Pixel Titans and Devolver Digital's latest effort with the Kickstarter - backed STRAFE sets out to show that the classic aesthetics of all - time greats such as Quake and DOOM weren't left to the same fate as so many
Tamagotchi pets.
Do you miss
the Tamagotchi pet you brutally neglected as a 90s child?
Not exact matches
The game also comes complete with many hidden extras including 13 minigames (including an FPS),
Tamagotchi style virtual
pets (or in this case, Virtual Executives), and a massive suite of ship and weapon upgrades to unlock and mess about with.
Digimon originated in 1997 as a
Tamagotchi style virtual
pet that was designed by Akiyoshi Hongo to play and fight, while a card game was published in Japan by Bandai in 1997.
Like Pokémon,
Tamagotchi are digital
pets that were first popularised in the late nineties, and if you were still in school you probably owned one.
Bandai's Tara Badie told Engadget that although the company offers a mobile app with the same parenting
pet game, the physical toy is what makes this
Tamagotchi re-release interesting, unique and special.
One of the new watch faces, Fitbit
Pet, adds a virtual
Tamagotchi - like
pet to your Ionic, which you take care of by «feeding» it steps.
The Apple Watch's take on
Tamagotchi makes it easy to feed, play with and clean up after your virtual companion, and you can customize your
pet's surroundings via the iPhone app.
Bandai America announced it will be release a new mini
Tamagotchi next month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the digital
pet game.
Now, however, the company has plans to re-release the original
Tamagotchi, complete with the OG
pets, features, colourful egg designs, and most importantly, the fun of cleaning virtual poop every 10 minutes.
Back in 2013 Bandai Namco released an updated version of the keychain virtual
pet called
Tamagotchi Friends and then later even an Apple Watch app based on the original device.
The evolution of the
Tamagotchi character will depend on how players take care of their
pets.
Bandai Namco's «My
Tamagotchi Forever» brings the classic digital
pet game to mobile devices with some new features, including augmented reality.