LORE - Pokemon Franchise Lore in a Minute!
- 10 years ago
JWittz is here with your Pokemon Franchise Lore! http://bit.ly/MoarLore
Written by Jared Rosen:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HotPepperGaming
https://twitter.com/NotQuiteFrodo
Voiced by JWittz:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJWittz
https://twitter.com/TheJWittz
Animated by Zeurel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Zeurel
https://twitter.com/Zeurel
---------
Transcript:
Satoshi Tajiri was born on August 28th, 1965, in a small suburb of Tokyo. Known for catching bugs in the ponds behind his house, he eventually transitioned into playing arcade games when the city paved over all his favorite hunting spots to make way for apartment buildings. He later founded Game Freak and began creating titles for Nintendo and Sega, but still wanted to develop a way to trade small creatures across a game boy link cable.
Fast forward to 1996. Pokemon Red and Green launch in Japan to modest sales until players figure out that Mew is inside the game. A promotional magazine giveaway for 20 Mews receives 78,000 applications, and sales skyrocket so much that a third version, Blue, is created with enhanced features. This leads to a card game, a manga series, toys, anime, and a real life Pokemon store in downtown Tokyo. But most importantly, it meant the series was coming overseas.
Pokemon released internationally two years later. Instead of flooding the market with all the Pokemon merchandise at once, Game Freak piecemealed it out over a period of two years in order to preserve the hype, using trends in consumer psychology to hook kids on the games. It worked, and Pokemon rapidly became one of the most popular franchises of the decade. By 2009 Game Freak and Nintendo had sold over 190 million games, with 24 billion dollars worth of games and merch in their pocket. Pokemon has now become cross-generational in real life, with adults introducing it to their children to spread it even further, clinching Game Freak's ultimate marketing goal of building a an actual Pokemon world and having us all live in it.
Have fun!
---------
The Daily Byte: http://bit.ly/1bsstnb
Lore! http://bit.ly/nNfsws
Who is Polaris? http://bit.ly/14Z6vUP
Subscribe to Dodger on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PressHeartToContinue
Follow Dodger on Twitter:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Dexbonus
---------
---------
JOIN POLARIS: http://bit.ly/17MTzDW
POLARISGO: http://bit.ly/1ec7Hu6
Twitter: http://bit.ly/12ecJOw
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12Ue00n
Google+: http://bit.ly/16l2toB
Instagram: http://bit.ly/1aiOYgZ
Tumblr: http://bit.ly/13HgrW4
Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound and Audio Micro
---------
Thanks for watching Lore!
Written by Jared Rosen:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HotPepperGaming
https://twitter.com/NotQuiteFrodo
Voiced by JWittz:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJWittz
https://twitter.com/TheJWittz
Animated by Zeurel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Zeurel
https://twitter.com/Zeurel
---------
Transcript:
Satoshi Tajiri was born on August 28th, 1965, in a small suburb of Tokyo. Known for catching bugs in the ponds behind his house, he eventually transitioned into playing arcade games when the city paved over all his favorite hunting spots to make way for apartment buildings. He later founded Game Freak and began creating titles for Nintendo and Sega, but still wanted to develop a way to trade small creatures across a game boy link cable.
Fast forward to 1996. Pokemon Red and Green launch in Japan to modest sales until players figure out that Mew is inside the game. A promotional magazine giveaway for 20 Mews receives 78,000 applications, and sales skyrocket so much that a third version, Blue, is created with enhanced features. This leads to a card game, a manga series, toys, anime, and a real life Pokemon store in downtown Tokyo. But most importantly, it meant the series was coming overseas.
Pokemon released internationally two years later. Instead of flooding the market with all the Pokemon merchandise at once, Game Freak piecemealed it out over a period of two years in order to preserve the hype, using trends in consumer psychology to hook kids on the games. It worked, and Pokemon rapidly became one of the most popular franchises of the decade. By 2009 Game Freak and Nintendo had sold over 190 million games, with 24 billion dollars worth of games and merch in their pocket. Pokemon has now become cross-generational in real life, with adults introducing it to their children to spread it even further, clinching Game Freak's ultimate marketing goal of building a an actual Pokemon world and having us all live in it.
Have fun!
---------
The Daily Byte: http://bit.ly/1bsstnb
Lore! http://bit.ly/nNfsws
Who is Polaris? http://bit.ly/14Z6vUP
Subscribe to Dodger on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PressHeartToContinue
Follow Dodger on Twitter:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Dexbonus
---------
---------
JOIN POLARIS: http://bit.ly/17MTzDW
POLARISGO: http://bit.ly/1ec7Hu6
Twitter: http://bit.ly/12ecJOw
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12Ue00n
Google+: http://bit.ly/16l2toB
Instagram: http://bit.ly/1aiOYgZ
Tumblr: http://bit.ly/13HgrW4
Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound and Audio Micro
---------
Thanks for watching Lore!