Spread Certificate · No. HIS-01222
This certifies how far it spread
Tamagotchi
Bandai; co-developed with WiZ ·October 1996 ·seeded onRetailthenPressOpen web
Spread Score
48
Notable
Verified independently
40M sold
Original-boom sales reported by TIME
TIME
10K sold
FAO Schwarz New York launch order sold out
The New York Times (Kenneth N. Gilpin; reprint at VirtualPet)
Jun 1997
Peak proxy date, Oct 10 ’96 to Jun 1997
3 platforms
Started on Retail
Claimed, not audited
13M sold
Accumulated units through September; geography unspecified
Per Reuters (Miki Shimogori; reprint at VirtualPet)
5M sold
Bandai cumulative units reported at the US launch
Per The New York Times (Andrew Pollack; reprint at VirtualPet)
4M sold
Japan units bought in prior four months, Bandai via WSJ
Per The Wall Street Journal (Joseph Pereira; reprint at VirtualPet)