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Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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Mon, 27 Dec 1999 19:56:50 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Tobias Möller writes:
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> John DiRienzo wrote:
> > What is this so called Pokemon?
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> It´s a fun, great video game from Nintendo.
It's also a cartoon (anime - japanese animation), and,
most importantly in geek circles (I think), it's a collectable
card game, rather like Magic the Gathering.
The official Pokemon web site: http://www.pokemon.com/
It apparently covers the videogames, comics, movies, etc.
You can see the little yellow pokemon, Pikachu there,
who is pretty much the mascot for the entire ball of hype.
> You collect and train small
> monsters (Pocket Monsters). When they are strong enough, you can battle
> other trainers, and earn badges. If that´s not enough, there are 150 kinds
> of pokémon. Besides training, you also have a mission to collect every
> Pokémon in the world, so that a professor gets happy. BUT...
> Each game does not have 150 monsters... So, you´ll have to trade with a
> friend. There are two versions that have some monsters the other dosen´t
> have, and if your friend has a different version than you, you can trade
> monsters.
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> --Tobias
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Message has 2 Replies: ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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| [moving to off-topic.fun] (...) There is also a manga(comic) version. Oh, and I don't think it is the "geek" crowd that is collecting the cards; I think it is mostly kids and the anime fans who like Pokemon. Now why can't the good stuff like (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Yeah, but it all started with the videogame didn´t it? I read that the idea for pokémon came in 1995, when the game started to be developed. Perhaps the anime came before the game. I think it did, because the "pokémon" show was on the TV news when (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) It´s a fun, great video game from Nintendo. You collect and train small monsters (Pocket Monsters). When they are strong enough, you can battle other trainers, and earn badges. If that´s not enough, there are 150 kinds of pokémon. Besides (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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