Time magazine covers Pokémon for its 25th anniversary in the USA

[milotic2]

TIME Magazine celebrates Pokémon’s 25th American anniversary with four covers.

But OG Trainers might remember that TIME wasn't always so kind with their Poké-Coverage in the past. https://t.co/RGecNUwGCx pic.twitter.com/HRNDBFmpk2
- Nintendo Wire (@NinWire) February 19, 2024
To commemorate 25 years of Pokémon popularity in North America (though

Comments

[thebadunkadunk]

I too was a Pokemon Blue girlie and Squirtle was my starter. Kids today have it so easy because now the games automatically split the XP amongst your party, before I knew about the MIssingno glitch I had to work so hard to level up my Blastoise before we faced the Elite Four, and I beat them while my Gameboy battery was dying which made the credits v stressful

Anyway I still love Pokemon but I still haven't made much progress in Pearl, oop

[kz3e]

Wow back to back Pokemon posts on ONTD? I still have Pokemon Red along with my gameboy pocket, but I've gotten really lazy with playing each new iteration. Nowadays I'm just playing Pokemon Sleep which is super chill lol.

[wapiko]

Never had a GB but I do have fond memories of fighting with my cousin over hers ahahahha. I always played Red with my babb Charmander as starter, which I know is basically Hard Mode considering the first gym is rock, but how could I not!!! Eventually I discovered emulators.

Hope Time walked back those statements from 1998

[juanitatequila]

i need a decent pokemon documentary into the history of pokemon and all of its different eras

[du_fric]

I'm excited to see the accurate Sugimori artwork!! I wonder if TIME reached out to pokemon archivists who uncovered this or they got the OG artwork directly from the pokemon company

this was such a fascinating discourse on nostalgia on twitter


The iconic Gen 1 Pokemon washed out look was because their scanners sucked ass???!?!? Now it's like someone sealed up the Liberty Bell's crack https://t.co/bJtXOpNmQA pic.twitter.com/7TeKqu2MSM
- Pan-Pizza (@RebelTaxi) April 19, 2023