Originally posted by wotyzoid
Pokemon was big for me growing up as was a lot of other stuff from Japan specifically, all the access I had to anything contemporary built by the far east was those games and shows. From a cultural perspective, if I really think about it, other than maybe folk tales that may have come from there that I had heard as a kid and general history from the east that I had access to at school, any type of philosophy and culture from the east came from anime/manga and video games. I'd still play my copy of Saphire if I knew where my sp charger is.
unfortuantely, I never got passed the red/blue/yellow era. Pokémon was insanely big from 98-2K. Pokemon and Trance shared a lot of parallels in terms of their peak and longevity. both are still around to this day and still fairly popular, but their glory days were a decade and a half ago. by the time Counter-strike came out in around 2000, people I knew got hooked into that and it continued throughout middle school and high school.
Oct-13-2015 21:35
wotyzoid
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quote:
Originally posted by 2techs
unfortuantely, I never got passed the red/blue/yellow era. Pokémon was insanely big from 98-2K. Pokemon and Trance shared a lot of parallels in terms of their peak and longevity. both are still around to this day and still fairly popular, but their glory days were a decade and a half ago. by the time Counter-strike came out in around 2000, people I knew got hooked into that and it continued throughout middle school and high school.
I can see that, by thew time I moved to the US it wasn't as popular anymore. I just really enjoyed the gameboy games, i played them for years, i would still play them today.
