Category: accessible Devices
Hi there, does anyone remember those virtual reality pets tamagotchies that used to be around? i heard there was a talking one. anyone know where to get one from? any answers would be helpful.
there are talking ones, though where you would find sucha thing now is beyond me. I had one about 9 years ago.
Shanda
ooo thanks. i'm looking for one.
I'd like to have a talking one. I wonder where they can be found.
what are these things you talk about? are they like gingga pets or something?
Bsically yes. Youstill have to fed itand take care of it.
they have talking ones? I didn't know that! I had a gingga pet, but mom was the one who had to take care of it. now I want to know where to find these things.
I've never heard of a talking tamagotchi, but I think it would be interesting. For some reason, the sighted children were never aloud to take them to school, even though they were onlytoys.
i had one and were almost completely able to take care of it myself, and we weren't allowed to bring them to school which doesn't mean we didn't anyway, because many kids get too anxious over them as if they are real pets. and i have never heard of talking ones, but always wished i had one
I think we weren't allowed to bring them to school, because when they beep in the middle of class, or something, it's very distracting for the other students who are trying to learn.
that's why we always turned the beep off and brought it anyway. lol. but i think it was because some kids wouldn't pay attention to anything else afraid that it could die
Why do children treat an electronic square thing as if it is an animal? I could understand it if it was a real animal, but not a pretend one.
I know what I am doing on my tamagotchi by the sounds it makes.
I honestly was wondering the same thing; if you're going to go to all that trouble, why not just get a real one? I think half the girls I went to middle school with had those things, and were carying them around with them, and one of the girls who rode my bus also had something called a Ciber baby, that was basicly the same principle.
I used to always think they were sending out the wrong message though, because with those if your pet was sick or anything of that nature all you had to do was push one button and he was well again, but what did these kids think was going to happen if they ever got a real pet?
My middle school actually bannded them.
They have a picture of the creature, and I don't see how one can tell what they are doing by the sounds it makes. It's just beeping to me.
Although I'm not sure if there exist talking Tamagachis (spelling?), I used to have a talking Nano Baby 9which operates on the same principle) when I was younger. In addition to the baby, there also existed a talking nano dog and cat, each of which had to be purchased separately. I am not sure whether Nanos are still available or have been discontinued, since it has been over nine years since I have had one for myself. In terms of accessibility, I could pretty much operate it independently, except for the beginning steps of setting the time/date and giving the baby a name, all of which did not provide audible feedback apart from beeps. It was also necessary to memorize the order of items in the main menu and settings list, since items in these too are only indicated using beeps. Otherwise, pretty much everything else apart from checking the baby's health (which, if I remember correctly, could be figured out anyway) was announced verbally or via sound effects, although the picture of the baby on the screen could give a sighted person instant feedback. Now, bearing in mind that it has been quite some time since I've had one, here is what I remember it being able to do.
-- Announces if it is tired, hungry or sick, or if it wants to play
-- Gives verbal feedback wen it is pleased or if it has had enough of something (such as eating)
-- cries when it has been disciplined if it misbehaves (Note that if you discipline it too much, you could discipline it to death)
-- Plays a wiping sound when you have to clean its face or a toilet sound when it has to go to the bathroom
-- Plays the corresponding sounds when it is being fed, given a bottle or administered medicine
-- has two games which you can play with it, one of which is more accessible than the other (I have found Perfect pitch to be somewhat helpful in the more accessible of the two, since it requires copying a series of combinations of four different beeps using the keys, kind of like the game Simon for those who are familiar with it)
-- Grows up over what I believe to be a nine-day period. Every three days, the nano reaches a milestone in its life, indicated by the happy birthday song being played, after which its voice becomes deeper than before.
Okay, so I didn't intend to give the complete review of the talking nano, but I feel like that's what I ended up doing! :). It was definitely one of my favorite toys at the time!
I think you can still buy one of thouse on ebay. I had one but after a while the darn thing stopped talking.
hmm interesting. I guess a search on google may bring something up! man I'm so getting one if there is such thing :)
me too. Those sound like lots of fun, unless you discipline it to death. lindsey, did you learn that the hard way?
In response to the last post I leared it the hard way whenI disciplined mineto death. ButI did it because annoyed me.
I am so getting one of those, and the reason why we don't just go and get a pet for children is because having pets is a big responcibility, and at least with a computerized pet it teaches kids responcibility with out putting to much on them. okay I am going now, see you later.
Yep, Joanne, I did learn it the hard way. Lol.
I have loads of tamagotchis. I also have a talking nanno. I emailed the people that invented them explaining to them how I couldn't see the screens because I couldn't see and that the talking nannos were the only ones i could do almost completely indipendently. They emailed me and said they'd send me a free one! I got the nanno baby around thanksgiving but i need to get a new battery for it.
time for me to get one. they sound like they're a lot of fun to take care of.
wow. a lot of posts. i'm certainly going to see if one's around. i brought a syber dog recently which we thought would be accessible but it wasn't so it ended up going back to the shop. I also want one of those dolls that are like real babies. we used to practice on one in child development and the teacher could set the level, easy or hard.
I didn't know they sold those. They have a new version of tamagotchis out tomorrow. You're supposed to be able to care for mor than one at once. I think I'm getting one soon. They sound cool. Tamatalk already has codes and passwords for them.
lmao, I'm really surprised of linsey's post. since I've never seen one so far.
never heard of a nanno, but off I go to do a bit of research Lol :)
lol
Dude! I so want one of these things! I was totally left out of the tamagachi fad and it made me sooo sad.
yeah. they're pretty awsome. They're a lot mor fun than the talking nannos
So...which ones are accessible? Can someone like give me a direct link so I make sure I get one that's good?
I don't know any direct links. I know the talking nano is a bit mor accessible than the tamagotchis, but it isn't as fun. I am a bigger fan of the tamagotchis. It's a bit harder, but you can figure it out usually with sounds and some guessing. :) They don't make the talking nanos anymore.
I had a talking nanno baby at on point until my sister got really pissed off at it because it wouldn't stop talking and she smashed it against the wall and then it wouldn't work any more.
Yeah. That's what happened to my first one too.
who can i email about acessible tomagachis