Pokémon (an acronym for Pocket Monsters in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise handled by The Pokémon Company, a firm started by Nintendo, Video Game Fanatic, and Animals. The franchise was developed by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, as well as is fixated fictional animals called Pokémon . In Pokémon, people, understood as Pokémon Trainers, catch and educate Pokémon to battle other Pokémon for sporting activity. All media works within the franchise business are set in the Pokémon world. The English slogan for the franchise is Got ta Catch Em All! . There are currently 900 Pokémon species.The franchise started as Pocket Monsters: Red and Green (later on launched outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue), a pair of video games for the original Game Child portable system that were created by Video game Freak and also released by Nintendo in February 1996. It quickly became a media mix franchise business adjusted into various different media. Pokémon has considering that come to be the highest-g...