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Not even kidding.....

I saw that. Frankly I think it's the perfect place for it. I love Angry Birds. Plus, it's not by Zynga so it shouldn't suck.
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Although the animated tie in is stupid.

Pac-Man and Sonic can support successful Saturday Morning Cartoons, I don't see why some angry birds could not.

Pac-Man was not successful and one of the Sonic ones was terrible....

Dude, Pac-Man got a Christmas special. This is the standard measurement for Saturday morning cartoon success.

Ahhh. Hmm. I don't know what to say. :-/

Simpsons did it:

Jiarn said:

Pac-Man was not successful and one of the Sonic ones was terrible....

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One out of four. Besides, Pokemon has been on TV for what... 14-15 years now? It's had at least 10 movies as well.

The Pokemon games at least have a story behind them.

The arcade style games generally don't have much of a story.

sixpackshaker said:

The Pokemon games at least have a story behind them.

The arcade style games generally don't have much of a story.

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Pokemon... has a story? I'm sorry but "Go there, do this, OH NOES TEAM ROCKET!" is not a story. If anything, the cartoon better codified the world of the games than the games did for the cartoon.

Pokemon also had the benefit of being produced entirely in Japan as part of Nintendo's massive marketing effort to drive sales for their money-printing game franchise. They sunk serious money into it, and it was already a huge success in the 1.5 years it had before it came to the US.

AshburnerX said:

Pokemon... has a story? I'm sorry but "Go there, do this, OH NOES TEAM ROCKET!" is not a story. If anything, the cartoon better codified the world of the games than the games did for the cartoon.

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Have you.... played Pokemon? It has a story. Not an amazing one, but it has a beginning, middle and end, in every one of them, with characters who fall into archetype roles and everything. This is considerably more than games like Sonic had.

checkeredhat said:

Have you.... played Pokemon? It has a story. Not an amazing one, but it has a beginning, middle and end, in every one of them, with characters who fall into archetype roles and everything. This is considerably more than games like Sonic had.

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Yes, I've actually played every generation of the game since Gen 1. My commentary wasn't about the total absence of a story, but rather that said story is insufficient. Have you seen the show? If you had, you'd understand that even in the beginning of the series it only had the barest of connections to the plot of the game and that said cartoon actually did more to steer the course of the cartoons than the other way around.