developer tamagotchi 64: minna de tamagotchi world
After its merger with game developer and amusement facility operator ___MASK64___ , ___MASK46___ Company , Limited is now under the management of ___MASK46___ ___MASK64___ Holdings and a member of ___MASK46___ ___MASK64___ Group . After group reorganisation in 2006 , ___MASK46___ heads the group ' s Toys and Hobby Strategic Business Unit ( SBU ). The , stylized as ___MASK63___ and often referred to as N64 , is ___MASK63___ ' s third home video game console for the international market . Named for its 64 - bit central processing unit , it was released in June 1996 in Japan , September 1996 in North America , March 1997 in Europe and Australia , September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil . It is the industry ' s last major successive home console to use the cartridge as its primary storage format , as all succeeding home consoles up until the ___MASK63___ Switch used an optical format . In addition , current handheld systems ( such as the PlayStation Vita and ___MASK63___ 3DS ) also use cartridges . While the ___MASK63___ 64 was succeeded by ___MASK63___ ' s MiniDVD - based GameCube in November 2001 , the consoles remained available until the system was retired in late 2003 . Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s , ___MASK63___ then developed into a video game company in the 1970s , ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan ' s third most - valuable company with a market value of over $ 85 billion . From 1992 until 2016 , ___MASK63___ was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball ' s Seattle Mariners . Tamagotchi 64 : Minna de Tamagotchi World is a ___MASK63___ 64 game released only in Japan in 1997 . It is a virtual board game based on the Tamagotchi toy . The is a handheld digital pet , created in Japan by of WiZ and Aki Maita of ___MASK46___ . It was first sold by ___MASK46___ on November 23 , 1996 in Japan , quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the 1990s . As of 2010 , over 76 million Tamagotchis have been sold world - wide . Most Tamagotchi are housed in a small egg - shaped computer with an interface usually consisting of three buttons , although the number of buttons may vary . ___MASK89___ , officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), is a state in East Asia . Neighbors include China ( officially the People ' s Republic of China , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the Philippines to the south . ___MASK89___ is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations , and the one with the largest economy . The is a home video game console released by ___MASK63___ in Japan on September 14 , 2001 ; in North America on November 18 , 2001 ; in Europe on May 3 , 2002 ; and in Australia on May 17 , 2002 . The sixth - generation console is the successor to the ___MASK63___ 64 and competed with Sony Computer Entertainment ' s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft ' s Xbox . Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of Japan ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near ___MASK89___ in the southwest . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over ___MASK89___ . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower .