{"id":465,"date":"2013-05-09T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2013-05-01T22:40:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:40:18","slug":"onm-remembered-pokemon-week-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – Pok\u00e9mon Week, day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Ha ha ha! I am Dodorio! I laugh in the face of my enemies.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom N64 Magazine issue 10 (December 1997)<\/p>\n

Official Nintendo Magazine may have tried to explain what this Pok\u00e9mon malarkey was all about, but those fuckers didn’t even play<\/i> the game, never mind know what a Pikachu looks like. The heathens!<\/i> Thankfully, N64 Magazine went all-out in covering the franchise: Max Everingham, their go-to guy for anything new in Japan, gave readers of the British Isles an in-depth look at what this strange sensation was all about.<\/p>\n

The accuracy of the information is arguable, but you gotta admire Max’s gusto. He doesn’t just churn out a dodgy summary of the game and remark, “boy, isn’t this a popular franchise?” He gives a blow-by-blow of picking up the game for the first time and slowly coming to grips with it, and how accessible it would be for import gamers. And then<\/i> he hunts down and catalogues heaps of exclusive merchandise, complete with further explanations of not just the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game, but also the Pok\u00e9mon Combat Stickers! Which I swear he’s gotta be making up. Combat Stickers?<\/b><\/i> Come on, surely the ’90s weren’t that<\/i> dorky, right? Not even Japan ’90s.<\/p>\n

Also, just for amusement’s sakes, they include a Japanese popularity chart for the colourful critters. Surprise! Nobody likes Drowzee.
\nWhen will people wise up and learn to respect the baddest tapir in town?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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