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.
EDIT: Pokemon was released at February 27, 1996, and Digimon at June 26, 1997, and Digimon is not a ripoff of Tamagotchi, case it wad released by the same company witch makes Digimon another merchandise, and not a ripoff.  Not only that, but The Pokemon pokÃ©mon anime was then released 1  year, later and aired its pilot episode On april 1. 1997 digimon'didn  t receive an anime Until march 6.    1999 digimon virtual pets came out in 1997 not in. 1995