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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda franchise began in 1986, also created by Shigeru Miyamoto, built around recurring hero Link's quest to rescue Princess Zelda and defeat the evil Ganon across a series of games that helped establish and repeatedly reinvent the action-adventure genre. The franchise became particularly known for its willingness to significantly reinvent its core gameplay formula with major entries, from the top-down 2D exploration of the original game to the fully open-world redesign of 2017's "Breath of the Wild," which many critics credit with reshaping the entire open-world genre. Zelda games are frequently cited among the highest-rated video games ever released, with multiple entries in the series holding some of the highest aggregate critic review scores in gaming history, reflecting an unusually consistent critical reputation across nearly four decades of releases. The Legend of Zelda's combination of its willingness to fundamentally reinvent its core formula with major entries and its unusually consistent critical acclaim across decades has made it one of the most respected video game franchises ever created.
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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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