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Pokecharms, an almagamation of Pokémon and 'Lucky Charms' is Ireland's premiere Pokemon Fansite and is one of the few Pokemon Fansites to put emphasis on it's UK and European readers as opposed to the American and Canadian readers.
'''Pokecharms''', an amalgamation of ''Pokémon'' and ''Lucky Charms'', is an Irish Pokémon fan site that caters to UK and European Pokémon fans.


The site has a marked difference in it's slogan of "Crazy and Proud of it" and makes no bones about breaking convention in it's news posts, often opting for a 'Blog' style giving it's readership a unique perspective on the latest events in not only the Pokémon Fandom but often VideoGames in general.
The site's slogan is "Crazy and Proud of It" and makes no bones about breaking convention in its news posts, often opting for a conversational blog style when reporting on Pokémon and video game news.


Pokecharms originally found its way onto the the Internet in 2001 on [[wp:FreeServers|FreeServers]] as a very simple and amateur fan site manned soley by Gary Oak, later known as [[User:Doctor Oak|Doctor Oak]]. It promised much but featured little and is in general a classic example of "My First Website," as described by Doctor Oak. It was eventually abandoned but not before an [[wp:ezboard|ezboard]] was created in its name that built up a small community of like-minded individuals from another Pokémon fan site, [[Pokeschool]]. The purchase of a .com domain was discussed largely on the forum but was eventually discarded along with the site.


== History ==
Two further Web sites by Gary Oak followed in its wake, RPGCCG and Nintendo Gamer. Both strayed from Pokémon but gave their webmaster a small following that eventually came to the rebirth of Pokecharms in the summer of 2003.


Pokecharms originally found it's way onto the the Internet in 2001 on [http://www.freeservers.com FreeServers] as a very simple and very amateur Fansite manned soley by the then Gary Oak, later known as Doctor Oak. It promised much but featured little and is in general a classic example of 'My First Website'. As is the way of such sites it was abandoned eventually but not before an EzBoard Forum was created in it's name and built up a small community of like-minded individuals from another Pokémon Fansite, [http://www.pokeschool.com Pokeschool].
Pokecharms was relaunched as a place for its webmaster and friends to upload fan works and soon grew with that very idea at the forefront, encouraging visitors to upload their work to the site to share with others


The purchase of a dot com domain was discussed largely on the forum but was eventually discarded along with the site.  
Eventually the site strayed from that theme as Doctor Oak and his team of Linkachu, Nemesis, and StellarWind Elsydeon took on the task of covering news on [[Pokémon Colosseum]], then [[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]] before completely focusing on the Pokémon games, other video games, and the lives of its webmaster team.


Two further Websites by Gary Oak followed in it's wake, RPGCCG and Nintendo Gamer. Both strayed from Pokémon but gave their Webmaster a small following that eventually came to the rebirth of Pokecharms in the summer of 2003.
In the pipeline for Pokecharms is a return to the focus on submissions with a completely automated system coded by Doctor Oak. In addition, "Project X" is touted by the site as its greatest future feature but is shrouded in complete mystery to everyone but those involved in its development.


== What is it? ==
It remains to be seen what impact "Project X" will have on Pokecharms and what final future impact Pokecharms will have on the Pokémon fandom- something Pokecharms has strived to support through projects such as [[Bulbapedia]].
 
Pokecharms was relaunched as a place for it's Webmaster and friends to upload fan-works and soon grew with that very idea at the forefront. Pushing for visitors to submit their works to go onto the site for all to see and to show them off.  


Eventually the site strayed from that theme as Doctor Oak and his loyal and essential team of Linkachu, Nemesis and StellarWind Elsydeon took on the task of covering news on [[Pokemon Colosseum]], then [[Pokemon FireRed]] and [[LeafGreen]] before completely focusing on the Pokemon Games, General VideoGames and the lives of it's WebMastering Team.
=External links=
 
* [http://www.pokecharms.com Pokecharms]
In the pipeline for Pokecharms is a return to the focus on Submissions with a completely automated system coded by Doctor Oak as well as the enigmatic 'Project X' - touted as Pokecharms' greatest future feature but shrouded in complete mystery to everyone but those involved in it's development.
* [http://www.pokecharms.iwarp.com Original Pokecharms]
 
It remains to be seen what impact 'Project X' will have on Pokecharms and also what final future impact Pokecharms will have on the Pokemon Fandom - a notion Pokecharms has strived to support through projects such as the [[Bulbapedia]].
 
== External Links ==
 
[http://www.pokecharms.com Pokecharms.com]
 
[http://www.pokecharms.iwarp.com Original Pokecharms]


[[Category:Fan sites]]
[[Category:Fan sites]]

Revision as of 21:36, 2 October 2005

Pokecharms, an amalgamation of Pokémon and Lucky Charms, is an Irish Pokémon fan site that caters to UK and European Pokémon fans.

The site's slogan is "Crazy and Proud of It" and makes no bones about breaking convention in its news posts, often opting for a conversational blog style when reporting on Pokémon and video game news.

Pokecharms originally found its way onto the the Internet in 2001 on FreeServers as a very simple and amateur fan site manned soley by Gary Oak, later known as Doctor Oak. It promised much but featured little and is in general a classic example of "My First Website," as described by Doctor Oak. It was eventually abandoned but not before an ezboard was created in its name that built up a small community of like-minded individuals from another Pokémon fan site, Pokeschool. The purchase of a .com domain was discussed largely on the forum but was eventually discarded along with the site.

Two further Web sites by Gary Oak followed in its wake, RPGCCG and Nintendo Gamer. Both strayed from Pokémon but gave their webmaster a small following that eventually came to the rebirth of Pokecharms in the summer of 2003.

Pokecharms was relaunched as a place for its webmaster and friends to upload fan works and soon grew with that very idea at the forefront, encouraging visitors to upload their work to the site to share with others

Eventually the site strayed from that theme as Doctor Oak and his team of Linkachu, Nemesis, and StellarWind Elsydeon took on the task of covering news on Pokémon Colosseum, then Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen before completely focusing on the Pokémon games, other video games, and the lives of its webmaster team.

In the pipeline for Pokecharms is a return to the focus on submissions with a completely automated system coded by Doctor Oak. In addition, "Project X" is touted by the site as its greatest future feature but is shrouded in complete mystery to everyone but those involved in its development.

It remains to be seen what impact "Project X" will have on Pokecharms and what final future impact Pokecharms will have on the Pokémon fandom- something Pokecharms has strived to support through projects such as Bulbapedia.

External links

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