"know one" k_hand:
Also Digimon is a spinoff of tomagotchi, not a ripoff of Pokemon. It even had the "Mon" suffix first, as Digimon had it in 1997, while Pokemon got it in 1998.
digimon is a perfectly reasonable alternative to pokemon. they don't even share many gameplay mechanics between them when all's said and done. the people who grew up with one or the other will always defend theirs, though, so you aren't doing any good spouting argumentative bullshit @YoshiPilot.