So.
It’s been a while…
I’m sitting quietly in my room, looking down at two plastic eggs. One is pink and one is blue. Both have yellow buttons, a screen with a background that matches the skin color, little word bubbles surrounding the screen, and a small crack near the top being held together by a small chain.
Mesutchi and Osutchi.
The day is August 20, 2005. It’s 10:00 P.M. and I’m sitting quietly in my room, looking down at them. I haven’t used them in two years and I’m starting to think about starting them up again. But I have to look at what is happening with me now. I’m running 4 other Tamagotchis and planning on buying a 5th. But a strange urge came over me. I just HAD to start them both up again.
I put the batteries in and reset both of them at 10:04. I waited until 10:05 to start the timers. And finally, at 10:10, both eggs hatched. Both eggs hatch into the same character, a little black speck dude with tiny eyes. Both of them squeak at me for attention. They we so cute…
Kuritchi: “One minute he's laughing, and the next, he's throwing a temper tantrum! Kuritchi ("Chestnut") sure is a moody guy! His little yellow body may turn red with rage, but his sunny side and angry side just show his wide range of emotion.”
So, I began to take care of them. Both ate the same thing: A bowl of rice of a meal, and a candy for a snack. I get to playing with them and all that stuff. I was actually still surprised how hard Bandai worked on this virtual pet. The babies, in their small size, had everything else small. Happy suns, sickness skulls, angry crossed, beds, and even sleepy Zs…all were shrunk down to a puny size.
His life cycle, ran basically the same as any other baby: Eat, poop, sick, sleep, evolve. So, like I just said, he evolved into MohiTamatchi at 11:12, who went to sleep as soon as he evolved.
I awoke the next day to see Osutchi sulking at the bottom of the screen and Mesutchi squeaking for me. I shall never sleep in again. I quickly nursed both back to health.
MohiTamatchi: “This laid-back guy doesn't worry about the little things in life. His purple Mohawk-style hair-do may look cool, but when he gets mad, all his hair stands on end!”
Now that they are no longer babies, their skulls, happy suns, etc have all returned to natural size. And now that I have explained all this so far, I can tell you more about Mesu and Osu.
Like the new Tamagotchis, they have 3 buttons, 10 icons (9 selectable) and something on top used to connect with another Tamagotchi. Plus they are the same size. The differences are this:
The first icon is the Health Meter. There are 4 screens: Hungry, Happy, Discipline, and Status. The first two screens show Japanese lettering with 4 hearts. But unlike the new Tamagotchis, these hearts are tiny. And I mean tiny. And the discipline meter is taller and less wide. The scale on the 4th screen has a little Kuritchi on it.
The second icon is the food menu. There are two foods. I’ve heard that the foods can change over time.
The third icon is the game. It’s fast, easy, and fun. It’s similar to the P1 game. Your Tama holds up 2 flags, one white, one black. You have to press either A or B to stop the Tama on a certain flag. Meaning when your Tama holds up the white flag, press A. Black flag, B.
4th icon is Restroom (toilet). Still the same.
5th icon is Basting (scold). On the prototype Mesu and Osu, when you use this icon, a hammer whacks your Tama. Harsh. But that was changed when the official versions were released. Funny thing is, when the Tama beeps for discipline, it’s an entirely different beep for when he actually needs something. So I instantly know to scold it. Plus they’ll ask for more than 100% discipline.
6th icon is Remedy (medicine). Still the same.
7th icon is the lights. Same.
8th Icon is the TMP. The 1st screen shows TMP in big letters, and a small crown underneath. The amount of crowns can change overtime, 4 in total. The second screen is the generations.
9th icon is the Mating Icon. I will tell you more about this later, because whenever I try to use it right now, all they do is shake their heads.
And of course, the attention icon is last. Like that will ever change.
The screen is about half the size of the new Tamagotchis, only a little taller than the old Tamas, but less length. Instead of infrared sensors on top, Mesu and Osu have a little metallic connector, the same ones the DigiMon pets used to battle. And it can be covered up with the other end of the shell, which is on the keychain. The background is different for each one of these Tamas. Mesu’s is a little pink room with a heart on the wall, Osu’s is a little blue room with a spade on the wall.
Anyway, both got disciplined to +100% today, They stayed as MohiTamatchi through Monday as well.
On Tuesday, these little buggers evolved. Osutchi became Obotchi.
Obotchi: “A fashionable little gentleman who spends all his time worrying about the little curl in the middle of his forehead. He's really quite a mischievous little guy, but in front of the "grown-ups" he acts like a well-behaved little "Student Council President"-type.”
Mesu became Ojotchi.
Ojotchi: “She may seem well-mannered and charming, but she's still at that mischievous stage, so go easy on her! But she thinks of herself as a proper little lady, so if you don't treat her as such, she might get upset and sulk!”
Mesu looks the same as Osu, but with a little bow in her hair and a little bit different walk. Mesu got disciplined to 100%, but Osu remained at 50%. Plus he accidentally got overfed, and changed into Debutchi, a character so large he fills up the entire screen.
Debutchi: “When the weight increases, your Tamagotchi becomes Debutchi. Play the Flag Game to return him to normal.”
I was no able to use any of the icons besides the health meter and the game. So I just played the game and before long, Osutchi was normal again. Yay. Osu got sick around 7:00 on Thursday, meaning he’ll evolve tomorrow.
The next day, Mesu got sick as well. As strange as it was, she evolved BEFORE Osutchi, who got sick first. Strange. At 11:31, Ojotchi evolved into…Kikotchi.
Kikotchi: “If Kikotchi were to go out with a guy, he'd have to be gentle, and kind, and good-looking, and thin and in shape! Perhaps because of her high standards, most of the guys she falls in love with already have girlfriends...”
I was surprised. I was trying to get Pyonkotchi, but…oh well. Now we wait on Osu.
Osutchi evolved at 11:45 into…BUNBUNCHI! W00t!
Bunbutchi: “He's a little shy and bashful, so even if he wants to say "I love you" to that special girl that he's got a crush on, he's can't quite work up the courage to do so. Sometimes, he somehow manages to end up fighting with her, even if he really doesn't want to.... If only he could learn to be truer to his feelings!”
Wow…what an add couple. Maybe I’ll just put them together now and take them to the movies or something…take them both out to a diner, let Osu write a Lover’s Novel based on his beautiful new lover… Sadly, I’ll be payin’ for it all.
In all seriousness, no, they can’t mate yet. I tried. They both say no, Osu kicking some dirt up as he said no. (I’ll have an animation later). I’m so glad they both became different adults…now they can cross-breed XD.
So they went to sleep later that day, and I was left wondering about tomorrow.
The big day arrived.
I was in my room, in my bed, when they both awoke. I checked the mating icon, and they started to dance with cute background music. Time for the fun to begin!
I connected them at the top, held them together and pressed B on Osutchi. You know how earlier I didn’t talk anything about the mating icon? Well here it all is, for you to enjoy, the mating process of Mesutchi and Osutchi.
Then the beeping song stopped. It went silent. I looked at the screen and the two just stood there for what seemed to be 4 or 6 whole seconds. Then very slowly they both slid over to the door in their 'room' and went out and off the screen. Then they came back on the screen through the door again, this time with the word "OK" next to them. A tune played and the screen slowly blacked out by forming squares on the screen getting more and more blacked out until the whole screen went black. This time they screen remained black for only a few seconds then the lights went on. When the lights came on Bunbutchi and Kikotchi were hoping around the screen happily.
Soon they seem to calm down a little. Osutchi kind of stood at the right of the screen while Mesutchi got really excited. She began jumping around the screen to some funky music that got faster and faster and her movements got faster as well. The Osutchi stood there beeping kind of like a heart beat, really excited. Then she stops and the music is slower and she stands there in the middle of the screen looking kind of mad or something.
Kikotchi gets this look on her face, and stands at the right of the screen, beeping silently. And then out comes a little baby! She smiles momentarily. The baby looks like a ShiroBabitchi, except with Mimitchi ears. Then she turns around again and the second baby is born. She starts jumping in place and the babies are jumping around and all over each other. Bunbutchi gets all excited when this happens; the 'happy sun' appears over both their shoulders and they jump around happy like this for a long 10 or so seconds.
Then they both calm down again and I notice that Osutchi has a look of anticipation on his face again. Mesutchi seems to almost be talking with her children, like she is yelling at them? That is when one of them is goes off the screen and appears on the Osutchi’s side. Bunbutchi gives his son a big hug. Then they all start jumping around all happy, playing a happy tune. Then after a few seconds things go silent. The mating process is over. I separate the eggs and put the covers back on the tops. The whole process took over a whole minute.
It was so exciting, but to really understand how it feels to watch them mate, get your own pair!
Teletchi (the babies): “Bashful little Teletchi just can't seem to make friends... But in his heart of hearts, he just wants to play with everyone. Please, won't you befriend little Teletchi?”
The babies look so cute X3. They stay next to their parent, and poop once every hour. But since there is very little room on the screen, the poop appears on their heads. The adults poop at their regular times, but it goes right on the baby…uch!
When they eat the adult is alone on the screen and eats like normal. Then the adult turns around and gives the baby a few bites to eat. Unlike the new Tamagotchis, you can actually see the adult give the baby food, and the animation is not just the regular running animation or something. In the game, the adults plays alone, and when its happy, He does his happy sun animation, then the babies do their happy animations. Same goes with about everything else. Everything the baby does is tiny again, while the adult’s is the same old size. It’s so dang cute.
They both went to bed at 10:00, babies next to them.
And now it is August 29, 2005, the last day the adults will be with their kids. I’m going to miss them.
It’s been a while…
I’m sitting quietly in my room, looking down at two plastic eggs. One is pink and one is blue. Both have yellow buttons, a screen with a background that matches the skin color, little word bubbles surrounding the screen, and a small crack near the top being held together by a small chain.
Mesutchi and Osutchi.
The day is August 20, 2005. It’s 10:00 P.M. and I’m sitting quietly in my room, looking down at them. I haven’t used them in two years and I’m starting to think about starting them up again. But I have to look at what is happening with me now. I’m running 4 other Tamagotchis and planning on buying a 5th. But a strange urge came over me. I just HAD to start them both up again.
I put the batteries in and reset both of them at 10:04. I waited until 10:05 to start the timers. And finally, at 10:10, both eggs hatched. Both eggs hatch into the same character, a little black speck dude with tiny eyes. Both of them squeak at me for attention. They we so cute…
Kuritchi: “One minute he's laughing, and the next, he's throwing a temper tantrum! Kuritchi ("Chestnut") sure is a moody guy! His little yellow body may turn red with rage, but his sunny side and angry side just show his wide range of emotion.”
So, I began to take care of them. Both ate the same thing: A bowl of rice of a meal, and a candy for a snack. I get to playing with them and all that stuff. I was actually still surprised how hard Bandai worked on this virtual pet. The babies, in their small size, had everything else small. Happy suns, sickness skulls, angry crossed, beds, and even sleepy Zs…all were shrunk down to a puny size.
His life cycle, ran basically the same as any other baby: Eat, poop, sick, sleep, evolve. So, like I just said, he evolved into MohiTamatchi at 11:12, who went to sleep as soon as he evolved.
I awoke the next day to see Osutchi sulking at the bottom of the screen and Mesutchi squeaking for me. I shall never sleep in again. I quickly nursed both back to health.
MohiTamatchi: “This laid-back guy doesn't worry about the little things in life. His purple Mohawk-style hair-do may look cool, but when he gets mad, all his hair stands on end!”
Now that they are no longer babies, their skulls, happy suns, etc have all returned to natural size. And now that I have explained all this so far, I can tell you more about Mesu and Osu.
Like the new Tamagotchis, they have 3 buttons, 10 icons (9 selectable) and something on top used to connect with another Tamagotchi. Plus they are the same size. The differences are this:
The first icon is the Health Meter. There are 4 screens: Hungry, Happy, Discipline, and Status. The first two screens show Japanese lettering with 4 hearts. But unlike the new Tamagotchis, these hearts are tiny. And I mean tiny. And the discipline meter is taller and less wide. The scale on the 4th screen has a little Kuritchi on it.
The second icon is the food menu. There are two foods. I’ve heard that the foods can change over time.
The third icon is the game. It’s fast, easy, and fun. It’s similar to the P1 game. Your Tama holds up 2 flags, one white, one black. You have to press either A or B to stop the Tama on a certain flag. Meaning when your Tama holds up the white flag, press A. Black flag, B.
4th icon is Restroom (toilet). Still the same.
5th icon is Basting (scold). On the prototype Mesu and Osu, when you use this icon, a hammer whacks your Tama. Harsh. But that was changed when the official versions were released. Funny thing is, when the Tama beeps for discipline, it’s an entirely different beep for when he actually needs something. So I instantly know to scold it. Plus they’ll ask for more than 100% discipline.
6th icon is Remedy (medicine). Still the same.
7th icon is the lights. Same.
8th Icon is the TMP. The 1st screen shows TMP in big letters, and a small crown underneath. The amount of crowns can change overtime, 4 in total. The second screen is the generations.
9th icon is the Mating Icon. I will tell you more about this later, because whenever I try to use it right now, all they do is shake their heads.
And of course, the attention icon is last. Like that will ever change.
The screen is about half the size of the new Tamagotchis, only a little taller than the old Tamas, but less length. Instead of infrared sensors on top, Mesu and Osu have a little metallic connector, the same ones the DigiMon pets used to battle. And it can be covered up with the other end of the shell, which is on the keychain. The background is different for each one of these Tamas. Mesu’s is a little pink room with a heart on the wall, Osu’s is a little blue room with a spade on the wall.
Anyway, both got disciplined to +100% today, They stayed as MohiTamatchi through Monday as well.
On Tuesday, these little buggers evolved. Osutchi became Obotchi.
Obotchi: “A fashionable little gentleman who spends all his time worrying about the little curl in the middle of his forehead. He's really quite a mischievous little guy, but in front of the "grown-ups" he acts like a well-behaved little "Student Council President"-type.”
Mesu became Ojotchi.
Ojotchi: “She may seem well-mannered and charming, but she's still at that mischievous stage, so go easy on her! But she thinks of herself as a proper little lady, so if you don't treat her as such, she might get upset and sulk!”
Mesu looks the same as Osu, but with a little bow in her hair and a little bit different walk. Mesu got disciplined to 100%, but Osu remained at 50%. Plus he accidentally got overfed, and changed into Debutchi, a character so large he fills up the entire screen.
Debutchi: “When the weight increases, your Tamagotchi becomes Debutchi. Play the Flag Game to return him to normal.”
I was no able to use any of the icons besides the health meter and the game. So I just played the game and before long, Osutchi was normal again. Yay. Osu got sick around 7:00 on Thursday, meaning he’ll evolve tomorrow.
The next day, Mesu got sick as well. As strange as it was, she evolved BEFORE Osutchi, who got sick first. Strange. At 11:31, Ojotchi evolved into…Kikotchi.
Kikotchi: “If Kikotchi were to go out with a guy, he'd have to be gentle, and kind, and good-looking, and thin and in shape! Perhaps because of her high standards, most of the guys she falls in love with already have girlfriends...”
I was surprised. I was trying to get Pyonkotchi, but…oh well. Now we wait on Osu.
Osutchi evolved at 11:45 into…BUNBUNCHI! W00t!
Bunbutchi: “He's a little shy and bashful, so even if he wants to say "I love you" to that special girl that he's got a crush on, he's can't quite work up the courage to do so. Sometimes, he somehow manages to end up fighting with her, even if he really doesn't want to.... If only he could learn to be truer to his feelings!”
Wow…what an add couple. Maybe I’ll just put them together now and take them to the movies or something…take them both out to a diner, let Osu write a Lover’s Novel based on his beautiful new lover… Sadly, I’ll be payin’ for it all.
In all seriousness, no, they can’t mate yet. I tried. They both say no, Osu kicking some dirt up as he said no. (I’ll have an animation later). I’m so glad they both became different adults…now they can cross-breed XD.
So they went to sleep later that day, and I was left wondering about tomorrow.
The big day arrived.
I was in my room, in my bed, when they both awoke. I checked the mating icon, and they started to dance with cute background music. Time for the fun to begin!
I connected them at the top, held them together and pressed B on Osutchi. You know how earlier I didn’t talk anything about the mating icon? Well here it all is, for you to enjoy, the mating process of Mesutchi and Osutchi.
Then the beeping song stopped. It went silent. I looked at the screen and the two just stood there for what seemed to be 4 or 6 whole seconds. Then very slowly they both slid over to the door in their 'room' and went out and off the screen. Then they came back on the screen through the door again, this time with the word "OK" next to them. A tune played and the screen slowly blacked out by forming squares on the screen getting more and more blacked out until the whole screen went black. This time they screen remained black for only a few seconds then the lights went on. When the lights came on Bunbutchi and Kikotchi were hoping around the screen happily.
Soon they seem to calm down a little. Osutchi kind of stood at the right of the screen while Mesutchi got really excited. She began jumping around the screen to some funky music that got faster and faster and her movements got faster as well. The Osutchi stood there beeping kind of like a heart beat, really excited. Then she stops and the music is slower and she stands there in the middle of the screen looking kind of mad or something.
Kikotchi gets this look on her face, and stands at the right of the screen, beeping silently. And then out comes a little baby! She smiles momentarily. The baby looks like a ShiroBabitchi, except with Mimitchi ears. Then she turns around again and the second baby is born. She starts jumping in place and the babies are jumping around and all over each other. Bunbutchi gets all excited when this happens; the 'happy sun' appears over both their shoulders and they jump around happy like this for a long 10 or so seconds.
Then they both calm down again and I notice that Osutchi has a look of anticipation on his face again. Mesutchi seems to almost be talking with her children, like she is yelling at them? That is when one of them is goes off the screen and appears on the Osutchi’s side. Bunbutchi gives his son a big hug. Then they all start jumping around all happy, playing a happy tune. Then after a few seconds things go silent. The mating process is over. I separate the eggs and put the covers back on the tops. The whole process took over a whole minute.
It was so exciting, but to really understand how it feels to watch them mate, get your own pair!
Teletchi (the babies): “Bashful little Teletchi just can't seem to make friends... But in his heart of hearts, he just wants to play with everyone. Please, won't you befriend little Teletchi?”
The babies look so cute X3. They stay next to their parent, and poop once every hour. But since there is very little room on the screen, the poop appears on their heads. The adults poop at their regular times, but it goes right on the baby…uch!
When they eat the adult is alone on the screen and eats like normal. Then the adult turns around and gives the baby a few bites to eat. Unlike the new Tamagotchis, you can actually see the adult give the baby food, and the animation is not just the regular running animation or something. In the game, the adults plays alone, and when its happy, He does his happy sun animation, then the babies do their happy animations. Same goes with about everything else. Everything the baby does is tiny again, while the adult’s is the same old size. It’s so dang cute.
They both went to bed at 10:00, babies next to them.
And now it is August 29, 2005, the last day the adults will be with their kids. I’m going to miss them.