Hear ye, hear ye, children of the Tamagotchi and Digimon era – your new creature has arrived – on our modernised tech gadgets. Complete with old school graphics,
Portable Pixels' Hatchi is much like the
Tamagotchi and
Digimon that 90s school kids enjoyed, with one exception, Hatchi is an application that can be downloaded for play on the mode of the popular Apple Iphone and Ipad. Yes, Hatchi is the modern world's retro virtual pet.
Just like it's 90s predecessors,
Hatchi needs to be fed, cleaned, read to and exercised. Your Hatchi also needs sleep and lives life on a happiness meter – so don't neglect to feed it it's favourite food. You can choose from an apple, bread, burger, cake, ice cream, chicken drumstick or pizza to feed your Hatchi, but be careful, feeding it food it hates will decrease it's happiness meter, so check in your Hatchi's information section for it's most loved and hated foods, as well as it's personality trait and star sign.
My Hatchi Poe - exercising
My Hatchi Poe eating her favourite food - a hamburger
Poe's Information
The Hatchi goes through four stages of life after hatching out of the egg (unless of course you neglect it and it dies): baby, child, teenager and adult. When your Hatchi becomes a fully-grown adult (when it stops growing and has already reached the final stage of metamorphism) you can opt to release it into the Hatchi Forest Sanctuary, where it will reside in it's own little place for the rest of – well, until you decide to delete the game I suppose. You can release as many adult Hatchis into the forest as you like, so far I have two fully-grown Hatchis that I've released (Zippy and Owla) and I'm currently raising my third Hatchi, a child named Poe (who's in her terrible twos at the moment).
My Hatchi: Zippy
My Hatchi: Owla
So, if you're a 90s kid at heart and want to reminisce a little, why not buy (for $0.99) and download the 3.3MB of Hatchi? That is, of course, if you own an Apple Iphone or Ipad.