Digimon of the franchise, a device marketed in June 1997 with the name Digimon, a short for "Digital Monster". Aiming at the male audience and created by Akiyoshi Hongo (a pseudonym that refers to the creators of "Tamagotchi"), this device shows to players a virtual pet composed entirely of data and designed to play and fight. In February 1998, the "DigiMon" fighting game, compatible with Windows 95 and developed by Rapture Technologies, Inc., was announced. The one-shot manga "C'mon Digimon", designed by Tenya Yabuno, was published in the Japanese magazine V-Jump by Shueisha in 1997. A second generation of "virtual pets"
The World That Never Was and his sympathy for his subjects. Writing for "The A.V. Club", Samantha Nelson gave the book a rating of "B-", explaining that "Butterworth's fascination with the era is a mixed blessing"; while Clif Garboden of the "Boston Phoenix" questioned the book's style and presentation but described it as "interesting, important, impressively (too) thorough, fair, and eye-opening". In the "International Socialist Review", Eric Kerl wrote ""The World That Never Was" brilliantly contextualizes the political radicalism of the time", but criticised Butterworth's ambivalence towards Marxism and Leninism and lack of an analysis of revolutionary strategy. The World That Never Was The World