I first encountered Dogz 3 at a friend’s house.

The third games, though?

I played the hell out of them.

Images of Dogz and Catz in top of an Hypnospace Outlaw screenshot of April The Hamster

The door portal was a particular stroke of genius on this front, too.

Exactly what I wanted as a kid whose parents despised their real-life equivalents.

Listen, I was ten, it was all perfectly innocent, I assure you.

The PC boxes for Catz 3, Dogz 3 and Catz 4

The only pet I did, in fact, have as a child, was a hamster.

I’m not even kidding.

But I like that they exist within Hypnospace all the same.

The back of the PC boxes for Catz 3 and Dogz 3.

The Family Room play space from Dogz 3, showing a chair, fireplace, window and blue rug.

A desktop scene with a surfing squid, and a swirly turd sitting atop the head of a classical statue in Hypnospace Outlaw.