Tamagotchi ROM

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Tamagotchi is the name of a Game Boy game released by Bandai in October 1997, and is also known as Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi in Japan. It is very much like the original Tamagotchi, but with additional features such as music, contests, and more games. Upon starting the game, players will select an egg of the 8 there are, which will hatch after a short period of time. After the baby hatches from the egg, the player can choose a name for it. 

Up to three characters can be raised at one time. (Both will show in different screens also music will change depending who screen are you.) All characters from P1 and P2 are featured, but a P1 character may evolve into a P2 character and vice versa. When the Tamagotchi grows old, or if it was sick for too long without being treated, it may die.

If the Tamagotchi was a high age, has won a number of contests, and has lived a well-trained, healthy life once it dies, it will show it happily going back to Tamagotchi Planet in a UFO and then it will appear in a “Tamagotchi Hall of Fame”. The game introduces four new parameters to the check meter – intelligence, body, stress and selfishness.

These parameters provide the primary influence towards evolution and most of them reappear on future video games in the vintage era. While intelligence and body show up in similar bars to the discipline meter on default, stress and selfishness can only be seen if the player holds select, down and the A button.

Whichever is highest out of intelligence or body determines what adult a teenager evolves into out of a set pair – if both stats are equal, the evolution is random; while stress and selfishness determine the tier of the possible resultant adults. A Tamagotchi will lose a quarter of its intelligence and body points every time it wakes up.