Tag: Tamagotchi
Top 10 selling Christmas gifts of all time. How many of these can you remember?
From Monopoly to the Rubik's Cube and Gameboy, a whole host of crazes have taken the world by storm over the past few decades. But how many of these top-selling Christmas gifts from yesteryear are you old enough to remember? Chris Price reports Everyone remembers that one special toy they just had to have for Christmas when…
Meet Animin, the new digital friend with an AR twist
Remember the Tamagotchi, the Japanese handheld digital pet that was all the rage in the 1990s? Since then, digital or virtual pets have come in all shapes and sizes, from web- or software-based to handdheld units similar to the Tamagotchis. Well, now say hi to the Animin, a new digital pet for phones and tablets…
Tamagotchi pets to return as iPhone and Android apps
Blimey, it's turning into THE week for digital pet revivals, isn't it? Not only did yesterday we bring you a hands-on with VTech's new KidiPet range, but now we also bring you news that the one-and-only original digipet range, the…
Hands-on review: VTech revive the Tamagotchi with KidiPet Touch toys
Remember Tamagotchis, the pocketable electronic pets that bleeped themselves to death unless you fed them digital dinners and cleaned up their pixellated poo? It looks as though kids tech makers Vtech do – they've put together a range of electronic…