#digix8

Introduced on the original Digimon V-pet in 1997 Tyranomon featured on the packaging of the device making them the first Digimon that many people would see, at least until the popularisation of the anime, and with it, Tyranomon’s regular pre-evolution; Agumon.

Keemon and Yarmon were unfortunately left out of Impmon’s 16x16 v-pet debut on the Pendulum 20th but fortunately just a year later they made their first appearance on both versions of the DMX2.

V-Mon seems to have been made as a pre-evolution for V-Dramon who was introduced in the manga 2 years prior to V-mon’s introduction into the anime in 2000. However, possibly due to conflict in Adventure ‘02s directorial process, V-mon is never shown evolving into V-Dramon in the show.

Herissmon is the only Digimon to return from the DMX1 that’s not an ultimate stage digimon.

Like several other digimon introduced on the DMOG Etemon’s sprites have been updated since it’s introduction, however somewhat uniquely the changes to Etemon’s sprites have been to make it more bipedal as opposed to changing its orientation or changing it’s core features to make it more accurate to the colour illustrations.

Although Metal Greymon X’s virus variant has only appeared on the DMX2 it’s left arm made it to TV screens in 2020 attatched to Metal Greymon: Alterous Mode with a palette change. Maybe next reboot pal.

Despite being created a few years after the original Brachimon, Ultimate Brachimon has had a better run in the virtual pet field, first appearing in the Pendulum X in 2003 while Brachimon has still yet to make an appearance in a traditional vpet.

Created for the DMX2, Dark Tyranomon X’s only Tyrano-species evolution is  Mametyramon turning it from the virus attribute to data. This contrasts with Tyranomon X’s only Tyrano-species evolution on the DMX1, Metal Tyranomon X, turning it from data to virus. This one’s not my best but their sprites are a little goofy so I’ll take it.