You really ended up realizing how unfit for parenthood a bunch of seven to ten-year-old kids were when they couldn't even keep a Tamagotchi alive for more than three days. To be fair to us kids of the '90s, it was difficult when teachers put a ban on them being tended to in the classroom. If your Tamagotchi didn't get fed immediately, it seemed to die within minutes. That's a little demanding if you ask us!
Like so many things from the glory years of the 1990s, Tamagotchi pets have been revived for the current day and new versions of it exist on the department store shelves. However, if you've still got your hands on an original from back in the day, it could be worth a lot now. Recently, a Tamagotchi from 1996 sold for $3,000.