Kids Still Playing Pokemon Like It's 1999 93
theodp writes "In 1999, TIME's cover warned readers to Beware of Pokemon ('For many kids it's now an addiction: cards, video games, toys, a new movie. Is it bad for them?'). But Pokemon wasn't as easily felled as Lehman or Bear Stearns. Thirteen years later, 16-year-old Manoj Sunny has his eye on a Pokemon world title, having earned the chance to travel to The Big Island with 35 fellow Americans for the 2012 Pokemon Video Game World Championships, which will be held Aug. 10-12. Sunny, who also captains his school's chess team, credits his success to a good memory, intuition, daily practice, the use of an online simulator, and a competitive attitude ('I hate losing. Once I lost, I needed to get better.')"
Get off my lawn. (Score:2, Funny)
REAL men played with homoerotic action figures like He-Man.
'I hate losing" (Score:5, Funny)
Pokemon championships? You're already lost.
What, Pokemans Card/Video Games? (Score:4, Funny)
Wake me when we start genetically engineering the little bastards.
Re:Get off my lawn. (Score:5, Funny)
Things are a tad different now.
*cough*ponies*cough*
Re:Aside from the games' rules themselves... (Score:5, Funny)
Princess Diana's death really hit you hard, didn't it?