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...excited to write about Mr. Squirtle and Mr. Pikachu, my hands were getting sweaty in the theater,” he says, chuckling, “But they wouldn’t let me…then what can you say about that movie? ‘I think they looked a lot more like the trading cards than I thought they would...
...remote planet who must enlist the aid of the local aliens (who look like ambulatory onion sprouts) to rebuild his ship?all set to a country-and-western music soundtrack. Pikmin failed to take off, forcing Nintendo to rely heavily on recycled fare such as Donkey Kong, Zelda, and Pikachu and all his Pok?mon friends. When asked about original games and concepts?and potential new growth drivers?that are in the works, Iwata hesitates. "Verbalizing a concept that is entirely new is very difficult," he says. "We hope to rediscover what has been lost between the introduction of video games...
...have a video of a Pikachu doll being repeatedly violated by a dog. How much did you have...
...many Japanese designers, collaboration also allows them to piggyback on the success of already established street brands. Japanese are even more attuned than Americans to the iconography of consumerism. This is, after all, an animation-crazed culture in which characters like Doraemon, Hello Kitty and Pikachu adorn everything from refrigerators to boxes of seaweed sprinkles. Consumers, especially the key youth segment, prefer splashing out on recognizable icons?an almost Pavlovian response to a society awash in symbolism. No surprise then, that one of the details that Takizawa is most proud of in his collaboration with Champion...
...Goodbye, Pikachu-Hello, Domo-kun! By LEV GROSSMAN...