One thing I always wanted to ask here: Have you guys been part of the Pokemon boom of the late 90's / early 2000's? I think I'll open a thread on the subject once Black and White 2 roll out in the west. As for me: I was totally part of it! We would watch the Pokemon Anime every day. In school people used the break to trade Pokemon on their Gameboys or play the trading card game - they would stand in groups and if you didn't play Pokemon you had no chance for any sort of social interaction. 
People bought Gameboys just to play Pokemon, everyone had some plush Pokemon at home, the first movie was a must-see and damn we knew all 151 Pokemon by heart! I owned Pokemon Stadium and Snap and in my class (which consisted of only 16 children!) there were two people who owned the GB version of the Trading Card Game, one with Pokemon Pinball, one person who owned Stadium 2 and that's just off the top of my head!
I was in class 3 or 4 when the boom started which made us the perfect target group for the game. In hindsight the amount of marketing was crazy but back then we had no idea. Just some weeks ago I met with friends from my old school and we still remembered the Pokemon Rap 
Man, those were the times!
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