What this is
Number of Pokémon games listed for 1998 on The Pokémon Company’s official Japanese software list: 4.
How it’s built
- Counted the entries under the 1998 heading on pokemon.co.jp: Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Trading Card Game for Game Boy, and Hey You, Pikachu!
What we assumed
- The official list’s entries count as titles.It is the company’s own list, but it mixes remakes, add-ons and apps, and omits some years, so counts are a lower bound.
Sanity check
A count of listings, not of products or sales.
Where it comes from
Japanese-language document, 2026 The Pokémon Company (pokemon.co.jp) · 31 October 2026 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
1998年 ポケットモンスター ピカチュウ［ゲームボーイ］ / ポケモンスタジアム［NINTENDO64］ / ポケモンカードGB［ゲームボーイカラー］ / ピカチュウげんきでちゅう［NINTENDO64］ Related figures
The same measure, other periods