Forum - View topicINTEREST: Nostalgic Fans Recall When Taking Care of a Tamagotchi Wasn't So Easy
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Chrno2
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And now you can create whole family trees with this one.
I still have my old Tamagotchi, and man o' man that was pain. I'm almost compelled to get one. I wonder if it has a pause button. |
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Hikarunu
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I never own Bandai's Tamagotchi so I dont know how the gameplay was.
But I do play virtual pet, it was a penguin and also bunch of unknown monsters. Playing on it was really fun. But I more on Bandai's virtual pet Digital Monsters(Digimon). This thing is very popular in late '97 till '02. The virtual pet concept from Tamagotchi is still there but with battle function. Now hoping for 20th Anniversary version since 2017 mark the year. |
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Greed1914
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I had one back when they first came out. The fun dropped off quite a bit when it started feeling like it was rigged for failure.
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Levitz9
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The ones I always wanted but sadly never got were the D2 Digivices. Those were all the rage when I was in middle school, but I couldn't buy one. Kinda glad this trend didn't just die off.
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BlueCatMage
 Posts: 141 Location: Florida, USA |
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*le sigh* I remember I had a ton of the different virtual pets back in elementary school, including the digimon ones. And now, all of them are gone except for the male and female nano puppies ones I managed to somehow not lose. I miss my virtual pets! They were so much fun!
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Nonaka Machine Gun B
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I remember similar problems with Digimon's D-3 Digivice toy. It was pedometer that you were, in theory, supposed to carry with you on the day to day so as to lower your walk count and get to the end of an area, but everyone knows that kids just sat in their rooms and shook them violently. I would go to school and then come home to find that the amount steps I had to "walk" had increased because it would go off throughout the day with no one to battle enemy Digimon; not as traumatic as dying but very annoying. What a pain. I can't remember if there was an off/pause feature on those, though. I believe the D-Arks/D-Powers did have one.
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Zin5ki
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I recall reading the English manual of the original device with all the enthusiasm one would expect of a child without internet access. In an act of utterly transparent bowdlerisation, it described the creatures as returning to their home planet rather than leaving this mortal coil as the in-game graphics suggested. |
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AnimeLordLuis
 Posts: 1626 Location: The Borderlands of Pandora |
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I remember playing with my Tamagotchi at times it made me so mad that I threw it out of the window only to go get it back and start over again ahh good times.
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Juno016
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I have the Japanese Digivice that was used as the model for the D-Arks in Tamers, and I still go back to it now. I've replaced the batteries at least twice a year since I dug it up in 2009, even making my own makeshift easy-to-open battery compartment because I was sick of almost breaking it every time it died on me. There must've been a separate chip for memory, though, because my Digimon from initial startup is still alive...
Yet I still can't work out the Digimon World games. |
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machetecat
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Never had a Tamagotchi, but I did have a Giga Pet.
Those were nice because they were designed to sleep during the night. I figured out how to change the clock, and would have it sleep while I was at school. Managed to get it to live to old age. I was so happy, 
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