The History of Pokemon | A Brief History

hello and welcome to another episode of a brief history today's episode Pokemon ready set go Machida Tokyo 1981 Japanese gamer Satoshi taja D begins writing editing and selling his own series of arcade gaming magazines known as game three over the course of the magazine's run several fellow gamers joined up with taja T to contribute to gain free chief among them was artist Ken Sugimori who became the magazine's illustrator however as the years went on taja D began to realize that a lot of the current arcade games maybe weren't the best so taja D and Sookie Morty decided that the best course of action will be to take matters into their own hands and make video games themselves and with that on April 26 1989 game freaky balls from a fan-made magazine to an official video game development company a company that developed a decent handful of games between 1989 and 1994 including the likes of Yoshi for the NES Mario & Wario for the Super Famicom and postman for the Sega Megadrive however it would not be until November 27th 1996 that game frequency real success with the release of two games Pokemon Red and pokemon green both for the Nintendo Gameboy inspired by taja DS childhood love a bug collecting the game boys link cable technology and squares the Final Fantasy legend Pokemon was a turn-based RPG in which players assume the role of blank slate silent protagonist number 721 as they set out on a journey to collect and train creatures known as Pocket Monsters oh my god that's why do you call it dad as the game begins players are allowed to choose between one of three starter Pokemon a fire type a water type and a grass type after choosing their new battle pet the player can now explore various towns and environments battling capturing leveling up and evolving a wide variety of pokemon with the ultimate goal being to defeat eight Pokemon gym leaders stop an evil corporation and battle your way to becoming the very best now that was the plot of the game but the real goal the true end goal of the game was to try and catch all 151 Pokemon and that's where the two different versions came in you see both pokemon red and green had version exclusive Pokemon so in order to complete the game 100% players would have to link up their Game Boys via link cable whereupon they could battle each other and trade berries Pokemon amongst themselves and it was this collecting and trading mentality on top of the game's more accessible and simple take on turn-based combat that made pokemon red and green massive hits going on to see several special edition re-releases the first of which was a limited run blue version only available through mail order for subscribers of the Japanese manga magazine coro coro common although it did eventually see a full retail release a couple years later around the same time that Pokemon saw its second special edition re-release pokemon yellow this game changed up various story elements of the additive color model trilogy in order to tie in more to the Pokemon anime which yes of course there was an anime and I'm pretty sure it's still around it's kind of like the simpsons of anime it just never quite seems to die now where a lot of game freak's previous titles were never released outside of Japan the sheer success of Pokemon in its home country quickly worn today nearly worldwide release the North American versions of red blue and for some reason not green being released on September 28 1998 and pokemon yellow following suit on October 1st 1999 so after only three years Pokemon had gone from a developer's handheld experiment to an unprecedented worldwide phenomenon with a successful anime series manga trading cards and a total of four game but when you get down to it pokemon red green blue and yellow were all just different versions of the same base game it would not be until the turn of the century that the Pokemon series would see its first real sequels in pokemon gold and pokemon silver released in Japan on November 21st 1999 and in North America on October 15 2000 gold and silver expanded upon the formula established by their predecessors by introducing 100 new pokemon a real time day and night system a mechanic known as Pokemon breeding a new rare shiny pokemon implemented to show off gold and Silver's compatibility with the Gameboy Color and just like the games before them gold and silver were an incredible success selling several million copies in only a few months and receiving an updated version exclusive to the Game Boy Color known as pokemon crystal so at this point with seven hit games in Japan and six North America and Europe the Pokemon series have both established and solidified itself as Nintendo's newest blockbuster franchise a franchise that Nintendo and Game Freak were determined to keep going strong releasing a consistent stream of sequels every few years starting with 2003 s pokemon ruby and sapphire for the Game Boy Advance followed by pokemon diamond and pearl black and white and black and white - all released with a Nintendo DS in 2007 2011 and 2012 respectively all of which brought new batches of original Pokemon except for black and white - as well as their own tweaks and new additions to the series formula while keeping true to the core gameplay that made the franchise a success in the first place Ruby and Sapphire introduced self-explanatory double battles diamond and pearl was the first in the series to allow for online multiplayer black and white took things a few steps further than Ruby and Sapphire by introducing triple battles and rotation battles and finally black and white 2 was basically more of the original black and white albeit with some fun new side games all eight of these games received very positive review scores and were some of the highest selling games on their respective platform and in addition to these four pairs of sequels the 2000s also saw a nearly equal number of Pokemon remake you see in 2004 following the release of Ruby and Sapphire Game Freak used the engine behind those games to create new enhanced versions of the original Pokemon red and green these remakes were known as pokemon firered and leafgreen and while not selling quite as well as the original titles that preceded it they did set a trend that other Pokemon games would soon follow over the next several years the world saw director's cut re-releases of both Ruby and sapphire and diamond and pearl known as Pokemon emerald and Pokemon platinum respectively then later on March 14 2010 came freaking Nintendo released pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver which were as the names imply Nintendo DS remakes of pokemon gold and silver and that brings us up to the current generation in late 2013 when history repeated itself yet again with the release of Pokemon X&Y for the Nintendo 3ds seeing the first games in the series for nintendo stereoscopic handheld pokemon X&Y were also the first games in the franchise to boast fully polygonal 3d graphics as opposed to the 2d bird's-eye view of all 21 of its predecessors and on top of this the game also boasted a wealth of new pokemon as is tradition as well as a new mechanic known as mega evolution which differs from standard pokemon evolution by being temporary it's sort of like Digimon if digimon were still you know relevance but anyway as always X&Y were met with you and a versatile critical acclaim and are currently the best-selling three yes games of all time and just as they did on the GBA and es before it's game freak took the basis of X&Y and used that as the foundation for yet another Pokemon remake this time of Ruby and Sapphire released for Nintendo 3ds on November 21st 2014 pokemon omega ruby and alpha sapphire completely revamped their source material with fully 3d graphics and multiple gameplay mechanics implemented from X&Y including mega evolution and just like the 23 freaking games before them Omega Ruby and alpha sapphire received very positive reviews and sold extremely well now for the time being Pokemon X Y Omega Ruby and alpha sapphire are the most recent games in the core Pokemon series however much like Nintendo's other juggernaut franchise Super Mario there have been a seemingly countless number of Pokemon spin-off games released ever since the series began the most notable of which being pokemon stadium and coliseum which attempted to bring the Pokemon RPG formula into the 3d home console market as well as Pokemon snap and on Rails photography game pokemon mystery dungeon a dungeon crawling action RPG series and most recently the upcoming fighting game pokken tournament an augmented reality mobile game named pokemon go and the 3ds titled detective Pikachu which [Music] please give this to me as soon as possible I just need it I am thinking Sherlock Holmes crimes and punishments mix with Hey You Pikachu and it is just something that I need in my life please so soon please please soon and the craziest thing is that all of these games only scratch the surface of what has become the Pokemon Empire this one franchise boasts 25 main series Games mountains of spin-off games a 19th season anime a teen films a long-running trading card game and a seemingly endless amount of toys and other merchandise Pokemon more so than virtually any other video game franchise in existence has managed to completely transcend the realms of being just a video game series becoming a worldwide phenomenon pretty much overnight and perhaps the most impressive thing is that today 20 years since the start of the franchise Pokemon is still just as big as ever after two whole decades the unbridled popularity of this RPG series has stood strong arguably without a single misstep but really what else can you expect from a series that has inspired such wide-eyed wonder and nostalgia in both the young and old for generation Pokemon knew exactly what it wanted to be back when it started in 1996 and since then it has only gotten bigger better and more adventurous while remaining true to that foundation laid 20 years prior and with so many more new and exciting experiences already on the way it is clear that the Pokemon series will continue to entertain and inspire for generations to come thanks for watching guys dftba [Music]

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Keywords: Pokemon, Pikachu, Pokemon GO, Pokemon Sun and moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Red and Blue, Gold and Silver, Ruby and Sapphire, Diamond and Pearl, Black and White, X and Y, Pokemon Snap, Nintendo, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS, 3DS, gaming, gamer, let's play, RPG, action game, mobile game, YouTube, history, origin, behind the scenes, bts, Game Theory, Game Theorists, MatPat, Matthew Patrick, A Brief History, ABH, FootofaFerret, Ryder Burgin

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 30 2017