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I would love a modernized tamagothi, I live in London and aren't allowed pets, but I would love a wee virtual cat.

Face recognition is at the point where you can recognise different faces (members in the family) so that would make the kitty happy and play a bit. Throw a ball around and play fetch, that sort of thing

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The 'tamagothi' is a parody of the Tamagotchi ('the little egg'), I think you meant the latter.

That should be tamagotchi. It's a geminated 'ch', at least in the original Japanese.

Ah yes, thank you!

I like that. "Thanks for nitpicking my spelling."

As if no one could figure out what you were talking about.

> Thanks for nitpicking my spelling

I didn't write that, you did, I did upvote the GP, and my thanks were sincere. To expand on that I'm more than happy to have mistakes corrected so at least I don't end up propagating wrong spellings or ideas or to have them further ingrained. Actually, I'm stupid for not looking it up.

Mine was a jerk comment. Not going to attempt to defend that.

You should try My Talking Tom - http://talkingtomandfriends.com/tom/. (links to stores in the link). If you're more keen on female cats, there's also My Talking Angela (or other virtual pets from the series). Check it out, it's really well made and tons of fun ;).

Another very popular one is Pou.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.pou.app&hl=...

It's also an impressive story of a single developer.

http://www.wamda.com/2013/05/the-24-year-old-lebanese-entrep...

I think Pou is much more similar to the original Tamagotchi, and very impressive too.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.namcobanda... might be a pretty good substitute too.

Wow, just realised how similar this would be to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I find android animals like that cool, but also kind of creepy.

You can`t have a pet in London?

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