RelivingMyChildhood

Another day another dollar. I think that sums up my future pretty well. Hopeless! All of this studying and schooling and things. It all just adds up to me getting a job so I can pay for my kid's educations. Isn't that just dandy?!!

Okay, enough depressing stuff. I had a nostalgia trip. The internet is awesome that way, but nostalgia trips kill a lot of time (2 hours for this trip in particular. It was worth it. If you couldn't tell by the picture to the left I was recollecting on the hours upon hours of my life I spent on watching Pokemon, playing the Pokemon card game, and playing all them Pokemon games. Man, staring at that tiny Game Boy must have done something to my head....it might have made it a little square! AHAHAHAHAHA, that was kind of brilliant....

Pokemon holds the best memories for me as a child. I remember watching all those episodes with my Sage Siblings everyday before I started attending kindergarten. My parents bought us at least 25+ VCR tapes (remember those) that we just couldn't get enough of. I think we must have watched them a couple of dozen times each (I still love them by the way). But what really stuck in my head through out my childhood (I am still going through this period of my life) was the first movie. I watched that religiously for a few years. I think I watched it at least a couple of dozen times, but when I look back to the movie I realized that it had some deep thematic elements for a kid's movie. Man, cartoons sure have changed (yes, I am referring to the pants of a sponge).

Pokemon In The Beginning

Haven't watched the first movie? Well, watch it. It is nothing but amazing. I am very bias for this movie because of the nostalgia points, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a very good and thought-provoking movie. I think I am going to watch it again one of these days for old times sake.

But the show has changed a bit. It is a lot more kiddy and cartoony. But I can see how Pokemon has slanted to more of a show for a 7 year old than a show for a 12 year old. I mean, back then when Pokemon first came out it was a lot more "mature" compared to what it is now. It switched from being and anime to a cartoon. Now Dear Readers you are probably wondering what the difference is between an anime and a cartoon. I shall tell you the difference! Some other time.

Pokemon As Of Now

Well Dear Readers this marks the end of another post. Tell me what your childhood was like! For me it was Pokemon. Ahhhh man, just thinking about it makes me want to start watching it again. I think I'll play some of the new games coming out. Must have spent at last a few hundred dollars on the trading cards alone when me and the Great Sage Sibling were growing up. It makes me cringe just thinking about it. But after all those cards, tapes, and games I only have one single VCR tape left. The first 3 episodes of Pokemon! Wait....I think we still have it...I don't even know anymore. Oh well.