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Carnivus:
Pokemon-started as a game for SNES and NGBA-now a multi-billionaire franchise.
We all watched at one point Pokemon.Certanly one of the best anime ever made,Pokemon sure brought some fresh air in Japan.In the '90s Japanese animation was full of Mecha and Robots anime,but Pokemon(alongside with other works such as Naruto or Dragon Ball)helped animes to reach out of endless copies of Gundam.
I feel now that Pokemon isn't the anime of my childhood,it became more americanized like other such as Transformes(about which I didn't know it was an anime).
Even despite all that and the fact that probably it won't ever have a couple(AshxMisty etc)or the fact that it derived too much from the core and the new "Pokemon" look horrible,I still love it.
I posted this to see your memories with Pokemon,how you grew up to love/hate it,how you woked up every weekend at 8AM.
So,how did Pokemon influence/help you?

Temuthril:

--- Quote from: Carnivus on April 06, 2009, 07:12:47 PM ---Pokemon-started as a game for SNES and NGBA-now a multi-billionaire franchise.

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For the Game Boy, to be exact.

quekmeister:
I actually got all 151 Pokemon in Red version without cheating (luckily a friend had Blue). After that it was all about MISSINGNO. and infinite Rare Candy and beating the Elite Four with as many different combinations of Pokemon as possible. (Six lv 143 Snorlax :3)

Yeah. I watched the series for awhile, and I memorised the theme song like every other little kid out there (also memorised the Captain Planet theme). When Johto Journeys rolled around in my country (ie later than most other places), I'd just gotten into Rurouni Kenshin, so it was one of my first forays into anime.

Sakura588:
Got Red, Blue, and a GBC for Christmas when I was 8. Beat Blue the first day and got all 150 while at my grandma's house; I was bored out of my mind and had my original plastic-encased green GB with a link cable. Traded between myself and figured out all the trading quirks by myself. (I actually gambled for half the coins needed for porygon, then I said fuck it and bought the rest. God were those slots annoying as hell)

EDIT: The first time I saw Pokemon was when they sent me a VHS of the first two episodes in the mail. I liked the series and the games, but they ruined it with the TCG.

geoffreak:
I remember when my friends and I were all disappointed when Pokémon was banned from school.

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