Denise,

>>Wonder if Pokemon translates well into code?

You've got little Poke-Persons in your house, too? We try to keep it very balanced around here, but my 9-year-old already knows just about everything about Poke-whatever.

Now on to your "technical" question: Seems like Basic language used to have PEEK and POKE for reading/writing to specific memory locations -- maybe you should look into VB for that feature.