Giga Pets: Virtual Alien
Giga Pets are digital pet toys. Available in a variety of different characters, each Giga Pet is a palm-sized unit with an LCD screen and attached key ring. To ensure a happy, healthy pet, its owner has to…
Giga Pets: Virtual Alien is a simulator developed by Tiger Electronics, released 31 December 1997 on Handheld Electronic LCD.
What Giga Pets: Virtual Alien is
Giga Pets: Virtual Alien is a simulator game developed by Tiger Electronics and released in 1997. It is available on Handheld Electronic LCD only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Giga Pets are digital pet toys. Available in a variety of different characters, each Giga Pet is a palm-sized unit with an LCD screen and attached key ring. To ensure a happy, healthy pet, its owner has to take care of it similar to how one might care for a real animal, including feeding, cleaning, and playing with their Giga Pet.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Giga Pets series
Giga Pets: Virtual Alien is the sixth of 16 entries we hold in the Giga Pets series. The next entry was Giga Pets: Bit Critter in 1997.
What it launched against
Giga Pets: Virtual Alien launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
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