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Article from 1999 about what trend might replace the Pokemon craze. (EGM issue 124)

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:02:53 No.35582747 View View Reply Original Report

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This is funny looking back

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:03:46 No.35582758 Report

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Big Mouth Billy Bass ironically stayed the greatest.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:07:03 No.35582798 Report

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>>35582747

That issue was basically the big blowout for Gold and Silver.

It caused a lot of angry letters from insecure high school boys because their classmates made fun of them for having a magazine with Pokemon on the cover.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:09:13 No.35582816 Report

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>>35582747
>only one they say might have a chance is Harry Potter
>only one that anyone cares about today IS Harry Potter

It didn't replace Pokemon, but it DID enjoy the same kind of lasting power. They weren't off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:09:31 No.35582817 Report

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>>35582747
>the olsen twins
HAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAAHA

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:09:59 No.35582821 Report

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tch little did they know...

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:13:03 No.35582851 Report

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Funny how of all the 90s fads, humanity somehow just had a feeling that Pokemon was THE ONE, you know

Even if you think Pokemon has gotten stale, even if Game Freak has made countless questionable decisions, even if you think older or newer Pokemon is vastly superior, you gotta admit, it sure is something special. I mean, we wouldn't be here without it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:15:36 No.35582874 Report

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>>35582816
>It didn't replace Pokemon, but it DID enjoy the same kind of lasting power
Not if Rowling has anything to say about it.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:16:56 No.35582886 Report

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The guys who made BUM genuinely thought it'd be the next TMNT/Pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:17:21 No.35582892 Report

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>>35582851
is a rare fad that crashed with a limp unlike most which lose their legs and can only pander to a niche, or fall into complete nonexistence

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:17:47 No.35582899 Report

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>>35582747
>And you know how puberty works... these girls won't be cute anymore!
is EGM a pedophile publication ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:18:30 No.35582905 Report

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>>35582747
>puberty is going to ruin the olsen twins
>it just made them hot as fuck

are they retarded? Puberty only ruins awkward little boys like mccauley culkan. Most cute girl actresses turn into sexy babes in their 20's

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:19:30 No.35582911 Report

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>>35582892
you can't say "crashed with a limp" when it's the most popular franchise on the planet

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:21:42 No.35582928 Report

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>>35582747
>EGM

Goddamn I miss magazines from that era when game journos were not ashamed of their hobby.

I still got all my old egms that survived high school on my bookcase.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:23:32 No.35582947 Report

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>>35582911
maybe more with a few bruises then, because I was reminded that stuff like tmnt existed that fit the limp more

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:26:02 No.35582969 Report

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>>35582886

Fuck you motherfuckers. Good lord what ego.

Butt Ugly Martians was like someone took one of those fake cartoons you see kids watching in the background of a show like CSI while the adults are in the foreground talking, and then made it into an actual show.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:29:53 No.35583009 Report

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>>35582969
Here's the fucking Butt Ugly Martians rabbit hole if you're curious
>>>/toy/6932942
There's a shocking amount of info about this crap

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:31:01 No.35583018 Report

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>>35582905
I think the writer meant they won't be marketable as family friendly anymore.

They start snorting coke and taking the bbc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:35:36 No.35583060 Report

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>>35583018
Also they look undead now

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:48:46 No.35583166 Report

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>>35582874
Not if JOHNNY DEPP’S GOD AWFUL ACTING has anything to say about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 02:59:28 No.35583268 Report

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>>35582747
I miss 1999, the world turned to shit around the year 2008, at least for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:04:57 No.35583323 Report

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>>35583009
that show was fucking terrible. Terrible writing, terrible animation, terrible characters and concept, extremely dumbed down "humor". It fascinates me that anyone thought it would be a success.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:30:02 No.35583562 Report

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>>35583166

one of the worst ass pull "twist" endings I've ever seen in one of these "pop culture" movies, there was absolutely no question or mystery as to the dude's identity, but at the last second SURPRISE IT WAS ACTUALLY DEPP FOR NO REASON

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:47:37 No.35583733 Report

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>>35583268
Yeah. The late '90s and early to mid 2000s were fantastic, but the late 2000s was when shitty 2010s culture started seeping into the world. Come to think of it, I can't really think of anything remarkable that the current decade has given us. We got the World Wide Web in the '90s and the explosion of social media in the '00s, but what about the '10s?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:51:09 No.35583771 Report

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>>35583562
I'm out of the loop, didn't watch any Fantastic Beasts movies. What happened at the end?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:51:20 No.35583774 Report

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>>35583733
instagram, snapchat, dabbing, fidget spinners, white/gold/blue dress, grandma joining facebook, memes being a thing outside of the internet, superhero movies, lebron james in the finals

2010's is a pretty memorable decade

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:54:16 No.35583800 Report

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>>35582886
I don't know how to feel about the fact that guys from this show went on to do the CGI cutscenes in Sonic Heroes

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 03:57:21 No.35583836 Report

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>>35583733
The internet finally took over the entire world? I remember not everyone had internet or social media in 2009 and young people still watched tv (note: I'm from a third world shithole, so maybe in America the internet had already fully taken over, but it definitely didn't take over the rest of the whole world until the 2010s). Now, absolutely everything is tied back to the internet, and I see more and more people around me not paying cable anymore and getting their daily entertainment out of youtube+netflix. Oh yeah, Netflix was a pretty huge thing too. We live in a world heavily focused on the internet and social media in all fronts now, you couldn't say that back in 2009.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 04:01:44 No.35583872 Report

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>>35582911
Pokemon's a 101 video game case study of how a franchise functions going from the top, to the bottom and then becoming the underdog. If Pokemon was consistently good, it wouldn't have lasted as long as what current Pokemon sets out to be.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 04:04:20 No.35583892 Report

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>>35583733
I will forever hate '10 a big part of it cause of 2016, hating that year was not a meme. It really was an awful year, everything bad happened that year.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 04:12:09 No.35583980 Report

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>>35583800
They didn't

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 04:23:15 No.35584058 Report

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>>35583771

Grindelvald's sympathizer is rvealed to be.... Grimdelvald himself.

Theres no leadup, or even hints to be found on repeat viewings, it comes out of nowhere at the end of the film and serves no purpose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 04:27:15 No.35584082 Report

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>>35584058
The fuck? that sounds like it servers no purpose at all.
>and serves no purpose
Welp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 05:04:54 No.35584335 Report

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>>35582817
Who?

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 05:08:47 No.35584367 Report

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>>35582747
>Olsen twins
>Star Wars Ep. II
Oh wow... We we're sad, sad people.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 05:26:34 No.35584503 Report

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>Kahn insists that Pokémon will remain a profitable property for years to come, but acknowledges that 4Kids needs to expand. "What [Pokémon] has allowed 4Kids to do is to have a springboard into the whole area of children's entertainment. This is a business of ideas. We are spending all of our energies developing new content and different ways of intensifying our return on that content. Corporations want to get customers young and obviously to do that you need kids licensing which is where we think we're at the forefront."
>In an attempt to produce some of its own properties, 4Kids Productions is collaborating with Korean partner Daiwon to produce 26 episodes of Cubix, a new CGI series set to debut on the Kids' WB! mid-season schedule. Anticipation is high for this show, which features animation quality that Kahn describes as "equal to Toy Story."
>Bubble Town, 2040, where robots are ubiquitous. Everyone on Earth owns a robot, which can be programmed to be good or evil, according to the tendencies of its human master. A boy named Bobby discovers Cubix, a one-of-a-kind prototype in a junkyard and the two become fast friends. What makes Cubix unique is that aliens have hidden a special energy force inside of him, giving him extraordinary powers. The show will feature two running, intertwining plot devices: Bobby and Cubix battling the show's villains, Dr. K and Charles IV, and the aliens' quest to reclaim their lost power supply inside of Cubix. Kahn says that 4Kids is "hopeful that Cubix can be a very, very exciting and very, very profitable show and license."
>The Cubix segment presented at the 4Kids annual shareholders meeting was impressive, featuring engaging animation, plenty of anime-style mecha and a techno soundtrack. After the presentation, Kahn declared the company's intention to launch Cubix in Japan to "hit them with their own strategy."

https://www.awn.com/animationworld/give-us-your-money-4kids-entertainment-attains-poke-momentum

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 05:30:08 No.35584524 Report

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>>35582817

Their net worth is $ 400 million and the thirds Olsen twin is a movie star (Marvel).

Each Olsen twin is at least10 times more worth than the whole Pokemon franchise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 05:35:09 No.35584555 Report

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>>35583009
>JUST Group

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 06:05:07 No.35584748 Report

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>>35584503
I liked Cubix and the evil counterpart design wise. But everything else from that show was ugly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 06:11:54 No.35584786 Report

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>>35582851
Major franchises generally go one of two ways: They either fizzle out and remembered as a relic of the era, or they stick around and manage to transcend the generational gap. Transformers and Ninja Turtles, for example, have both remained popular enough to have a new incarnation every few years. Some incarnations don't go over well and are quietly forgotten, while others are so massively popular that they give the franchise new life.

Pokemon's kind of the same way. For every slow period it's had, it's also had a resurgence in popularity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 06:13:53 No.35584799 Report

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>>35582886
>Butt ugly martians
>extremely popular in the UK
The things popular there never cease to amaze me...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 06:15:38 No.35584809 Report

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>>35583836
It's because of smartphones that gave access to internet to a lot of people, especially underage ones

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 06:18:46 No.35584830 Report

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>>35584799
it wasn't popular per say
I can't find any ratings numbers but it appears to have only been pushed there rather than be popular
Just Group is a UK based company and there's a shit ton of merch of BUM

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 06:19:06 No.35584835 Report

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>>35584524
> Each Olsen twin is at least10 times more worth than the whole Pokemon franchise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_highest-grossing_media_franchises

>53.49 billion
HAHAHAHA!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 07:34:56 No.35585399 Report

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Yeah it's crazy, i'm 30 and been playing since the games came out in 98 and Pokemon is still here.

Young adults on /vp/ will never understand the fun and hype of Pokemania.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 07:58:21 No.35585516 Report

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>>35583774
>2010's is a pretty memorable decade
Everything you mentioned just highlighted what a memorable shitty decade this has been.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 07:59:43 No.35585519 Report

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>>35583892
>I will forever hate '10 a big part of it cause of 2016, hating that year was not a meme. It really was an awful year, everything bad happened that year.

Cry more faggot. I hope the next decade begins with the extermination of leftism from our society.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 08:03:15 No.35585533 Report

Quoted By: >>35585752

>>35583892
>I will forever hate '10 a big part of it cause of 2016, hating that year was not a meme. It really was an awful year, everything bad happened that year.

Cry more faggot. Everything bad happened after the 1950s objectively speaking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 08:55:52 No.35585752 Report

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>>35585533
>>>/pol/

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 09:38:07 No.35585934 Report

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>>35583268
2001, man. 2001.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 09:56:49 No.35585999 Report

Quoted By: >>35586095 >>35586100

>>35582747
>1999, Star Wars: Episode II ... But can it topple Pokémon? Highly doubtful.
>2015, Star Wars is bumped to number 2 in terms of best selling franchise as a whole, it's number one position usurped by Pokémon.

Well, they weren't wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 10:16:06 No.35586095 Report

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>>35585999
What? I remener this list and I am sure it was Mario, SW, HelloKitty

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 10:17:40 No.35586100 Report

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>>35585999
Episode II was not the primary reason that happened.

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 10:21:04 No.35586114 Report

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>>35586095
Mario and Hello Kitty aren't even in the top 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_highest-grossing_media_franchises

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 11:10:01 No.35586298 Report

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>>35582747
But can it topple Pikachu Blanco?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 11:45:42 No.35586429 Report

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>>35582747
Harry Potter was big but not to top Pikachu, at least in the games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 11:48:55 No.35586450 Report

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>>35586114
>James Bond, Ice Age, Jurassic Park, and Mortal Kombat in the top 10
The fuck is happening here?

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Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 11:50:53 No.35586462 Report

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>>35586450
I think the list is really selective in which sources it goes with, so it's not really as accurate as people claim. No way Mortal Kombat has grossed more than fucking Mario.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 11:55:44 No.35586486 Report

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>>35586114
The list is just really shittily set up. You can scroll down and see Mario listed as having earned $7 billion from video games alone, which is more than Ice Age's TOTAL gross. And Mario has shittons of merch.

tldr the list is terrible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 May 2018 12:10:10 No.35586558 Report

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>>35584786
tmnt from say 1997 to maybe 2005 varely existd as far as merchandise and shows and stuff as i remember, they basically had to wait until there was a 100% frah pool of kids to restart it for non-nostalgiafags

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Article from 1999 about what trend might replace the Pokemon craze. (EGM issue 124)