‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’; a sentiment that no video game franchise embodies as succinctly as Pokemon .
. That shouldn’t be taken as an insult, since even the people developing the series maintain that like any lasting sport or game, Pokemon doesn’t need to change to stay relevant.
Instead, the developers at Game Freaksimply iterate upon each element of gameplay, introduce new creatures for players to collect, and let marketing take care of the rest.
As the franchise closes in on twenty years – and prepares to add yet another Nintendo console to its resume– we thought we’d look back; not on the games or creatures that we most treasure, but the ones that keep us up at night.
Here are the 10 Most Disturbing Pokemon Facts .