We’ve seen Twitch play games ranging from Pokémon to Halo. When thousands of people are trying to play a single game, it goes about well as you’d expect. Surprisingly, Twitch was able to beat both Pokémon and Halo. Now its users are trying something even more difficult.
A new Twitch channel has popped up that allows users to play Tamagotchi, the Japanese electronic toy pet that was all the rage in the late 1990s.
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It’s an interesting contraption. It reads the inputs that the Twitch chat room votes to use, and then a mechanical arm presses one of three buttons. Considering that Tamagotchi are notoriously difficult to keep alive, we wouldn’t be surprised if Twitch’s new pet dies repeatedly.
H/T NY Mag | Photo via Lauren Garza/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
