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The company was able to make extra revenue by selling plush toys under the Petz trademark. Though it developed other types of video games, it was best known for its virtual pet games, such as Dogz and Catz. Oddballz Download Free Full Game was a video game developer founded in 1991 and located in San Francisco, California.
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