{"id":45389,"date":"2021-11-30T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=45389"},"modified":"2021-12-17T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:20:02","slug":"tamagotchi-turns-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/tamagotchi-turns-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamagotchi turns 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is now the 25th Anniversary of Tamagotchi and users are reminiscing on the times and bringing back old memories of the highly popular digital pet game.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamagotchi is an egg-shaped digital pet game, which fits perfectly in every pocket. Tamagotchi offers a variety of colours and designs. Choosing  between 4 pets Tamagotchi users could raise their virtual pet by feeding, cleaning, giving them attention, playing with them and stop them from crying. 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PLAYS \ud83d\udd79 (@exceptionsplays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exceptionsplays\/status\/1463997234635227139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter users were showing off their Tamagotchis to celebrate their 25th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was inconsolable when mine died.  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