very old fish / goldfish feeding and breeding game in windows 95/98

[ELY_M]

I am looking for a exe of this game

I have played this exact game on windows 95 in 1997/1998. someone on irc gave me the game exe.

If someone can help me find the name of this game it would be great.
Played it between 1998 and 2000 on the school windows PCs.
The point of the game was to not run out of fish. They would die if not fed and they could also multiply like crazy.
I think the only thing the player did was click to feed them and it was all about how much/often you did that.
It was a really simple game. The fish just lived (briefly) in a glass bowl, and the background, I think, was light blue.





I made mock screenshot in photoshop..... this game look like this.

 

[FriendlyPolygon]

I only know that original The Sims game had that parody on this game. It had standalone .exe file of aquarium screenshot where you can perform two simple actions: watch and feed.

 

[FAST6191]

Good luck. Around the time there was a very popular screensaver (it was a different time) called MOPy Fish
https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/hp-mopy-fish-678/ that arguably kicked it all off* , to say nothing of Tamagotchi still being popular and the Creatures game series (search for creatures 1996) also doing fairly well.
There were subsequently a lot of clones of that sort of thing.

*as well as introducing young me to the idea of save restoration cheating -- a business someone I knew had such a fish, went on holiday and it starved, fire up the disc snapshot tool (probably would have been Norton Ghost at this point) and fish is back from the dead.

 

[ELY_M]

I do know about Mopy fish and I do have files. Mopy fish only have black background.

 

[ELY_M]

I only know that original The Sims game had that parody on this game. It had standalone .exe file of aquarium screenshoot where you can perform two simple actions: watch and feed.

post screenshots if you can.

 

[FriendlyPolygon]

post screenshots if you can.

I've searched through every The Sims game and expansion packs but haven't found it here, so I had to dug my old Pentium 233 PC from 2000s and oh my...
After i've booted it I discovered that I've deleted the game decades ago... But searching through archive folders on desktop, I was so surprised that I preserved that game among some others. I am also so happy!
Firstly, I was mistaken, it wasn't connected with The Sims at all, that aquarium just looks similar, I don't understand why it was installed with my old game copy! The program is called Mini Aquarium.exe but its original EXE name is RandomWawe.EXE. I've taken some screenshots of it directly from my old PC! Here they are:
P.S. I can share it in DM if you want
Additional info:
Description: RandomWave MFC Application
Version: 1.0.0.1
Product Name: RandomWave Application
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999
Original EXE name: RandomWave.EXE
Edit: I now recognised that aquarium looks just like one from The Sims, and this game have sounds from the game too. Thats strange, I can't find any info about this minigame on wikis...

 

[Veho]

Can you remember if it was actually a game, or one of those interactive screensavers that were all the rage at one point?
I remember Goldfish Aquarium, it had several tanks (including bowls) and backgrounds it cycled through. There was a bowl with a blue background in there.
And there was Aquazone, it was just one aquarium. It had more types of fish though.
Clicking on the screen would feed the fish, and that was it.

 

[ELY_M]

I've searched through every The Sims game and expansion packs but haven't found it here, so I had to dug my old Pentium 233 PC from 2000s and oh my...
After i've booted it I discovered that I've deleted the game decades ago... But searching through archive folders on desktop, I was so surprised that I preserved that game among some others. I am also so happy!
Firstly, I was mistaken, it wasn't connected with The Sims at all, that aquarium just looks similar, I don't understand why it was installed with my old game copy! The program is called Mini Aquarium.exe but its original EXE name is RandomWawe.EXE. I've taken some screenshots of it directly from my old PC! Here they are:
P.S. I can share it in DM if you want
Additional info:
Description: RandomWave MFC Application
Version: 1.0.0.1
Product Name: RandomWave Application
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999
Original EXE name: RandomWave.EXE
Edit: I now recognised that aquarium looks just like one from The Sims, and this game have sounds from the game too. Thats strange, I can't find any info about this minigame on wikis...

Thank you but it was not that game.

 

[ELY_M]

Can you remember if it was actually a game, or one of those interactive screensavers that were all the rage at one point?
I remember Goldfish Aquarium, it had several tanks (including bowls) and backgrounds it cycled through. There was a bowl with a blue background in there.
And there was Aquazone, it was just one aquarium. It had more types of fish though.
Clicking on the screen would feed the fish, and that was it.

It was not screensaver. It was a small game.

 

[ELY_M]

the game was 2d and in 8-bit and pixel kind. not 3d kind.

 

[ELY_M]

I made mock screenshot in photoshop to show how the game looked like.....

 

[ELY_M]

Thank you everyone, I finally found answer. it was Sim Fish 2 by Chris Perry. sadly the author is dead now.....

 

[ELY_M]

It wont work in windows 10.... might will work in WINE in Linux and old windows.
I was able to run it in windows 2000 on virtualbox.

s2.zip is installer. sim-fish-2-game.zip is exe and readme after it was installed. I zipped up the game folder after I installed it.

 

[FriendlyPolygon]

It wont work in windows 10.... might will work in WINE in Linux and old windows.
I was able to run it in windows 2000 on virtualbox.

s2.zip is installer. sim-fish-2-game.zip is exe and readme after it was installed. I zipped up the game folder after I installed it.

Congratulations! Glad you found it, and info about author as well.
Looks like it's a 16-bit app. You can run it natively on any 32bit (x86) windows though.
UPDATE: you can run it natively on x64 bit windows too! By installing ported version of NTVDM - otvdm. I'm running it fine on x64 bit Win7, just had to check "disable diplay scaling on high DPI".