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<blockquote data-quote="Penguin-keeper" data-source="post: 3379539" data-attributes="member: 213757"><p>Sadly, I'm old enough to have seen some of the oldest hoaxes of this nature, and to know how they were broken open (anyone else remember the emergence of Polybius, and how it was ultimately irrefutably proven to be fake?), so I'm not going to take the "Maybe it's real?" approach myself. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, y'know? <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tamatalk/default_biggrin.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":biggrin:" title="biggrin :biggrin:" data-shortname=":biggrin:" /></p><p></p><p>If it was real, it wouldn't need fake pictures supporting it (the growth-chart was done by someone who seemingly didn't realise how to make a freshly-created image look like an old low-resolution find in GIMP - the editor used to create it - for example, and the photograph doesn't match the standard of 1998 cameras or how Chinese websites pictured their products in that era, examples of which are still preserved within the online Tamagotchi community), and everything else is nicely-implemented but pretty obvious (like the misremembering of the name as "Tamakurai"/"Tamadark" instead of "Tamanoroi"/"Tamacursed" - that's not something that a native English-speaker with fuzzy memories of a bootleg device claimed not to be of Japanese origin would typically do).</p><p></p><p>It's just a shame that this one was a bit late for Halloween - I might've been inclined to play along for a bit if it was on-time. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>EDIT: There's also the rather large giveaway that Bandai didn't use "Generation 1"/"Generation 2" to differentiate their releases at that time, as that's something that's only been done retrospectively (and only ever stylised as "Gen 1"/"Gen 2"), so a bootleg wouldn't have used "Generation 3" to try to appear legitimate anyway. You remember the packaging from back then very well, as I've seen you mention in other threads - we both know what Bandai and other companies did and didn't do. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Penguin-keeper, post: 3379539, member: 213757"] Sadly, I'm old enough to have seen some of the oldest hoaxes of this nature, and to know how they were broken open (anyone else remember the emergence of Polybius, and how it was ultimately irrefutably proven to be fake?), so I'm not going to take the "Maybe it's real?" approach myself. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, y'know? :biggrin: If it was real, it wouldn't need fake pictures supporting it (the growth-chart was done by someone who seemingly didn't realise how to make a freshly-created image look like an old low-resolution find in GIMP - the editor used to create it - for example, and the photograph doesn't match the standard of 1998 cameras or how Chinese websites pictured their products in that era, examples of which are still preserved within the online Tamagotchi community), and everything else is nicely-implemented but pretty obvious (like the misremembering of the name as "Tamakurai"/"Tamadark" instead of "Tamanoroi"/"Tamacursed" - that's not something that a native English-speaker with fuzzy memories of a bootleg device claimed not to be of Japanese origin would typically do). It's just a shame that this one was a bit late for Halloween - I might've been inclined to play along for a bit if it was on-time. ;) EDIT: There's also the rather large giveaway that Bandai didn't use "Generation 1"/"Generation 2" to differentiate their releases at that time, as that's something that's only been done retrospectively (and only ever stylised as "Gen 1"/"Gen 2"), so a bootleg wouldn't have used "Generation 3" to try to appear legitimate anyway. You remember the packaging from back then very well, as I've seen you mention in other threads - we both know what Bandai and other companies did and didn't do. ;) [/QUOTE]
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