Those corporate market business men must be sitting on the lardy arses in their office suites eating caviar with grins the size of bananas on their faces!
Did you know that there are more Pokemon cards on this tiny planet than humans? Apparently, Pokemon cards cost the producers 10p to make about 15 cards, but they sell at about 23 pence per card. Children are sucked into thinking they must get every single card or they'll be outcast for the rest of their lives, and you realise there are over 800 to collect! They are being totally ripped off by Nintendo. But what makes the situation worse is that it's not the kids being ripped off, but that parents!
One can buy eleven cards in a pack for a charge of £2.50. Why should parents shell out this much for pieces of worthless paper? Besides, the kids spend more time just looking at them than actually playing the game, which is too complicated to go into.
The company claims the make some rare, but this is just another marketing scam to get the kiddies to pay upto £50 for one stupid card!
And the people who make the fake ones will be grinning too, because they even sell them in Woolworths, according to my fanatic little brother.
I heard someone claim that these cards were good because they kept kids off the streets, but this too is a lie, I'm afraid to say. My brother, and I have seen other children doing this also, hangs around on street corners swapping cards with his little chums.
I can put up with a television show and a couple of stuffed toys, but this is going too far! I think the government should ban these bloody cards!!
How helpful would this review be to a person making a buying decision? Rating guidelines
Advantages: Gameplay galore and a lot of fun to be had, a good hobby. Disadvantages: Kids know more about Pokemon than they do about geography, now, a bad thing indeed.
MikeScoates 11.09.2000 ·
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Pokemon
Advantages: Highly customisable, promotes social interaction,, popular (for the moment) with the children Disadvantages: Prices in the West are ridiculous. Some cards no longer available. Odds of getting premium cards too high.
GoldOpinion 12.09.2000 ·
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Pokemon
Advantages: Gameplay galore and a lot of fun to be had, a good hobby. Disadvantages: Kids know more about Pokemon than they do about geography, now, a bad thing indeed.
MikeScoates 11.09.2000 ·
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Pokemon
Sep 9th, 2000
(Dec 22nd, 2000)
very helpful by (100%):
