Pokémon (a bit general about my relationship to Pokemon)

Long time, no write! Have been a little busy with work and stuff, but anyways ..!
YES! I like Pokemon! And I am no longer afraid to say it out loud! I remember when I went to primary School, the horrible time with bullying, etc., just because I liked Pokemon. And so we come to the high school. Then it was suddenly popular again. What the hell happened? Oh well. I love Pokemon, mostly because of the games, and I'm proud of it ^

I have collected Pokemon cards, figurines and played games since I was in 2./3. grade, and I still think the games are fun, even if the characters are getting a little "uninventive" in appearance, etc. Seen the series too, but not all. Most just the first season. But as I got older and started junior high school, I refused to keep the Pokémon by my parents. Cards and figures were hidden away and my Game Boy was taken from me. I assume this was to avoid that I was bullied more than I already had been, simply for protection, and not to be evil. But then I moved and started in high school, and had the opportunity to re-occupy a beloved hobby and have fun again.

 Pokémon was also my inspiration for drawing, or better said, the reason I started to draw! My first comic book I started to draw in the 5th grade. It was about Sarah that wanted to become a Pokemon master. In my booklets I drew first two pages of comics, 3 x 2 squares, and then two pages of exercises and games. I was doing this comic until I Pokémon was taken away from me. Later I found out about manga/anime, series like Naruto, I began to draw other types of drawings.

 Can say that Pokemon also helped to make me a gamer chick. I never went anywhere without my Game Boy with Pokemon. Loved those games. Yellow and red :) After I moved to my father, I began to play more of the Pokémon games, and extended my horizons, and found other types of games. After a while I got more into shooters (thanks to Left 4 Dead), which is my main focus in gaming now. But sometimes I still sit down with my Game Boy with Pokemon Yellow to play a little^^

 Finally I can say that Pokemon is part of my inspiration for a dream I have, to become a game designer! Remember the time when I was having fun and hacked pokemon roms. Tried to create an altered version of Ruby which I called "Shiny Ruby". x) Didn't come any further than the third city before I gave up on this project. And after I installed Windows 7 I couldn't use the program anymore. In addition to this little project, I was trying to translate Pokemon FireRed from English into Norwegian! This was a very fun project. Was not long ago I was going to take up the project again, but found that the program didn't work in Windows 7, need some file etc...



I will never put Pokemon away again, even if I grow up. It will always have a room in my heart:) So much inspiration and enjoyment only the games and the series has given me. Yeah!
 

But that's all for now! Will try to write more often ^^ '
 

~ Kori