{"id":633,"date":"2014-11-20T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2014-11-03T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:10:15","slug":"onm-remembered-202-prelude-to-pokemon-week-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #202 – prelude to Pok\u00e9mon Week II"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How to train a kick ass Pok\u00e9mon team”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom Pok\u00e9mon Master Guide (1999)<\/p>\n

The Official Nintendo Magazine Pok\u00e9mon Master Guide!! This was the bee’s effin’ knees for a Pok\u00e9-nut in the late 90s, though funnily enough, my brother and I hadn’t even got the Pokemon<\/i> games when we picked this up. Like any other dopey kid of the era, we were swept up in all the hype, but we were hoping to find a source that’d just tell us a little something about the franchise: what it’s about, who these guys are – something with a little more detail (and credibility) than what you’d hear on the schoolyard. Instead it’s a hideously in-depth guide to the video games, and darn-near impenetrable to anyone who hasn’t played them. Well, that certainly forced its hand, didn’t it?
\nMum, dad, in the off-chance you’re reading this, I can only apologise. We didn’t know what we were getting into!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

These guides were littering the counter shelves of GAME (or was it still Electronics Boutique at that time?)<\/span>, and came with fancy shiny covers in both red and blue. It looks nicer in person, if you copy hasn’t been horribly man-handled for the past fifteen years.<\/p>\n

All this week, more Pok\u00e9mon<\/i> crap! If you want to believe I’m topical, consider it a countdown until Omega Ruby<\/i> and Alpha Sapphire<\/i> hit European shores, and not just an excuse for me to blow through a stack of backlogged images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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