>>27207387It has to be children who all get into it though. If it's a bunch of "hip and trendy" millennials, it'll never reach peak levels.
Children are always so much more engaged by this stuff, and mom and dad are the ones with the money for Christmas and birthdays. It's weird, but it's that sort of magic that kids have, where kids from every walk of life, who have never met, can sit in a circle and throw down their pieces of card stock, without any reluctance or prejudice. That's what Pokemania at its prime was. Where the rich white boy, the brown-ass anchor baby, and the girl with intense aspergers, can all sit under a tree and debate the Hitmons while sharing a box of Froot Loops one kid brought.
That magic is long gone. I really doubt Go can revitalize it, no matter how many Lures I set at the monastery or the Albertosaurus statue. It's gone forever. End of rant.