Pokemon 25th Anniversary Celebrations Begins With a Virtual Post Malone Concert By
March 1, 2021 11:48 pm
Fans of hip-hop and Pokemon received a surprising yet amazing amalgamation from none other than musician Post Malone. The Beerbongs and Bentleys star kicked off Pokemon’s 25th anniversary celebrations with a surreal virtual concert to celebrate everything about the franchise. Armed with his most popular tunes and one surprising rendition, the concert was one of the best ways to start off the 25th anniversary celebrations.
Post Malone kicks off year long Pokemon celebration event
Post Malone started off the Universal Music and Pokemon collaborative event, P25 Music on Saturday. The event is a yearlong celebration as part of the franchise’s 25th year anniversary. The virtual concert was held on Pokemon Day, when the franchise’s first video games, Pokemon Red and Green, launched way back in 1996. The series continued with countless spinoffs from popular TV shows, movies
The Best Spin-Off Pokemon Games After 25 Years
The mainline Pokemon games that started with
Pokemon Red and Green 25 years ago today are undoubtedly the backbone of the franchise – the games the community waits to hear more about each generation – but there’s an entire ecosystem of spin-off games propping them up. While the longevity and availability of these spin-off titles don’t always match that of the core Pokemon games, they’re often associated with many fans’ best memories of the Pokemon franchise.
It’s also hard not to have a favorite spin-off game considering how many of them there are. Some of them are more ambitious than others while some of the games like
The Electric Tale of Pikachu: Why Pokemon s First and Best American Comic Deserves a Comeback
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When Nintendo and its partners first began to localize the Pokemon franchise in North America, there were already a number of products available in Japan. After all,
Pokemon Red and Green had released in the region in February 1996, more than two years before the rest of the world. As a result, some franchise elements were localized before others which was the case for
Pokemon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu. The comic series launched in the fall of 1998 at the same time as the anime and Game Boy game. Despite being the first Pokemon comic to arrive in North America, the series has been out of print for years and forgotten by many.
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