🎲 Pokémon Poster UK — Gotta Catch 'Em All on Your Wall

Nintendo · Game Freak · 1996–Present · Pokémon Movie Poster · Main Theme — confirmed at 98types from £3

Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in history — surpassing Star Wars, Marvel and Hello Kitty — with over $147 billion in total franchise revenue. Developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo, the franchise began with Pokémon Red and Green in February 1996 for the Game Boy and has expanded into video games, anime, trading cards, films and merchandise across thirty years. At 98types Studio in Camden Market, two confirmed Pokémon products are available: the Pokémon Movie Poster and the Pokémon Main Theme Poster. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🎲 The Pokémon Franchise — Thirty Years of Catching

Pokémon began with a simple concept by Satoshi Tajiri: creating a game that captured the experience of collecting insects as a child — the specific pleasure of finding something rare, trading with friends, building a personal collection. The game's design, which split the content between two versions (Red and Green, later Red and Blue internationally) with version-exclusive Pokémon that could only be obtained by trading with someone who had the other version, created a social mechanic that drove the game's adoption in a way that no amount of marketing could have replicated. You needed the other version. You needed the other person.

The franchise's thirty-year expansion has maintained this core mechanic while expanding the world: nine generations of Pokémon, each with new species, new regions (based on real-world locations — Kanto on the Kantō region of Japan, Unova on New York, Kalos on France, Galar on Great Britain), new battle mechanics and new visual styles. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022) introduced a full open-world structure for the first time. Pokémon GO (2016) made the original concept of catching Pokémon in the real world literal, using augmented reality and GPS data.

The Pokémon Anime — Ash and Pikachu

The Pokémon anime began in April 1997 in Japan and has run for over 1,200 episodes across its original series. Ash Ketchum (Satoshi in Japanese) and Pikachu — the Pokémon assigned to Ash at the beginning of the story, initially reluctant and gradually loyal — became one of the most enduring partnerships in animation history. The anime followed Ash through every generation of games, his quest to become a Pokémon Master taking him through Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola and Galar before he finally won the World Coronation Series in 2023. Ash's victory — after 26 years — was covered by mainstream news outlets globally.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game — The Cultural Object

The Pokémon Trading Card Game, designed by Tsunekaz Ishihara and released in 1996, has printed 43.2 billion cards and generates revenues that, in 2021–2023, exceeded the revenues of the video game division. The pandemic-era Pokémon card boom — driven by YouTubers and streamers opening vintage packs — created a secondary market in which some individual cards (Shadowless Base Set Charizard, Pikachu Illustrator, Trophy Cards) sold for over $500,000. Logan Paul wearing a Pokémon card to WrestleMania and holding a sealed 1st Edition Base Set box during the Floyd Mayweather fight both became mainstream news stories.

🎁 Pokémon as a Gift UK

The Pokémon poster is the gaming gift with the widest age range at 98types: a child who plays Pokémon Scarlet and an adult who collected the original Base Set cards and considers the 1999 UK launch of the card game a personal memory both have an equal claim to the poster. The Pokémon Main Theme Poster — the musical theme of the franchise — is the gift for the person who hears the song and immediately feels eight years old. Buy 3 get 1 free: Pokémon Movie Poster + Main Theme + Sonic 2 = 3 prints + 1 free. The retro gaming era as a complete gallery wall.

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