Tamagotchi

American  

[tam-uh-goch-ee] / ˌtæm əˈgɒtʃ i /

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.

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Example Sentences

Call them the modern day Tamagotchi, the digital pet from the 1990s, but with a lot more firepower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

One plotline involves a corporate brainstorm to make people love and nurture their own talking adbot, essentially a human-sized Tamagotchi.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Last year British retailer Hamleys ranked the Tamagotchi in its list of the top 100 toys of all time, alongside the likes of Lego and the Rubik's Cube.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

Furbys — fuzzy creatures that blinked their large eyes and talked — came along in the ’90s, when digital pets, Tamagotchi, also were all the rage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

She didn't keep her old Tamagotchi and picked up a modern one last year, she says.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024