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

Harajuku shopper Yumeho Akita, 25, told AFP she had good memories of raising her Tamagotchi for several months during her childhood.

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