Pokémon's 16th anniversary

Today it's exactly 16 years ago the first Pokémon games ever were released. On February 27th 1996 Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green (in Japan it's originally called Pocket Monsters) were released. The project took six years to make and nearly drove Game Freak into bankruptcy. It's early concept was called Capsule Monsters. The Pokémon series nowadays counts 649 Pokémon, 5 generations, dozens of games, hundreds of volumes of manga, 15 seasons of anime and thousands of trading cards. There are a total of 21 main series games. See below for the main series games sorted by generation.

Gen I

Pokémon Red
Pokémon Green (Japan only)
Pokémon Blue
Pokémon Yellow


Gen II

Pokémon Gold
Pokémon Silver
Pokémon Crystal

Gen III

Pokémon Ruby
Pokémon Sapphire
Pokémon Fire Red
Pokémon Leaf Green
Pokémon Emerald

Gen IV
Pokémon Diamond
Pokémon Pearl
Pokémon Platinum
Pokémon Heart Gold
Pokémon Soul Silver

Gen V
Pokémon Black
Pokémon White
Pokémon Black 2
Pokémon White 2