An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

The release of Pokemon Black and White draws ever closer (March 6th I believe).  With the release just a little over a month away, I feel that my urge to play Pokemon has drastically increased.  Everywhere I go lately seems to remind me of Pokemon in some form.  Joel's blog had his list of complaints about the original game, which in all fairness, were completely terrible but yet groundbreaking at the time.  I'm subscribed to a guy (TheKillerNacho) on Youtube who is doing a Pokemon Yellow walkthrough, though I decided to watch his FireRed walkthrough instead.  Heck, even other games I have laying around remind me of how much I miss playing Pokemon.

Why bring this up?  Eh, mostly because I felt like updating, lets be honest.  But Pokemon is one of those things that tie me back to my childhood.  Pokemon is the only reason that I saved up my money to buy a GameBoy Color.  Remember those?  I had this kick ass yellow one.  I still do.  If I were to guess, I bet my Pokemon Blue game is still in there.  I'm afraid to take it out to be completely honest.  The game probably has not left the safety of that yellow harness for the better part of a decade.  Yeah, a decade.  Think about that.  Crazy guys, crazy.

So that TheKillerNacho guy has this take on Pokemon that is totally foreign to me.  He runs through the game, only collecting and catching those that he wants as a final team.  It seems really weird to me.  He doesn't worry about leveling up by grinding countless wild pokemon.  He mostly fights trainers to level up all of his guys.  Right now (as of part 12) he has four pokemon on his team:  charmeleon, nidoking, mankey, and gyarados.  Right now, as far as he is, I would probably have ivysaur, pikachu, pidgeotto, probably a butterfry, a geodude, and maybe even a raticate.  All at roughly the same level as his guys, if not a little bit higher.  Makes me wonder if I waste too much time leveling up my guys.  I won't change the way I play, but it is something to think about.  Also, the guy flys through items.  Head back to the Pokemon Center sometimes dude.  Gosh.

Peace Out.