Food stamp recipients can buy all the junk food they want, but they are prohibited from buying vitamins or nutritional items. The big banks like JP Morgan Chase collect billions of dollars a year off the transaction fees supporting the SNAP program.
The first of the PokÃ©mon games, Red and Green, were released in Japan on Feb. 27, 1996. The first episode of the PokÃ©mon cartoon aired in Japan on April 1, 1997.
The late 1990âs saw the emergence of a phenomenon that was never seen before. Pokemon, short for Pocket Monsters, took over the airwaves and were at the moment the most iconic animated series on television. Many third party products were produced from the series, one of which were Pokemon cards. The first series of the pokemon card game was released in October 1996. In Japan, the first series of the card game was released by a company called Media Factory.