Tamagotchi Is Back For Its 20th Anniversary

The digital pet from Japanese toymaker Bandai is back in an albeit smaller keychain version.

By kmvq on October 11, 2017

The digital pet from Japanese toymaker Bandai is back in an albeit smaller keychain version.

First released in the US in 1997, the handheld digital pets were a huge hit with the children of the 1990s and Bandai is hoping that nostalgia will make them a hit today.

The latest version, called Tamagotchi Friends, bost a 3 button design with a 16×16 pixels screen and will be available in 6 different version.

You can grab them over at us.tamagotchifriends.com starting November 1st.


 

Bradford Hornsby is an editor, music writer, web producer, and pop culture blogger for CBS stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find him on Twitter at @bradfordhornsby.

 

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