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This awesome Pokémon commercial is going to air during the Super Bowl

This awesome Pokémon commercial is going to air during the Super Bowl

This awesome Pokémon commercial is going to air during the Super Bowl
27 January 2016

"Mewtwo? You son of a bitch!"

Please tell us we weren’t the only ones who took Pokémon too seriously back in the day, storming off in a rage whenever our cards were trumped in the playground, or hurling controllers across the room when we lost mini-games on the N64's Pokémon Stadium.

As for all its saccharine graphics, there was something violently gladiatorial about the whole thing, something far darker at play - need we remind you of the theory about the original game being set in a post-war civilisation? - and now it's about to get real once again.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, a new blockbuster commercial encouraging the world to “train on”, will air at Super Bowl 50, when it will hopefully snare a new generation of people who take games far too seriously. 

Take a peak below and keep one eye out for sneaky references to your former favourite characters.

Got to spot them all, or something to that effect.