Pokémon (an acronym for Pocket Monsters in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise handled by The Pokémon Firm, a company founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and also Creatures. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, and also is fixated fictional creatures called Pokémon . In Pokémon, people, understood as Pokémon Trainers, capture and also educate Pokémon to fight other Pokémon for sport. All media works within the franchise are embeded in the Pokémon world. The English motto for the franchise business is Got ta Catch Em All! . There are presently 900 Pokémon species.The franchise began as Pocket Monsters: Red and also Green (later released beyond Japan as Pokémon Red as well as Blue), a pair of video games for the original Game Boy portable system that were developed by Game Freak as well as published by Nintendo in February 1996. It soon came to be a media mix franchise adapted right into various different media. Pokémon has actually given that become the highest-grossing me...