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Pokémon
Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri and first released as a pair of Game Boy games in Japan in 1996, built around collecting and battling creatures called Pokémon, and it grew into the highest-grossing media franchise in the world across games, trading cards, television, and merchandise combined. Tajiri reportedly drew inspiration for the concept from his own childhood hobby of collecting insects, translating that experience of searching, capturing, and cataloging creatures into the franchise's core "Gotta Catch 'Em All" gameplay premise that has remained central across every subsequent generation of games. The Pokémon Trading Card Game, launched alongside the original video games, became a massive standalone commercial phenomenon in its own right, and individual rare cards have sold at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars, reflecting the franchise's unusual crossover success as both a game and a collectible commodity. Pokémon's combination of its origin in Tajiri's childhood insect-collecting hobby and its status as the highest-grossing media franchise in the world has made it one of the most commercially significant entertainment properties ever created, video game or otherwise.
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Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy launched in 1987, created by Hironobu Sakaguchi for developer Square, reportedly named partly because the game was intended as the company's last-ditch project before an anticipated bankruptcy, a fate the game's surprise commercial success ultimately helped the company avoid entirely. The franchise became known for its anthology structure, with each mainline numbered entry typically featuring an entirely new self-contained story, world, and cast of characters rather than direct narrative continuity, letting Square (later Square Enix) continuously reinvent the series' setting and mechanics with each new installment. Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997, is widely credited as one of the most influential and commercially significant role-playing games ever made, helping establish Japanese role-playing games as a major commercial genre for Western audiences during the PlayStation era. Final Fantasy's combination of its unusual anthology structure reinventing itself with each entry and Final Fantasy VII's historically significant role popularizing Japanese RPGs in the West has made it one of the most influential video game franchises in the industry's history.
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