>>5866417I never said they were revenue equals, I just meant that Pokemon's debut in the states was very similar to Turtlemania. It was everywhere.
Never said anything about how their returns compared to that of the big 2. But in their market, indie, they did well.
I'm not pretending. It got where it did up until '87 without the cartoon, & would've continued being at least as successful as it had been to that point, if not better than that, without it. That's just common sense.
Does it owe most of it's success to the 'toon? Yes, absolutely. But it only got a cartoon in the first place because it generated a lot of buzz independently.
Why do you feel the need to be such a jerk?