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The Tamagotchi (たまごっち Tamagotch) is a handheld digital pet created in 1996 by Aki Maita and sold by Bandai. The Tamagotchi is housed in a small and simple egg-shaped computer. Three buttons (A, B, and C) allow the user to select and perform an activity, including:
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According to Bandai the name is a portmanteau combining the Japanese word "たまご" (tamago) which means "egg", and the English word "watch" (as in timepiece)http://www.bandai.co.jp/kids/tm/tamago/tamago_01.html. Consequently, the name is romanized as "Tamagotch" without the "i" in Japan.
41 Tamagotchi versions have been released between 1996 and 2008. These include the original Tamagotchi, Christmas-themed Tamagotchi and newer Tamagotchi versions, known as Connection, Connexion or Plus, which can communicate with other Tamagotchi for games and breeding. The most recent version is the new V5 Tamagotchi in which the player can raise a family of characters.There is also a website designed to work with V3, V4 and V4.5 Tamagotchi Connections, named \'TamaTown\', and one for the V5 called \'Tama and Earth Expo\'
The first Tamagotchi game for the Nintendo Game Boy portable game system was released simultaneously in both Japan and the United States. Tamagotchi (Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi in Japan) corresponds to the first two generations of the original Tamagotchi digital pets, with similar gameplay.
The second game in the series (Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi v2) was released only in Japan)
The Nintendo DS games Tamagotchi Connexion Corner Shop 1 and 2 are games where you choose between: Mametchi, Memetchi and Kuchipatchi.
In CS1 (Corner Shop 1) you get Mame City if you choose Mametchi, GuruGuru town if Memetchi and Patchi Forest If Kuchipatchi.
In CS2 (Corner Shop 2) you just get this made up town.
CS1 & CS2 were released by Bandai Namco Games in 2007.
The major controversy over Tamagotchi digital pets involves children taking them to school, mostly because certain Tamagotchi versions could starve in less than half an hour. Worry over potential ownership disputes, class disruptions, and general distraction from schoolwork has led many schools to ban the product. [1] (Later versions included a \'pause\' feature.)
On August 3, 2005, South Australian MP Nick Xenophon attempted to ban the Tamagotchi Connection Version 2 (or at least have it classified R18+) due to the slot game featured on it, fearing that it would make kids grow up to become "the gambling addicts of tomorrow". [2]
On 1 June 2007, it was announced by Reuters that an animated Tamagotchi film was to be released in December 2007. The film is about Mametchi\'s fear of the dark, and his attempt to build a machine that will create his own personal sun. During his experiments, he ends up accidentally bringing a human girl named Tanpopo to their planet through a beam of light. Tanpopo is excited to find herself in the Tamagotchi world, which she plays avidly on her own planet. Her arrival is combined with the birth of Chamametchi, the baby sister of Mametchi and the central Tamagotchi for the movie\'s release. Mametchi eventually finds success in creating his own sun, which makes the real sun jealous and leave, plunging the Tama planet into an endless night. As the planet grows ill and creates earthquakes with its sneezes, Mametchi, Tanpopo, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, and Chamametchi work to heal the planet, bring back the sun and also learn about the importance of being an older sibling. The movie was released on December 15, 2007, and was distributed by Toho Co.. [3]
An animated video called Tamagotchi Video Adventures was produced in 1997, which is approximately 42 and a half minutes long. Cosmotchi sends fourteen Tamagotchi to Earth to collect objects in order to complete a museum exhibit for Grand Gotchi. Whoever brings back the most desirable item receives a medal of honor. A music video and a how-to-draw session follow the movie.
In the comic strip FoxTrot, Roger Fox gives Paige Fox a Tamagotchi knock-off called Tamagrouchy.
TamaTalk- Informational ForumGotchiGotchi (talk) 07:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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