Kids Still Playing Pokemon Like It's 1999

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In 1999, TIME's cover warned readers to Beware of Pokemon (http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/10/the-top-10-most-absurd-time-co/singlepage) ('For many kids it's now an addiction (http://games.slashdot.org/story/99/09/25/1751219/nintendo-sued-over-pokemon-gambling-addiction): cards, video games, toys, a new movie. Is it bad for them?'). But Pokemon wasn't as easily felled as Lehman or Bear Stearns (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/lehman-bear-stearns-execs_n_367335.html). Thirteen years later, 16-year-old Manoj Sunny has his eye on a Pokemon world title (http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120720/news/707169656/), having earned the chance to travel to The Big Island with 35 fellow Americans (http://www.qgazette.com/news/2012-07-18/Front_Page/Americas_Elite_Pokemon_Players_Take_On_The_World_I .html) for the 2012 Pokemon Video Game World Championships (http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/championship-series/vg-world-championships/), which will be held Aug. 10-12. Sunny, who also captains his school's chess team, credits his success to a good memory, intuition, daily practice, the use of an online simulator, and a competitive attitude ('I hate losing. Once I lost, I needed to get better.')"

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/21/1831248/kids-still-playing-pokemon-like-its-1999