The Nineties nostalgia is strong Tamagotchi has opened its first shop in the UK, almost three decades after the toy was first released. Millennials reading this will have fond memories of the iconic egg-shaped device which housed a virtual pet that almost always needed some sort of care and attention. Sometimes it needed cleaning, other […]

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We were too young to learn about the fragility of life. Far, far too young

7 years ago

Why were we so obsessed with Tamagotchis? The so-called ‘digital pets’ first appeared in Japan in 1996, and soon spread across the world. Before Pokemon, before Digimon, before The Sims, they supplied a little LCD blob for you to look after. Encased in a little plastic egg, the blob-thing would bleat and demand digital food, […]

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