i started up my second gen tamagotchi (1997) the one with tiger stripes. it's cute but it's soooo slow haha. when you press the bottons it takes a while b4 it highlights the icon (a second maybe). then they put the menu where you can see how happy your tama is for the 5th button so you have to slowly go through 5 icons to get to it. i'm glad they changed that for the newer ones! i did have to take the batteries out b/c i have some really hard classes that need my full attention. i hope i helped!