Project purpose
This site is a small historical-interactive project built around a working browser version of Animal: a tiny guessing game that learns new animals through yes/no questions.
The goal is not to claim a faithful recreation of one exact listing. The aim is to recreate the experience in a way that is lightweight, readable, privacy-friendly and easy to run in a modern browser.
Personal note
Although our family owned a ZX81, I don't remember trying Animal on it. Much later, though, I came across it on a ZX81 emulator for the Atari ST, from the cover disk of Atari ST User Issue 63, May 1991. You can see the whole magazine here, courtesy of Atari Mania.
Privacy and storage
The game stores its learned animal tree locally in the user’s browser. It does not upload the animal data anywhere. Clearing site data, changing browser or using a different device may remove or hide that local memory. Export/import exists so the user can keep a copy.