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For our second anniversary show Annie, Arcanator, JoeC, JustinV, Seth and Trogdor join KC and Jowy for trip down memory lane.  We run through some of our favorite moments and discuss many of our achievements of the past year.

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By JakeDaSnake

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Do you ever find yourself feeling drained by the repetitiveness of battles in the Pokémon games? Do you feel like there has to be something more to this game you payed good money for? Well, that something can be found easily in an underused element of the Fourth Generation of Pokemon: Contests.

Many people have never entered a contest before, and those who have participated without really knowing what they were doing. Pokémon contests, (or Super Contests, as they are referred to in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum,) are competitions that involve less used elements of Pokémon.

Each contest consists of three rounds. The first is the Visual Competition, where trainers dress up their Pokémon with Accessories in order to score points by matching a given theme. (Maybe give an example of a theme and how to match it?) The next round is the Dance Competition. This is a simple rhythm game where players follow directional “dance steps” that the other competitors perform. The final round is the Acting Competition, in which Pokémon perform moves for three judges who score them based on type of move, which judges were chosen, and other specific situations. Read The Full Story…

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By Steven Reich

Ask someone what the rarest piece of Pokémon music is, and they’ll probably say the soundtrack to Pokémon Live. While that’s definitely one of the rarer ones (I think you need to give up a major organ or something to get a copy, seeing as how I don’t have one), there are definitely rarer ones, such as the double LP set of remixes for Donna Summer’s “The Power of One” from the second movie.

Before I go on, I should probably explain something. LP is short for “long playing”, and refers to type of vinyl record (your parents can fill you in on what a record is) that is 12 inches in diameter and spins at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute (as opposed to 45 or 78). Even during the dead vinyl era (from the early 1990’s to a few years ago), it was common for dance and urban music to be pressed onto vinyl and distributed to club DJs and radio stations. This format was often used because many DJs felt the sound produced by records was better suited to this type of music. Read The Full Story…

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This week our hosts discuss all 35 legendary pokémon in detail.  Jowy and KC reveal the mythical creatures that the legends are based on and discuss what each of those pokémon’s significance is in the world.

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We finally have a Japanese street date for Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver: September 12.

The games will be priced at the equivalent of $50 and will be bundled with the Poké Walker .

No U.S. street date has been announced yet.

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Reason Online published a list last week calling out the ten most absurd Time Magazine cover stories over the past 40 years, and “Beware of the Poke Mania” came in third.

“This Time cover story breathlessly warns that children are printing counterfeit cards, cheating friends and classmates, and even stabbing one another over Pokemon trading disputes,” Reason Online says about the November, 1999 Time story.

Time’s article goes as far as to say, “The ease with which [children] slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer.”

However, Reason Online (as their name implies) takes a more reasonable look at the “Pokéocracy”, stating that the magazine never actually presents any substantiating data for this horrible fad that is ruining America’s youth. RO even mentions a BBC story done on Pokémon during the U.K. Poke-craze that explains how Pokémon could teach children economic lessons such as supply and demand, exchange rates and bubble bursting (No, they don’t mean the Water-type move).

I remember picking up this copy of Time when I was a 10-year-old waiting in the doctor’s office. I’m pretty sure the entire article was crafted solely to capitalize on the first wave of Poké-fever in the U.S. and maybe get a few people to pay attention to Time again.

[Reason Online - Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers ] [Time - Beware the Poke Mania ]

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