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Trying to track down the ROM/chip in a virtual pet I had as a kid in Poland, roughly 1997–99. Almost certainly one of the Chinese multi-pet clones sold here as "Virtual Pet" rather than anything Bandai. Details I'm confident about:

4 buttons, egg-shaped shell

Pet select screen at startup — I specifically remember an alien and a dinosaur among the options

You name the pet during setup (I believe custom input, not a preset list)

Standard care loop: feeding, cleaning poop. The alien ate rice

Pet grows up after several days, then dies of old age around day 100

Three minigames:

Basketball — background music was "Oh My Darling Clementine"

The pet alternates between pointing left and right and you guess the direction (the classic Tamagotchi-style game)

Move the pet horizontally to catch falling stars (or similar) while dodging falling rocks

The Clementine tune in the basketball game is the detail I'd bet on for fingerprinting the ROM — I've never seen it mentioned in the usual bootleg logs. The three-game set combined with the alien-eats-rice sprite feels distinctive too.

I've looked at the Bunny ROM family (168-in-1 etc.) and the Dinkie line, but neither seems to match cleanly — Bunny ROM feels too modern and uses preset names, and the Dinkie pets were single-creature devices. Could this be an earlier revision of one of those, or a separate chip entirely?

Any leads appreciated, including "I had one but don't know the name" — even a shell photo or a YouTube runthrough would help me confirm.

I'm looking for a series of polish children's books/coloring books/workbooks from the late 1990s. The characters were anthropomorphic animals—cats and a rabbit (I think one cat was named "Plamka"). There were also two antagonists—goblin-like monsters named "Lizus and Gryzus." It was in a notebook format: coloring pages and exercises for preschoolers. Does anyone know the title?

Szukam serii książeczek/kolorowanek/zeszytów ćwiczeń dla dzieci z drugiej połowy lat 90. Bohaterami były antropomorficzne zwierzęta — koty i królik (jedna kotka chyba nazywała się „Plamka”). Byli tam też dwaj antagoniści — potwory/gobliny o imionach „Lizus i Gryzus”. To był format zeszytowy: zadania do kolorowania, ćwiczenia dla przedszkolaka. Czy ktoś kojarzy tytuł?

Platform(s): Commodore Amiga 500. Played in Poland, so it could have come from a copied/PD disk rather than a boxed release.

Genre: Edutainment / activity collection for young kids.

Estimated year of release: Early to mid 90s. I played it around then as a small child.

Graphics/art style: Colourful 2D cartoon art, aimed at preschool age.

Notable characters: My clearest memory is an anthropomorphic cat, drawn as a child rather than a realistic animal. I think there were a handful of characters or objects to choose from, maybe 4–6.

Notable gameplay mechanics: The hub was an indoor room — house or nursery-like, not an outdoor scene. From that room you picked one of several mini-games. The only one I actually remember playing is a jigsaw puzzle, and I believe you got to it by clicking the cat. There were definitely other activities alongside it, I just can't recall what they were.

Other details: Text was possibly English, though I'm not certain. This memory is 30+ years old so individual details may be wrong — the room and the jigsaw are the parts I'm most confident about; the cat is the softest detail.

Already ruled out: The Playroom (right vibe, but no jigsaw and the mascot is a mouse), the Fun School series (menu screens, single mascot, no jigsaw), Noddy's Playtime (has a jigsaw, but the hub is driving around Toytown), ADI Junior / A.J.'s World of Discovery (right structure but the hub is outdoors), Castle of Dr. Brain, Amy's Fun-2-3 Adventure, Pepe's Garden, Reader Rabbit, Barney Bear.

Platform(s): Commodore Amiga 500. Played in Poland, so it could have come from a copied/PD disk rather than a boxed release.

Genre: Edutainment / activity collection for young kids.

Estimated year of release: Early to mid 90s. I played it around then as a small child.

Graphics/art style: Colourful 2D cartoon art, aimed at preschool age.

Notable characters: My clearest memory is an anthropomorphic cat, drawn as a child rather than a realistic animal. I think there were a handful of characters or objects to choose from, maybe 4–6.

Notable gameplay mechanics: The hub was an indoor room — house or nursery-like, not an outdoor scene. From that room you picked one of several mini-games. The only one I actually remember playing is a jigsaw puzzle, and I believe you got to it by clicking the cat. There were definitely other activities alongside it, I just can't recall what they were.

Other details: Text was possibly English, though I'm not certain. This memory is 30+ years old so individual details may be wrong — the room and the jigsaw are the parts I'm most confident about; the cat is the softest detail.

Already ruled out: The Playroom (right vibe, but no jigsaw and the mascot is a mouse), the Fun School series (menu screens, single mascot, no jigsaw), Noddy's Playtime (has a jigsaw, but the hub is driving around Toytown), ADI Junior / A.J.'s World of Discovery (right structure but the hub is outdoors), Castle of Dr. Brain, Amy's Fun-2-3 Adventure, Pepe's Garden, Reader Rabbit, Barney Bear.

Platform(s): Commodore Amiga 500. Played in Poland, so it could have come from a copied/PD disk rather than a boxed release.

Genre: Edutainment / activity collection for young kids.

Estimated year of release: Early to mid 90s. I played it around then as a small child.

Graphics/art style: Colourful 2D cartoon art, aimed at preschool age.

Notable characters: My clearest memory is an anthropomorphic cat, drawn as a child rather than a realistic animal. I think there were a handful of characters or objects to choose from, maybe 4–6.

Notable gameplay mechanics: The hub was an indoor room — house or nursery-like, not an outdoor scene. From that room you picked one of several mini-games. The only one I actually remember playing is a jigsaw puzzle, and I believe you got to it by clicking the cat. There were definitely other activities alongside it, I just can't recall what they were.

Other details: Text was possibly English, though I'm not certain. This memory is 30+ years old so individual details may be wrong — the room and the jigsaw are the parts I'm most confident about; the cat is the softest detail.

Already ruled out: The Playroom (right vibe, but no jigsaw and the mascot is a mouse), the Fun School series (menu screens, single mascot, no jigsaw), Noddy's Playtime (has a jigsaw, but the hub is driving around Toytown), ADI Junior / A.J.'s World of Discovery (right structure but the hub is outdoors), Castle of Dr. Brain, Amy's Fun-2-3 Adventure, Pepe's Garden, Reader Rabbit, Barney Bear.

Hi, my grandma died last year and I've found some letters from her grand aunt, who used to live in Philadelphia in the 1960s. I know that she was an immigrant from Ukraine and have both her name and the address that she used. Where is a good place to start?