2004, Jan Jagodzinski, Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 202:
Like a Tamagotchi toy, you have to look after them — jobs, love, marriage, possessions, and their bodily functions[…]. If they aren't happy, like the Tamagotchi toy, they fall into a depression.
2006, Ken Hillis, Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 21:
But mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending.
She has a Tamagotchi for Marcus. Rita Kavanagh told her that it was what all the kids wanted this year. She’d been looking for a Tamagotchi for her own granddaughter.
2007, Bernd Pichler, “Future Challenges for the Chief Financial Officer in China”, in Ralph Berndt, editor, Internationale Wettbewerbsstrategien: Die globale Wirtschaft und die Herausforderung China, volume 14 [Herausforderungen an das Management], Zürich: Graduate School of Business Administration, →ISBN, page 307:
It always is planned to be a real decision support tool, but unfortunately in most cases it will degenerate into a Management-Tamagotchi, a thing that needs permanent nurturing, but is of no real value.
2012, Rue Liu, “Quad the green tech Tamagotchi toy for kids”, in SlashGear[1]:
A toy designed by Endrit Hanjo, called the Quad, works like the Tamagotchi toys of yesteryears but it comes with a catch.
