Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Tamagotchis are back!
Minus one little 'i', a new breed of Tamagotch are coming soon. Costing roughly $25, the new version of those addictive digital pets are hitting shelves in Japan in late March. Australian IT reports:
Minus one little 'i', a new breed of Tamagotch are coming soon. Costing roughly $25, the new version of those addictive digital pets are hitting shelves in Japan in late March. Australian IT reports:
"The new-version Tamagotch... turns out to be male or female once it has hatched", in contrast to the asexual predecessor, Kazue Murase, character toy designer at Bandai, said. The biggest selling point of the new product is its ability to communicate with other Tamagotches by using infra-red waves, which are emitted from the top of the gadget, Ms Murase said. "If you hold two Tamagotches together... a Tamagotch, which used to be trapped in the screen, leaps out of it freely (into the other's screen)" for communication or gift-giving, she said.No longer just a silly simulation, these digital critters are getting closer and closer to artificial life! They can talk, they can make friends, they can reproduce, but why-o-why must the little buggers have traditional genders? I wonder if different Tamagotch genders will be different in other ways; and if two male or two female Tamagotch will be able to become initmate ... I'm presuming their designers won't let them reproduce!
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