Game Freak

Game Freak Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社ゲームフリーク, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Gēmu Furīku), officially stylized as GAME FREAK inc. and GAMEFREAK inc., is a Japanese video game developer. It is best known as a developer of the Pokémon series of role-playing video games.

History

Predating the video game company, Game Freak was a self-published video game magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. Tajiri wrote and edited the text and Sugimori illustrated. Tajiri also used "Game Freak" as his pen name when he wrote as a freelance writer to publications such as Family Computer Magazine and Famicom Tsūshin.

On April 26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game development company with the same name. One of Game Freak's first games is the Nintendo Entertainment System action and puzzle game Quinty, which was released in North America as Mendel Palace. Its most popular series, Pokémon (ポケモン, Pokemon)—the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā)—is published by Nintendo in Japan, North America and Europe.

Ghost town (disambiguation)

A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned.

Ghost Town may also refer to:

Books and comics

Ghost Town, novel by Robert Coover

Ghost Town, in Beacon Street Girls series by Annie Bryant

Ghosttown, novel by Douglas Anne Munson

La Ville fantôme (English title Ghost Town), the 25th Lucky Luke comic

Geography

Ghost Town, Oakland, California, a district neighborhood

Ghosttown, an area in the Great Escape theme park, Queensbury, New York

Ghost Town in the Sky, a Wild West theme park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina

Films

Ghost Town, a 1936 Western film by Harry L. Fraser

Ghost Town (1956 film), a 1956 Western film starring Kent Taylor

Ghost Town, a 1988 horror film starring Franc Luz

Ghost Town (2008 film), a 2008 comedy film starring Ricky Gervais

Ghost Town, a 2009 horror film starring Billy Drago

TV

Ghost Town (video game), a 1981 computer game developed by Adventure International

Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns, a paranormal reality television series

"Ghost Town", an episode of the TV series Crime Scene Investigation

Shiny

Film and TV

Shiny TV Episode from The Pinky and Perky Show 2008

Characters

Shiny Almost Perfect 1995

Shiny Saving Santa 2013

Shiny Dinosaur Train 2009

Games

Shiny Entertainment

Music

Shiny (Kari Wuhrer album) 1999

Shiny (The Bang album)

"Shiny", song by the Decembrists from 5 Songs (The Decemberists EP) 2001

"Shiny", single by Ray Griff And Susan Jacks Griff 1988

Pokémon

Pokémon (ポケモン, Pokemon, /ˈpoʊkeɪˌmɒn/ POH-kay-mon) is a media franchise owned by The Pokémon Company, and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995. It is centered on fictional creatures called "Pokémon", which humans known as Pokémon Trainers catch and train to battle each other for sport.

The franchise began as a pair of video games for the original Game Boy, developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. The franchise now spans video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. Pokémon is the second-most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's Mario franchise.

The franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006. Cumulative sales of the video games (including home console games, such as Hey You, Pikachu! for the Nintendo 64) have reached more than 200 million copies. In November 2005, 4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of Pokémon, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Pokémon representation agreement. Pokémon USA Inc. (now The Pokémon Company International), a subsidiary of Japan's Pokémon Co., now oversees all Pokémon licensing outside of Asia. As of 2013, the Pokémon media franchise has grossed revenues of ¥4 trillion worldwide (equivalent to US$37.76 billion). The brand earned $2 billion in 2014 alone.

Game

A game is structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).

Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both. Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational, or psychological role.

Attested as early as 2600 BC, games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cultures. The Royal Game of Ur, Senet, and Mancala are some of the oldest known games.

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Ghost Town: Game Freak (ACOUSTIC)

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If Game Freak Were 100% Honest With Us...

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published: 20 Mar 2017

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Game Freak, Ghost Town

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Game Freak

So close to where you came from.
Plugged in I'm in your world now.
So lost without a map,
You drop me off on the highest mountain.
You know I'm dying out here.
Lost hope and my will to live.
In your bed my heart is hopeless,
You're so cruel to treat me like this
Got a needle and my mouth is stitched.
I'm taken in.
Everything that I can see.
You don't know a thing about me.
Not a god damn thing about me
Timing's everything,
Gotta get that shit right.
It might get tight.
Breaking through that spotlight.
Chick's a game freak,
Hurting all those boy sheep.
She's a wolf and I like it when she bites me
Passed out like my eyes have never opened before.
Then I left my body now,
I'm reading you a thought at a time.
This ain't a privilege but a long lost right.
Close your eyes and open your mind.
(Defying gravity)
Gotta give it up,
I'm breaking in.
These thoughts of you and me
Got a needle and my mouth is stitched.
I'm taken in.
Everything that I can see.
You don't know a thing about me.
Not a god damn thing about me
Timing's everything,
Gotta get that shit right.
It might get tight.
Breaking through that spotlight.
Chick's a game freak,
Hurting all those boy sheep.
She's a wolf and I like it when she bites me
In this darkness I see colors.
This dimention ain't big enough for you and I.
You got me waiting,
But your mind is made up.
Just let it go and
Show me what you're made of
(What you're made of).
Timing's everything,
Gotta get that shit right.
It might get tight.
Breaking through that spotlight.
Chick's a game freak,
Hurting all those boy sheep.
She's a wolf and I like it when she bites me

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