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| Tamagotchi World is a very colorful game for Nintendo 64. It is a board game for 1 to 4 people. If only one player plays, you will compete against 3 computer players. The actual cartridge will not fit in U.S. N64s. Be sure you can find an adapter if you plan to buy it. | 
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The opening sequence of Tam 64 shows some little tams on their home planet, and one of them eats the last bit of food. They all get mad, hop into their spaceship, and head for Earth. The scene cuts to the Professor standing on a bridge looking very upset. Next you see Mika-chu walking along the street, also upset, and she sees the Professor on the bridge. Next the little spaceship hits the Professor in the head, and he gets an idea. Back at the lab, the Professor gets mad at something, and then it cuts to the game. [Note: There is a lot of Japanese talking during this part, so I cannot translate what is actually going on.]
| When starting the game, you are able to pick a gen 1 or gen 2 egg (solid or checkerboard), and the color of your egg. You can name it with either Japanese characters or American alphabet, and then you confirm everything and start the game. At this point, there is a screen where Mika-chu is singing, and _lots_ of writing i can't translate. Finally, you begin on the gamescreen. |
| The game screen is split between a room view and the gameboard view. The room on top is a 3-D room where all the tams float around. The gameboard has the 4 little color coodinated eggs that move as each player rolls the dice. Each player starts with 64 points also, that are used for food and play. As you take your first turn, the egg in the top half of the room hatches, and the egg in the bottom half moves around the board. | 
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With each roll, the tam moves that number of spaces on the board. There are different spaces with different 'things' that happen, but a normal turn consists of ONE of the following actions; food, play, flush, discipline, or medicine. Each action costs points. Each tam has a meter with 4 hearts for hungry, 4 hearts for happy, a discipline meter, and a "P" meter (power). You have to keep the meters as full as possible with only one action per turn.
The normal foods are meats, carrots, rice, donuts, cakes, and lollipops, and each costs 3 points. You also have to watch out when you eat, because another tam can bump you out of the way to steal your food.
The game could be one of several ones. One has 2 big balls, you pick one to stand under, and either confetti or a steel girger will fall on your head. On is the high-low number game, and another is a peek-a-boo game where you try not to get hit in the head with a big hammer. Each game costs 2 points.
The flush icon will flush the poop in different ways. Either Mika-chu or Professor runs in to clean it up, or a big gush of water will flush from the top of the screen. Each flush costs 3 points. Medicine gives you a choice between a shot that costs 8 points, or the HUGE pill that costs only 2 points but takes multiple turns to work. Discipline causes a big boxing glove to fly across the screen and pound your little tam's head. That costs 3 points also.
| When a character changes, Mika-chu and the Professor run in the room with a red curtain to cover up that character, and then the curtain falls to reveal what that character transformed into, and they run back out. There are other times when Mika-chu or the Professor run in and do something. When you flush, sometimes they will vacumme up the poop, or pick it up with a stick. |
| Sometimes you will land on a space with the Professor or Mika-chu picture, and they will offer you special items, for instance; when Mika offers to sell you special food items, she runs in the room with a room service cart and serves up HUGE hamburgers, pizzas, steaks, and corndogs. The Professor will offer to sell to a swing to swing around on, a radio that sits next to your tam, or a little pink car that they can cruise around the room in! | 
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There are 21 different types of spaces to land on, which do a variety of different things. Some are cards (that I don't understand). Some will cause a huge anvil to drop on it's head, and some will raise or lower the "P" meter. Some will fill the happy meter, and one space causes a huge refridgerator to drop into the room and spit up a huge bowl of rice which fills your food meter.One space allows you to bet up to 3 points and try your luck at the tama slot machine. One allows all the characters to compete in a game together! There are 10 different games in this part...
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