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Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:33:55 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Tobias Möller writes:
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 lots of children had to go to a hospital after wathcing
it(1). That was back in 97, and the game was released in 98, i think.

--Tobias

(1)The reason was that the background flashed from red to blue more than 50
times (could be more or less) during one second. That gave some children
epilepsy.

I do remember hearing about that in the news, but I don't think it was Pokemon
<remembers the episode of the Simpsons where they featured them going to Japan
then watching one of those cartoons and getting sezuires> *starts to laugh*
But seriously though I don't think it was Pokemon, and I heard the report in
early 99'.

Erin
--
In a recent poll, 78% of minifigs said that Celine Brickon lip synched
very badly.



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(...) It was indeed an episode of the Pokemon cartoon that caused a an epidemic of epilepsy attacks among japanese children. What's hilarious / really sad is that one of the the evening news shows in Japan showed a clip from the same cartoon while (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)

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  Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
 
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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