The further exploits, in Spain, of Tamagotchi

The newspaper La Vanguardia reports about a new revival of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning virtual pet:

Tamagotchi lives in Barcelona

For an entire generation, Tamagotchi represented a toy that carried responsibility. Those first virtual pets that lived in oval-shaped devices caused a real sensation around the world. Its fame was so great that its authors, Akihiro Yokoi, from Wiz Company, and Aki Maita, from Bandai, were awarded the parodic Ig Nobel Prizes in 1997, in the Economics category, “for converting millions of hours of work into wasted time.” in taking care of virtual pets”. Since then, those tiny beings, the tamagotchis, have lived among us, whether in the form of a device or later video games. The last one, Tamagotchi Adventure Kingdom , was born in Barcelona….