In the field of video games, the main Pokémon series became the standard within the monster-taming game genre, a subtype of RPGs. While not the first to use this concept, the Pokémon games became so synonymous with it that later titles involving catching and training monsters, of any genre, were inevitably compared to Pokémon. Examples of this include Dragon Warrior Monsters (1998), Robopon Sun and Star (1998), Spectrobes (2007), Invizimals (2009), Monster Crown (2021), and Palworld (2024).
In the field of video games, the main Pokémon series became the standard within the monster-taming game genre, a subtype of RPGs. While not the first to use this concept, the Pokémon games became so synonymous with it that later titles involving catching and training monsters, of any genre, were inevitably compared to Pokémon. Examples of this include Dragon Warrior Monsters (1998), Robopon Sun and Star (1998), Spectrobes (2007), Invizimals (2009), Monster Crown (2021), and Palworld (2024).