Whether you play games or not, there's no way you haven't heard of

Pokemon. What started out as just a 🎅 fad simply didn't fade, and now the series touches

every console from the Gameboy to the WiiU -- and probably 🎅 beyond. Pokemon was first

created in 1995 by Satoshi Jajiri, which was inspired by his childhood love of catching

critters 🎅 in the wild (although none of them burned him with fire or zapped him with