Citations:Tamagotchi

English citations of Tamagotchi

• 2004, Jan Jagodzinski, Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 202:

  Like a Tamagotchi toy, you have to look after them — jobs, love, marriage, possessions, and their bodily functions […] . If they aren't happy, like the Tamagotchi toy, they fall into a depression.

• 2006, Ken Hillis, Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 21:

  But mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending.

• 2007, Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer, Penguin Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  She has a Tamagotchi for Marcus. Rita Kavanagh told her that it was what all the kids wanted this year. She’d been looking for a Tamagotchi for her own granddaughter.

• 2007, Bernd Pichler, “Future Challenges for the Chief Financial Officer in China”, in Ralph Berndt, editor, Internationale Wettbewerbsstrategien: Die globale Wirtschaft und die Herausforderung China, volume 14 [Herausforderungen an das Management], Zürich: Graduate School of Business Administration, →ISBN, page 307:

  It always is planned to be a real decision support tool, but unfortunately in most cases it will degenerate into a Management-Tamagotchi, a thing that needs permanent nurturing, but is of no real value.

• 2012, Rue Liu, “Quad the green tech Tamagotchi toy for kids”, in SlashGear‎^[1]:

  A toy designed by Endrit Hanjo, called the Quad, works like the Tamagotchi toys of yesteryears but it comes with a catch.