>>11984958
>during the late 90's and early 00's?
Interesting question, obviously pokémon was a juggernaut franchise. But digimon took its part of that cake too (zatchbell, beyblade, yugioh too)

As another anon said it depends country or region, for example beyblade was huge popular in Italia.

But digimon was really his own thing we managed to get most of the game from 5th and 6th generations.