
Now there were fifteen, with the newest recipient of this honour being Pokémon Black and White.

After all, only fourteen games had ever received a perfect score from Famitsu in the past TWENTY-FIVE years. スコア 完全 is basically, “Perfect Score.” This was big. (The other is ルカリオ, which diehard Pokémon fans should instantly recognize and be amused by.) ファミ通 is Famitsu, which is the most popular and respected gaming publication in Japan.

アルカード is one of the two most common ways in Japanese that people like to say my name. But then when I shook the grogginess from my brain I realized what was being said. Of course I was half asleep and my ability to decipher Japanese wasn’t fully turned on, so when some from across the Pacific from within the organization called and exclaimed, “”アルカード! ファミ通! スコア 完全!” it didn’t quite translate at first.

I still remember the phone call pretty clearly.
