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Post by John Titor on May 11, 2020 3:15:31 GMT 10
Anyone else remember this ? It was Tamagotchi, and then later in 97 Digimon came out (before the anime hit in 99) It seemed everyone needed to have a digital pet attached to their pants  
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2020 7:57:44 GMT 10
I didn't know Digimon was popular before the anime  I got my Digivice sometime in the early 2000s. Damn, I miss that thing. I think I had a Windows 98 PC and it needed Windows XP so it didn't even work properly but it was still fun.
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Post by John Titor on May 11, 2020 8:36:07 GMT 10
I didn't know Digimon was popular before the anime I got my Digivice sometime in the early 2000s. Damn, I miss that thing. I think I had a Windows 98 PC and it needed Windows XP so it didn't even work properly but it was still fun. |I wouldnt say it took off that early but it was there, at first I thought it was a Tamagotchi rip off. I did have that digivice around 2001 u had to shake it But as far as 1997 Digimon goes, it was sold under the Tamagotchi banner for the remainder of the 97-98 school year The original Digital Monster model that was released in 1997 sold 14 million units worldwide, including 13 million in Japan and 1 million overseas
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Post by #Infinity on May 11, 2020 14:12:16 GMT 10
This was basically America's warmup for Pokémania.
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Post by John Titor on May 11, 2020 16:00:14 GMT 10
This was basically America's warmup for Pokémania. I remember around this time that Seizure episode of Pokemon was all over the news, that was my first warm up I was so freaked out by it lol
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Post by EyewitnessTV on May 11, 2020 17:19:46 GMT 10
Yep. I wasn’t so much into Digimon but everyone else had one and didn’t want to be left out, as you do!  Of course, they were deemed a massive distraction at school (teachers really didn’t like them to put it mildly), but despite this, most of my friends and classmates still secretly took ours to school to play at recess and lunch and just hoped we never got caught! Tamagotchi, I owned a baby one, an alien and then a dog. I also had a “Giga Pet Digital Doggie” towards the end of the craze which weren’t nearly as good but it was super cute either way.
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Post by John Titor on May 12, 2020 0:58:22 GMT 10
Yep. I wasn’t so much into Digimon but everyone else had one and didn’t want to be left out, as you do! Of course, they were deemed a massive distraction at school (teachers really didn’t like them to put it mildly), but despite this, most of my friends and classmates still secretly took ours to school to play at recess and lunch and just hoped we never got caught! Tamagotchi, I owned a baby one, an alien and then a dog. I also had a “Giga Pet Digital Doggie” towards the end of the craze which weren’t nearly as good but it was super cute either way. I threw mine against the wall and it broke
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Of course, they were deemed a massive distraction at school (teachers really didn’t like them to put it mildly), but despite this, most of my friends and classmates still secretly took ours to school to play at recess and lunch and just hoped we never got caught!