Oh, remember the days when you could have a pet of your own to put in your pocket and then forget about? How you forgot them in your desk at school over the weekend and you hoped that they would survive not being fed and loved for a couple of days. Or, maybe you were a great owner and your electronic pet was so happy, till one day you decided you were to old for the little guy.
Introducing……. the wonderful craze of the Tamagotchi and the Gigapet.
The Tamagotchi is a small little alien type species that deposited an egg on Earth to see what life was like, and it is up to the player to hatch and raise said egg to adulthood. The tiny alien child goes through several growth spurts, and will grow up in different ways depending on how well they are provided for (or how well you are able to push all the buttons and give them what they need).
This was every child’s dream to raise a little alien of their own. It really teaches some great skills on raising an alien child. Feed it, love it, and clean up it’s poop. Simple things for a simple pet.
Next we have it’s close cousin the Giga pet. While the Tamagotchi was first released in 1996 in Japan, the Giga pet was the first electronic pet released in the States in 1997. Gotta love the nineties and their electronic wonders. You could choose out of these animals what you would like to love and raise as your own:
- Bit Critter
- Compu Kitty
- Digital Doggie
- Micro Chimp
- Baby T-Rex
- Virtual Alien
- Komputer Koala
- Floppy Frog
TAMAGOTCHI
GIGA PET
NANO PET
Unfortunately I could not find a commercial, sooooo you can skip a bit. It is just a walk through of the Dino Pet, Just an example of another digital pet….
So now that we are all remembering how much we loved our little e-pals, we can all zoom over to e-bay and buy our own posterity a bit our past. If you still have yours, you should check on it. If the battery isn’t dead yet, your pet probably is.
Trends of Yesteryear 