Some of you who are video gamers should find this to be a funny article:
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2022 It talks about 12 popular games (many from the NES era) that had ridiculous premises behind them...I thought their telling of the Pokemon story as "an unaccompanied minor capturing wild beasts and making them fight ala Tijuana cockfight style" was crazy.