Battery Requirements: 1 x AAA (not included) and 1 x LR44 (included)
Damn, this thing's cute.
A few years ago the Tamagotchi craze took off. Long gone were the days of the
old "Game and Watch" hand-helds, but then came something else to slip between
your fingers and press a few buttons. However, the Tamagotchi made you feel
like you had to care for a virtual pet and that's the game plan here.
Before you begin to play with your new mate, you'll need to pull out the
tab which activates the watch battery (LR44) that's included, while one
remote control-style battery is required to be placed inside the top of its
head through the white cap, which only seems to make his arms move, but more
on this later.
Every day when he wakes up, he'll give you a choice of two identities to choose,
in terms of the way his eyes look. Play with him by tapping on his head which
will make him display funny faces or bleep at you which sounds like a way for
him to sing. Leave him for a while and he'll go to sleep, with the blinds
coming down on his face.
Chibibotto can transform into 15 different characters with 280 pages of
animation. He can blink, wink, shut his eyes and can take on the guise of
animals like fish, pandas, rabbits, crabs and more.
You can also play a specific game by tapping patterns on his head, which
indicate symbols such as a square and a crescent moon. Get them in the right
order, listed in the manual or see if you can find it by trial and error.
Don't tap him too much though or he'll shake his fists when excited or angered.
Another useful function is the clock and alarm included, although if you
are a heavy sleeper, don't expect it to wake you up on a Monday morning for
work!
Overall, it's cute, simple and fun. It doesn't cost a great deal as well and
you can have a play with it while at work if your boss isn't looking.
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.
For more information, please visit the
Tiger Toys.co.uk website.
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DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV
connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and
played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
