The first, Hey You, Pikachu! was a pet sim — not unlike a Tomagotchi but with 3D graphics — in which you communicated with Pokémon’s most iconic creature using a microphone peripheral.

Hey You, Pikachu! was notorious when it launched at the turn of the millennium for Pikachu’s frustrating and unresponsive AI. The idea is that the player can communicate with Pikachu through a ...