The Tamagotchi School FureFure! Club Activities! (たまごっちスクールでフレフレおーえん！部活動！), or TamaFure (たまフレ) for short, is a home Deka Tamagotchi unit released by Bandai in April 2007, created to accompany both versions of the Tamagotchi School device.
It has a motion detection function that is used for games and interacting with on-screen characters.
Design[]
The TamaFure is similar in size to the original Home Deka Tamagotchi, except it is more egg-shaped and positioned lengthwise (like a Tamagotchi School), and the screen is smaller.
There is only one shell design, which is sky blue with a white egg-crack screen border, yellow buttons, and a design of Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi performing their activities along with 4 instances of Grippatchi. "TMGC School" is printed in small white letters near the bottom.
The infra-red communicator is shaped like a heart. The motion detector has the word "HOI!" above it in orange. The A button is to the left of the screen, and the B and C buttons are on the right.
Features[]
Grippatchi is the playable Tamagotchi and main character on this device. It is her job to help manage her students' club activities by playing games, enrolling students in clubs, interacting with characters by waving, and collecting leaves. The goal of the device is to raise all three clubs (Soccer, Cooking, and Gardening) to the highest rank possible by winning tournaments.
There are only four icons, which represent the sports club, cooking club, gardening club, and principal's office. The icons can't be selected, and pressing the A button will instead make a text menu appear. The purpose of the icons is to light up when one of the locations needs attention, such as when the head of a club wants to ask Grippatchi for more supplies. Multiple icons may be lit up at once.
When visiting a club, an animation of some of the club's members doing the activity will be showing. Then the player can play a game or interact with a character.
Staff Room[]
The Staff Room is the main screen and is where Grippatchi can manage clubs, look at past announcements, recruit new students, customize the room, and look at important information.
On the screen, the number of leaves Grippatchi has will be displayed on the top left corner of the screen, with the amount maxing at 999. Grippatchi herself will also be idling on screen. If the user decorated the room with an item, it will be displayed next to her.
Depending on which button the user presses, different menu options will appear:
Staff Menu (A Button)[]
- Go Outside: Grippatchi can visit various locations at Tamagotchi School. Pressing A will cycle through the location and pressing B will select it. The locations that can visited in order are:
- Staff Room
- Schoolyard
- Home Ec Room
- Flower Beds
- Gym
- Classroom
- Restrooms
- Principal's Office
- Tama Cram School
- Club Power: The status of each club can be reviewed here. Once a club is selected, the user can look at these options
- Team Points & Rank: The current club's number of points and rank is displayed here. The rank can be increased by winning tournaments and points can be increased by playing games.
- Member Points: Each club member's base points are broken down based on their strongest and weakest subjects. The maximum number of member points a club can have is 15.
- Club Members: Each current club member can be checked here by scrolling through with the A button.
- Review Members: The member will be displayed on screen along with their strongest subject in the top left corner. Pressing the B button on a member will bring up two options
- Change Club: The user can select a different club for the member to join as long as the club doesn't already have 5 members.
- Quit Club: The user can have a member quit their club. Club leaders (Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi) cannot leave their club.
- Review Members: The member will be displayed on screen along with their strongest subject in the top left corner. Pressing the B button on a member will bring up two options
- Treasures: Items earned from winning tournaments or received from Principal Mimizu can be used here. For some items, a number will appear on the top left of the screen indicating how many uses it has left. Pressing the B button on an item will use it. There are three categories of items:
- Trophy: Earned from winning a tournament
- Decoration: Used to decorate the staff room. Certain items have effects.
- Cheering: Using these items will raise a club's team points and give good leaves.
- Broadcasts: The latest announcements can be checked here if the user missed them
- Tournaments: Broadcastchi will announce which club is holding a tournament that day. This option is not available between 12:00 AM to 8:00 AM
- Announcements: Any news the club leaders or Principal Mimizu have made can viewed here. Announcements are deleted/replaced after two hours.
- Connection: New students can be recruited from a Tamagotchi School device. The user must select a club for the student to join first and then connect the TamaFure with a Tamagotchi School (connection for the School can be initiated by selecting the TamaStation 2 option in its connection menu).
Clock Screen (B Button)[]
Reactions (C button)[]
By pressing the C-button, the user can see what mood Grippatchi is in. The mood Grippatchi feels will change depending on her clubs' performances and status.
Student Clubs[]
There are four clubs Grippatchi can visit and manage by visiting the Schoolyard, Home Ec Room, Garden, and Gym. Once she arrives at the location, pressing the B button will show an animation of the club leader either practicing, slacking off, or idling with a speech bubble next to them. Pressing the A button will bring up the club menu with these options below. Note that the first four options may ask the user to do a cheer (waving their hand in front of the IR sensor) when prompted. Additionally, note that the Gym does not have a club to manage and only offers the cheerleading game to play.
- Good Leaves: If the students are practicing, Grippatchi can give good leaves to praise them. At least 10 leaves must be in the inventory to select this option.
- Bad Leaves: If the students are slacking off, Grippatchi can give bad leaves to scold them. At least 10 leaves must be in the inventory to select this option.
- What's Up?: If the club leader has a speech bubble next to them Grippatchi can listen to what they have to say.
- Tournament: The user can participate in a tournament to raise the club's rank and win a prize. Tournaments can be entered from 8 AM to 12 AM as many times as wanted as long as the club participating has the right class rank. The kind of tournament available to enter is dependent on the day
- Soccer: Monday, Thursday, Sunday
- Cooking: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday
- Gardening: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
- Club Power: The team points, base points, and rank can be viewed here. This option is also available in the Staff Room.
- Member Review: Each current club member can be checked here by scrolling through with the A button. This option is also available in the Staff Room though unlike the option there, the user is unable to make members change clubs or quit.
- Practice: The user can play a game to earn team points and leaves. Each club has one game to play.
- Soccer: The mini-game involves jumping over barricades while kicking a ball by pressing B. It needs to be timed so that neither the ball nor the character hit a barricade. The player needs to jump 30 barricades to earn the maximum number of leaves.
- Cooking: The mini-game requires motion detection. Tamagotchis will come by wanting food, and the player needs to rapidly wave their hand in front of the device for the club student to move a pan over heat. When it is ready, the player needs to press A and cook for the next Tamagotchi. Taking too long can cause the food to burn or the Tamagotchi to get impatient and leave. The player needs to serve 10 plates to earn the maximum number of leaves.
- Gardening: The mini-game is about hitting moles with a toy hammer to stop them from ruining the garden. Plant sprouts and moles will keep popping up on either side of the student. The player needs to press A if a mole is on the left, or B if a mole is on the right. The player should not press any button when both instances are plant sprouts. The player needs to hit 30 moles to win.
- Cheerleading: The user simply needs to wave their hand in front of the device as quickly as possible, and the number of points they earn depends on how much they waved.
Classroom[]
When the Grippatchi visits here, Mr. Turtlepedia can introduce Tamagotchis that want to join in a club activity. Pressing the A button will bring up the option to recruit a student and the screen will change to show a student standing far away. The user will then be prompted to wave to them (through the IR sensor) to call them over. Once the student arrives, the user either select a club for them to join or send them away. If the user picks a club that is already full, they will be asked to switch out a student for the new one or send them away. Recruiting a student requires 10 leaves.
Restroom[]
Pressing the B button at this location will let Grippatchi stand in front of a mirror to look at herself. Occasionally, other students will be in the restroom and a menu will pop up asking if the user wants to eavesdrop on them. What the students will gossip about will depend on the clubs' performances and Grippatchi's mood.
Principal's Office[]
Principal Mimizu will either greet Grippatchi or look deep in thought with a speech bubble next to him. The user has two options when pressing A to bring up the menu
- Item Search: This is a game where Principal Mimizu will hide a gift in one of four holes, which will then quickly switch around. The player needs to select the right hole and then rapidly wave their hand to dig. If they falter, the present can easily be lost.
- Chat: If Mimizu has a speech bubble next to him, selecting this option allows Grippatchi to hear what he has to say. If the player has made good progress in managing the student clubs, Mimizu may reward them with an item.
Tama Cram School[]
This location allows the user to send students to a Tamagotchi School device. Pressing the B button brings up the connection screen and pressing it again will put the device in connection standby mode. Connection for the Tamagotchi School must initiated on its end by selecting the JukuTama option in its connection menu. Once connection between the two devices is made, a random student will leave the TamaFure and arrive on the Tamagotchi School to join the class there.
Characters[]
Staff[]
Students (incomplete)[]
- Mametchi
- Memetchi
- Kuchipatchi
- Ura Mametchi
- Ura Memetchi
- Ura Kuchipatchi
- Yattatchi
- Ponytchi
- Ichigotchi
- Ringotchi
- Tosakatchi
- Togetchi
- Makiko
- Kuromametchi
- Mimitchi
- Ciaotchi
- Shimashimatchi
- Marotchi
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Official Page (Archive link)
- English-Translated Manual