Four digital pets from Top Secret Toys have been released on Amazon. They are inspired by virtual pets like CompuKitty from the ’90s. For $19.99 each, the GigaPets line includes Bit Bunnies, Floppy Frog, Pixie, and StarCat/CompuKitty.
GigaPets come with keychains and are enclosed by translucent glitter shells with four buttons and icons matching the pet’s theme.
According to Toybook, “GigaPets Bit Bunnies features three bunnies, seven evolutions, and 13 mini-games. Players can raise the bunnies from baby to mother, and each one has its own design, personality, animations, and games.
“Kids can unlock different games while raising the digital pet. With Floppy Frog, players can feed the virtual animal and take it to the vet. They can teach it tricks, play nine mini-games, and more. Floppy Frog grows in size as the player cares for it and features five evolutions.”
Top Secret Toys Rolls Out Four New GigaPets
GigaPets StarCat/CompuKitty combines the original CompuKitty with a new character, StarCat. Kids can feed both pets, play minigames, take them to the vet, and teach them tricks. It includes two levels of difficulty: StarCat is designed for beginners, while CompuKitty is designed for children seeking greater challenges. Pixie includes eight evolutions and four mini-games.
Kids can defend the forest, catch fish, dive through hoops, help Pixie navigate mazes, cast weather spells, create potions, and more.
According to the online Wikipedia, “Giga Pets are digital pet toys that were first released by Tiger Electronics in the United States in 1997 in the midst of a virtual-pet toy fad. Available in a variety of different characters, each Giga Pet is a palm-sized unit with an LCD screen and attached key ring.
“Three versions were initially available at the release, Digital Doggie, Compu Kitty, and Micro Chimp, and by the summer of 1997, three additional versions were released in order to appeal more to boys, Baby T-Rex (The Lost World: Jurassic Park), Virtual Alien, and Bit-Critter.”
