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 Akihiro Yokoi in 1996.
Most Tamagotchi characters' names end in chi ( ち) in Japanese, with few exceptions.Īn American girl with her Tamagotchi chained to her pocket, 1997 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 in the USA on May 1, 1997, 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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