>>56754357>all fronts right out of the gate, spinoffs, cards, toys, plushies, an anime, yearly releases, it was just too much.Pokemon also did most of these in its very early days. You could call all the different manga versions that came out since almost the first year as spinoffs. Pokemon also had a bunch of spinoff games 3-4 years after the release of Red and Green.
Pokemon TCG for gameboy color and Hey you Pikachu already came out in December 1998.
The card game was already out in 1996.
