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by PAPPPmAc 2055 days ago
At the time that was doing the rounds (2015 or so) someone expanded it into a "Pokemon or Big Data" quiz game, which is startlingly difficult: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
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I thought that was extremely easy, but only because the Pokemon didn't go past Generation 3. Flink sounds a whole lot like Klink, a Pokemon from Generation 5.
> only because the Pokemon didn't go past Generation 3

That's about two generations too many for me to be able to know :P

Yeah...the first one's pretty much burned permanently in my mind forever, I can recognize most of the second ones, but after that I don't really know them.
i can easily understand and accept the idea of an infinite gender spectrum and associated naming conventions but there are ONLY 150(+1) pokémon and nothing anyone says will change my mind
This is fantastic. You should submit this as a post on HN - it deserves its own thread :)
It's easy if you know your Pokémon well. It's really hard if you kinda know names because many of them have lookalike names ;)
Damn, got the first one wrong :

> ADABAS was NoSQL from a time when there was no SQL. The technology now is owned by Software AG. "Software AG: We're not sure what we do either."

Damn, I seem to get only half of them right, not better than random chance ! EDIT : Ok, 59% correct. (Eventually you get a 'victory' screen.)