Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
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Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
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Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#2It was a labor of love originally.
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#3It's just a fad
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#4It is one of the few franchises that spans generations. My kids enjoy it, just as my wife and I enjoyed it before them. We have fun playing the games together. I imagine my parents felt the same way with Star Wars.
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#5It was a labor of love originally.
It was a beautiful attempt to reproduce a feeling of community that came from a bunch of kids collecting beetles in the woods for fun. Kids would need to get suggestions on where to go from other kids, and they'd show off the neat bugs they found and trade with other kids. The game was carefully designed to make kids work with each other and talk to each other. That's why you couldn't get all of the pokemon in only one game, and it's why some pokemon had ridiculous tricks to evolving them. It was wildly successful at that goal.
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#6It's just a fad
Just wait, in a thousand years archaeologists will be talking about our pantheon of monsters that were greatly revered by all.
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#7It is one of the few franchises that spans generations. My kids enjoy it, just as my wife and I enjoyed it before them. We have fun playing the games together. I imagine my parents felt the same way with Star Wars.
I don't think your parents will enjoy the current crop of Star Wars IP.
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#8It's just a fad
There's Godwins law about comparing everything to nazis. Will there be someperson's law of completely misunderstanding what a word means?
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#9Its the ultimate millennial throwback.
Re: Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit
#10I just bought a controller attachment for my smartphone so I can replay Crystal and Emerald! I haven't tried any of the 3D games yet, do they still hold some of the charm that the 2D games had?