Laugh at that shyt, but back then it was a real fukking struggle to do the same bullshyt American kids were enjoying without having some kinda Holy Rolling old person whispering in parents ear about how that shyt ain't no good, or how it has demonic origins. I remember one General Assembly when everything came to a head and this one Holy Roller Teacher came through and pulled out a sheaf of fukking printed papers going over the "Origins" of Pokemon. That's how all the old heads knew it stood for 'Pocket Monsters' and that was the buzzword. I mean it was bad enough they was blocking that shyt in school 'cause realistically dudes was having their Gameboys stolen/snatched and the administration had enough of the complaints so they banned Cd players/Walkman/Game Boy colors (

Era, I know but WATTBA

) but while you could just have your shyt confiscated back then and returned after your parents came to collect that shyt with a warning...they found you with a Pokemon Cartridge, you was getting that Christian Counselling.

Let any Caribbean breh testify on that shyt, once the Christian Community gets wind of something they don't like and they start campaigning...that shyt's gonna grind to a halt for a minute.
......shyt, that same year a breh of mine was fixing to get a Super Nintendo for Christmas and he really wanted to play Mortal Kombat II. Dude's mom was set to buy him that shyt if he had the grades, I had planned on giving dude Both 1 and 2 for the X-mas 'cause I had pretty much played 'em out...Christmas rolled around....Nothing. fukking Dad heard about Pokemon and Mortal Kombat in church and fukking sold dude's shyt

talking 'bout "I DOH WAH DAT DEVIL shyt IN MY HOUSE BREDDA. MAN FIGHTING DEMON IN A TOURNAMENT FOR DEM SOUL? YUH SOUL BELONG TO GAWD, BOSS. WHO ELSE. STOP BAWLING WE GOING CHURCH."
Homey didn't even get a Bike, connect four, nothing

. Made it a point to let dude come over during the Holiday and blow the fuze on my shyts, man

.I'm thankful as fukk my Moms gave me alot of leeway in terms of watching/playing adult shyt back then without being susceptible to that scare mongering bullshyt.