Pokémon Snap
Let’s kick things off with one of the series’ earliest spin-offs, Hal Laboratory’s Let’s Watch Pocket Monsters Do Stuff While We Take Pictures. Pokémon Snap on-rails voyeurism game is a very far cry from wandering the pixelated pastures of Pokémon Red and Blue, but the basic idea—catching them all—remains the same.
Pokémon Snap made its debut on the Nintendo 64 back in 1999, only a year after the original Game Boy RPGs began taking North America by storm. It was early days, but Nintendo and Game Freak already had plans to take Pokémon far beyond the confines of players’ pockets. Snap was a taste of things to come, and it tasted pretty good.
