This is how ‘Pokemon Go’ began its journey

Pokemon Go, the augmented reality game, has taken the world by storm ever since its launch on July 6th, 2016, so much so that it has overtaken Tinder and Twitter, popular social networking sites that existed years before it.

Such is the craze of the game that people, and we are not only talking of kids here, are spending twice more money on it than they spend on the gaming industry on an average, with the number of users staying active on the game also being double than the industry average.

Needless to say, it’s the next big thing in the world of gaming and internet. And, oh, did we mention that the app has only been launched in eight countries so far, and the growth numbers of these eight countries have surpassed those with a presence in many more countries, like again, Tinder and Twitter?

If you too are thinking how this happened, and what exactly was so exclusive about this game, since augmented reality, geolocation-based games and Pokemon have existed for so long now, here is a brief infographic about the journey of Pokemon Go, and be ready to be shocked, the history dates back to the good ol’ 90’s.



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