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I never had a Tamagotchi, but the little rectangular Digimon versions of them were all the rage when I was like 8. I kinda miss those things.
And I recall a year or two later getting another toy...may or may not have been Digimon branded...that had the same connector on the top, but was more rounded in shape. I remember after my battery on one died, holding the two together to try and keep it alive through the power the other one was sending it. Of course it only worked as long as I was physically holding them, and would then reset.
Was it a Giga Pet? Was that what they were called?
They had brand name Digimon digital pets. Giga pets were just poor-kid Tamagotchis. I had the alien one. https://wikimon.net/Digital_Monster_Ver._1
Googling that, it doesn't look like it. The first one I mentioned was completely rectangular, not an odd shape. It's the Bandai Digimon toy.
The second one I think may have been Scannerz, which I'm guessing used the same connector as the Digimon toy just because it was what was available. But it's possible (at an outside chance) that I'm misremembering and it was the D-Scanner, a Digimon-branded equivalent to Scannerz. No useful data was being transferred when connecting the two together, just power.
A third possibility is that there was some third toy I'm forgetting about which is what I was able to connect to the Digimon toy to power it.