Vintage 1997 Original Bandai Tamagotchi
Electronic Toy Blue & Pink *Works Great*. It takes 2 LR44 batteries, not included. This model was sold in USA English model. Great piece of nostalgia for collectors and hobbyists. I think this is 1st Generation of the Tamagotchi!
Pre-owned and comes as shown - system has some scratches.
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History as copied from the internet:
ABOUT: The Tamagotchi "Egg Watch" is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996, in Japan and on May 1, 1997, in the rest of the world, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. As of March 2021, over 83 million units have been sold worldwide. Most Tamagotchi are housed in a small egg-shaped handheld video game with an interface consisting of three buttons, with the Tamagotchi Pix adding a shutter on the top to activate the camera.
According to Bandai, the name is a portmanteau combining the two Japanese words tamago (たまご), which means "egg", and uotchi (ウオッチ) "watch". After the original English spelling of watch, the name is sometimes romanized as Tamagotch without the "i" in Japan. Most Tamagotchi characters' names end in chi (ち) in Japanese, with few exceptions. (Not to be confused with tomodachi or "friend").