How did Pokemon become the biggest video game franchise and general entertainment franchise ever?

How did Pokemon become the biggest video game franchise and general entertainment franchise ever?

The games aren't even (that) good

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>fuckémon
>not Fuck-a-man
dropped.

Anything that's popular is trash. Pokémon is trash which is how it got popular.

thats not true. if it would suck it, people wouldnt like it and it wouldnt get popular...

Heavy marketing and merchandising started very early.
People that don't play the games, watch the anime or movies know of Pokémon because of all the merchandise. Who watched Hello Kitty or played the stupid little games? Almost nobody. But almost everywhere in the world people know of Hello Kitty because of the merch.

Being able to make any enemy you encounter a member of your team was a pretty revolutionary idea at the time. The Pokemon designs are appealing, and evolution acts as both a powerful incentive and conveyance of progress. The sheer number of possible team combinations, not to mention variable movesets on each individual Pokemon, mean that the team becomes a form of the player's individual expression.

Yeah, I don't know why I'm effortposting either.

I'm OP and I appreciate the post. I didn't even think about the "enemy into teammate" mechanic being one of the reasons why, although thats one of the reasons why I liked it too

Thank you

Where's Brock and his Onix?

bottom is supposed to be him

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Multi levelled attack. They released a TV show that every kid watched before school, then we traded Pokemon cards at playtime until the school banned them. Then we went home and played the games.

The guy playing Pikachu was pretty hot in that

SMT did it first but it was a very mature game that didn't appeal to all ages. Pokémon was kid friendly in design and mechanics, that's why it stuck.
Also Pokémon was immediately made global, whereas SMT still has many JP exclusives.

>the females on my playground forced us weird kids to stop having fun with our group every so often by telling the retarded bimbo teachers that we were throwing our cards at them
>teachers would ban our cards and whatever else every time
also the retarded boomers who thought we were gambling

im about to download it nice

Adam Bryant playing Pikachu is actually a great actor, especially by pornstar stabdards. He plays the boss in an ongoing office parody too. On the other hand Will Braun is just a treasure. He's streams Yea Forumstier games and only goes on twitter to talk about WoW classic and his foster animals. He' a huge nerd I'd suspect lurks this place and I really wonder how someone like him got into gay porn.

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>Also Pokémon was immediately made global
Except it came out two years after it released in Japan, with the anime hitting overseas first.

It just came out at the right time, that's all. If it came out even one year later people would have just called it a Digimon ripoff.

Why do you know so much about gay porn actors

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>Adam Bryant

the office parodies are very hot, hes very good looking and funny and like u said a good actor.

They're interesting people. I forgot his name but basically the founder of younghungbrits who produces chav porn gave an interview a few years ago. He sounded eloquent and passionated about making being a chav an identity to be proud of. I find that interesting. In porn he wears tracksuits, spits on other chav's faces, and gets brutally fucked by big dicks. In real life he can campaign for low income neighbourhoods and manages the website, finances, hiring, etc. himself.

can you recommend some guys with big lips or big asses

take this shit to /lgbt/ where all the other faggots are, im here to discuss VIDEO GAMES

take this shit to r9k where u belong, incel

because I watch gay porn

leave them be, they'll get aids and die off, let mother natures take it's course

Belami has an obvious type because the owner is a creep. I'm pretty sure Joel Birkin, Jack Harrer, etc. fuck some guys who you'd call big lipped and big assed. Actually Joel Birkin himself has pretty big lips but he is mostly known for his fucking long cock and the parody movie where he plays a vatican priest with a huge dick.

>Being able to make any enemy you encounter a member of your team was a pretty revolutionary idea at the time

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
>September 11, 1987
Pokémon Red and Blue
>February 27, 1996

yea i know about belami but the porn style is really weird to me. the guys look all the same to me (like u said) and their sex just looks very dry to me in general but thanks anyway

best muscular porn stars. i know about francois sagat and a few others?

you have forced my hand
let's let the jannies handle it with a few notifications

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But really really I don't give a F-U-C-K
Forget barbie fuck Nicki she's fake
She's on a diet but my pockets eating cheese cake
And I'll say bride of Chucky is Child's play
Just killed another career it's a mild day

SMT is still the best monster collection franchise but people nowadays only know of it because of Persona.
Pokémon is for little boys, SMT is for men.

Michael delray is my absolute favourite but he's not that muscular. Colin from gayhoopla is muscular but mostly thicc. Pierce Paris is fine too.

>discussing video games on Yea Forums
you must be new

it's almost as if there's an entire board dedicated to their faggotry

>Michael delray

lmao did you hear about his latest headlines? dude seems fun

its onyl a problem if its anything gay, then they switch like sissies

Oh shit, that's hilarious. It's mostly his voice that gets me going. I'm gonna check the video though if there is one.

>discussing video games
LITERALLY gayer than discussing gay porn

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Honestly and truely, based and redpilled. This guy knows what is up

Holy shit I'm in tears. Yea Forums actually knows more about gay porn than video games.

oh i dont know a lot about him, hes just really popular right now

Ha ur gay lol

Haven't seen that one. Spoilers plz, who has master balls?

pikachu

Johnny Rapid is only good when he's pretending to resist.

hes straight tho

Then I guess I'd rather see his legitimate reaction rather than faked enjoyment. Although after getting fucked as much as he has, the reaction is probably like "my feet hurt, I wish I was at home douching my cat"

>fuck-a-man GO
>not fuck-a-man GAY

yea tho i also heard hes basically bi but calls himself straight

Yea Forums grew out of vidya years ago
Now we only care about important things in life like politics and sex

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