P is for POKEMON
Pokémon is a media franchise published and owned by Japanese
video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally
released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed
by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and
lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's
own Mario series. Pokémon properties have since been merchandised into anime,
manga, trading cards, toys, books, and other media. The franchise celebrated
its tenth anniversary in 2006, and as of 28 May 2010, cumulative sales of the
video games (including home console versions, such as the "Pikachu"
Nintendo 64) have reached more than 200 million copies. 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.
Pokémon USA Inc. (now The Pokémon Company International), a subsidiary of
Japan's Pokémon Co., now oversees all Pokémon licensing outside of Asia.
The name Pokémon is the romanized contraction of the
Japanese brand Pocket Monsters as such contractions are quite common in Japan.
The term Pokémon, in addition to referring to the Pokémon franchise itself,
also collectively refers to the 649 fictional species that have made
appearances in Pokémon media as of the release of the fifth generation titles
Pokémon Black and White. Because the word Pokémon is a non-count noun, it is
identical in both the singular and plural, as is each individual species name;
in short, it is grammatically correct to say both "one Pokémon" and
"many Pokémon" as well as "one Pikachu" and "many
Pikachu".
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Pokemon was a hit TV show, a hit collection of movies and a hit Video Game! The adorable, strange, odd, and not so adorable Pokemon creatures have captured the hearts of so many of us and the challenge to collect all of them is timeless. I currently own all the nintendo DS versions of the game and Pokemon Colosseum for gamecube. My mother got into the gamecube Pokemon Colosseum game and wouldn't stop until she beat it. Then she actually started it again :) My brother has a couple of the versions for his gameboy advance but so far I can't talk him into giving me the advance and the games. I love pokemon. Collecting them, finding them, fighting other trainers, getting badges, earning money, beating the bad guys... Pokemon has a little bit of everything.
Which Pokemon is your favorite?
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