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New Article: Petster, the Robot Cat!

If you're waiting for the next parade review, don't worry, it's a'comin soon. Had some video/audio synch problems, but we're on the road to recovery. Hopefully will have two more full reviews by Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, there's a new article up, about Petster, the robot cat. One of the forgotten gems from the era of Teddy Ruxpin-inspired electronic interactive toys, Petster was sort of like a giant Furby with wheels. Review includes a commercial download and a special lovey-love happy photo album.

Posted by Matt on 11/19/2003. E-mail me!

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Matt, I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, but I think you’ll like http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/19/japan.whale.ap/index.html">this CNN.com article about an entirely undiscovered species of *baleen* whale being discovered off the coast of Japan! It’s 30 feet long and about the size of a motorhome…

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 11/20/2003 3:08 AM

Hey everybody, the Charlie Brown Special reviewed last week is on this Sunday, the 23rd, at 7pm on ABC.

Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB @ 11/20/2003 9:06 AM

My GF has a sextoy that takes 6 D batteries.

I’m so lonley…

Chestnuts roasted by spazzamatic @ 11/20/2003 9:56 AM

You mentioned a Tetris board game, Matt. I should like to hear more about it. Who in Creation thought that this would actually work? (Even if it was based on Tengen’s version instead of Elorg’s (there were some legal issues in the NES days that gave Elorg rights to Tetris, but ask anyone who was around for both games and they’ll tell you Tengen’s was better), which it doesn’t appear to be.)

Chestnuts roasted by mtvcdm @ 11/20/2003 10:09 AM

one time i tried eating my poo. It was weird.

Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 11/20/2003 10:52 AM

Okay, first off….you see this yet dude?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031119/sc_nm/science_whale_dc_1

And 2nd….check it out, I had one of these cats when I was a kid!!!

http://badger.llamaherder.com/Family/babypics/typing.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by badgerbadger @ 11/20/2003 11:19 AM

badger, awesome. I wish I had my kiddy photos on the internet to look through when I thought about toys I used to have…

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 11/20/2003 12:33 PM

Y’know, of all the wonders I remember in the good ol’ 80′s, Petster never came up! Maybe I was too young. Maybe I just didn’t understand. Maybe I was just too involved inserting Menudo and Jimi Hendrix tapes into my Teddy Ruxpin. Yeah, probably the last one. I love the photo album! It’s not often I get to go "tee hee" and feel good about. As usual, Matt has opened me up just a little more. Me-owch! Fare thee well!

Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 11/20/2003 1:09 PM

it’s always cool to see something from your childhood that you completely forgot about, but was so important to you then. its like someone found a hidden little jewel that was always there, you just forgot about it. thanks, matt. wow, that just got real serious for a second, haha.

Chestnuts roasted by MoonShadow210 @ 11/20/2003 1:43 PM

Petster’s cool and all… but I wanna know more about the Tetris boardgame in one of those photos. Has it ever been reviewed here at XE?

Chestnuts roasted by jjgoreha @ 11/20/2003 2:32 PM

I don’t remember Petster for some reason…maybe I have blocked it. It kind of reminds me of that new remote controlled vacuum/sweeper thing they’re shilling now on tv (only more furry). Teddy Ruxpin always disturbed me for some reason, though not as much as the more recent talking doll thing that looks like a cross between a mutant Teddy Ruxpin and that stupid alien thing Nukie…

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 11/20/2003 2:34 PM

That article was awesome. I want a scary robot cat!

Chestnuts roasted by Jay @ 11/20/2003 2:47 PM

Jeez, how many cats do you have? (real, not battery operated)

Chestnuts roasted by Craig @ 11/20/2003 2:51 PM

Also, look at what I found:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3157428685&category=19198

Chestnuts roasted by Craig @ 11/20/2003 2:55 PM

i still have my Teddy Ruxpin in the loft. god that was such a cool toy! Also in my loft among all my other cool toys of the 80′s and 90′s is……

TETRIS THE BOARD GAME!!!!! Made by Tomy bout 1991. this thing was awsome. almost better then the game. no really!

Chestnuts roasted by Nick Soapdish @ 11/20/2003 3:31 PM

Hahaha, the infamous Tetris board game. I own one, got it off Ebay due to my Tetris craving.

That Robo-Cat is fairly impressive as far as old Robo-Cats go.

Hey Matt, you ever think of doing something on the Micronauts? You mentioned them in your Lords of Light review and I wondered if you’d ever do them.

Chestnuts roasted by Ian, Just Ian @ 11/20/2003 4:08 PM

I hate it when I have the dream where a cat is biting my hand. It bites hard.

Chestnuts roasted by malraxbar @ 11/20/2003 4:17 PM

I had a teddy ruxpin and all of the little action figures from it too. I remember teddy was real heavy and could be used as artillery. Don’t want to be around falling teddy’s!! It will knock you out! The mud guys were my favorites.

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 11/20/2003 4:39 PM

I had a Petster hamster! Chances are, I still do. It was so cute. It had its own little hamster ball to roll around in.

Now they have this re-issue of Go-Go My Walkin’ Pup (I remember this from the mid-90s) and it’s sort of scary. I saw a display of them at Toys R’ Us and screamed.

Do you know what else they have again? Yo-Yo Balls! I even remember the old commercial. Mine was neon green. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new ones are decorated with great 80′s-looking graphics.

Chestnuts roasted by Jess @ 11/20/2003 4:43 PM

You have three cats, all named ‘Marla’?

Well, since cats don’t come when you call them and are generally ambivolent to their owners anyway, why not?

Chestnuts roasted by Inky @ 11/20/2003 5:57 PM

I have only this to say: robot spiders will get the same, if not worse, treatment from me than real spiders. Combining the horrors of arachnids and robots–that’s Pee Wee’s Playhouse kind of scary, and not in a good way.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 11/20/2003 6:44 PM

Wow badgerbadger, at first I am amazed that you have proof of ownership so readilly available rather than just the nostalgic waxings of most of us. Then I realize you also have a robot parrot and your own kids typewriter you spoiled little brat!

kidding

kind of

BTW, am I the first to ever be banned from the Blog?

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 11/20/2003 7:56 PM

I didn’t have a Petster, but I did have a Teddy Ruxpin and a Mickey Mouse Bopper. Teddy Ruxpin is great when you put a music tape in him.

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 11/20/2003 8:29 PM

Man, I wanted a cat as a kid. No, wait, I had a cat, but she was old and had to live in the laundry room. Then she died and we got a new cat, but THAT cat would just scratch me all day rather than being a good cat. Wish I had a ROBOT cat, ’cause those things are physically incapable of scratching you, and can play outside of the laundry room all day. Or at least until the six million batteries run down.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 11/20/2003 8:53 PM

I used to put those "read along with me" tapes in my Teddy Ruxpin. The voices came out all warped, which would probably scare any normal 5-year-old (but then again, I was not exactly a normal 5-year-old!) I also used to put the Teddy Ruxpin tapes in my tape player and I’d get really pissed off when they wouldn’t play!
I’d try and find a Petster, but it would never survive a day in my house, considering my kitten would probably try to eat it.

Chestnuts roasted by MRNonCCN @ 11/20/2003 9:35 PM

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