Tamagotchi: Pikachu, I choose you! Oops, wrong product

Actually, when I came across the word Tamagotchi last week, almost a decade since the little buggers first hit the shelves of novelty shops in my corner of the world, what raced in my head was an image of Pokemon’s Pikachu dancing and prancing around this tiny LCD screen on my keychain. LoL.

For those of you who don’t know what Tamagotchi is, I refer you to the description provided in Wikipedia:

The Tamagotchi is a handheld digital pet created in 1996 by Aki Maita and sold by Bandai. Over 10 million Tamagotchis have been sold as of 2005. The Tamagotchi is housed in a small and simple egg-shaped computer. Three buttons (A, B, and C) allow the user to select and perform an activity, including: feeding the Tamagotchi a piece of food or a snack, playing games with the Tamagotchi, cleaning up a Tamagotchi’s waste (ewww), and checking its age, discipline, hunger, happiness, and other statistics.

There are five versions and it is very likely that more varieties of Tamagotchis will be made.

Right.

Still don’t have an idea how the darn thing works? Check out this video:

Sigh. Now where’d I put my Tamagotchi?