International holidays - Pokemon Day

In 1996, Japanese game designer Satoshi Tajiri developed a unique game of its kind specifically for the new console, to which two consoles could be connected simultaneously He came up with a fresh idea - to create a story that featured monsters and give players the opportunity to trade them to build collections This is how Pokemon appeared By that time, Tajiri's company was going through hard times They urgently needed a real hit The game designer worked for a very long time to develop his brainchild At that time, he couldn’t even pay his subordinates properly for their work, but soon all these efforts paid off According to one popular legend, Tajiri's Pokemon character designs were inspired by the common bugs he loved to collect as a child Perhaps this is why the design of the little monsters turned out to be so unusual and attractive Pokémon originally had a completely different pilot name The legend of the global gaming industry, when it was still in development, was called kapumon, but as a result it was decided to rename it pocket monsters - Pokemon (pocket) When the game broke all popularity records, an anime was created based on it, and then a manga In Russia, the first acquaintance with Pokemon for many children occurred precisely after the broadcast of a multi-part cartoon about the adventures of the boy Ash (the owner of that same Pikachu) and his two friends, who regularly fought with a stupid team of villains from Team R and got into trouble, but replenished their collection of little ones monsters living in special balls The production of related products has begun in Russia Pokemon chips appeared, which at that time were actively used to play a simple but very popular game The chips were also collectible There was also the release of figurines, which were usually sold with sweets Children collected little monsters at home The success of Pokémon inspired many other companies to create similar monsters, which differed in design from the original, but were assembled according to a similar principle Everyone forgot about Pokemon for a while In the fall of 2002, the third generation of the game was released After this, Nintendo took a five-year break, but returned to the franchise again in 2007 By 2017, seven generations of games had already been released In Russia, this was an old game, which caused pleasant nostalgia for many, but still no one planned to return to it, but the developers did not plan to stop there They needed to adapt to modern trends to keep up with the times, so Pokemon GO was released, a free game for smartphones Its main feature was catching Pokemon in reality The application connected to the device’s camera and superimposed its own image onto the image received in real time The Pokemon seemed to fit into the surrounding reality, which created a certain effect of presence The application also connected to GPS, determining the location of players Monsters appeared in different parts of the city, where the player had to go immediately if he wanted to replenish his collection After the blatant catching of Pokemon in one of the Russian temples, the game, like those who played with it, received strong condemnation from the public, but this only added to its popularity The success of the anime, which many still watch with pleasure, prompted the creators to think about shooting a full-length film The main role in the film with detective elements went to Pikachu Ash's favorite monster was created using computer graphics In the total collection, the number of Pokemon is gradually approaching a thousand Today there are already more than 800 February 27 is International Pokemon Day, a unique holiday of its kind dedicated to the monsters from the old game for the Nintendo console, which is now a quarter of a century old