bdmetronews desk॥ Happy 20th birthday, Pokémon! That’s pretty scary, frankly. But indeed, on February 27, 1996, Pokémon Red and Green made their debut on Nintendo’s Game Boy in Japan. When the games hit the U.S. in 1998, the Green was switched to Blue and it immediately took over a generation of kids’ lives.
Since then, the franchise has grown into an international juggernaut spanning trading card games and movies to a 5-story tall balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Pokémon, which is a portmanteau of “pocket monster,” is the brainchild of Japanese game designer Satoshi Tajiri. In a 1999 interview, Tajiri explained that he partially based Pokémon on his childhood love of collecting insects, which is why players encounter Pokémon in tall grass. While the series and its characters now occupy a space in the world’s collective consciousness, Tajiri and publisher Nintendo never once dreamed the original games would become so popular.
But they certainly are, and as part of the iconic franchise’s 20th anniversary celebration, Pokémon’s publisher announced two new games, Pokémon Sun and Moon. Nintendo is also rereleasing the original Pokémon Red and Blue for the 3DS handheld.
by yahoo
