Pokémon (an acronym for Pocket Monsters in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise taken care of by The Pokémon Business, a firm started by Nintendo, Game Freak, as well as Creatures. The franchise business was produced by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, as well as is fixated fictional animals called Pokémon . In Pokémon, humans, recognized as Pokémon Trainers, catch and also educate Pokémon to battle other Pokémon for sport. All media functions within the franchise business are set in the Pokémon world. The English slogan for the franchise business is Got ta Catch Em All! . There are presently 900 Pokémon species.The franchise started as Pocket Monsters: Red and also Green (later released beyond Japan as Pokémon Red and also Blue), a set of video clip games for the original Video game Kid portable system that were created by Video game Fanatic and published by Nintendo in February 1996. It quickly ended up being a media mix franchise adjusted into various different media. Pokémon has given that...