Credit: Bandai Co. Ltd. employee Ryoko Tabuchi shows "tamagotchi," latest hit products of the Japanese toy maker at its Tokyo headquarters Friday, Jan. 24, 1997. An electronic image grows from a chick to an adult bird on the screen of the 1,980-yen (US$16.6) egg-shaped device as its owner take care of it just like a pet by feeding, soothing and cleaning its nest with pressing buttons until its death. Bandai, that announced their merger with the Japan's largest amusement equipment maker Sega Enterprises Ltd. Thursday and have sold 350,000 "tamagocchi" since it hit the Japanese market last November, plan to produce 3 million more by April. (AP Photo/Atsushi Tsukada)
The Tamagotchi virtual pet from the ’90s is back
