When a Fish Lived Inside Your PC: MOPy Fish | Nostalgia Nerd

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[YerZero]

Not gonna lie, that's a clever way to sell insanely priced toner.

[Monkey_SK]

I've heard that HP stands for Halibut Pike but I think it's a red herring.

[TheSmart-CasualGamer]

6:00 When you said they went for a darker theme, I initially assumed that you meant they gave it an edgy backstory, a leather jacket and a sword.

[stephenc]

I had this but think I bored with it quickly, realising that it wasn't much use as a screensaver. Imagine how annoying it must have been in a corporate environment, with people being incentivised to waste toner and paper. I know the claim was that it was meant to encourage use of the printer rather than the photocopier but I wonder how many unnecessary prints were made just to create pretend aquarium accessories.

[kirkula]

Every mobile game publisher: "Hmm, you get points faster by printing, my beer"

[LJay_]

Bonus points for the excellent Red Dwarf reference.

Today's fish is trout a la crème. Enjoy your meal.

[NathanielHarari]

I had Mopy running back then! And LOL...Rimmer playing the "trumpet" when Mopy died! Brilliant! Who else noticed that?? 👍️🤣️

[Left-Earth]

*It's possible to replace the DAT file with a custom one compiled from 661 images taken from Nostalgia Nerd episodes.*
_Nostalgia Nerd Fish was born. Eat your heart out, Seaman._ 😅

[Tmpk]

OMG I totally forgot MopyFish existed until about 5 mins ago. Ah the memories!

[RichUK]

I remember Mopyfish as a 19 year old junior draftsman. My boss had it and wouldnt allow anyone else too. He spent hours staring at it and got mega pissed if someone came to look.

[rickyyoung]

you will NEVER EVER slip a Red Dwarf reference past me sir!

[GELTONZ]

As a Virtual Pet aficionado at the time, I remember far far too many of the things you mentioned. I even cheered when you said "Creatures" and when I saw the El Fish box. Yeah I used MopyFish but as someone with too many virtual pets it was kinda outdone by most of them... *looks to his left at the two Digimon 20th Anniversary he's raising* ...it never ends.

[delaorden]

I had a dead fish as a screensaver for almost 2 years. It was fun and depressing.

[mind-of-neo]

i dont remember MOPy, but i do have extremely fond memories of the early 2000s PC aquarium simulators. in the one my dad had there were like 30 different types of fish and tons of plants and other decor and it was really cool. love this video.

[WooShell]

Please tell me that you got why the MDK cheat code does what it does.. ;-)
Also there was a significant uproar back at those days when it transpired that Mopyfish, or rather the mopier driver, was sending thumbnail pictures of the printed documents home to HP, for "quality control" reasons. HP quietly removed that "feature" in an update.

[chris-tal]

...then suddenly an article cutout from a hungarian PC magazine appears... Oh, the golden days! This screensaver had the largest impact on me before discovering many other ones in early 2000s linux distributions. :)

[DOCORT]

I believe HP is still using the fishy tactics

[maccamcdermott]

Never knew about the fish, but we finally tossed our 5Si this year. Damn thing was built like a tank!

[novelezra]

Oh my god, is this the first freemium game? Seriously, I have never hated HP more than I do now.

[Danielau]

I like that you're using a Brother printer in a video that's essentially about HP printers.

Brother FTW! They really do make the best printers for home use.