>early games remembered as a classic of the era
>digimon takes top spot on monster catching games and does extremely well, advancing the genre forward and growing with the playerbase
>without the stranglehold on the market, other monster catching games would catch on and flourish
>millions of kids would be saved from being hoarded into autistic cults like /vp/ or pokemon related discords
>masuda would eventually fail to pay his debt off to the yakuza and get executed, turner would die in some britbong rapefugee massacre, and joe serebii would die on the streets alone and homeless
What did we do to deserve living in this timeline