because pokemon have many stories, games, and tv and movie episodes so pokemon is popular especially in JAPAN
if i go there i would buy many pokemons on there :3

Why is Call of Duty so popular? All you do is wiggle two sticks and hold the right trigger down for the numbers on the scoreboard to increase (or in some cases decrease). If you oversimplify a game, of course it'll look lame and boring. The grind-y aspect of Pokémon is just one portion of a greater whole. For you, you may just see it as a grind fest and a giant collection quest. But their are intricacies within most of these mechanics that make it very rewarding, and therefore fun. I, myself admit that I am not a huge Pokémon fan, but I do see how it can be fun for some people. I grew up beating Pokémon Silver and playing a large chunk (but didn't finish) Pokémon Yellow.

Well for me it's easy to play even for people who are just casual gamers. If a game starts out hard it's a little bit off putting so they lay it out as easy at first then gradually gets difficult as you progress getting you hooked as with most games. Nuzlockes are also a thing nowadays in which people make up challenges they follow so that the game becomes more harder and more interesting very popular for youtubers. It's a formula that's addictive I mean we love Final Fantasy despite the amount of games that are made why not Pokemon. I get that grinding in difficult hacks on pokemon are boring and repetitive but you can always use your Ipod or Cell Phone to listen to music that always takes the edge off for me. Pokemon is also something you can share with your kids, nieces, nephews, little brothers, and sisters.

It is popular because when in first came out it did some pretty revolutionary things in the game industry. For starters it was a game that encouraged kids to find others who played it. This may seem small but there were no other games at the time that you couldn't complete by yourself, so by encouraging kids to make "pokemon clubs" in order to get certain pokemon or unlock the last form of geodude they basically made support groups for their game. You see this kind of thing in games like wow where people would normally quit playing but keep playing for their friends or guild mates.

A second thing was you could actually play it with your friends whenever. Unlike other games, if you were talking about pokemon during recess you could pull it out and actually play it right there. Final fantasy you would have to wait until you got home or to your friends house.

Game play wise it had more customization than anything else. You could fight hundreds of teams and never face someone who had the same team as what you had because there were 81 different final forms of pokemon and you could customize the moveset of each one.

jparks34 : 5 Reasons Why Pokemon Is Both The Best And Worst Game Ever Made263,103 views
Every kid in the world wanted a Pokemon game and if you had one with Charizard or Mewtwo, you were the s***. However, now that we are older, there are things that Pokemon and Nintendo programmed into the games that they want you to overlook.
#5- You get to capture and train Pokemon
One of the main points in the game which is both tedious and fun to do during the main play of the game. Catching and training a Pokemon to rape the "elite four" alone is one of the greatest accomplishments that anyone can get to in the game and also makes this one of worst parts of the game.
Why this is awesome:
You get capture anything from a rat that shoots out electricity and crap to a prehistoric sea creature that can either cut down a whole city or make the best sushi in the world. The whole concept of capturing creatures that can do such things and force them to battle in fight-to-the-death style is just f***ing awesome.
Also, they don't die. They "faint" and you can revive them to full health in less than thirty seconds by going to a Pokemon center at talking to that blabbering Nurse Joy. Hell, it'd probably be less if she would just shut her trap and do her job.
This enables the person to abuse their weak Pokemon, like Magikarp, until the damn thing finally evolves into something badass, like
Gyarados.
Why this is horrible:
You're capturing creatures and forcing them to fight to until they faint with fatigue and getting the s*** beat out of them. This is insanely horrible and I will tell you how PETA would react.
PETA: I can't believe that people are to these sort of things to these creatures! Poor things. I should strip down and mud wrestle with another female to protest this cruelty.
This is how PETA protests everything. Naked.
Though normally I tell PETA to f*** off with their insane complaints, this one I kind of have to agree with them on this issue. I mean, seriously, even Michael Vick, a star football player, got brought down because of his dog fighting addiction because apparently there isn't enough violence in football.
And this game is being marketed to children. Kids that are five years of age are playing games that require you to capture creatures, stuff them into little balls that shrink after they've been stuffed into them, and then force them to fight. Do you want your children to do that? Do you?
If this doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.
#4-Evolving you Pokemon
This is the reason that you continue to train your Pokemon when you get them. You level these pathetic creatures up so that they evolve into the ultimate incarnation of badassness.
Why this is awesome:
If I just say that Charmander evolves into Charizard, enough has been said. But instead of just leaving you with that awesome image, I'mgoing to continue the list: Squirtle to Blastoise, Magikarp toGyarados, Gastly to Gengar, Dratini to Dragonite, and Eevee to any oneof it's evolutions.
This is so awesome it f***s with the theory
of evolution while supporting it.
These are just some of the awesome evolutions that can occur, and new generations have even more. Scyther gets a kickass metal coat when he becomes Scizor, Onix finally looks badass when it turns into Steelix, and Horsea evolves into a f***ing water dragon when it evolves into Kingdra.
And that's not all. By embracing the ideas of Darwinism, it spits in the face of the Catholic church. That's right, you can have your Charizard and f*** the church too.
Why this is horrible:
It's not that evolving your Pokemon isn't cool, but they should at least make some goshdarn sense. The first generation of Pokemon didn't have too many mistakes, the only really apparent ones being Exeggcute evolving into Exeggutor and possibly Dragonair to Dragonite. But after that it got f***ed up.
Evolves to
WTF says it all
I mean seriously, what the hell kind of Mickey Mouse bulls*** is this? You've got a little fish that evolves into a f***ing octopus. It doesn't make any sense at all. Fish have bones. Octopi don't have bones. Changes like that screw with all that we know about biology and evolution. Sure, we've seen animals move from bacterium to boned structures, but that process has taken millions and millions of years. Pokemon, try making some god-damned sense out of these creatures before you release them into the public.
#3-Breeding your Pokemon
This feature of the Pokemon game was introduced in the second generation of the Pokemon games, Gold and Silver versions. To those who actually pay attention to what breeding in Pokemon has done, it has created a whole new level of international gameplay. Yes, there are people who actually play this game competitively.
Why this is awesome:
By breeding your Pokemon, you are able to make them become unbelievably badass, not to mention complete the Pokedex by getting all of the baby Pokemon that you need. With breeding you can give Charizard an awesome move called flare blitz, which can be described as the more epic version of take down and with fire. (Okay, so he can learn it without breeding, but so what? This is probably the only reference most people will get).
I'd explain more about what breeding can do, but I'm too lazy and if you really want to do the research for it, check out this page.
Why this is horrible:
Though I believe that most males reading this would love to "breed" as often they can, the plain truth is that forcing animals to do that is just wrong. Let us hear from PETA. Again:
PETA: I can't believe that they're forcing those creatures to breed.It's cruel and unusual to treat animals like that. In order to protestI'm going to strip down and "breed" to protest this.
plus
This may create the sexiest being to ever live,
but nobody cares because it's PETA
No! Please, dear God make it stop! We don't need to have any more members of PETA.
However, I agree with them on the concept. Forcing people, animals, anything to breed tends to result in a slap to the face, a b**** slap, a fight, biting, strangling, beating, breathing fire, and then death or serious injuries cause by "falling down the stairs."
Take this advice, don't force anything to breed. It just turns out really bad in the end because you're either in jail or stuck with multiple screaming bundles of flesh that you're not allowed to get rid of until they're 18 years old and they keep coming back.
In the real world, this would be so f***ing illegal it's not even funny. Think of all of the inbreeding that could occur from all of those Pokemon that you forced to mate. The birth defects and genetic disease would eventually render every Pokemon in the world useless. And then there's the moral part. Are you sure you really want to for that Skitty to breed with that Wailord?
Dear what ever being is the true god,
let the Skitty be the male!
#2-Random encounters
These are those things that occur in the game which are not entirely necessary for the game and are not side quests. This includes walking through grass, caves, surfing, etcetera and receivingphone calls throughout Gold and Silver and the remakes of them, HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Why this is awesome:
Other than the first time you've ever roamed around the grass to capture your first wild Pokemon and the joy of the accomplishment of finding and capturing that f***ing Chansey that you've spent weeks searching for, almost absolutely nothing.
Okay, maybe finding those other rare, random and legendary Pokemon that run around, specifically the three legendary dogs Entei, Raikou, and Suicune also qualifies as something awesome, but that's it.
Yeah, these guys are f***ing badass and
a pain in the ass to catch
And in the remakes you are able to get items from the phone calls. But seriously, that's it! Big f***ing deal!
Why this is horrible:
If you can't answer this question yourself, you've obviously never played a Pokemon game in your life and should therefore go dig your own grave or run like hell to go pick a game up. Seriously, you'd have to have been living under a rock since the Atari came out and not have scuttled out of that hell-hole until five seconds ago.
But as all of us who have played the games know, this gets f***ing annoying. And I'm not talking tedious annoying, I'm talking you'd rather chop your balls off than deal with this s***. And they give you repels to reduce the amount of Pokemon you encounter, but then you just have to keep buying more which just as annoying as encountering the Pokemon.
Take walking in the grass for example. Sure, the occasionalencounter is okay because you can normally just run away, catch it, or beat the s*** out of it without any huge problem. Now multiply that by 50 and you understand how annoying this is. If you're training your Pokemon, they don't seem to show up enough, but if you are racing to save your Pokemon from fainting due to that stupid Weedle poisoning it, you may end up taking the longer path because it seems that you're not getting anywhere.
And then the phone calls. These only exist in Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold, and SoulSilver, but seriously, who was the f***ing idiot who came up with this idea? I mean, sometimes I can'twalk five steps without some random ass trainer calling me to say he can't catch a f***ing Rattata or that the Magikarp he hooked got away from him.
And there's no way for you to talk back to them or block their calls. I just wish you could call them to say, "Hey, weakling, I'm going to beat the Elite Four for the 15 billionth time. Don't call me until you can at least have something decent to talk about, like how weak the Elite Four is. b****."
At least in HeartGold and SoulSilver you can ignore the calls, but that doesn't stop them from being annoying. You can't even play the game with your volume up because of those damn calls.
f*** the Pokegear!
iPhone, b****es!
#1- You can (or have to) catch them all
The main advertisement of the Pokemon franchise before they found out that it was a near impossible task after the first games were released and it hasn't gotten any easier. They keep on releasing new Pokemon every generation, and there's gonna be a fifth one.
Why this is awesome:
Back when the classics were out, meaning of course Red, Blue, and Yellow, this was the s***. You'd find a friend who had the game, you'd pull out your link cable, and then trade for any Pokemon you didn't have or you did so to get a Gengar, Golem, Machamp, or Alakazam.
And they were all badass....Except for Golem
Eventually, you were able to trade and train your way through all 150 Pokemon and you finally thought the journey was over. Then Gold came out with even more Pokemon to catch and the whole thing started up again. This time, however, you didn't necessarily need to catch them all, but you could if you wanted to. But now...
Why this is horrible:
You have to catch every single one of those little f***ers to obtain the special ones. In Pokemon Emerald version, in order to get one of the Gold starters, you had to catch all 200 of those annoying bastards in the Hoenn region's pokedex. And it's not like you could use other Pokemon for those 200, no. You had to specifically get those 200 in order to get one special Pokemon. Only one of the three Pokemon that were, at the time, unobtainable in any other way other than hacking, which we all know is for pussies.
The artwork was designed to make pussies feel like they were badass
Also, you have to trade Pokemon from other games if you're going to get them all. And, in order to trade these Pokemon to one another, you had to buy a link cable. Yes, that's right. Pokemon forced you to buy another accessory and possible even another game to get all of the Pokemon that you needed. At least you are now able to trade wirelessly with the DS system, but you still have to either find someone who still plays or buy the other game yourself.
Eventually, Pokemon got the idea stuck in their head that we would enjoy more Pokemon, so they made more. Now having nearly 500 of these creepy little guys running around is bad enough, but at least you don't have to catch them all anymore. You just have to see them all. This, however, is just as annoying as catching them all, but at least when you catch your own Pokemon you get to use them.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/funny-4702-5-reasons-why-pokemon-both-best-worst-game-ever-made/#ixzz3N3uWS7CJ

zen162 : did you just copy paste this without even bothering to format it? I'm fairly certain that jsparks asked a serious question and you paste an article from a humor site. Your post has no content in it running haphazardly from one topic to another while talking down to the reader. Please don't post uninspired crap like that. You should either just post the link to the funny article or you should try to re-frame what the article is trying to say in your own words. There is just no reason to have a two thousand word article just pasted into a post.

tiropat : yeah i copied it

jparks34 :

Effective marketing more than anything - it ended up being hugely popular with kids in the 90s, and even though it's definitely not as popular (at least in the US) as it was it managed to retain a cult following. I played around with the games, and dabbled in the trading cards when I was a kid, but never seriously got into it. It's probably similar to how Mario ended up being so popular even after 30 years - back when Super Mario Bros came out on the SNES it was the biggest thing ever compared to the Atari-type games that had came before it (and the same formula kind of repeated itself with Super Mario 64; for the day and age it was pretty revolutionary as far as 3D gaming went).

I can see the appeal Pokemon would had to a 90s kid - back then it did have a lot of depth compared to the typical Game Boy game, with so many creatures to collect and the ability to battle or trade with your friends. As an adult though I agree - I can't see a "logical" reason for it being popular especially considering it's target audience. Compared to other RPGs like Final Fantasy, Neverwinter Nights, etc - once you get past the novelty of collecting and training so many creatures it's very simplistic in terms of plot, characters, and challenge compared to other RPGs (even ones that existed on consoles back in the 90s).

A year or so ago for example I watched a playthrough of Pokemon Red on Youtube for nostalgia's sake and was shocked at just how simple it was (and how bad the AI was) - as long as you memorized what type of Pokemon your attacks were effective against - you could take on a "boss" and beat all of his Pokemon without losing a single one of yours, even if your Pokemon were 20 levels lower. Not to mention the AI would so incredibly stupid stuff, like use a "heal" ability when it's HP was full - or constantly use a "lower defense" attack on you even when you had only 1 HP remaining and would die from any attack. lol

Beyond just a "nostalgia" thing I really can't see it's popularity beyond the pre-teen age group, but hey to each their own. I feel kinda similar about Sonic the Hedgehog - I grew up with Sonic and enjoyed the games as a kid, but they were really a "1 trick pony" with the speed gimmick and the slick artwork being the only thing that stands out - the gameplay itself is so simple that as an adult it doesn't hold my interest like it used to (just hold down the right arrow key, and jump a few times, and you'll usually beat the level). 

I agree that it can get boring at times, but part of the fun is that there are a lot of Pokémon. You may encounter a new one in a patch of grass and if you are like me, you have to catch it. It's just so addicting to play. That is why I think Pokémon is so popular.

jparks34 : Pokemon is one of my favorite video game franchises of all time because it's so addictive, it has a wonderful world, many types of pokemon and there's loads of strategy that goes into making the ultimate pokemon team. I'll always be a pokemon fan and I hope you'll try it out someday.

Let's see, the reason why Pokemon got it's popularity, let's see, the ever so changing series with each generation it goes through, when it goes into a new generation, it brings a new region and a bunch of new Pokemon into the series. Like right now, we got 719 Pokemon with 6 different regions. With all the generation changes, that's why Pokemon got popular and will remain popular.