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There was an interesting thread on /vr/ about how people first discovered Pokemon, and I told my story:
My father works for a Japanese company and one day, back in early '97 he gave my father a gift to give to me. He couldn't speak English worth shit, but he could say 'Pokke Monstah' and point to his pocket, so I literally called them Pocket Monsters.
Anyways, the gift was this pop-up book...it had Pikachu, Pidgey, and Koffing. I think. It's been a long, long time. This was well before the US release of any Pokemon merch. It was such a weird, cool little thing to own but I had been under the assumption that it was just this niche Japanese book.
A year or so later, I saw the first Pokemon VHS tape at the mall and shat my pants. Got a Game Boy Color for X-Mas that year and never looked back.
It made me wish I remembered the name of that book. It was Japanese language, of course.
Anyone have any idea?
