Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 17.50 (Patreon)

Yeah, Digimon fans just LOVE to counter people who claim it's just a rip-off of Pokemon by pointing out that Digimon actually hit stores FIRST... but they're a lot less eager to acknowledge that the REASON the first Digimon devices hit store shelves was just to be a Tamagotchi rip-off. Seriously, that's what the original incarnation of Digimon was: Tamagotchi except you could make them fight. I mean, just look at those little black and white sprites in the flashback. That's no accident, it's a deliberate callback to the franchise origins.

(And yes, I'm STILL mining content out of this one episode. Look, I can't control when inspiration strikes, I just gotta run with it when it does.)