Pokémon, (an acronym for Pocket Monsters in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise business managed by The Pokémon Company, a firm started by Nintendo, Game Fanatic, and Creatures. The franchise was developed by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, and is fixated fictional creatures called Pokémon. In Pokémon, humans, referred to as Pokémon Trainers, capture and also train Pokémon to battle other Pokémon for sport. All media works within the franchise business are established in the Pokémon world. The English motto for the franchise is Got ta Catch 'Em All!. There are currently 900 Pokémon species.The franchise business started as Pocket Monsters: Red and also Environment-friendly (later launched outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue), a pair of computer game for the initial Game Boy handheld system that were created by Game Freak and also released by Nintendo in February 1996. It quickly ended up being a media mix franchise business adapted into numerous different media. Pokémon has consideri...