u/Euphoric-Brother-184 — reddlx

Wowwwwwww, never thought I’d see these again. Memories connected to them all. I had my own equivalents of each, but I think they were all donated at some point. I’ve searched the storage at my parents house so many times trying to find them.

There are five us kids (now adults aged 21-33), and we never had gameboys or a DS. But we had nearly every North American iteration of Tama from the original connection through to the Tama Go. And I have no regrets! There was something special about the little pocket buddy you could take care of and raise. Surfing the official website (and the disc that came with the 4.5) furthered the magic of this cute little world full of silly little critters. At one point I was even active on a web forum (tamatalk?) and internet relay chat.

My sister remembers getting either the music star or the special 4.5 as a “consolation prize” for one of her eye surgeries. I have FOND memories of the Tama Go. I remember it being poorly received at the time. Japan had full color tamagotchis for a while at that point. Meanwhile the Go had a fairly weak speaker + screen. But to me it was the most detailed Tama up to that point, and the form factor was cool. I told my sister we HAD to get them, and after somehow coming up with $20 each, we ordered them. I remember turning the face decals around on mine so they were plain white - I was less receptive to “cutesy” stuff as a preteen. Somehow still loved Tamas, though. There’s also some damage to the chain link on the 4.5 where I tried to pry it off, and teeth marks where I tried to remove the star.

Anyways, after several searches I wrote off the Tamas as lost to time. My sister was at my parents place with me today, and wanted me to help her look for some of our old Play-Doh toys for her kids. And look what we FOUND!

She told me to keep the 4.5!!! She’s glad I like it and she’ll get to play the cloud jump game when I visit her or vice versa. She’s a bit busy with two toddlers to be parenting a Tama on top 😅.

RIP to my early connections, v5, Tama Go, and Music Star. I hope they found good homes if I did indeed donate them!