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Pokemon 20th anniversary.
9 years ago
I will take this moment to actually explain my love for pokemon. I think that as a series, it has marked my life more than any other, because I somehow remember the vividness and excitement I used to feel.
90s kid, one fateful saturday morning the phone rang. My best friend at that time, Alexander, was sounding incredibly hyped going like "YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS, TURN ON STAR CHANNEL" and that was it. That's how I first saw the first pokemon episode. Until season 3, I had missed no episode unless I just couldn't stay and we usually planned to see the episodes as huge groups. My school was going crazy with the pokemon flue in the first grades. And then it simply stopped for most people. It never stopped for me, except for one generation that my life was going nuts and I just didn't care anymore.
Funny thing: All the jocks (or more accurately the people that later went "It's for kids stuff") at my age can still name at least HALF of the pokemon from generation 1, to the point they hate that they still loved it.
Funny fact 2: Kudos to pokemon being one of the few games in the world that have the same dialogs for male and female protagonists. They practically never change, they make it to a point that it doesn't matter. I think, genderwise, that's kinda brilliant. It's feminism done right.
Funny fact 3: Despite funny fact 2, it will never be loved from LGBT communities cause attract doesn't always work!
90s kid, one fateful saturday morning the phone rang. My best friend at that time, Alexander, was sounding incredibly hyped going like "YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS, TURN ON STAR CHANNEL" and that was it. That's how I first saw the first pokemon episode. Until season 3, I had missed no episode unless I just couldn't stay and we usually planned to see the episodes as huge groups. My school was going crazy with the pokemon flue in the first grades. And then it simply stopped for most people. It never stopped for me, except for one generation that my life was going nuts and I just didn't care anymore.
Funny thing: All the jocks (or more accurately the people that later went "It's for kids stuff") at my age can still name at least HALF of the pokemon from generation 1, to the point they hate that they still loved it.
Funny fact 2: Kudos to pokemon being one of the few games in the world that have the same dialogs for male and female protagonists. They practically never change, they make it to a point that it doesn't matter. I think, genderwise, that's kinda brilliant. It's feminism done right.
Funny fact 3: Despite funny fact 2, it will never be loved from LGBT communities cause attract doesn't always work!
Side note: Are you looking forward to the new generation this year?
Hell, pokemon have marked most of our lives!