The Pokémon is a series of video game creator by Satoshi Tajirl in 1995 and they are having their 25th anniversary celebration this year.
The inspiration for Pokémon come from Satoshi Tajiri childhood memory when he is still a kid where his family live in the mountain. He will go in to the wild to collect in insects. From the insects he collect, he have watch a caterpillar slowly metamorphosis into a butterfly. This is the core inspiration he have for the core Pokémon franchise where you as a player wonder in to the unknow wild to collect creatures and explore the unknow world.
It is the largest media franchise in the world and the third best selling video game franchise. The franchise include multiple anime series, movie , merchandise and spin off game like Pokémon Go.
The main series Pokémon game have been thought eight generations from the handheld Game Boy ,Game Boy Colour, Game Boy Advance ,Nintendo Ds ,Nintendo 3ds to the newest Nintendo Switch.
There are 20 main series game thought this 25 year of the Pokémon history. With the newest been Pokémon sword and shield.
How and why this series success.
I have been think for a while how and why it is Pokémon who get such a success out of all the monster catching game we have.
It is not the first monster catching game as the first game in the world that can let you catch your enemy and use them in battel is Megami Tensei
Megami Tensei do not have the success level of the Pokémon series and that may be dude to the dark story and subject the game is trying to talk about only allowing it to get a cult following within fans . But Dragon quest V that come out earlier then Pokémon also have a monster catching system put into it and the Big different beteewn Megami Tensei and Dragon quest VI is that Dragon quest series have a tremendous popularity in Japan.
But why when we speak of monster catching game we only remember Pokémon not Dragon quest v.
I think that is mainly because of how Pokémon are show in the game. In Dragon quest and Megami Tensei, the monsters in the game are just monsters. A foe for you to fight and defeat. Letting them joining your team is cool but in the end they are just a battel unite to you in the game and once you find a better monster in the game you replace your old ones just like that. But in the world of Pokémon the Pokémon are take as animal, where the Pokémon have been always been show to be a companion, a friend where we live, work and battel together. In the game the Pokémon battle are always promote as some kind of sport and the defeated Pokémon just faint, not die like the other games.
That make us care about them and don't just view any of them as just a monster, it make us view them as someone important like may be a close pet. Plus with the ability to transfer the Pokémon we catch through multiple generations of games and that create a important bond between the players and Pokémon which make them stick to the Pokémon franchise it self. That is how the Pokémon franchise secret to success to me.
