Nintendo owns exactly 32% of Pokemon. The initial games were indeed created by a small game company called Game Freak. So, the man in the video is not wrong... though getting the biggest game company on Earth to buy a third of your property and market it worldwide is not an easy success to replicate.
I enjoy entertainment magazines like Forbes, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal.
Also, this company financed that YooHoo & Friends localization where Dave Feiss did wraparounds and Flavor Flav voiced Father Time: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=89906
Fun Fact: God help me, I got up early to watch the world premiere of the YooHoo & Friends localization. It wasn't completely terrible - it strikes me in retrospect that Dave Feiss treated it as a salvage mission, live the changes Bill Murray got made to the Garfield movie after getting involved only because of a case of mistaken identity.
More good stuff on these guys, apparently selling shares without SEC registration among other things.
Cease and desist order from CA attorney general.
http://www.dbo.ca.gov/ENF/pdf/2011/AnimationDevCo_DR.pdf
Apparently they retreated from mainstream public solicitation and have graduated to scam apps and what amounts to Newgrounds for kids. http://www.toongoggles.com/shows/all
Mine Block Featuring Bigbst4tz2!?!?
I LOVE Bigbst4tz2! All from the... the internet, man! Playing minecraft, but not calling it minecraft. All not giving a shit about copyrights from those big cartoon properties they were promising us they'd surpass.
Bigbst4tz2, man just... how the hell did they wrangle that guy?
Bigbst4tz2!
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