Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996 and published by Nintendo. It is the second most successful and lucrative game franchise worldwide. The first Pokémon games, Red and Green, were released in Japan in 1996. Red and Blue were then released internationally in 1998 and 1999. The RPG games had the player collecting all 151 Pokémon as a young trainer in the fictional Kanto region. Pokémon Red and Blue received critical acclaim and commercial success, becoming two of the best-selling video games of all time.

2. In the beginning… Published and owned by Nintendo. Created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Second most successful and lucrative game based franchise in the world. Developed by Game Freak Green and red released in Japan 27th February, blue released 15th October all 3 in 1996. Blue and red released in America September 30th 1998. In England – may 10th 1999.

3. First generation Pokémon. In Japan original games out were called Aka and Midori meaning red and green. However because of the huge popularity of this a blue version followed a few months later. The RPG games where released a few years later to Europe and America however only the red and blue versions were produced.

4. Game details. The game is a role playing game as you see yourself as a young boy walking throughout the fictional world of Kanto aiming to collect all 151 Pokémon. It received an aggregated score of 89% on game ratings and is on the list for the top 100 games of all time. It also is in the Guinness book of world records for the best selling RPG game of all time.

5. Pokémon Game play Red and blue are in a third person overhead perspective view. 2dimensional

6. Marketing The original Pokémon games were were released at the same time as a Pokémon film was released in England. There was a large amount of advertising which was aimed at young children and obviously worked as the film and games were both big successes.

7. production The most successful game in Pokémon history is diamond with its twin game pearl being the third most successful. The budget for these two games was £100,000. the Pokémon cards which were brought out at the same time as the game have brought in $9billion dollars so far with the total revenue being $15billion.