Is the Tamagotchi Original Pet Worth It?

Here's the bit the listing buries: the clock never stops. The moment you turn it on, an internal timer starts tracking hunger, happiness, cleanliness and discipline whether you're looking at it or not, which is why it beeps at you mid-meeting. Three buttons control everything: feed it, play the character-guessing minigame with it, scold it if it's whining for no reason. Every choice you make gets tallied quietly in the background, and that tally is what decides which of seven possible adults it grows into, egg to child to adult, over roughly a real-world day of steady attention. Ignore it for a stretch at any stage and that generation can end early, not because the toy is fragile, but because neglect is the actual mechanic, the same way it was in 1997. There's no pause button and no way to fast-forward past a bad night. The whole appeal, and the whole demand, is that it keeps running on your schedule instead of its own.