The story of Pokemon
Pokémon
The creator of Pokémon and Game Freak
His meeting with the designer Ken Sugimori
The birth of the Pokémon game: a planetary success
In 1987, Tajiri started the development of his first video game, Quinty, for the Famicom console.Published two years after in 1989 by Namco and Hudson Soft, it is a typed arcade game, mixing action and reflection.
It was during this same year that Tajiri decides to found his own company "Game Freak ", in reference to its first magazine. The little team Creator of a video game developer review, and joins forces with the Nintendo studio to be able to develop their games on their consoles.
We then think ofYoshi(Mario & Yoshi in Europe) in 1991 orMario & Wario On Super Famicom in 1993!
They are particularly Interested in the Game Boy, which becomes very popular in children. This is when Game Freak decides to create A game centered on the exchange between players, allowed by the “Link cable" of the Game Boy. This is where it is born The idea of "monster capsule", creatures that players should capture, collect and exchange.
Development will not be an easy task and Game Freak struggles to find the necessary funds To pay his team: many people resign, and Satoshi Tajiri must borrow money from his parents And don't touch a penny.
He wants to develop a game based onr the exploration of a world populated by creatures, inspired straight from his native country, Japan. He wants a slow rhythm game, and opts for the RPG, play in turn, as in the game Final Fantasy.
When Tajiri submits his idea to Nintendo, the concept is not directly understood. He finally received the help of Shigeru Miyamoto For the design of Pocket Monsters who manages to guide him on how to take out his game!
This help will allow them to weave powerful links and Tajiri then considered Miyamoto as his spiritual mentor. So much so that in Red / Vert Pokémon, the hero of the game was called "Satoshi" (Sacha in French version) while his rival is called "Shigeru" (Régis in French).
The game finally adopts the name “Pocket Monsters”, literally pocket monsters. The Japanese title was then abbreviated as "Pokémon”When it was released on the western market !
After ten years in development, The Red and Green Pokémon Game finally released in 1996 in Japan! The game becomes a real phenomenon: Japanese players even buy the two red and green versions to collect all creatures!
WithJunichi Masuda who is attendant musical compositions From the game, Tajiri imagines the names of the creatures that must reflect both their physique and their attack capacities. Therefore Pikachu is created, from the Japanese word association "Pika" which describes the sound produced by an electric spark, and the word "CHU", the murmur of a mouse.
What was the first Pokémon?
For the design specific creatures, we can thank the faithful designer Ken Sugimori. The first drawn Pokémon is none other thanRhinoferos !
Pokémon de la first generation, it is he that you see in front of each arena of the first Pokémon game on Game Boy: two statues in his effigy frame the entries on the continent of Kanto (the region of the first red Pokémon and blue Pokémon).
And no, Pikachu was not the first Pokémon imagined by the creators of the franchise. On the other hand, maybe he is the first in your heart? If this is the case, know that it is available in the form of a magnificent piece in resin !
From the top of his 30 cm, we find him with a design and colors ultra faithful to the original model.
It is also available at Nanoblock, in a set of no less than 130 pieces !
Other basic pokemon are also available, whether they are Plant, fire or water type... (so as not to mention all the 18 types !).
It will finally be necessary not much time so that the game is exported to The West, where it is called version Red and blue Pokémon, based on fire and water starters!
The Pokemon universe develops quickly with the launch of a manga on the world of the series, and on the release a card game to exchange, the famous Pokémon cards. They are beginning to appear in , eight months after the launch of the games. So this is where we find the famous "Basic set", available in France from 1999!
During an auction that was held on August 10, 2019, an entire collection of these cards in English has sold more than $ 100,000.
A constant expansion deductible
The story of Pokémon Don't stop there. Faced with explosive demand, Nintendo commands Game Freak Other versions of the game. After Pokémon blue, red and green version, Yellow Pokémon was released in 1998. This is where we discover Pikachu, which becomes the darling of fans, and very, quickly, the emblem of the license.
Game Freak decides to create New Pokémons in addition to 150 of the first games. It's with Pokémon gold and silver version that the license invents the concept of “generation”From Pokémon.
After the First generation of Pokémon, the game keeps the same concept of RPG with fights round by round and exploration of unique worlds. There are new regions, again fighting systems…
The animated is launched the April 1, 1997 in Japan, first episode of a very long line!
We now findhundreds of derivative products, an anime with 25 seasons, 23 films, which brings the total to 1232 episodes ! There are also games "spin off" to the main series, and Game Freak regularly offers remakes of its most popular games. There are now no less than 25 games and the latests are other thanPokemon Violet and Pokemon Ecarlate !
Pokemon Go
The Pokémon franchise has still proven that it was able to innovate with the exit of Pokemon Go July 6, 2016! Equipped with their smartphone, players must go hunting Pokémons in the real world, with the help of augmented reality. We count more than 81 million players !
Nanoblock Pokemon
In 2013, the first models were made available in Japan, and in 2015, the Pokemon range was distributed in the United States and other countries.
Pokemon also offers models Nanoblock Miniatures named "Mininano", which are about30% smaller that the that Nanoblock Standard Pokémon. These are gathered according to their guys!
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