I know... cryptokitties is why I'm thinking about the longer history
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I think we’ll see a resurgence in the next year or two as augmented reality pets run around our homes. Might even be the first super viral AR app.
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Suspect it morphed into Pokemon and Neopets at the time. Wonder extent to which features of subsequent media involving those themes built on existing expectations established by previous media. Ex. kids who had played Pokemon maybe had some instinctive expectations for Neopets.
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smartphones happened
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Hm? Smartphones happened in the early 10s, tamagotchi disappeared in the late 90s.
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I am writing a thing for RPS about the A-life fad right as we speak! A lot of the Tamagotchi/Digimon things turned into video games and way overpriced retro throwback toys
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you are so old!
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Evolved and diversified in a myriad of mobile games with notifications. Unscheduled irruption of game time in non-game time was its key innovation IMO.
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It kinda dissipated, like fidget spinners did recently.
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