{"id":232719,"date":"2017-10-11T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=232719"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:04:34","slug":"tamagotchis-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/232719-tamagotchis-are-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Tamagotchis are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai America is re-releasing the\u00a0Tamagotchi in North America at $15 each, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2017-10-10-tamagotchis-are-going-back-on-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying technology of the keychain toy has not been upgraded, but Bandai has shrunk the unit by 60%.<\/p>\n<p>It will feature the old LCD display &#8211; without backlight &#8211; and the three-button control scheme it launched with in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Bandai relaunching its best-selling toy in Europe in 2013 as the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/92567-tamagotchi-virtual-pets-return.html\">Tamagotchi Friends<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tamagotchi Friends launched in the US in 2014 at $19.99.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/228669-nintendo-ramps-up-production-of-snes-classic.html\">Nintendo ramps up production of SNES Classic<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai is re-releasing the\u00a0Tamagotchi in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22665,22663],"class_list":["post-232719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-bandai","tag-tamagotchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232805,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232719\/revisions\/232805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}