Pokémon known in Japan as Pocket Monsters is a franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, It is particularly present in video games, in series published by Nintendo. According to Nintendo's statistics in 2010, the games have sold about 250 million units. The Red and Blue video game has sold more than 30 million copies, making it a sales record in the history of video games. The franchise has also been exploited in anime, manga, and trading card games. In the anime series of the same name, the main character, Sasha, travels through various fictional regions in order to catch new kinds of eponymous monsters, a concept also found in the franchise's video games. Pokémon has had a huge cultural impact in the countries where it has been introduced, including Japan, the United States, Canada, France and other European countries. Charmander is a bipedal, reptilian Pokémon with a mostly orange body, except for its belly and soles, which are beige. Its arms and legs are short, with four fingers and three claws each. A flame burns at the end of Salamech's slender tail, and has been blazing since birth. The flame can be used as an indication of health and mood: it burns proudly if he is in good shape, softly if he is weak or sad, waving when he is happy and blazing when he is angry. It is said that a Salamèche dies if its flame goes out.