Pokémon (series)

Pokémon (????), is a multi-billion dollar media franchise controlled by video game giant Nintendo, and created by Satoshi Tajiri at least by 1995 (it celebrated its tenth anniversary on February 27, 2006, although the franchise was copyrighted in the USA as Pokémon by 1995). The original Game Boy video games have since been merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books and other media. The name, Pokémon (????), is the French romaji|romanized contraction of the Japanese brand, “Pocket Monsters” (?????????), as such contractions are very common in Japan. Nintendo originally literally translated Poketto Monsuta -- indeed, a "Pocket Monsters" game was created in early 1995. A lawsuit by the makers of Monster in My Pocket (whose video games had originally been released on Nintendo) caused Nintendo to rebrand the franchise as "Pokémon" in early 1996. The game’s catchphrase, in the English language versions of the franchise, used to be “Gotta catch ’em all!”, although it is now no longer officially used (except by Hasbro and in the title sequence to Pokémon Chronicles).

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Pokémon-Related Articles

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