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TIMELINE 20 YEARS OF POKÉMON VIDEO GAMES TOP 10 POKÉMON VIDEO GAMES EVER MADE TOP 10 VIDEO GAME POKÉMON FOR EVERY TYPE TRADING CARD GAME TOP 100 POKÉMON CARDS EVER PRINTED TOP 25 MOST VALUABLE ENGLISH POKÉMON CARDS TOP 5 POKÉMON TCG CARDS FROM EVERY SET KEY POKÉMON PHRASES FOR KNUCKLEHEADS ANIME WHO’S WHO IN POKÉMON An Alphabetical Index of Every Recurring Pokemon Character Over 300 POKÉMON GO 20 TIPS TRICKS FOR GO FANATICS CONTENTS This book is not sponsored endorsed by or otherwise affiliated with any companies or the products featured in the book This is not an official publication 8 48 68 88 114 122 158 164 188
This book is not sponsored endorsed by or otherwise affiliated with any companies or the products featured in the book This is not an official publication POJO’S UNOFFICIAL BIG BOOK OF Pokémon 6 20 YEARS OF FEBRUARY 1996 POCKET MONSTERS RED GREEN IN JAPAN In February 1996 the Pocket Monsters Red Green video games were released in Japan They introduced the concept of collecting trading and battling with Pocket Monsters Thousands of people lined up in Japan to buy the games which instantly sold out These games eventually sold more than 10 million copies in Japan Pokémon Blue was released in the summer of 1996 and that game was mail-order only The games appear to be simple children’s games but they are actually very deep Role-Playing Games RPG’s The games feature a ton of strategy and a dynamic storyline OCTOBER 1996 POKÉMON TCG DEBUTS IN JAPAN Eight months later thanks to the success of the Game Boy games the Pocket Monsters Trading Card Game TCG was released The Pocket Monsters TCG turned into a craze in Japan TCGs were still a relatively new phenomenon in the world Magic the Gathering debuted in 1993 and was easily the most popular TCG at the time Magic the Gathering had a pretty strong teenager young adult following But common folk didn’t even know that TCGs existed Pocket Monsters Pokemon really changed that The Japanese Pocket Monsters franchise name was changed to Pokémon in the United States due to copyright trademark laws There was already a media franchise in the U S named Monsters in My Pocket 1996
7 This book is not sponsored endorsed by or otherwise affiliated with any companies or the products featured in the book This is not an official publication POJO’S UNOFFICIAL BIG BOOK OF Pokémon Pojo breaks out the Wayback Machine and has a look back at the most important releases in Pokémon history over the last 20 years Pokémon APRIL 1997 POKÉMON ANIME DEBUTS IN JAPAN There have been many successful anime over the years including Dragon Ball Z Naruto Fullmetal Alchemist Attack on Titan Inuyasha Yu Yu Hakusho Yu-Gi-Oh Sailor Moon and even Speed Racer Pokémon is right up there with the most successful of all time At the time we wrote this book Pokémon was entering its 19th Season and there are no signs of Pokémon slowing down The series follows the adventures of Satoshi and his Pocket Monsters In North America Satoshi is called Ash Ketchum and Pocket Monsters are called Pokémon There have been over 900 episodes 19 movies and dozens of TV specials based on the original game series The writers try to tie the anime in with the video games as much as possible Ash will visit new Pokémon Regions countries at about the same time they are introduced in the new video games The stories progress very much like a soap opera with each episode building off previous episodes 1997 By Bill Pojo Gill
