>>29184949It was brilliant and the sort of thing that only happens once in a lifetime, really. Woke up on a Pokemon Pillow tossed off the Pokemon bedsheets to go downstairs and eat Pokemon Poptarts to smuggle your Pokemon games and cards to school, where you talked about, you guess it Pokemon. Also the religious backlash lent us delinquents a cool factor back in those days. Except merchandising was the tip of the iceberg. It was one of those things that became so much more than a game, it became a lifestyle and innumerable communities sprawled up around it, indifferent to anything that wasn't a pocket monster.
From playground rumors to dares for Pokemon cards and organized battle gambling, I beheld it all; it was glorious. To actually quantify the amount of enamored individuals was effectively impossible. Pokemon took hold of the zeitgeist and ran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3rfe8OxeDo 