Digimon are strange creatures living in the Digital World, a parallel universe made of computer data. In 1996 Bandai launched the Tamagotchi (the first virtual pet ever released), an electronic portable game in which the player can raise a small being from another planet in order to make it grow up and evolve in many different forms. After the great success of this game, in 1997 Bandai created the "Digimon Digital Monster" as a new v-pet very similar to the Tamagotchi, but with more monstrous characters and the ability to battle against other players through the connection between two Digimon toys. Later Digimon became also a video-game, a manga and then an anime series which made it popular in USA and Europe, so that many people believe that Digimon was created as a cartoon and ignore the fact that it was primarily a v-pet. Bandai released many versions of Digimon and continues to release new ones until nowadays. However, some of those versions are not properly virt...
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