{"id":314745,"date":"2023-11-11T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=314745"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:31:21","slug":"el-descabellado-motivo-por-el-que-pokemon-fue-prohibido-en-arabia-saudi-y-otros-paises-en-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/el-descabellado-motivo-por-el-que-pokemon-fue-prohibido-en-arabia-saudi-y-otros-paises-en-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"El descabellado motivo por el que &#8216;Pok\u00e9mon&#8217; fue prohibido en Arabia Saud\u00ed y otros pa\u00edses en 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuando <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/pokemon-regreso-ash-pikachu\" title=\"\">&#8216;Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;<\/a> se lanz\u00f3 a conquistar el mundo en 1997 con el anime y los dos juegos de Game Boy bajo el brazo, lo consigui\u00f3 casi de inmediato: <strong>el final de la d\u00e9cada de los 90 fue una pura pokeman\u00eda global <\/strong>entre los videojuegos, el juego de cartas coleccionable, los cromos, los chicles, el merchandising, el anime, la pok\u00e9dex y hasta un Pikachu que contaba los pasos que ibas dando. El mundo entero se enamor\u00f3 de esta saga. \u00bfEl mundo entero? Eso es mucho decir.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/95b79325-08e8-439b-b94d-6bcfa26f7df2\/2659780966\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-logo\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Escarlata\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Pok\u00e9mon Escarlata<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.softonic.com\/nintendo-switch\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DESCARGAR<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.softonic.com\/nintendo-switch\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nuestro mundo es diferente<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No todo el mundo acab\u00f3 enamorado del juego: hubo un buen pu\u00f1ado de padres que se mostraron preocupados e incluso lo acusaron de sat\u00e1nico, algo que en &#8216;South Park&#8217; parodiaron en el maravilloso episodio de 1999 &#8216;Chimpokomon&#8217;. En Arabia Saud\u00ed, sin embargo, fueron m\u00e1s all\u00e1: <strong>en 2001 anunci\u00f3 que el juego era una manera m\u00e1s de apostar, prohibido en el Islam<\/strong>, y prohibi\u00f3 los juegos, el anime, las cartas coleccionables e incluso, m\u00e1s recientemente, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/un-jugador-de-pokemon-go-se-encuentra-a-la-criatura-mas-dificil-de-pillar-y-la-pierde-de-manera-catastrofica\" title=\"\">&#8216;Pok\u00e9mon Go&#8217;<\/a>. De ideas fijas, vaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No es el \u00fanico pa\u00eds que lo ha prohibido todo sobre la franquicia: Egipto y Qatar lo prohibieron porque &#8220;promov\u00eda el sionismo&#8221; (oh, no, Charmander, qu\u00e9 has hecho ahora) y Turqu\u00eda no volvi\u00f3 a emitir el anime tras dos temporadas -en un giro de los acontecimientos- porque <strong>una ni\u00f1a de siete a\u00f1os se tir\u00f3 de un quinto piso creyendo ser un Pok\u00e9mon. <\/strong>Para que no os preocup\u00e9is, solo se rompi\u00f3 una pierna. Eso s\u00ed, tendr\u00e1 que vivir toda la vida sabiendo que nunca sabr\u00e1n si <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/pokemon-final-ash-pikachu\" title=\"\">Ash Ketchum<\/a> gana la liga por culpa de su idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"pokemon Arabic Opening\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/URBqWzCrOdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hubo algunos, incluso, convencidos de que <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/digimon-no-existe-como-respuesta-a-pokemon-sino-a-el-tamagotchi\" title=\"\">&#8216;Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;<\/a> era una conspiraci\u00f3n jud\u00eda. Una palabra que, traducida, significaba, aparentemente, &#8220;Soy jud\u00edo&#8221;<\/strong> y que promulgaba la teor\u00eda de la evoluci\u00f3n en lugar del creacionismo. Todo de convicciones muy profundas (y muy falso), s\u00ed, pero actualmente los juegos se venden sin ning\u00fan problema, al igual que el merchandising, ignorando una prohibici\u00f3n que siempre fue absurda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al final, las temporadas acabaron dobl\u00e1ndose&#8230; y censur\u00e1ndose. Por ejemplo, <strong>todas las interacciones pasionales de Brock con las mujeres se cambiaron por conversaciones sosegadas<\/strong>, y hubo episodios completos cambiados para evitar que personajes como Gengar apareciesen. Curiosamente, antes de la prohibici\u00f3n en 2001, se llegaron a producir musicales crossover con &#8216;Detective Conan&#8217; e incluso el <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/el-pokemon-que-nacio-y-murio-en-un-musical-americano-del-2000-la-triste-historia-de-mechamew2\" title=\"\">&#8216;Pok\u00e9mon live!&#8217;<\/a> americano lleg\u00f3 a representarse en ingl\u00e9s con el reparto americano. Termin\u00f3 justo unos d\u00edas antes del decreto que prohib\u00eda la serie para siempre. Lo que hay que ver. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/95b79325-08e8-439b-b94d-6bcfa26f7df2\/2659780966\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-logo\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Escarlata\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Pok\u00e9mon Escarlata<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.softonic.com\/nintendo-switch\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DESCARGAR<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.softonic.com\/nintendo-switch\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El mundo entero se enamor\u00f3 de esta saga. \u00bfEl mundo entero? Eso es mucho decir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":314746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":2},"categories":[9317],"tags":[12528,9447,12206,9489],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-314745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpokemon-scarlet-and-violet","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-go-2","tag-videojuegos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360117,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314745\/revisions\/360117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314745"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=314745"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=314745"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=314745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}