Overview: Pokémon (or Pocket Monsters) helped anime, games, Trading Cards, and Nintendo. Even if a lot of people won't admit it.

History (before the release): Satoshi Tajiri was the creator of the original Pokemon games. Living just outside of Japan (as a child) in the mid-60's he loved to collect insects; in the rice fields he became very skilled at collecting the little bugs ('Mr. Bug' as called by childhood friends). In the late 70's the rice fields became shopping centres and arcades (etc). In those days Tajiri was an otaku, he was a game addict. He played in Arcades which used to be the old Rice Fields; he felt it was a sin.
"Tajiri preserved the world of his childhood in Pokemon" (Time Mag. Nov22, 1999). Then in 1982, Satoshi, Ken Sugimori and a few other mates created the magazine GameFreak (to offer tips and game cheats).
After two years of working on it, Satoshi came across Nintendo's Link Cable. "I imagined an insect moving back and forth across the cable. That's what inspired me." Tajiri. It was just an idea, but as soon as he could he signed up with Nintendo.
GameFreak almost died because of such money problems, Satoshi didn't even pay himself. After six years, Pokemon hit Japa...

A: The games company that created Mario, Donkey Kong, invented the Shoulder Button, D-Pad and bought the world pokémon...sadly. A games company who are often underestimated due to the idiocy of there central fanbase, and stereotyped due to the idiocy of rival fanbases.
The company are still making games today, and are often overlooked due to a different and refreshing approach. Although they are prefered by some gamers for there innovation, who's willingness to take risks instead of churning out numerous near identical updates to once successfull games (see:EA) is often overlooked by the now saturated games industry.
The fans of Nintendo are often critisized for there single viewed devotion to Nintendo, which is true of many of them, who, confused by the superiority of the N64 still can't see that even though they have been devoted fans of nintendo for the majority of there natural lives, that other games machines exist to, (see:sonyroolzfor this in reverse) and that nintendo are currently screwing there loyal fans by forcing them to buy Game Boys and other needless apparels just to play there most "Innovative" games.

B: A Japanese saying translating to "It's In The Hands Of The Gods Now"

Group that was VOLUNTARILY founded by game publishers to reduce the political heat generated by violent games. Does NOT mandate the sales of M rated games to minors, retailers do. The ESRB's flaw is that the panel's of reviewers who watch footage of games are almost entirely non-gamers. Also, the rating levels are a bit hipocritical if you know how to walk the line.
(Lots of violence can be had in a T rated game, but blood almost certainately guarantees a M rating. Much like the MPAA's hipocracy of rating a film R after the second "fuck" or when used to mean sex.)

The practice of using visually similar characters to replace the characters of everyday words. Many wanna-be hackers (13-year-old gamers who watched The Matrix one to many times) try to sound "professional" by talking in 1337 5p34|< (leet speak) during online games and internet forums. However, with all creatures, the ability to speak does not guarantee intelligence.

For the record I have one of these pieces of shit along with a gamer tag but it's all collecting dust.A console that instead of actually having games on the PS2 or even some games on the gamecubes level, has to rely on overhyping there games with gimicks so that they SEEM good. Allthough it is the most powerful console of this generation the only games that show it's power are the tecmo games such as Ninja Gaiden, Dead or alive 3 etc. Final Fantasy on the ps2, and the RE series on Gamecube show more time and effort than halfassed overhyped games such as Halo 2. The console and it's games seem to only attract 8-12 year olds and casual gamers.

This is how you distinguish a real gamer from a casual 12 year old noob.

Ask him if he'd rather play a Metal Gear Solid game or Halo 2. Then judge by his answer.

Roughly translated, "Leave it to heaven."
A large gaming corporation, that is over 100 years old. In the past highly respected by all gamers, now sometimes ridiculed.
Falsly excused of making "kiddie games" or "kid only games," when the only child like games Nintendo produces are Pokemon and possibly Kirby.
The "kiddie game" rumor started in the early 90s when Sega advertised a commerical stating their version of Mortal Kombat featured blood as opposed to the SNES version. Sega stated, "that we may make games that Ninendo won't." When actually, Acclaim (I believe) didn't decide to add blood until they remade Mortal Kombat for the Sega Genesis.
Sony expanded on this rumor in 1996 to trick a large majority of the public. For someone reason the public believes everything that they hear on tv, instead of doing their own research.

“the women who usually appear on these networks to represent female gamers are unvaryingly clad in size 0 jeans and tight tube-tops. They spit like angry cats as they scream about their mad gaming skillz and call a challenge for male gamers to ‘get their ass kicked’ by a girl.”

These are the gamer girls who look unbelievably hott and are pretty good at the games they play which can usually turn out to kicking guy ass.