I don't think it completely made the Gameboy famous, but Pokemon certainly attributed a large amount of PR for the system during the Pokemon craze. I know tons of people who bought a GB, GBC, GBA and now a DS just for Pokemon.
[GAMES] Do you think that Pokemon makes gameboy famous?
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 06:40 AM
I agree that pokemon did indeed generate a massive percentage of total PR for nintendo and even now, i find random people playing pokemon on their gba, gbc,ds etc. When I first knew about gameboy, it was not because of mario, but because of pokemon 
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 06:12 PM
Yes the pokemon franchise made gameboy famous because if your as much of a video game nerd as me you'd know that gunpey yokoi diveloped the original gameboy and shigeru myamoto fired him because he pushed the release date and gunpey went off to make his own company and it released games almost identical to the gameboy ones for the wonderswan but no pokemon (unless you count digimon but i don't because the wonderwan digimon games could never compete with pokemon) and the company eventually failed.
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 06:35 PM
Dude.... There highest sales were all Pokemon games! LOL! 
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 06:38 PM
yeah because on tv they always put the ads on and i like them tooi do tink so
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Posted 04 February 2008 - 08:41 PM
yeah the gameboy is popluar because of pokemon
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Posted 08 February 2008 - 08:12 AM
Pokemon made every kid want a gameboy, so I'd say yes.
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Posted 09 February 2008 - 12:22 AM
pokemon is like...the awsomeness, i still play it and it made everyone wanna buy a gameboy!
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Posted 09 February 2008 - 08:41 AM
yup its one of the first famous games on gameboy... lots of people got addicted to it
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Posted 09 February 2008 - 06:00 PM
most likely it did cause my frriend the only games for it he would bye was pokemon
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Posted 19 February 2008 - 07:28 AM
to a certain extent, yes, but other games too.
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Posted 19 February 2008 - 07:44 AM
I agree whole heartly... i got a GC in year so i could play pokemon
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Posted 21 February 2008 - 12:27 AM
pokemon for gameboy is like mario for nintendo consoles
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 05:18 AM
i bought my first handheld (gbc) just for pokemon. but i've branched out. i'm pretty sure that initially, back when pokemon was just getting off the ground, it was the catalyst that got a huge chunk of my generation into gaming.
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Posted 29 February 2008 - 10:46 PM
pokemon ,zelda and super mario were the most sucesseful games in gameboy history. pokemon broke the records, cause anyone that got a gameboy (at least that i know), got any version of pokemon.
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 03:40 AM
Definitly mostly cause gameboys are used as car ride toys and since kids are the ones sitting there, there the ones who are using them
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Posted 19 March 2008 - 12:24 PM
of course..pokemon games were my first when i started gaming
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Posted 24 March 2008 - 01:07 AM
i agree with most people, that pokemon made gameboy famous.
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Posted 24 March 2008 - 10:09 PM
FF games like Final Fantasy Legend were a complete failure!! LOLand KH was never released on GB ...only on GBA!...learn to know on what you play your games before talking ...definatly not, it is games more liek final fantasy, and kingdom hearts i say
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Posted 26 March 2008 - 01:03 AM
I think it did because I only have pokemon on my gameboy.
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Posted 27 March 2008 - 10:57 PM
Yeah they're doing pretty well since the Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire out sold more than any other GBA's.
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Posted 27 March 2008 - 11:33 PM
I think it does, cause without pokemon, I'd probably never even heard about a gameboy
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Posted 28 March 2008 - 07:22 AM
Pokemon alone didn't make nintendo famous - The wide variety of games, aggressive marketting, and low prices really set it off.Look at the competition - Sony Playstation and Sega Genesis. Both are okay (Sega was cool), but they didn't use their resources wisely.
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Posted 28 March 2008 - 10:04 PM
pokemon is no doubt what made the GB so special for millions of 5-10 yr old children
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Posted 30 March 2008 - 04:42 AM
For the gameboy yes. For the GBA, no. Super Mario made the GBA worthwhile.
