- Giga Pet
Giga Pets are a series of
virtual pets . They were first created and released in 1997 and re-released in 2006 byTiger Electronics , now a division ofHasbro . They were one of the firstvirtual pets to be released in theUnited States .The first Giga Pets included the Bit Critter, Compu Kitty, Digital Doggie, and Micro Chimp. Baby T-Rex and Virtual Alien were added shortly after, with Komputer Koala and Floppy Frog following. The latter of which became a rare collector's item, and is widely regarded as the best Giga Pet ever made. Floppy Frogs have been known to be sold on eBay for up to 28 dollars. When Tiger Electronics decided to release a new line of pets, they called them Giga Friends. These included such pets as the
Salem the Cat giga pet,Looney Tunes , Giga Farm, and variousStar Wars characters, among others.Giga Pets were re-released in 2006, this time including a dragon
lizard , abunny , a tomcat, apixie , a puffball, apup and ascorpion as mini-pets. There is also a controller called "Giga Pets Explorer" that can be simply plugged into a TV, enabling the user to have their mini-pet pair up with adog , a panda, or amonkey , onscreen.Some people were confusedFact|date=February 2007 about the box art of "Giga Pets Explorer" because it said that when the mini-pet was plugged into the controller, it would expand the player's choices by allowing them to pick the mini-pet instead of the usual panda, monkey, and dog. There may be new choices soon.
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Tamagotchi References
[http://www.gigapets.com Official Website]
[http://cait.netdojo.com/giga/ Giga Pet Stop]
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