| Screen | Monochrome |
| Shell colors | Green, orange, pink, blue |
| Manufacturer | Bandai |
| Pet type | Connectable |
| Programming | Custom |
| Release year | 1998 |
Probably the rarest of pets, these weren’t released in the US and there just aren’t many of them around. When they do show up, they tend to go for very, very high prices. There are four of these pets in total; a green one for Air, orange for Earth, pink for Fire, and blue for Water. Each holds a witch that represents that particular elements and has some limits on what it can do. Care is very much like the Tamagotchis, with feeding and cleaning and many of the stats screens looking the same. There are no games that I can tell–instead, there are a number of functions that let you create magical spells and curses based on different ingredients you can find.
Menu Functions
- Stats – This shows the pet’s hunger and happiness, as well as its magic level and “MP” or Magical Points (I’m guessing)
- Feed – There are three choices: meal, snack, and medicine
- Cauldron – You can combine the items in your inventory to make curses and cures. This is a pretty significant part of the gameplay
- Inventory
- Clean – When you clean the screen of their poop, it goes into their inventory to be used as an ingredient
- Lights
- Travel – The witch will beep when they want to go “witching.” They’ll leave and come back 10-15 min later with an item that is then added to Inventory
- Attention – Unselectable
Links
I have not been fortunate enough to own these pets, but there is a lot of information online from people who have. Here’s a list of links around the web that go over various aspects of them:
- Growth chart made by @MagicLad_Ty on Twitter (archived photo)
- Background Lore by Tumblr User Analyzing Adventure (Archive.is)
- Playthrough log at TamaTalk Forums
- Info and box photos at Wikimon
- Charts at TamaPlanet
- Info at Gotchi Garden
- There’s an amazingly complete guide for how to play with these on TamaTalk here: https://www.tamatalk.com/threads/magical-witches-guide.200128/
- Here’s a thread that goes over the surprisingly extensive lore that Bandai wrote for the pets: https://www.tamatalk.com/threads/magical-witches-lost-content-forgotten-lore.201292/
