Fin Fin, the 1996 Voice-Activated Virtual Pet for PCs
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Bisa.
Long-time Fin Fin fan since childhood here, and I can't put into words how happy it makes me to see a large creator cover this absolute gem of a game.
As someone who's been along the entire ride, with everything from playing the german -4 worlds- release as a wee li'l kid, piping around on the whistle, my father getting me that plushie - one of my most treasured belongings to this day, spending hours on end on EMGE's website, getting to experience Lemo Valley after my father snatched the -5 worlds- US Deluxe Version from ebay, heck, I even dressed up as the turquoise dolphin-bird for Halloween once, all the way to when the community finally acquired the holy grail of a -6 worlds- version from Asia and patched it into german, allowing me to finally see the Nest and Fin Fin's family for the first time.
I've been playing this game almost daily for the last 2 decades and have almost religious dedication to everything surrounding it, so seriously, I cannot thank you enough for this.
And all hail Banana Deer.
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Long-time Fin Fin fan since childhood here, and I can't put into words how happy it makes me to see a large creator cover this absolute gem of a game.
As someone who's been along the entire ride, with everything from playing the german -4 worlds- release as a wee li'l kid, piping around on the whistle, my father getting me that plushie - one of my most treasured belongings to this day, spending hours on end on EMGE's website, getting to experience Lemo Valley after my father snatched the -5 worlds- US Deluxe Version from ebay, heck, I even dressed up as the turquoise dolphin-bird for Halloween once, all the way to when the community finally acquired the holy grail of a -6 worlds- version from Asia and patched it into german, allowing me to finally see the Nest and Fin Fin's family for the first time.
I've been playing this game almost daily for the last 2 decades and have almost religious dedication to everything surrounding it, so seriously, I cannot thank you enough for this.
And all hail Banana Deer.
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Linkopoop
I played this briefly on my parents PC as a kid, but it was severely limited, there was only one location and the map that showed fin fin being somewhere else most of the time. I eventually got it to eat the red plant thing, but then scared it off when it refused to eat another one. I was too impatient for this as a kid, but I thought fin fin was really cute.
Over the years this thing popped back into my head from time to time, but I never was interested enough to research the name of it and how to play it again, looking at it now, it seems too limited to still be fun for me, but I'm happy I found this video and saw most of what fin fin had to offer.
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I played this briefly on my parents PC as a kid, but it was severely limited, there was only one location and the map that showed fin fin being somewhere else most of the time. I eventually got it to eat the red plant thing, but then scared it off when it refused to eat another one. I was too impatient for this as a kid, but I thought fin fin was really cute.
Over the years this thing popped back into my head from time to time, but I never was interested enough to research the name of it and how to play it again, looking at it now, it seems too limited to still be fun for me, but I'm happy I found this video and saw most of what fin fin had to offer.
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Cuvtixo
If a banana deer was butchered, would it have meat that tastes like banana, or maybe mushy banana flesh that tastes vaguely like venison? Would younger banana deer taste like green bananas, and the mature ones taste like ripe banana? Would elder deer blacken and turn to mush? If you find this disturbing, -that was partly my intention. Blending fruit DNA with animal DNA should be outlawed! Why didn't my imagination stop at deer with yellow and black fur? Because I'm a sick, sick man. And hungry, it's almost dinner time for me!
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If a banana deer was butchered, would it have meat that tastes like banana, or maybe mushy banana flesh that tastes vaguely like venison? Would younger banana deer taste like green bananas, and the mature ones taste like ripe banana? Would elder deer blacken and turn to mush? If you find this disturbing, -that was partly my intention. Blending fruit DNA with animal DNA should be outlawed! Why didn't my imagination stop at deer with yellow and black fur? Because I'm a sick, sick man. And hungry, it's almost dinner time for me!
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h3lldon
Clint you should do an exposition on the -Creatures- games. I'm pretty sure the first one came out the same year as this 1996. You could breed your creatures and interact with the environments along with other things but similar to this game, it only seemed to take me about an hour or so of playing to get bored. I haven't played Fin Fin but Creatures seems to have a lot more to do in-game and the map was slowly discoverable. Worth checking out if you haven't already!
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Clint you should do an exposition on the -Creatures- games. I'm pretty sure the first one came out the same year as this 1996. You could breed your creatures and interact with the environments along with other things but similar to this game, it only seemed to take me about an hour or so of playing to get bored. I haven't played Fin Fin but Creatures seems to have a lot more to do in-game and the map was slowly discoverable. Worth checking out if you haven't already!
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I talked yesterday with my mom about how we used to have this, and she didn't remember it at all!
So I set out today to find it and you uploaded it just a week ago! What a coincident!
However, while I do remember a similar disc I think we only ever had a non-animated desktop background and an animated screen saver!
Can't find any videos or in fact any info about a screen saver version, somebody here maybe knows something?
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I talked yesterday with my mom about how we used to have this, and she didn't remember it at all!
So I set out today to find it and you uploaded it just a week ago! What a coincident!
However, while I do remember a similar disc I think we only ever had a non-animated desktop background and an animated screen saver!
Can't find any videos or in fact any info about a screen saver version, somebody here maybe knows something?
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GoldryBluszco
I was given a copy of fin fin when I was a kid as payment for being part of a medical study. Honestly, the presentation was really futuristic at the time, but the interaction was always abstract. I was never sure if anything I said had any kind of an effect on fin fin. Eventually fin fin gets withdrawn, and sort of depressed. Anyway, don't think I've heard anyone else reference this game in the last 25 years!
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I was given a copy of fin fin when I was a kid as payment for being part of a medical study. Honestly, the presentation was really futuristic at the time, but the interaction was always abstract. I was never sure if anything I said had any kind of an effect on fin fin. Eventually fin fin gets withdrawn, and sort of depressed. Anyway, don't think I've heard anyone else reference this game in the last 25 years!
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Terry
This really does not qualify as a game considering there are literally no stakes at all. it's literally a barely intractable screensaver. I consider The Sims series of games to be the best AI digital pets games because there's just so much more you can do with them and have their reactions. They even live and grow until actual death! It's all part of the whole experience that matters!
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This really does not qualify as a game considering there are literally no stakes at all. it's literally a barely intractable screensaver. I consider The Sims series of games to be the best AI digital pets games because there's just so much more you can do with them and have their reactions. They even live and grow until actual death! It's all part of the whole experience that matters!
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Mobius0207
Genuinely thought this would be really horrible, but I actually really love it. It is oddly very realistic. You-re not important to the animals here, they mostly ignore you, unless you bring attention to yourself. The atmosphere is pretty cool as well, and the atmosphere almost reminds me of command and conquer (tiberian series)
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Genuinely thought this would be really horrible, but I actually really love it. It is oddly very realistic. You-re not important to the animals here, they mostly ignore you, unless you bring attention to yourself. The atmosphere is pretty cool as well, and the atmosphere almost reminds me of command and conquer (tiberian series)
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tekoteko
It is nostalgic for me because some screen savers of Fin Fin characters (fish with legs, chandelier shaped plants and Fin Fin itself, off course) were preinstalled in my first PC made by Fujitsu (MMX Pentium 166MHz, 32MB of memory and 2. 6GB of hard drive.
Fujitsu might have wanted to let Fin Fin be the company-s character.
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It is nostalgic for me because some screen savers of Fin Fin characters (fish with legs, chandelier shaped plants and Fin Fin itself, off course) were preinstalled in my first PC made by Fujitsu (MMX Pentium 166MHz, 32MB of memory and 2. 6GB of hard drive.
Fujitsu might have wanted to let Fin Fin be the company-s character.
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WakeupGrandOwl
Please one day review the Creatures Lab series 'Creatures' - it's so fascinating. I loved the rich lore for the game.
Had the most expansive mod community and dedicated fan base, (similar to Petz and Babyz, but more intense) and then the entire series was nerfed/infantilized by successive buyers. A tragic loss.
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Please one day review the Creatures Lab series 'Creatures' - it's so fascinating. I loved the rich lore for the game.
Had the most expansive mod community and dedicated fan base, (similar to Petz and Babyz, but more intense) and then the entire series was nerfed/infantilized by successive buyers. A tragic loss.
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