Remember Tamagotchi? They’re still around, and there’s loads of licensed ones now. Such as this one:
It’s tiny and inexpensive – I paid about $12 – and the fact it’s a Kamen Rider ‘gotchi was irresistible. So I bought one and turned it on, and my first ‘rider boy’ soon arrived:
The above shows the ‘boy’ chilling, eating and being attacked by Shocker troops. There’s not much interaction aside from pushing a button now and then, and it seems even if you forget all that happens is he gets sad:
There’s a couple of rudimentary games to play (that I mostly ignored) and 24 hours after the ‘boy’ is born he turns into an actual Kamen Rider:
What are their names? I think the right is Kamen Rider Saber, but the others I don’t know. The device has 48 Riders in it (some of which are ‘secret’) and despite the tiny resolution they seem to be decent representations of Riders from each era of the show. I’ve not yet watched the 7 Kamen Rider DVD box sets I’ve already bought but once I do I’m sure I’ll know their names 🙂
The riders stay around for 48 hours before ‘leaving to help someone else’, which looks like this:
And then, with a push of the reset button, the cycle begins anew. I ‘played’ it for two weeks and saw five riders at which point I’d lost interest. It’s cute and funny for a while, but as with all Tamagotchi (and I’ve got about half a dozen now) the appeal fades fast.
Maybe I’ll return after I’ve watched some of those DVDs!
