4 Pieces Virtual Electronic Digital Pets Keychains Nostalgic 168 Giga Pets in One Virtual Cyber Digital Nostalgic Handheld Electronic Toys for Kids Funny Play (Transparent Color Version)

I LOVE IT
It amazing

It’s underwhelming.
I’d like to start with the fact that, yes, these work fine, they are functional out of the box, the screen works and there are batteries included which makes this okay. the “168 in 1” thing is actually where this whole thing falls apart and it’s kind of laughable. Let’s talk about that.So, when you pull the tab on this device for the first time, it comes up on the screen “168 IN 1” and then defaults to the first animal. As you press the button to scroll through you have so many choices, some of which aren’t even animals anymore. You have rabbits, different types of cats, dogs, a koala, then all the way to dinosaurs of varying types, and then you keep going and… sora from kingdom hearts shows up, megaman x and zero show up, monkey d luffy, yugi from yugi oh, GOKU is in there. It’s like “WOA cool! that’s so many choices!” so you settle on one right? and you go to name it and… you can’t. you have like 5 predetermined names to choose from. so goku? lets call him bob instead. alright cool, so you got your goku pet all set up, lets see what there is to do. all these start by feeding them right? so we go to feed goku, and when you feed him, his sprite is just a white blob with a mouth. okay. so how about we play a game? the games are kinda fun, there’s like a frisbee catch game where you catch the thing at the right time.. but now goku is a dog. when you win the game, or fail the game and it alots you a certain number of gold coins for your trouble, the celebration animation is a chicken. there’s also a spaceship game where you dodge asteroids, and when that game ends again, he turns into a chicken that dances. okay. there’s another icon with a heart on it. this has activities i think that your pet can do. the first one was the only one i could select and it looks like a computer. so you click it, and your pet is now a stick figure at a computer, and then promptly after that he turns into a chicken again to dance.You see what i’m saying now. The choice doesn’t really matter. The icon just bounces back and forth the same static image of your character that you choose, and there’s nothing else specific to that character on the device at all. it operates like a standard pet sim type game. closer to a giga pet than a tomagotchi obviously because there’s no evolutions or anything like that. they eat, they play, the poop, they get sick, you do all the things to keep them happy and healthy according to the calls it makes and i guess you just see how long it lives.the novelty wears out so much faster on this device than on any of the other more official brand name devices for obvious reasons. I very vaguely remember this particular type of device being sold in grocery store quarter machines even when i was a kid. seems to have been updated decently because of all those extra things to choose from, but it’s still a super barebones device where the character doesn’t matter whatsoever.these would be great for a really really young kid if they cared for such a thing and haven’t been spoiled by the parent handing them an iphone or something already, but even if they were interested in this… this 4 pack was 10 bucks. a real tomagotchi or digimon right now, even official gigapets have all had reissues and you could get them one of those for roughly the same price on sale. these feel cheap, look cheap, sound cheap, and the software on them is even cheaper. i would not recommend these unless you knew what they were and wanted one for fun, or are just morbidly curious because they are so cheap.