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Eight terrible things that Pokemon wrought

Pokémon, as with all worldwide phenomena, grew larger than the sum of its parts. When the Gameboy game and TV show went global, the franchise gave rise to all manner of merchandise, spin-offs and news stories. Like everything that becomes a smash hit, however, not everything that grew from the seeds in Pokémon's wake was good.

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TruthbeTold5788d ago

Some of that stuff is spot on. Even so, the upper level grossness can be applied to just about any extremely popular anime, or game for that matter.

iceman28855788d ago

Your right, same thing happens with any semi popular anime.

Also, the only thing I would argue with is the Pokemon snobs. You will run into that with any video game that is popular.

Tacki5788d ago

I still say the games up to Pokemon Silver and Gold were fantastic.

But that article was actually alot more interesting and funny than I thought. Pretty spot on too!

Strangely though, when I clicked on the Pokerap I imagined the X-Play and Attack of the Show crew all singing it. Really... I just don't know where that came from. I'm sorry.

kingme715788d ago

My kids 6 and 8 are so into Pokemon right now. They can name just about any Pokemon and the order they evolve. It's amazing what their little brains can remember.

jspc19895788d ago

i look back on it now and kinda miss those days lol. back when u could walk down a street and at least 1 out of every 3 ppl wud be holding a gameboy with poke red or blue in it lol.

altho he is right about all those issues he stated. regarding the porn tho i wish he hadnt gone into so much detail on that one. im not squeemish but that one made me cringe lol x

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Famous actor loves Helldivers 2 and wants to play General Brasch in movie adaptation

A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.

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5 Of The Best Narrative Twists In Video Games

GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds

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Rebel_Scum13d ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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