Black, White & 3DS
Black & White dare a full reboot, X & Y launch worldwide on the same day, and the internet makes Pokémon its own: sixteen days of Twitch Plays Pokémon, the Helix Fossil, and a thousand Pikachu marching through Yokohama.
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- — Pokéwalker trailer — Nintendo Media Summit 2010. Pokéwalker trailer shown at Nintendo's February 2010 media summit weeks before HeartGold & SoulSilver reached North America.
- — HeartGold & SoulSilver — US TV spot. US TV spot for HeartGold & SoulSilver; the remakes sold 1.7 million copies in their first week in Japan alone.
- — Pokéwalker — TV ad. Ad for the Pokéwalker, the pedometer pod bundled with every copy of HeartGold & SoulSilver that let a Pokémon earn experience as its owner walked.
- — HeartGold & SoulSilver commercial with Dylan and Cole Sprouse. US commercial for HeartGold & SoulSilver starring Disney twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse, timed to the March 14, 2010 American launch.
- — Ash and Pikachu under the cherry blossoms. Ash Ketchum and Pikachu cosplayers at the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, April 2010.
- — Black & White — Japanese debut trailer. First Japanese gameplay trailer for Black & White, revealing the fully new Unova region and the fifth generation's clean visual reboot.
- — VGC US Nationals 2010 — Senior finals, Indianapolis. Senior-division finals of the 2010 Pokémon Video Game National Championships in Indianapolis.
- — Phantom Champion Zoroark — Japanese trailer. Japanese trailer for Phantom Ruler: Zoroark, the last film of the Diamond & Pearl anime era.
- — Zoroark: Master of Illusions — official trailer. Trailer for Zoroark: Master of Illusions, the July 2010 film that debuted Zorua and Zoroark months before Black & White launched.
- — VGC Worlds 2010 — USA vs Japan match. US-versus-Japan match from the 2010 VGC World Championship bracket in Hawaii.
- — VGC Worlds 2010 — Senior world final. Senior-division world final at the 2010 Pokémon World Championships in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
- — Black & White — Japanese TV commercial. Japanese launch commercial for Black & White, which sold over 2.5 million copies in Japan in its first two days from September 18, 2010.
- — Best Wishes! opening. Creditless opening of Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!, sung by Ash's own voice actress Rica Matsumoto, which premiered in Japan on September 23, 2010.
- — Pokémon Day in Munich. German pop singer Oli P. on stage at Pokémon Day in Munich, 2010 — the touring fan festival that predated the modern global "Pokémon Day" of February 27.
- — PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure — US commercial. US TV commercial for PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure, the theme-park action game that reached North America on November 1, 2010.
- — Pokémon: Black & White — English opening. English opening of the Black & White season, which premiered in the US in February 2011 as Ash restarted his journey in Unova.
- — Black & White — US launch event. Footage from the Black & White US launch event; the games sold over one million units in North America on day one.
- — Victini and the Black/White Heroes — Japanese trailer. Japanese trailer for the 2011 twin films 'Victini and the Black Hero / White Hero', released in Japan July 16, 2011.
- — Nintendo TV UK — Video Game Championships report. UK Nintendo TV news segment covering the first Pokémon Video Game Championships season in 2009.
- — Worlds 2011 — IGN event report. IGN's on-site report from the 2011 Pokémon World Championships at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.
- — VGC Worlds 2011 — Masters world final. Masters final of the 2011 VGC World Championship, where Ray Rizzo defended his world title in San Diego.
- — TCG Worlds 2011 — finals game 3, Cawthon vs Cohen. Deciding game of the 2011 TCG Masters world final between Ross Cawthon and champion David Cohen in San Diego.
- — Pokémon Center Tohoku, Sendai. The Pokémon Center Tohoku store in Sendai in January 2012. It opened in December 2011, months after the Tōhoku earthquake, as part of the franchise's effort to bring commerce and cheer back to the region.
- — PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond — TV commercial. US commercial for PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond on Wii, starring Pikachu alongside the Unova starters.
- — A pack of Pikachus. Five friends in full-body Pikachu suits at a 2012 parade — by the 2010s the yellow onesie had become shorthand for Pokémon fandom far beyond conventions.
- — Pokémon Conquest — announcement trailer. Announcement trailer for Pokémon Conquest, the improbable Tecmo Koei crossover between Pokémon and Nobunaga's Ambition set in feudal Ransei.
- — Pokémon Conquest — TV commercial. Official US TV commercial for Pokémon Conquest, released in North America on June 18, 2012 for Nintendo DS.
- — Black 2 & White 2 — Japanese TV commercial. Japanese TV commercial for Black 2 & White 2, which sold 1.6 million copies in Japan in their first two days from June 23, 2012.
- — Black 2 & White 2 — official Japanese introduction movie. Official Japanese introduction movie for Black 2 & White 2, the first direct numbered sequels in the main series, set two years after the originals.
- — Black 2 & White 2 — official July trailer. Official English trailer for Black 2 & White 2 ahead of their October 2012 Western launch on Nintendo DS.
- — Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice — official Japanese trailer. Official Japanese trailer for Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice, the July 2012 film starring the colt Pokémon Keldeo.
- — Black 2 & White 2 — animated trailer. Fully animated trailer for Black 2 & White 2, an unusually cinematic promotion that fans later credited as a blueprint for Pokémon Origins.
- — VGC Worlds 2012 — Sejun Park vs Wolfe Glick. Round-four meeting between future world champions Sejun Park and Wolfe Glick at the 2012 World Championships.
- — VGC Worlds 2012 — Masters finals. Masters final of the 2012 VGC World Championships in Hawaii, where Ray Rizzo beat Wolfe Glick to complete a three-peat no player has matched.
- — ExtremeSpeed Genesect — Japanese teaser. Official Japanese teaser for ExtremeSpeed Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens, first aired in December 2012 to announce the 2013 movie of the Best Wishes era.
- — Pokémon With You Train. The two-car "Pokémon With You Train" in December 2012. JR East launched the Pikachu-wrapped train after the 2011 Tōhoku disaster to bring joy to children in the affected coastal region.
- — Pokémon Train Kesennuma. The Pokémon With You Train running as the "Pokémon Train Kesennuma" service in 2013, carrying families along the recovering Tōhoku coast with a Pikachu playroom on board.
- — Pokémon X & Y — announcement trailer. Announcement trailer for Pokémon X and Y, the franchise's leap to full 3D on Nintendo 3DS, revealed globally on January 8, 2013.
- — Pokémon Direct 1.8.2013 — X & Y worldwide reveal. The January 8, 2013 Pokémon Direct in which Satoru Iwata revealed Pokémon X and Y and announced the series' first simultaneous worldwide launch for October.
- — Sylveon reveal trailer. Official reveal of Sylveon, the new Eevee evolution announced in February 2013 whose mystery type — Fairy — was kept secret for months.
- — Pokémon Center Osaka. The sprawling toy wall of the Pokémon Center Osaka in 2013, with plush Pikachu bins front and center. The Osaka Center is one of the busiest official stores in Japan.
- — Pokémon Fusion generator (2013). A June 2013 upload playing with pokemon.alexonsager.net, the Pokémon Fusion generator that flooded Tumblr and Reddit with hybrid-monster fan art that year.
- — Pokémon X & Y — E3 2013 trailer. E3 2013 trailer for X and Y confirming the new Fairy type, the first addition to the type chart since Gold and Silver.
- — Genesect and the Legend Awakened — official trailer. Trailer for Genesect and the Legend Awakened, the July 2013 film that brought Mewtwo back to the big screen for the first time in over a decade.
- — Pokémon store at New Chitose Airport. The temporary Pokémon Center inside New Chitose Airport near Sapporo in August 2013. Airport pop-ups later became permanent "Pokémon Store" outposts serving arriving tourists.
- — Mega-Evolved Pokémon revealed — official trailer. Official English trailer introducing Mega Blaziken, Mega Lucario and other Mega-Evolved Pokémon ahead of X and Y's launch.
- — VGC Worlds 2013 — Masters finals. Official broadcast of the 2013 VGC Masters world final in Vancouver, won by Italy's Arash Ommati.
- — TCG Worlds 2013 — Masters finals. Official broadcast of the 2013 TCG Masters world final in Vancouver — the first World Championships ever held outside the United States.
- — Pokémon Direct 9.4.2013. The September 4, 2013 Pokémon Direct that revealed the Pokémon Bank cloud service and the special Pokémon X & Y 3DS XL hardware.
- — Pocket Monsters X/Y — Japanese TVCM. Japanese TV commercial for Pokémon X and Y broadcast in September 2013, weeks before the first global simultaneous launch in series history.
- — Pokémon X & Y — first North American commercial. First North American TV commercial for Pokémon X and Y, hyping the October 12, 2013 worldwide release date.
- — Pokémon Origins — official trailer. Official trailer for Pokémon Origins, the one-off special faithfully adapting the Red and Green games, broadcast in Japan on October 2, 2013.
- — Pokémon: The Origin — Japanese trailer. Japanese trailer for Pocket Monsters: The Origin, which replaced Ash with game protagonist Red and ended with a tease of Mega Charizard X.
- — Mega Charizard X reveal trailer. Official trailer revealing Mega Charizard X, the black-and-blue-flame form unveiled days before X and Y launched.
- — Pokémon X & Y — Australian TV commercial. Australian television commercial for the October 2013 global launch of Pokémon X and Y.
- — Pokémon X & Y — launch trailer. Launch trailer for Pokémon X and Y, which sold four million copies worldwide in their first weekend from October 12, 2013.
- — Pocket Monsters XY opening — 'V (Volt)'. Creditless 'V (Volt)' opening of the Japanese XY anime, which debuted October 17, 2013, days after the X and Y games' global launch.
- — Pokémon Bank — trailer. Trailer for Pokémon Bank, the cloud-storage service whose December 25, 2013 Japanese launch was pulled offline within days after crashing the eShop.
- — Pokémon the Series: XY — English opening theme. English XY opening built on a rock rework of the original Pokémon theme; the season premiered on Cartoon Network in January 2014.
- — Twitch Plays Pokémon — Helix Fossil saved from the PC. Official highlight of the anarchic crowd-played Twitch stream rescuing the Helix Fossil, the inventory item tens of thousands of chatters had turned into a deity.
- — Twitch Plays Pokémon — Pidgeot renamed 'ABBA JESUS'. Official highlight of the chat accidentally renaming Bird Jesus, the Pidgeot that carried the crowd-controlled run, to 'aaabaaajss'.
- — Twitch Plays Pokémon — Lord Helix is born. The moment Twitch Plays Pokémon finally revived the Helix Fossil into Omanyte — 'Lord Helix' — after two weeks of chat mythology.
- — Twitch Plays Pokémon — Lord Helix's first battle. Lord Helix's first battle in Twitch Plays Pokémon, the social experiment that drew 1.16 million total participants.
- — Twitch Plays Pokémon — final Elite Four run. The complete winning Elite Four run of Twitch Plays Pokémon on March 1, 2014, ending the crowd-controlled Pokémon Red playthrough after 16 days and over 122 million chat inputs.
- — Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge — official trailer. Google's official Pokémon Challenge trailer, the 2014 April Fools joke that put 150 Pokémon inside Google Maps and seeded the idea that became Pokémon GO.
- — 'Thanks for Playing' — Twitch Plays Pokémon coverage. GameTrailers' March 2014 sign-off on Twitch Plays Pokémon, which peaked at over 120,000 simultaneous players and made global news.
- — Pokémon Center Tokyo at Hamamatsuchō. Shoppers outside the Pokémon Center Tokyo in Hamamatsuchō, Minato. The flagship moved here from Nihonbashi in 2007 before relocating again to Ikebukuro's "Mega Tokyo" store.
- — Pokémon Center Paris pop-up. The queue outside the Pokémon Center Paris, a two-week pop-up store held in June 2014 to mark the release of Pokémon X and Y — the first official Pokémon Center ever opened in Europe.
- — Doors open at US Nationals. The crowd pouring into the 2014 Pokémon US National Championships in Indianapolis — then the world's largest Pokémon tournament, feeding its finalists into Worlds.
- — Meeting Pikachu at Nationals. A boy hugs the Pikachu mascot at the 2014 US National Championships in Indianapolis, the side of competitive Pokémon that has nothing to do with winning.
- — Table 1 at US Nationals. Two young players squaring off at Table 1 of the 2014 US National Championships. Junior divisions run alongside masters, keeping the competitive scene multigenerational.
- — Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction — Japanese trailer. Official Japanese trailer for 'The Cocoon of Destruction and Diancie', released in Japanese theaters July 19, 2014.
- — Yokohama decked out for the Pikachu Outbreak. The Cross Gate complex by Sakuragichō Station covered in Pikachu banners at dusk during the inaugural Pikachu Outbreak event, summer 2014.
- — Pikachu Outbreak 2014 — Pikachu greeting. Pikachu greeting from the inaugural 2014 Pikachu Outbreak, staged across Yokohama's harbor district for a week each August.
- — Pikachu Outbreak 2014 — Minato Mirai. Street footage of the 2014 Pikachu Outbreak overtaking Yokohama's Minato Mirai, an event that would grow to over a thousand Pikachu appearances by decade's end.
- — The first Pikachu Outbreak parade. Dozens of giant Pikachu march through Yokohama's Minato Mirai district during the first "Pikachu Outbreak!" in August 2014, when 1,000 Pikachu were "released" across the city for a week.
- — Pikachu Dance Parade — Yokohama 2014. The Pikachu dance parade marching through Yokohama during the first Pikachu Outbreak in August 2014.
- — Worlds 2014 — opening and closing ceremony. Opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 Pokémon World Championships at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
- — VGC Worlds 2014 — Masters finals. The 2014 VGC Masters world final in Washington, D.C., where Korea's Sejun Park won the title with an unheralded Pachirisu.
- — Pokémon World Championships 2014. The competition hall of the 2014 Pokémon World Championships in Washington, D.C., with hundreds of the planet's best TCG and video game players qualified through a year of events.
- — Pokkén Tournament — reveal trailer. Reveal trailer for Pokkén Tournament, the Bandai Namco fighting game announced August 26, 2014 by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada.
- — Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction — English trailer. Official English trailer for Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction, which hit US screens on Cartoon Network in November 2014.
- — Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — animated trailer. Official animated trailer for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, released ahead of the November 21, 2014 launch.
- — Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo opens. News footage of the December 12, 2014 opening of Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo in Ikebukuro's Sunshine City, the chain's largest store at the time, guarded by a life-size Mega Charizard Y statue.
- — Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest — English opening. Opening of XY Kalos Quest, the 2015 dub season following Ash's middle stretch through the Kalos region.
- — Pokkén Tournament — official Japanese trailer. Official Japanese trailer for Pokkén Tournament, which launched in Japanese arcades on July 16, 2015 before its console port.
- — Pokémon cosplay at MCM London. Pokémon cosplayers at the May 2015 MCM London Comic Con at ExCeL — the same halls that would host the World Championships seven years later.
- — Pokkén Tournament — arcade opening cinematic. Opening cinematic of the Pokkén Tournament arcade cabinet, the first Pokémon fighting game since the N64 era's Pokkén precursor concepts.
- — Hoopa and the Clash of Ages — Japanese trailer 1. Official Japanese trailer 1 for 'The Archdjinni of the Rings: Hoopa', in Japanese theaters July 18, 2015.
- — Pikachu Outbreak 2015 — dance movie. Tokyo Otaku Mode's clip of the dancing Pikachu troupe at the 2015 Pikachu Outbreak event in Yokohama.
- — Pikachu at the Asagaya Tanabata festival. A giant papier-mâché Pikachu hanging over the crowds at Tokyo's Asagaya Tanabata festival in August 2015, where local merchants build character floats each year.
- — Pikachu Outbreak 2015 — 'Dance, Dance, Dance'. Full 'Pikachu Dance Dance Dance' stage performance from the August 2015 Pikachu Outbreak in Yokohama.
- — TCG Worlds 2015 — Masters finals. Official broadcast of the 2015 TCG Masters world final in Boston, won by American Jacob Van Wagner.
- — VGC Worlds 2015 — Masters finals. Official broadcast of the 2015 VGC Masters world final in Boston, an all-Japanese title match won by Shoma Honami.
- — Pikachu on a plate. A Pikachu-shaped yellow rice set lunch served at a Pokémon-themed restaurant in 2015, an early taste of the character café wave to come.
- — Pokémon GO announced — Discover Pokémon in the Real World. The September 2015 Tokyo announcement trailer for Pokémon GO, a collaboration with Ingress maker Niantic that the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata helped champion.
- — Hoopa and the Clash of Ages — official English trailer. Official English trailer for Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, viewed over ten million times ahead of its Western premiere.
