![]() ![]() ![]() The name Pokémon is the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters ( ポケット モンスター, Poketto Monsutā ?), as such contractions are quite common in Japan. The franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006, and as of ( 2010 -05-28), cumulative sales of the video games (including home console versions, such as the "Pikachu" Nintendo 64) have reached more than 200 million copies. Pokémon properties have since been merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books, and other media. 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 ( ポケモン, Pokemon ?, pronunciation: / ˈ p oʊ k eɪ m ɒ n / poh-kay-mon ) is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. The official logo of Pokémon, the English variant of the original Japanese Poketto Monsutā ![]()
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