Tamagotchi Connection
Specifications & Technical Information

Raise your Tamagotchi from egg to child to adult and how you take care of it will decide which of the 7 adults you’ll get Comes with 1 Tamagotchi on a chain to take with you everywhere! Batteries are required and comes with your Tamagotchi (CR2032).

Tamagotchi Plus Specifications Tamagotchi Connection will be very similar. Size - 49 mm wide by 17 mm deep by 58 mm tall (about 2 inches wide, 5/8 inches thick, by 2.25 inches tall) Price - U.S. Suggested retail for Tamagotchi Connection is $14.99. Weight 33 grams including battery Battery - one CR2032 (included), 3 volts Initial Tamagotchi Plus Colors - white, black, pink, aqua, yellow, blue Initial Tamagotchi Connection Colors: Peach with hearts Red with stickers Orange with bursts Lime Green with matrix (grid pattern) Silver with circles Yellow with stars Pink with stickers Lavender with stickers Silver with stickers White with stickers Transparent Oranges with stickers Transparent Red with stickers Information on Tamagotchi Connection Characters and Tamagotchi Patents is below.

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Characters

Tamagotchi Connection can be many characters depending on the level of care. The Japanese version, Tamagotchi Plus, characters are described by Tamagotchi Square. The U.S. version is probably pretty similar. Tamagotchi Square also supplies a Growth Chart for Tamagotchi Plus.

Patents

Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo is often credited as the 'inventor' of the original Tamagotchi. Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan was another major player in the background. Their names also appear on many of the more recent patents in this area.

U.S. Patent 6,609,968 Rearing Simulation Apparatus, issued 26 Aug. 2003. Assigned to Bandai.
Patent discusses how it calculates degree of 'care' to determine a 'metamorphosis character'(which character the baby Tamagotchi will turn into). Figure 3 of this patent illustrates some of the processes (calculations) going on behind the scenes.

Japan Patent Abstracts #2000-296272 (Oct. 24,2000) Rearing Simulator of Virtual Life
Japanese version of patent above.

U.S. Patent 6,227,966 Simulation Device for Fostering a Virtual Creature, issued 8 May 2001. Assigned to Bandai and Kabushiki Kaisha Wiz.
Defines the 'egg', switches and general operation.

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U.S. Patent 6,213,871 Nurturing Simulation Apparatus for Virtual Creatures, issued 10 Apr. 2001. Assigned to Bandai and Kabushiki Kaisha Wiz.
Discusses the 'egg', switches and general operation.

U.S. Patent 5,966,526 Simulation Device for Fostering a Virtual Creature, issued 12 Oct. 1999. Assigned to Bandai and Kabushiki Kaisha Wiz.
Covers several aspects of the original Tamagotchi.

U.S. Patent Application 2003/0216160 Breeding Simulation Apparatus for Virtual Creatures, published20 Nov. 2003.
Discusses the ability to communicate with another Tamagotchi nearby.

U.S. Patent Application 2001/0036859 Breeding SImulation Apparatus for Virtual Creatures, published 1 Nov. 2001.
An earlier version of the application above.

Siding Material

U.S. Design Patent 407,760 Game Apparatus issued 6 Apr. 1999.
'Egg' for Tamagotchi Angel.

U.S. Design Patent 405,475 Game Apparatus issued 9 Feb. 1999. Assigned to Bandai and Kabushiki Kaisha Wiz.
Body for one of the earlier pets that physically connected/mated with another 'egg'.

U.S. Design Patent 405,125 Game Apparatus issued 2 Feb. 1999. Assigned to Bandai and Kabushiki Kaisha Wiz.
Body for one of the earlier pets that physically connected/mated with another 'egg'.

U.S. Design Patent 398,659 Game Apparatus issued 22 Sept. 1998. Assigned to Bandai and Kabushiki Kaisha Wiz.
Original 'egg' patent.

Technical ArticlesSeveral technical articles about Tamagtochi and other virtual pets can be found on our Virtual Pet Research Page.Other Linking Virtual PetsSeveral other virtual pets have 'linked' in the past. Some can be seen on our Linking Virtual Pets Page. Be sure to note Bandai's Osucci / Mesucci pets that physically coupled together.

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