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Were these really ever expensive? Maybe they only reached my part of the world when it’d become cheap plastic. At least I certainly don’t remember ever considering them expensive (though for a child nothing is cheap).
$17.99.
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Were these really ever expensive? Maybe they only reached my part of the world when it’d become cheap plastic. At least I certainly don’t remember ever considering them expensive (though for a child nothing is cheap).
$17.99.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-a-Tamagotchi-cost-in-1996
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Were these really ever expensive? Maybe they only reached my part of the world when it’d become cheap plastic. At least I certainly don’t remember ever considering them expensive (though for a child nothing is cheap).
$17.99.
other than a curious find for anthropologists in 200 years when these plastic door stops are exhumed, i fail to see anything endearing about burying a collection of batteries, lead, and plastic into the earth to contaminate groundwater.
Why are you using valuable computing hardware -- not to mention power -- wasting time commenting on a sentimental article? Close that laptop! Save it for computation that _matters_. Don't be an environmental terrorist!
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> Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? It looks like the new one will be available only in purple and pink. IIRC, the boy version was Digimon. Basically the same toy, but you could battle them.
No, the Digivices [0] were a completely different toy: It lacked the caring aspect and used a pedometer to make progress in traveling the world, where on occasion you'd get an alert about encountering an enemy digimon. If you ignored it your Digimon would be injured and you'd have to heal it. In addition, to get in on the craze, other companies made their own products that played identically to tamagotchis. Tiger Ele…
They were and are! (They're still releasing new models, at least in Japan.)
But yes, the Digimon v-pets were definitely marketed as basically "tamagotchi for boys" and the gameplay is very similar.
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>Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? Pretty much. Girls had Tamagotchi and boys had Digimon.
I don’t agree with that. At the height of tama mania everyone had one. Usually, digi was a more complicated knock off that fit a different niche of people who like battling Pokémon. Edit: I had both, but digi personally wasn’t all that fun and everyone did tama because it was mellow and easy. We played Pokémon if we wanted to battle.
"Knock-off" is a strange description for a product made by the same company as the Tamagotchi. Can they make knock-offs of their own product?
I never had a Tamagotchi, but I can understand how the loss of a digital pet could have been quite traumatic.
I wonder if modern graphics and voice acting might actually be making games less immersive, by asking less of players' imaginations when it comes to completing the characters. Or it may just be that I'm older now.
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$17.99.
Yeah, that was definitely an expensive toy as far as my family was concerned. Still kind of is for what it is tbh.
I remember being happy with it, but under some circumstances it played alarm sounds. I don't remember the cause, but one day it went off like a fire alarm and I wasn't allowed to bring it to school after that.
Interestingly, seeing this made me Google Tamagotchi, thinking my daughter might like an old school Tamagotchi. Apparently, a new “Tamagotchi Pix”[0] product is releasing July 1st. It’s $60 and has a camera for some reason. Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? It looks like the new one will be available only in purple and pink. [0] https://tamagotchi.com/product/tamagotchi-pix/
There is a new Pokemon game coming out called "Pokemon Snap" where apparently the whole game consists of traveling through the game world and taking photos of Pokemon. Similarly there is a feature in the Pokemon Go game where you can take photos of your Pokemon in AR.
I just cannot even fathom who this would appeal to, but apparently there must be a demand for it. Are people sharing these photos on social media or something? That's the only thing I can think of that would make sense.
Interestingly, seeing this made me Google Tamagotchi, thinking my daughter might like an old school Tamagotchi. Apparently, a new “Tamagotchi Pix”[0] product is releasing July 1st. It’s $60 and has a camera for some reason. Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? It looks like the new one will be available only in purple and pink. [0] https://tamagotchi.com/product/tamagotchi-pix/