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Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2

Giga Pets are digital pet toys. Available in a variety of different characters, each Giga Pet is a palm-sized unit with an LCD screen and attached key ring. To ensure a happy, healthy pet, its owner has to…

31 December 1998

Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 is a simulator developed by Tiger Electronics, released 31 December 1998 on Handheld Electronic LCD.

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What Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 is

Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 is a simulator game developed by Tiger Electronics and released in 1998. It is available on Handheld Electronic LCD only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Giga Pets are digital pet toys. Available in a variety of different characters, each Giga Pet is a palm-sized unit with an LCD screen and attached key ring. To ensure a happy, healthy pet, its owner has to take care of it similar to how one might care for a real animal, including feeding, cleaning, and playing with their Giga Pet.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Wars series

Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 is the 54th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Giga Pets: Star Wars - Rancor in 1998.

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What it launched against

Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

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When did Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 come out?
Giga Pets: Star Wars - R2-D2 was released on 31 December 1998 for Handheld Electronic LCD.

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