What's a "Moral Compass Cricket Thingy"?

[Moonface]

Oh, I completely misinterpreted your response and thought you just wished Digimon had ripped off the gameplay loop of earlier Pokémon games rather than just wishing it had adopted the loop earlier than it did. Although looking it up, since Digimon World 1 seems to be the first Digimon game and that it has a lot of similarities with the gameplay loop of Pokémon I'm unsure now how it could have ripped it off earlier besides the game just coming out earlier than it did.