{"id":47431,"date":"2023-10-20T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/tamagotchi-gets-tweaked-for-a-new-market-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:40","slug":"tamagotchi-gets-tweaked-for-a-new-market-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/tamagotchi-gets-tweaked-for-a-new-market-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamagotchi gets tweaked for a new market &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/start-up-idea-tamagotchi.jpg\" alt=\"start-up-idea-tamagotchi\" title=\"start-up-idea-tamagotchi\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19645\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"start-up-idea-tamagotchi\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/start-up-idea-tamagotchi.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"90\">Years after Tamagotchis died and lay forgotten in drawers, the toy\u2019s Japanese makers are reviving the craze with a new smartphone app.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-9004\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bandai, a Japanese toy-making and video game company, has revealed it will release Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. (Love Is Fun Everywhere) for iOS and Android phones \u201cvery soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along with new features and mini games, the firm also promises a \u201cretro mode\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlay the original game, which was introduced 16 years ago, and raise your Tamagotchi the same way you did when you were just a kid,\u201d Bandai says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Bandai may have pounced on the Tamagotchi, are there other much-loved toys from yesteryear that could be transformed into apps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years after Tamagotchis died and lay forgotten in drawers, the toy\u2019s Japanese makers are reviving the craze with a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}