For those of us who laboriously and compassionately raised Tamagotchis and Giga Pets from the egg until their timely passing, our time has come to once again embrace our calling.

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“My Tamagotchi Forever” is now available on Google Play and the App Store and uses the technology of Augmented Reality to find friends and collect treasure throughout your own Tamatown.

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And, let me tell ya, it’s just as addicting and enchanting as the tiny hand-held egg-shaped game of the past.

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It’s pretty much exactly the same premise as before. You raise a tiny Tamagotchi baby into a full grown male or female. Any user can customize his or her own “Tamatown” with toys that your little guy most likes.  Once you find a flat surface as your Tamagotchi moves through its life, your feed him, play games with him and care for him as if you birthed him yourself.

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There are a few downfalls, however. One is that your Tamagotchi needs attention pretty much all day, every day.  If you, say, leave him alone for a few hours to do homework or go to class or live your life as a normal college student, he’s suddenly starving, exhausted and all grown-up.  Call me a neglectful mother or a bad parent, but it took me a time or two to get my little guy to adulthood successfully without him lashing out at me. I barely have time to care for myself these days, let alone a tiny virtual pal.

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Not to mention, it wasn’t quite as nostalgic as I had hoped.  As a huge Tamagotchi fan when I was younger, and a big hater of change, I wasn’t enthusiastic about the Tamatown interface.  Though I admire the efforts of the creator, the Tamatown concept seemed too much like “Pokemon Go”--and there were many reasons why I didn’t download “Pokemon Go.”

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Tamagotchis represented a way for introverted kiddos with little hand-eye coordination to have some fun with little effort. The AR move from three buttons to a whole lotta effort could admittedly be fun for Generation Z kids, but, for a millenial like myself, it was far too complicated.