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Tamagotchi, the legendary digital pet, is back

Tamagotchi (2017)

The legendary Tamagotchi is back! Do you have a child at home who wants a pet, but you don't have time for one? The answer is Tamagotchi. A good old digital pet that has returned to the scene these days. Japanese company Aki Maita of Bandai Co. Ltd, which together with WiZ Co. Ltd. Tamagotchi was released for the first time in 1996 and sold 70 million units by 2008.

Lovers retro technologies can't really complain lately. gramophone records, Nokia 3310 and now Tamagotchi. Reissued by Japan's Bandai the first generation of the legendary toy from the second half of the nineties, which became a global phenomenon. A digital pet, which is a compound of two words, namely the Japanese word tamago, meaning egg, and English words watch, which means wristwatch, can be found on the website amazon.co.jp order already for 16 euros (the first generation of Tamagotchi is sold on Amazon for almost 100 euros more).


For this money you will get famous an egg-shaped device with a low-resolution screen and three buttons on which you can you choose from six pets, as far as they were originally available.

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An animal is needed feed her regularly, play with her, take her to the doctor, clean her … When it needs something, it alerts you with a sound signal. The beeping is what Tamagotchis are for banned in many Slovenian primary schools at the time. If you take good care of your pet, it develops and grows, otherwise you lead it to an early death. At the same time, it should be added that the new edition of the device is for approx half as small from the original. You can choose from six different ones.

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