ポケットモンスター／ポケモン
Pokémon began with video games in 1996 and grew into a franchise of cards, animation, films and character products. The name also refers to the creatures within its fictional world. Encounters, training, battles and trading connect players to those creatures, while different media build their own activities and stories from the shared setting.
Pokémon Red and Green launched in Japan on February 27, 1996.
Collecting, raising, battling and trading link the core game series.
Physical cards, animated stories and location-based games use distinct systems.
The player travels as a Trainer with Pokémon partners. The company’s introduction describes creatures living in grasslands, caves and seas, as well as alongside people. Individuals of the same species can have different natures, and some kinds change appearance with region, season or weather.
The video games combine collecting, battling, gaining levels and trading. Type relationships guide choices: the official overview uses water’s advantage over fire as an example. A team’s composition matters because creatures bring different forms and abilities to an encounter.
Red and Green differ in encounter rates and in Pokémon found only in one version. Trading with someone who owns the other version can fill gaps in a collection. On the original Game Boy, a communication cable linked the machines, making exchange a practical part of play.
In Nintendo’s 2009 interview, Tsunekazu Ishihara recalls the project beginning in 1990. The original concept credited to Game Freak’s Satoshi Tajiri developed through work by producers, programmers and other contributors. Nintendo published Red and Green in Japan for Game Boy on February 27, 1996.
The 1999 games start the journey in Johto. They introduce new Pokémon while also adding earlier forms or different evolutionary relationships for some existing ones. Expansion changes how old and new creatures connect, as well as the number of encounters available.
The 2016 Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console versions replaced the Game Boy link cable with local wireless communication for trading and battles. This preserves an earlier activity through a different technology, within the capabilities described for that particular rerelease.
The official timeline separates the US arrival of Red and Blue and the anime in 1998 from the trading card game’s US launch in 1999. It later records X and Y’s simultaneous worldwide release in 2013. Different media and products therefore have distinct distribution histories.
The company describes translators working with developers to understand the games’ world and intentions. Pikachu retains one name worldwide, while other Pokémon can receive names adapted for different languages. Those names identify corresponding species across local versions.
The Pokémon Company develops licensed products with partner businesses. Its example of Pokémon Bread, introduced by First Baking in 1998, includes collectible character stickers linked to the anime. Packaging and stickers carry the characters in a form distinct from software or a complete card-game rules system.
An official 2016 announcement describes Pokémon GO as a mobile game using location information and the real world as a setting for collecting Pokémon. It links fictional creatures with physical places, unlike a journey restricted to a core game’s invented region.
The 2022 games use an open world in which the official description gives no fixed order to the stories. Encountering, partnering with, battling, raising and trading Pokémon remain. What changes is how players move through the setting and choose a path through its stories.
The media franchise grew from games whose fictional world is inhabited by creatures called Pokémon.
Their encounter rates and version-exclusive Pokémon differ, so the other version can help fill collection gaps.
Attached Energy supplies requirements for Pokémon’s attacks and other actions.
Its partner Pikachu follows the player and uses its anime voice.
GO uses real-world location; Scarlet and Violet let players choose routes within an open fictional world.