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Website Toy Boards => NEW Toy Sections => Topic started by: EdenEye on Wednesday 24 March 2010, 07:16 am
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I think it would be cool if you made Categories for Digital Pets such as Nano, Tamagotchi and my favorite Giga Pets.
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Is there a site about these anywhere? Sites about handheld games or something?
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I found this site, but it hasn't been updated in a while.
http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/vpindex2.htm (http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/vpindex2.htm)
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I used to be obsessed with these, I had a Tamagotchi and a Giga Pet and then loads of random ones that I have no idea what they were lol one was orange and the pet was a T-Rex.
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I'm not to fond of them >:(
One time I was V V sick in hospital and I do mean completly bed ridden.
My friend got me one and it had all the love and care it could have wanted I literally couldn't leave my bed or the puppy, when he went off his cries were answered within the minute EVERY time and he STILL ran away.
He was a BAD puppy LOL ;D
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Here is my virtual pet story. Back in the end 7th grade they were just coming out. This snobby girl who use to get the latest everything had a Tamagotchi. She had one, but she said she took it to a theme park and ignored the pet there and it died.
Later in 8th grade my friend got one on Black Friday. It was a cute panda one on a necklace. I was embarrassed that out of my whole group of friends I was the last one to get one. I didn't even care about the kind or quality of the pet.
Finally for the Christmas of 1997 I got a pet. A giga pet dog, but it was the one from KFC! I was so embarrassed because I knew that snobby girl was going to make fun of it. She made fun of everything I had. Of course she did especially the KFC logo on the case. After she did that I took off the logo on the case with nail polish remover. I ended up taking good care of my pet. It would always take a nap during math class. My pet lived for over 160 days! Then one day it just died (not due to neglect). That snobby girl was jealous that my pet lived that long. The funny thing was that a bunch of kids at school and my cousin use to ask me for virtual pet care advice.
Here is another mean thing that kids would do. Sometimes when the kids weren't watching their pets somebody would get a pen and press the reset button on them when they weren't looking.
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they got banned pretty quickly at my primary school. I don't think I ever had a Tamagotchi, just random re-makes. I remember there being an article about them and the lady who created them in the magazine (I think a magzine that comes in the newspaper with the TV guide in it - not a tabloid!). When the fad was extreme it was extreme. I bought another one not too long ago - tamagotchi v. 4 or 5. It was pretty sucky!
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I remember this craze they were everywhere but I never got into them.
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Poor Pika .. the snobby girl sounds mean but perhaps she had her own problems .. what with being snobby and all :)
You made me feel better I just thought my puppy was really ungrateful :)
Also I clearly had the virtual pet for sensitive kids cos mine didn't die he ran away... he had a little bag tied to a stick and everything.
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I had a Compu Kitty Giga Pet, (it got dropped and lost one day in the front yard, and we later found it very well watered and dead - sad day)
(http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz343/ToyID/Ghost%20of%20the%20Doll/chickeneater1.jpg)
Image from eBay user http://myworld.ebay.com/chickeneater/.
a Salem Giga Pet from Sabrina The Teenage Witch,
(http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz343/ToyID/Ghost%20of%20the%20Doll/chickeneater4.jpg)
Image from eBay user http://myworld.ebay.com/chickeneater/.
a The Little Mermaid one from Disney World,
and a Tamagotchi one as well (snake?).
-Em
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Ianua that girl did have a lot of problems. My cousin also had a dog who would run away, and his giga pet micro pup.
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I was the 2nd person I knew that had a Tamagotchi, but the girl I knew that had one went to a different school. ;) So she doesn't count. My great-aunt was always on top of toy trends like that so I always got Furbys and things like that whether I wanted them or not!
These were the original US six. I think they had an actual keyring on them, not the flimsy little loop chain.
(http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/artwork/products/bandai/tamv/u1grp.jpg)
1. Transparent Turquoise
2. Yellow with Orange Border and Buttons
3. Purple with Pink Border and Buttons
4. Bright Green with Yellow Border and Buttons
5. Rodamine Red with Yellow Border and Buttons
6. White with Blue Border and Buttons
http://www.tamenagerie.com/gen1.html
(http://www.bookmice.net/fleur/tamcoll/mywhtbl.jpg)
Another site about Tamagotchi: http://www.bookmice.net/fleur/tamcoll1.html
I had the white one with the blue trim. The girl I knew had the green one with yellow. I DESPERATELY wanted the Purple and pink one.
I went on to also own a Nano Baby, a Nano Puppy from the first generation of those:
(http://www.tamenagerie.com/files/nanoss.jpg)
And a Dinky Dino.
(http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/artwork/products/raku.jpg)
Towards the end of the craze I got an Octo-Pet from a cousin (it had a PANDA!):
(http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/artwork/products/octopet/octofs.jpg) (http://www.tamenagerie.com/tp.gif)
And a Giga Pet Frog.
(http://www.freewebs.com/peacefrog777/Giga%20Photos/Floppy%20Frog%20Rectangle.jpg)
My sister had basically the same pets (Nano Kitty and Baby) except I got her a Tamagotchi for her birthday a bit later on when there were more colors available - I think that hers was transparent clear plastic?
I still want the Little Mermaid Giga Pet, haha.
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I think mine was just a cheap knock off one not any official company I still liked it though.
I also had a wierd one in a tube think it was called an aqua pet ?!?! it was a plastic figure not an electronic pet though. My friend had one too that was patrick from spongebob he was sooo cool don't think they did much just jiggled around when you pressed buttons e.t.c :) anyone recall them ?
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yes I remember Aqua pets, they are still around.
http://dlm1.meta.ua/pic/0/1/105/I4va4KIsRo.jpg?92627
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Cool would love to get a patrick one I'll have to have a nose about xx
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They did others as well like evil aqua pets can't remember what they were called though will try and find out :D
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These were the original US six. I think they had an actual keyring on them, not the flimsy little loop chain.
(http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/artwork/products/bandai/tamv/u1grp.jpg)
I had the white one with the blue trim, it was a hand-me-down lol we couldn't find one ANYWHERE when they first came out and then my Aunty's friend gave one to her coz her kid didn't want theirs anymore. I was so excited lol! Mine grew into this weird thing that looked like an old man's head with these really long spider legs and it wouldn't die and creeped me out so I had to reset it. Fact.
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i also know they made modern ones with a tube that had a plush in them called my mebas do not know how long it lasted
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Oh, I loved these things! I had a pink and green Tamagotchi that I loved until it accidently got dunked in salt water and died forever. I kept the box and pamphlet for years, but decided to get rid of them one day - of course now I wish I still had them! A friend later gave me hers, in the same colors, but it's in pretty rough shape because I once tried to pry off the battery cover rather than finding a screwdriver (hey, I was still a kid!).
I also had a Nano Baby that a different friend gave to me, but I hated it because I was not a big fan of babies! Haha!
My favorite was the Dinky Dino - it had lots more choices than the Tamagotchi! Mine got stolen, though, and I hadn't even had it for very long. BUT, a couple years ago, I was in Chinatown in NYC, and I walked into a store that was selling vintage Dinky Dinos as new! Of course I bought one, in the same color as the one I had as a kid. So if you're ever in Chinatown, keep an eye out for vintage virtual pets!
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Watch getting the Dinky Dinos in Chinatown. Someone is using the same casing and sometimes the same backcard but the innards are different usually. Sometimes it's a 89-in-1 pet or something... those later ones. I guess they're just using up the old parts or maybe reusing the mold. The multi-pet ones are knock-offs. So, be careful. You can see it on eBay. Those ones sell cheap in big bulk lots but a genuine Dinky Dino will sell as well as the vintage Nanos and Giga Pets. (They weren't as well known mainstream but I think were almost more popular for the reasons you said!)
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The Dinky Dino I got in Chinatown was actual old stock - everything was exactly the same as the one I bought in 1998 (I played it, too!). But thank you for the warning! I didn't realize there were lots of cheap knock-offs of Dinky Dinos being sold in Chinatown, and I wouldn't want someone to get ripped off!
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Here is a picture of the panda one my friend had.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/pikapal/bobofrnt.jpg)
This site has a bunch of Virtual pet pictures.
http://www.bookmice.net/fleur/othervpets.html (http://www.bookmice.net/fleur/othervpets.html)
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I have one of those "Byte" ones still new. Not sure if its a Panda. I will look.