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Nintendo Celebrates Pokemoniversary

Posted by simoniker on from the tragic-pun-ign's-fault dept.

Thanks to IGN Pocket for their article pointing out that Nintendo's Pokemon franchise is celebrating its 5th anniversary in the States. According to the article, "Pokemon first launched on the original Game Boy in Japan in 1996. Since bringing the franchise to North America in September 1998, Nintendo has sold more than 110 million Pokemon games worldwide. Pokemon merchandise has generated over $15 billion in worldwide retail sales since 1998." With the HAL-developed Pokemon Pinball:Ruby And Sapphire out now for GBA, and Pokemon Coliseum for GameCube forthcoming early next year as a Pokemon Stadium-style companion for Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire on GBA, it seems Pikachu and friends are here to stay.

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  1. No-one can afford Pokemon anymore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First they came for the menial jobs. I never spoke out because I didn't have a menial job.
    Then they came for the unskilled laborer jobs. I never spoke out because I wasn't an unskilled laborer.
    Then they came for the skilled labor jobs. I never spoke out because I wasn't a skilled laborer.
    Then they came for the call center jobs. I never spoke out because I didn't work in a call center.
    Then they came for the middle management / clerical jobs. I never spoke out because that wasn't my job either.
    Then they came for the programmer's jobs. And there was no-one left in employment who wanted to help me.

    FACT: This country is being hollowed out from the inside by filthy subhuman animals. An invasion of scum, often illegally entering the country, who are crawling their way into good jobs. Why? Because they are wanting to take everything over. We all know to what effect that 'positive discrimination' has altered employment practises. Now, instead of the most valuable person for the job, companies are obliged to employ rancid, workshy immigrants.

    Of course, the animals want to get into good companies, so they in turn can influence management decisions to outsource further jobs to their cousins overseas. Thus destroying an entire nation.

    From the lowliest Janitor to the highest executive, foreigners MUST be eliminated from our corporations.

    THEY BREED FASTER THAN OURSELVES BECAUSE THEIR LIVES ARE WORTH LESS.