{"id":2023,"date":"2017-10-10T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/random_nineties_kids_rejoice_-_tamagotchis_are_making_a_comeback"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:45:00","slug":"random-nineties-kids-rejoice-tamagotchis-are-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/random-nineties-kids-rejoice-tamagotchis-are-making-a-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Nineties Kids, Rejoice &#8211; Tamagotchis Are Making A Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Got your keys?\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/random_nineties_kids_rejoice_-_tamagotchis_are_making_a_comeback\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/random_nineties_kids_rejoice_-_tamagotchis_are_making_a_comeback\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Got your keys?\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Bandai<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bandai is reviving its\u00a0<strong>Tamagotchi<\/strong> virtual pet to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the brand.<\/p>\n<p>Created by\u00a0Akihiro Yokoi, the pebble-shaped toy launched in Japan in 1996 and North America a year later, and sold millions. Each was equipped with a crude LCD screen, and the objective was to hatch a virtual pet and look after it. These pets would evolve depending on how well you performed that task.<\/p>\n<p>Bandai is launching a new model in North America this November for around $15 (around \u00a311).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several revisions of the original toy have appeared over the years (we even got a host of video games on Nintendo systems), but this model sports a more basic design in order to appeal to those who grew up with\u00a0Tamagotchi back in the &#8217;90s. It&#8217;s smaller than the original, but doesn&#8217;t have a backlight. <em>Retro<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Were you one of those kids? Will you be buying one of these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Bandai Bandai is reviving its\u00a0Tamagotchi virtual pet to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the brand. Created by\u00a0Akihiro Yokoi, the pebble-shaped toy launched in Japan in 1996 and North America a year later, and sold millions. Each was equipped with a crude LCD screen, and the objective was to hatch a virtual pet and look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}