-- DigiMon -- "Digital Monsters" -- are a product of Bondal, the company responsible for the hugely popular Power Rangers-- In the successful tradition of SMP's Pokemon Fever (in its third printing with 200,000 copies shipped), "Digimon Power" The Unauthorized Guide uses kid-friendly language to clue readers in on tons of tips, hints, secrets, and fun facts about DigiMon and other similar games-- Ours will be one of the very first DigiMon books to hit the shelves, giving us a head start on this inevitable craze -- and the timing couldn't better: "Digimon Power" The Unauthorized Guide will be hitting the stores right on the heels of Playstation's DigiMon video game release in March 2000-- Like Pokemon, DigiMon-mania has a Fox television show, trading cards, action figures, a video game, and more-- While Pokemon offers only 150 monsters, DigiMon has 200 monsters to collect, -- raise, train, and send info battle-- Globally, annual video game revenues now exceed $10 billion-- 59% of the American video game market is controlled by Sony (Playstation), which means we can expect to see as big a marketing push for DigiMon as we saw for PokemonDigiMon, similar to Pokemon but with more monsters and hipper graphics, is the hottest new craze in monster games. With video games, trading cards, a Fox TV show, action figures and countless other toys coming down the pike, DigiMon is set to explode as the most popular phenomenon of the year!
- ISBN10 0312976518
- ISBN13 9780312976514
- Publish Date 1 March 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Language English