04/27/2004: New Article: Tamagotchi Video Adventures!
A reader was nice enough to mail me this one, and if you’ve ever played with a Tamagotchi, learn more about those little creatures you raised with Bandai’s infamous Tamagotchi Video Adventures. It’s a really odd special featuring Tamagotchi monsters running around Earth looking for souvenirs, ending off with a live action segment where some bored artist teaches kids how to draw Masktchi with the help of a sock puppet named Handy Worhol. Jesus. Still not as bad as you might think, and worth a look if you were into the stupid keychains a few years back.
Discussion Thread: 140 comments
I remember Tamagotchi. I have to admit I had an alien one. I liked it for about 3 days, then it went into a drawer. I still don’t know what happened to it.
Posted by
Andrea @ 04/27/2004 3:32 AM EDT
First posts are for jerks. tee hee. I have no idea what a tamagotchi is. Thank god.
Posted by
jimcognito @ 04/27/2004 3:44 AM EDT
I never had a Tamagotchi. My friend Cindy did but me and like everyone else she knew would always steal it to see who could kill it first.
Posted by
Gabbylicious @ 04/27/2004 4:29 AM EDT
Look: it’s Mimitchi’s brother, Mametchi. YAY!
Yes!! I swiped my little cousin’s Tamagotchi and tossed it into the lake. She cried. Then got a new one.
Posted by
Dirty McD Nugget @ 04/27/2004 6:45 AM EDT
BTW…where’s the new Cobra Chia Plot?
Posted by
Dirty McD Nugget @ 04/27/2004 6:48 AM EDT
I had a knock-off tamagotchi. I blame my parents, who were clueless but had seen my cousin’s damn thing. I didn’t want it, but as a bonus, it had a PUNISH button (I think it was actually labeled "scold" or something). BUT it caused a bonk-in-the-head animation and did something to the critter’s happiness and loyalty?
I whacked the CRAP out of my Tamaknockoffs.
Posted by
Tirdun @ 04/27/2004 7:06 AM EDT
Wow I got here early this time…
I had a Tamagotchi knock off my last year of primary (elementry) school, it was shaped like a dog.
One long word for this:
WEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRD.
::in an obsessive haze:: It’s never going to happen is it? We’re just going to sit here, pretending it will, waking up every morning running like a kid to a christmas tree, only to find out the present santa promised isn’t there! There never was a continuation was there Matt?! Just admit it, you enjoy watching me suffer. You enjoy that for the rest of my life I will wonder about what happened to Zartan and destro and all the rest there on Gilligan’s island.
Well I Tell you what? I’m going to make my own website called Y-entertainment.com and It’ll be better than this one! and yah know why? yah know why Matt? Because every article will be Action figures in crazy adventures! AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Then maybe I’ll make some smores, and you won’t be able to have any! OK, maybe you can have some, but not too many. I really like smores.
Posted by
Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/27/2004 7:54 AM EDT
Curses! My plan is foiled! there already is a Y-entertainment.com and it sucks! Darn you pastel colored nightmare of a site!
Posted by
Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/27/2004 7:57 AM EDT
i remember having a plush of one of these things
it smelt like fucking burnt plastic
Posted by
efrem the retarded rabbit @ 04/27/2004 8:25 AM EDT
Great review, Matt — this looks like some pretty wild stuff. I was never big on the whole Tamagotchi craze (too expensive for me…), but back when I worked at KB Toys our remaining stock of Tamagotchi plushies got knocked down to a quarter apiece…so of course I bought them all. Cute little buggers, they are. 
Posted by
Wes @ 04/27/2004 8:28 AM EDT
Fire Beats Wood! Water Beats Sun!
I mean water beats fire. Sun beats them all.
I never got a tamagotchi…i had a NANO Puppy
and thats only because they were all out of NANO Kitties. I still have it too, just needs a new battery and it shall live again!
Posted by
-Jen- @ 04/27/2004 8:46 AM EDT
Trippy, you could always got for XY-entertainment. It could be like Spike TV. Do they make a Sylvester Stallone action figure?
Posted by
trajeal @ 04/27/2004 8:54 AM EDT
Yeah Matt, nice job on the Battle Beasts reference. Makes me happy to see anybody else talk about them crazy critters. That how I found X-E in the first place. Year ago I was bored and online, so I googled Battle Beast. Got the link to your article. Wham!!!! Now I’ve been religiously reading your site for more than 12 months. You bass-tard, whats next? Are you going to start selling crack too?
Posted by
Don't Touch, Willy @ 04/27/2004 8:58 AM EDT
You’re sure this was originally in Japanese, Matt? The facial expressions and character designs(especially on that little girl) really don’t look like the usual Japanese style. I think this might have been a domestic job (though like almost all of our shows, it was probably animated by Koreans).
Posted by
blizack @ 04/27/2004 9:03 AM EDT
looking back on these I cant believe I ever actually owned one..two..four..yea I had four ehh..it was fun while it lasted, and it’s probably good that I never saw this special or I may have went on a rampage and bought a dozen more..bill and the fire sperm tamagotchi are the greatest though
Posted by
wes @ 04/27/2004 9:25 AM EDT
Wow. I want to see that. Matt, why didn’t you include downloads?
Posted by
Icymatt @ 04/27/2004 9:30 AM EDT
I kinda expected to find robot lady saying "Tamagotchi" at the end of the article…
Posted by
Roddy @ 04/27/2004 9:54 AM EDT
I had a Tamagotchi, but I had to stop playing with it because the emotional pain of it repeatedly dying became too much for me. It was tearing me apart inside.
I tried some of those goofy virtual pets on my computer, but everytime I turned off the computer, I would come back a few days kater, turn it on, and the pet starved to death. The stupid thing needed constant maintanence even with the computer off. I guess that if a kid can’t keep that thing alive, he shouldn’t get a real pet. I just thought it was cool running around the screen. Then of course it peed on my files.
Posted by
Stilewalker @ 04/27/2004 11:00 AM EDT
I’ve had my Tamagotchi alive for 7 years now. Same batteries and all. I named him Jesus.
Posted by
Mr Sushi @ 04/27/2004 11:18 AM EDT
Oh, I SO loved those stupid keychains. I remember when Toys R Us had a pre-order for the limited edition GOLD Tamagotchi and I bought it and waited and waited for it to arrive…it was awesome.
Posted by
B-Dawg @ 04/27/2004 11:19 AM EDT
Well… hmmm…. ok… Since this Tamagotchi thing coincides with my first year in college, I really have nothing to say about it. I do remember the virtual pet fad thing, but I was too busy getting drunk to partake or even feign interest. I think my cousins may have had this stuff. Though I think I would enjoy that video… truly one of the more bizarre things I’ve seen you cover, Matt.
Posted by
Nachokhaki @ 04/27/2004 11:25 AM EDT
Is it just me, or does this article make anyone one else want to dig out the stupid things and play with them again?
Posted by
Shawn @ 04/27/2004 11:29 AM EDT
In Japan, pervs used Tamagotchi to lure young girls into a round of bad touching. That’s how popular it was. Tamagotchi, not bad touching.
tamagotCHIA!
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/27/2004 11:32 AM EDT
Congratulations Matt,you have managed to dig up something that even I,a guy who was completely obsessed with electronic pets at the time,never knew existed.
Tamagotchi was never really my favorite though,I always preferred Furby.I had fun successfully raising a Tamagotchi,got the best character and everything.But afterward I never had the desire to pick one up again.I probably still have a couple Tamas lying around here somewhere.Them and Small Soldiers,Looney Tunes and Jurassic Park Giga Pets.
Posted by
Robot717 @ 04/27/2004 11:40 AM EDT
And, here’s another rare cartoon courtesy of our good friend, Matt.
I never owned Tamagotchi. I was thinking of buying one, but the Pokemon craze swept in before I had the chance. Oh well. Nice work, once again, my man.
Posted by
Scott @ 04/27/2004 11:43 AM EDT
Hey Matt, I think th elink to the 4th bread is broken. It sent me to the homepage.
On another note, how do you keep your sanity? I know us Northeasterners are made of stern stuff, but Potato Head Kids and Tomagotchi back-to-back? God bless you.
Posted by
TOP1214 @ 04/27/2004 11:46 AM EDT
Wow I never knew there was a cartoon…and I was obsessed with these guys. I had 2 Tamagotchi’s and 19 other rip offs. Like the Giga pets. But there was this girl who had me beat, she had 30…and kept them ALL on at the same time. It was madness.
I got the Bill clinton guy once, it was easy just lgnore it for a week, let the crap pile up and clean it every other day. Yeah it’s sad I remember that.
Posted by
Jenner @ 04/27/2004 12:29 PM EDT
I remember the Tomagotchis. That’s the strangest cartoon i’ve ever seen. I never had one but I think my older sister had one.
I prefered the digimon keychains to the tamagotchi. Not only could you take care of your digimon you could make it beat the shit out of your friends digimon.
Posted by
Bright Noah @ 04/27/2004 12:39 PM EDT
Back when they were big I had a Tamagotchi. I carried that thing around for a few months at least.
There were a lot of close calls. I’d forget and leave him in my room, and then return to find him nearly starved to death, lying in a pile of LCD shit. The batteries ran out and I had to start all over again. I dropped it a few times and thankfully only scratched the screen up. But I was a devoted parent, really I was.
And then I went to the beach. And because I wouldn’t leave him at the house, he came down to the shore with me. And I still remember the moment of horror when, in the water, I realized it was in the pocket of my swimming trunks.
We tried to revive him, but the salt water had done a helluva number on the electronics inside the green, plastic egg shell. The green shell, which served as his home in life, now in death serves as his coffin.
Rest well, Tamagotchi. You’re in a better place now, I know that.
O_o
Posted by
Night_Trekker @ 04/27/2004 12:47 PM EDT
Fuck thats a sad story night trekker
Posted by
Roar @ 04/27/2004 1:14 PM EDT
So now I know just who or what that first Tamagotchi I ever hatched was: Bill Clinton!
Through a combined effort, me and my mother kept him alive for 27 days. By the end, he needed to be fed every five minutes, meaning his surroundings needed to be cleaned just as much.
I haven’t tried another one since then (early ‘98, I’d say) and the batteries have long since died, but I mentioned Tamagotchi in passing the other day, and my mother says she’d like to play it again.
Thanks for the memories, the weirdness, and the animation of the Clinton creature. I’d probably never be able to hatch him again.
Posted by
Ripplin @ 04/27/2004 1:16 PM EDT
I used to have like 100 of these little things…I loved them for like….2 days then let them die. Oh Matt, those mighty beans also come in Ninja Turtle and Pokemon flavors now…just a heads up. I work at Toys R Us, and I remember we got the Pokemon ones in a few weeks ago, but I think the Ninja Turtle ones are brand new.
Posted by
Chelsey @ 04/27/2004 1:52 PM EDT
There is a Tamagotchi game for Game Boy. And it has a Sleep option to put the little bugger in suspended animation so you can go to school or work or whatnot and not worry about it starvin’ to death while real life has you by the danglies. Anyone have the Rancor Giga Pet? I hear it had a funny instruction booklet.
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/27/2004 2:17 PM EDT
Speaking of Pokemon WHY HAVEN"T YOU ANSWERED MY POST ABOUT POKEMON COLLUSEUM?!
Posted by
TOM @ 04/27/2004 2:17 PM EDT
Haven’t played it, TOMMM. If I was going to review another Poke-game, though, it’d probably be Pokemon Snap.
Posted by
Matt @ 04/27/2004 2:18 PM EDT
My Atkins diet is ruined!
Shawn: Nope, you’re not alone. I’m about to go on Google and see if there’s something like them for download somewhere.
Matt, I’m all for a Pokémon Snap review. That’s a really underrated and quirky game.
And upon reading the article again, this time more carefully:
" I need one of those pills they gave Jodie Foster before she spun around in the Mars ball for eight hours."
This got a good laugh, I tell you. That movie sucked so hard.
Matt already did a quick Pokemon Snap review three years ago. No pictures to go with it, though, so I’d bet an updated article would be snazzy.
Posted by
Volkaru @ 04/27/2004 3:27 PM EDT
I’m all for a Zelda game review!
Or how about one of these movies:
Little Monsters
The Halloween that almost wasn’t
…Ok I’ll stop being annoying now.
Hmmm ya don’t really hear too much about that Pokemon Snap game anymore.
Posted by
Jenner @ 04/27/2004 3:51 PM EDT
Jenner, Matt already has a wealth of Zelda madness running around this site. Look it up with the "search" feature on the homepage. Just type in "Zelda" and watch the craziness unfold.
Pokèmon Snap review? Yeah, do it, Matt! I love that game so much. Todd r0×0r2 /\/\y b0×0r2 ololololol.
Now I want to go find an old, genuine Tamagotchi. I never had a real one, though I had about a thousand of the Imitationgotchies.
Posted by
Freezair @ 04/27/2004 4:08 PM EDT
Great Caesars ghost! I´ve comepletely forgotten about those…
The Show seemed right up my alley though. I can never turn down a sock.
Posted by
Bein @ 04/27/2004 4:10 PM EDT
All you people where lucky, you had aliens, and dogs, and digital monsters and junk and all I had was an immortal duck.
The thing lasted for ever on his own, I could never win the kill derbies we used to do at recess in junior high. Crap duck.
Posted by
Cannibalizer @ 04/27/2004 4:31 PM EDT
Your Pikachu’s so fat, it jumped up in the air and got stuck!
Your Bulbasaur is so dumb, it thought the DEF on the telephone was a rap hotline!
Now, those are Pokemon Snaps!
Any others?
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/27/2004 4:32 PM EDT
I had a Tamagotchi rip off thing, the one I had was a dog, and yes there was a "punishment" button that let you beat him with a choke chain. Seriously these were the stupidest things I think I have ever seen, and we all made such a big deal over them to. I think a review of an actual tamagotchi toy would be pretty interesting, you should do it dude!
Posted by
West @ 04/27/2004 4:58 PM EDT
Dear god in heaven strike us all down; humanity created crap like this!
Posted by
dyhjdj @ 04/27/2004 6:13 PM EDT
I remeber these, during the craze we had a school trip to the Isle of White (I live in England, its off the south coast) and loads of people bought them. Then some girls trashed there room for some reason. Then one of the girls Tamagotchis died and she cried and cried and cried for like a day. But the teachers thought she was crying because she was sorry or something for trashing the room and she didnt get in trouble, the other girls did. They werent allowed to go down to the arcade and couldnt go to the cafe. Man they were pissed at the girl who got off.
Posted by
Gorm @ 04/27/2004 6:33 PM EDT
Sweet monkey Jesus I had 6 of those! 6! Three tamagotchi’s and three rip-offs! And I connected them all together on the same keychain so I could play with all 6 at once.
The Dinosaur Rip-off was the best though. I miss that cute lil beast of destruction
Posted by
Lucky Cat @ 04/27/2004 6:40 PM EDT
Actually, I believe it’s made in America because this cartoon features Gaijintchi (the Bill Clinton guy) and Zatchi (the alien looking guy). Both of those characters never appear in the Japanese counterparts of Tamagotchi. Oyajitchi was in Gaijintchi’s place, while instead of Zatchi, you’d get either Sekitoritchi or Charitchi.
Anyway, Matt, you should review the "Songs from the Flintstones" album that came out in 1961. I heard that the "Meet the Flintstones" song is in there, but they have different lyrics, like a reference to Dino and a "Meet the Rubbles" section. You should include an MP3 of the song presented in this version.
Posted by
NES Boy @ 04/27/2004 6:47 PM EDT
Isn’t "gaijin" a derogatory Japanese term for foriegner? But I like Foriegner, and I like Bill Clinton, so maybe they should have a different name for that one. George W. Bush wa baka desu!! Hai, arigato gozaimasu!!
Posted by
kidneyboy @ 04/27/2004 7:13 PM EDT
Well, at least can you buy a Gameboy Advance SP and play Pokemon Ruby or Saphire on it?
PS. Do you even own a Gamecube (It sucks that they’re so unpopular)
PPS If not, can you get one with Pokemon Clooysem (They call Pokemon Colluseum "The Game THat Saved Nintendo.)
Posted by
TOM @ 04/27/2004 7:33 PM EDT
WOW! So Matt, Paula AND Gloria on tonight! Not too shabby, eh?
Posted by
kidneyboy @ 04/27/2004 8:12 PM EDT
Really, Matt…no video? I’m disappointed - I wanted to see this junkie’s dream in motion!
Posted by
The ORIGINAL Paul @ 04/27/2004 8:30 PM EDT
I’d just started college during the whole Tamagotchi craze and had no money and no interest in raising a machine, but my younger siblings both had them. They used to beep and fuss when I was home and the kids would accidentally leave them laying around, and I’d end up having to take "care" of them.
Posted by
starwenn @ 04/27/2004 8:35 PM EDT
I was the envy of my 8th grade friends because I kept my giga pet dog alive for 169 days and I broke the day counter in the pet. It only went up to 99 days.
Posted by
pikachulover @ 04/27/2004 9:03 PM EDT
Yeah, sorry about the lack of vids on this one. :/ Next time.
Posted by
Matt @ 04/27/2004 9:09 PM EDT
Yeah, had one of these. Got it the day it came out. Had a board game too….yeah. Remember going to my uncle’s funeral and my parents wouldn’t let me take it in with me, it shit, got sick, made them pay me 4 dollars. Nyrotchi? That one was my favourite…looks like a dragon in the game itself. *shrugs* And Bill? I let my brother take it with him to high school, had it with him all day, came home with what I saw as "the thing with the chin".
Posted by
Tutsuro @ 04/27/2004 9:40 PM EDT
AHHAHAHHAHAHA! So… a pokemon game review, have you watched Pokemon TV? I ask if you watched because you don’t really play the game so much as you…..CHIAPET!….excuse me… as much as you just kind of watch pikachu watch….. DESTRO!…..umm… watch pikachu watch TV. It’s completely sureal, I mean what’s the….. ZARTAN AND STARSCREAM ARE SPIES!….what’s the point anyway?
Posted by
Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/27/2004 9:44 PM EDT
I think you’re trying to tell me something.
Posted by
Matt @ 04/27/2004 9:48 PM EDT
"I gotta admit, I can see how the video would work to turn casual Tama enthusiasts into card-carrying Gotchi nuts."
Heehee… "tama" is Japanese for "testicles". Seriously.
Posted by
Naoko @ 04/27/2004 9:51 PM EDT
Don’t forget the even rarer Al Gore Tamagotchi that would just stand there motionless saying "You-are-watching-me-poop."
Posted by
Garrison @ 04/27/2004 9:52 PM EDT
Next time a pretty lady teases me, I’m calling her out on indigo tama.
Posted by
Matt @ 04/27/2004 9:54 PM EDT
‘The most fun you can have for free’
http://www.channel101.com/foru...c841c20764638a8cfd2a250d970655
http://www.ip-relay.com/index.htm
"I’ve been wanting to use this for a long time now, but apparently you can only place calls in the US.
It’s a service meant for deaf people, but why let them have all the fun? You can get an operator to call anyone in the US up and they’ll relay your typed messages. They’ll apparently say anything. If you want to call up your buddy to let him know that he’s a donkey-raping-shit-eater, they’ll say it."
Posted by
ME @ 04/27/2004 10:28 PM EDT
A friend of mines older sister got put in the newspaper for being one of the first 12 people to buy a tamagochi, her brother also got the bill thing and supposedly you could get better critters if u cleaned up their crap and played with them more often
Posted by
Ryder @ 04/27/2004 10:48 PM EDT
I had a strong facisnation with virtual pets also. My craziest knock-off was a fish thing where you had to blindly adjust it’s tank temperature and also READ TO IT to calm it down… It died and became a skeleton (unlike most virtual pets who became ghosts or angels) right away, and it’s batteries soon followed.
Bandai’s going to release new Tamagotchi keychains with all characters from both previous versions and it has wireless link-up amongst other new features.
If you want an effortless Devimon (AKA Darkmon) in Digimon, just start a new digimon and set the clock to the middle of the night AFTER it hatches without feeding it or anything. When it goes to sleep (I don’t remember if the lights needed to be off or not), go back to the clock, and go into the clock set mode and leave it that way (this is how you’d pause the 2nd Tamagotchi version, only the digimon NEEDS to be asleep during this so it doesn’t starve). Come back in 7 days, and *POOF!* you got a little digital Satan that can actually beat a well-raised Greymon 50% of the time.
Posted by
RewolfJ @ 04/27/2004 11:28 PM EDT
Regarding the Japan status of this cartoon: I seem to recall a review circa 1997 in Animerica of a one-shot Tamagotchi OVA special (original video animation = animation produced to be sold direct-to-video), but, when I looked up Tamagotchi in the Anime News Network encyclopedia, all I could find was an entry for a short-lived Tamagotchi TV series, not a one-shot special.
It’s true that it doesn’t look Japanese, and, while you can make a handful of generalizations about the anime "look" which will apply to about 90% of Japanese cartoons regardless of subject, content, or tone (with the most common element being the two-tone shading… more so than even "big eyes"), there are a handful of exceptions which look nothing like the rest of anime-dom, like Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbors the Yamadas, or Sazae-san (the longest-running weekly TV cartoon in world history, with over 1750 half-hours… before anyone says it, Doraemon’s episode count is inflated with several hundred mini-episodes; in terms of total half-hours, Sazae-san is longer), or Crayon Shin-chan. This thing might be an American-Japanese co-production; amazingly I can’t find much about it on the web.
The bit about the "How to Draw Tamagotchi" segment reminds me of the "Arlen School of Drawing" tutorial from the second King of the Hill DVD box set, which I thought might be a brief, two-minute overview of the general art style on the show but really is a long, dry tutorial on how to draw each major King of the Hill character, step-by-step. It’s boring if you’re not drawing along, but I don’t think it was meant for casual viewing.
You know what’s a wierd toy in the same vein? They’re much more recent, and I forget exactly what they were called, but it was an actual serial code scanner with an LCD screen on the side, and you would go around scanning the codes on just about anything that still had a tag and it would give you pet monsters that you could battle like Pokemon. To get a shit load of creatures you just had to stick it in your pocket and take it shopping with you. It was wierd as hell, but I thought a strangely clever idea.
Posted by
Caleb Nova @ 04/28/2004 2:26 AM EDT
I like to say pokemon with a jamaican accent sounds like im saying poor gay man XD
Posted by
heeloyd @ 04/28/2004 2:31 AM EDT
::Touches Valarie::
Gawwww….I touched a girl….
Posted by
Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/28/2004 7:58 AM EDT
Technically, Survivor is an aught fad, since the first one was shown in 2000.
Ok, off my nit-picking soapbox now.
Never owned a Tamowhatchi. Have heard of them, but never had an inkling to buy one.
I wonder if Matt could find any of the old Andy Kauffman children’s shows that he tried to do? I bet those would make a classic review. Andy is pretty early 80’s and not really known as a children’s actor, but he did try to break into show business by making a Howdy Doody-type children’s show. Personally, i think Andy got sick of the negative spotlight and became Raffi.
Posted by
trajeal @ 04/28/2004 8:00 AM EDT
Oh, BTW, there’s a Manos: Hands of Fate review at I-Mockery, if anyone is interested.
Posted by
trajeal @ 04/28/2004 8:11 AM EDT
yesterday was my 23rd birthday. and I do believe it was the worst birthday I’ve ever had. I had bad sex that night. I didn’t get any sleep, my 5 year old daughter threw an entire roll of toilet paper (including the cardboard, into the toilet at 3:45 AM. I had to come to work and had the shittiest customers all month. there was no food in the house for me to eat at lunch, and my wife couldn’t take care of the kids after I was done working because of her hangover. Then to top it all off, I had to pacify my wife as we went out to dinner w/ my mom, they can’t stand each other.My 16mo daughter threw all of my food all over the restraunt, and I couldn’t sleep again last night. hope today’s better.
Posted by
brandon @ 04/28/2004 9:03 AM EDT
Wow, that really sucks, brandon. Maybe you’ll have a better post-birthday day today. But, hey, your birthday is 2 days after mine, so thats got to mean something, right? Well, I tried.
So, happy belated 29th birthday to me. Yeah, baby! 30 hasn’t gotten me yet!
Posted by
trajeal @ 04/28/2004 9:15 AM EDT
I had one.I went on vacation.It died.
Posted by
MightyStalfos @ 04/28/2004 9:31 AM EDT
I remember my little sisters were Tamagotchi crazy too. They each had a real Tamagotchi and a knock-off Gigapet. For the most part they took horrible care of them, and I was often tempted to notify P.E.T.D.A. I would have done it too, if I hadn’t feared for the lives of my family members. They’ve got genome-enhanced Sam Fisher clones working for them, and it’ll take more than a few coupons for free McDonalds burgers to get them off your back, let me tell you.
Caleb, I know what you’re talking about. There are a few different toys like that. One attached to the Gameboy and worked with a Pokemon-like game, but that was only released in Japan. I seem to remember the other handheld games came out a while ago, and I think I recently saw a commercial for some rehashed version. I think the name was something with an unecessary, annoying "z" at the end, like ‘Scannerz’ or ‘Barcodez’.
Posted by
Night_Trekker @ 04/28/2004 10:21 AM EDT
BREADSSS!!!!! Oh how I long to make them swim in butter and bath with them!!!
I had a Virtual Pikachu. It hated me so much.
Posted by
Dr Puff @ 04/28/2004 10:24 AM EDT
Very nice Matt etc, but where is the chia plot???!!! And is the greatest warrior in the universe going to be She-ra, Mumra, Xena, a kick-ass My Little Pony or Tygra in a funny hat? I just don’t know… Chia chia, ch-chia chia chia… Ch-ch-chia, chia chia chia….
Posted by
eminentfreak @ 04/28/2004 10:31 AM EDT
Viz heeloyd and jamaican pokemon: Definition of a pokemon - a jamaican proctologist! Mwahahaaha! Chia ch-chia —– ok, now I’m just being annoying, *hey*, Matt?
Posted by
eminentfreak @ 04/28/2004 10:34 AM EDT
Ah, tamagotchi. I had one of thems once. I wasn’t all that fond of it so I decided I would sell it to my friend, I was 11 or so and 10 dollars still seemed like a huge amount of money. When my mom found out, though, she was really upset because it was a gift, and she made me give the money back. So I probably still have the thing somewhere…I just remember I was really bad at taking care of it…
Posted by
Shia @ 04/28/2004 10:48 AM EDT
When Little Brother moved to his new apartment a couple of years ago, we moved a fridge in the new place, and I found the previous tenants DinoKun virtual pet. It liked to play Rock, Scissors, Paper.
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/28/2004 11:34 AM EDT
i never had a tamagochi
i have also never watched an episode of survivor. apparently i am immune to 90’s fads. anyone wanna touch me?
Posted by
valarie @ 04/28/2004 12:15 PM EDT
OK, about Pokemon Ruby and Saphire. Matt, It’s very strange compared to the other Pokemon games but its good. Trus me Matt, I really think you should review it.
PS Oh, and Caleb Nova , those scanning Virtual Pets were called Scannerz
Posted by
TOM @ 04/28/2004 12:24 PM EDT
I knew someone who had one of these things and no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t keep the thing happy. When I took it the little freak wouldn’t die no matter how hard I tried to kill it. Did anyone else ever have one of the miserable yet resiliant bastards?
Posted by
Tim @ 04/28/2004 1:35 PM EDT
Cool…Matt apologized. You’re forgiven.
As far as Tamagotchis go…I ended up getting one, seeing as I was in fifth grade and a mindless sheep. They were fun little toys at the time…but it’s spent the last six years or so in a sock drawer.
I also had an R2-D2 one…the little bastard wouldn’t die, no matter what I did. He would just fall over onto his side and get up if I paid him any attention at all. Assuming the battery hasn’t died on that one yet, it’s probably still laying there, waiting for care that’s never going to come…
I have a Tamagotchi, but I have trouble getting it to work because the battery compartment is broken 
Posted by
AngeFaitore @ 04/28/2004 2:59 PM EDT
What would a Matt Tamagotchi look like? Give it beer to keep it happy. Let it play on its computer. Feed it ChocoDiles. Clean up the poop and empty bottles. Add a microphone so when it cries, you just say "Porn" and it stays quiet for fifteen minutes.
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/28/2004 3:29 PM EDT
Hey I remember Tamagotchis! Me and my little brother used to have them, and when they got boring in two days, we played Tamagotchi baseball with them. Also, after reading this article, I cleaned up my computer desk and found a copy of the old PC game. I was disappointed when I found out that it was the exact same thing as the keychains, and even more disappointed when I got bored and discovered it doesn’t make a good baseball.
I didn’t actually enjoy the Chia plot that much. I must be the only one who’s glad things are back to the regularly scheduled programming.
I had a tamagotchi dog I think. My sister almost flushed it down the toilet because it started "barking" at 5 in the morning. I got sick of it and sold it for five bucks.
Posted by
salaciouscrum @ 04/28/2004 4:57 PM EDT
My little brother had a different one of those electronic pet things, everytime he’d start it off…he’d come back to find out that I killed it by overpunishing it and such. Man, when I’m a father, my kids are going to be soo afraid to do anything that even smells bad. Fear will become their only comfort, and pain their only companion. Of course thats only when they disobey my comand. HAHAHAHAHA
Posted by
Lonewolf @ 04/28/2004 7:23 PM EDT
My cousins had nano-babies, and I, being the sadistic bastard that I am, consistently punished them.
Okay, I ‘m lying. I may be sadistic, but I couldn’t find it in myself to hurt a baby. Not even a digital one. I actually took care of them for about an hour.
Posted by
Nate @ 04/28/2004 10:14 PM EDT
Post 100!
I remember Tamagotchi - used to be a authority on the little buggers many years ago.
The cartoon looks like something out of Jhonen Vasquez. It piques my interest and want to see the thing now.
They’ve shown a lot of Scannerz commercial in my area lately and what most stands out about them is the ninth-rate character art. I mean, this stuff was really hideous, like they got someones 14-year-old cousin to draw ‘em. I swear I’m not exagerating in the least. Hell, I could do better.
Anyway, my name is link to the website, which unfortunately doesn’t have the commercial I’m thinking of. There’s a bunch of other cool (read: supremely cheesy) stuff there, though.
ch…ch…chia…
I wonder if chia pets are low carb…well, the part that grows anyways…
Back to watching conan.
Posted by
heeloyd @ 04/29/2004 4:14 AM EDT
It is no wonder that the machines dominated, destroyed or enslaved the humnans in films like Terminator and The Matrix. Look what we do to them. If you watch the Animatrix, you can see what we do to the machines, and it is mirrored right here in these comments.
Have fun punishing your Tama’s, cause paybacks a bitch.
Posted by
Stilewalker @ 04/29/2004 9:10 AM EDT
Heh. Punishing your Tama’s. That is my new euphonism for wanking.
Posted by
Stilewalker @ 04/29/2004 9:13 AM EDT
Sorry, I mean euphemism, not euphonism.
Posted by
Stilewalker @ 04/29/2004 9:26 AM EDT
Hey, jlist.com has some Tamagotchis! It’s Tamagotchi Plus, the ones that you can play with multiple people.
Posted by
Sara @ 04/29/2004 11:15 AM EDT
chia.
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/29/2004 11:43 AM EDT
did you know they are going to re-release them? and this time they will be able to breed…
just click on the link for my webpage for the story
Matt, what’s you’re opinion on Gamecube and Pokemon Ruby and Saphire? Personally, even though the Gamecube doesn’t play any DVDs, I still like it
PS. If you have Pokemon RUby and/or Saphire, can you please review it?
PPS I’m really sorry to be annyoung you with al these Pokemon posts, but it’s been such a long time since ther’ve been ANYTHING Pokemon on this site for a long while.
PPS. How many articles till the new Super-Naturals article comes out?
Posted by
TOM @ 04/29/2004 12:10 PM EDT
Shit! How did you manage to pull the storyline from a cartoon that has blips and beeps?? My review would of been like, "the wizard, apparently likes crafted pieces of gooey wood, so the blue guy wins."
PS..I’m sure you have heard of Fensler GI JOE spoof PSAs, if not watch them. Also, there is a band out there called the G.I. Joe Killas, that rap entire cartoon episodes. It will be like the Baroness and Destro talking about cobra cash. They are just known as ‘The Killas’ now. Aparently they dress up like the characters too at their shows.
Posted by
Jackie Crow @ 04/29/2004 12:17 PM EDT
can we discuss pettery that grows?
Posted by
sixpointsix @ 04/29/2004 1:02 PM EDT
Turn a flower pot upside down, draw a face on it. Put a layer of potting soil on top, and sprinkle some grass seeds on that. Set it in a shallow dish and water the whole thing. Occasionally pour some water in the dish and the pottery will soak up the water and keep the soil moist. Soon, the seed will sprout and your flowerpot noggin will have "hair!" Not a Chia per se, but you can draw your favorite face on the pot. I have no idea where I read this from, but as Berra once said, "You can observe a lot by just watching."
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/29/2004 2:36 PM EDT
I forgot to mention it has to be a clay flowerpot.
Chia.
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/29/2004 3:39 PM EDT
In one of those Ripley’s believe it or not newspaper strips, it said that there was a Tamagotchi
graveyard. I don’t know if it still exists and I don’t remember its location.
Posted by
keegan B. @ 04/29/2004 8:10 PM EDT
I love steaming piles of Tamagotchi shit :) LOVE ‘EM!
Posted by
Kristal @ 04/29/2004 11:06 PM EDT
I had the board game (the black die (dice, singular) was the only good thing I got outta that), dolls, and NEWS PAPER CLIPPINGS! That beats just the board game.
Posted by
@ 04/30/2004 1:00 AM EDT
please help me find flava ice products it was on one of these links….email me — pimptaddy2006@yahoo.com
Posted by
TAd @ 04/30/2004 2:29 AM EDT
Oh…
For a second there I thought you asked for help finding Flava Flav products
Posted by
Night_Trekker @ 04/30/2004 5:03 AM EDT
the x-e’er is once again hungry. Having fed 3 days ago, the article has had more than enough time to digest, and the blog regurgitation has come to a standstill. the creatrues need something fresh to feed upon, no other website will do. they alertly scan the website, refreshing by the minuite to see what new prey may come. in the background the natives chant for the x-e’ers. calling for a victom…..cha cha cha chia!
Posted by
brandon @ 04/30/2004 10:28 AM EDT
Back when these things came out, my THEN girlfriend bought one and had the zany idea that I could "look after it". I was like a dead-beat dad to that thing. Id forget about it and it would be half dead when I remembered to look at it again…digital doo-doo EVERYWHERE! But hey, the lil’ monster deserved it, I looked like a total jackass carrying that thing around school.
Posted by
Spectre @ 04/30/2004 10:32 AM EDT
chia.
Posted by
kingklash @ 04/30/2004 11:26 AM EDT
Ok so i have no idea why i liked the damn things but I’ve got all of you beat. I have the Tamagotchi Board game. Oh yes the Tamagotchi Board game. It’s sitting in my attic right now. Hell if you want to review it Matt or even do something with action figures I’ll send you the stupid thing.
Posted by
Ally @ 04/30/2004 12:54 PM EDT
AHH! It’s someone with the same real-life name as me…
Posted by
Freezair @ 04/30/2004 12:58 PM EDT
I used to have several of those. I had a gold one. I was so proud to own it.
Posted by
Tim-E @ 05/01/2004 1:19 AM EDT
Ok I see your newspaper clippings and dolls and raise you the set of happy meals toys and the electronic monkey version.
Posted by
Ally @ 05/01/2004 1:44 AM EDT
Ok I see your newspaper clippings and dolls and raise you the set of happy meals toys and the electronic monkey version.
Posted by
Ally @ 05/01/2004 1:44 AM EDT
McDonald’s toys? HA! I STOLE one from my obnoxius cousin that I hated. Electronic monkey version? Is that like a knock-off? Because I have a hundred of those…
Posted by
@ 05/01/2004 2:05 AM EDT
This was a good topic, I love the way you expressed Billy Clinton and the billy artist. keep up the good topics like your Worst Game room Ever
Posted by
DragonBattousai @ 05/01/2004 6:55 PM EDT
http://www.miniclip.com/bushshootout.htm
Posted by
Dan @ 05/02/2004 3:27 PM EDT
Matt, where do you find the old commercials? I’m just curious.
Click on my name for a special surprise! It’s not my homepage though.
Posted by
Keegan B. @ 05/02/2004 11:13 PM EDT
Dude! I was actually going to send you this very video, thinking it might be review-worthy, but I didn’t really want to part with my one copy. I’m glad someone else did.
Makes me think I should go through with my other potential submissions, unless you already have "lumpkin the pumpkin" or "monsters B gone", which you probably do because they were sold at the dollar tree on halloween.
I love the secondary wizard of tamagotchi. That’s the best title ever and he reminds me of a fat orko.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention - you seem to have overlooked the fact that masktchi’s babbling little voice is identical to that of Slimer from the real ghostbusters (same actor, same gibberish)
Posted by
Scythemantis @ 05/03/2004 5:32 PM EDT
Ohhh man. Those were the days. I think I had about 5 of those tamagotchi/digipets/nanopets. They ight have been cool at that time and everything but looking back, it was really gay. The fighter ones were a little less gay. Anyway, Hey Matt it’s your cuz Charlie. Nice work with the site!
Posted by
Chazmyth @ 05/04/2004 11:30 PM EDT
i had a tamagotchi..then a nano pet/baby.
Posted by
nat @ 06/28/2004 2:53 AM EDT
I had a pink angel tamagotchi once… i had it for like 3 weeks, until I forgot to check on it for like two days and it starved to death. then i sold it in a garage sale. oh well.
p.s- that was a sad story night_ trekker ):
Posted by
Lena K14 @ 07/01/2004 2:18 PM EDT
Wow! I never knew so many ppl hate these dmn things… Hm. Oh well.
Posted by
Me! @ 07/03/2004 12:30 PM EDT
Lena K14, if you go to e-bay, check out wha those things (Angel Tamagotchi) are worth now. I would’ve offered you 25-35 dollars for it right here, right now ^^;;
Posted by
jgoreham @ 07/07/2004 10:20 AM EDT
I like your whole page. Won’t be getting this video’s for sure. 
Btw, tamagotchi plus/connextion are out now. Grab 1 and adoreeeeeeee……. it.
Posted by
Tamagotchi @ 08/30/2004 3:00 AM EDT
in pause mode in tamagotchis if you pause it for 3 days and then un puase it will it be sick or anything????????
Posted by
Anonymous @ 10/30/2006 4:33 PM EST
No, it will not be sick. If you pause as many days as you want, it won’t get sick or go to the bathroom or die or anything;)
Posted by
Sara @ 11/08/2006 2:12 AM EST
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