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unusual facts about Pokémon: The First Movie


98 Degrees and Rising

Also, the song "Fly With Me" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 film Pokémon: The First Movie.


1997 in Japanese television

December 16-Denno Senshi Porygon,an episode of Pokémon,is aired on TV Tokyo in Japan.20 minutes in the episode, Ash Ketchum's Pikachu uses its Thunderbolt attack on vaccine missiles,causing red and blue strobe lights flashing rapidly.This gives 685 viewers (310 boys and 375 girls) seizures and causes Indigo League (The series of Pokémon) to go into hiatus until April 1998.

Bergsala

Bergsala operates two important marketing web sites: the Nintendo website and the Pokémon website.

Bestiary

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions (e.g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy) and may even be central to the plot (Pokemon series).

Card game

Such games are also created to capitalize on the popularity of other forms of entertainment, such as Pokémon and Marvel Comics which both have had CCGs created around them.

Charizard

Shin-ichiro Miki, the actor who voices James in the original Japanese version of the Pokémon anime, voices Charizard in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the cartoon.

Chikorita, Bayleef, and Meganium

Meganium, known as the Herb Pokémon, is the final form of the Chikorita evolutionary line.

Children of a Lesser Clod

A short segment of the episode features Bill Cosby asking a child on his show Kids Say the Darndest Things about games he likes to play, to which the child promptly replies "Pokémon!"

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl (James's Carnivine, Brock's Sudowoodo, Ash's Gible, Pokémon Ranger Battonage Hajime, Younger Volkner)

Dino Master

Dino Master is a game for the Nintendo DS system similar to a fusion of Pokémon and the arcade game Qix.

Dragon Warrior Monsters

Dragon Warrior Monsters is often compared to the Pokémon series due to their similar gameplay.

Ekans and Arbok

IGN's Pokémon Chick wrote that Arbok was a favorite among players looking for a "pure Poison" type and/or players who like Arbok for being an enemy toward Pikachu and Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime.

Fábio Lucindo

His best known works for dubbing in anime are the characters: Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shaoran (Cardcaptor Sakura), Ash Ketchum (Pokémon), Krillin (Dragon Ball), Kiba Inuzuka (Naruto), Arnold in Hey Arnold!, Takuya Kanbara (Digimon Frontier) and Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach).

FUN! Online Games Magazine

This bi-monthly publication focuses on the online gaming world, with feature articles on games such as Webkinz World, Free Realms, Build-A-Bear Online, Neopets, Club Penguin, Toontown Online, Shining Stars, TY Beanie Babies, Pokémon, Wizard 101, Pixie Hollow, and more.

Galatin

It has made National headlines when a man dressed up as a Blastoise Pokémon, molested and killed 47 men.

Game Boy

However, game developer Satoshi Tajiri would later use the link cable technology as a method of communication and networking in the popular Pokémon video game series.

It was available in two standard colors; Gold and Silver, as well as numerous special editions- an Astro Boy edition with a clear case with an Astro Boy picture on it, an Osamu Tezuka World shop edition with a clear red case and a picture of his characters, a solid yellow Pokémon Center Tokyo version, a clear 'skeleton' Famitsu edition which had only 5,000 units released, and a clear yellow edition separate from the Pokémon Center Tokyo version.

Guild Wars: Eye of the North

; Polymock : Resembling Pokémon, the player fields a team of up to three "pieces" against his opponent's team.

Hypersociability

The principle of hypersociability is most widely used in Japanese pop culture, examples of which include Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, which used multiplayer games separate from the original media.

Latias and Latios

Known as the Eon Pokémon, Latios and Latias are two legendary Pokémon originating from the Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald series of games.

Latios and Latias first appear in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire respectively, after completing the Pokémon League.

Lucario

The design and art direction for Lucario was provided by Ken Sugimori, a friend of the creator of the Pokémon games, Satoshi Tajiri.

Machida, Tokyo

Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, who also based Pallet Town on this town in the original Pokémon Red and Blue.

Naoe Kanetsugu

He is a playable character in Pokémon Conquest (Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition in Japan), with his partner Pokémon being Kadabra and Alakazam.

Nine-tailed fox

In the Pokémon franchise, Ninetales is a Pokémon which takes the appearance of a fox with sleek, cream-coloured fur and nine tails.

Nintendo 64 accessories

This device was used for final matches at the Pokémon League Summer Training Tour '99. It was not a consumer product as only developers and magazines could purchase one from Nintendo at a cost of $1400 USD a piece. The Canadian children's game show Video & Arcade Top 10 used Wide-Boy 64 adapters so contestants could play Game Boy titles on some later episodes.

North wind

In the second generation of the Pokémon games (first released in Japan in 1999 and to Australia and North America in 2000 and Europe in 2001), Suicune is said to be the incarnation of the north winds.

Peter Keefe

Keefe's work on the series is credited with introducing American audiences to Japanese animation and influenced later children's programs like Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon and Power Rangers.

Pocket Monsters RéBURST

Originally have Bisharp and Reshiram he can use them as a Burst form, he now has more Pokémon he can use as Burst forms such as Samurott, Golurk and Zebstrika without the use of Burst Heart, after gaining Arcades' power.

Pokémon 3: The Movie

Yūji Ueda (Eric Stuart in the English adaption) as Takeshi (Brock in the English adaption), a Pokémon breeder and Ash's travelling companion.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team

The player starts out as a human who turned into a Pokémon, which can be one of sixteen Pokémon (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Chikorita, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Pikachu, Eevee, Machop, Cubone, Psyduck, Meowth, and Skitty) and is determined by a personality quiz taken at the beginning of the game.

Pokémon Origins

Recalling a diary he encountered during his travels, Red deduces this to be an artificially made Pokémon named Mewtwo.

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

In March 2005, Nintendo of America executive Reggie Fils-Aimé said that Pokémon XD would be a new GameCube game, but not a sequel to Colosseum.

Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker

Tomiko Suzuki (who had previosly voiced in Transformers: The Headmasters and Transformers: Super-God Masterforce) died after suffering heart failure on July 7, 2003, 12 days before the film was released in Japan.

The featured song in this movie is Asuca Hayashi's Chiisaki Mono in Japanese versions while the English version was sung by Cindy Mizelle (however, the English version, titled Make a Wish, adds English lyrics in addition to the Japanese lyrics).

Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

This is a perfect fit for Mewtwo’s band, so thus they settle in the top of Mt. Quena and begin a new, safe life, with Mewtwo watching over as their guardian, as he feels they cannot belong in the world as they were not born in it (Interestingly enough, he seems particularly close to the Pikachu and Meowth clones, possibly reflecting how important their templates were in his change of heart).

Ponyta and Rapidash

She added that Rapidash was her favourite Fire type Pokémon but is often forgotten in favour of more popular Fire type Pokémon such as Charizard, Typhlosion, and Arcanine.

Prasad Barve

He’s also done Hindi voiceover roles for famous cartoons and Japanese anime like in Scooby Doo, Stitch, Pokémon and Perman.

Rafflesia arnoldii

The Pokémon Vileplume, of the Pokémon game franchise was created based on the rafflesia arnoldii

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon

The Pokémon-styled capturing mechanism present in the previous game is no more; instead, Raidou can now negotiate with enemy monsters to try to persuade or bribe them to join his side (a tactic employed in many other Shin Megami Tensei games).

Spore Creatures

The Nintendo DS version of the Sporepedia resembles and functions more like Pokémon's Pokédex than that used in the main version of Spore.

Sprite comic

Sprite comics frequently use characters from well-known games such as Sonic, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Mega Man, and Dragon Ball.

Steve Siegel

He successfully negotiated, secured and managed licensing for brands such as Nickelodeon’s Blues Clues, Mattel’s Barbie, Pokémon and Betty Boop and expanded the company’s product line into national retailers including Sears, Target, JCPenney and Toys "R" Us.

Subaru 360

It was one of the smallest cars to attract a significant following from the 1960s to early 1970s, though it was never significant in North America, and also appears in Japanese anime series such as Pokémon and GetBackers, as well as racing video games such as Gran Turismo and Auto Modellista.

Takenaka Shigeharu

He is a playable character in Pokémon Conquest (Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition in Japan, with his partner Pokémon being Pikachu and Raichu), in the Samurai Warriors games from Samurai Warriors 3 and in the game Warriors Orochi 3.

Tetris Attack

This version, based on the first few seasons of the Pokémon anime, includes a training mode, a puzzle editor, and a 3D game mode that takes place in a cylindrical playfield.

Tōryanse

Pokémon, episode 352 (AG076): a version rewritten to be about the Pokémon Baltoy (Yajiron) is sung more than once.

Uwe Kreisel

In 2006, he was a winner of Nintendo of America's "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon" art contest with a tongue-in-cheek cartoon on Franz Kafka's 1915 The Metamorphosis.


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