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Transcript: WHAT IS POKEMON ? Pokémon is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of inter-linkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own Mario series. Pokémon properties have since been merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books, and other media. GOALS ? Players of the games are designated as Pokémon Trainers, and the two general goals for such Trainers are: To complete the pokedex by collecting all of the available Pokémon species found in the fictional region. To train a team of powerful Pokémon from those they have caught to compete against teams owned by other Trainers, and eventually become the strongest Trainer, the Pokémon Master. - Pokemon as a whole is worth $22.2 Billion (US). - 40 Pokemon games have been developed. -190 Million Pokemon games have been sold worldwide, 130 Million of which were the main RPG Pokemon games. - The Pokemon anime airs in seventy four countries around the world whilst the cards are sold in forty countries. Over Fourteen Billion cards have been sold worldwide. - 85 companies make official Pokemon merchandise with there being over 3500 different products created so far. HEALTH ISSUES On December 16, 1997, more than 635 Japanese children were admitted to hospitals with seizures. It was determined the seizures were caused by watching an episode of Pokémon "Electric Soldier Porygon" as a result, this episode has not been aired since. In this particular episode, there were bright explosions with rapidly alternating blue and red color patterns. In the past, several animal rights groups have tried to ban Pokémon, claiming that Pokémon battles closely resemble cockfights. Cultural Influences Ekans is snake spelled backwards ? Arbok is Cobra spelled backwards with a mispronounced letter Artic uno Zap dos Mol tres Social Networking In December 2009, a "Pokémon profile picture month" on popular social networking website Facebook started, with over 100,000 Facebook users changing the image displayed on their profile webpages to that of a favorite Pokémon. In 2010, more than 252,000 people replied as "attending", or taking part in, the event, at least double the previous year Animal Cruelty