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    Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters

    Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)

    Japan's Richest Man Is...Yes, Hiroshi Yamauchi

    Wii, DS Make Yamauchi 3rd Richest Japanese
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    Image of Thorax Thorax
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    Pokemon: Ultimate Muscle.


    I just blew your mind, didn't I?

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    Image of Captain K'nuckles Captain K'nuckles
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    So I suppose that the Machop line of evolution was a healthy compromise then? Ha.
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    Image of Combine Combine
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    Christ,

    How would that even look? Or let alone make sense for all 150.

    I mean, I can envision Machamp and a few others. But the majority of them from the first game?

    I want pictures Nintendo!
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    05/18/09

    @Combine: Machop Machokemabitch Machamp.
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    Image of Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    "Oh boy! Musclemon Steroid edition! Oh Flexichu...why do I get weird tingly feelings when I battle with you? It feels kinda like gym class."
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    This is such bullshit, I swear. I was thinking about this earlier.


    What about -mons like Feraligatr, Garchomp, Rhyperior, Groudon or Tyranitar? Didn't Pokemon jump off the cute boat a few years ago?

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    Image of Deaf Mute Deaf Mute
    05/18/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy: All evolutions are tough/cool looking, but all of the pre-evolutions of those you listed were very much cute.


    I think it's been on the same boat it always has been on, a pokemon begins cute than gets tougher looking as it grows.


    There are some exceptions of course.

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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    05/18/09

    @Deaf Mute: Jynx and Mr. Mime never really fit in with the whole animal thing. Felt as if GameFreak hit the wall somewhere around the halfway mark and starting doing freaks and birds galore to pad things out to 150.
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    Image of Dangeresque (Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more) Dangeresque (Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more)
    05/19/09

    @Kobun: They just needed to squeeze a little racism in. It is a japanese game, after all.


    OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS EVEN TO SELF.

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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    I believe this.


    In fact, when Pokemon was first hitting shelves and Tamagotchis and virtual pets were all the craze (man I miss my Digimon), there were these Muscle Men virtual pets that you could 'raise' and then get to battle each other. Got no name or references on me, just memories.


    I guess its pretty safe to say that one of these ideas was good, and one was pretty fail.

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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    05/18/09

    @Komrade Kayce: You mean Digimon?
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    05/18/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy:


    No no. If that was a joke, it went over my head.


    There was digimon in their little green virtual pet casings, that you could link and battle with other people.


    But then there was these honest to goodness muscle men that you bulked up and could do the same with. I think they could even 'sense' if they were near each other (two kids passing by in a store with game in pockets) or something.

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    Image of sudo rm reality.exe sudo rm reality.exe
    05/18/09

    @Komrade Kayce: NaNo Fighter. There were three varieties: Supreme Sumo, Alley Rumble, and Rough Rider. The gimmick of them was that you could link up two of them and have the little pet muscle men fight eachother.


    Sadly, I never knew anyone who had a fighter for my Alley Rumbler. :(

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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    05/18/09

    @reality.exe -console: @kladkain:


    NaNo Fighter??!?!? Seriously, the same people who taught us how to take care of a pocket sized baby?


    Wow. Thanks guys. Sorry to bring up painful memories. I found my Tamagotchi V.2 the other day and put new batteries in him before silently smothering him under a box of closet stuff a few days later. I forgot how annoying those things were.


    @reality.exe -console:


    Don't feel bad. I never found anyone to fight my digimon either.

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    Image of RiotControl RiotControl
    05/18/09

    In reply to Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters
    The disturbing images running across my mind...
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    05/18/09

    @RiotControl: Machamp?
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    Image of N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
    05/19/09

    @RiotControl:

    Something like this?
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    Image of RidleyTJN RidleyTJN
    02/20/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    Yamauchi was awesome. He told you his mind and didn't give a shit whether you liked it or not. Iwata is good, and he's new blood with new ideas and able to make Nintendo Relevant in today's gaming market. But he's as polite and corporate as every other current major game exec. Yamauchi was doing what Tomonobu Itagaki is doing only 20 years earlier, editors would interview him and ask him his thoughts on something and he'd say something like "thats the stupidest thing I ever heard." He's quite the character.


    And yeah the word is he tried to use an NES controller and couldn't figure it out. He didn't really play games he just relied on Business sense. Iwata was actually a developer for Hal Labs (Kirby, Smash Bros, Lolo etc etc) before moving on up.

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    Image of dae_giovanni dae_giovanni
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    Correction: Itoyama is no longer a free agent. He signed a three-year contract with the Rockies about a week ago.
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    Image of dae_giovanni dae_giovanni
    02/19/09

    @dae_giovanni: Crap, that was WAY funnier in my head...
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    Image of Bialia Bialia
    02/19/09

    @dae_giovanni: lol
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    Image of Bialia Bialia
    02/19/09

    @Bialia: Uh, lol, at your second comment, not the first. ;)
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    Image of The Cap'n The Cap'n
    02/19/09

    @dae_giovanni: i liked it. They can't all be the best ever, right?
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    Image of ZetaCrossfire ZetaCrossfire
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    m w cr? ths s n f th wrst pst tht Ktk hs pstd...
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    02/19/09

    @ZetaCrossfire:


    Heres a bag of dicks. Start snacking.

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    Image of Bialia Bialia
    02/19/09

    @Komrade Kayce: That was so much more awesome then the usual response to guys like this. You now have a thousand +1 in my book.


    Do with that what you will. :p

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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    02/19/09

    @Bialia:


    Internet points are wasted on me. They always just end up getting spent on candy and penthouse.

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    Image of Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.
    02/20/09

    @ZetaCrossfire:Don't worry. You won't ever have to deal with it again, at least not here.
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    Image of CutePuppyz CutePuppyz
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    Beaten by Uniqlo...ha
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    Image of hahnchen hahnchen
    02/19/09

    @CutePuppyz:Uniqlo is fucking awesome.
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    Image of Bialia Bialia
    02/19/09

    @hahnchen: I have never heard of uniqlo until right now...
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    More importantly, he ran nintento for 53 years? Fifty-three?


    Sweet Jesus that man loved his work. Or is it standard in Japan to stick to your company until you're an old, old old man?

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    Image of SatyaKaplah SatyaKaplah
    02/19/09

    @Komrade Kayce: Notice how right around 2002, Nintendo started sucking. Badly. The GC was mediocre, but it had some great games. The wii. Ugh. The screw the consumer mentality there made me sell mine. (Force people to buy a $50 controller, then a $20 nunchuck. Then a $20 box to improve motion sensing). Seriously, $90 controllers?
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    02/19/09

    @Komrade Kayce: I heard he doesn't play video games. I wonder if he owns a Wii?
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    Image of Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.
    02/20/09

    @SatyaKaplah:Take off your blinders and stop acting like a git.
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    Image of thespyderboy thespyderboy
    02/20/09

    @Komrade Kayce: To answer your question, is fairly traditional in Japan for an employee to stick with a company as long as possible (at least 30 years, usually). Japan tends to be a culture of loyalty, be it the consumer to certain brands, an employee to an employer, or a child to a parent. But this is in the traditional sense; in modern times, it may be changing slightly.


    In a slight addition, the Western business idea of job hopping every few years is very frowned upon.


    Granted, this is only stuff heard and studied, no real experience/first-hand knowledge. I'm sure Bash or Witz or someone else Japan-based could answer this better.

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    Image of PatMan33 PatMan33
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    Only four and a half billion? WhatEVER!
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    02/19/09

    @PatMan33: Didn't Bill Gates loose like 20 Billion? I heard at this highest, he was valued at 62 billion. The richest guy (some Indian steel tycoon) last I heard was at 46 and bill was in 4th place with 42.
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    Image of neoraul20 neoraul20
    02/20/09

    @okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): No, Warren Buffett (US) is number one with $62 billion net worth, followed by Carlos Slim Helu & family (Mexico)with $60 bil. and Bill Gates third with $58 billion.
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    02/20/09

    @neoraul20: If that's true then these guys fluctuate drastically on a yearly basis. I was told the stuff I posted about a year ago. (Now that I think about it, it was an Indian guy who told me... wait a minute!!)
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    Image of ShirleyTemple ShirleyTemple
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    How do you go down 3 billion?
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    Image of SansSanity SansSanity
    02/19/09

    @ShirleyTemple: Alot of his net worth would be equity perhaps, and with the stock markets hitting the can his theoretical net worth would have floated away
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    Image of (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD
    02/19/09

    In reply to Former Nintendo President Not As Rich (Still Filthy Rich, Though)
    Oh no, not even the filthy rich is safe! Those poor innocent people. Quick everyone, we need to start a fundraiser Asap.

    *note must donate at least 10,000.
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    02/19/09

    @goldwings: From what I heard, he's a real dick in-person too. Like, he embodies everything you ever heard about xenophobic Japanese people.
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