Tamagotchis Are Making A Comeback

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Remember when your first Tamagotchi died and you had to pull out the propeller pencil and press that reset button.

For a lot of people, it was the first time experiencing the grieving process, and what was worse, it was all your fault.

Well now you can experience the digital responsibility of a pet all over again as Japanese company Bandai have re-released the toy, Konbini reports.

It is over 20 years since the Tamagotchi was released in 1996, and was a huge success, selling 40 million of the egg-shaped toy in the US and Europe.

Of course it is not identical to our nostalgic classic, the LCD display is smaller and a square instead of a rectangle, and the helpful icons at the top and bottom of the screen seem to have disappeared.

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Do not fear though, the pixelated characters have remained the same…

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The only thing is that the hand-held toy has halved in size. It was already tiny!

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So if you didn’t get to join in the trend when you were a kid because your parents wouldn’t buy you one, so you had no friends and hated your life (just me?)…then you can purchase yourself one now for about £14.

Or just get an actual pet?

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