If you are just first hearing the work Pokemon now, you might not have any clue that the brand has been around for twenty years. The media franchise includes video games, playing cards, animated television shows and even movies, all of which are very popular. The entire franchise is based on fictional creatures called Pokemon and they are trained by humans, which use them to battle as a sport. The very first mention of Pokemon came with two video games.
Those two games were sold for the Nintendo Gameboy and since then, the Pokemon franchise has expanded from video games to trading cards, television shows, toys, comic books and even movies. There is only one video game franchise that is worth more than Pokemon and that is the Mario franchise. This year marks the twentieth year that we have been exposed to Pokemon and there are some big things happening online because of that.
Besides all of the talk about the anniversary, there is talk that the Pokemon series might have never even came to your favorite video game store. According to sources, developing the original Pokemon Red and Green, the game was almost lost due to broken computers. The developer took the time to fix the computers used to create the game and according to at least one interview, he is very glad that he did that. Looking back, the Pokemon franchise was that close to never even coming to fruition.
If you are not lucky enough to have played the original Pokemon on a Nintendo or Gameboy system, there are still plenty of ways that you can learn about the franchise from the start. One website is suggesting that you just ask Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant that has been loaded onto more new iOS powered devices. Asking her any question about Pokemon will get you a description of the creature, what it might turn into and what it was used for in battle, giving you the trivia answers you need to sound cool around your friends this year.
Siri has been packing information about Pokemon since 2013 and those that have tested the database have been impressed with how much you can learn by asking her. In order to get the answers, just ask “What does (fill in the blank) turn into?” and you can them prepare for the information that is going to come about the origin of that Pokemon, including type, color, icon, footprint and physical characteristics just to name a few of the categories that are touched on. Pokemon is popular and now that news sources are reporting about this, Siri is likely to be busy the next few weeks.