One of the weirdest -- and most entertaining -- spin-offs of the Pokémon franchise is getting a modern successor.

A brand-new Pokemon game will be arriving soon, but it's probably something that most fans of the series wouldn't see coming.

This would be the first official Pokémon pinball machine, although a fan-made homebrew machine was on display at Pinball Expo ...

It seems a proper Stern Pokemon pinball machine are part of the plans for the creature-capturing franchise's 30th anniversary ...