With the games came spinoffs like Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Pinball in 1999, a popular TV show, movies, trading cards, and a lot of other merchandise. The games took the world by storm in the late 1990s - a big fad widely known as "Pokémania." The original handheld games, Pokémon Red and Blue, came out in 1998 in America, followed by Yellow in 1999 and Gold and Silver in 2000. In Pokémon Go, only the original 151 are available - although some of the originals are apparently locked behind special events. The first generation of Pokémon games began with 151 creatures, but the catalog has since expanded to more than 720. In this world, people called "trainers" travel around the globe to tame these creatures and, in an ethically questionable manner, use them to fight against each other.īased on the premise of bug catching - a popular hobby in Japan, where the games originated - the big goal in the Pokémon games, from the original Pokémon Red and Blue to the upcoming Pokémon Sun and Moon, is to collect all of these virtual creatures.
The Pokémon games take place in a world populated by exotic, powerful monsters - they can look like rats, snakes, dragons, dinosaurs, birds, eggs, trees, and even swords. (This mix of a game and the real world interacting is known as "augmented reality." More on that later.) The idea is to encourage you to travel around the real world to catch Pokémon in the game. As you move around, different and more types of Pokémon will appear depending on where you are and what time it is. In simple terms, Pokémon Go is a game that uses your phone’s GPS and clock to detect where and when you are in the game and make Pokémon "appear" around you (on your phone screen) so you can go and catch them. It’s so popular that it’s now competing with Twitter in terms of daily active users on Android.
This time, through Pokémon Go: the series’s biggest entry into the mobile space, now available for a free download on Android and iOS. Well, after a few years lying relatively low, the Nintendo-owned Pokémon, which exploded in popularity in the late 1990s, is again taking the world by storm.
What the hell is going on? What is Pokémon Go? And police in Missouri claimed that four suspected robbers lured in victims with a chance of catching Pokémon in a new game called Pokémon Go. One teenage girl even found a dead body while looking for Pokémon. You may have heard stories of people hunting down Pokémon on their office desks, in hospital rooms, and even in bathrooms.