A phrase invented to separate
Pokemon, the fun old Game Boy RPG from the childhood of today's 20-year-olds, from all of the stupid spin-off crap that
the game spawned. It is assumed that when one refers to
Pokemon, they mean the nostalgia-inducing black-and-white adventure, and when one refers to poke-a-man, they either mean the cartoon show, the card game, or a homosexual act.