Pokémon Sun and Moon also released in the same year. The mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go was released in July 2016. In 2016, the Pokémon Company celebrated Pokémon 's 20th anniversary by airing an ad during Super Bowl 50 in January and re-releasing the first Pokémon video games 1996 Game Boy games Pokémon Red, Green (only in Japan), and Blue, and the 1998 Game Boy Color game Pokémon Yellow for the Nintendo 3DS on February 26, 2016. In 2006, the franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary with the release of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The Pokémon Company International oversees all Pokémon licensing outside Asia. In November 2005, 4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of Pokémon, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Pokémon representation agreement. The one who spotted Pokémon's potential in the United States was Kahn's colleague Thomas Kenney. Nintendo initially feared that Pokémon was too Japanese for Western tastes but Alfred Kahn, then CEO of 4Kids Entertainment, convinced the company otherwise. In 1998, Nintendo spent $25 million promoting Pokémon in the United States in partnership with Hasbro, KFC, and others. Pocket Pikachu was released in Japan in March 1998, with the first ever Pokémon film, Pokémon: The First Movie, first released in Japan in July 1998.
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Pokémon soon became a media mix franchise adapted into various different media, with the Pokémon Trading Card Game released in October 1996, the Pokémon Adventures manga first released in Japan in March 1997, and the Pocket Monsters: Original Series released in April 1997. The Pokémon franchise began as Pocket Monsters: Red and Green (later released outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue), a pair of video games for the original Game Boy handheld system that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in February 1996. series, where various Pokémon characters appear as both playable and non-playable characters.įor a chronological guide, see Timeline of Pokémon. The franchise is also represented in other Nintendo media, such as the Super Smash Bros. In addition, the Pokémon franchise includes the world's top-selling toy brand, an anime film series, a live-action film ( Detective Pikachu), books, manga comics, music, merchandise, and a temporary theme park. The Pokémon Trading Card Game is the highest-selling trading card game of all time with over 43.2 billion cards sold. The Pokémon video game series spawned an anime television series that has become the most successful video game adaptation of all time with over 20 seasons and 1,000 episodes in 192 countries. The Pokémon video game series is the third best-selling video game franchise of all time with more than 440 million copies sold and one billion mobile downloads. Pokémon is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Pokémon soon became a media mix franchise adapted into various different media. The franchise began as Pocket Monsters: Red and Green (later released outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue), a pair of video games for the original Game Boy handheld system that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in February 1996. There are currently 1015 Pokémon species. The English slogan for the franchise is " Gotta Catch ‘Em All!". In Pokémon, Pokémon Trainers are people who catch, train, care for, and battle with Pokémon. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, and is centered around fictional creatures called " Pokémon". Pokémon (an abbreviation for Pocket Monsters in Japanese) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green (1996)
Logo of Pokémon for its international releases Pokémon is short for the original Japanese title of Pocket Monsters.
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