Acknowledgments & References

Overview

Background

Analysis

Criticism

Acknowledgments & References

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Acknowledgments -

This paper was inspired by an article from Neo-Tokyo magazine by Xavier Bensky and Usman Haque that introduced me to DK96 and the Tamagotchi, in a very different light than I eventually came to understand them in. Other on-line nexus points acted as invaluable aggregates of research material, including Jun Matsuda's Tamagotchi Page, the Virtual Pet homepage, and in the last few weeks, Jay Ashton's excellent Tamagotchi Fever.

Brief conversations with Professors Howard Besser and Ken Goldberg put me on the right track toward finding enough to write, and gruellingly long conversations with my girlfriend Karleen have helped me determine what was worth writing. Without her tolerance and support I'd have spent the last 4 weeks eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for every meal and talking to myself.

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