The Tamagouchi are/were those pocket electronic pets which required "attention/feeding/etc". If they didn't get this they died... Sort of robotic pets with a range of pet like behaviours/responses built in... They were a big fad first among Japanese and then NAm pre-teen/early teens for a while.
MG -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lawrence DeBivort Sent: April 20, 2002 12:03 AM To: Michael Gurstein; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Privatizing the Public: Whose agenda? At What Cost? Greetings, Mike, I am a great fan of Sims programs, but found The Sims pretty weak, in terms of the variety of goals or 'values' that one could program into them. The focus was on material acquisition, and as long as they stayed alive, promotion. i think these weaknesses reflected not any lack of verve on the part of the programmers, but the complexity and dioversity of real life, and the difficulty of capturing that in a model. What is Tamgouchi? Do you recommend taking a look at it? Lawry > > (Think Tamagouchi and the Sims as primitive examples)...
