>>47237903>this meme againMiyamoto created Zelda specifically to appeal to adult players and kids, due to Zelda being a launch game for the Famicom Disk System (indeed only being made possible due to the FDS allowing gamers to write progress to memory to save it for later play). They weren't pitching FDS at children, thus needed to get daddy in on the thing too.
Pokémon was created with kids as primary market, as the whole idea of Tajiri creating it was thinking about a caterpillar crawling across the game link cable and taking it from there.