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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Little Tree estimates that at least 1,000 of the 8,000 Mohawks currently living on the reserve are involved in the trade. The reservation has an unemployment rate of almost 40%. "There are some big guys in it, maybe 100, but mostly it is kids or anyone else who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Smuggling Is A Good Business | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Parents who have had to suffer through the games, the TV series and shopping trips can take some comfort in the fact that the Pokemon demographic is the same one that has abandoned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers. What may be harder to survive is the relentlessness of...

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

The answer may lie in the origins of the phenomenon. Despite the publicity generated by the trading cards, the heart of Pokemon is a handheld game. Start by picking up a palm-size Nintendo Game Boy, insert the proper cartridge and switch it on. Soon, a creature with a lightning...

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

Nintendo released the game but did not expect much from it. However, while the big electronic companies were giving up on Game Boy, Japanese boys were not. For them the games in the old technology were still affordable; the flashier and high-tech new models were out of reach. Kubo...

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

In Japan, where the Pokemon were born, Ash is called Satoshi; and Satoshi was made in the image of his creator, Satoshi Tajiri, a young outcast who, as a boy living just outside Tokyo, collected insects and other tiny creatures of field, pond and forest. In a nation of ultraconformists...

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

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