In Japan, the band Kigurumi, after gaining new members and becoming a trio, released their single "Tamagotchi" on November 21, 2007, which was also the theme music for the film. [29] It was dubbed in English along with the English dub of the movie. When releasing the Tamagotchi in Japan, Bandai initially marketed them exclusively to teenage girls. [10] Bandai and WiZ would later create a masculine counterpart to the Tamagotchi, the Digital Monster, which would spawn the Digimon franchise. [11] [12] Gameplay [ edit ] There are three games, each influencing what dinosaur species the baby dinosaur will grow into. Games increase the Happy level; winning the game fills Happy by one unit, while a perfect game fills Happy by two. On November 1, 2016, Bandai announced a new Tamagotchi short film called Tamagotchi: Secret Delivery Operation. The film was theatrically released alongside the Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama film on April 28, 2017, and was included in the Cocotama movie's DVD released on December 6, 2017. The short film once again follows Mametchi and his friends, assigned to make an essential delivery to the Gotchi King when a giant mechanical claw controlled by the Spacy Brothers intervenes with the delivery.

Sebiretchi is a descendant of the Tamagotchi Dinosaurs and usually has a rather gentle personality. However, she can unintentionally breathe out fire when she gets mad. She loves gourmet food, and dreams of traveling all around Tamagotchi Planet. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare's Tomogunchi Is Confusing; Here's How To Feed It". GameSpot . Retrieved 2022-06-07. Gudetama Tamagotchi". 21 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10 . Retrieved 2020-09-02. Bandai America's Tamagotchi Toys for 1998!". Bandai. Archived from the original on 1998-07-09 . Retrieved 2021-10-19. Tamagotchi (1996 Pet) • Mothra Tamagotchi • Tamagotchi Angel • Genjintch Tamagotchi • Tamagotchi Osutchi and Mesutchi • Mori de Hakken! Tamagotch • Tamagotchi Ocean • TamaOtch • Doraemontchi • Debirutch no Tamagotch • Yasashii Tamagotch • Santaclautch no TamagotchSebiretchi is a raisable adult that appears on the Tamagotchi Uni, evolving from Tustustchi with 6+ care mistakes. Her hunger drops by one every 90 minutes while her happiness drops by one every 20 minutes. They go to sleep at 10 PM. In 2009, another anime television series was announced, called Tamagotchi! (たまごっち!). It began in October 2009 and ended in March 2015. A short-lived English dub of the Tamagotchi anime aired in Australia on channel GO! from 2010 to 2014; only the first 26 episodes have been dubbed and have been repeated until 2014, when GO! took the anime out of their channel. The anime has been dubbed in Tagalog in the Philippines, with said dub airing on GMA Network. There is also a dub in Taiwan that aired on YoYo TV. Lovelitchi • Ginjirotchi • Chamametchi • Kuchipatchi • Momotchi • Charatchi • Sebiretchi • Orenetchi

In early 2013, Bandai released an enhanced version of the original Tamagotchi as a free iOS and Android app named "Tamagotchi L.i.f.e.". A sequel to the game, "Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. Angel", was released on February 26, 2014.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. On December 20, 2008, a second film, known as Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe! was released into theaters. This film, introducing a new Tamagotchi known as Hapihapitchi, was later released on DVD, on June 26, 2009. Unlike the first film, no English dub was ever released on any home video formats, but an English dub aired on television in the Philippines. Madman Entertainment intended to dub Happiest Story in the Universe!, but the dub was cancelled for unknown reasons. Barayuga, Debra (2 June 1997). "Electronic Pets Peep Their Last at Isle Schools". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Vol.2, no.109. Archived from the original on 29 January 1999 . Retrieved 13 September 2020. The Los Angeles-based pop duo LOONER released their tribute to the toy in May 2009 with the single "I Love My Tamagotchee!". [30] A Tamagotchi whose charm point is her splendid fins. It's rumored that she is a descendant of the Tamazaurus dinosaurs that existed long ago!" - Tamagotchi Uni Perfect Guidebook (JP, 2023)

a b c d Kimura, Ken (2021). Handheld Digital Pets. Japan's Top Inventions (video documentary). Tokyo: NHK World Japan. 03:32 to 06:12.

A Tamagotchi also appears as a character and item in Chibi-Robo!. It's a gift the player can give to Mr. Sanderson after completing the main story by following one of Captain Plankbeard's treasure maps. [ citation needed]. Chibi-Robo! was co-developed by Bandai, therefore allowing the product to appear without any legal issues.

a b c "Finding Companionship in a Digital Age". Next Generation. No.34. Imagine Media. October 1997. pp.56–63. Since its debut, Tamagotchi has made its way onto several gaming platforms. Several early games feature gameplay similar to the original toys. A few party-style games appeared on major consoles, along with the Corner Shop series of simulation games and a few role playing games for the Nintendo DS. [21] Console and handheld games During the late 1990s, children frequently took Tamagotchi digital pets to school because in the first two releases (Generation 1 and Generation 2), a character could die in less than half a day if it did not receive adequate care. Teachers expressed concerns over class disruption as well as general distraction from schoolwork and this eventually led many schools to ban the product. [32] [10] Children became emotional over the deaths of their Tamagotchi, leading to teenagers sending them to graveyards for burial and urban legends of teen suicide, such as an alleged case of a teenage girl hanging herself over the death of her Tamagotchi after her parents took it away as a punishment. [10] See also [ edit ] According 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". [4] [5] After the original English spelling of watch, the name is sometimes romanized as Tamagotch without the "i" in Japan. Most Tamagotchi characters' names end in tchi or chi ( ち) in Japanese, with few exceptions.Throughout the day, the dinosaur will leave poo on the screen. Pressing the A button will clean the poop away. If the user does not clean it up right away, more poop may gradually appear. a b c Allison, Anne (2006-06-30). Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. University of California Press. p.292. ISBN 978-0-520-24565-5. There are no on-screen icons, and therefore all information is conveyed through the screen and buttons. The dinosaur is cared for by filling its meters; they have Hungry and Happy meters, each consisting of four units, which are both empty at the start. The Hungry meter decreases by one unit per hour, and the Happy meter decreases by one every 50 minutes. If either becomes empty, the character will call for attention to fill them. Which One?: A dinosaur will be hiding in one of two eggs on the screen. The user must guess which egg the dinosaur is hiding in by pressing A for the left egg or B for the right. Finding the dinosaur 5 times is a perfect game. Michelle Delgado (22 December 2021). "Keeping Tamagotchi Alive". Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 20 April 2022.