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Since it appeared in 2012, Pou has been one of the most downloaded applications on the Google Play Store. The game developed by Zakeh maintains a large number of followers and its popularity does not fall due to the appearance of more complex or sophisticated offers. Why is Pou so popular? What makes such a simple looking game get so many users?
Pou is one of the most popular and famous games within mobile applications. In December 2019, the app mysteriously disappeared from the Google Play Store and fans soon began to wonder what had happened
In the 1990s one of the main global phenomena was the Tamagotchi. Games created by the Japanese company Bandai reached millions of homes. Years later, in 2012, Pou would remember the phenomenon of virtual pets. Pou's success rekindled interest in caring for digital animals and Bandai returned to the fray
Almost ten years later, the game created by Paul Salameh in 2012, is still one of the mobile games chosen by many users. A virtual pet that remembered a Tamagotchi and earned the affection of young and old. The game is based on getting your pet to the highest levels. Its own creator has said on many occasions that he does not like that comparison and that his Pou has many differences. With confinement, it has been one of the most downloaded games and has returned it to the top of the most popular apps. It has become one of the options to spend the days at home, it also manages to get responsibility with a pet, even if it is virtual. A few months ago, on Facebook a great stir was generated by a news story that said that Pou was going to disappear forever from Google Play and the App Store
The comparisons are odious, and it was inevitable that it would appear between the two great games that have a pet as the protagonist. Tamagotchi appeared in 1997 and became the most addictive game of all time. Its gameplay was simple, on a small console in the shape of an egg, a virtual pet grew as it took care of itself. If you stopped caring for him, he would die, a life lesson for the little ones. In 2012, with Tamagotchi forgotten in the memories of a generation, Pou appeared, with the difference that it was a mobile app and in addition to taking care of the pet, it included other games with which you could play with it. In 2018 Tamagotchi released its reissue as an app. There is an updated version and another classic version, in this one it reproduces the model of the original mascot, to the point of imitating its graphics. Which one do you prefer?
Every child, and not a child, wants a pet. That animal that accompanies us in many moments of our lives, but it is not always possible, and for those people who cannot have one at home there is the option of adopting a virtual one. In addition to entertaining, they teach the little ones to be responsible with creatures
