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[Toaster]

Yes? No? Get off my lawn? I am twelve years old and what is this? You used to? Your kids do it? Your dog does it?

Let's broach this discussion.

I got Blue when it came out, and then Silver. When I found out that Crystal was a remake of Gold & Silver, I lost faith in the whole thing. I got back into it with Diamond because it was cool again, at least with nerds. Picked up SoulSilver yesterday.

I did the cards when I was a kid, but now it's of no interest to me, except for the fact that some of them look cool.

[AugustWest]

Daughter's into it.  She got SoulSilver yesterday too.

[theinevitable]

I am twelve years old and what is this?

I like when memes are based on hilarious real-world things, instead of like, that one time that thing happened in a weird japanese video game, or something.

the best memes are like, wow, the world is fucked up and weird without us trying to make it that way.

[lprkn]

Pokemon Gold/Silver were meant to be the series finale

But no, I've never actually seriously played it. The little bit that I did was pretty fun, though.

[greenkoolayd]

i was too old to watch the american version of the cartoon when it was on during after-school-hours, but that didnt stop me sometimes.  i have played the video games less than 5 times because i am not a video games enthusiast, in the main.  i think some of the critters are rad, espesh the original ones(squirtle, charmander, bulbasaur, koffing).  also, that their name is the sound that they make is a novel and interesting idea.

[jay-ell]

My main exposure to Pokemon was a conversation during college where we were all trying to decide what we would want our names to be if we were Pokemons, bearing in mind that this would also be the only thing we would ever say. The conversation ended in uproarious laughter when a friend decided his Pokemon name would be, "Com'nrubbit."

[Choop]

i have never watched nor played any pokemon media, it has never interested me. am i missing out on honest fun?

[Drygioni]

By god I loved the Red/Blue ones when they came out. I was just at the right age for Pokemania(TM) and it took hold of me just as much as anyone else.

Recently re-played through Gold, what a top game. Haven't played any of the ones after that though, Gold was just too perfect.

[Lister]

The games are objectively good by any standard.

Okay, check that.

The battle gameplay, as well as the meta-game of picking and training your little dudes, is objectively good.  You're given the opportunity to make strategic and tactical decisions at every turn.

I just don't like the world, and thus I can't play the games.  Who lets these kids go wander the wild with no food or shelter and make friends with wild animals that all have innate particle weapons?

[Carlos del Vaca]

I went on a kick a few years ago and bought every Psyduck toy I could find.  Haven't messed with it in a while, but the web site is still up.
http://www.bigfool.com/psyduck/

[side_show]

I worked at a comic book store during the height of the Pokemon craze, and we sold the cards and the tiny little "choking hazard" style figurines, which was hella crazy.  Some of them were pencil toppers, others were just useless figures, but they sold like hotcakes.  We had them all layed out on a grid, otherwise we would have had no idea which one out of the hundred the kids were asking for. 

Classic dialoge between myself a boss when children were not in ear shot:

"Hey baby, can I Picachu?"
"Why? Is your Bulbasaur?"
(Insert something suggestive using the name of that one that ended in puss... I can't recall)
"As long as you don't Squirtel."

Anyway, I got really sick of that Poki-shit pretty fast.   

Oddly, my husband is really into the DS games, calling them his "secret shame."   Being an uber-gamer geek, he had dowloaded the new game long before it was released.  He said the game is really good, however the file he downloaded is corrupt, so he's holding out for a better download before playing it.