(Image from @didyouknowgaming.com (but no steemit article about this yet))
Serious, did you know that pokemon was given their US debut in gameboyCamera in 1997 4 months before pokemon red and blue both came out? it caused some confusion as to what these strange creatures were! Kind of like the ULTIMATE internal guerrilla marketing technique, to hide some pokemon as "stamps" in the gameboy camera, and it worked! pokemon made nintendo millions and guess what? because of Pokemon Go smartphone game, the pokemon cards that you gave away or forgot about or hopefully still have, are all very expensive once again, yes a holographic charizard in perfect condition goes for $9000 ! (in one of those little hard plastic containers for baseball cards should be fine, i had em in plastic soft containers and then the hard ones....seriously, i wish i could find them, the holographic ones are all straight money if they are never touched...(Pokemon Go increased aggregate demand/consumption by getting people to go walk (and DRIVE) around and spend money at pokestops and restaurants and gas stations etc
(This was the japanese version below and it had different pokemon like vulpix and jigglypuff etc)