MetaFilter posts tagged with pokemon

Moral panic and pop-culture for kids

The Devil Tesla — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:50:37 -0800

Everything in life is real. A 1985 60 Minutes segment on Dungeons & Dragons (part 2) vs Pokemon is a tool of Satan vs The Truth About Harry Potter A Chick Tract on D&D. The Wikipedia page on Dungeons & Dragons controversies. Parody site Landover Baptist on Pokemon. That scene from Jesus Camp where a lady yells about Harry Potter. A clip from Carlie Brooker's Newswipe on news and the psychology of killers that the 60 Minutes clip reminded me of.

Play 5,000+ classic video games in your browser

Rhaomi — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:12:22 -0800

TheSmartAss.info's suite of Java emulators allows smooth, in-browser playback of literally thousands of old-school video games: 517 Atari titles, 148 for DOS, 636 Game Boy games (and 410 for Game Boy Color), 2,019 (!) NES titles, 238 GameGear games, 802 Sega Genesis titles, and 284 for the Sega Master System. Highlights include Space Invaders, Frogger, Galaga, Pitfall!, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, SimCity, Zero Wing, Duke Nukem, Sonic the Hedgehog, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim, Pokemon, and Metal Gear Solid. Use the search function to find your favorites! You can also register an account to save games on emulators that support it. Make sure to check the purple bar below each game for control info and links to alternate emulators in case the default one is buggy or slow.

Alright! Let's go on a journey — through time and space! There are 95 Pokemon stamps! Let's get all of them!

silby — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:08:37 -0800

"And much like Christmas, originally about the birth of a religious savior-figure named Jesus, is now about buying things for people and hoping that they buy more things for you, much how Easter, originally about the death of a religious savior-figure named Jesus, is now about receiving rabbit- or egg-shaped chocolates, now and forever Obon is about collecting all of the Pokemon." Japan, trains, marketing, pachinko, hordes of stamp-seeking children.

Papercraft Designs, Models and Instructions

Effigy2000 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:16:11 -0800

Got some time to kill? Well then, maybe you should start exploring the exciting world of papercraft! To get you started, here's a link to 100 free paper models and toys. Once you're done there, you might want to start checking out card modeling, build some skyscraper models, animals and motorcycles and when you get really good, faces of real people such as these. There's even some creative paper modeling websites out there for the kids and people who like Pokemon and Nintendo. And if all those links still aren't enough to satiate your new found lust for papercraft, check out this papercraft search engine for even more designs.

It went for $142.51

Robert Angelo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:20:26 -0800

After 53 bids, the Pokemon cards went for $142.51. (see also)

OH! DANGO! JAM

knowles — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:36:25 -0800

OH! DANGO! JAM Incredible little Japanese game, Tamagotchi + Pokemon + awesome music = great happy fun time. Z is attack, X is magic, C is defend, and spacebar is special move. Don't forget to save often using end -> data regist. [via]

Strange aeons

darkripper — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:29:13 -0800

Cthulhufilter: "Amid the sagging gables of old New England, evil lurks ... and squirms, and scuttles, and purrs." Welcome to the scary world of Pokethulhu, the free RPG where unspeakable horror meets japanese insanity. You can download it here (bonus: art by John Kovalic on the inside). More Cthulhu Cuteness.

I've always wondered if they were edible.

Faint of Butt — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:51:39 -0800

Alan Turner makes Pikachus out of cheese. And eats them.

Pokemon causes cancer

riffraff — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:29:36 -0800

Pokemon causes cancer. Looks like they're not just limited to epileptic seizures anymore. (via Gamespot)

Oh, the Japanity!

kirkaracha — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:05:32 -0800

I had today off so I decided to take pictures of my Pikachu Obsession...

It is well known

isol — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:08:04 -0800

It is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans, that Pokemon's pro-Darwinism propaganda is inescapable...

misterzoo — Sat, 05 May 2001 13:20:23 -0800

APOCAMON! The Book of Revelations, Pokemon style. Yes, that's right. The really strange thing is how seamlessly the Pokemon elements fit into the story. Maybe St. John anticipated more than we thought... (PS: Those with a limited sense of humor about this kind of thing can probably already see where this is headed, and should feel free to just not click the link.)

jfuller — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 06:54:57 -0800

Saudi Arabia bans Pokemon. La ilaha illalah, Muhammad-ur-rasul-illah, you betcha!

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:12:17 -0800

CrackerJap is a web site run by three guys who were hassled by Nintendo for using "Pokemon" in an HTML Meta tag in a file they no longer used online. Their web host killed their site instantly and they've only just found new hosting in the last few days. [There's a second reason they're interesting, inside.]

mathowie — Sat, 20 Nov 1999 11:56:40 -0800

This site should get an award for being so long overdue. I'm surprised there isn't more pokemon backlash on the web. I don't know anyone over the age of 12 that doesn't hate them.