The wonderful world of Pokémon
Pokémon took the world by storm when it was first created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995. The whole franchise started off as a video game for Game Boy, but expanded to include Manga, anime series, movies, video games, trading and games, and toys. To understand better the popularity of Pokémon, especially in the video game franchise, it is second in the world only to Mario! The Pokémon brand earned $2 Billion in revenues in 2014 alone.
In the fictional Pokémon universe, humans can capture and train Pokémon to fight each other for sport. The term Pokémon was derived from an abbreviation of the Japanese word for Pocket Monsters, and various Pokémon Manga series were released in English which differed greatly from each other due to it being produced by different authors.
The most famous and well loved Pokémon according to their popularity, power, and fame have been ranked for you, with an explanation of what makes them the favorites.
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The most popular character in the Pokémon franchise, this yellow little electric mouse that throws off electricity doesn’t live in a Pokeball (something humans use to capture wild Pokémon.) The yellow colour was added as it is a primary colour, so that children would be able to recognize it from a distance, and also at the time the only other yellow character competing for attention was Winnie the Pooh. This became the mascot for the Pokémon series and also is a symbol of Japanese pop culture over recent years.
2) Charizard: A clever play on words to make it memorable for the English audience, they named it ‘Charizard’ using the words ‘ charcoal’ and ‘lizard’. An orange, dragon-like character, its wings can carry it up to a height of 4,500 feet. You wouldn’t want to make this Charizard angry, because if its temper is ignited, then the flame at the tip of its tail will become a whitish blue colour and they have been known to accidently cause wildfires in the fictional world of
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The enemies in the game were all brought from previous games, following the same style of character designs. This created the comical and cartoonish look that has come to be loved by many. This level of detail and work was put into all the other aspects of the game creating the world renowned game we have come to know of today. Super Mario 64 is thought to be one of the greatest games of all time by many fans and critics.
Well, there's also a reason why many people look down on Pokemon games, and it's because of the lame plot. It is set in a new region called Johto, three years after the events in Pokemon RBY. But apart from that, you might as well have the same storyline as in the previous games. However, the localization is perfect (unlike some other games for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color), and at least the plot doesn't pretend to be something that it isn't.
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Competitive Pokemon first started in 1996, when the game first came out. Most casual fans picked up the games and went through it, enjoying the adventure and thrill of their first Pokemon journey. However, certain players saw strategies, combinations of moves, typing, and mechanics that led to a higher level of gameplay. Eventually, different rankings for Pokemon (tiers) were set up, Ubers being the highest (Mewtwo, for example), and OU (OverUsed) for more common but powerful Pokemon, such as Alakazam or Starmie.
The Guillemot family founded Ubisoft in March of 1986. Yves Guillemot, the chairman and the CEO, soon after made deals with MicroProse, Sierra On-Line and Electronic Arts to start distributing their games in France. The first game that was developed internally by Ubisoft was released in 1989 by the name of Zombi. By the end of the decade Ubisoft expanded worldwide. Ubisoft spread over 19 countries with 29 companies and it also has subsidiaries in 26 countries.
David Vetter born 21 September 1971 or better known by media as “David the bubble boy” was diagnosed with SICD which resulted in him being very susceptible to diseases viruses and other harmful bacteria in which his body would be unable to protect against these pathogens. The reason why he was named “bubble boy” is because as soon as David was born he was placed into a sterile, bacteria free chamber to prevent him from dying. Although he lived all his love inside of such an environment this was only supposed to be a temporary solution before he could get a bone marrow transplant. Ultimately he died at the age of 12, 4 months after the transplant, when it was found the transplant contained an infection. He died the 22 February 1984. The world
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It was late night, I was watching a battle on the tv, it was intense because both onix and gengar where at each others throat battling it out, it looks like onix is too slow for gengar so then the player retreated onix and the send out greninja to the battle field and then my mom came into my room and said that it was late and i should be asleep but then i said ‘’i am trying to learn my way of pokemon’’, then she said ‘’ok fine watch this’’ then she change the channel to professer Oak the town's pokemon professor. He was talking about which pokemon there are to choose. There was a grass type pokemon called bulbasaur, then there was a fire type pokemon called charmander, then last but not least there was a water type pokemon called squirtle,
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I have been an elementary teacher for the past 11 years and that is all that I have know as an educator. This past week I stepped into the middle school library and I will admit that I felt completly out of my comfort zone. After a couple of hours I began to notice that although in a middle school setting 6th graders were not much different than the 5th graders I work with at the elementary level. Like all new positions time is the key factor to gain experiences and like you mentioned above having a support system in place will most definitely help.
the game. In 1908, the commission credited Doubleday with creating the game and it was based on a letter from Abner
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The game of monopoly as we know it today was created by Charles Brace Darrow in 1933 according to the patent office. After the successful sale he made he got an offer to license it to the big game manufacturer (Parker Brothers) in 1935 (Darrow, 1935). Science then the game become popular all around the world." More than 275 million games have been sold worldwide and it’s available in 111 countries, in 43 languages" (ABOUT MONOPOLY, 2013).