I to the “boy” games and toys but I was having NONE of it. I wanted the Barbie and my little pony computer games lol
I always thought me having Petz was a knockoff of Nintendogs, which I desperately wanted and which my family couldn't afford. I still always disclaim myself as "not a gamer" and I can guarantee you that wouldn't be the case if my neighbor Tyler ever let me use the controller when he and his brother played Crash Bandicoot. Alas. At least our local public library did lend out CDs for games so I got to play like, Spy Fox.
My parents never told me i COULDNT play video games, i had a ds (style savvy all the way oh my god i love that game so much), but i didnt care about video games because we were only allowed to play video gam on weekends between 4pm and 7pm. My brother was already obsessed with them so he would lie and find a way around it but i never bothered. Even today, i struggle to stay invested in games other than stardew (havent played in a month) and the sims 4.
(my parents were mega unreasonable so I personally attribute my lack of interest to the way they were but in the end.. I just don't know how to spend my time 😂)
Got jumpscared by the Petz Fantasy: Sunshine Magic image because I played its counterpart Moonlight Magic as a kid. I wasn't genderlocked from playing video games, thank god. But as a young little lady back in the day, I just played what I wanted but me and my brother were good kids who followed the ESRB ratings...for the most part. 😂 We were allowed to play M rated games but ONLY once we were around 16 or 17. My brother's first proper M rated game was Red Dead Redemption which he got the same Christmas he got his PS3 and mine was Alice: Madness Returns because i wanted to play that one, and I knew i wanted to play an M rated game that interested me.
Let's ride! Horse games were my childhood, and im still decistated there lost media now. The only game still available is silver buckle stable, and it's not a good resolution. it's so sad. 😭
Puppy Luv, Kitty Luv, and Pony Luv sold in a 3 pack somewhere once upon a time. Guess how I know that one. 🤣 Edit: OH THEY *WERE* SOLD AT BOOKFAIRS YOU SAYING THAT REMINDED ME WHERE I GOT THE THREE PACK
Oh my gosh, I had Pony Luv as a kid!!! Its gameplay was just as shit as Hollywood Pets’, so I guess that was just this studio’s style. Seeing that art style and play options brought all those memories flooding back-
PUPPY LUV MY BELOATHED! It was so glitchy and awful on the family computer my dad took it back to the store to get another copy bc he thought something was wrong with the disk. Nope! Game was just bad i guess. I was so heartbroken bc I wanted a pet sim game so bad but it was slim pickings at the shops u_u
if anyone cares, ive mostly heard "pinscher" pronounced more like "pincher" though i like to mash "pin-sh" and "pinch" together because ummm, because i'm wrong. "pinscher" also possibly comes from the french word "pincer" meaning, to grip / nip or in the dog's case, bite. some people also think that it might originate from the english word "pinch", and could possibly refer to their clipped ears. idk, i just find it a really cute name and miniature pinschers do really look like deer!
I was indeed that child that was given shovel ware and while he played zelda on N64 and grand theft auto as he was a little bit older than me. And I got gems like Barbie race horse ps1 game. Spingebob A bugs life.... Space jam... And what killed me as a kid I was allowed to play the demos of the cooler games, but not the bigger games themselves and gradually I got my own sure But my older brother could play all mine but not vise versa, and he snapped put Spiro demo disc because our mom said I could but he came home and snapped it in half because he saw me playing it
@@greenbeantm1096 you are missing the point. Even games I could have played I had to wait to play while he wasn't the proper age to play certain stuff either but because he was a boy they didn't care as much and figured because I was a girl I wouldn't want stuff like Spyro, I'd want barbie because it was pink and girly. It wasn't until I was older and asked for specific games that my parent considered it. But my brother could play stuff like concers bad fur day way before he was supposed to because he was a boy. It wasn't the end of the world or anything, but I had to wait longer given I was raised as a girl
I feel bad for any kid that got that game, like even my educational games had more minigames... Is always interessing hearing how parents treated their kids in the gaming department, in my house had two girls, but for my parents mindset was that one-player games create fights so they always choose the multiplayer ones and didn't care much for the rating so when they bought N64 they got us Perfect Dark instead of Mario the older one was 11, still wish we had got Mario tho nothing against Perfect Dark but like we could only get one game per year and it didn't come with the expansion pack so we only had multiplayer for years, it got so bad that our main fun was trying to find small spaces to pretend to be rats that punch people... And it gets a bit funny because my parents are against guns in general but then again my parents only created problems if we had to shoot animals, shooting people? Normal kid play, kill one dinosaur in the Jurassic Park game? Turn that off now!
Lmao my dad told me I couldn't buy grand theft auto vice city cos it would lead to black tar heroin (?) It was a joke but he definitely actually didn't want me to buy it so I didn't
great video, just as some feedback: your audio is kind of quiet you should put your script closer to your camera lens so it's not as obvious when you're reading from the script
As someone who is currently Trans-Masc, (26) when I was a little bean, I was never age restricted for anything or banned from gaming. In fact, my family had a Super Nintendo in which I played Super Mario World and Mario Kart, specially Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a (F) cousin and I loved it! Mother ended up buying me a GBA with Family Feud (I was a weird kid that liked learning new things) and Pokemon FireRed as my first ever games I’d own. Overall, my family was very supportive of my gaming hobby and I made a ton of friends that shared the same gaming tastes. Still, I can imagine how some families in their time can limit such things due to gender. (To add into perspective, I was also the kid that preferred to play with boxes rather than kid toys.)
Regarding the gender thing, I was raised as a girl and BEGGED my dad to let me play TS3 when I was 11 (the age limit was 12) and he was VERY strict that I absolutely could not play until I turned 12....but my younger brother got to play COD when he was 13
Double standard indeed.. :(
This might not be gender related though, ypunger siblings usually have fewer rules while the older have stricter ones
@@EllaMBV It's probably both
Just so you know, it's not researchers that choose to paywall their papers, it's the journals that we have to publish in! It's not our fault 😅
Indeed. A lot of the time if you write the authors they will just send it to you for free (when they are not contractually obligated not to of course). They are making pennies on the publications if they're making anything at all so they're just happy you're interested XD
OMG YES! SO sorry my intent was more frustration towards the system and not the researchers themselves but thats obviously not what I managed to say ahah 🫡 only respect for ya'll
Was just coming here to say this! We don't make money directly from our own publications. But if you have someone with a university email (employee or student) they often can utilize their school's library resources to get many papers. It absolutely is a messed up system. Publicly funded research should be free for the public to access.
@@humanperson568 Even when contractually obligated you can ask if there's a way they could send a redacted or draft version instead, I've had success each time I said I'm fine with un-proofed drafts/missing pages.
(I'm not a rigorous scientist, just a writer too serious about research, so my standards aren't too high and mostly I just need enough data for technobabble or magibabble.)
7:19 this EXACT thing happened to me when I was kid trying to buy a Sims 2 expansion cause it was rated T for teens and I was like eleven or twelve. The gamestop employee tried so hard to not get my mom to buy for me he started listing the warnings off the back. Luckily my mom didn’t care since I had been playing it for years already but that still pisses me off to this day.
I was also raised a girl, but I'm so glad my parents never tried to age restrict me from video games or movies. They trusted me to be responsible with stuff so I absolutely just played the same games my dad did, including playing the diablo series when i was like. 6-7 lmao
I always played the same games as my dad, but my dad is very against guns so we never played shooters. I do remember we frequently played “The Visitor” though lmao
@@DustyHoney I played a bunch of rpgs! Neither me or my dad were super into shooter games, and my granddad played almost exclusively strategy games.
Same here. I had very limited freedoms, but my parents were very lax when it came to media.
I wasn’t allowed to play Skyrim until I was 16, but my brother was able to play stuff like borderlands at 13. And I was also banned from first person shooters. And anything that was “too real” or that had so much as a boob half exposed. And I couldn’t play dating sims. And I wasn’t allowed to play ZELDA until I was 15 either.
I may be a guy now but I was born a chick and trust me it was the WORST!
Dude that sucksss
I'm a woman, and I grew up with video games. I had a NES when I way very young. My family never had this concept of "video games are for boys", or "specific toys are for boys", for that matter. I had Barbies and action figures and Legos.
I also played T rated games, like GoldenEye, before I was 13 with no issue. This idea of letting a boy play a higher rated game than a girl is completely foreign to me.
That being said, I never even wanted to play an M rated game until I was an adult, I may have played GoldenEye as a kid, but things like Call of Duty never interested me, I didn't like horror, and I didn't get into series like Metal Gear or Persona until i was an adult.
In the late 90s when I was a teen, I remember educating my parents on what an "Explicit Language Warning Sticker" was on CDs. Because I wanted a few rap albums for Christmas. I told them I wanted the ones WITH the label, because otherwise its censored and it sucks. They got me exactly what I wanted. My parents grew up with David Bowie and KISS, Led Zeppelin and Ozzy Osbourne. They knew back in their own childhoods how ridiculous censorship and how people clutch pearls over the dumbest stuff. It was a big deal when the first Mortal Kombat came out on SNES in like the early 1990s. The 'blood' was seen as HYPER REALISTIC VIOLENCE and you wouldnt believe how many articles and news stories there were about how Mortal Kombat was corrupting youth.
Ironically, as a BoyTM I was banned by my parents from getting Nintendo Dogs for the DS because it was "for girls". I'm still mad about this.
I'd be pissed too. Tf
I had to double-take when seeing the title cause "Hollywood pets" is the name of the doggy daycare that my dog goes to. the logo is very similar except it's red instead of pink. They chose the name because the last name of the man who owns it is "Holly"
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Also we stan bbbbbbbbbb here your honor
My dad had no double standards, I wasn't even allowed to play video games until I was like 9, and that includes the cutesy games. Yes, I am a girl, but like he used to complain to my aunt that she shouldn't let her sons play violent video games until they were 16 because it wasn't good for their brain, so I very much know I wouldn't have been aloud regardless of my gender. I mean, I played resident evil and silent hill way before then at my friend's house, not that he knew. Sorry dad 😅
Honestly with the way the Silent Hill puzzles are on harder difficulty modes, I feel like those probably stimulate people's brains harder than a good lot of educational games.
damn even pet games got segregated
My parents were extremely strict about the ESRB ratings when I was growing up and I remember that I would have to hide the M-rated games that I would go and buy with my own allowance from them. Stores never seemed to have any problem selling them to me though, but this was back in the original PlayStation era. Now I'm curious about whether this would have been the case if I was a boy.
Growing up, my dad was super strict about "electronics" in general, so unless i snuck onto the computer while he was at work or got to play at grandma's, gaming was off the table. Oregon Trail was one of my main gaming memories, though we had burned copies of stuff like Freddie Fish and , funnily enough, Barbie Fashion Designer and Barbie Hair Salon
I love that you desaturated the color during TragicStoryTime™... it was a nice touch! Totes added to the pathos. (btw, that would have WRECKED me, too! One time when I was a kid, the game erased my score after dozens (hundreds?) of hours of game play, and I damn near had a psychotic break 😱)
P.S. The number of thumbs up went up by 5 as I was watching the video!! 👍)
Word on the street is, if you email an author on an academic journal directly and ask about their paper/mention it's behind a paywall, they'll send you a copy for free. Not always, but worth trying
As a Bichon Frise owner I always had this game and was peeved it didnt actually have Bichons in it... I still am to this day tbh
Ugh the gender thing with growing up as a “girl gamer” is so real. I’m a trans guy and I’ve always been so jealous of all the other boys who got the “real games” that were considered works of art and got awards while I got the “barebones girl games” that looked like there were made in afternoon and were sold in a 6 pack for 20 bucks 😭
Which is a little overdramatic because this is what made me respect video games as an art and I still loved most of those games. It’s just extremely funny to me that a lot of guys don’t understand the insanity of the girl gamer sphere that was shovelware games from the 2000s. Would love to hear you talk more about virtual pet stuff! That genre is a rabbit hole and I say with a lot of love.
ALSO 12:17 THAT IS NOT A FOX TERRIER
omg my heartttt i also owned games for girls volume 4! my dad bought it for me at a staples when i was a kid. i could never get fetch to work which was depressing and i ended up insanely scared of nancy drew curse of blackmoor manor for a few years but i eventually came around and became obsessed with nancy drew games. omg the memories seeing that picture brought back was crazy.
As a fan of tamagotchi, I'm sad that after the 2000s connections, the shell designs are all very girly and sparkly. I'm happy that the newer releases and re releases that they've gone back to more varied designs.
Did they ever make clear shells again??? asking for old me, who got a defective one that would slowly get more and more out of real world sync until the darn thing needed care at 4am, the longest I got one to live was 2 years, and it died because it woke at said 4am one time too many and I only woke up at 5:30...
(yes I may be interested in trying to get a clear shelled one that won't cross like two time zones the wrong way)
25:00 this sort of happened to me when i was like 10. My grandma got me Pony Friends for the DS and my cousin got Disneys Bolt for the DS. And that made me mad because i was OBSESSED with Bolt and i already had Horsez on the DS, like i dont need a million horse games.
As someone that was born a girl in the mid 2000s (2005) I wasnt forced to just play these games, my parents let me play whatever I wanted so its such a blessing "girl" games werent my first games.. But I'd lying if I say I didnt enjoy nintendogs!
I was a big tomboy, so I wasn't that into dolls (except Bratz, i guess I liked their aesthetic) but oh lord did I love virtual pet games. I also knew people of all genders who liked the early Petz games (I'm talking Catz 3/4 on the PC and stuff) ^_^
I'm an only child, and was allowed to play M rated games (namely Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead 2) around middle school. But, I was only given the chance to play those games once my parents trusted me not to imitate any violent behaviors, I guess? I did have to agree to not play as a bad guy in FO3 lmfao. I guess its different since they weren't raising any boys or anything.
i'm so glad my parents didn't gender-restrict me as a kid. age restrict sure, but i had a younger brother and i was always allowed to play with hot wheels and "boy toys" as well as barbies. my brother would sometimes play barbies with me, but he was more concerned with taking their clothes off and making them fight 💀i was super into pokemon and yugioh and digimon. i had a lot of pokemon stuff as a kid and fire red was my first gameboy game. i didn't get video games until i was around 11 because we was po but i ended up with a lifelong love of the pokemon games. the amount of hours i put into raising my charizard was a little alarming lmao. i also later got into nintendogs and while i didn't put as many hours into it, i did use my brother's action replay to unlock all the dogs LMAO and i had a little corgi and a labrador (named after my doggy!) i loved dearly
As a certified gamer girl, I was *allowed* to play all the same games as my brother but I just really had no real interest in violent games. I’d play a few rounds of Mortal Kombat or Quake with my brother, but only on the condition that he would play Mario Kart or Donkey Kong with me afterwards. Pet games were definitely a frequent part of my gaming rotation, but I also liked life simulators, fantasy RPGs, platformers, kart racers, puzzle games, and of course, fashion games. To this day I don’t really play FPS games, I just don’t like them that much and most online multiplayer experiences are just filled with people screaming at each other.
I definitely got that Puppy Luv game for Christmas in 2006-ish and it was straight up broken out of the box. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get my dog to stop being miserable and dirty. My dad returned it to the store. As a kid who was obsessed with pet simulators and pet care games, there was unfortunately A LOT of shovelware out there.
Petz was the SHIT though
You learned the super hard lesson as a child, never leave yoyr bag by itself if you know thr DS console is in there 💀
What the industrie thought girls would like: pet games, dress up games, zoo games..
What my sister and I played: Complex japanese RPGs, fight games, jump´n´runs, raxcing games..
I absolutely had puppy luv and might have had this one. It looks too familiar not too. Like i know those photo poses. Also as someone who only rarely got to pick out there own games i can attest that my parents would pick games to me almost universally based off the packaging. I think the only reason i ever managed to have a copy of magical starsign was one of my parents figured the box art was pretty cute. Meanwhile my brother got sonic, spyro, mario, and all these not typically shovelware games
Side tangent, but 1:03 putting Syberia in a bundle like this is CRAZY, that game is extremely moody and it gives me an intense feeling of melancholy whenever i play it.
Weird gender target demographic shenanigans aside (when the game doesn't really reflect this), it's more insane to me to sell it to a beginner demographic (at least based on the other games and the fact it's a bundle). I think putting the game in a bundle like that would be an easy way to put someone off it if they were expecting something based on the other games. Imo even if the atmosphere didn't put you off, the mild clunkiness could. And I feel like that's a shame, because I feel like despite the pace (to me, at the start, it kind of moves like molasses) and melancholic atmosphere, the first game feels extremely memorable (I haven't played in years and I still remember most if not all of the screens in Valadilene). I guess bundling the game with anything other than itself is a bit baffling to me, it'd be like bundling something with a jarring difficulty gap in a "Point-and-Click Essentials Bundle", like say, King's Quest and maybe Putt Putt or something, lmao
For me the perfect time to dip my toes into the series was when i was 14 and a little emo, but not too much yet
Tbh I'd put Beyond Good and Evil in the bundle instead
Did not expect to find a new interesting franchise to bookmark but wow, first game looks absolutely GORGEOUS from its steam page.
@neoqwerty while I can't say it's everyone's cup of tea, I feel like the series has incredible atmosphere and if you happen to enjoy its pace, I do recommend the games! I don't think I've played anything quite like Syberia, so it makes me happy to hear that more people are interested in the series.
I had this game! I thought it was so boring, with only one thing to do. I got it from a book fair thing, I think? I would start new games over and over hoping it would be different.
I have noticed that most of the girls games are rated E
It sucked being a young girl in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The most popular games didn't appeal to me and the ones I liked weren't considered real games by Cheeto Gobblers. Nintendo games are waaaay more expensive than any other company in my country but I was mostly stuck with them. Welp, at least I had Kirby 🙃
There's actually a DOS Barbie game that predates the Barbie Fashion Designer game, though it's similar in concept. The title I see it commonly referred to with is Barbie PC Fashion Design and Color, which basically let you put together an outfit for Barbie, pick an environment and then you can either print it to colour it in like a colouring book page or you can colour it in digitally.
Totally off topic but have you noticed whenever they have dog games majority of them seem to think all dogs lift their leg to pee. The girls actually don't do that. Given that you gave the gender of the dog as female in the game there should be some kind of change to represent the fact that it is that gender.
Nancy drew games mentioned!
This is less like shovel-ware and more like "poop scoop ware"...in that it's literally dog sh*t!! This video is infinitely more entertaining than the game looks to be, thank you for all your hard work!
Also I cracked up every time you said "Bbbbbbbb" 🤣
OMG i played puppy luv, you unlocked a childhood memory for me.
also, in my country in the 2000s the only accesible/popular hand-held console was psp and in general you had to be kinda well-off to game, so i could only own games like puppy luv, since it was cheaper and would run on our family dell laptop. loved every second tho lol
Omg wait i had the cats game you showed in the beginning! I loved it as a kid!
re paywalled papers: they’re often on multiple sites, some for free(search the paper name in quotations) someone also mentioned contacting the authors directly which usually works out as well
No wonder I never finished this game lol I still have the cd rom somewhere in my mom’a storage and it definitely came from the bookfair
Honestly…I’m glad these were not my first exposure to video games.
My Dad had an NES he let us play with while I was growing up. I played a lot of platformers.
omg your wizard cat in the background! i have the exact same one and its still one of my favorite things i own!! 🤝
great video btw, i will def check out more of ur stuff 👀
“My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens” (1998) is by far one of the best virtual pet games
the pinscher named bbbbbbbbb is wild, I used to have a miniature pinscher growing up, we called her bb. And I called her a wrinkly necked deer (for some reason she had loose wrinkly neck skin)
I though this would be more like Dogz Fashion, and it is very not. Also fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know, the Petz series isn’t even actually a series with a few exceptions to some of the sequels. They are mostly just a ton of completely different games that all got licensed by Petz lol
I had Catz (1 I think?) and one of the Dogz games (3 I think?) when I was a kid. :) Big nostalgia. Honestly they should rerelease them as freeware or something for modern PCs. They had a fun thing where you could have your Catz wander around your desktop background.
1:12 oh my god pet vet! I played so many hours of that, struggling the entire time because I didn’t know how to read yet some I was just going mostly vibes because there was basically zero visuals to help 😂 I’m also 90% sure my family had the “let’s ride” game next to it, but I know we didn’t have that full collection of 4
Edit: assuming those later shots of the horse game are from “let’s ride” yes that was the horse game I had 😂
Ooooohhhh my god Kitty Luv gave me whiplash to my childhood
Fisher Price Pet Shop REPRESENT. cannot tell you how many times in my life i have asked myself. If you owned a pet shop. tell me. what WOULD you do.
My dad had the opposite experience with me lol. He’d try to introduce my sister and I to the “boy” games and toys but I was having NONE of it. I wanted the Barbie and my little pony computer games lol
I bought this from a book fair and never got to pay it bc my pc sucked. Excited for this video
I always thought me having Petz was a knockoff of Nintendogs, which I desperately wanted and which my family couldn't afford. I still always disclaim myself as "not a gamer" and I can guarantee you that wouldn't be the case if my neighbor Tyler ever let me use the controller when he and his brother played Crash Bandicoot. Alas. At least our local public library did lend out CDs for games so I got to play like, Spy Fox.
HANG ON THE SCREENSHOTS OF THE FISHER PRICE GAME HAVE STIRRED SOME MEMORIES IN ME. BUNNIES. I REMEMBER THE BUNNIES.
My parents never told me i COULDNT play video games, i had a ds (style savvy all the way oh my god i love that game so much), but i didnt care about video games because we were only allowed to play video gam on weekends between 4pm and 7pm. My brother was already obsessed with them so he would lie and find a way around it but i never bothered. Even today, i struggle to stay invested in games other than stardew (havent played in a month) and the sims 4.
(my parents were mega unreasonable so I personally attribute my lack of interest to the way they were but in the end.. I just don't know how to spend my time 😂)
Got jumpscared by the Petz Fantasy: Sunshine Magic image because I played its counterpart Moonlight Magic as a kid.
I wasn't genderlocked from playing video games, thank god. But as a young little lady back in the day, I just played what I wanted but me and my brother were good kids who followed the ESRB ratings...for the most part. 😂 We were allowed to play M rated games but ONLY once we were around 16 or 17. My brother's first proper M rated game was Red Dead Redemption which he got the same Christmas he got his PS3 and mine was Alice: Madness Returns because i wanted to play that one, and I knew i wanted to play an M rated game that interested me.
"i dont think he was sexist" he was. Most dads are
Let's ride! Horse games were my childhood, and im still decistated there lost media now. The only game still available is silver buckle stable, and it's not a good resolution. it's so sad. 😭
Puppy Luv, Kitty Luv, and Pony Luv sold in a 3 pack somewhere once upon a time. Guess how I know that one. 🤣
Edit: OH THEY *WERE* SOLD AT BOOKFAIRS YOU SAYING THAT REMINDED ME WHERE I GOT THE THREE PACK
Oh my gosh, I had Pony Luv as a kid!!! Its gameplay was just as shit as Hollywood Pets’, so I guess that was just this studio’s style. Seeing that art style and play options brought all those memories flooding back-
i got puppy love as a kid
PUPPY LUV MY BELOATHED! It was so glitchy and awful on the family computer my dad took it back to the store to get another copy bc he thought something was wrong with the disk. Nope! Game was just bad i guess. I was so heartbroken bc I wanted a pet sim game so bad but it was slim pickings at the shops u_u
off topic but the look is really cute i like the top :)
if anyone cares, ive mostly heard "pinscher" pronounced more like "pincher" though i like to mash "pin-sh" and "pinch" together because ummm, because i'm wrong. "pinscher" also possibly comes from the french word "pincer" meaning, to grip / nip or in the dog's case, bite. some people also think that it might originate from the english word "pinch", and could possibly refer to their clipped ears. idk, i just find it a really cute name and miniature pinschers do really look like deer!
I believe the correct way to pronounce it is Pin-cher (like Cher, the singers, name)
I was indeed that child that was given shovel ware and while he played zelda on N64 and grand theft auto as he was a little bit older than me.
And I got gems like
Barbie race horse ps1 game.
Spingebob
A bugs life....
Space jam...
And what killed me as a kid I was allowed to play the demos of the cooler games, but not the bigger games themselves and gradually I got my own sure
But my older brother could play all mine but not vise versa, and he snapped put Spiro demo disc because our mom said I could but he came home and snapped it in half because he saw me playing it
That’s not exactly a great comparison since your brother was older then you, so he should be able to play games with older ratings then you
@@greenbeantm1096 you are missing the point.
Even games I could have played I had to wait to play while he wasn't the proper age to play certain stuff either but because he was a boy they didn't care as much and figured because I was a girl I wouldn't want stuff like Spyro, I'd want barbie because it was pink and girly.
It wasn't until I was older and asked for specific games that my parent considered it.
But my brother could play stuff like concers bad fur day way before he was supposed to because he was a boy.
It wasn't the end of the world or anything, but I had to wait longer given I was raised as a girl
Syberia bei8ng in the games for girls boxsets is so crazy to me 😭 Cause the protag is a woman? Like what else suggest this is a girly game?
Off topic but you are SHINING as a long blonde! Your eyes popped something crazy
I feel bad for any kid that got that game, like even my educational games had more minigames...
Is always interessing hearing how parents treated their kids in the gaming department, in my house had two girls, but for my parents mindset was that one-player games create fights so they always choose the multiplayer ones and didn't care much for the rating so when they bought N64 they got us Perfect Dark instead of Mario the older one was 11, still wish we had got Mario tho nothing against Perfect Dark but like we could only get one game per year and it didn't come with the expansion pack so we only had multiplayer for years, it got so bad that our main fun was trying to find small spaces to pretend to be rats that punch people...
And it gets a bit funny because my parents are against guns in general but then again my parents only created problems if we had to shoot animals, shooting people? Normal kid play, kill one dinosaur in the Jurassic Park game? Turn that off now!
Lmao my dad told me I couldn't buy grand theft auto vice city cos it would lead to black tar heroin (?) It was a joke but he definitely actually didn't want me to buy it so I didn't
I am so annoyed that youre still a small channel wtf 😢
great video, just as some feedback:
your audio is kind of quiet
you should put your script closer to your camera lens so it's not as obvious when you're reading from the script
As someone who is currently Trans-Masc, (26) when I was a little bean, I was never age restricted for anything or banned from gaming.
In fact, my family had a Super Nintendo in which I played Super Mario World and Mario Kart, specially Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a (F) cousin and I loved it!
Mother ended up buying me a GBA with Family Feud (I was a weird kid that liked learning new things) and Pokemon FireRed as my first ever games I’d own. Overall, my family was very supportive of my gaming hobby and I made a ton of friends that shared the same gaming tastes.
Still, I can imagine how some families in their time can limit such things due to gender. (To add into perspective, I was also the kid that preferred to play with boxes rather than kid toys.)