Tamagotchi for the Gameboy

I haven't seen any recent posts about this game, so I thought I'd make one! Does anyone else have this game? And if so, do you like it? Also, I haven't seen any growth charts of it at all. Does anyone know of any?

I don't have the game, though a relative owned it back in the day. We felt that it was a bit too fussy and over-complicated compared to the Tamagotchi toy-line, but it was at least its own experience.

I remember finding the

//www.tamatalk.com/IB/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png shows how long the death sequence goes on for, and how the game rubs it in your face by showing the Tamagotchi's spirit being confused and upset about having died, before eventually leaving its body.)
I don't know of any growth-charts (I wasn't a big fan of it, so I've never looked into it), but if it's of any interest, The Spriters Resource has rips of the game's sprites, backgrounds, and other assets, which at least show which characters appear.

That death scene is quite scarring.

Eggiweg said:

That death scene is quite scarring.

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Yeah, it is! I think it says it all that that's the one thing that I remember the most about the game.

Eggiweg said:

That death scene is quite scarring.

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It definitely is! My friend and I were messing around with the game when I first got it, and got a black egg and named it Death. Ironically, Death died not too long after we got him. We were both really surprised at how dark the death scene was!

Well, AnniChu, your thread inspired me to track down and order a used copy of the game online. Thanks.

I think that it's time for me to give it another try!

Penguin-keeper said:

Well, AnniChu, your thread inspired me to track down and order a used copy of the game online. Thanks.

I think that it's time for me to give it another try!

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Oh how cool! I hope you have fun with it! ^_^

AnniChu said:

Oh how cool! I hope you have fun with it! ^_^

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Thanks! It should be an unusual addition to my virtual pets collection, if nothing else, right?

My apologies for double-posting - unfortunately, I cannot edit my previous one any longer!

Anyway, I would like to introduce Bobbo, who I hatched from a star-patterned egg yesterday evening;



This video was taken shortly before he evolved from a Shirobabytchi into a Marutchi, because in the Tamagotchi Game Boy game, Gen 1 characters and Gen 2 characters can evolve into characters from the opposite group.

I definitely appreciate this game more as an adult. Whilst it's definitely more fussy than the original toys are, as I recalled previously, it's not really in a bad way - it makes good use of what the Game Boy hardware offered over the standard Tamagotchi hardware of the time, and a lot of what is in here came to be used in many later versions of the virtual pets themselves! (I once saw Jhud mention in another thread that the colour Tamagotchis are a somewhat similar experience to the Game Boy game, and I can now see those parallels easily.)

There are even things in here - such as dying easily from too many snacks - that were implemented in the recent Gen 1 and Gen 2 remakes!

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So far, I'd have to say that the Tamagotchi Game Boy game is an interesting step in the evolution of the vintage-era Tamagotchis, and the line in general. There seems to be quite a lot in here that we still see in the toy-line today, and which set the direction for how things would go during the Connection era and beyond.