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"Pokémon" (Japanese:ッッットンンンンンンン) - pokéto monsuta:, English Pokémon, from the English Pocket Monster — "Pocket Monster" is a popular media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. The trademark "Pokemon" belongs to The Pokemon Company.
The franchise began as Pocket Monsters: Red and Green (later released outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue), a pair of video games for the original Game Boy handheld system that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in February 1996.
Pokémon is estimated to be the highest-grossing media franchise of all time. The Pokémon video game series is the third best-selling video game franchise of all time with more than 440 million copies sold and one billion mobile downloads.
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