With this year celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, Nintendo has steadily been making exciting announcements over the past few months and overnight, there was another big reveal to get fans feeling hyped about the future of the series.
It was way back in February 1996 that the first ever Pokémon game, Pocket Monsters Red and Green, was released in Japan after the idea of the franchise itself was first conceived by Satoshi Tajiri in 1990. Developed over a six-year period by Game Freak, the first Pokémon game launched on the Game Boy, and quickly saw the monster-catching series become a cultural phenomenon that still goes strong over three decades later.
Thanks to a hit Pokémon anime series which aired in Japan in 1997, as well as the popularity of Pocket Monsters Red and Green, the franchise made its way to the west in 1998 courtesy of Pokémon Red and Blue and now, 30 years on, the series consists of over 100 official video games spanning across nine, almost ten, generations.
As such, the fans of Pokémon rival the millions, with each having their favorite video game entry and, of course, a favorite Pokémon who...
