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.
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 :]
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 !
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! 😂
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
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!
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 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
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.
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.
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...🤘🏼
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.)
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.
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!
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
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!
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.
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 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?
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
The name actually comes from the words "tamago" and "tomodachi" which mean egg and friend so they're basically egg friend
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 :]
Tamagotchi is also based on assonance with the word "tomodachi" (friend)
That plus the word tamago for egg
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 !
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! 😂
I remember back then kids would have like 5-10 of different brands hanging on their belts😂
I love Tamagotchi since 2000s until now I have Tamagotchi Uni which is the first Wifi feature!
this video is so well made for such low views, the channel is underated sm
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!
"A pet that you could take anywhere you wanted" OK bro. Tell that to my grade 3 teacher 🤣
I just bought the UNI so I can finally make my nostalgia at ease! And hopefully not make it die...
They're are still a ton of us Vpet fans out there! Love these things
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!
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!
I love the Uni!!! Been a fan since ‘97! Got an updated T-Rex Gigapet recently too.
My tamogochi is watching this with me
My 5 are also doing the same
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
grew up with some Tamagochi, Furby, digimon, heck, I even had one of the rough riders nano. this brings back some great memories.
I’m using one now 😂
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 UA-cam to find some of this Tamagotchi footage 😅
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
And today, social media does the job of depressing your kids!
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 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.
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.
Question is should you buy this for kids today? The Uni looks so nice
I have a tamagotchi uni it's so cool😮
I'm more of a Digimon guy but I've got my fair share of tamagotchis and Cube world cubes too.
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 completely forgot about digimon!
Tamagotchis rock
Profound.
I remember my mom gave me hers it was a comic book shell
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.)
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
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
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.
I just bought my white and black childhood one a 2018 one. Its my fidget spinner for work.
Is the tamagotchi uni worth it
great video
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!
Great video
And the need for constant interaction is worse than ever
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😮❤
Yeah, I cried my ass out when that thing died. It was brutal.
i remember i had tamagotchi in 1996
I liked the NANO FIGHTERS...
I had the knock of version as a kid and i remember it having better games than the original😅
Guess who's getting a new furby for his 36th birthday because i want some stupid childhood fun
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.
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
90s kid here. I can say with certainty that my tamagotchi died and I remember how sad I was that it died 😢
I have a Tamagotchi Uni
Am I The Only One Who Abuses The Poor Creatures In The Tamagotchi
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!
dude i literally leeped from tamagotchi gen 1 to a tamagotchi uni literally no pix no on no connection i just leaped 😂😅
I have been playing Digimon X2 V-pet recently. I'm 29 years old 😂😂 fuck what they think
Its just funny to me when he said its like animal crossing on steroids and I play animal crossing and have a tamagotchi uni
I still remember my monkey 😢
EASTMAN & LAIRD'S
23,739th viewer and 705th liker and 44th commenter!
I was actually talking care of mine while watching this❤ btw he has died 3 times
5:25 The fuck?
They're sumo champions 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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
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.
When you start learning Japanese and realize that it’s pronounced
TAMA GOH CHI
not
TAMA GAH CHI
because “tamago” means egg.
Mind blown. 🤯
do it make noies
Can we say AI generated virtual girlfriend is a tamagòtchi spinoff 😮
No no no NANO FIGHTERS WAS THE BEST ! .... 💪
Not RetroDodo.
My tamagochi is beeping a annoying
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!
I have a pet dog he’s annoying so this would be purfect but the new one causes 100 on Amazon what!
The evolution of tamagotchi is extremely bad, tamagotchi is better in the old time. Tamagotchi uni is terrible
anybody knows the tamagochi with a head of dragon ?