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Re:Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The P... by citricsquid on Thursday March 17, 2011 @08:30PM (#2338792)
Arguably their unique take is the Facebook side of it, does Pokemon exist on Facebook like this does?
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Re:Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The P... by teej on Thursday March 17, 2011 @08:55PM (#2338859)
There's at least two. One is called Monster Galaxy by Gaia Online which launched in December (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=129748227041...). There's another, the name of which I don't remember, that did a ton of Facebook advertising in the last 12 months.
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Re:Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The P... by noahth on Friday March 18, 2011 @03:37AM (#2339707)
Miscrits.
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Re:Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The P... by robotkad on Thursday March 17, 2011 @09:00PM (#2338870)
Does it matter? Hasbro didn't think so when Scrabulous became one of the top games on Facebook.

Nintendo protects the Pokemon brand very aggressively.

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Re:Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The P... by noahth on Friday March 18, 2011 @03:39AM (#2339712)
That was a pretty specific issue, with 2 complaints. One was the name, and the other was that the board layout was identical (location of bonus squares, etc). It relaunched very quickly as Lexulous with a different board. Damage done, but it wasn't an instant kill or anything.
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