The game was part of a "Mundo Teen" project that involved a software called that and another virtual pet directed at girls called Kika: Mascote Virtual, but only a single news article
without images remains as proof that those games even existed. Cookie itself was luckily preserved on the Internet Archive in 2021 for anyone interested.
This game features the following tropes:
- Addressing the Player: The menu blob will call the player by name upon logging in and the game will eventually wish them a happy birthday before gameplay starts.
- Afraid of Needles: Healing Cookie from illness involves injecting him with a vaccine, much to his dismay in the full screen animation that is displayed upon selecting this.
- Anti Poop-Socking: Cookie will sleep from 21:00 until morning and cannot be interacted with until he wakes up.
- Artificial Insolence: It's possible for Cookie to ignore your commands except for the one that lets you scold him. If you try to scold him while he's not being rebellious, then it plays an unique popup of him humming in disapproval.
- Attract Mode: The opening sequence before the login screen features various screenshots of gameplay.
- Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The death sequence is immediately followed by another Cookie hatching like nothing happened.
- Cartoon Creature: Cookie is a purple fluffball with arms and legs that hatches from an egg.
- Credits Gag: The Credits sequence uses Comic Sans as a font, but on the Art section, "ARTE" is scribbled.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: The only warning you get that your Cookie is dead and gone is that the blob on the login screen will have a different expression than usual, as if waiting for your reaction.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Cookie wears pants and a cap as a teen and gets a full costume as an adult, as if he's civilized. Not enough to survive on his own apparently...
- Guilt-Based Gaming: Not taking care of Cookie will display a pop up of him looking sadly towards the player every time he walks past the screen. The game's death screen is also just sudden and bleak enough to have left emotional scars on the kids who played it back in its day.
- The Key Is Behind the Lock: Sort of. The game tells you to change your password if you've forgotten it, but requires it in order to change it, with no other options available. The best that can be done is erasing the password on the game's files, making it recognize a blank password as valid.
- Minimalist Cast: The only characters are your Cookie, the other cookies who show up on the birthday screen and the nondescript Blob Monster on the login sequence. The female counterpart to Cookie, Kika, is never even mentioned.
- Mood Whiplash: Sooner or later, you're going to open the game to find a grave over a faded background with somber funeral music. Gameplay immediately resumes with a new infant Cookie as soon as you click on the screen, making the death screen that much more jarring since it comes out of nowhere between the very cheerful titlescreen and gameplay.
- No Plot? No Problem!: The game has no story or dialogue.
- Notice This: Whenever Cookie is unwell, status ailment icons pop up on the screen that have the same function as the icons at the top.
- Play Every Day: You must load the game every so often to feed and clean Cookie. The more aged he is, the less time you have to take care of him before he dies.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Just look at that screenshot of Cookie at the top of this page.
- The Stinger: You must watch the credits sequence every time you want to quit the game. At the end, it cuts to a Cookie sleeping in the night under a tree and will remain in this scene until you click on the screen to actually close the program.
- Title Scream: The game's theme song features a voice shouting "Cookie!" and part of it is featured in the title screen.
- Video Game Caring Potential: As a Virtual Pet game, the whole point is feeding and cleaning Cookie to keep him healthy.
- What the Hell, Player?:
- If Cookie is unhealthy or there are weather conditions and you didn't change his clothes yet, you'll get a close-up of him looking sad when he walks off-screen.
- Cookie shakes his head in disapproval if you try to click an unneeded option. If it is the one to scold him when he's not making trouble, he just ignores it while humming.
