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They commonly appear as the sun sets, staking claim to the edges of superstore parking lots, doing a little shopping before settling in for the evening. By morning, these overnight guests are traveling the nation's highways. Welcome to the latest craze in the road-trip world: owners of recreational vehicles are passing up RV parks and campgrounds and bedding down for the night in the parking lots of Wal-Mart. "It's safe, convenient, and you always know you'll be able to find one," says Don Marginson, seated comfortably outside his 31-ft. RV in a Wal-Mart...
Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the comic series, and games producer Konami appear to be following the Pokémon formula to fuel the Yu-Gi-Oh craze. Like Pokémon, the animated TV show brings the characters and plot twists to life. Like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh demands careful strategy to decide which cards to pit against one another. Because you need 40 cards to play the game (players download characters into a Game Boy by inserting the codes printed on real cards), it also plays to kids' penchant for collecting. And though the Game...
Which is exactly why younger boys love it. The craze isn't limited to fad-mad Tokyo; in a large toy store on the southern island of Shikoku, every Yu-Gi-Oh card and Yu-Gi-Oh Game Boy game is sold out. "I get swarms of kids from the elementary school next door," says Mitsuaki Muraoka, the shop's manager. "On weekends, parents come in with pieces of paper on which they've written the word yu-gi-oh." Since Konami introduced them in 1999, the company has sold 3.5 billion cards; 7 million computer games have been sold...
...definitely relate. I hate losing too. And it occurred to me that maybe kids aren't such scary aliens after all. And maybe, just maybe, this Game Boy craze isn't so dumb. In Konami's Krazy Racers, you can race in space or on the beach. You can drop off a cloud and drive in a lake. It's silly and fun and makes the impossible possible--nothing scary about...
...pandas --fake Louis Vuitton handbags --Rumble in the Bronx II --black U.S. Army berets --Gap clothes --kung pao chicken --decent firecrackers --deer-antler powder --Falun Gong workout craze --kanji tattoos --7-ft.-tall B-ball players --campaign contributions --a place to dig holes...