/vr/ - Retro Games

Jingle Cats: Rabupara Daisakusen no Kan (this may not be the full title, but it's almost universally referred to as Jingle Cats) is the kind of game that would've been a massive cult hit and internet favorite if it had been released today. The gist of it is that you take care of two cats in a home and try to get them to like each other. As the game adds more cats (each of them individuals with pre-set names and preferences), taking care of them and making them get along becomes more challenging. Apparently there is some kind of backstory or end goal about raising a cat choir, but I don't know about that.

You scroll around a first-person 2D view of the house's rooms where the cats will be doing whatever cats do. You can feed them, bathe them, pick them up and move them around, and have them interact with objects and each other.

The game's presentation is seriously charming, everything is a cartoony, scribbly, and almost Art Noveau in its style, including the endearing cats themselves. Obviously Japan-only, though once you get a hang for the menus and options (and memorize the cat relationship chart), it can be played successfully.