Tamagotchi

[ tam-uh-goch-ee ]

Trademark.

1. a small electronic toy with a screen, programmed to behave as if it were a pet, requiring the owner to push buttons as if to feed it, clean it, etc.

Example Sentences

Its idea was to create a sort of Tamagotchi that people could train while they were alive to preserve a digital version of themselves.

From MIT Technology Review

Lexi Pandell mines the Tamagotchi craze to demonstrate just how, over millennia, humans evolved to develop a brain chemistry that today draws us so irresistibly to fads.

From Vox

I had a Tamagotchi as well but I think that thing died really quick.

From The Daily Beast

I remember my sister had a Tamagotchi and our family had to feed it while she was at summer camp.

From The Daily Beast

Furby and Tamagotchi Return for the Holidays: Makers of the classic '90s toys announced a revival this holiday season.

From The Daily Beast

Might Fine, a Los Angeles-based T-shirt company, has teamed up with Tamagotchi creators Bandai to develop the collection.

From The Daily Beast

All this roboparenting reminds me of that Japanese digital keychain pet called Tamagotchi.

From The Daily Beast