Seventeen Years of Pokemon in a Single Image

Has it been seventeen years? The time has just flown by. Here's how the in-game maps have evolved.

The above image was uploaded by Japanese Twitter user @Ugusyan and has been retweeted over ten thousand times.

ポケモン17年の歴史 [Twitter]

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