Pokemon Series Now 15 Years Old

By Jorge Ba-oh 01.03.2011 7

Pokemon Series Now 15 Years Old on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Fans across the globe have been hunting, training and battling Nintendo's 649 critters since February 1996 in Japan.

Nintendo's longrunning and second most profitable franchise (defeated only by Super Mario Bros) was originally launched on February 27th 1996 in Japan, where it was known as Pocket Monsters with two editions out on the market: Red and Green. Blue soon followed, and together with Red made their way to the west in 1998/1999 and the rest is history.

Five generations and over fifty official, spin-off and remakes later, the series is still going ever-strong across the globe, with companion anime/manga, magazines, books and a never-ending supply of merchandise.

Pokemon Black and White are both due out on March 4th in Europe, March 6th in the US and finally March 10th in Australia.

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokemon!

What are your favourite Pokemon and generation from the series' 15 year history?

Box art for Pokémon Red and Blue
Developer

Game Freak

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Turn Based RPG

Players

2

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (19 Votes)

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ChaosOnline is offline. ChaosOnline 02.03.2011#1

Happy Birthday Pokemon.

( Edited 02.03.2011 02:11 by ChaosOnline )

 
PMD is offline. PMD 02.03.2011#2

I remember the anime and toys coming out in the US even before the game was released since, at the time, I didn't even know Pokemon was based on a video game.

 
rick (guest) 02.03.2011#3

my fav is always charizard Smilie

ERIC (guest) 02.03.2011#4

The Gold and Silver Series is the Best. I have been there Since the beginning. I loved all the generations. Not the 3th that much.

Wolvesgod is offline. Wolvesgod 03.03.2011#5

My favorite are:

1. Chansey - I had a pet rat named Chansey, way before Pokemon came out

2. Zoroark - will be first if it was for Chansey, and I like Zoroark because it looks like a lycan.

3. Suicune - it's a beautiful Pokemon, and it's description (pokedex entry) makes it the fantasy creature that you see when you think of something running on water.

It's hard to choose which generation is my best. >.< I always had fun with all of them.

When all is bad don't look for a easy way out. Because you wont know what to do once your out
 
Lynk is offline. Lynk 03.03.2011#6

My Pokemon story Smilie

As an 8/9 year old (I forget which), friends came into school talking about this new thing called Pokemon. I had no idea what it was, but we then went on to have a pretend Pokemon battle in the playground during break, and I was a Pokemon, told that it was a big turtle with guns sticking out of its shell, and it was called Blastoise. This was completely alien to me, but really interesting, so I looked into it, bought a Gameboy (with Blue) and the rest is history. Funnily enough I chose Bulbasaur instead of Squirtle though.

Add me on anything. I'm always looking for new friends/opponents/town visitors/chances to appear more popular than I actually am.
 
WP-Final is offline. WP-Final 03.03.2011#7

My favourite gen is the 3rd gen but that's only because Hoenn is such a great place. The locations, soundtrack and Regis. Smilie

It's a shame they like to take steps backwards when introducing a new gen so that they can reintroduce them later as new features. Smilie *looks at crap touch screen integration in Black and White compared to HG and SS.*

 

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