History Franchise / Tamagotchi

* CraftingMechanic: ''Tamagotchi Adventure Kingdom'' allows Mametchi to craft things from blueprints using materials found in stores and around Tamagotchi Planet. Several of the game's sidequests require you to have Mametchi craft items to complete them.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Prior to 2009, the Japanese romanization of the franchise was "TAMAGOTCH'S", based on the word's literal meaning (a combination of the Japanese word for egg, "tamago", and the English word "watch").

''Tamagotchi'' is a VirtualPet series by Creator/{{Bandai}}. Ever since the toys were relaunched in 2004, there have been tons of other ''Tamagotchi''-related media, such as music, a line of UsefulNotes/NintendoDS {{Licensed Game}}s, and even two department stores in Japan. The franchise also got a series of {{Animated Adaptation}}s animated by Creator/OLMIncorporated.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' (1997): A game adaptation of the original Tamagotchi toys for the Nintendo UsefulNotes/GameBoy. It was followed up by two sequels, ''Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi 2'' and ''Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Osutchi to Mesutchi'' for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, respectively, neither of which were ever released outside Japan.

** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Wario]] are two of the possible "Special Adults" from the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game ''64 de Hakken! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World''.
** In the [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn game ''Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park'', there's a family of raiseable Tamagotchis all based on Sega characters (Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, VideoGame/AlexKidd, [[VideoGame/FantasyZone Opa-Opa]], VideoGame/{{Flicky}}, and VideoGame/{{Pengo}}).

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Something like this. While this wasn't guaranteed for all ''Tamagotchi'' works from the era, when the franchise released installments in the late 90's, it had a tendency to have Japanese-exclusive ones include "[x] de Hakken! Tamagotchi" (meaning "Found in [x]! Tamagotchi") in the title, with the "[x]" representing the medium the work was in. Examples include ''Anime TV de Hakken!! Tamagotchi'', ''Manga/MangaDeHakkenTamagotchi'', ''[[UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 64]] de Hakken! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World'', and ''UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park''. Even the official Japanese website is called "Net de Hakken! Tamagotchi", a title of which remains to this day.

''Tamagotchi'' is a VirtualPet series by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai]]. Ever since the toys were relaunched in 2004, there have been tons of other ''Tamagotchi''-related media, such as music, a line of UsefulNotes/NintendoDS {{Licensed Game}}s, and even two department stores in Japan. The franchise also got a series of {{Animated Adaptation}}s animated by Creator/OLMIncorporated.

* ExcitedShowTitle: The show and films have this. The only one that averts this is ''Anime/TamagotchiTheMovie'', at least outside of Japan (its original Japanese title is "Eiga de Tojo! Tamagotchi Dokidoki! Uchu no Maigotchi!?").

* LicensedGame: Goes both ways.
** Several licensed ''Tamagotchi'' video games have been made for multiple platforms, with the ''Corner Shop'' games on the Nintendo DS and ''Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park'' for the Sega Saturn (predictably enough, given its title) being two examples.
** Besides this, the Tamagotchi toys ''themselves'' have become a platform for licensing, as virtual pets have been made based on [[Film/RebirthOfMothra2 Mothra]], Manga/{{Doraemon}}, Creator/{{Sanrio}}, Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, Creator/{{Disney}}, {{Shoujo}} magazine ''Ciao'' and ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'', among others.

** In ''Tamagotchi Video Adventures'', the Tamagotchis speak an alien language, but Mimitchi [[BreakingTheFourthWall realizes the viewers don't understand what they're saying]] and brings out a [[TranslatorMicrobes translation machine]] to rectify the problem. Even then, though, only Cosmotchi's speech is coverted into English.

''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' is a VirtualPet series by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai]]. Ever since the toys were relaunched in 2004, there have been tons of other ''Tamagotchi''-related media, such as music, a line of UsefulNotes/NintendoDS {{Licensed Game}}s, and even two department stores in Japan. The franchise also got a series of {{Animated Adaptation}}s animated by Creator/OLMIncorporated.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' (1996-present): The original VirtualPet toys. The pets start out as little babies and can grow into a variety of different adult types from there depending on how much the player takes care of them.

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** Besides this, the Tamagotchi toys ''themselves'' have become a platform for licensing, as virtual pets have been made based on [[Film/RebirthOfMothra2 Mothra]], {{Anime/Doraemon}}, {{Creator/Sanrio}}, {{Franchise/Pokemon}}, Creator/{{Disney}}, {{Shoujo}} magazine ''Ciao'' and ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'', among others.

** In ''Tamagotchi Video Adventures'', the Tamagotchis speak an alien language, but Mimitchi realizes the viewers don't understand what they're saying and brings out a [[TranslatorMicrobes translation machine]] to rectify the problem. Even then, though, only Cosmotchi's speech is coverted into English.

* ''Anime/TamagotchiHontoNoHanashi'' (1997): The franchise's first ever animated adaptation, about how Professor Banzo discovered the Tamagotchis. It was shown at the [[Creator/ToeiAnimation Toei]] Summer Anime Fair in 1997 alongside a ''[[Anime/CuteyHoney Cutie Honey Flash]]'' film.

** ''Tamagotchi Honto no Hanashi'', the toys' first ever AnimatedAdaptation from the 90's, is about nine minutes long.

* CartoonJuggling: In ''Tamagotchi: Party On!'', landing on an Event space has a chance of making your playyer character volunteering for a senior center. The player character and one of the seniors are shown juggling in the "shower" fashion.

* TheBlank: In one of the ''Sorette, Kucipatchi.'' shorts, Kuchipatchi freaks out when all his friends and family don't have their faces (though his parents still have their mouths). It's AllJustADream, thankfully.

* SuperAdvanceTitle64: The Nintendo 64 game ''64 de Hakken! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World'' and the Sega Saturn game ''Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park''.

* ImpairmentShot: One episode of ''Anime TV de Hakken!! Tamagotchi'' is about Ginjrotchi doing a dance and impressing a bunch of Tamagotchis. The crowd wants to see him do the dance so badly that he tires himself out, and a shot from his point of view shows said crowd blurry from him being so tired.