Editing Pokémon Trading Card Game (section)

==Development and publication==
The ''Pokémon Trading Card Game'' was developed in Japan, based on the 1996 [[Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow|''Pokémon Red'', ''Blue'', and ''Yellow'']] [[Game Boy]] video game by Nintendo.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book |last=Shannon Appelcline |title=Designers & Dragons |publisher=Mongoose Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-907702-58-7 |page=286}}</ref> It was first published in October 1996 by [[Media Factory]] in Japan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-02-27 |title=Pokémon at 25: A History - from Pocket Monsters, to TCG and Pokémon GO |url=https://www.bbc.com/newsround/56167405 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912021330/https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/56167405 |archive-date=2023-09-12 |access-date=2023-09-09 |work=BBC Newsround |language=en-GB}}</ref> In the US, it was first published by [[Wizards of the Coast]], towards the end of 1998 to capitalize on the US popularity of ''Pokémon''.<ref name="designers" /> Over the next five years, Wizards of the Coast published more than a dozen [[Expansion pack|expansion sets]] for the game, allowing the company to sell millions of cards and earn more revenue from Pokémon than they had from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' in its first 10 years.<ref name="designers" /> [[Hasbro]] bought Wizards of the Coast in September 1999 for $325 million dollars based on the strength of the Pokémon license.<ref name="designers" /> In 2001, Nintendo created its affiliate Pokémon USA, Inc., so that it could recover the US licensing rights to the game.<ref name="designers" /> In June 2003, [[Nintendo]] transferred the publishing rights from Wizards of the Coast to [[The Pokémon Company]].<ref name="DUMMIES">{{Cite book |last1=Kaufeld |first1=John |url=https://archive.org/details/tradingcardgames00kauf |title=Trading Card Games for Dummies |last2=Smith |first2=Jeremy |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2006 |isbn=0470044071 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Wizards sued Nintendo on October 1, 2003, and accused the company of poaching employees and violating its patent; the lawsuit was settled out of court.<ref name="designers" />