I remember finding them on the Internet somewhere in the early 2000s. I remember that Kimi was one of them, so it would have to have been after the second movie (Rugrats in Paris). Anybody remember these things? I can't find any details about them online.
Hey! I found one of them. I didn't have this one as a kid, but it's the same kinda thing. No idea if it works in modern windows but it works in my Windows XP virtual machine.
https://archive.org/details/spikenickclickable_202212
I'd love a Linux version of the classic Neko, that followed and played with your mouse
I fantasize often about writing a parkour stickman who climbs up my desktop windows and jumps between them
I think another name for them are "shimeji". I remember you could get little anime characters that, depending on the settings, would infinitely cline themselves and sometimes kick your windows off the screen to close them lmao. They were so cute.