Pokémon Snap

Pokémon Snap is a 1999 Nintendo 64 first-person photography game featuring rail shooter gameplay elements created by HAL Laboratory and distributed by Nintendo. It was originally published in Japan in March 1999, followed by North America in July 1999 and PAL areas in September 2000. It is a spin-off game in the Pokémon franchise, and it was one of the first console-based games for it, containing several Pokémon rendered in real-time 3D for the first time. The game was re-released in December 2007 for the Wii Virtual Console and in 2016 for the Wii U Virtual Console.

Nintendo actively marketed its release, including advertisements in over 86,000 hotels and sweepstakes to send the winner to Australia. By the end of 1999, Pokémon Snap had sold 1.5 million copies and was a popular rental title. It received largely excellent reviews from critics, who labeled it as "addictive" by IGN and Boys' Life and "creative" by Electric Playground. It's also been likened to other video games involving photography, including Afrika, Dead Rising, and Beyond Good and Evil. It has also served as a remarkable example of video games using photography.

Release date: 1999

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