Special Edition Tamagotchi celebrates 10 years of wasted time

We're not afraid to admit it: at the height of the Tamagotchi craze we received a cheap imitation digital pet for Christmas and have never recovered emotionally from that pain of that day. Now that Tamagotchi is getting ready to celebrate 10 years of keeping small children from their homework, we feel the tears rushing back, but they are good tears -- tears of healing. Bandai is releasing a limited-run Special Edition of their addictive digital pet to celebrate this joyous occasion, and are producing 1000 each of three different-colored versions. They've tossed the thing into a snazzy Japanese-style box and are selling them in Japan for what we're sure will be prices just as confiscatory as the original.

[Sudi @ Jun 22nd 2006 9:34PM]

lol... just lol....

[Cameron @ Jun 22nd 2006 9:47PM]

I sadly admit that I had a Tamagotchi once...

[carl @ Jun 22nd 2006 10:01PM]

Confiscatory? Is someone using their thesaurus widget?

[Mike @ Jun 22nd 2006 10:46PM]

I love those things! Has it been ten years already?!

[scott @ Jun 22nd 2006 11:15PM]

why are these things still shipped with greyscale screens? we can get 16 million colors on a postage stamp, but cant get like 16 into a tomagachi?

who would pay for this honestly? oh.... girlfriend...

(walks away with tail between legs)

[Matthew Boyd @ Jun 23rd 2006 1:28AM]

I can't wait to use these to pick up girls at the playground :rolleyes:

[Meltz @ Jun 23rd 2006 2:11AM]

those things piss me off

[risingsunofnihon @ Jun 23rd 2006 2:18AM]

I don't suppose anyone on here has seen one of the second-generation (or whatever they're on now) Tamagotchis. Well, now kids can download game items from a huge tamagotchi at certain department stores in Japan. Two different tamagotchis can also get married and have babies. So basically, these things are even more incredibly annoying than before.

[Craig @ Jun 23rd 2006 8:12AM]

I can't believe that about six years ago these were really big and 'the thing to have'. I found mine a few weeks ago and actually tried to kill it!!!

[Asher @ Jun 23rd 2006 10:40AM]

Our virtual pets are attacking! Run!

[josh @ Jun 23rd 2006 11:00AM]

about ten years ago, i bought one of these for one of my college girlfriends... ah, memories....

[Frank @ Jun 23rd 2006 9:34PM]

Wasted time??

You mean like reading your blog???

[jkeentauna @ Jun 24th 2006 1:10AM]

I heard that the longest one lived for about a year.
It finally died alongside its battery.
id rather have my kid playing with fake battery powered pets then on the street.

[Ryan @ Jun 28th 2006 11:03AM]

Wow... special edition Tamagotchi. Thats pretty sad, the first version was bad enough but this is just crazy. Next it could be Tamagotchi conventions! Or did that already happen? I wonder...

[yuppicide @ Aug 25th 2006 10:54PM]

This girl at work had some kind of Tamagotchi back in the day when they were all the craze here in the US. She let me watch it while I was on lunch. I kept giving it a snack and every so many snacks it would gain a pound. She would have been heartbroken if it died, but I was addicted and kept feeding it. I was scared that every press of the button could have killed poor little Tamagotchi.

When she came back I had left the Tamagotchi where she sat and I didn't say anything. I quickly left for my lunch.

By the time I got back she was asking me why her Tamagotchi gained like 100 pounds lol.

[Patrick Towne @ Oct 18th 2006 6:52AM]

I am 14 years old and i just got a Tamagotchi.Well,the truth is my sis talked me into it...At first i thaught it would be a piece of crap.But now that i got the hang of it,i really like it.as i am writing,it is sleeping peacefully.i got mine at at Target for only 15.00 dollars.Please comment back and give me something to read...

[clara(screen name) @ Dec 28th 2006 2:57PM]

i have one to me it's enjoyable. it's like i have SOMETHING to do when i'm bored

[mark @ Jul 5th 2007 11:21PM]

dude these things are pimped out the v3 is really kool

[mark @ Jul 5th 2007 11:24PM]

why do peeps hate tamagotchi there awesome

[gxbxm @ Aug 9th 2007 1:27PM]

Haaa!
how awsome..:)
i must say once you play with it, it does get rather addictive:O
Yaaah..

[amina @ Apr 30th 2008 7:38AM]

i want the passswords and body

[lmo @ Jul 13th 2008 8:00PM]

wooooooooooow
i love this game
i hav one
it is a girl
her name is .P!NKY