Postpet

How many of you heard of this name before? Started in 1997 by sony, it is a email software, something like outlook express as you are familiar with, but this client is much cuter, fun, and interesting.

Unlike the outlook express where you will see a pop up with new mail msg, or just refreshing every 1 min interval. Postpet as you can see “pet”, it is a client with a “house” and your chosen pet to adopt can live in it.

The newest version looks better although unfortunately it is not available in English unlike the previous version. For some reason sony decided to terminate this service for English version.

These are some picture to give a rough idea of what it is like, the first picture is the older version, followed by the rest which isn’t in order of launch, probably.

It works this way :

You click send email, your pet will take the envelope and go out of your pet house. You can only use this function if your friend has a post pet too. You pet will then open the door of your friend’s pet house (can be seen by your friend if she is in front of her com) and drop the letter on the table, your friend could provide it with delicious snacks and make him/her stay, bath him etc, or if you friend is the sadistic type, she can smack it to no end. The pet will be unhappy, not like he will do anything much other then writing a diary which can be found in your pet house, somewhere, likely to complain about how his new friend’s owner treated him.

Vice versa, you could do the same to your visiting friend’s pet.

If your friend don’t have a post pet, you could always use the mail man.

There is a catch though, certain pet have mood meter or some sort, if you starve him or torture him too much, leave it dirty etc, it might just leave home. Usually a couple of days, or sometimes a little bit longer. It would comeback really hungry dirty and pathetic looking, not to mention sad. You can either smack it and make it leave home again or treat him with tender loving care. ( I remember making my cat leave home and feel sad coz my pet house looks empty) I had to use the mail man for a couple of days =<>

Anyway, I wasn’t trying to advertise or what, I don’t work for sony. But I just suddenly really miss using post pet. I, as usual, have tried to locate its still working older version, but only found its cr@ck, not the client itself. If not, I have to go learn Japanese and hope that they sell it on the net or something, but then again, I would have gone to some Japan cr@ck site. I haven’t made my birthday wish this year, my wish, is to earn lots and lots of $ enough to buy the whole sony company. So I can revive English post pet, and with the extra lots and lots of $ I gonna do whatever I want.