Pokemon's Revenge

Folks, it's been 6 days since Pokemon Black and White debuted in America. The newest saga in the "Gotta Catch em all" fad that started in America in 1998, introduces new Pokemon, like Snivy, Tepig and Oshawatt. Sadly, no sign of Pikachu, or its evil twin brother Meowth, are catchable.

What is catchable is the sales of this game. In just one day, the game sold more than 1 million units on both Black and White.

"Longtime Pokemon fans are attracted to the new Pokemon, new battle systems and a new region to explore, while newcomers enjoy the ability to jump in and have fun right away," said Nintendo of America's Charlie Scibetta. "These sales numbers illustrate the continued strength of the Nintendo DS family of systems. Already established as the nation's best-selling video game platform of all time, the installed base of more than 47 million makes it the ideal hand-held for developers to reach a huge gaming-focused target audience."

Proof that Pokemon fever is as huge as Call of Duty fever, except much more dangerous. Folks, it won't be long before children put down their digital guns and get out their digital Animals. Where's PETA on this? They should be outraging over Pokemon, especially when the main antagonists are a parody of PETA

Team Plasma is the villainous team in Unova. Team Plasma’s goal is to free Pokémon from humans.

Unlike time past one’s, Team Plasma mandate is not to take over the world, but to free Pokemon from being enslaved.

Another thing that is outrageous about Team Plasma. They have the same initals as the Tea Party. Obviously, this is Nintendo's ploy against both PETA and the Tea Party. But you know what else has the same initals as Team Plasma and the Tea Party? Toilet Paper.

Finally, as you are aware, an earthquake has hit Japan on Thursday night. Rumors of Satoshi Tajiri's death were flooding the internet like a tidal wave. Unfortunately, said rumors were considered false as it revealed by Ken Sugimori, that Satoshi Tajiri is alive and well

[[Final Update: Pokemon Art Director Ken Sugimori has confirmed via twitter that Satoshi Tajiri is alive. Thankfully this rumor has been proven false. Thanks for the tip, Twilight.]]

Furthermore, Nintendo's building in Japan was also spared the tidal wave of the Earthquake as well. My condolence goes to those in Japan who were ravaged by the quake. Just don't expect me to give you my Victini that I won fair and square.

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