Pokémon (an acronym for Pocket Monsters in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise business handled by The Pokémon Firm, a firm started by Nintendo, Game Freak, and also Animals. The franchise business was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, and also is centered on fictional animals called Pokémon . In Pokémon, people, referred to as Pokémon Trainers, capture and also educate Pokémon to fight various other Pokémon for sporting activity. All media works within the franchise business are set in the Pokémon cosmos. The English slogan for the franchise is Got ta Catch Em All! . There are presently 900 Pokémon species.The franchise business started as Pocket Monsters: Red and also Eco-friendly (later on launched beyond Japan as Pokémon Red and also Blue), a set of computer game for the original Game Kid portable system that were developed by Video game Freak and also published by Nintendo in February 1996. It soon ended up being a media mix franchise adjusted into numerous different media. Pok...