Pokemon is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of inerlinkable Game Boy, Pokemon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own Mario series. Pokemon properties have since been merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books, and other media.
The name Pokemon is the Romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters, as such contractions are very common in Japan. The term "Pokemon", in addition to referring to the Pokemon franchise itself, also collectively refers to the 493 fictional species that have made appearances in Pokemon media as of the release of the Pokemon RPG for Nintendo DS, Pokemon Platinum.
Pokemon has become a big and popular thing all over the world. It's still famous today. Kids, teenagers, even some young adults still play, watch, and read Pokemon. Pokemon is important because it changed people's views of videogames.
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