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Monster-taming game

A role-playing game where you capture or recruit creatures, train them and have them fight for you. The challenge is building and growing a team whose strengths cover each other's weaknesses.

Also known as: monster collector, creature collector, monster-catching game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1985
    Origin

    Cosmic Soldier (1985) already let you recruit enemies by talking to them; together with Megami Tensei (1987) it is credited with inventing much of the genre.

    Monster-taming game (Wikipedia)
  2. 1996

    Pokémon Red and Green, on Game Boy, centre play on catching, raising and battling monsters, and become the genre's model.

    Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow (Wikipedia)