What made Pokémon so successful?
>>741151221charmander
wealthiest time period in human history allowed purchase of slop and slop accessories
>>741151221autistic kids
fun and cute girls walking alone in deserted routes
you had to be there
>>741151221They started airing the TV show in Western countries, before they started selling the games.It was a brilliant way to brainwash us Millennial kids into demanding our parents to buy the GBC + the R&B + the cards to boot.
>>741151221Mons were unique then, it was on the first mainstream handheld, you could trade with friends and battle with friends. It was a very social game for the mid 90's.
>>741151545Pokemon was soulfull from 95-05 so it was fine.
>>741151545I remember watching the anime when it started airing but I didn’t play the games until gen 3 because I was a poorfag.
>>741151545It was only a few weeks. And a lot of us were already aware of Pokemon before both the show and games came out in the US because it was already hype in Japan.
pokemon feet
>>741151221short shorts and soul
The cool Pokémon battles!
Community. Gamefreak was incredibly smart to make trading a core aspect of the game, so raising good pokemon came with a sense of pride and you could brag to friends about it. Even today you can open a conversation with a pokefag by just saying a pokemon name.
>>741151542That is not how History work.
>>741151774>Nintendo Power had a pokemon comic in the backdid they lace it with autism?
>>741152784why can't we go back to the gigasoul pokemon designs and the look of 80s/90s anime
>>741151221The first Pokemon games hit a ridiculously tight sweet spot of mechanical abstraction and (gameplay-only) player expression. The social elements made people feel like active participants in something new and interesting for very little effort. And the designs and visuals behind it were just plain good.Giving us side media like the anime and TCG to help flesh out the idea of what interacting with Pokemon is "really" like gave people a mental image to work off of in their imagination as they played the games, which only enhanced how those games felt.I'm willing to wager that the social elements like trading mattered more in Japan than the US, and conversely, that the pre-launch multimedia support was a vital part of how well Pokemon stuck the landing in the US.
