A point I haven't seen here is where the children learnt the Pokémon names from. Was it TV? Games? I'm asking this mostly because I'm old enough to just have m

A point I haven't seen here is where the children learnt the Pokémon names from. Was it TV? Games? I'm asking this mostly because I'm old enough to just have missed the Pokémon hype, but I did play Magic the Gathering. And it was absolutely no problem to "kind of" know 100s of cards and remember all the properties (incl a name) when just given the illustration or a name. And I still do remember some of this, 20 years later - because it was useful applied knowledge. On the other hand, although having grown up in the city and not having a close connection to nature... I did learn some bird and animal species out of interest. And nothing ever stuck. I'm especially bad with birds and mix up everything. I guess I can really identify 10-20 species, everything else I just declared unlearnable and I think I'll never try again. Of course I know an owl.. But the different species? Nope.