The Pokémon video game series spawned an anime television series that has become the most successful video game adaptation of all time with over 20 seasons and 1,000 episodes in 192 countries. The Pokémon video game series is the third best-selling video game franchise of all time with more than 440 million copies sold and one billion mobile downloads. Pokémon is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Pokémon soon became a media mix franchise adapted into various different media. The franchise began as Pocket Monsters: Red and Green (later released outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue), a pair of video games for the original Game Boy handheld system that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in February 1996. There are currently 1015 Pokémon species. The English slogan for the franchise is ' Gotta Catch ‘Em All!'.

In Pokémon, Pokémon Trainers are people who catch, train, care for, and battle with Pokémon. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, and is centered around fictional creatures called ' Pokémon'. Pokémon (an abbreviation for Pocket Monsters in Japanese) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green (1996)

Logo of Pokémon for its international releases Pokémon is short for the original Japanese title of Pocket Monsters.

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