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S4 Ep. 6 - Tamagotchi | Akihiro Yokoi
Digital Stories
English - July 30, 2023 07:55 - 9 minutes - 8.98 MBTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Tamagotchi (Japanese: たまごっち, "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 in the United States on May 1, 1997, 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.