>in 1981, Satoshi Tajiri, a dude who loved video games, created a fanzine called Game Freak>The magazine was of middling popularity, but made the company successful>Then in 1990, Tajiri came up with an idea of capsule monsters, ie capmon, which would work perfectly with the game boy and their link cables>during the early 90s, his company would make a few games, none of whom were released outside of japan (except Yoshi), and in 1995, he pitched the idea of his capmon to nintendo>Being mentored by Shigeru Miyamoto, he proceeded to refine the idea into Pokemon, a title that nobody expected to really catch on>Eventually, pokemon red and green were released to japanese audiences, and my god did it take off>Today, Pokemon is literally the biggest franchise in the world, having sold over $100B in merchandise, games, TV episodes, memorabilia, cards, costumes, plushies, figurines, clothes, manga, movies...you name it>All because of a pair of games made by a 30 year old in the 90s>autists of every kind, race and breed decided to flock together, in both reverence and hatred for the franchise, decided to spend years if not decades of their life on creating fan projects of varying quality>and one day, someone decided to create the worst possible fucking oneplaythrough theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RORDZmNP7TA i'm considering replacing every battle song in the game with this btw
