Talk:Tamagotchi

message: The English article says 1993, the German one says 1996. Both talk about the Japanese release date... so who's lying?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.253.186.62 (talk) 14:48, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: , the Tamagotchi was released on 23 November, 1996 in Japan and 1 May, 1997 in the rest of the world. --Paleontologist99 (talk) 23:58, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Release date?

message: I've run across some things that seem very Tamagotchi-like (An example: Dragon Cave )
These share some features in common with Tamagotchi (they mature, can die, and so on) and are more or less eye candy for forum signatures...Should a new article be created for things like this, or maybe just as a subnote on the Tamagotchi page (They're not really Tamagotchi themselves, they just behave in a similar way)
Or maybe I just haven't been searching for them correctly and there's already an article about them? Redwood Elf (talk) 00:50, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forum Tamagotchi-like images? 

message: This is very interesting, the Tamagotchi babies, because I am at present reading up on "spirit keepers," see for example Creepyhollows.com.
And the spirits kept by practitioners of spirit-keeping remind me of Tamagotchis.
You see, you can buy vessels, from operators of spirit-keeping websites, which are the abodes of spirits, and other paraphernalia.
I must say that I really have not gotten exactly what the practitioners are into, but I came unto these folks from my research into the issue, do spirits exist or not.
And I was thinking that now with spirit-keeping, the science community can get their hands on empirical evidence of the existence and interaction of spirits with human beings – to wit, scientists should try it also.
To date however I have not seen any watchers from the skeptical establishment or scientific establishment focused on paranormal phenomena, like all kinds of communication with ghosts, spirits, demons, etc., …I have not come across any of such kinds of investigative bodies taken up with the spirit-keepers.
And I have not come across either, but I am into only research in the internet, mentions of spirit-keepers among the Christian church leaders who are keen to guard their sheep, from all kinds of dangerous involvement with spirits and their handlers. – Just my two cents worth.
Pachomius2000 (talk) 04:15, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  More information 

message: There's only one picture, and it's the main one. This article might help the casual reader more if we had atleast onhe more picture... Abby724 23:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs pictures... 

message: This page really needs to be changed around... for example, instead of 
===Tamagotchi name===
*FEATURE
*FEATURE
*FEATURE
It should be like 
===Tamagotchi name= Hawainotchi
Sentence about feature. Sentence about feature. Sentence about feature.
moves very quickly.
See where I'm getting at?  I would do this, but I don't have enough time.  SuperDT 04:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting the Tama page 

message: Excuse my language, but the Tamagotchi release section looked like pure, grade 'A' POOP.  At the top, it says "this is a list of notable releases," yet every Tamagotchi released was on there!  It contradicts itself!  Second, the section read like a long, boring list (emphasis on LIST) of features; it should be paragraphs of interesting info.  Last, there was so much unverified information and vandalism in it that it was almost unfixable.
Unless someone can make the release section look better than List of Tamagotchi Releases, please do not revert my changes.  That is all. SuperDT 01:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This section at the very least needs a one-paragraph summary of the list article. It isn't good to have a section consisting of nothing but a link elsewhere. Thryduulf 19:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with Thryduulf. When I last accessed this article, it gave a detailed, interesting list of Tamagotchi releases. It would be very useful for someone to bring back the release list. Unfortunately I do not have the data to do it myself. Wikiert (talk) 17:48, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why I removed the Tamagotchi releases section

message: There is a huge amount of fan sites for the Tamagotchi and other vpets.  Bandai, in general, provides very little solid information leaving a huge hole to fill (which is typically where the fan sites come in).  Why is there no representation of these unofficial sites on the Wikipedia article?  
Could there be an official links heading (populated with the various international Bandai sites) as well as an un-official or fan sites heading so as to distinguish and avoid confusion? 70.112.195.230 00:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links section 

message: A guest IP just removed the Criticism section from the article for no given reason, so I restored it. I can't see why it would be vandalism. Is there any valid reason why it should be removed? ShadowMan1od 01:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's considered vandalism, unless they put in the edit summary or the talk page their reason for deleting it. SuperDT 01:08, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism section

message: IM ON THIS PAGE THAT TALKIN BOUT 0- TO 23+ YEAR BUT I THINK THEY MEAN DAY BY VIDEOGAME TIME? EITHER WAY NEED TO LIST MOR GAME MECHANIC —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.195.132.253 (talk) 04:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While we would love to help you, this is not the place for discussing the article's subject, but rather for discussing changes to the article.  Please refer to one of the many Tamagotchi forums for assistance to your question.  Thank you. SuperDT 01:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And for the love of god, don't type in all-caps. <_< RememberMe? 11:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I once managed to make my Connexion Version 2 live for 40 Tama-Years. Yes, I know this is not a forum, but if there is an article for Tamagotchi world records, please post any info about finding this article on my user page. Thank you. Wikiert (talk) 17:48, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  HOW LONG CAN IT LIVE? 

message: The Japanese Wikipedia says that Tamagotchi comes from Tamago + watch (and says that hence they were marketed with the romaji 'tamagotch' in Japan), yet the English one doesn't mention watch at all. How come there's this big discrepancy? --Mahogany h00r 03:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Odd, the article used to mention something about that, but I guess it got removed.  If you want to, feel free to add it in ;)  SuperDT 02:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Source

message: I just made a Tamagotchi Wiki! (Superjustinbros. 00:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Very cool!  I'll contribute as much as I know.  SuperDT 01:45, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Not quite yet.  Let's improve the Tama Wiki first, and then it'll be suitable :)  I've made an account on it, and ready to start making articlesSuperDT 14:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tamagtchi Wiki

message: There should be a reference in the opening lines as to when it was ridiculously popular because that's what it's most famous for. I'm gathering from other details in the article that it was around the late 90's, but it should be specified. --Atkinson 06:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 5 years later, this article is still lacking in this area. Boo! — RockMFR 01:23, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  When was the fad? 

message: "... combining the Japanese word "たまご" (tamago) which means "egg", and the English word "watch" (clock)http://www.bandai.co.jp/kids/tm/tamago/tamago_01.html."
Is it just me or does this not make sense to anyone else? "Watch" and (clock)? What?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.204.147.29 (talk) 23:21, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Watch" as in timepiece or portable clock, not the verb "to watch." --Akronym 23:56, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

text: There are countless theories explaining the name, but egg + watch is the only one from an official source. The other theories are most likely just speculation from people not being able to read the explanation on Bandai's Japanese website. --Akronym (talk) 01:47, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: meaning of the name?

message: I think as for now, in 2008, Tamagotchis are literally dead as a pet (!) rock. Or am I so wrong? I seriously claim a student who brings this thing in school to get rather sarcastic remarks like, "Ah a blast from the past" or like, "Isn't this out of fashion for long now?" -andy 85.179.48.247 (talk) 13:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The remarks wouldn't be nearly as bad as those given to a person who actually says something like "Ah, a blast from the past!", hahaha! --24.252.91.45 (talk) 09:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current importance? 

message: If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the Tamagotchi won the 1997 Ig Noble Prize in economics. I remember a chapter in the book "The Ig Noble Prizes 2" (which was an amalgamate of the awards) about Tamagotchis, so possible information could be extracted. Could someone do some more research on this?--Leetspeaker (talk) 20:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ig Noble Prize Research 

message: Consider the problem of emotional manipulation. Owner of the device has a false sense of attachment, a false sense of purpose and accomplishment when the device lives well and maybe reveals its secret character. The thing can emulate its dependence, but isn't unique and doesn't depend on the human. It's like an elderly person caring for a mechanical dog; buy it an animal that will live whether it's fed or not, and can give them a false sense of purpose and pride. How would the family feel? Maybe check this article: Fundamental Issues in Affective Intelligent Social Machines, pp.21-34 (14), Author: Brian R. Duffy, The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal Volume 2, ISSN: 1874-0618. MBCudmore (talk) 05:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethical Issues 

message: Tamagotchis are very fun for kids 8+ they r sold almost every wher i have one of these amasing u should go to thir factory to bye these cute nice litle pets they are relly fun they are just like real pets 
you clean up thir watse
you play silly fun games
and u feed them snacks or food
go in stores and buy tamas now
by:Osirys Martinez-Pesendiz
any comments call (619)-237-1782  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.140.127.207 (talk) 22:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What the heck am I reading, lol? 68.36.232.73 (talk) 19:59, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Kid stuff

message: It's still pretty incomplete, but it now contains 80% fewer sentence fragments and half-typed thoughts!  You can now figure out pretty much what a Tamagotchi was and how it was used from reading this article.  It would be nice if I knew some better ways to format the Life Cycle and Mechanics sections so they are not so spread out, but they're good enough.  I personally don't subscribe to the philosophy that articles should contain as little actual information as possible so as to be easier reading, but I tried to make this concise while also containing a wealth of information that might be useful to someone's grandparent who has no idea what a Tamagotchi is or how it works.  I've collected a few over the years, but I've got very limited knowledge of the more obscure Japanese ones, so I've mostly gone with the vague approach as to actual features of anything but the mainstream English ones.  Those are really for their own articles (or that awful list) anyway.  The section about other Tamagotchi video games was a travesty, so I removed the garbledygook and turned it into a list with a brief intro summary of the genres of the games.  Probably still missing some games.  And for the love of god, if you can't make a chronology of video game releases sound interesting in paragraph form, just don't do it.  No one wants to wade through that.  Adding veribage to information that is inherently boring and straightforward is like trying to polish a turd.
(Also removed the melodrama in the criticism section about the toy "always being in the child's consciousness" or some such tripe, as it was unsourced, stupid sounding, and it's already been stated that the toys were thought to be distracting.)
APBug (talk) 04:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page now contains actual information. 

message: I would like to see mentioned, if my memory serves correctly, Tamagotchi is an official brand, but there where also many copycat toys made and released to cash in on the fad at around the same time, that were not official/real/brand Tamagotchi but alternative/fake/other ones, and I imagine there would have had huge sales of these other similar toys too, fueled by the real brand, they were all refereed to by kids as Tamagotchi but had different names to be sold under; I believe I had a "fake" one. I may add this and find reference if I time. "Tamagotchi" appears as its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, I think that's worthy of a mention, I've read it in a few places, people like to include that fact when writing about it. I can add the reference for that now. I'll add it here for now. The entry says "Tamagotchi - taməgɒtʃi - noun - trademark - an electronic toy displaying a digital image of a creature, which has to be looked after and responded to by the "owner" as if it were a pet. - Origin: Japanese. The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998)  - p.1892 "Tamagotchi - taməgɒtʃi - noun - trademark - an electronic toy displaying a digital image of a creature, which has to be looked after and responded to by the "owner" as if it were a pet. - Origin: Japanese.  "..  
:Also, I believe the screen is Liquid-crystal display, or LCD. This isn't mentioned once, it does say the later ones used "grayscale" but doesn't mention what the screen for the original was, eg a one colour LCD screen with so many pixels and a background. 
 Carlwev  11:59, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Fake/Other Toys. - OED entry - LCD screen

message: Some reverse engineering has been done on the Tamagotchis, led by Natalie Silvanovich (see here conferences here and here. She has found some info about the microcontroller and the way some things are done (but not everything). Maybe someone should add a section about this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.121.68.155 (talk) 23:20, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hardware? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Tamagotchi had no phone abilities in it, so why is it defined a smartphone? I believe this is a mistake.
:I agree - article was altered by an IP user 3 days ago. I would describe them as hand held, electronic games. The article previously described them as digital pets, which I think it did for some time, close enough. I have reverted to that. Even if there is a new app version that can be used on modern smartphones, or on the off chance there is a new Tamagotchi phone I haven't heard of, it should be mentioned in the article clearly with a reference. To simply alter the article lead with no explanation or source, is incorrect, or at best, misleading, even if it was well intentioned.  Carlwev  17:18, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tamagotchi is a handheld smartphone?? 

message: How to get a new tamagotchi 68.227.205.133 (talk) 19:34, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Die