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Pokémon (Japanese: ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters, or ポケモン Pokémon for short) is a series of video games, now an entire franchise based around those games, that centers around the ability to "catch" and "train" creatures called Pokémon, for which it is named. The term Pokémon may refer to the video game franchise, an individual Pokémon creature, or a Pokémon species.

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Franchise

Also called Pocket Monsters in Japan and some other countries, Pokémon is a mega-franchise including video games, an anime, a Trading Card Game, a manga, and much merchandise. The concept of Pokémon was first created by Satoshi Tajiri and all Pokémon games are published by Nintendo Inc., Ltd for their video game systems, including the Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, and Nintendo DS. The games include strategy games and RPGs where the player becomes a "Pokémon Trainer" who encounters, captures, trains, and collects many Pokémon creatures; puzzle games; and pinball games. They were first released in 1996 in Japan, and were first released in the USA in 1998. Since then, as of May 2005 the Pokémon Franchise has sold more than 140 million units worldwide, second only to Mario with more than 182 million units sold worldwide and leaving even The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong franchises in the dust with more than 43 million units worldwide each.

Collectively

Pokémon inhabit virtually every corner of the world: in forests, in deserts, in the sea, in the sky. All Pokémon are hatched from eggs and most can reproduce. In the wild, Pokémon sometimes fight one another. This can be for play, for food, or for defense. Pokémon can also die.

Individually

An individual Pokémon may be encountered in the wild, caught, trained, and battled with. In the games, individual Pokémon have many characteristics including stats, DVs, species, Level, EVs, Nature, personality value, Experience, and known moves.

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