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to beat with it? Being able to link with your friends and to trade and battle is a brilliant feature and increases the drive to play the game and work at it to get to higher levels, and the intent of the creators had this in mind, especially for completing your Pokedex. In each generation, the two games have slight differences in the Pokemon that can be caught. Perhaps the two legendary Pokemon are different, or maybe just a simple Pokemon that you may encounter within the first few hours of game play. This necessity for your friends to have the corresponding game also increased the sale of the games.

The Digimon games on the other hand have not nearly gotten the acclaim by critics or in sales that Pokemon has amassed, and this is for a good reason too. The first Digimon games were on the Playstation console, and although may have been entertaining, you feel like your working for nothing when you cannot show others what you have accomplished. The action progressed slowly, you didn't have a choice of your Digimon in the beginning, and even though the story was meant to be deeper, it seemed pointless to progress when your Digimon could die if they didn't go to the bathroom on the toilet. The whole game was based around keeping your Digimon as a pet and treating it that way, feeding it, praising it, and chiding it. Overall very boring, and the batlle system was just watching two Digimon duke it out and hope that you had trained your little Digimon on the punching bag enough. When Digimon finally got around to working on the handheld market, they released two one-on-one fighting games instead of an adventure game like they previously had. It took them until 2006 until they finally released Digimon World DS, which finally gave the series a decent name in the RPG world. However even though it had beat the latest Pokemon games to the DS, there were a few things from launching it to success. The sheer addiction value wasn't all there, which is what really sells Pokemon, and the other thing is the small amount of people that actually bought the game. The Wi-Fi function didn't allow other players to battle; you could only do that when you were next to them. Digimon as a video game series has been through a lot of ups and downs, well downs mostly, but even at its peak hasn't come close to challenging Pokemon's reign.

As far as Saturday morning cartoons go, Digimon is leaps and bounds better than Pokemon, without question. The story line is more interesting, the characters

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