Screen Monochrome Shell colors Red, blue, white, yellow,green, green translucent Manufacturer Unknown/various Pet type Basic Programming Dinkie Release year Unknown In the US, these seem to have been distributed by a company called Innotronics, but I cannot find out who distributed them in Japan. They are dinosaur pets that are notable for having weather and …
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Puppy Micropet
Screen Monochrome Shell colors white Manufacturer Cool Tech Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year Unknown VirtualPet.com has a guide for this one here: Puppy Micropet. I have also seen this branded as “MicroPet” from Bluetech, and the instructions seem to reference that branding regardless of which version you get, so I’m assuming it was …
Zhu Zhu Pets
Screen Monochrome Shell colors brown, pink Manufacturer Cepia Pet type Unknown Programming Custom Release year 2010 This is a virtual pet based off of Cepia’s Zhu ZHu Hamster toyline. I grew up seeing the toys everywhere, but I didn’t know they had a virtual pet too. I picked up one of these a while back, …
Vial of Aruderu
Screen Monochrome Shell colors pearl Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Fortune teller Programming Custom Release year 1998 Based on an object from the anime Fushigi Mahou Fan Fan Pharmacy. This pet lets you collect different types of spirits from the anime and have them practice magic, which is a variation of the left-right game. The spirit …
UFO Wave
Screen Monochrome Shell colors white, blue, pink, silver, Men In Black Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 1997 This particular pet is designed to pick up radio waves in the air and translate them into characters or messages on the device (though they probably don’t have anything to do with the original …
Micalun and Devitan
Screen Monochrome Shell colors white, black, translucent blue, translucent pink Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Fortune teller Programming Custom Release year 1998 “Angel and Devil.” This pet is designed to give you a personalized fortune each day. Both Devitan and Micalun reside in the same toy, and Micalun will deliver good fortunes, while Devitan will deliver …
Magical Witches
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Green, orange, pink, blue Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Basic 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 …
GeGeGe no Kitaro Eyeball Pet
Screen Monochrome Shell colors White Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 2007 Yes, it’s an eyeball, which is awesome. This pet is from the manga series GeGeGe no Kitaro and represents the Yokai Medama-Oyaji, which makes a little more sense, not that you’d need it to make sense in order to take …
Doraemon and Doraemitchi
Screen Monochrome Shell colors Custom (Doraemonand Doraemi) Manufacturer Bandai Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 2006 There were two of these, Doraemon, and Doraemitchi. This is a basic pet in which you raise either Doraemon or Doraemitchi, two robots from the future who come back to help their friends. It lets you raise and …
Avon Dog Watch
Screen Color Shell colors Blue Manufacturer Avon Pet type Basic Programming Custom Release year 1998 Yes, even the direct sales make-up company had a virtual pet, in the form of a watch. It was truly a trend, wasn’t it? There are two versions of this pet: A dinosaur, and a dog. Functions are: feeding, which …