Giga Pet

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Giga Pets are a series of virtual pets. They were first created and released in 1997 and re-released in 2006 by Tiger Electronics, now a division of Hasbro. They were one of the first virtual pets to be released in the United States.

The first Giga Pets included the Bit Critter, Compu Kitty, Digital Doggie, and Micro Chimp. Baby T-Rex and Virtual Alien were added shortly after, with Komputer Koala and Floppy Frog following. The latter of which became a rare collector's item, and is widely regarded as the best Giga Pet ever made. Floppy Frogs have been known to be sold on eBay for up to 28 dollars. When Tiger Electronics decided to release a new line of pets, they called them Giga Friends. These included such pets as the Salem the Cat giga pet, Looney Tunes, Giga Farm, and various Star Wars characters, among others.

Giga Pets were re-released in 2006, this time including a dragon lizard, a bunny, a tomcat, a pixie, a puffball, a pup and a scorpion as mini-pets. There is also a controller called Giga Pets Explorer that can be simply plugged into a TV, enabling the user to have their mini-pet pair up with a dog, a panda, or a monkey, onscreen.

Some people were confused^{[citation needed]} about the box art of Giga Pets Explorer because it said that when the mini-pet was plugged into the controller, it would expand the player's choices by allowing them to pick the mini-pet instead of the usual panda, monkey, and dog. There may be new choices soon.