Original Tamagotchis are back, try not to kill them this time

Putting the concept of “adulting” to the test, Japanese toy maker Bandai has re-launched its original line of Tamagotchi “virtual pets” to find out whether people who were kids in the ’90s are any better equipped to handle the responsibility of keeping a toy alive than they were 20 years ago. The toys went on sale in Japan at the beginning of April, according to Business Insider, and come in the same six colors used in their original launch back in 1996. The new-original Tamagotchi are half the size of the original-original Tamagotchi, but are otherwise the same, in contrast with the company’s attempts to update the toy’s charmingly retrograde graphics with lines like the recent “Tamagotchi Digital Friends.”