it got me thinking though.. what makes fads so cool? and then what makes something totally cool totally lame after its not a fad anymore? i dont know. but its weird.
whatever happened to all the stuff that was awesome when we were kids? for some reason legos, pogs, power rangers, giga pets and pokemon apparently aren't cool anymore. what happened?
maybe some of these fads we just "grow out" of. take power rangers for example. when i was 5, it was awesome. then i stopped watching it or whatever, but years later when i was a freshman in college, i watched the power rangers movie with some of my bros. it was hilariously bad. still awesome.. but in a different way i suppose.
i think what often happens is that a fad gets taken over by a much more awesome and superior fad. take a look giga pets or tomagachis. all the kids had them, all the teachers were telling the kids to put them away.. yeah. i never thought they were that cool, but whatever. after the far superior wave of pokemon nuked the United States, i never heard of giga pets again. now that's a dang fad i could get into. i mean look, which one is more awesome?
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| The winner is obvious. |
somehow, someway, even pokemon got knocked off the the coolness train. but how? its so cool! so awesome! but alas, the lords of the fad had spoken.. and that was that.
for while i had doubted the coolness of pokemon. that was till i remembered how awesome it was. seriously. its a great nintendo game, a pretty fun card game, and a.. well the TV series is about just as good as any other crappy japanese animation show translated into english...
so people are often surprised that i still play it. or when a new pokemon game comes out. "what? they're still making that?" well yeah. nintendo didn't stop making super mario or legend of zelda. why stop with another awesome series of games?
maybe yall are right. maybe everyone just grew out of pokemon and i'm still stuck in the 90's. maybe i should just grow up. maybe i should just leave behind me childish love of pokemon and move on to more grown up things like call of duty or gears of war. yeah. that'll show them..
to this i ask the lady-types.. would you rather your choice of man be playing the game where the most violent thing that happens is a cartooney looking lizard guy scratches another guy which is really just a crappy animation of like three lines going across the face of his opponent? or is there something more appealing about the manliness of shooting bloody alien-zombies with an assortment of 50 different blood-and-guts-spewing guns and explosives and for some reason the obligatory sword that always finds its way in there?
ironically, every time i have brought this situation up to a young lady, (and by every time i mean the one time i remember and the one other time that i can't remember if i'm making up or not) she has said that she actually enjoys playing the gut spilling shooter games. so either.. i really do need to grow up, or everyone is insane.
whatever. all yall are insane. pokemon is awesome.
i especially look forward to the time years down the road when i have my own sons who i can play pokemon with. THAT will be awesome. if my first scenario didn't convince you, lest take a look at these:
"hey dad.. what are you playing?"
"pokemon. its totally awesome. i just caught a geodude."
"cool! can i play?"
"yeah! i'll teach you all the types and stuff"
"totally MINT, dad! you're the best!"
compare with this:
"hey dad, what are you playing?"
"gears of war 27. its totally awesome. i just riddled this alien with bullets while cutting him in half with the chainsaw that is conveniently attached to my machine gun."
"cool! can i play?"
"yeah uh er.. no.. wait.. your mother said i'm not supposed to play this in front of you.. you should probably go outside or something."
"but mom said she loves these kind of gam-"
"no, my boy! just run! get away from the carnage!"
i'm pretty sure nothing legitimizes an argument like throwing seven year old kids into the mix.
pokemon for the win!!
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