1up.com’s calling it Pokemania. From the look of the pictures they’re pretty spot on.

Were there any Infendo readers in the mix? Was it as packed as the 1up photos make it out to be? More so? Do tell and leave a comment.

Or, better yet, record a little file and point your mouse cursor to the tips button up top. Maybe Scott, Blake and Kyle will listen to and chew on your call for an upcoming edition of Infendo Radio.

It was merely raining Pokemon here at Infendo yesterday, but today the sky is opening up a torrent of Pokemania that looks to take over the U.S. A dangerous flood of Pikachu, Bulbasaurs and Jigglypuffs is imminent.

To pimp this publicity for all its worth, Nintendo fired off a press release today touting some impressive pre-order numbers for the DS titles, Diamond and Pearl.

With the new games set to be released on April 22, pre-sale figures are twice as large as they were for previous releases Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen, which have sold 3.4 million units between them in the US since being released in 2004, according to Reuters.

Impressive. Most impressive. They should, like, make a movie about this or something.

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And when Pokemon launches for DS on April 22, it will rain money at Nintendo HQ.

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Gotta kill ‘em all!

Twisted ankles, here I come.

The best part of this particular Nintendo Spotting installment is that you can get over to eBay and OWN it!

I think I’m developing a thing for special variations of the DS stylus. Add this $536 stylus to the list.

UPDATE: theJON informs us of a GameStop stylus deal for Pokemon preorders.