Too Much Awesome

Well well, Pokemon has officially reached its fifth generation. After so much reminiscing about Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, as if I needed something else to remind me of how old I’m getting. Anyway, in the spirit of the event, I wanted to take a look back and revisit the animated series that was based [...]

Hey Pokefans out there, it’s the greatest week of the year: The week a new Pokemon game arrives on shelves and demands we Catch ‘Em All one more time, just for kicks. The 5th Generation is now out with Pokemon Black and White versions adding over 150 new Pocket Monsters to the roster, but is [...]

2010 is almost outta here! As the New Year gets closer, let’s steal a glimpse at the year to come. We’re looking at a massive amount of line revivals this year- the 80’s are coming home to roost with major remakes of almost every definitive toy line you remember, and a couple you might not. [...]

If I told you to give me one member of your family that you could absatively possolutely assure me would always love you no matter what, I’m guessing a good 99% of pet owners out there would say their pet wins the spot. Let’s face it, even when we get mad at them, they love [...]

“Hey wait a second! Chris, didn’t you already do a preview of Pokemon Black & White?” Yes, actually, I did indeed do a preview of Pokemon Black & White. We in the US are still waiting until spring of 2011 for the new versions to come out, but Japan has had Black & White since [...]

I’ve been thinking about Pokemon a lot lately. Part of this is because of the nice commenters on the Best Of and Worst Of Pokemon lists I posted a while ago. People were mad about which ten I liked best, and equally mad about the ten I liked least. So I figured I’d finally come [...]

The whole point of a Pokemon game is to catch, train, battle, and evolve Pokemon, right? Naturally. Most of the time you learn your Pokemon is evolving and think, “Right on! This will be SWEET!” But every so often you have to sit down and make the tough choice: “Do I REALLY want to evolve [...]

The world is a very different, very scary place these days. Thankfully, video games are mostly blissful escapes from that harsh reality. But what if aspects of the real world started creeping into the fantasy realm? Here are ten ways the real world would ruin the video games world.

Only a few weeks ago, the next completely new Pokemon title was announced. How much do we know? Well, I know just enough to write a few paragraphs. However, beyond simply giving the facts, I figured I’d pontificate for a while on what I’d personally like to see from a new Pokemon game, and for [...]

Today marks my 150th article here at Toy-TMA! That number there has some special meaning to me since it reminds me of a simpler time when there were only 150 Pokemon in the world and a very demanding opportunity to catch ‘em all. It only seemed appropriate that for my big 150th Article Extravaganza I [...]