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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a limit to the role playing. You cannot really choose your identity: you are a 10-year-old boy. You can pick any name when you assume the role of the child--your own, your friend's, your neighbor's. But one particular selection is volunteered: Ash, the name of the hero in the Pokemon TV series. He walks down from his room and, seeing his mother (a father is nowhere to be found), tells her he is departing on a quest. She replies, "Right. All boys leave home someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

With a handful of fellow junkies (including his friend Ken Sugimori, who would eventually draw all the Pokemon), Tajiri began a magazine called GameFreak in 1982 to publicize tips and cheat codes of their favorite games. "Our conclusion was," he says, "there weren't too many good-quality games, so let's make our own." He took apart a Nintendo system to figure out how to make the games himself. Then, in 1991, he discovered Nintendo's Game Boy and its prize feature: a cable that could link any two Game Boys together. "I imagined an insect moving back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...that comes later. For now, Al Bennett will be concentrating on some personal goals, one of which is the production of his friend Duane Koh's album, due out in April. The other...

Author: By Myung Joh, Jennifer Liao, and Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Finding Release | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...dedicated to me! They are so wonderful, so full of passion and love. But my favorite page is the "Celine Dion Sucks" page which suggests that I am on a "quest for domination." But I am already #1! I have already won my Grammy! Barbra Streisand is my best friend! I must be more passionate! More beautiful! More full of love! They think that I sing so loud because I am "sexually frustrated." They compare my voice to a "screaming banshee who is being beaten with barbed wire and then being chopped up and fed to a rabid goat." Everyone...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...good friend who is at Yale is actually in Lithuania right now, so it doesn't bother me much right now," he said...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students prepare for The Game, Take 116 | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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