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I always figured the name was a pun from Tamago meaning Egg and Tomodachi meaning Friend, so like "egg friend"

The big issue with Tamagotchi is that non-Japanese markets never get the newer era with the color and backlit screens, which even have mobile app integration, Bluetooth and NFC. We just keep getting the old ass original. In Japan, Tamagotchi never “died”, because it kept getting revitalized and upgraded.

PSA: DO NOT MUTE THE TAMAGOTCHI IF IT BEEPS AT YOU AND DOESN'T NEED FOOD AND HASN'T LEFT YOU A LOG TO CLEAN THAN YOU NEED DISCIPLINE IT, IF YOU TURN THE SOUND OFF YOU'LL NEVER DISCIPLINE YOUR TAMAGOTCHI AND THAT'S WHY IT DIES.

When I find out that Digimon is a Tamagotchi spinoff and not a Pokemon clone: "How many other lies have I been told by the council!?"

Tamagotchi have color screens now and a whole bunch of new stuff if you buy the Japanese ones. Theres a new one comming this year as well

Theres a newer Tamagotchi THATS IN ENGLISH; The Tamagotchi ON (or meets in JPN); a colour screen one with the Mixability of those it marrys. It connects to a app where you can go online play games and marry other players; the child becomes a fusion of the parents characteristics; It's pretty fun and reintroduced my love to tamas again.

I once had a family of Tamagotchis that lasted for 10 generations before the battery gave out.

Tamatown was the best thing ever and I loved the concept sending your Tamagotchi to an online game. Bandai pls bring it back.

Tamagochi: *THEY DIE*

I remember when the second generation of them came out and everyone at my elementary school was hooked on them. Mine was stolen from me and I was devastated. I'd also love to see another video like this about the other Tamagotchi media!

Anyone else remember TamaTown? That was my shit! xD I still remember the music. That sweet sweet music..

If you're looking into other Tamagotchi, they have some great Japanese versions that are colored and you can do quite a lot with them. The Tamagotchi meets is releasing in November, and previously before that was the Tamagotchi mix. If you are interested in Tamagotchi is I definitely recommend actually looking into them and seeing the awesomeness that they have evolved into.

Tamagotchis and furbies are super influential to people even today. There are actual blogs devoted to furbies (most of which I follow).

As someone who is part of the "too young to be a 90's kid, but too old to relate to Fortnite and Jake Paul" generation, I never had the luxury of having Tamagotchi.

Billiam, we're getting a full color tamagotchi packed with a ton of new never before seen (in a fully English release that is) features. We can dress our character up, feed it food from the fridge or have it go to town and eat at a restaurant. When it's an adult, it can marry and when it has it's egg, it has a chance of hatching into twins. Each consecutive generation of your original tamagotchi will be a combination of it's mother and father in appearance. There are literally hundreds of possible combinations! Plus there is a mechanic for your tamagotchi to find and own a pet, and even breed it to get a pet baby that also looks like a combination of it's two parents!! There is also an app you can connect your tamagotchi device to via bluetooth to bring your little tamagotchi to visit a virtual Tamatown and do and collect things there! It's called the Tamagotchi On and will be released on the 27th of July, 2019.

Tamagatchi : Mourning simulator

Pumpkin is cute, someone should make a tamagotchi of him, just for fun.

People have often used Digimon as a Tomagachi comparison, but they forget that Pokemon actually was partially ripped off this idea with the Poke Walker from Heart Gold Soul Silver. Some trends never die.

I remember there was a Tomagachi part in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga

12 yr olds: “hey I got a V3 too wanna breed?”

this video made me search my entire house for my old tamagotchis

I really love the Tomagachi Digimon. I had the Agumon, and I loved it.

Fun fact: when my mum was a teacher, she would confiscate her students’ tamagotchis and wait for them to die.

I actually saw tamagotchis on display when I took my little brother to Gamestop to buy Kirby and Dark Souls. I was really shocked to see it come back...too bad it's not Digimon.

I never had a Tamagotchi, my sister did, but I only had something more similar, which was called PixlChix. I had two game consoles of it, one was where you take care of a hamster (that apparently also loved to disco) and one where you control a pixel girl in a mall. The series was (kinda obviously) more female related, which is why I was kinda into it when I was young, cause I didn’t know I would’ve enjoyed ‘boy dominated’ games when I was little. I thought the games were actually really creative. Because the characters were all pixels on a screen, but the background was 3D toys inside, which could give the illusion of the character doing something like sitting down in a 3D chair behind them. There were also certain cool features too with the console, for example in the mall game I had, to go to the second level, you had to unhook the screen and put it on the (empty, excluding the 3D background) screen that was second floor to light it up and play it. (I don’t know if that was clear, it’s kinda hard to explain) and with the hamster game, you could turn the console upside down and the environment would flip into a nightclub. I think there were way more games like this, but I only had these two. There was also no real ‘end’ to these games either, so you could play them over and over, which is kinda what I’m into anyway when it comes to games. I hope someone else knows about this, I’d be happy if that was the case. Also sorry if this was kinda off topic, Tamagotchi was just reminding me of PixlChix and I wanted to see if anyone else knew this :)

You are not trash. Please stop thinking you are. Your videos are solid and very informative.

You left out the similarity between "tamagotchi" and 友達 (ともだち [tomodachi]) which means friend.

You should do an episode on webkinz!

The best Tamagotchi is Bill. He's just a dude.

I wouldn't call it a fad, it was a sensation

Fun Fact: Just RECENTLY Tamagotchi did a crossover...with *Neon Genesis Evangelion* of all things.

The Tamatown music is so nostalgic! ❤️

I never had a real Tamagotchi years until I owned the Game Boy version. I did own a Giga Pet from Tiger Electronics in the form of Yoda from Star Wars.

Tamagotchi : do you did it ? Digimon : yes . Tamagotchi : what did it cost ? Digimon : everything .

Old video, but first time seeing it. Good on you and your girlfriend for rescuing Pumpkin and giving it a safe & loving home.

I dont know if y'all knew this but tamagotchi had a movie and I remembered it so vividly idk if anyone else knows what I mean

Your video is being shared in the Tamagotchi groups! You should definitely try and pick up a color screen Tama, they are so fun and you can put tons of dlc on them. Obviously Japanese games can be tricky if you don't speak the language, but the Tamagotchi P's can be fully patched to English (unfortunately they have these very feminine jewel faceplate) and the 4u (not the 4u+) has an english menu patch. Also Gamestop will be releasing a Gudetama Tamagotchi next month and Japan is getting an Eevee Tama in January.

I had a Tomogachi as a kid (Like 5-6 years old) I lost it briefly and only found it when I heard it's death beeps just in time to see it die. I cried for like 2 hours and ever since then I've been too traumatized to ever pick one of these things up again.

Such nostalgia... I grew up overseas and became the cool kid when my uncle brought me a Tamagotchi that was a generation ahead of the most recent one in my country. I had a pouch for it that I wore around my neck, I had a notebook decorated with it, and my nickname for that school year was Tamagotchi.

I'm going to wait anxiously for the possible Tamagotchi outside media video

Where on earth did you get that digivice??? It's super sold out!!

I didn't think tamagotchi was still a thing but one of my friends in uni bought a couple of them (and there is still an active fandom so I'm impressed). But I remember having one tamagotchi toy in middle school and it didn't last very long lmao

didn’t know i wanted or even needed this video, but here we are. thank god 😤🙏👌

Yesss! Love the video! Got a Tamagotchi/Gameboy Color/Digivice Tattoo ink last year and don’t regret getting the little garbage monster on my forearm forever.

Yoooooo, I recently got the same transparent blue Tamagatchi. Love the video & condolences to your lil guy army. Pretty much this game makes you into Lisa Simpson and your Tamas are Snowball

I remember in my 4th/5th combo class my teacher would remind us all to put our Tamogachi on travel mode and put in our desks before class lmao

2020 was the best year to have a tamagotchi; i bought a gen 2 anniversary one because of this video and it's been 4 days! he hasn't died yet and I'm checking the tamagotchi all the time lmao being home with flexible schedules means I can care for a virtual pet. amazing

I used to have a tamagotchi years ago. I was an unfit parent. Mine always died after a day

🧐...You better make sure you take real good care of Pumpkin and make him your top priority as he is your fur baby and he is of the utmost importance...💯✔

I really gotta admire the editing in this video. Well done!

I remember finding one on the ground, I was so happy because my mom didn’t want to waste food money... I loved that thing cx

Tamagotchi: *dies* This is so sad alexa play my heart will go on

I suppose some trends truly never die😁👌

I remember as a kid I really wanted a Tamagotchi - for about ten minutes, before I realised just how *easily* they died. At any rate, it was fun learning about the (short, short) lives of Little Guy 1 through 4 and as always, your humour is on point.

I had one that lasted 6 months, never been more proud

This is why I think I could raise a child

I had a weird off brand one that had a tube when I was a little kid. Whenever your creature grew up the top of the canister would open and you'd get a plushy of your adult creature, I loved mine. I can't remember the name or find it again, was hoping you covered it Edit: they were a Mattel toy. You'd feed and bathe your creature until it got too big and you could put it on your keychain or backpack whenever it popped out grown. I honestly might order one They're called My Meebas

I had Tamagotchi Connection back when they were new. I can't imagine how Tamagotchi worked without having the ability to connect to other tamagotchis.

The death jokes in this made me laugh way harder than they should have

Totally thought you were gonna plug that collab you did with Negative Legend but then I saw the Nord promo and I was like bummer

The sad part is I just bought one of the minis off clearance yesterday. Tomma still lives!!!

The Tanagotchi On is one of the best iterations I've seen, I'm loving it

I still have all 7 of mine and they all work. From time to time i'll replace the batteries and give it a whirl. All-time favorite childhood toy

When I was 7 I brought my Tamagotchi with me while playing Mini Golf. At one point, I mixed the Tamagothic up with the ball, and by the time I realized the mix up, Pepper was no more....

It'd be interesting seeing you review the shows and movies, especially "Tamagotchi World", "Tamagotchi Friends", and "Tamagotchi the Movie". (Also, despite coming late, "My Tamagotchi Forever" seem to be doing well on Google Play Store.)

I must have suppressed my memory of this as a child because I'm just now remembering it.

Those neighbors are awful to leave pumpkin there. I hope u and pumpkin are doing well and having a great Xmas eve :)

Digimon Pendulum 20th Anniversary is also out :D DIgimon Vpet with battling

4:28 Tamagotchi: Digimon, I am your sister. Digimon: IMPOSSIBLE!!! I THOUGHT POKEMON WAS MY BROTHER! Tamagotchi: The same creator of Digimon is also the Maker of Tamagotchi, you know that it's true. Pokemon: but i am inevitable Shin Megami Tensei: but still your Fantasy is Final!

it will/has to come back. i just love them

I got hooked back then and to this day I still love tamagotchis. At first I tried hiding it from friends and family, but at some point I just went "oh whatever. I'll just start a collection". And here I am, still collection tamagotchis. And everytime I take a look at them, I feel like grabbing one and raising it once again. :D If you want a real challenge: Try raising a tamagotchi called "TamaOtch". That thing will drive you crazy.

When he doesn’t talk about Tama go: 😢😢😢

Yo but do you remember Scannerz??? Cause that shit was wild

Pumpkin is a bossman. Much love my guy

I never had a tamagotchi but my sister had the first tamagotchi corner shop ds game and I had a save file on that. I remember really liking the game where you make takoyaki.

Tamagochi was a big deal in my country but was very shortlived, not only there were many knock offs, the original one was hard to come by... and many children complained their pet died too quickly, the tamagochi would never shut up when you where at school so imagine... like 3-4 months later, nobody cared about the "noisy pets that die all the time" anymore.

You realize that you're the real Nostalgia Critic, right?

I miss this so much. This was happiness

I still have my very first tamagotchi i ever got, the batteries are dead naturally but im glad i still have it after all these years

F in the chat for all the dead Tamagotchi.

You should do a video on the digivice.

Tamagotchi is now in color so...there's that. Got even better lmao

I'm 31 and I STILL love Tamagotchis. I can't do it for Christmas but maybe my birthday I can get the Japanese Mori de Hakken Tamagotchi.

Digimon Adventure - The Digidestined are traumatized by Doom Slayer glory killing Myostismon. Not helped by the vampire digimon screams of agony. If they were to face off against the Dark Masters. Doom Slayer’s murdering of MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon and many minions will desensitize them to not feel anything when they watch MetalEtemon have his limbs somehow twisted before being seeing the monkey blown up by the BFG, Machinedramon begging the Digidestined to be put out of his misery, and unspeakably horrible things happening to Piedmon. That is if Doom Slayer is too busy ripping and tearing the Dark Masters minions apart My Hero Academia - If the Doom Slayer decides to perform his rip and tear shtick on the villains, many woukd panic. Doom Slayer would most likely be able to slaughter characters like Himiko Toga, Hero Killer Stain, the many Noumu, Overhaul, and even All for One. Imagine what it would be like if you were a villain, the Hero Killer was easily killed, and his killer is coming for you now. That would make characters like Dabi, Toga, and many others break down. Pokemon - Doom Slayer would probably kill many villains like Faba, Giovanni, Ghetsis, Cyrus, and Hunter J, stealing their pokemon and indoctrinating them to want to rip and tear demons. Imagine if the Doom Slayer raised an army of Pokemon that wanted to Rip and Tear demons like he did.

Sounds like the worst parts of animal crossing

When I was 8, I got a tamagotchi in Hong Kong (I still have it); I also got a counterfeit one which surprisingly, could interact (visit) with my real one.

I'm in my 30s and I still love my Tamagotchis! I'm about 2 weeks away from shililng out $60 for a new color version. Anyway, the collector's market for adults is huge and Japan won't stop releasing like 10 iterations of the same model. It's crazy.

I'm glad that you are enjoying your tamagotchi.

This was my childhood! I was very surprised to find it was actually a fad from the 90s

“Mute your Unit. It will scream at each opportunity.” The instruction Manual: Am I a joke to you?

Ah, I had the littlest pet shop equivalent and I loved that thing. It probably helped my 7 year old self that it couldn't die.

There's an Eevee Tamagotchi now. Also, the 20th Anniversary Digimon changed the training from guessing up and down to charging a meter to break a wall... unless you train both at once (you can raise two at a time), where it will be the classic training minigame.

I had a tamagotchi music star, it was pretty dope. Your tamagotchi will become a musician and depending on how much you train it it could get some award and get tons of money. There were 8 genres and certain interactions will change their preferred genre.

i loved these things back in the day gotta get a new one

Pump boi must be kept alive at all costs, take good care of him Mr Gilliam

Oh my God I want to see tomagochi shows! Cartons are great for learning the language

They just came out with the Tamagotchi ON. Color screen, app connectivity, and some other changes like the Tamagotchi Hotel (A place that takes care of your tamagotchi for you because schools) and your tamagotchi being able to eat out.

This reminds me of the time i had a pikachu tamagotchi that once kept on beeping at 11pm and so me without knowing i could mute it took out the batteries,it was still on... Took a hamer and gave it a few hits,it finaly stoped and i had a wonderfull time sleaping :)

Yo, does anyone else remember the tomodachi knockoff (they sold it at target) where you would take care of your monster and when it was fully grown, a plushie of the monster would pop out of the top of the toy?