{"id":460,"date":"2011-03-05T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T04:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-03-05T21:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T04:50:28","slug":"gotta-catchem-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/gotta-catchem-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Catch’em All"},"content":{"rendered":"

So in middle school, I really liked Pok\u00e9mon. I mean I really<\/em> liked Pok\u00e9mon. I first had the Gameboy video game. You know on the original grey bricks<\/a>. Then I watched the show every morning before school. I actually only watched the first 20 minutes of each episode because my mom always had to take us early but I still watched most of it. Then me and my friends started to get into the card game. We would actually go around town collecting cans to sell for more money.<\/p>\n

When Pok\u00e9mon Snap<\/a> came out, I decided that instead of taking a picture of every Pok\u00e9mon, I would draw all of them. My nerdy motto was “Gotta Draw’em All.” After drawing so many, I pretty much memorized all 151 Pok\u00e9mon by heart. My mom even bought me the player’s guide so that I could memorize their stats and abilities.<\/p>\n

The worst part about the complete nerdiness of my Pok\u00e9mon obsession was that it may be the one thing I remembered most out of my junior high. It wasn’t Algebra, US History, or Geology. It was Pok\u00e9mon. I memorized that Kakuna<\/a> evolved to Beedrill<\/a> at level 10, that Magmar<\/a> could only be found in Cinnibar Island, and that Poliwhirl<\/a> could only evolve into Poliwrath<\/a> with a trade.<\/p>\n

It became so ridiculous that my girlfriend has made it into a game. She still has her brother’s players guide and so when she feels like it, she’ll just state some random fact about a Pok\u00e9mon to see how fast I can guess which one she’s talking about. I can almost always guess with two questions.<\/p>\n

Today, I had this face in my head. A cyclops with metal teeth. When I fleshed the face out more in my head, I thought it would be an awesome Pok\u00e9mon. It would be a giant Metal type (Yeah, I played up to Saphire version) that would love to mash opponents up in its giant teeth. I call him Irog. I tried to paint in the awesome Ken Sugimori<\/a> style but I know I didn’t give Igor justice of that.<\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/p>\n

P.S. I always dreamt of having a Pok\u00e9mon team. It would totally be Arcanine<\/a> (the coolest), Bayleef<\/a> (sweet horn), Sandslash<\/a> (the bad ass), Ampharos<\/a> (the super cool), Empoleon<\/a>, and Rayquaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you grew up with a Gameboy, you most doubtedly had a cartridge of Pokemon. It was a phenomenal game with one addicting marketing plan. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-pokemon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}