Nano Pets
Nano Pets
I don't have any of these, because they go for way too much money on eBay.
Original
Nano Dog
Nano Kitty
Colors: Purple/pink, white
When the cat needs washing, she leaves pawprints across the screen.
Functions:
- Feed - dry food/fish bone
- Lights
- Games - Left/right game and catch the mouse
- Medicine (nurse icon)
- Bath/toilet
- Stats - Uses 3 hearts for happiness, hunger, and discipline.
- Discipline
Video review of the Nano Kitty
Nano Baby
Colors: green (translucent), blue (translucent), white (translucent), purple (translucent)
The Nano baby lets you raise a baby, naturally. It starts out with an animation of Mom and Dad going to the hospital in an ambulance. After this, you set the time, and get to see the doctor's face until the baby is born. You can give it a name that (I think) is max 8 characters long. The baby is pretty cute!
Functions
- Food - can eat either bottles or ice cream
- Games - There are two games included: Rock, paper, scissors, and a race in which you press the left or right button to help the baby get to the end.
- Light
- Medicine
- Bath
- Discipline
- Stats - Uses hearts
Nano Bunny
Colors: red, teal
The Nano bunny lets you give is a name up to 8 characters long which will show on the stats menu. The startup animation is just a beating heart that stays until the bunny is born, then it switches to the bunny animation.
Functions
- Shower
- Stats - uses dots?
- Feed - carrot/apple/candy
- Game - Simon says (press the buttons as they show on the screen)
- Discipline (wagging finger)
- ???? Light?
- Exercise
- Medicine
Nano Pony
I've never seen this one anywhere, but I've seen instructions, so I know it exists!
These are thanks to Daughter of Anubis on Tumblr
Nano Teddy
One of the rarer ones, this one pops up on Ebay occasionally for obscene prices.
These are thanks to Daughter of Anubis on Tumblr
Family
There seem to be two of these: The Nano Puppy Family blue and pink versions. They let you chose between a variety of female and male dogs at start (there are like 8 total, which seems a lot), and then you can raise them. Apparently they will also talk to each other and play/have puppies? This one is more complicated than others, and I can't figure it all out just by looking at the videos.
After picking up one myself, the most immediate thing I can say about them is that they're really hefty and feel lovely. There's a good amount of weight to them (but not too much!), and the screen is nice and large. The buttons are almost clicky with how much feedback you get when pressing them, and I just really like the case design overall; there's even a dedicated sound button! This one is super fun to carry around! As is usual with nanos, my pet can walk across multiple screens, and chases butterflies and runs next to her doghouse. There's also a fence in the background of one of the screens. Each time I exit a menu function, the game shows me the face of the dog I chose, and then zooms out to show what she looks like now. This is a nice feature, and helps to remind you which dog you chose.
One of the major drawbacks, though, is that as far as I can tell, there's no way to raise a second generation without connecting to a second device, and the prices for these aren't great right now. Because of that, although I did enjoy playing with this one, it eventually got a little boring and I turned it off. There isn't a whole lot of growth, it lacks different age stages, and without the ability to have a pup, it seemed kind of pointless after a while. I would like to pick another one up in the future and play it again, but until I find another good deal, it'll have to wait.
Video of Nano Puppy family gameplay
Functions Some of these don't go across the top and bottom of the screen like in other pets, but have you scroll through a menu on a different screen. They also have an alarm function on the clock screen.
- Stats - There are two branching stats options: the first shows you the sort of info you'd expect to pop up by pressing the "mode" button on an empty screen (name and age of your pet and the personality you chose), while the other one contains the more immediate ones (hunger, happiness, sickness, and education)
- Feed - Contains dry food and drink options. These aren't the usual food/snack options, because in fact they have two separate meters and must both be filled for the pet to be happy. I suppose one is representing thirst, otherwise it wouldn't make much sense to have a snack option.
- Wash - This is only for cleaning poop, and the pet will refuse it if is not needed
- Medicine
- Family connect - I don't have another one so I won't be able to test this, unfortunately. At least not yet
- Read book - This is for the education meter
- Play game (kick the ball into goal) - There's only one game here and it's pretty simple. I press the square button repeatedly when playing, otherwise the ball flys off into the distance. Not sure why I need to press the middle button, but it works and makes the pet happy. The game will repeat each time you win or lose and you can stop it at any time by pressing the circle button.
- Baby - shows an animation of a baby getting licked by puppy. Not sure what that does. It's represented by a stroller icon in the menu, so my working theory is that either this tells me what stage of growth the puppy is on, or it lets me switch between the pets I'm raising.
Nano Turtle
Nano Doubles
The Nano Double had two different pets in them that you could switch between. Not sure if there's more than one of these, since I've only found the one below.
Dog/Cat
Lets you raise a cat and dog simultaneously. You can give them each a name (max 8 characters long).
Video of NanoDouble Gameplay
Dog functions
- Feed (dry food/lemonade)
- light
- Games: two of them; the left/right game, and get the ball (tap one direction)
- Medicine (nurse icon)
- Bath
- Stats - uses hearts and includes overall score
- discipline (angry face)
- Unselectable alert
The pet will crawl across multiple screens, including one with a fence. Can witch between different pets using the diamond button on the front panel.
Cat functions
- Feed (dry food/bottle)
- Light
- Games: left/right and catch the mouse (tap one direction)
- Medicine
- Bath
- Stats- uses hearts and overall score
- Discipline
- Unselectable alert
Talking Nanos
Release date: 1997
They...you guessed it...talk. Tamenagerie has some instructions for these here: http://www.tamenagerie.com/insttalknano.html (Archived: File:Instructions TalkingNano Tamenagerie.pdf
- Talking Nano Kitty
Colors: Orange, silver
- Talking Nano Puppy
Colors: Blue
- Talking Nano Baby
Colors: Purple, blue
Video of talking Nano Baby gameplay
Once you set the time, a stork drops the baby and it says "Hi!" You can then enter a name (8 characters max). The screen usually just shows a face on the screen rather than the usual walking animations. When the baby doesn't want something, it will say "No!" instead of shaking its head like other pets
Functions
- Stats - Uses a dot/meter system
- Light
- Medicine - chose between two bottles of pills
- Feed - Peas or bottle, and it makes chomping, swallowing, and burping sounds. Afterwards it says "Thank you!"
- ?
- Games - Simon says and catch the food using the left/right buttons
- Bath (wipe face)
- Discipline (wagging finger, followed by crying noise)
Nano Racers
These were a weird one. There's a screen on top of the little car that acts as a sort of "car pet." You can chose the parts of the car and then race them somehow.
Nano Fighters
These are meant to be connected together for fights, and otherwise let you care for them. I guess these were the Nano's answer to the Digimon devices.
Video of fighters gameplay
http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/farm/nano/nfighter.htm
You can name these as you would other name pets, and there is no baby stage; they're born fully grown, but unclothed. Most of the functions are the same for each, so I'll outline them below, and then note the differences.
Functions
- Feed - main food/shake
- Games - Lifting weights (tap a button to help the), and punch the boards (press left and right buttons to help them punch
- Light
- Meds
- Bath
- Discipline
- Stats - uses a numbering system instead of hearts
Supreme Sumo
Eats a hotpot as his main food, and is large and bald.
Rough Rider
Eats burgers and shakes instead of hotpot, and has long hair
File:Instructions NanoFighter RoughRider.pdf
Alley Rumble
File:Instructions NanoFighter AlleyRumble.pdf
Fighting
Connect two of them toghet to see them fight! You'll get a "FIGHT" screen, and then see them walk onto each other's screens to hit. The winner and loser will then be seen on their respective screens. The loser will need medical care (ouch!) If you'd like to fight them again, you can disconnect and reconnect them and they will start a new fight.