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Everyone is Crazy about the Tamagotchi Erica Horikoshi from Japan
First, the fad spread out among high school girls and office girls, and then the mass media also put out a lot of news to inform the public about tamagotchi. When
a store receives a new shipment of
tamagotchi, many people always find out and
form a huge line outside the store the night before
it opens. They wait there all night, sometimes ten
hours or longer, hoping to buy one. Everyone is
crazy about them. There are never enough, so there are a lot of problems. For example, many high school girls play with them while they are in class, and even office workers play with them when they should be working. As a result, some schools have made rules against them, and they tell the students not to bring them to school. Another problem is that people steal them from each other. Sometimes, a person who has just bought a tamagotchi is followed by other people who couldn't get one and who try to take them. Another problem is that people sell them for too much money, especially the white tomagotchi. On the Internet, these white ones are sold for over 150,000 yen (over $1,500)! Why
do tamagotchis attract so many
people? It's an easy game, but you have to win. If you win the game, the chick (the tamagotchi) is happy and grows well. However, if you lose, the chick is bad and can even die. The company made 8 different kinds of tamagotchi characters, but you don't know which one you will get. People all over Japan want to get a tamagotchi, but sometimes they get a strange one. It is usually hard work to take care of them.
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