The pet will leave droppings around the screen from time to time and can become sick if they are not cleaned up. The Discipline meter can be filled by pressing the "scold" option when a pet calls for attention but refuses to play or be fed a meal. Mini-games vary between versions, but mainly involve guessing which way the pet will turn (left or right) within 5 tries. Filling up the Happy meter can be achieved by playing mini-games with the pet or by feeding it a snack (there are no limits to this, but there are limits to how many meals can be fed). Filling up the Hunger meter can be achieved by feeding the pet a meal (usually a loaf of bread or hamburger) or a snack (usually a piece of candy or cake). There is also an age and weight check function for the current age and weight of the pet. Pets have a Hunger meter, Happy meter and a Training meter, and Discipline meter to determine how healthy and well-behaved the pet is. The first Tamagotchis could only be paused by going to set the clock, effectively stopping the passage of time in the game, but in later models, a pause function was included.
The player can care for the pet as much or as little as they choose, and the outcome depends on the player's actions. In later versions, inputting the player's name and birthday is also required when setting the clock, and at birth, the player can name the pet and learn of its family group and/or gender. After setting the clock on the device, the egg will wiggle for several minutes, and then hatch into a small pet. Upon activating the toy, an egg appears on the screen. The same team behind the Tamagotchi would create the male-oriented Digital Monster, which would spawn the Digimon franchise. When releasing the Tamagotchi in Japan, Bandai initially marketed them exclusively to teenage girls. Gameplay can vary widely between models, and some models, such as TamagoChu, require little to no care from the player.
The creature goes through several stages of growth, and will develop differently depending on the care the player provides, with better care resulting in an adult creature that is smarter, happier, and requires less attention. However, the story behind the games remained the same: Tamagotchis are a small alien species that deposited an egg on Earth to see what life was like, and it is up to the player to raise the egg into an adult creature. In 2004, beginning with the Tamagotchi Plus/Connection, a second wave of Tamagotchi toys emerged, featuring a different graphic design by artist JINCO and gameplay which elaborated upon the first generations. The characters are colorful creatures with simple designs based on animals, objects, or people. Tamagotchi is a keychain-sized virtual pet simulation game. They both won the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for economics, dubbing them the father and mother of tamagotchi. Tamagotchi was invented by Aki Maita and created by Akihiro Yokoi in 1996. (Not to be confused with tomodachi or "friend").Īn American girl with her Tamagotchi chained to her pocket, 1997 Most Tamagotchi characters' names end in chi ( ち) in Japanese, with few exceptions. After the original English spelling of watch, the name is sometimes romanized as Tamagotch without the "i" in Japan. Most Tamagotchi are housed in a small egg-shaped handheld video game with an interface consisting of three buttons, with the Tamagotchi Pix adding a shutter on the top to activate the camera.Īccording to Bandai, the name is a portmanteau combining the two Japanese words tamago ( たまご), which means "egg", and uotchi ( ウオッチ) " watch". As of March 2021, over 83 million units have been sold worldwide. It was released by Bandai on Novemin Japan and on in the rest of the world, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The Tamagotchi ( Japanese: たまごっち, IPA:, "Egg Watch") is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. Tamagotchi Connection V1, released in 2004
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