/vr/ - Retro Games

The main objective was for your parents to spend lots of money buying something that was basically a virtual aquarium, except with less interaction

>dat cultural misunderstanding

technology is a tool. tools are properly used by those who invent them, not because they know how to make them work, but because they followed the process of its development.

murika cant into technology, not because they are stupid or dont know how to use it, but because they dont know what to do with it.

thus, if you want to understand the tamagotchi you have to see, not the thing itself but its surroundings.

>>602948

Do you have brain damage?

>>602948

Obviously Australian

>>602948
are you the matrix seriously though fuck off

>had to wake up really early every morning one summer to feed the damn thing
>such a hassle but I wanted to keep it alive and see it transform
>forget to set alarm one night
>wake up later in the day and the tamagotchi is in the process of being transported away by intergalactic child services

>>602958

>Miss one feeding
>It dies
>Has to be fed every 20 minutes

Depending on how well you take care of them sonsabitches, they grow into different types--for instance, in the mothra tamagotchi, you can get your little larva to grow into a Godzilla if you follow some byzantine-assed rules.

The best and only good tamagocthi

>>602948
Uhhh yeah that and maybe because we couldn't read the kanji that nobody bothered to translate that explained what was happening.

>What is the objective of Tamagotchi
To survive.

>>602948

It's time for you to go to bed.

Are virtual pets emulated anywhere?

Superior

Don't even try to deny this, or I will fight you after school.

>>602972
Superior. Only flaw was it didn't feature a Pokéthing ... ok, that and the weird shape.

And it would could steps correctly. I swear my PP would count steps like this 1 2 3 4 6 8 10 14 18 25 35 45 55 70 ...
but it was still cool to hit a million on it

>>602929
it's virtual pet, the objective is to raise it and take care of it... that's it... it's like a simple sims

>>602986
what?

>>603012

Girl detected.

lemme get dem digits, gurl. i'll let you play with my t-rex. and by that i mean the giga pet. sex is nasty.

>>603029
>Sex is nasty
I bet u identify as asexual
u sexual hipster u
u are such a actually I don't care either way and am just making fun of how people on 4chan react sometimes

>>603004
b-but i just woke up...

The bootlegs were better, they had more options.

>>603050
BED.
NOW.

>>603012
>>603029
People actually owned these shitty knockoffs?

Come on. If you didn't have an authentic Tamagotchi, or later, a Digimon, you wouldn't last two minutes in my playground.

>>603059

Is that how you treated your Giga Pet? No wonder it died.

>>603070
IT DIED FOR MY PRIDE.

>>603012
I remember begging my folks for one of these.

>>603065

Giga Pets had more buttons than Tamogatchis, therefore they are superior.

Get a load of this pleb and his three buttons.

>>603086
>defending cheap American knockoffs
Your peasantry is showing.

Besides, Dinkie Dinos reigned supreme anyway.

>>603029
Ew, Boys are gross.

>>603065
Don't be mad because you could only afford the cheap inferior Japanese knockoff, you nerd.

>>603065
I had a Gigapet, whatever the Alien one was called. Tamagotchis were still hard to obtain at the time.

Also had one called a "nekotcha" which was one of the worst clones out there. At each stage of life you had options to give it X or Y, for food, play, etc. Give it the wrong one and it DIED.

>>603086
That's why Super Nintendos are better than Neo Geos right?

>>603008
There's a Tamagotchi Gameboy game.
It was actually much more advanced than the real thing. Give it a try.

>>603098
>Tamagotcgi
>Japanese Knockoff
ISHYGDDT

>>603098
>japanese knockoff
2/10, might have rused someone somewhere

>>603106

Look, I know it's gamefaqs, but DAMN

http://www.gamefaqs.com/gameboy/562640-tamagotchi/reviews

Will still download. I had no idea it was a thing.

>>603112
Well shit.

I don't remember it being that bad as a kid...

Now I'm curious. Gonna dig up the cartridge and see what this fuss is all about.

I had one in which the casing looked like a brick wall.

Then it broke one day, and I could never bring myself to get another tamogotchi type thing again.

Heart was broken.

>>603143
Original Digimon?

>>603148

That looks about right.

I had a couple of different virtual pet toys. The only one I really remember was the first one I got. It was for taking care of a dog, and, it was pretty annoying that overnight it'd leave a bunch of shit and get sick or naughty. Unfortunately mum accidentally lost it at one point and I never saw it again. That made me sad.