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in either 07 or 08, when i got my first tamagochi, it died on me while i was at a doctors appointment. when i asked my mom if tamagotchi go to heaven, she panicked and told me they "go into the power lines and live with electric jesus" good times

For anyone else who got curious about what happens to the Angel tamagotchi if you neglect them, I got so curious that I paused the video and immediately googled it: the angel tanagotchi life span ends no matter what you do, you can either get a good ending or a bad ending. The story is that this is a tamagotchi that you took good care of in their previous life, and they want to spend time with you to thank you for all that you did before ascending to heaven (good ending.) If you don't take care of them, they turn into a devil in the Japanese version. In the english version, they just show an egg turning into a rock (?) and a screen that says "bye bye" (bad ending). I imagine that they changed it because most eurocentric cultures were Christian and their child's toy turning into a devil wasn't as accepted. Now you know!

Never thought about this but Tamagotchis are a great way to more gently ease your kids into understanding death and loss, like before getting a real pet.

"I don't know why they never enduldged on the idea of making a dinosaur Tamogotchi" Digimon, sobbing: "Am I a joke to you?"

I wanted a Tamagotchi SO BAD when I was a kid, but my parents just adamantly refused to buy me one because it was a "Girl toy". When I was in the third grade, I eventually got to borrow one from a girl in my class but I didn't know how to actually use a Tamagotchi so it died. I showed it to the girl I borrowed it from, and she cried so hard and so loud that my school permanently banned Tamagotchi. I still feel really bad for killing that girl's Tamagotchi by accident... Taylor if you somehow see this I still feel really bad 15 years later!!!!

last year i bought a sealed tamagotchi from '96 as a little treat, forgot how hard it is to keep the older gen alive. just yesterday i was at a bar and went outside for a smoke and some random guy ran out yelling "it hatched, it hatched!! your tama-son is born!" adults still love and adore these guys.

"Give it a USB-C port and a rechargable battery" It happened. The Uni. Also added back the 3 physical face buttons. I also kinda wonder your collection. Mine is a PMT (Pac-Man Tamagotchi), Uni, Oritama, Giga Pet, Angel, and HKT (Hello Kitty Tamagotchi). I also own an unopened Pix Party.

Tamagotchi Apple Watch idea is absolutely brilliant and a logical step into Tamagotchi's development. Imagine if the pet is fed by doing physical activities

A long time ago my grandpa bought me a tamagotchi. I loved playing that thing and I vividly remember going to the TamaTown website and playing until I could afford the cool expensive stuff for my Tamagotchi pals. One day I lost it and I remember I was so sad, not because I lost a toy, but because I had lost a toy that my grandpa bought me. I was very close to my grandparents as much as I was to my own parents. My grandpa passed away in 2021 and I traveled down to Mexico for his funeral. While I was there my family asked if I could go to the bigger town to stock up on groceries,and when my grandma handed me the keys to my grandpas car, there on the key ring, was my Tamagotchi. When my grandparents got ready to move to Mexico he had found my Tama while cleaning the house, and he figured that since I was 18 I wouldn’t miss a toy that I played with when I was 10, so he kept it on his keys. I now have it with me, with a copy of my grandpas house key on the key ring with it.

1:05 I like how you're casually sharing your present with the clown. Most kids would be crying rn.

The beeper is called "piezo element", and you can buy it easily and replace it. looks like it connects to the board using the metal tabs attached to the piezo. Try cleaning the metal tabs, the place where they touch the board and, maybe, bend the tabs a little so they make a good connection. If nothing works, replace the piezo. Since there are no solders, it should be easy. Also, clean the switch with contact cleaner.

Hello. Just recently I discovered that my local toy shop sells Tamagotchis and bought two... Searching for news about it, I found this video of yours... My god there's an entire world behind it, so glad that you are so passionate about it. Very well done!

I have never known so much about virtual Japanese creatures until now.

18:49 This lesson is just a Japanese "let's eat, grandpa vs. let's eat grandpa" and I love that

I just found a Tamagotchi on at the thrift store for 99 cents and nearly fell over! I had no idea what it was and now I love it! I believe it is the wonder garden version but I'm not super sure. I have a short showing it off but I'm glad to know there is a new app for it!

I have never bought or got gifted a Tamagotchi, I found one on the ground in school once when I was like 13, around 1997 or so.. never even played it. And still here I am watching a whole video about those eggs XD That there's not more Pokémon Tamagotchis is mindblowing to me. It's the perfect match.

The Twisted Wonderland one is kind of funny because one of the characters in it, Malleus, has a Tamagotchi equivalent called Gao Gao-kun and it's a joke that he's kept it alive for like 100 years. So you can have a Tamagotchi of a character with a Tamagotchi

the moment you mentioned youd be covering EVERY tamagotchi i knew this was gonna be a big one. as someone with a long-standing special interest in these silly little things who used to surf the wiki in my free time i salute your dedication

Despite being a little agitated over R2-D2 not being seen as a cool Tamagotchi Nano, even though it was my first one, I appreciate how you went out of your way to explain the entire lineage of Tamagotchi! I plan on doing something cool one day with Tamagotchi like adding a D-pad, color, and light. But take out things like death and constantly getting in trouble for trying to take care of it in school. Instead, it would go to sleep when you're asleep or at school and would stay dormant for as long as you leave it. Also with a rechargeable battery and a way to connect to other Tama creatures locally! And yes, it would have a way to have other unique Tamas like Hello Kitty and Sonic.

Literally shocked that everyone just ignored the Fairly Odd Parents slander

I think the real kicker about the Kingdom Hearts nano is the fact that it was one of like, 3 announcements made for the highly-anticipated Kingdom Hearts anniversary event. Imagine expecting Kingdom Hearts 4 news and you get a nano.

Great video! Many of my friends are now running their old tamagotchis thanks to it! As a big fan of the devices, this makes me ULTRA happy!

I really love this video! Usually when i see a nearly hour long youtube video it just looks like a chore, but i realised that's because most other youtubers deliberately stretch out the content and it becomes bland. the information in this was really concise and interesting, there was just so much of it it truly justified the hour long length. thank you for such a cool video

Oh my gosh. I couldn’t relate more of my obsession with tamagotchis. The website for it in 06-07 was SO FUN and adorable. I forgot which one I had but it had sunflowers all over the shell and it’s still my favorite flower along with my favorite childhood toy!

You missed the Tamawalkie! It was a pedometer Tamagotchi released in the west during the connection era. It was actually cool, you would collect parts of a crashed UFO to build to get your Tamagotchi back to its home planet. It's one of the many Tamagotchis I had as a kid!

Fun fact: Digimon was conceptualized as a spin-off of Tamagotchi meant to appeal to boys by making them fight each other. It has it's own v-pet line, including the "Vital Bracelet" which is meant for exercise, and Nanimon is implied to be a tamagotchi that entered the digital world.

The effort taken to make this video deserves all my respect. Subscribed. I just wanted to know when they switched from monochrome screens to backlit color screens, and found this gem of documentary. Not even TV documentaries are that good and complete, and this was made by 1 person. Even the Buyee sponsor is useful and very convenient, I ended up sharing it to a friend that usually buys anime merch and she might get a use out of it. Love from Argentina!

Love the video! My Tamagotchi fever recently came back, and I wanted to get up to speed as to how the whole scene had evolved! Keep up the good work

my tamagotchi wouldn't stop beeping so i baked it in the oven at 450°F until it turned golden brown

I don't know why, but this video is just so cozy to watch. The editing, music choices, and the fact that you're going through the entire history of tamagotchi really does make this a video to sleep to (in a good way!)

A tamagotchi deep dive omg I’ve been looking high and low for tamagotchi content online as I’ve watched practically everything available on KZfaq in so glad there’s a new one I can keep coming back to

This is a masterpiece and the best way to have spent my train journey. This history is crazy and though im someone who sticks with the old school Gen 1 i really can appreciate the world and community this has created. I hope you can rest now this mammoth of a project is done!

You left out the Tamagotchi CD-ROM from 1997, which was actually the first color Tamagotchi. It was awesome! It combined Gen 1 and 2 Tamas. At egg, you got a 50/50 chance of getting Babytchi or Shirobabytchi, which will determine Gen 1 or 2 evolution. The Tamas had voices and we're super cute. Added features were 3 games and an option to put your Tama in daycare for up to 72 hours since it wasn't a portable unit. Check it out!

This video was right up my alley. Thanks for putting this out! Thoroughly enjoyed.

I think you forgot one product! When I was younger I had Tamagotchi CD game that had a plastic tree port that connected to your computer via USB, and when you docked your tamagotchi to the tree, it transferred your tama to the computer! It had a whole city, games and things to do. Similar to the first app you mention but it predates that. I must have had it around 2006/2008 time frame

only a minute and a half into this video and i gotta say im already adoring the art done in this one. simple but really really cute and charming

The thing about Tamagotchi that still makes me feel bad about myself is.. My country was ravaged by the war in the 90's, it was not possible to buy soccer ball, Tetris, or anything electronic, let alone Tamagotchi. Kids played on the street, and their main hobby was collecting posters of famous singers and actors. Then one day a guy joined my class, and he was from Sweden. He had everything, from sega mega drive, to RC cars, other handheld gaming consoles, you name it.... And also, he had Tamagotchi. One time I came to his place and saw it, it was beautiful, and amazing, the idea of having your own pet and interacting with it blew my mind. So, I just took it, I stole it lol.. There was no way for me to pass the opportunity, I just couldn't resist, it was like a dream coming true. I knew that if I don't steal it that day, I probably won't have it any other way. So yea..to a guy from Sweden, thank you for unwillingly making my childhood amazing, I kept the pet fed and comfy, and if it means anything to you- I still feel bad about stealing it. I am trying to make up for that by buying video games that I like to random strangers. Games like Terraria, Borderlands 2, Don't starve etc.. and I 3D print game/movie figjres and gift them to random kids. I know its not enough, but at least I am making a small impact. Tack så mycket!

Never have I met someone who had such a similar fixation and enjoyment for virtual pets. I had many many tamagotchi as a kid growing up, often getting a new one when the battery died, since I didn’t fully get how to “fix it” with those specific batteries. One of my favorite games on the DS were the tamagotchi “job” games. I always hope to have the time to revisit these along with chao. Thanks for this great trip down memory lane.

I used to own my first Tamagotchi back in 2004 got it as a Christmas present. I loved that tiny little beeper to the point I annoyed mom with every new thing my Tama did (growing bigger, getting married) etc. It was also getting fairly popular in our school so they banned them, leaving many Tamas to die at home. Not long until the V3 was presented to me as a birthday gift a couple of years later, it was a hit! Every cool kid had one. With the mute button and a shop came out and we could keep them under our desk (those were the ones that open revealing some storage space for your pens, books etc. You could decorate that a little as well) and using friends computer to visit Tamatown and sharing all the secrets about it and raving about the games that v3 had, it was the perfect Tamagotchi. I made so many friends with that in my childhood Few years later my Tamagotchi bugged out to the point of no return and got destroyed with the hammer because of that and that was the end of it. Literally. After that in my 20's came Furby 2012, Boom and so on, that's a different story. Tamagotchi sparked my enthusiasm for small electronics and robots in general, which continues until this day. Just watched your video about Tamagotchi Uni. @14:37- 15:09 Did you just use Jazz Jackrabbit menu song? Omg, such a flood of childhood memories rushed over me :]

Kinda surprised Toy Story has one, but not Turning Red. Mei has one in the movie, and it even serves as an important plot point towards the end when Ming’s red panda spirit is sealed away in the device (she even has to feed it like a Tamagotchi). Like if there’s one Tamagotchi I would want to get, it’d be that one (or maybe a Monsters Inc. one).

The one big lesson I took from tamagotchi is that ditching responsibility is ultimately a very liberating feeling.

I love ur vids! I really like old stuff and games and this rlly hits that..I used to have all that Vtech stuff not a tamagotchi but they did the same stuff. Loved it! Im not even half through the vid but its already lookin good! Informative and fast paced and beautifully edited and executed!!!

Why is listening to someone talk about their hyper fixations so fun? I love it, so glad to see a video like this again on your channel

What the hell, this is amazing. I love it when someone is so passionate over something so trivial to most people. Inenjoyed this a lot.

this just made me so happy hearing someone talk about somthing they enjoy so much,,, i wish i could show u my tamagotchi tattoo

oh sweet tamagotchi, have been fascinated by it since I was a child. My first one was the blue Tamagotchi connection which I got when I was 7 years old after begging my dad to buy me one in a supermarket (yeah somehow those were on sale in supermarkets). I remember when I cried after the first death of my pet. Unsurprisingly, many of our childhood interests have faded out of relevancy in the modern world but yet Tamagotchi still continuously pumps out new models and collabs regularly and for that I am so grateful.

as someone who recently got back into tamagotchi and being obsessed with it, i resonated with this video a lot

I had a G5 tamagotchi as a kid. I remember I had one creature for a long time and my sister helped me keep it alive. I remember I sorta accidentally neglected it on Halloween and it died. I was convinced it was just dressed as a ghost for Halloween and my sister has to explain that it starved to death. Oops

Dude, this is the absolute best video topic I've ever seen. I'm enjoying this so much x)

I loved this! Awesome work ❤️ I also love that in the end he called out people falling asleep to videos… because I literally did that last night. Fell asleep 10 minutes in and decided I would have to come back in the morning to watch the full vid. So glad I did 😊

TIME STAMPS Introduction 0:00 Tamagotchi Gen1 1:50 Tamagotchi Gen2 2:32 Mothra Tamagotchi 3:16 Angel Gotch 4:03 Genjintch 5:26 Osutchi and Mesutchi 5:54 Tamagotchi Garden 6:51 Tamagotchi Ocean 7:35 Tamao Tchi 8:00 Tamagotchi Devil/Monster 8:32 Doraemontchi 9:00 Yasashii Tamagotchi 10:10 Santaclautch 10:36 Random Vinatge Versions 12:06 Tamagotchi Connection 12:45 Deka Tamagotchi 13:27 Keitai Kaitsuu 13:53 Hanerutchi 14:40 Tamagotchi Mini 15:13 Tama Connection v2 15:34 Home Deka Tama 16:10 Chou Jinsei Enjoi 16:33 Tama Connection v3 17:23 Chou Yarikuri Enjoi Kakeibo 18:07 Ura Jinsei Enjoi 20:11 Tamagotchi School 21:10 Tama Connection v4 22:07 Koisuru Tamagochu 22:29 Oden-kun Tamagotchi 22:58 Tama School Furefurei 23:45 Tama Connection v4.5 24:15 Tamagotchi Restaurant 24:44 Tama Connection v5 Familitchi 25:37 Tama Connection v5.5 Celebrity 26:04 Tamagotchi Plus Color 26:34 Tamagotchi v6 Music Star 27:28 Tamagotchi ID 28:15 Tamatown Tama-go 28:44 Tamagotchi Nano 29:48 More ID Home Station Plus 30:28 Tamagotchi ID L 31:00 Tamagotchi P’s 32:06 Tamagotchi Friends 32:57 Tamagotchi 4U 33:46 Dream Town Digital Friend 34:31 Tamagotchi 4U Plus 34:57 Tamagotchi Mix 35:17 Pocket Usatama 36:32 Gudetama Tamagotchi 37:00 Licensed Nanos 37:35 Tamagotchi On 42:49 Tamagotchi Pix 44:31 Tamagotchi Pix Party 46:29 Tamagotchi Smart 46:55

I too was a Tama-obsessed child and this has instantly become one of my favourite youtube videos ever. (Side note, I'm surprised they haven't done Danganronpa as a nano license yet, since the Tamagotchi-esque sprites of the characters are such a prominent part of the actual game)

In July the TamagotchiUni was released and now uses WiFi and has the Tamaverse which is the Metaverse of Tamagotchi. It is also rechargeable with a USB-C cord!

Here I thought I would listen to this while drawing but no, my eyes were glued to the screen x'D I love Tamagotchi, as a child I had a knock off as my first and saved money to buy myself the Tamagotchi Connection. As a teen I indulged in a Connection V3 but due to our internet connection being awful I could never use the online component of it :') I am so tempted to get a new one now, thanks for this run down of the versions!

Couple notes from a person who was cognizant in the 90's: The player avatar was represented by the blonde girl character and the professor. The first two Game Boy games are really good, better and more in-depth than any tamagotchi ever made. Also lots of interesting games for Saturn, N64, Playstation etc. The spelling of Clautchi and Genjintchi omits the letter i, and this is a common Japanese spelling. In englsih it's still pronounced with the i. It's just shorthand romanization for the syllabic language. There are many cases of Tamagotchi being spelled Tamagotch also. The Mothra no Tamagotchi would be the groundwork for the original Digital Monster.

Love that watching your videos is just experiencing your most recent emergence of a hyperfixation, and it's my favorite genre

Thank you so much for spending so much time on this video. I really enjoyed it and will be coming back to it when ever i need to.

A few things: 1st video, I've seen of yours, instant subscribe. I need to catch them all Stat. I noticed the length and quality of the video and thought how long and such it would take to make it, so I appreciate your outreach as well. I'm off to collect giga pets now. Through that awesome new site at the end and typing in Japanese, I appreciate that tip.

I don’t know if I’m only one who remembers this but the Tamagotchi Music Town toy came with a guitar pick attached to it, which had a code you could use to sign up to Tamagotchi’s Music Town virtual world. I was gifted mine by my older sibling when it first came out and immediately used the guitar pick to sign up to the virtual- which I played on for hours! Honestly happy memories!

There's more from this year (gonna use Bandai's official names [or a guessed name] here; NA symbol means it’s been/going to be released in NA): Star Wars Grogu Tamagotchi (January) - NA PUI PUI Molcar Driving School Tamagotchi (February) One Piece Tamagotchi (February) - NA Tokyo Revengers Tamagotchi (March) - NA Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tamagotchi (March) - NA Hatsune Miku Tamagotchi (March) - NA Harry Potter Tamagotchi (July) - NA Tamagotchi Uni (September) - NA

Coming back to say that shortly after watching a tamagachi of the hololive Vtuber Usada Pekora was announced and I didn’t think I coulda wanted one more than after I saw this but I was very wrong, I need the pekogotchi asap

this was such a great video!!

I understand the distaste for the licensed nanos since they're effectively just low-commitment versions of the whole VPet concept designed to tie in to their respective works and all, but in every case, the sprite work is absolutely adorable. They're definitely on the upper tier of licensed merchandise, particularly in the work that goes into some of the shell designs like the Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen lines, turning them essentially into egg-ified versions of the related characters.

So, I'm old. I had an original Tama from like '96 or something like that. But when you said you were going to talk about EVERY Tama ever released, I was excited to hear you talk about my two favorite Tama that I had as a kid, Disney's Little Mermaid Ariel (released: 1997), and Sabrina the Teenage Witch's Salem (released: 1997). You didn't mention them, so I went digging and found out they weren't actually Tamagotchi brand pets at all, they were Giga Pets by Tiger. And I gotta say, while I loved my OG Tama blob back in the day, I was OBSESSED with my Ariel and Salem. After this initial dig into the past, I wondered if Tamagotchi's development team were ever upset about Giga Pets swooping in and making copycat toys, but then I did some MORE research and found out Giga Pets actually pre-date Tamagotchi's by one year?! I thought the Japanese toys were the originals, but according to the Wiki, "Giga Pets were first created in 1995 (as "V-Pets") by Chicago Toy inventing firm REHCO LLC. Rehco quickly licensed the concept to Tiger Electronics and the product was later launched as Giga Pets. In 1996 Tamagotchi, egg-shaped virtual pets, were introduced in Japan by Bandai and were widely credited with initiating the virtual pet craze in the U.S., the UK, and other countries." Which kinda blew my mind. In any case, I actually kind of feel like the licensed Gigas were way more fun than any of the Tamagotchi brand creatures. I LOVED that you could brush Ariel's hair, make her play with flounder, have her sing, go to school, etc. She had so many cute idle animations, too. She would look for treasure, do flips, jump out of the water and dive back down, etc. Salem would talk on the phone, drive cars, type on a typewriter, play games, etc. They were both really special to me, and this whole video took me down a rabbit hole of nostalgia. I wish I could say I still had those Gigas, and the old Tama I had, too. But I was only 9 years old in 1997 during my peak ownership years and obviously didn't have the forethought to think, "Hey, I should make sure I never let my parents get rid of these or lose them!" because I have no idea what happened to them. Regardless, thank you for reminding me of this precious time in my youth. I have such fond memories of the Tama-craze from like 96-99. People would brag about having "rare" ones on the playground, or trade them for cooler ones. Brag about raising theirs to adulthood (most of us accidentally killed them), or just generally show them off. Teachers HATED them. They would beep in class, I remember kids getting them taken away and them going into full nuclear meltdown mode crying about how their pet was going to die because the teacher took it away and begging the teacher to give it back. It kinda turned us all into nervous stressed out little parents for a bit. You'd panic about feeding and playing with them and get stressed out if you couldn't figure out what they needed. Cry if they died, celebrate when they evolved, etc. It was an interesting time, to be sure.

I knew barely anything about Tamagotchi and I don't plan on getting one in the future, but this is such a well-made, entertaining, and passionate video and I love it so much.

Never thought I'd be listening to this persons in depth history dive of a virtual pet on a small LCD. I want one now, I also think the couples one is cute idea, subscriber earned btw.

I still remember being in the school playground when I accidentally discovered you could speed age your tamagotchi by constantly changing the time to 11:59pm and waiting for it to tick over to midnight.

Would have loved it if you’d mentioned a few of the offshoot ones that Bandai also made, like the Digimon tamagotchi that ended up inspiring the series itself, or even the Witchlny ones that also tied into Digimon (if I recall, the digimon Nanimon is literally just a Tamagotchi that made it into the series). But I loved seeing this video, it made me kind of want to get one again after son long. I ended up with like 3 of them as a kid and ended up losing them (not including the Pokewalker since that KINDA counted, or the Digivices you could get as well).

This was a really great video on a subject I love :D Sorry to hear things have been rough for you recently

this is the BEST possible ad for Buyee. I'm intimidated by those kinds of sites, but you explained it SO WELL. rly hope the link still works for a while LOOLLL.. I had the same complaints about the TamaSmart. I was SO EXCITED.. but the buttons and touch were too frustrating. When I sold mine, i even included a hand written GUIDE to explain how the screen and buttons work so the buyer didn't think it was defective because of the "Lag". I really hope they try again, but better. The newest Tamagotchi is a sort of continuation to the smart ? It's so cute and colorful, but there's only like, 3 games. and I only like 1 of them. It uses motion for a dance game and it barely works. Amazing video, loved all the edits and origins. Your little mascot is PRECIOUS.

When I woke up today I did not expect to spend my entire morning watching an hour long tomagotchi video...but I am glad I did.

Bandai also does the Vial Bracelet, which was originally a Digimon wearable, but had also expanded to Ultraman and Kamen Rider, which has the same sort of growth tree as Tamagotchi, but also has some app functionality and fitness watch capability. I'd love to see them introduce Viral Band and Tamagotchi playabilities to each other.

The emotion in this piece was immaculate, thank you. If you ever wanted to do another deep-dive, I'd genuinely love seeing something like this done for Digimon's virtual pets. I recently took a look at some of the new Digivices and got immediately baffled by the different iterations and had no idea where to even start. Seeing the differences in the Tama line progressions felt very similar (going from I think greyscale with the little docking points, to color, to an eventual wearable with different functionality than its main line and an app), and you did a fantastic job breaking these differences down so they didn't seem so overwhelming. I would bet you could use a lot of the same progression to explain its brother series, if you ever wanted to. Thanks for all the grand info on Tamagotchi! :'D

Bro knows exactly what hes doing, angering fanbases casually

“hey is that a doraemonchi in your pocket?” has me rolling. never had a tomagotchi, but i had the littlest pet shop one. me and my brother both had them, we used to connect them and play together. my elementary school banned them like they did pokemon cards and bakugan.

It was a pleasure helping you out with this video! Tamagotchi has always been a big part of my life, and I’m so proud of how far the Wiki has come. And… we fixed that typo, lol. ❤

I would never have thought that I would watch the whole video, but you rocked it. Thank you!!

You're a hero for doing this timeline.

I think the main reason you weren't having a good experience with the tamagotchi connect v3, v4, and v4.5 was that tamatown online was the big thing for those 3 so without being able to connect them to the website you only get half the experience

I'm really suprised that there isn't a persona tamagotchi, with so much collaborations it should be obvious

This came across in my feed, it's very interesting to see a video on one of my fave childhood toy, tho I'm surprised you didn't mention the many Tamagotchi console/handheld video games, but nonetheless, a very wonderful video. ❤

I'd love to see a follow-up vidow about the tamagotchi universe! The games (like the Wii and DS ones), the movie, the anime, etc. I was obsessed with tamagotchi as a kid and had almost all the figures for the Tama-Go! The ability to switch out the designs was so neat

the recent announcement of the tamagotchi uni really makes me hope it'll fix all the glaring problems with the smart. i also 100% agree with the meets being the best modern tamagotchi, i got it Christmas 2018 and it's been the only one in my collection I've consistently played! i got the pix party a while back and I'm just so sad at how gimmicky it is. i played it until it's batteries died the first time and never replaced them

I have about an hour before i have to commentate a run for Games Done Quick, and this coming out from out of the blue is the perfect time killer. thanks KK!

thank you so much for bringing me inti this rabbit hole again!! i am just thinking about getting a tamagotchi uni or waiting for the second wave since i dont like their colors af of right now :D

I would be so curious to see an update from you on the Tamagotchi Uni now that it has been out for a while and just received it's first major update. :D Great video! It was so excellent to see how Tamagotchi has evolved over the years.

Back in 90s Russia there were urban legends about Tamagochi going around about how people would get obsessed with caring for them and letting their irl baby die or this one kid who killed his younger brother because the brother killed the tamagochi which had grown to the ingame age of 15(idk if that's even a thing, I don't remember how Tamagochi works in detail). Some of the kids were scared of them.

the "would you like to say goodbye to your chao forever? he'll live in a forest" music played for like 30 seconds and I'm traumatized

I unironically highly recommend Pui Pui Molcar as a feel-good show. It's all stop motion and directed by Tomoki Misato, who has done some other great stop motion stuff. Show is cute, animation is really good and expressive without any actual dialogue. iirc episodes are less than 5 minutes in length so you can watch the whole thing in one sitting.

Now I just need to know which one to buy... Great video!

I love Tamagotchis so much, both when I was a kid and even now as an adult. My sister's friend recently gifted me one (lost all ours due to heat in Arizona) and I have the Pacman one as well as keychains/the fake Tamagotchi outside from McDonald's happy meals. I had no idea they made a Twisted Wonderland series (I love otome games and am obsessed with that game but never heard of this crossover) so you just blew my mind with that news! Plus it's funny cause Malleus (a character in the series) has a "tamagotchi" (a virtual pet) he's kept alive for hundreds of years. I used to have a knockoff as a child (A Giga Pet) from Factory 2 U that featured 20 pets in 1. This was a fun watch! Glad to have accidentally found your channel.

never thought id hear "twisted wonderland" on one of your videos, but this made me want a tama of my favorite boy soooo bad... finally i can treat him like my pet like he deserves

I remember in the 90s my mom taking me to some far away store to stand in line for what felt like hours in order to get a Tamagotchi when they first hit shelves in the USA. Best Mom ever. Thanks for this video and thanks for helping dig up that great memory :)

This.... is one of the best videos I've watched.

I wanted these as a kid, but my parents bought into the "satanic panic" thing, and for some reason, Tomagotchi was on the list of prohibited stuff, along with Pokemon (actually, they considered most Japanese toys/anime "satantic," what's that about?). They would have freaked out if they saw that devil Tomagotchi lol.

I remember being so fixated on Tamagotchi's as a kid i would cry anytime they died cause they meant alot to me I stopped getting obsessed when i got into other games but Tamagotchi's have a place in my heart

These little things are starting to become my newest facsanation as someone who has only one of these in my possession and in my Pac-Man collection it is the Pac-Man one just for clarification the concept and idea of it alone has always fascinated me now granted I'm not going to become a full time collector of tamagotchi anytime soon but I just find the concept and idea behind them to be very fascinating and so i thank you for making a video like this going over all of the different styles types and versions of tamagotchi that have been released throughout the year's

thank god im not the only tamagotchi freak!! thank you for consolidating all of this into one video! two years ago when i got back into collecting i had to learn all of this myself

This video came just in time, I dug up my old childhood Connections and got really into playing with them again! It’s a bit sad to see the current brand so obsessed with the boring crossover nano toys and lackluster color models (aside from On), but the innovation and determination of the fandom to keep the older toys & websites alive is insane, not to mention Bandai’s willingness to restock the original ‘97 toys and let people experience the old school virtual pet that started it all. I hope some day they re-release the Connections so it won’t cost an arm & a leg to get an English one anymore!