Catch Both Escapist Pokemon Quizzes!

[Susan Arendt]

Catch Both Escapist Pokemon Quizzes!

Can you answer ten questions about a boy, his electric mouse, and a whole lot of games?

It seems like every time we pop into The Escapist's IRC channel, people are talking about Pokemon. Take a quick look around the forums and you'll find more than one thread discussing this long-running series about oh-so-cute pocket monsters and their trainers. It seems that you folks know quite a bit about Pokemon. Care to put it to the test?

If you're not a devout Pokefan, you may want to stick to our Impossible [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/quizzes/view/26] quiz a try. Or just take both. We don't judge.

Both quizzes draw from both the Pokemon games and the anime series and, as usual, you are being timed. You can take as long as you like, but your time will affect your position on the leaderboard.

Good luck!

Our thanks to Sevre90210, who helped create these quizzes!

Got a quiz of your own you'd like to submit? Send it to [email protected]. If we use it, you'll receive a special badge! Please be sure to put "Quiz" as the subject and include your forum name with your submission.

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[sooperman]

Normal Quiz: Rank 3rd. I'm sure that will last... *sigh*

Good news is: I beat Funk, so my life is now complete.

Edit: Oh wait, Funk is #1 on the Impossible Quiz. It was cool while it lasted.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I'm surprised I actually scored 8/10 on the normal quiz.
but I more than made up for my normal scores with the Impossible quiz's 3/10 score -_-
heh heh heh, I haven't watched pokemon in years. never even seen the ones after the original series

 

[Magnatek]

Normal Quiz: Aced in 42 seconds. Domination!
[small]At least while it lasted, but I'm still the only one with the ultimate answer's worth of seconds![/small]

Impossible: 7/10. Not too bad, especially since I had no idea what the Pokerus did.

 

[messy]

full marks for normal in one minute exactly and 8/10 for the impossible one. Best quizzes I've done

Also at this current moment I'm second on the impossible one but I doubt that'll last

 

[El Poncho]

6/10 on impossible one, I though mewtwo was different because he was a clone of mew.

 

[Amnestic]

100% on the Normal Quiz, 0:43 which got me third place.

40% on the Impossible quiz in 1:31, which nets me 19th.

Ouch ;<

 

[Nivag the Owl]

30% on the impossible. *High 5*

 

[Kermi]

I don't know whether I should be ashamed or proud that it took me seven tries to beat the impossible quiz.

 

[Atvomat_Nikonov]

I got 100% on both of them, and I'm 2nd on the impossible level leaderboards. I don't know whether to brag or be ashamed.

EDIT: both on my first try aswell.

 

[Jedoro]

Woohoo, 1st on the normal quiz as of this post!

I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, considering I haven't played or watched it in years

 

[rated pg]

It's not even "devout" or "casual", it's more "did you play the series when it was good? (red/blue/yellow)" or "have you played the more recent games?".

 

[John Funk]

It's not even "devout" or "casual", it's more "did you play the series when it was good? (red/blue/yellow)" or "have you played the more recent games?".

Oh please. Don't even start.

Look, I love RBY as much as the next guy, but it's blind nostalgia. The current games just blow the old ones out of the water. Unless you liked playing a game completely dominated by psychic types with no real reliable counter?

You could never have the competitive scene you do today in the Gen1 games.

 

[mysticite]

Heck, now I feel like I've regressed back to my childhood of watching Pokemon and actually guessing the 'Who's that Pokemon?!' between episode breaks.

I'm not touching the Impossible quiz, if there's anything that could make me dig out my Pokemon games it'd be that.

 

[mysticite]

It's not even "devout" or "casual", it's more "did you play the series when it was good? (red/blue/yellow)" or "have you played the more recent games?".

Oh please. Don't even start.

Look, I love RBY as much as the next guy, but it's blind nostalgia. The current games just blow the old ones out of the water. Unless you liked playing a game completely dominated by psychic types with no real reliable counter?

You could never have the competitive scene you do today in the Gen1 games.

This.

Although, I have to a admit that it's getting a little ridiculous now- the new Pokemon are all relatively shit and it took it out of me to even buy Platinum. Compared to the two-tone days of RBY there have been massive improvements, though my favourite will always be somewhere between Crystal and Sapphire/Ruby/Emerald.

 

[Takoto]

Normal was too easy.
And Impossible was just easy.

I'm ranked forth in the Impossible one, for once my Pokémon knowledge has come in handy!

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

8/10 on the impossible quiz. Not very hard. I just never played the games past G/S/C generation. I'd like to though....

Stupid laggy computer. I really didn't need a whole minute to finish the first quiz.

 

[John Funk]

It's not even "devout" or "casual", it's more "did you play the series when it was good? (red/blue/yellow)" or "have you played the more recent games?".

Oh please. Don't even start.

Look, I love RBY as much as the next guy, but it's blind nostalgia. The current games just blow the old ones out of the water. Unless you liked playing a game completely dominated by psychic types with no real reliable counter?

You could never have the competitive scene you do today in the Gen1 games.

This.

Although, I have to a admit that it's getting a little ridiculous now- the new Pokemon are all relatively shit and it took it out of me to even buy Platinum. Compared to the two-tone days of RBY there have been massive improvements, though my favourite will always be somewhere between Crystal and Sapphire/Ruby/Emerald.

Every generation has had its lame Pokemon. Tangela and Eggxecutor (or however you spell that one), anybody?

There are still some gems in the current gen. Empoleon remains one of my favorites of all time - you can't go wrong with a giant metal penguin. You just can't!

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

8th in impossible. Got 80% on the first go, too - kind of surprising given that I know almost nothing about Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.

I have to say, there is an argument for at least two of the Pokemon on the "not like the others" question, if not three.