![]() There are two main camps among Pokémon fans. (If you want to see the visual summary of this article, check out our infographic at the end of this post.) Here are five instances when Pokémon got itself in hot water: So for those surprised that Pokémon Go has attracted so much negative attention, don’t be. Naturally, it chafed when inserted into foreign cultures. It was a complex RPG, filled with references to Japanese culture and customs. Pokémon Red was the first game to be well and truly everywhere since Super Mario Bros, but it wasn’t a simplistic platformer. It’s been there since day one, back when video games were a hobby for children and weirdos. ![]() But if you were over 13 in the late nineties, then your impression of Pokémon is totally different: a weird, potentially dangerous thing your little brother was disturbingly into.Ĭontroversy is inextricable from Pokémon. The younger among us have starry-eyed memories of comparing notes on the schoolyard, of which starter is the best (Charmander, obviously, why is this still a discussion,) and that you can catch Pikablu if you beat the Elite Four fifteen times in a row without healing or saving. Pokémon Go is the bile of the late nineties come spilling up our collective throats, so I’m not surprised that it’s burned a little. Pokémon caught at the 9/11 Memorial and the Holocaust Museum. In the wake of the shockingly massive Pokémon Go craze, there has been plenty of negative attention. After all, Congress just passed a resolution making non-Pokémon related internet articles illegal- at least, that’s the impression one might get. A lot of smart people whose job is to figure out how much money movies would make thought John Carter would be a multi-million dollar franchise and that Guardians of the Galaxy would be Marvel’s first commercial flop of a film.īut I don’t want to talk about movies. Huge companies spend millions of dollars to try to figure out what’s going to rake in wheelbarrows of cash, but even they regularly screw it up. Nobody knows what’s going to become a craze.
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