BANDAI (Original) Translucent Purple - Virtual Monster Pet by Tamagotchi, 41855

Having gotten the original ones back in the day, I was pleased to see that they re-released them albeit I was a little late, as I missed the 20th anniversary and the first two waves! Compared to the older ones (v1 and V2) You have to put your name in at the start and the time, there's a decent roster of monsters from each version that you hatch, grow and train to be the best battlers and strongest monsters. You can also train two Digimon at the same time, making tag matches a thing. There is a journal feature, to keep track of each monster you have trained, there is a extra growth tier to Mega digivolve through a process called Jogress. You can send a copy of the monster you trained to a friend and vice versa and once you tag battled with the copy 5 times, you can fuse the monsters into a new one. There is a fight feature if one doesn't have another Digimon and so you can gain victories with the game's inbuilt monsters. There are two secret eggs one can acquire and involves linking with five or more Digimon with different trainer names. Or you can get a second one or find a friend that is willing to stop and rename their device name several times in order to get the same result. Remember to give them a different name though or it won't count. I have to wait for my second one to arrive so I can see what monsters I can battle...and also to get those eggs! Again to get different Digimon you have to experiment with different factors such as care mistakes (no more than 4 per 'stage' or it will die) training and feeding (and you have to redo that after each digivolution.) To morph your monster pal into many forms when it's time to digivolve.

Amazing little gift my partner loves it

Son lives this but I'm now left to care for it during the day otherwise it's dead by the time he comes home.... Such pressure to step up as a psuedo grandparent!

Takes me back to being a kid . Just as I remembered

It's great. Colour is more pinkish than red

works out of box reminds me of the one from childhood good price battery lasts for months absolute fun blast of nostalgi also glows in dark

So good!

Played great for the 2 hours. But battery icon came up when I went to pick it up next!!!