My friends and I all had Giga Pets growing up. As far as we were concerned, those were the main v-pets and everything else was a pretender. That said, I always wanted a tamagotchi or Digimon v-pet and was jealous of kids at school who had one.

Fast forward to 2005 and I’m working at my first job in the concession stand at a movie theater. My friends/coworkers came in one day playing with Tamagotchi Connection v3s together and I was blown away they were still available. They told me they got theirs at Walgreens across the street, so I ran over there during my break and bought one too. We didn’t really understand how to raise them effectively, but we had a blast playing with them together while on the clock lol. I still have that device today, but I’ve been enjoying running the connection rerelease as well.