Triumph Books - Pojos Unofficial Big Book of Pokemon

Angel Pe laez

Bob Baker & Jigglypuff, 2000

Jason Klaczynski, 2013

Scott Gerhardt

Amy & Anna Gill, 1999

Andr ew ar or amage Cornell

Bill Gill, a.k.a Pojo, 2005

CREDITS

This book is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed, or licensed by Nintendo of America Inc. The trademarks POKMON, POKMON GO, and GOTTA CATCH EM ALL are owned by Nintendo of America Inc. and other company names and/or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identification purposes only.

Editor in Chief: Bill Gill, a.k.a Pojo

Creative Director & Graphic Designer: Phil Deppen

Graphic Designer: Jake Ziech

Publishing Director: Bob Baker

Writers: Bob Baker, Anna Gill, Joseph Otaku Lee, Andrew Cornell, Jason Klaczynski, Angel Pelaez, Scott Gerhardt

Cover Deign: Preston Pisellini

From Pojo

Something for Everybody!

The Pokmon Franchise has something for everybody. What started as a video game for Nintendos Game Boy back in 1996 has evolved like a Pokmon into so much more.

We put together our first Big Book of Pokmon with Triumph Books way back in February of 2000. That book covered only four years of Pokmon history, and we filled its 336 pages to the brim! We loaded it up with information on Video Games, the Trading Card Game, Toys and Anime.

Since then, the Busy Beedrills at Pojo.com have continued to bring you a wealth of Pokmon knowledge for 16 more years, and were still going.

Now were back working with Triumph Books on another Big Book of Pokmon. Only now we have 20 years of Pokmon History to work with. Where does one start? We could easily fill a 26 Volume Encyclopedia Set with Pokmon information to share with you. We knew we had to try to cover Pokmon History, Pokmon Video Games, the Pokmon Trading Card Game, the Pokmon Anime, and even Pokmon Go! Weve done our best to focus on only the important things.

First, we kick things off with a Pokmon Timeline. Its a fantastic walk down Memory Lane. We tried to show you every single thing that happened in the Pokmon History over the last 20 years.

We cover Video Games We have a detailed look at what we think are the 10 Best Pokmon Video Games of all-time. Then we also have a Top 10 List of the very best Pokmon for the Pokmon RPGs. We rank the Top 10 Pokmon by Type (fire, water, etc). Thats a review of 180 different Pokmon right there!

We cover the Trading Card Games We review the Top 100 Pokmon Cards every printed. There are over 9,000 English Pokmon cards in print. We narrow things down to the Best 100. We also break down the Top 5 Pokmon Cards from every expansion. There are 69 expansions, so thats another whopping 345 Pokmon Cards reviewed for you. And we dont stop there. We rank the Top 25 Most Valuable English Pokmon Cards. And we also have a few pages on Pokmon Jargon, so you know how to talk Pokmon!

We cover the Anime The Anime has been going strong for 19 years! There have been hundreds and hundreds of recurring characters on the show. So we put together an Alphabetical Reference of every human character that has appeared two or more times over 19 Seasons of Pokmon.

And we Cover Pokmon Go! Pokmon Go has been sweeping the globe, and we have 20 Tips & Tricks to help you understand the game and become a Pokmaster!

We crammed a lot into this book, and we recruited many experts in the Pokmon field to write for you, so this book rocks like Tyranitar!

P.S. Feel free to contact us at www.pojo.com if you have questions or want to share something with us.

Our first BIG BOOK!

Pojo breaks out the Wayback Machine and has a look back at the most important releases in Pokmon history over the last 20 years.

1996

FEBRUARY, 1996

POCKET MONSTERS RED & GREEN IN JAPAN

In February 1996, the Pocket Monsters Red & Green video games were released in Japan. They introduced the concept of collecting, trading and battling with Pocket Monsters. Thousands of people lined up in Japan to buy the games, which instantly sold out. These games eventually sold more than 10 million copies in Japan. Pokmon Blue was released in the summer of 1996 and that game was mail-order only. The games appear to be simple childrens games, but they are actually very deep Role-Playing Games (RPGs). The games feature a ton of strategy and a dynamic storyline.

OCTOBER 1996

POKMON TCG DEBUTS IN JAPAN

Eight months later, thanks to the success of the Game Boy games, the Pocket Monsters Trading Card Game (TCG) was released. The Pocket Monsters TCG turned into a craze in Japan. TCGs were still a relatively new phenomenon in the world. Magic the Gathering debuted in 1993 and was easily the most popular TCG at the time. Magic the Gathering had a pretty strong teenager/young adult following. But common folk didnt even know that TCGs existed. Pocket Monsters / Pokemon really changed that.