the tale of tamagotchi: the never-ending rabbit hole.

tamagotchi in japanese: たまごっち

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[nobodyfornow]

in either 07 or 08, when i got my first tamagochi, it died on me while i was at a doctors appointment. when i asked my mom if tamagotchi go to heaven, she panicked and told me they "go into the power lines and live with electric jesus"

good times

[taylorg]

For anyone else who got curious about what happens to the Angel tamagotchi if you neglect them, I got so curious that I paused the video and immediately googled it: the angel tanagotchi life span ends no matter what you do, you can either get a good ending or a bad ending. The story is that this is a tamagotchi that you took good care of in their previous life, and they want to spend time with you to thank you for all that you did before ascending to heaven (good ending.) If you don't take care of them, they turn into a devil in the Japanese version. In the english version, they just show an egg turning into a rock (?) and a screen that says "bye bye" (bad ending). I imagine that they changed it because most eurocentric cultures were Christian and their child's toy turning into a devil wasn't as accepted. Now you know!

[xXRedTheDragonXx]

I wanted a Tamagotchi SO BAD when I was a kid, but my parents just adamantly refused to buy me one because it was a "Girl toy". When I was in the third grade, I eventually got to borrow one from a girl in my class but I didn't know how to actually use a Tamagotchi so it died. I showed it to the girl I borrowed it from, and she cried so hard and so loud that my school permanently banned Tamagotchi. I still feel really bad for killing that girl's Tamagotchi by accident... Taylor if you somehow see this I still feel really bad 15 years later!!!!

[enderboy-dbsh]

"I don't know why they never enduldged on the idea of making a dinosaur Tamogotchi"
Digimon, sobbing: "Am I a joke to you?"

[GBart]

Never thought about this but Tamagotchis are a great way to more gently ease your kids into understanding death and loss, like before getting a real pet.

[OneStarVic]

A long time ago my grandpa bought me a tamagotchi. I loved playing that thing and I vividly remember going to the TamaTown website and playing until I could afford the cool expensive stuff for my Tamagotchi pals. One day I lost it and I remember I was so sad, not because I lost a toy, but because I had lost a toy that my grandpa bought me. I was very close to my grandparents as much as I was to my own parents. My grandpa passed away in 2021 and I traveled down to Mexico for his funeral. While I was there my family asked if I could go to the bigger town to stock up on groceries, and when my grandma handed me the keys to my grandpas car, there on the key ring, was my Tamagotchi. When my grandparents got ready to move to Mexico he had found my Tama while cleaning the house, and he figured that since I was 18 I wouldn’t miss a toy that I played with when I was 10, so he kept it on his keys. I now have it with me, with a copy of my grandpas house key on the key ring with it.

[eggysalad]

last year i bought a sealed tamagotchi from '96 as a little treat, forgot how hard it is to keep the older gen alive. just yesterday i was at a bar and went outside for a smoke and some random guy ran out yelling "it hatched, it hatched!! your tama-son is born!" adults still love and adore these guys.

[davidribeiro]

The beeper is called "piezo element", and you can buy it easily and replace it. looks like it connects to the board using the metal tabs attached to the piezo.

Try cleaning the metal tabs, the place where they touch the board and, maybe, bend the tabs a little so they make a good connection. If nothing works, replace the piezo. Since there are no solders, it should be easy.

Also, clean the switch with contact cleaner.

[wahoodotwav]

the moment you mentioned youd be covering EVERY tamagotchi i knew this was gonna be a big one. as someone with a long-standing special interest in these silly little things who used to surf the wiki in my free time i salute your dedication

[rammix]

I have never known so much about virtual Japanese creatures until now.

[KoshakiDev]

Tamagotchi Apple Watch idea is absolutely brilliant and a logical step into Tamagotchi's development.

Imagine if the pet is fed by doing physical activities

[JuneShersha]

I don't know why, but this video is just so cozy to watch. The editing, music choices, and the fact that you're going through the entire history of tamagotchi really does make this a video to sleep to (in a good way!)

[kekeflipnote]

Great video! Many of my friends are now running their old tamagotchis thanks to it! As a big fan of the devices, this makes me ULTRA happy!

[littleladytoge]

18:49
This lesson is just a Japanese "let's eat, grandpa vs. let's eat grandpa" and I love that

[deadWu]

Hello. Just recently I discovered that my local toy shop sells Tamagotchis and bought two... Searching for news about it, I found this video of yours... My god there's an entire world behind it, so glad that you are so passionate about it. Very well done!

[takanuva]

I think the real kicker about the Kingdom Hearts nano is the fact that it was one of like, 3 announcements made for the highly-anticipated Kingdom Hearts anniversary event. Imagine expecting Kingdom Hearts 4 news and you get a nano.

[nox]

The Twisted Wonderland one is kind of funny because one of the characters in it, Malleus, has a Tamagotchi equivalent called Gao Gao-kun and it's a joke that he's kept it alive for like 100 years. So you can have a Tamagotchi of a character with a Tamagotchi

[soap-kid]

only a minute and a half into this video and i gotta say im already adoring the art done in this one. simple but really really cute and charming

[bastiboyza]

I really love this video! Usually when i see a nearly hour long youtube video it just looks like a chore, but i realised that's because most other youtubers deliberately stretch out the content and it becomes bland. the information in this was really concise and interesting, there was just so much of it it truly justified the hour long length. thank you for such a cool video