>>57130953>Do you remember how you were introduced to it? & When did it start getting popular?I started seeing it everywhere around 1998 when I was in first grade. I lived in washington state, so I saw a bunch of cards at the wizards of the coast store at the mall. It started getting adverts everywhere.
>Did everyone bring Game Boys and actually play the card games?when I was in 2nd grade I lived in a nice separated apartment complex, SO many kids in 1999 and 2000 were playing pokemon around the park and in the neighborhood. fewer kids collected or played with the cards, but everyone loved the games.
>Was it the majority of kids, and were girls into it too?back in 1999 and 2000 nearly all the 6-11 year olds I knew liked pokemon. Girls a bit less so, I knew a few that played the games and watched the show, but it was definitely a lesser percentage.
>Did you watch the show after school? before and after school. Eventually it was just on sat mornings later in season 1. It really felt like it peaked during the orange league.
Tons of kids took off of school to watch pokemon the first movie. I saw it like 4 times and got a bunch of the promo cards.
>How did it die off2002-2003 in 6th grade people started to outgrow it. When Ruby/Saph came out, only me and 2 other kids in my grade were still playing out of like 80-90.
Liking pokemon then made you an outcast. It wasn't until 2009 in later highschool that even the jocks were like "oh yeah pokemon was cool, I loved yellow version. I wore the pokewalker from HGSS during track, the girls thought it was lame as fuck.
>what rare cards did you have?My parents were a bit stingy, but I had base set charizard, zapdos, raichu. a lot of my fire and electric pokemon cards were in a deck and were stolen by a kid in 5th grade that spent the night. during base set-fossil and some of the E Reader card sets I have cards from. I got like 2 packs of Ruby/Saph and a starter deck from then, but I stopped caring since NO ONE else played.
