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Pokémon Go is an ‘augmented reality’ (AR) game. Designed by Niantic, Pokémon Go is Nintendo’s second real attempt at tapping the lucrative mobile ‘free-to-play’ market, after a port of Pokémon Shuffle and the flash-in-the-pan that was Miitomo, and it seems to have worked.

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After years of stubbornly complaining that the ‘glut’ of free or cheap smartphone games are damaging to the art of videogames, rendering them ‘disposable’, Nintendo has finally conceded that it will never get back the ‘casual’ demographics its Wii console haemorrhaged to Apple’s and Google’s ubiquitous powerful, palm-sized devices. It’s in this world that the latest phenomenon, Pokémon Go, enters.

A committed core of fans and an endless stream of new, younger fans excitedly consume each new game, but older players largely move on and outgrow Pokémon, remembering it with a nostalgic fondness even as their kids continue to discover it as a new and contemporary franchise. They require dozens of hours of playtime, and each one adds hundreds of new pokémon and new complex systems.

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The core Pokémon games have only ever existed on Nintendo’s portable consoles (the GameBoy series of the 1990s and the DS series of the 2000s and 2010s). Even if you never played the games, you probably knew Pokémon existed.īut players themselves moved on. For twenty years without fail, Pokémon has been a pop culture touchstone. The character Pikachu has become nearly as recognisable to people under thirty-five as Mickey Mouse. Alongside the initial release was the wildly popular anime series, itself spawning several movies. The Pokémon Trading Card Game took over school yards in the early late 1990s and 2000s. From the very start, the only way to actually ‘catch ’em all’ in the videogame renditions was to either trade with a friend or (undoubtedly Nintendo’s preferred tactic) purchase each near-similar copy of the game. It’s been twenty-one years since Pokémon Red and Green were released for the Nintendo GameBoy and throughout the decades, Pokémon has been meticulously marketed and tapped by Nintendo. The handwringing that has always followed Pokémon’s popularity to claim it is essentially cutesy cockfighting has always missed the point that it was never really about fighting at all that was nothing but a pretence for collecting, exploring, and discovering a grand, old, pre-urbanised world that a young kid could adventure through all by themselves. When I was making games, something clicked and I decided to make a game with that concept.’ The first Pokémon games, Green Version and Red Version, take this lost, whimsical experience and amplify its significance the way only a young child’s imagination could: a young boy leaves home and walks around the entire country to become, essentially, the best bug collector in the world. ‘Kids play inside their homes now, and a lot had forgotten about catching insects. ‘Places to catch insects are rare because of urbanization,’ Tajiri told Time in 1999. When Satoshi Tajiri created Pokémon in 1996, he wanted to capture his own childhood experience of running around the rice fields and rivers of the town he grew up in, collecting insects.

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