Screen Monochrome Shell colors Custom Dr. Slump case Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 1998 This particular toy is a tie-in to the anime Dr. Slump Arale-chan which ran from 1981-1986. The primary goal is to increase your “love level” meter with the pet until it is maxed out. It has a …
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Angelscope
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Pearl white Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Fortune Programming Custom Release year 1997 This is a fortune-teller pet that comes with a little angel character in it. You’ll get several kinds of different daily fortunes to check, and you must answer the angel’s calls when it beeps at you, otherwise it will …
Catcha Beast
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Yellow, red, blue, white, black, silver Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Collector Programming Custom Release year 2008 These are fighting/collecting toys that still have a small but dedicated fanbase online in the Western world. There is a spinning rod on the side of this device that you use to “reel in” monsters …
GigaPets Pixie
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Translucent green Manufacturer Top Secret Toys Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 2023 The Gigapets Pixie is a digital pet that lets you raise a delightful little faerie, and is much more fleshed-out than other Gigapets, featuring multiple stages of growth. Best of all, there are several branching growth paths …
Giga Pets Bit Bunnies
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Translucent pink Manufacturer Top Secret Toys Pet type Basic/multipet Programming Custom Release year 2024 This is the latest pet from TopSecret Toys, which lets you raise 3 bunnies simultaneously! If you’ve played the Cryptid pet, this works pretty similarly–you’ll start off with one bunny, and slowly unlock the others as you …
Giga Pets Pixel Puppy
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Translucent purple Manufacturer Top Secret Toys Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 2017 The Giga Pets Pixel Puppy is a reboot of the original Digital Doggy released by Tiger Electronics in 1997. More of an homage rather than a strict copy, though, this one has unique graphics and games that …
Giga Pets Unicorn
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Translucent cyan Manufacturer Top Secret Toys Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 2020 Note: this is a rewrite of my blogged review here: https://www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/index.php?/archives/32-Gigapets-Unicorn-Review.html This is one of the newer, revamped Gigapets that was released by Top Secret Toys in 2020, and from what I understand it was voted on …
Digipets 10-in-1 Multipet
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Green, yellow, red, white, blue Manufacturer Kids Only Pet type Multipet Programming Custom Release year 2005 Surprisingly, although this pet looks like a knockoff, its programming is actually unique, although not really very in depth overall. I’d say it’s a pretty easy pet to care for, though it can be very …
Nano Doubles
The Nano Double pets let you raise both a dog and cat simultaneously. Although the name of this device would suggest that it was its own line, it seems that the dog and cat version was the only one that was ever made (wouldn’t it have been nice to get a boy/girl baby double, or …
Nano Turtle
I have seen this one a grand total of one time on shopping sites, and I would otherwise not ever have believed it existed. So as of now, I don’t have any information about it other than one picture of the case. If I come across more in the future, I will add it here.