Wait… did you know the official backstory for the 90s classic Tamagotchi is actually incredibly dark?! 👽🥚
Before you thought you were just raising a cute little digital pet attached to your backpack, Bandai’s original 1996 manual laid out a completely unhinged alien lore. It turns out these creatures are actually a species of aliens that crash-landed on Earth—and our atmosphere is highly toxic to them!
To stop them from instantly dying, a scientist named Professor Banzo built their iconic plastic egg keychains as literal life-support suits. This means whenever you forgot to feed them and they died, you weren’t just being a bad pet owner… you were effectively suffocating a tiny alien researcher inside its own life-support pod!
Did you ever manage to keep your Tamagotchi alive, or did you accidentally wipe out an entire alien race? Let me know in the comments! 👇
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