>>48765297This. I don't know if anything can match 90's pokemania. Playing the games, collecting the cards, battling and trading with friends in person with a link cable. Going to Toy R Us events and winning prizes. Sharing playground rumors about how to find Mewthree and evolve Dragonite. Decoding the secrets of the mythical japanese Green version. Having your little brother delete your save file while you weren't home that cocksucker.
It was everywhere. GO was the closest thing in recent memory and even that wasn't even close. People like to claim it's all nostalgia, and there definatly is some, but the 90's and early 2000s really were a magical time and I wish the newer generation could experience something like it again.
