My children recently bought themselves some of the new style Tamagotchis
(the sort that can interact with each other), and watching them playing with
the little virtual beasties got me wondering if anything like that had ever
appeared in fiction.
I know there have been stories about robot dogs or similar as pets. (At
least, I think there have been, though I can't think of any off the top of
my head. Didn't Asimov do a story about a robot dog?)
Are there any pre-Tamagotchi stories about virtual pets - things that
existed only within a computer? Or is this an example where reality beat
fiction to the punch?
Barry
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