I bought a couple of the old Tamagotchis for the same reasons you described. That crippling realisation that life kinda sucks and it’s only going to get worse. Those old bleeps are so recognisable I forgot to silence it at work and when it went off demanding tribute someone went “omg is that a tamagotchi?!” 😂
I love tamagotchi so much! I've been collecting them since 2018 and now I own over 60+ ranging from the very first one from the 90's to the newest Tamagotchi Uni.
Excellent video, I had a Tamagotchi during the original run in '97, now as an old boy I've just bought the Uni - the nostalgia, Tama community and videos like this are brilliant !
I never had a Tamagotchi, but I did get a Digimon as a kid. Later I got a Gigapet dog. Digimon was by far my favorite. Raising a dinosaur was the coolest.
I remember seeing a huge steel bin full of tamagotchis for $1 each at the end of the hype. Already had one but still bought a few. Just found a nib white/grey one when i moved. Pulled the battery tab out and it started right up :]
Awesome run through the history; I immediately thought of Digimon and you reminded me about the original, the TV show which I adored (and movies), then the Digimon devices. That Pokemon Pikachu with the step counter was incredible to me at the time, and I spent many hours shaking that thing to earn xp! 😂
My brother bought me a Gen 1 Tamagotchi for Christmas as a joke present (slightly more basic to the "Connect Tamgitchis" me and my friends played with back in the 2000s). Now whenever I have a second (e.g., waiting for the kettle to boil) I'm feeding or playing with my "pet alien" to keep it from being hungry or unhappy. And having had this toy for two days now, I can testify that the final point you make, "The Parallel To Mobile Phones", is spot on! I was checking my social media on my phone every time I had a few minutes but after deleting social media earlier this year and having now received a Tamagotchi, I'm instead filling up those moments of free time with keeping my Tamagotchi alive!
its actually tamago (egg) and uotchi (watch) so together it is egg watch. btw tamagotchi is called tamagotch in japan. Tamah GOE tch in pronunciation.😅😅😅
You forgot to bring up the fact there was a ton of stuff outside the virtual pets, such as a full on anime that ran from 2009-2015 (which had a ton of toys made for it as well), video games, and way more
I remember having one of these and I didn't have the attention span to constantly fiddle with it and then it dying just made me sad so I never picked one up ever again lol I do like them though but I am not the target audience for them lol I was definitely more into the Digimon and digi vices but the real toy I loved was the cube world stickman lol
I grew up in the early 2000s and never experienced Tamagotchi. Until now, since I just ordered a Tamagotchi Uni. I feel like I’m going to regret my decision lol
In my research on Tamagotchi I found an article attributing the idea to Maita Aki, and in the interview she talked about the ad about the boy with his pet turtle, not sure what to think of this, where did you find that it was Yokoi's idea?
Quite a few sources state Yokoi was the one who had the initial idea based on the turtle advert. The most credible articles are from the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine. Aki Maita was seemingly responsible for solidifying the design of Tamagotchi after Yokoi's initial concept was pitched and she became the sort of face of the brand during its early years. But really the Tamagotchi as we know it was a joint effort between both Yokoi and Maita!
I love you comparison of the attention we used to put into tamagotchi, that now we put to our representation in social media. I think this is spot on and very fitting analogy. We care for and feed the monster with virtue signalling, attention, fear, obsession and dopamine hunting.
My fellow Tamagotchi fans! Will you help me get Bandai Namco to dub the rest of the Tamagotchi anime series so far from episode 27 to episode 271 aka episode 50 of Go-Go Tamagotchi in English? Help a fellow Tamagotchi fan out.
9:26 There were colour Tamagotchis in Japan since 2008 (Tamagotchi Plus Color and newer ones after that like called ”iD, iDL, Ps, 4U, 4U+, M!x, On, Smart”), but only the last couple of years there have been modern ones in others parts of the world too. (There are English translations of some of the Japanese versions. After a while you learn the menus even without knowing Japanese.)
I had one decades ago. Don't remember which one. Probably a gen 1 green. I have a Tamagotchi On - Fairy edition, cause I collect portable systems and this one was not only color, but the shell was cute/pink. I have a Tamagotchi Uni - Sanrio edition preordered cause it's even cuter
Yes I had a purple a pink 1997 Tamagotchi, Giga Pet a Nano pet. I could never successfully keep the Tamagotchi alive like I could the other two. I actually still have all 3. I decided to restart my original Tamagotchi again to see how it goes but I have ordered one of the Tamagotchi Uni’s.
I just got my first one for Christmas, it's a Pix, I love it so much that I wanna try a different version so now I have a Tamagotchi Original Gen 2 on the way lol😂🖤✨
It was 1997,we were out on a drive , it was dark outside and i had to wait til I had a little bit of light to tend to my (giga pet) we stop at a gas station. I remember "my own prison" by creed was playing and as I go to tend to my pet I see a ghost floating above a grave. Not only was it eerie but I was devastated. I thought I had done a pretty good job taking care of it. It was bullshit lol. Everytime I hear that song, I'm faced with a strong nostalgic existential feeling
Beats AirTags in functionality, and when it spies on you, the data doesn't go to Apple. When pop singers say they've got their gucci on is this what they are talking about?
Yeah I remember this back in the Philippines schools they made it so that these Tamagotchis were banned on sight. Girls had Tamagotchis while us Boys had our Gameboy with Pokemon
in the 90s I bought a fake Dinogotchiegg, that was impossible to keep alive. Sometimes it died after 3 Minutes not looking at it.. "one beep" meant missing something 20 seconds after the second beeb, because became sick, one minute about to die, 3 Minutes dead.. It gave me often tears as a child.. Later I got a Tamagotchi Tamatown and I wondered why it was invinceable compared to the other fake.. Now I got a p's and a uni. Tamatown is the best of all but only one color screen..
I just got a uni and have already decided to get my future kids some to try and curb the iPad kid craze while still giving them something "techy" to lug around.
Red: (singing) its a colourful world, its a world of colour, and, where would we be without red? Red! The colour of jellies, some ribbons, and bows, the colour of Welles, some roses & rose, in a flower bed, its a colourful world, & where would we be without red? Brown pink orange purple green yellow blue red: (singing) &, where would we be without brown, & pink, orange, and purple, & green too. Where would we be without yellow, & blue, & red? Cyan & magenta: (singing) well, this is just the start with a whole other part you can do! Indigo: (singing) why stop with the rainbow? Violet: (singing) when a colour adventure, Indigo & Violet: (singing) is waiting for you! Red orange yellow green cyan blue purple magenta: (singing) there are millions of colors for you to discover, more we can never have known, its a colourful world, so, why not mix some colors of your own! Red: Ha! Exciting!
My tamagotchi was when i was 6 i i think i would take it evrewhere with me guess what after 1 year i broke it😂 im getting one this year hopping to take better care😂
The tech got better and the shells got worse is my basic summary. The new UNI best tama they ever done imo but boi it’s an ugly shell compared to the old variety of choices. I’m willing to bet if you sat a group of kids down showed them the 90s shells and then these modern ones most would go with the interesting 90s ones looking better.
nice video, Baldie, good stuff, always a pleasure. had a tamagotchi once, 28 yrs ago or smth, great little thing, all red, heart-shaped, had 12 pets to choose from. my PB is 2 weeks
See, that's exactly whom I thought it was...💁🏻...but you said it was another dude with the same name, so thanks for clarifying that...👌🏼💯✔️ Some other person with a very popular video on Tamagotchi's said that name, but didn't clarify...😒...thus leaving me to think it was the one dude who perished in an automobile accident...when it wasn't even him whatsoever...ugh...such incompetence❗️❗️❗️ Such negligence like that really rustles💢my💢jimmies...😖 So mad respect to ya for giving that tidbit of facts...🤘🏼
Millennials need to calm down actually. I like toys too but we've made children toys incredibly expensive and less accessible to actual children. Stop paying adult prices for toys you're actually holding pop culture hostage.
I bought a couple of the old Tamagotchis for the same reasons you described. That crippling realisation that life kinda sucks and it’s only going to get worse. Those old bleeps are so recognisable I forgot to silence it at work and when it went off demanding tribute someone went “omg is that a tamagotchi?!” 😂
😂
Gasp how
what happen if they die
@@Ruqayahwyou can get another egg for free and try again :)
@@Angelwrites wait cant u restart it or smth? like do u mean buy another one or js restart
What a time to be alive, I miss the 90's! There was a balance back then between reality and virtual reality that was just right!
Yes! I miss it too!
I love tamagotchi so much! I've been collecting them since 2018 and now I own over 60+ ranging from the very first one from the 90's to the newest Tamagotchi Uni.
I'm envious!! I have 25 so far haha
i only have the classic gen 1 they re-released a few years ago xD
all of them are lovely !
congratulations for your collection !
Right now I have 9, trying SO HARD to find a cheap connection on eBay. Any tips?
Lucky I e got 1 that broke after one year 😂 it was in the pandemic but I'm getting one soon!❤
I remember going toys r us with my mum and getting the last one one the shelve it was a clear blue one. Still have it to this day
Excellent video, I had a Tamagotchi during the original run in '97, now as an old boy I've just bought the Uni - the nostalgia, Tama community and videos like this are brilliant !
I never had a Tamagotchi, but I did get a Digimon as a kid. Later I got a Gigapet dog. Digimon was by far my favorite. Raising a dinosaur was the coolest.
I remember seeing a huge steel bin full of tamagotchis for $1 each at the end of the hype. Already had one but still bought a few. Just found a nib white/grey one when i moved. Pulled the battery tab out and it started right up :]
Awesome run through the history; I immediately thought of Digimon and you reminded me about the original, the TV show which I adored (and movies), then the Digimon devices. That Pokemon Pikachu with the step counter was incredible to me at the time, and I spent many hours shaking that thing to earn xp! 😂
My brother bought me a Gen 1 Tamagotchi for Christmas as a joke present (slightly more basic to the "Connect Tamgitchis" me and my friends played with back in the 2000s). Now whenever I have a second (e.g., waiting for the kettle to boil) I'm feeding or playing with my "pet alien" to keep it from being hungry or unhappy. And having had this toy for two days now, I can testify that the final point you make, "The Parallel To Mobile Phones", is spot on! I was checking my social media on my phone every time I had a few minutes but after deleting social media earlier this year and having now received a Tamagotchi, I'm instead filling up those moments of free time with keeping my Tamagotchi alive!
The name actually comes from the words "tamago" and "tomodachi" which mean egg and friend so they're basically egg friend
its actually tamago (egg) and uotchi (watch) so together it is egg watch. btw tamagotchi is called tamagotch in japan. Tamah GOE tch in pronunciation.😅😅😅
I mean they hatch out of eggs
And today, social media does the job of depressing your kids!
Tamagotchi is also based on assonance with the word "tomodachi" (friend)
That plus the word tamago for egg
no its uotchi not tomodachi😂😂
I remember back then kids would have like 5-10 of different brands hanging on their belts😂
I remember having a tamagotchi back then. Every kid wanted to have one. I miss those times.
I love Tamagotchi since 2000s until now I have Tamagotchi Uni which is the first Wifi feature!
They're are still a ton of us Vpet fans out there! Love these things
My tamogochi is watching this with me
My 5 are also doing the same
I just started collecting again, after realising I really liked when I was a kid. And grew up in the '90. thank you for the video!
I love the Uni!!! Been a fan since ‘97! Got an updated T-Rex Gigapet recently too.
8:00 Godlike laptop.
You forgot to bring up the fact there was a ton of stuff outside the virtual pets, such as a full on anime that ran from 2009-2015 (which had a ton of toys made for it as well), video games, and way more
I just bought the UNI so I can finally make my nostalgia at ease! And hopefully not make it die...
I remember having one of these and I didn't have the attention span to constantly fiddle with it and then it dying just made me sad so I never picked one up ever again lol I do like them though but I am not the target audience for them lol I was definitely more into the Digimon and digi vices but the real toy I loved was the cube world stickman lol
I remember mine died and I thought that it was trash after that lol!
grew up with some Tamagochi, Furby, digimon, heck, I even had one of the rough riders nano. this brings back some great memories.
"A pet that you could take anywhere you wanted" OK bro. Tell that to my grade 3 teacher 🤣
Got ours confiscated and by the time they'll return it to our parents (PTA meeting) they got it all mixed up 😂 1st gen tamagotchi
thank u so much great vid i just ordered one for the nostalgia aand something to love! ty stay safe
I grew up in the early 2000s and never experienced Tamagotchi. Until now, since I just ordered a Tamagotchi Uni. I feel like I’m going to regret my decision lol
I never had a Tamagotchi, I was probably born a little too late for that, but I had a VTech Kidipet Touch Dog which I still have somewhere around here
Such a great video, with footage i have never seen before! I have always been a huge fan of Tamagotchi's since the original release in 1996 👾
Thank you! I'm very proud of this video so I'm glad you enjoyed it. I had to scour the depths of TH-cam to find some of this Tamagotchi footage 😅
this video is so well made for such low views, the channel is underated sm
In my research on Tamagotchi I found an article attributing the idea to Maita Aki, and in the interview she talked about the ad about the boy with his pet turtle, not sure what to think of this, where did you find that it was Yokoi's idea?
Quite a few sources state Yokoi was the one who had the initial idea based on the turtle advert. The most credible articles are from the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine.
Aki Maita was seemingly responsible for solidifying the design of Tamagotchi after Yokoi's initial concept was pitched and she became the sort of face of the brand during its early years.
But really the Tamagotchi as we know it was a joint effort between both Yokoi and Maita!
I love you comparison of the attention we used to put into tamagotchi, that now we put to our representation in social media. I think this is spot on and very fitting analogy. We care for and feed the monster with virtue signalling, attention, fear, obsession and dopamine hunting.
I have a tamagotchi on and it slaps
I’m using one now 😂
My fellow Tamagotchi fans! Will you help me get Bandai Namco to dub the rest of the Tamagotchi anime series so far from episode 27 to episode 271 aka episode 50 of Go-Go Tamagotchi in English? Help a fellow Tamagotchi fan out.
9:26
There were colour Tamagotchis in Japan since 2008 (Tamagotchi Plus Color and newer ones after that like called ”iD, iDL, Ps, 4U,
4U+, M!x, On, Smart”), but only the last couple of years there have been modern ones in others parts of the world too.
(There are English translations of some of the Japanese versions.
After a while you learn the menus even without knowing Japanese.)
I had one decades ago. Don't remember which one. Probably a gen 1 green.
I have a Tamagotchi On - Fairy edition, cause I collect portable systems and this one was not only color, but the shell was cute/pink.
I have a Tamagotchi Uni - Sanrio edition preordered cause it's even cuter
IM SO HAPPY BECAUSE IM GONNA GET ONE FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE MY FRIEND GOT ME IN TO IT
Yes I had a purple a pink 1997 Tamagotchi, Giga Pet a Nano pet. I could never successfully keep the Tamagotchi alive like I could the other two. I actually still have all 3. I decided to restart my original Tamagotchi again to see how it goes but I have ordered one of the Tamagotchi Uni’s.
I'm more of a Digimon guy but I've got my fair share of tamagotchis and Cube world cubes too.
I just got my first one for Christmas, it's a Pix, I love it so much that I wanna try a different version so now I have a Tamagotchi Original Gen 2 on the way lol😂🖤✨
It was 1997,we were out on a drive , it was dark outside and i had to wait til I had a little bit of light to tend to my (giga pet) we stop at a gas station. I remember "my own prison" by creed was playing and as I go to tend to my pet I see a ghost floating above a grave. Not only was it eerie but I was devastated. I thought I had done a pretty good job taking care of it. It was bullshit lol. Everytime I hear that song, I'm faced with a strong nostalgic existential feeling
Very great video.
Beats AirTags in functionality, and when it spies on you, the data doesn't go to Apple. When pop singers say they've got their gucci on is this what they are talking about?
I'm a 90s kid and I realized there are so many kinds this year that I now have 25 tamagotchi from all years XD
yall should try out their new tamagotchi uni!!
Ahhh yes ... Simpler times.
Playing sonic on my Sega genesis and feeding my pet on the tamagotchi
Yeah I remember this back in the Philippines schools they made it so that these Tamagotchis were banned on sight.
Girls had Tamagotchis while us Boys had our Gameboy with Pokemon
gguuuhhh i suddenly have an urge for it at 32.... but like... they're 70$!!!!
why are they sold as a mini console? this is dollar store stuff.
informative video
in the 90s I bought a fake Dinogotchiegg, that was impossible to keep alive. Sometimes it died after 3 Minutes not looking at it.. "one beep" meant missing something 20 seconds after the second beeb, because became sick, one minute about to die, 3 Minutes dead.. It gave me often tears as a child.. Later I got a Tamagotchi Tamatown and I wondered why it was invinceable compared to the other fake.. Now I got a p's and a uni. Tamatown is the best of all but only one color screen..
And the need for constant interaction is worse than ever
Question is should you buy this for kids today? The Uni looks so nice
I just got a uni and have already decided to get my future kids some to try and curb the iPad kid craze while still giving them something "techy" to lug around.
Great content.
Is the tamagotchi uni worth it
Tomica tamagotchi's are so so cool they they even have any different characters they're so cool you go to Thomas first the mall everything😮❤
I completely forgot about digimon!
Red: (singing) its a colourful world, its a world of colour, and, where would we be without red? Red! The colour of jellies, some ribbons, and bows, the colour of Welles, some roses & rose, in a flower bed, its a colourful world, & where would we be without red?
Brown pink orange purple green yellow blue red: (singing) &, where would we be without brown, & pink, orange, and purple, & green too. Where would we be without yellow, & blue, & red?
Cyan & magenta: (singing) well, this is just the start with a whole other part you can do!
Indigo: (singing) why stop with the rainbow?
Violet: (singing) when a colour adventure,
Indigo & Violet: (singing) is waiting for you!
Red orange yellow green cyan blue purple magenta: (singing) there are millions of colors for you to discover, more we can never have known, its a colourful world, so, why not mix some colors of your own!
Red: Ha! Exciting!
I have a tamagotchi uni it's so cool😮
Guess who's getting a new furby for his 36th birthday because i want some stupid childhood fun
Tamagotchis rock
great video
I just bought my white and black childhood one a 2018 one. Its my fidget spinner for work.
I remember my mom gave me hers it was a comic book shell
Great video
Yeah, I cried my ass out when that thing died. It was brutal.
Then u Have To Recharge it I think
@@mirandahills6107 the animal not the toy 👾
I had one. I really did not like the fact it either got into a low-level adult or died. sad...
90s kid here. I can say with certainty that my tamagotchi died and I remember how sad I was that it died 😢
Profound.
My tamagotchis are watching this with me
Am I The Only One Who Abuses The Poor Creatures In The Tamagotchi
My tamagotchi was when i was 6 i i think i would take it evrewhere with me guess what after 1 year i broke it😂 im getting one this year hopping to take better care😂
I had the knock of version as a kid and i remember it having better games than the original😅
Tamagotchis are so cool you go to Thomas verse they have so many different characters My favorite is is mercy is mercy merch up e😮❤
I liked the NANO FIGHTERS...
I have 2 old tamagotchi and I have a new pink one
Nano fighters yo
i remember i had tamagotchi in 1996
When you start learning Japanese and realize that it’s pronounced
TAMA GOH CHI
not
TAMA GAH CHI
because “tamago” means egg.
Mind blown. 🤯
I have a Tamagotchi Uni
the watches shouldve been called Tamawachiis😂
Its just funny to me when he said its like animal crossing on steroids and I play animal crossing and have a tamagotchi uni
Can we say AI generated virtual girlfriend is a tamagòtchi spinoff 😮
dude i literally leeped from tamagotchi gen 1 to a tamagotchi uni literally no pix no on no connection i just leaped 😂😅
The tech got better and the shells got worse is my basic summary. The new UNI best tama they ever done imo but boi it’s an ugly shell compared to the old variety of choices. I’m willing to bet if you sat a group of kids down showed them the 90s shells and then these modern ones most would go with the interesting 90s ones looking better.
nice video, Baldie, good stuff, always a pleasure. had a tamagotchi once, 28 yrs ago or smth, great little thing, all red, heart-shaped, had 12 pets to choose from. my PB is 2 weeks
I have been playing Digimon X2 V-pet recently. I'm 29 years old 😂😂 fuck what they think
5:25 The fuck?
They're sumo champions 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
See, that's exactly whom I thought it was...💁🏻...but you said it was another dude with the same name, so thanks for clarifying that...👌🏼💯✔️ Some other person with a very popular video on Tamagotchi's said that name, but didn't clarify...😒...thus leaving me to think it was the one dude who perished in an automobile accident...when it wasn't even him whatsoever...ugh...such incompetence❗️❗️❗️ Such negligence like that really rustles💢my💢jimmies...😖 So mad respect to ya for giving that tidbit of facts...🤘🏼
I still remember my monkey 😢
I was actually talking care of mine while watching this❤ btw he has died 3 times
EASTMAN & LAIRD'S
Millennials need to calm down actually. I like toys too but we've made children toys incredibly expensive and less accessible to actual children. Stop paying adult prices for toys you're actually holding pop culture hostage.
can i take itto school
Depends on your schools rules. Personally as long as you mute it and don’t take it out during class it should be fine
My tamagochi is beeping a annoying
I have a pet dog he’s annoying so this would be purfect but the new one causes 100 on Amazon what!
Majority of sales were young girls……I as a straight male that had a ton of these in the 90’s 😆 I was 6, get off my back!
No no no NANO FIGHTERS WAS THE BEST ! .... 💪
Not RetroDodo.
do it make noies