Today, Daniel Vernon has confirmed that the video game series, Pokemon, is one of the greatest passions of his life.
In this exclusive interview, he mentioned a few reasons about why the game has had such a large impact on his life.
Pokemon, is a video game series in which the player collects creatures of various shapes, sizes and abilities, called Pokemon, and pitches those creatures against the Pokemon of other players.
While the game itself has sometimes been lead into controversy. The overarching theme of Pokemon has become a Pop Culture phenomenon, the likes of which has never been seen before, and is not likely to be stopped any time soon. The first Pokemon video game, released in 1998, featured 151 different creatures to capture and train, this has now grown into a single game now holding over 700 of these unique, fictional creatures and has also expanded into other forms of media, such as into an animated television series and a soon to be released mobile app, called "Pokemon GO"
"I always had an interest in the series from a young age, but was never able to purchase the game until I went to university. It was a fun sort of topic that I was able to talk to my friends about and our shared love of the series kept us close."
With the games popularity on the rise, the games developer, Game Freak, in partnership with The Pokemon Company International, had to increase the competitive aspect of the game, by endorsing several national and international e-sports tournaments around the world, the most notorious of which is called Video Game Championships (VGC).
"VGC is a very competitive tournament, my friends and I try to think of different combinations and variations to test out, but the real test is actually competing in the regional matches. Then it is all about outwitting the opponent."
With Pokemon becoming a more prevalent game throughout popular culture due to its ever expanding social and competitive community, Players such as Daniel are now in a better position than ever because of the games simplicity and deeper combat strategies.
Earlier today, Bethany Vernon told us that her greatest passion in life is the reading and classification of books.
In this interview, She explains why she loves books and what she does with them, and why she is so passionate about it.
Bethany Vernon is a budding Library Technician, soon to graduate from TAFE, she possesses the skills and abilities necessary to catalog and archive any book into the library's computer systems and also how to manage the way that these systems operate to the public.
"I have used books as a form of escapism for many years, keeping hold of my favorites and carting them all over the country and treating them as treasured friends. Books have always been there, they are the one constant in my life aside from my family."
After finding that she had a love for books, she decided to take a Diploma in Library and Information Services at TAFE to become a fully qualified Library Technician, going on to say that.
"I decided to pursue libraries as a career so that I can help other kids with their own escapism and to foster a love of books and reading in the next generation. I get scarily excited about new ways of connecting with books, their content and their dissemination."
With libraries becoming more and more important as the need for information grows, the world needs more people like Bethany to properly store and catalog all types of information, whether is be in print or any type of physical media or even online digital information, it all needs to be protected and archived in the same manner. The world needs more people as passionate as Bethany, to keep our newly expanding frontier of information alive.
