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My daughter got into Tamagotchi last month (JUL-2023). It is interesting that such a simple game/toy fascinates my daughter, who was born after the iPhone's release and just before the iPad came to being. She can go on a long story and backstories that I wonder how I missed a lot of things growing up in the 90s. These toys are very costly and hard to come by in India.
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Racing simulators are such a weird game. Why not just race real cars? Do people really do this?
That's silly. I understand that not everyone can afford a race car.
What a weird toy. Why not just get a real pet. Did people really do this back then?
That said, as holiday season approaches we're probably going to get another wave of people actually buying some poor cute animal to treat as a Tamagotchi, to be returned or let loose once they've gotten bored with it.
Anyone know why it was called the "Connexion" in the UK and not the "Connection"?
I'm kind of surprised that zoomers haven't brought tamagotchis back yet
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> 20 years before the modern smartphone (1996 -> 2016) The first iPhone was released in 2007. You could argue that ”modern“ smartphones took a few more years, but definitely not until 2016.
While the smartphone was "born" in 2007, it definitely took many years for them to be devices which are powerful enough to be really useful. The Nexus 4 was the first Android device which was generally usable, it came out in 2012. Everything before it was a heavy compromise. And while the iPhone was usable before that time, the price of it didn't really make it accessible.
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> 20 years before the modern smartphone (1996 -> 2016) The first iPhone was released in 2007. You could argue that ”modern“ smartphones took a few more years, but definitely not until 2016.
While the smartphone was "born" in 2007, it definitely took many years for them to be devices which are powerful enough to be really useful. The Nexus 4 was the first Android device which was generally usable, it came out in 2012. Everything before it was a heavy compromise. And while the iPhone was usable before that time, the price of it didn't really make it accessible.
I still have a perfectly working v4, these things were built to last. Lots of kids at my school had one back then, but they were mostly the more basic chinese knockoffs. If you had a real one, you were one of the cool kids.