Tamagotchi
Tamagotchi

Tamagotchi

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Item Description

In 1997 a beeping plastic egg was the most talked-about gadget on the playground, and plenty of schools banned it outright. Bandai's Game Boy Tamagotchi, released in Japan as Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi, moved the craze onto a screen kids were already allowed to carry, and it kept the pixel-art creatures looking just like the ones on the keychain.

The loop will be instantly familiar. You hatch a pet and keep it alive by serving meals like rice balls, meat and carrots, sneaking it the occasional ice cream or cake, cleaning up after it and nursing it with a shot or a pill when the skull icon appears. Each in-game day counts as a year of its life, and neglect does not go unnoticed. Three play activities keep it happy: a left-or-right guessing game, a math study session where you nudge your pet toward the right answer, and a sports game catching falling baseballs, each with three difficulty levels.

The Game Boy version also softens the keychain's biggest source of heartbreak. Switch it off and the game pauses and saves, you can fast-forward the clock while your pet sleeps, and there is room to raise up to three pets at once. A graveyard remembers the ones that did not make it. It is simple by modern standards, but as a time capsule of the late-nineties virtual pet boom, and an early bridge between Bandai's toy and the video game versions that followed, it is a charming cartridge to own and a fun challenge to keep alive all over again.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1997
Publisher
Bandai
Players
Single player
About the game

Tamagotchi is the name of a Game Boy game released in October 1997, also known as Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi in Japan. It is very much like the original Tamagotchi, but with additional features such as music, contests, and more games.

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