Word: tamagotchis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MONKEYS VS. TAMAGOTCHI...
Even though all these pets do is take, take, take, at least Tamagotchi is a "pet from outer space," while Sea Monkeys are pets that come in the mail. As the fight ensues, Tamagotchi beeps menacingly, while the Sea Monkeys hatch and tempt hungry gold fish. Neither species is capable of love or anger or true defecation, therefore the battle is a draw...
...Japanese entrepreneurs were honored at the Seventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony last night for inventing Tamagotchi--small, plastic, virtual pet--and diverting millions of hours of work into their husbandry...
...creatively wanting--the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks) features a few songs that energetically blend rock and hip-hop, but Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys did it better in the '80s. The Future Sound of London's Dead Cities (Astralwerks) is as exciting as a dead Tamagotchi, and Underworld's Pearl's Girl (Wax Trax! Records) is only a trifle more fun than having a fax machine call you on your voice line...
...Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...