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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:35:30 No.39551686 View View Reply Original Report

26+ year old anons
What was your favourite memory of "Pokemania" in the nineties?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:37:48 No.39551712 Report

Quoted By: >>39551727 >>39552363 >>39574029

>>39551686
being a poorfag, and some kid dropping a deck of cards on the bus, and stealing as many as I could before slipping off the bus.
three cards. two water energies and a prof. oak. not even sorry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:38:54 No.39551727 Report

Quoted By: >>39551758 >>39552363

>>39551712
I'm sorry you had shit parents that didn't love you

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:41:55 No.39551746 Report

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>>39551686
>be me at the local pool
>got a sweet starter deck with a holo machamp
>trade holo machamp for a pikachu because I'm a dumb fuck
>weeks later, neighbor who is cute girl is at the pool with me
>she has the same starter deck with holo machamp
>says she wants to trade a pikachu for another machamp
>still dumb as fuck, takes her machamp and trades for pikachu
>she gets mad
>MFW

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:43:13 No.39551752 Report

Quoted By: >>39551804 >>39552165 >>39552257 >>39553683 >>39554760 >>39561020 >>39564365 >>39568286 >>39571719

Dressing up in my Ash costume

>Pic related, it's me in 2000

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:43:43 No.39551758 Report

Quoted By: >>39551781 >>39552363 >>39571512 >>39573740 >>39575872

>>39551727
being poor doesn’t mean your parents don’t love you, anon. It just means that ONLY your parents love you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:45:09 No.39551773 Report

Quoted By: >>39552530 >>39554599

>tfw my mom collected the entire base set of pokemon cards when they came out and gave them to me in a pikachu binder
>i traded them away for rent money at a local game store a few years ago
>still think about buying a japanese base set off ebay someday since they're cheaper

Sorry mom. I know the cancer was rough. One day i'll buy them back to remember our days opening packs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:46:15 No.39551781 Report

Quoted By: >>39552363

>>39551758
It wasn't that he was poor, the fact that he was a thief meant his parents didn't teach him how to act like a decent human being = they hated him and he was a little jewish rat KEK

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:47:46 No.39551790 Report

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>>39551686
All my classmates interested in my shitty artbook because I usually drew pokemon.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:48:53 No.39551794 Report

Quoted By: >>39552222

going to the Pokemon league every saturday at Books a Million

still have my full set of badges

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:49:07 No.39551800 Report

Quoted By: >>39568292

>>39551686
it was my favourite pokemon in silver, I remember the moment I unpacked this as a kid as if it were yesterday, god I was so happy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:49:25 No.39551804 Report

Quoted By: >>39552339

>>39551752
>no trademark necklace

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:50:02 No.39551816 Report

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>>39551686
i remember flipping out as a kid when i got that card

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:50:19 No.39551821 Report

Quoted By: >>39551842 >>39552016 >>39571512

>grew up in Milton Keynes, England
>had the only Japanese community outside of London in the country
>4 barely-speaking English Japanese kids in my class
I traded them a bunch of holos for Japanese Gen II basic cards. I recall trading a holo base set Venusaur for a common Mantine. I really thought I was getting a good deal and that I'd be lord of the playground, but Akari and So were probably laughing all the way back to Tokyo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 20:52:05 No.39551842 Report

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>>39551821
(note: this was between the Japanese and European release dates for Gold and Silver, which was almost 2 years, 1999 in Japan, 2001 in Europe)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:03:46 No.39551989 Report

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>that kid that stole alakazam out of my binder when he came to my house to trade off the street

Off yourself bradley, unless you're already dead you trailer park drug addict scum.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:06:02 No.39552014 Report

Quoted By: >>39552376 >>39558004 >>39563941

Pokemon roleplaying in the playground at recess. I had a Gastly and a Misdreavus.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:06:03 No.39552016 Report

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>>39551821
Similar story to you actually, lol
>be 8
>be indian (kolkata)
>parents are rich, go to international school
>some japanese kids
>one jap shows everyone his pokemon cards
>cant even read them
>still think theyre cool as shit, just make up our own dumb rules for the game
>show friends pokemon shit
>everyone wants pokemon cards now
>no way to get them other than bribing the jap kids for them (this was in 1998)
>eventually amass 100 ish Japanese pokemon cards by doing favors for some Japanese faggot
>english pokemon comes out in india (early 2000s I think)
>mfw

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:08:01 No.39552031 Report

Quoted By: >>39552114

>school is super anal about pokemon cards
>playground has many secluded areas where the teachers couldn't see you all that well
>kids play pokemon in secret during recess
>some fag is waiting for a match, goes to the water fountain
>leaves his deck unattended
>all the kids are playing, spectating, or looking back to make sure none of the teachers got wise to what was going on
>flip through his deck, steal all the holos
>too few to notice at a glance
>a few days later he complains of losing cards
>can't tell the school or he'll get in trouble
The perfect crime. Who else here /team rocket/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:11:12 No.39552065 Report

Quoted By: >>39552152 >>39564978 >>39570243

>>39551686
Every kid actually liked Pokemon. Then people got into puberty and stopped playing by Ruby and Sapphire, because Pokemon is "gay kiddie shit" now. The same people went crazy over Pokemon Go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:11:32 No.39552071 Report

Quoted By: >>39552128

>>39551686
not knowing how to play the cvard games and losing my tangela card and getting a seel as consolation. also the fact that it was literally everywhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:11:54 No.39552078 Report

Quoted By: >>39558221 >>39560754

>>39551686
One of my favorites was a family member helping me get ahold of a couple of japanese cards featuring pokemon that nobody (that I knew, as an 8-year-old) knew about or had ever seen. Girafarig, and Murkrow, they turned out to be. I felt like I had found some sort of crazy secret shit.
Another of my favorite memories from that time period was the christmas around the time burger king had the pokemon in pokeballs that had the big plastic keychain clips. I woke up christmas morning to find my mom had replaced all the baubles on the christmas tree with pokeballs, and all my presents were in pokemon wrapping paper. I opened them all carefully because I wanted to keep the paper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:15:49 No.39552114 Report

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>>39551686
My dad met some dude online who sold us a full collection of the burger King toys
>>39552031
Based. Didn't do this exactly but sharked so many kids out of yugioh cards through similar shenanigans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:16:29 No.39552125 Report

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>>39551686
The best thing about that time was being able to go practically anywhere and finding someone who was playing the games or cards. Seemed like everyone had something in common with each other then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:16:37 No.39552128 Report

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>>39552071
Tangela and Seel (base set editions) are the same rarity (both common), faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:18:40 No.39552152 Report

Quoted By: >>39552172

>>39552065
>tfw fucking loved ruby and sapphire, some of the best memories of this game having sleepovers with my old pals in tents
>hate pokemon go

What have i become?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:19:29 No.39552165 Report

Quoted By: >>39552182

>>39551752
>2000
>Sonic Heroes shirt
Fuck off, zoomlet

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:19:51 No.39552172 Report

Quoted By: >>39552330

>>39552152
A discerning adult with good taste? Go is trash, though it has some good models.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:20:18 No.39552178 Report

Quoted By: >>39552198 >>39552743

I was retarded and collected the Topps cards instead of the tcg. I still have the entire first set in a binder somewhere, it only went up to Seadra. I remember my grandpa buying so many fucking packs to get Farfetch'd.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:20:31 No.39552182 Report

Quoted By: >>39552286 >>39567372

>>39552165
>calls someone a zoomlet
>doesn't recognise chris-chan

You're fucking new and shouldn't be in this thread. Its not for you. No offense or anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:21:20 No.39552193 Report

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>>39551686
Just playing the game and watching the anime with friends. Link battles and trying to create the unbeatable team, reading the official guide and everything. Pokemon Stadium minigames were awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:21:44 No.39552198 Report

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>>39552178
>i remember my grandpa buying so many fucking packs to get Farfetch'd

BASED. I remember my dad buying me these packs sometimes confused about which cardgame was which, but i still cherished them and put them in my binder.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:24:21 No.39552222 Report

Quoted By: >>39552253

>>39551794
Oh hell ya. Sat tcg leagues where the shit. Spend all day in comic store playing mostly pokemon and watching shows. Store owner would let us try new games once they came out also. I wish I owned a hobby/ gaming store :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:26:48 No.39552253 Report

Quoted By: >>39552316

>>39552222
they're a dying art anon. Two closed down in my city in the past year. There are only a few left and most are struggling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:27:06 No.39552257 Report

Quoted By: >>39552286

>>39551752
That's kinda neat. How old are you, if I may ask?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:29:20 No.39552286 Report

Quoted By: >>39552343

>>39552257
see
>>39552182

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:29:23 No.39552288 Report

Quoted By: >>39552361

>collecting all the cool toys of these strange monsters
>all the food tie ins, like the pokemon spinning tops
>lots of pokemon birthday party supplies
>looking at all the cool art on the pokemon cards
>playing as pikachu and jigglypuff in smash bros

Honestly, playing pokemon itself was one of the smallest parts of pokemania for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:31:50 No.39552316 Report

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>>39552253
Sorry, its sad to hear that. Pretty much spent my free time in late junior high thru high school hanging out at one till it closed down also.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:32:41 No.39552330 Report

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>>39552172
It has the same models used in the main games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:33:14 No.39552339 Report

Quoted By: >>39552365

>>39551804
Nigga are you blind?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:34:00 No.39552343 Report

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>>39552286
Well, fuck me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:35:26 No.39552361 Report

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>>39552288
One year my mom took all mine and my cousins figures and made a cake with them all in a "play scene" for our birthday and had so many Pokemon decorations. It was super cozy being like 5 in my grandma's house eating cake and playing with all the Pokemon stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:35:38 No.39552363 Report

Quoted By: >>39552382 >>39552389 >>39552409 >>39553761

>>39551712
>>39551727
>>39551758
>>39551781
Idk what it was about the pokémon craze that turned kids into the filthiest of thieves.
>remember going to the park for my cousin's soccer practice and bringing our gameboys to trade after.
>some kids came up to us, brought out theirs and we all traded and talked pokémon
>some time later, notice my red version was missing (I had both)
>something compelled me to walk up to one of the kids and check his pocket
>my fucking game was in there.

Also had a few pokémon cards stolen (some mid battle) by random school mates, and a shiny linoone by a random faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:36:14 No.39552365 Report

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>>39552339
god fucking damnit its there. You got me anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:36:57 No.39552376 Report

Quoted By: >>39552411

This thread is weird because every time I people discussing pokemon online I assume it's because they played it as kids during the 1st gen, then I remember people born after Red&Blue came out can already vote. It's entirely due to my warped perception but if I'm honest, you can't really comprehend what the franchise means/was if you weren't alive during the boom. It quite literally will never be anything like it considering the technological landscape we have now. Hell, the closest ever since was the release of pokemon go.

>>39551686
>What was your favourite memory of "Pokemania" in the nineties?
Just the general "issues" kids had with game play at the time stemming from the language barrier and the relative "complexity" of the game - pokemon was literally baby's first RPG. I remember the kid in my 2nd grade class that couldn't make it past Viridian Forest, and kids finding out just how to catch pokemon in a pokemon catching game. Yeah the games hold your hand and show you how, but when you're 5/6/7 and playing it in a foreign language ( in a decade where english isn't remotely as widespread/well known ) the text is just hieroglyphs on the screen to most of them.

And my dad was working in Germany at the time so he bought me Pokemon Blaue there, not knowing that the entire roster of creatures would have their names translated as well. I used to know most of the german names in the original 151 before the anime and later games drowned out my knowledge kek

>>39552014
>Pokemon roleplaying in the playground at recess.
Oh yeah, fond memories of that too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:37:32 No.39552382 Report

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>>39552363
hope you decked that little cunt anon. I had my digimon cards stolen once too. It hurts your heart when you think this person is your best friend, too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:38:49 No.39552389 Report

Quoted By: >>39553659

>>39552363
It wasn't just Pokémon, kids are fucking thieves by nature. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Medabots pogs, fuck, I had a kid steal GTA: San Andreas from me, anything goes. I wouldn't be surprised to see it happening with fidget spinners or whatever retarded shit kids play with nowadays.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:39:04 No.39552393 Report

Quoted By: >>39552567 >>39552675

My dad was usually out of town on the weekends, and my mom had a side gig of restoring antique furniture and selling shit on ebay.
I used to go to with her to Sunday morning flea markets; we'd leave at like 5:30 AM to get there right at 6:00 when they opened.
If I was quiet and good while she looked around, she'd give me a buck or two so I could buy a japanese pokemon card from a regular vendor.
Then, we'd get freshly baked bagels and go home.

Even though, neither me nor my parents live near that flea market anymore, I still make an excuse to go put there once a summer just to walk around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:40:51 No.39552409 Report

Quoted By: >>39553659

>>39552363
Kids have always been filthy thieves with things they want, Pokemania was just a common obsession for a ton. I also saw Neopets and Hamtaro shit get stolen too.
Have a nice memory of some bitch kid stealing my friends Hamtaro doll and stashing it in her desk. Teacher wouldn't do shit, so I stole it back. Kid couldn't do shit cuz either the teacher would either ignore her too or parents would get involved and she'd be outed as a thief.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:40:55 No.39552411 Report

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>>39552376
This is a fucking cool story anon. I also often forget some of the younger people are only just getting into pokemon now, started from pokemon go or a few generations ago.

I remember living in Tokyo a few summers ago and during a trip to the mall where the "pokemon center" is, people literally barged in screaming carrying two baskets fighting each other over a special limited edition christmas themed pikachu plush, literally filling up their baskets. Really brought me back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:42:17 No.39552421 Report

Quoted By: >>39552449 >>39552464 >>39552473 >>39552480 >>39552743

Fuck me, this sounds gay, but Pokemon, like nothing else I experienced as a kid brought people together. It didn't matter what grade you were in, if you liked pokemon, you always had friends to talk to. I felt like I was the shit playing with high school kids at Books A Million. It was harrowing whenever it dried up and it seemed like everyone lost that sense of community.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:45:16 No.39552449 Report

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>>39552421
Thats what these threads are for anon. Its nice to take a break from bickering about new games, designs, company choices or taste. Some of us at heart still just want to have fun with other people like the old days.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:46:46 No.39552464 Report

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>>39552421
Yeah, I miss the way it brought people together too. I started with Gen 3, so I didn't really catch Pokémania, but sitting on a bench in recess with my GBA and 5 or so kids from my class playing Emerald and passing it around to figure out shit like the Trick House or trying to beat the League are some great memories. Field trips were also great, I remembered me and my class caught a Feebas and evolved it into a Milotic, the GBA went around our section of the bus as people trained it, I think we managed to make it reach level 100. I have no clue how the battery lasted so long, but man I miss those times now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:47:22 No.39552473 Report

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>>39552421
Testify. Once traded for an Arcanine card as a kid with a rando at a park once. Pokémon only hit the UK ehre in 1999 but it hit hard - anime in August, games released in October, then Christmas morning came and I got Pokemon Red and the guide. That guide was held together by sellotape on every page once Iw as finished with it.

My son is a huge fan and it's great to share with him, but it's not the same. It was fresh and new and awesome back in the 90s.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:47:22 No.39552474 Report

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getting a shiny alakazam
Just the feel of opening the boosters.....i really liked that team rocket series and got a dark raichu once.
My first game was silver and my cousin bought gold and we played it 24/7

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:47:40 No.39552476 Report

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I remember walking up to kids from another school and i probably sounded super autistic saying "wow, cool charizard man!". I was really serious and a little nervous, looking to make friends.

He lifted me up by my shirt and threatened to punch me in the face. His friend said "waoh, man, put him down, he's just joking". I was much younger, but i probably would've had a broken nose if it weren't for that guy. It was my first time in the city alone.

I never talked to anyone about Pokemon again unless i knew them from school.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:48:14 No.39552480 Report

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>>39552421
Didn't happen in the 90s, but I made friends in my math high school class because of Pokemon. A lot of them were older than me because I was taking a class for a higher grade level so I kept to myself, but one of them saw me drawing using a card for reference and went "Shit, I remember Abra!" Was pretty cool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:50:53 No.39552506 Report

Quoted By: >>39552564 >>39560996 >>39569483

Does anyone else really cringe when they see people playing Pokemon go? For some reason i feel the people who still play the mainline games are (hopefully) very mature, stable and nice people.

Whenever i see pokemon go players they're always fat, unkempt, disgusting people. It makes me self conscious for sharing a love for Pokemon since childhood. Am i being unrealistic or rude?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:52:24 No.39552517 Report

Quoted By: >>39562121

Wow was I disappointed to not find the base to neo guy here. Fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:53:41 No.39552530 Report

Quoted By: >>39552555

>>39551773
Nice blog faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:55:15 No.39552555 Report

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>>39552530
no u

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:56:01 No.39552564 Report

Quoted By: >>39552658

>>39552506
The only person I know that still plays Go is my army vet dad and his sister. So they can't all be bad. I'm sure a few of them are parents that had kids during Pokemania and had to start enjoying it to stay sane and there's now an accessible game for them.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:56:09 No.39552567 Report

Quoted By: >>39552878

>>39552393
>Even though, neither me nor my parents live near that flea market anymore, I still make an excuse to go put there once a summer just to walk around.
Excuse this image of the overused frog glorifying nostalgia, but your story was really cool anon. Sometimes I forget there used to be actual people with distinct stories and personalities posting on these boards, instead of just shills, contrarian shitposters and emotionally stunted adults who can't stand different opinions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:02:53 No.39552658 Report

Quoted By: >>39552740

>>39552564
There's one older japanese gentlemen in a suit that always plays it alone at my local mall. Sometimes i think about giving him a little gift, like a pokemon card, or a toy or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:04:26 No.39552675 Report

Quoted By: >>39552821

>>39552393
Well, which cards did you pick anon? Spill the beans, who were your favourites?

Also, what other cool stuff were at the old fleamarket? Mine here have changed a lot, but i remember some really fucking cool he-man toys, dinosaurs and horror VHS covers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:12:23 No.39552740 Report

Quoted By: >>39552744

>>39552658
>guy is minding his own business
>26+ year old boomer walks by
>boomer shoves a cheap plastic toy into the guy's hands
Yes that would totally not be awkward.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:13:07 No.39552743 Report

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>>39552421
Not only Pokemon did that kind of things, at least for me, after the Pokemon crazed die off we had a Dragon Ball craze followed by a Digimon craze then a Bayblade craze and a YuGiOh craze, after Yugioh i stopped giving a fuck about toys and just played the Pokemon games.
I remember expending hours drawing Pokemon with my cousins and trading this anon pic related>>39552178 and my pic related. I sold all of my Pokemon stuff (including games) a couple years ago when i lost my job, tough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:13:07 No.39552744 Report

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>>39552740
This is a good thread, fuck off with your boomer/zoomer meme shit.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:18:36 No.39552799 Report

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>>39551686
Going to grassroots Pokemon Leagues organized here in my country. You could collect actual badges in monthly encounters and challenge the E4 during big anime events. Of course I never won anything because I was just a stupid kid, but it was fun... people would help you evolving your stuff, completing the dex, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:19:30 No.39552809 Report

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>>39551686
Feeling like I could enjoy Pokémon content without other Pokémon fans being overly cynical about GameFreak and ruining the buzz

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:20:52 No.39552816 Report

Quoted By: >>39568676

Being SO excited when someone let me borrow their gamelink (?) cable so I could trade for Articuno
Selling individual Pokémon cards to people at school for £10.
My friend wiping my saved game when I let him play Blue, and the agony of realising my lvl 100 Venasaur was no more.
Having my mum ask family in America to send us Gold & Silver before it was released over in the UK.
Never letting anyone touch my Gameboy ever again.

Now I learn that young people today don't play to "Catch 'em all", but because they have autism and want to engage in sexual intercourse with Pokémon. Sad. Very sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:21:22 No.39552821 Report

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>>39552675
Most of them were from the Team Rocket, Gym Heroes and some Neo Genesis sets; before they came out in the US.
The only cards I remember specifically were Rocket's Charmeleon and Charizard, I never had a Base set Charizard so it was pretty cool to me.

My mom eventually gave up on the antiquing, but after I got my driver's license I actually started going by myself.
I mostly went to buy old VHS tapes (mostly horror movies and classics) or retro video games.

It has changed quite a bit, now that even old folks know how to use the internet, it is a lot harder to find cool shit for cheap.
Now its mostly regular vendors that know exactly how much there stuff is worth, people that sell army surplus type shit, and local farmers selling produce.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:27:36 No.39552877 Report

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I remember going to a friends house one night before going to see the Pokemon movie. The kid was a thief (a recurring thing in this thread) and i hated him. On television the Canadian news was talking about how Pokemon spreads controversial ideas of violence, slavery and even satanism to some groups. My mom turned the TV off and we left. I remember it so clearly to this day.

>later that night being completely baffled by snubbull

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:27:44 No.39552878 Report

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>>39552567
Thanks, I'm not on 4chan for those exact reasons.
I'm not sure if its my nostalgia, but I remember some of these boards being better a decade ago.
They were only like 90% shitposting instead of 99%.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:28:38 No.39552885 Report

Quoted By: >>39552973

NO NO NO DUDE I PROMISE YOU CAN CATCH PIKABLU UNDERNEATH THE TRUCK BEFORE CATCHING THE ST.ANNE!!!

>that fucking kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:37:56 No.39552956 Report

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Role playing pokémon with my lego with my cousins, reading pokémon magazines, buying my game boy color and playing all bus travel long crystal impresses with everything in the game.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:39:38 No.39552973 Report

Quoted By: >>39553433

>>39552885
>Kid says he can perform the cloning glitch in Emerald
>Be dumbass, hand him the game
>Deletes all my Pokémon except for a Wurmple in the attempt

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:52:17 No.39553091 Report

Quoted By: >>39553123

>>39551686
>second card set came out, but not in native language, so most stores didn't carry it yet
>no one in my circle of friends spoke english yet, too young
>got our hands on some shitty common by trading for a rare, just because it was new
>asked the lady in our after-school care club to translate it
It felt like the biggest treasure and it was so mysterious, because you couldn't even read it.
Pic related, that was the card.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:55:07 No.39553123 Report

Quoted By: >>39553165 >>39553247

>>39553091
Did you not know of new pokemon from anything else other than trading cards?
It must've been mind blowing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:59:30 No.39553165 Report

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>>39553123
No, I mean we had her translate the card text. We knew about Weepinbell. It's just that the card specificially was included in the second set of cards and for the most time we only had access to the first set.
Also literally no one knew how to play, everyone was just collecting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:01:57 No.39553182 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
I'm 25 and I likely did more genwunner things than most people in this thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:01:58 No.39553183 Report

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>>39551686
dude brought an almost sawed in-half tennis ball top in 4th grade he'd markered over the and was throwing it around everybody thought it was cool as shit
also the pokemon handbook that had all the pokemon in it was lit too

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:03:48 No.39553201 Report

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>>39551686
33 year old boomer here, I was poor as shit and when I saved for my gameboy color and yellow and silver used from some faggot, they were both shitty pirated games, which didn't work in stadium
I still had the best year ever before the battery died playing all fucking day and night.Then one faggot stole everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:04:46 No.39553210 Report

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Sharing a magazine I got from the japanese mall in London that had "pikablu" in it and showing it to all my friends.

Playing with the little figures that came with a plastic pokeball and a gameboy shaped toy that fired a little pokeball on a string so you could "catch" pokemon with it.

Carrying a link cable and trading with other kids all the time. Absolutely shitting ourselves trading a haunter for the first time and trying to trade EVERYTHING hoping it would evolve.

Arguing with my neighbour about mew under the truck until they got so mad they smashed their own gameboy.

I love pokemon still to this day. Always will.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:09:31 No.39553247 Report

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>>39553123
Not the anon you were replying to, but...

The Jungle set (second set after the base set) were still the original 151 pokemon.
It wasn't until Neo Genesis that they made cards out of Gen 2.
Maybe my memory is playing games on me, but I remember buying Japanese cards before G/S came out and being very confused.
Then, I remember getting a magazine with some of the new pokemon and heard about the new games coming out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:16:02 No.39553317 Report

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I got into it somewhat late (like a year and a half later than everyone else) so most of the kids in my neighborhood were getting bored of it or stopped playing by the time i got into it. Best memory was probably months to a year later when GS came out when i was in 2nd grade. I sat with a group with about 3 or 4 other guys from a different neighborhood at the back of the school bus for a 40 minute drive who were still into pokemon and one of them happened to get Silver early on so i got to experience it then. All of them only had the original Gameboys aside from me and another who had a Color so i got to play it more than the others that didn't own one since i let him play on my handheld. A year later, None of that group went to the same school anymore and pokemon for the other people completely became the "kids game" that everyone had grown out of where I lived and I never encountered anyone else that still played the games till another 4 or 5 years after that.

I kind of caused a mini revival in my own neighborhood with pokemon because for some reason I was the only one who ever thought about getting a link cable so we could battle and trade with each other so the popularity resurged in my neighborhood and even had kids traveling a half mile from opposite ends of the neighborhood just to battle using my link cable. Unfortunately, the resurgance only lasted for a few months before it died down again which was before I really had an opportunity to battle any of the "big dogs" since my pokemon's levels were so much lower from getting into gen 1 later. I only ever had maybe a dozen battles in gen 1 and maybe 2 battles ever in gen 2, one of which was completely hilarious because some kid got a cloned level 100 Jolteon from his older brother and lost to me because I heard about it and counter teamed the Jolteon with a freshly caught level 26 Graveler since the kid decided to get rid of the coverage moves so it had 3 electric moves and rain dance

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:16:29 No.39553323 Report

Quoted By: >>39554822 >>39554931 >>39558021

>>39551686
>imagine being 26+ and still using 4chen let alone a pokegay board
Hahahhahahahhahhahahahhahaaa

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:26:31 No.39553433 Report

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>>39552973
Dude how did he fuck up that badly? Everyone I knew could do it and no one had issues.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:34:37 No.39553516 Report

Quoted By:

>Me and other kids "stealthily" showing off our Pokemon cards on the playground because they weren't allowed at school
>Me and my sister getting super excited about doing really well in Clefairy Says in Pokemon Stadium
>Hearing the various rumors about the games, like how the only way to catch the legendary birds (without using a Master ball) was to freeze Articuno, paralyze Zapdos, and burn Moltres

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:48:51 No.39553659 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552389
>>39552409
Kids don't have the most developed morality, they tend to have little money and no way to actually get money or things other than as gifts from others, and they generally value specific things much more than adults do. An adult that wants some cheap shit can just go buy it, a kid can't do that, and will be much more tempted to steal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 23:51:06 No.39553683 Report

Quoted By: >>39556166

>>39551752
I saw a kid dressed up in different animes today at mcdonalds… he had a Pokémon hat, digimon t-shirt, Attack on titan jacket, Kingdom hearts roxas bracelets, yugioh millennium necklace

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 00:00:19 No.39553761 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552363
greed and envy are powerful drugs

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 00:25:52 No.39553984 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
hearing about gen II coming out, I walked to a shop a mile or two away to buy a magazine that featured the new 100 pokemon.

It was also something that nearly every kid was into so it something we could all play and get into.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 00:40:03 No.39554095 Report

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>>39551686
Imagination.

You know, what made the series what it was and that everyone wants destroyed with 3D shit and VA shit and more linear story shit.

In addition to shills knowing it's shit, there's a reason they aren't making theory etc. videos - there is nothing to do it with anymore. Everything is told to you and forced so there's nothing to get the imagination flowing.

Well, I guess except that 34th rule which is something you do on your own time, not on YouTube.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 01:43:37 No.39554580 Report

Quoted By: >>39554721

>>39551686
Pokemania for me barely existed, I was often made fun of at school for expressing interest in Pokemon, there was only a few people who liked it and they never got bullied but I was.
>once had this holo Celebi card I wanted to show off to my friend
>stuff it in my sock cuz my pants had no pockets
>eventually lost it when I tried to pull it out
>we go looking all over the playground for it
>one kid claims to have it and doesn't want to give it back
>I told on him but nothing came of it
>on my walk home, feel depressed about losing Celebi
>suddenly feel something in my pant leg
>turns out it's the card
>I was wearing sweat pants and somehow the card got loose and was safely held by them
>still wonder why the fuck that random kid acted and said he had my card
And this one was even worse:
>bring all my gen 3 games to a sleepover
>friend's older brother's friend stole all my best Pokemon off my games by trading them to his
>friend believes he didn't take them when I accused him of stealing, not even parents could do anything cuz he acted innocent and clueless
>right before I go home, he eventually steals my game carts
>by the time I get home I just noticed and it was too late to get them back
I still hold a grudge against him to this day because he fucked me over out of a lot of Pokemon stuff other than those ones. I don't even know why I trusted him at all.
Eventually he got some nasty karma years later in the form of getting tricked by a girl who purposely got pregnant with his kid and divorced him so she could get child support money out of him and fuck someone else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 01:45:38 No.39554599 Report

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>>39551773
You fucking piece of shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:06:16 No.39554721 Report

Quoted By: >>39558897

>>39554580
Get swole and beat the fuck out of him in front of his gf/wife

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:09:27 No.39554735 Report

Quoted By: >>39554755

My father pretending Pokemon Stadium 2 wasn't at the store because they had ran out of stock, but when we get home he pulls it out of his bag all 'oops!!! how did this get here?!'

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:10:33 No.39554741 Report

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Man I wish I wasn't so high middle school was so bomb thanks to Pokemon and imagination all that's dead now man

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:12:40 No.39554755 Report

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>>39554735
Based dad

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:14:17 No.39554760 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551752
Hey Christine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:18:21 No.39554785 Report

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>>39551686
23 year old anon here; i just missed out. My cousin played some minor competitive gen 1 and 2 tho

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:25:15 No.39554822 Report

Quoted By: >>39556157

>>39553323
I once thought like that.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 02:40:02 No.39554931 Report

Quoted By: >>39556157

>>39553323
I'll see myself out through this fine door you got there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 03:27:00 No.39555252 Report

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I remember going over to friends house to watch each other's pokemon movies along with south park. I remember early to mid internet ask.com rumors on how to catch certain poke gods. I wish I could go back anons

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 03:44:50 No.39555380 Report

Quoted By: >>39556620

This thread hurts my heart. I miss it so much. It even lasted up until pokemon 2000. The fucking stupid burger king golden things. God damn

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 04:24:57 No.39555710 Report

Quoted By: >>39556059

>>39551686
Getting silly bootleg pikachus from a crane machine in an ice cream parlor back before every crane machine was rigged.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 05:15:06 No.39556059 Report

Quoted By:

>>39555710
I win from those crane games all the time. 1 dollar toy is cheaper than the ones at petsmart for my dog. Some are rigged though but not all

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 05:29:44 No.39556157 Report

Quoted By:

>>39554931
>>39554822
Hivemind

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 05:31:35 No.39556166 Report

Quoted By:

>>39553683
The most powerful being

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 07:00:29 No.39556620 Report

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>>39555380
I still have Mewtwo and Pikachu from those golden BK plates. Along with 11 or so of unopened deck boxes from first era. And a Meowth mini CD. I kept a lot of things from those days in case I could share it with my kids. Turns out I had one kid and she hated all this stuff.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 07:30:28 No.39556773 Report

Quoted By: >>39556786

Besides ho-oh, togepi and donphan from the anime which I thought were gen 1 pokemon because I was a dumb kid, the first gen 2 pokemon I remember seeing was Politoed in a sticker, I was so amazed by the idea of new pokemon existing which I didn't know about yet, felt really weird so I can't forget it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 07:33:09 No.39556786 Report

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>>39556773
I was playing crystal recently and was using a togepi with metronome and I got the move beat up which I thought was a gen 5 move

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 12:02:15 No.39557863 Report

Quoted By:

Good thread lads

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 12:11:43 No.39557918 Report

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My grandfather getting me a pack of cards. I asked him "How did you know I like Pokemon?" His wife answered "-Everyone- likes Pokemon."

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 12:14:01 No.39557936 Report

Quoted By: >>39558358

Finally finishing my collection of 151 on my copy of Red and having a complete Base set of the cards.
I lost both to Hurricane Katrina.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 12:26:03 No.39557999 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
My father printed out pokemon stickers for me, he used pokemon stadium images he found and used the printer in his company to print it out for me.
I still have some of them, because I cherished it so much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 12:27:04 No.39558004 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552014
This. We played pretend RPG, since we didn't have the money to buy actual RPG books.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 12:29:48 No.39558021 Report

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>>39553323
I want to, but old 4chan put the bar so high, that no other site can even compare now.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 13:07:07 No.39558204 Report

Quoted By: >>39566451

You guys remember going to see Pokemon: The First Movie in theatres? I think I was 6 or 7. First time ever going to the movies. Back then we didn't have stadium seating so my dad brought a pillow for me so I could see the screen. I don't remember much about it besides these two little kids screaming about Mew/Mewtwo but my dad recalls Pokemania being absolutely nuts. He never saw anything like it for kids, maybe only Beatlemania from when he was a kid. He even remembered some of the Pokemon names which I thought was really cool, and looking back at it, genuinely sweet. He'd sometimes call me over "hey Mewtwo come here!" lmfao. Just parents being parents. We were very poor growing up and had no disposable income but sometimes my dad would come home with 1 booster pack. My mom once bought me the 2.B.A. master CD which had some really great music.

The absolute best memory, and fuck, I still feel it to this day, is when my family went to Toys R Us for like the second time ever. My dad dropped me and my mom off and stayed inside the car with my baby sister. My mom takes me to the games section and I choose which Game Boy Color I wanted and I also took the paper slip from the Pokemon Gold game and brought it to the pick up area. I remember, vividly, the feel of that moment when the worker brought out a brand new in box Lime Green Game Boy Color with Pokemon Gold and a pair of AA batteries. I was on top of the world and so excited. From having not much to finally my parents being able to afford me a cool gadget. It was so awesome. I remember I got in the car and played a little and, when it came time to save, I didn't know what to answer to the questions "is it okay to overwrite your save?", so I had to ask my mom.

If I could ever go back in time, that'd be one of the top moments. I'd love to watch my kid self and my mom go thru that again. Sorry for blogposting. I'm on my phone.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 13:10:21 No.39558221 Report

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>>39552078
This is wholesome anon

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 13:35:16 No.39558358 Report

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>>39557936
Fuck, that really sucks anon

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 13:49:24 No.39558440 Report

Quoted By: >>39564345

Most kids I know (including me) were Pokemon fans, but not a single one of us had the games. That's just how prevalent the merch and tv show were, and probably how poor we all were. I remember the Pokemon gummies and the Pokemon cereal more than anything else, because every house had them. Same with the Pokemon jelly jars you'd wash and use as cups.

At funerals or weddings or family events you'd hope that an older cousin (from a bit better-off part of the family) would bring their gameboy so you could sit in the chair next to them and watch. You'd slowly figure out that the game and the show weren't 1 to 1. Ghost attacks didn't do anything to Psychic types, stuff like that. I was so curious about the game world that I would talk about it on the car rides home from those events.

That Christmas one side of my family pooled together to buy me a lime green gameboy, and the other half pooled together to get me Pokemon Silver. I spent twenty minutes trying to leave the house the game starts in since I had literally never played a video game before. Slowly but surely I figured things out.

My favorite memory was visiting one of my mom's friends and her son had already beaten the game. I was stuck on Clair so I asked him if I could play his version. As he's booting it up, he says he has most of the Pokemon, all 16 badges, and my brain did a record skip. I told him there were 8 badges and he explained the Kanto postgame and my mind was blown. Rushed home and powered through the Pokemon league just to see it for myself. In a way I was finally able to play through the games I spent so long watching over others' shoulders.

I spent long, long days in our shitty house in my own little corner, playing away at the game. My parents were deep in addiction, and other kids weren't allowed to play with us. Pokemon was my happy place, and I loved that it was just a kid out on his own adventuring. I didn't need anybody but my pokemon and me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 14:10:41 No.39558556 Report

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Most of my memories include the class bullies always getting their way, having their moms buy them a thousand booster packs so they could get the rarest cards, and if they didn't get what they wanted they would steal the cards they didn't get from the other kids. Of course they had Mew in the Gameboy games and wouldn't tell how they got it, or would lie about how it's done, literally pulling the Mew under the truck story. They leveled up all their Pokémons to 100 through Missingno. glitch and kept the glitch very secret to themselves.

I also have some fond memories but those are mostly from Gen2, when I could play with the kids a year younger than me and we had a blast. I do remember however that I was the first at school to discover Raikou, but the bullies at that point would only spout "who gives a fuck" whenever I would show them.

I also remember begging my mom to buy TGC cards so I too could be "in" and told the class that I too would get cards the next day, but she would buy the wrong types (some kind of stickers) and I cried myself to sleep and my mom was very regretful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 14:23:04 No.39558615 Report

Quoted By: >>39559309

You won't ever relive the feeling you'd get when you sat down to watch Mewtwo Strikes Back at the cinema with your mom, hearing kids arguing about wether Mewtwo or Mew was the strongest, and then see that one trainer with the Donphan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 14:27:37 No.39558636 Report

Quoted By: >>39569293 >>39569444 >>39575992

>>39551686
>8 years old
>2003
>pokemania dying down
>ruby and sapphire released
>kid down the street has a GBA
>says he doesn't use it
>give him $2 for it
>can't believe he does it
>ask him for a $1 back because i want to buy an arizona iced tea
>he gives it back
>topkek
>ask my dad to get me ruby version
>dads a fuckin G and buys me that shit
>pop that shit into the GBA
>best $43 ever spent

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 15:09:35 No.39558846 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
Buying a bag of chips for a gameboy color and game

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 15:17:22 No.39558897 Report

Quoted By:

>>39554721
Wish I could, but I think his suffering is already perfect as is

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 16:00:21 No.39559200 Report

Quoted By:

the first pokémon movie

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 16:15:38 No.39559309 Report

Quoted By: >>39559320

>>39558615
I wish I could see that scene once again. The one where Ash Brock and Misty are having a picnic and then that trainer comes out with his Donphan. The credits rolling and music playing while Pikachu and Bulbasaur battle that other trainer. I'm shocked it isn't on YouTube. I think it is, but not in English.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 16:17:38 No.39559320 Report

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>>39559309
Looks like I haven't checked in a while. Looks like it's there. https://youtu.be/aA0RhJAda2M

Can't watch it now but damn i can't wait til I get home

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 16:17:48 No.39559322 Report

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German here, we had this thing called "schockeln" in my area

>throw cards a certain distance
>try to land a card onto a card already thrown
>winner gets to keep all the cards
>play against the son of some of my parents' friends
>we throw like 200 cards consecutively because we fucking suck at the game, including numerous rares
>eventually win
>kid starts crying because he lost half his shit
>feel kinda sympathetic, still going to keep all of it
>mom forces me to give them back

fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 19:23:10 No.39560754 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552078
Based memories

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 19:53:34 No.39560996 Report

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>>39552506
Nah 99% who still play go are gross or autistic or both. At first it was the ‘in’ thing so most everyone played, now it’s just eh. My girlfriend plays it because her best friend plays it and I went to a ‘community day’ thing go apparently does with them. She and I were the only ‘normal’ people there. Everyone else (including her friend btw, she’s terrible but they’re best friends from childhood blah blah) were disgusting and/or shitty personalities. The only person I got along with that I met there was a legitimately autistic guy. He was cool but obviously an exception.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 19:56:56 No.39561020 Report

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>>39551752
Why cant you look at the camera like a civilized human bean? Are you retarded?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 20:37:31 No.39561370 Report

Quoted By: >>39569307

When I was a kid we didnt have much. When the craze started here in Sweden round~ 98, i never got any deck or booster. Parents just could not afford it, and at the mere age of 7yo I somehow understood it. Had to win my cards in "kula", "small glass ball" game. When my 8th birthday came up, i knew i would not get any cards, just clothes and maybe a cheap action figure of sorts. Then it came, 9th of Mars. Got a basic set, that one with machamp, and 10 booster packs, one including Aerodactyl holo in OP, my favourite pokemon. To this day, i sometimes here my mum and dad say, OOOooo you were so happy on your 7th birthday, or similar. Im glad I myself have a good salary and can afford any pokemon card for my doughter if she ever gets into it. Still have my Aerodactyl. Sorry if bad english.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 21:04:52 No.39561634 Report

Quoted By: >>39563820

Went to see pokemon the movie on my birthday and my dad says wait in the car for a sec. Comes back with like 100 of the promo cards and 50 of them where ancient mews! Made me share them with friends at the bday but then when we got how slang me a bunch more. Only got one left now. Also who remembers when burger King did those golden cards?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 21:55:02 No.39562121 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552517
Are you referring to a specific anon? I’m a Base-Neo player but I rarely meet others.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 21:55:02 No.39562122 Report

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>>39551686
Pokemon magazines with free bundled booster packs.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 22:32:28 No.39562439 Report

Quoted By: >>39564403

>>39551686
I remember tazos and playing Gold til the day the battery died, saddest day of my childhood. Decided to only play on emulator since.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 Jul 2019 22:36:55 No.39562492 Report

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Well I was on the playground in first grade and kids were playing with the cards. I remember hitmonchan and gyarados were the first cards I saw.

That night my mom took me to a hallmark store and I got a booster pack. I got a pikachu in that first pack. Pretty magical moment.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 00:50:12 No.39563562 Report

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I'LL BE RIGHT BACK!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 01:26:22 No.39563820 Report

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>>39561634
>golden cards
Loved those. I have 2, but one got damaged during a flood and now the metal is slowly decaying and I can't fix it.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 01:36:36 No.39563915 Report

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>>39551686
Getting home after school with my neighbor friend and loading up Poke'mon stadium with our gameboy teams.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 01:40:07 No.39563941 Report

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>>39552014
We actually pretended we were the Pokemon. I remember this one girl and I were Articuno and Zapdos, respectively.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 02:01:32 No.39564056 Report

Quoted By: >>39568110

Only 23 here. But I have some vague memories of early Gen 2 and late stage Pokemania.

But I remember this thing vividly.
>Be me
>Kindergarten
>Brought my giant Blastoise Plush and deck of Pokemon cards to school for show and tell.
>Get to excited about them, to the point where I'm just playing with them in the middle of class.
>Teacher takes them away and says I can only get them back when I bring in my parents
>Really didn't want to tell my parents what went down in class that day. But I eventually told them what happened later that day.
>They were pissed, but they said they would get them back
>A week goes by and they never came back to get it.
>the week turned into month and they still never went to go get it.
>tried to ask for it back myself, but my teacher said no.
>Ask my parents if they're still going to go up to the school to get it.
>get no response
>Months go by and it's eventually first day of summer break.
>My parents finally work up the nerve to get the dammned things.
>Go up there and the teacher wasn't there for some reason, parents say they will come back to get it.
>Summer passes and we eventually move away
>a decade and some years go by...
>last week
>Got the idea to revisit the school and townhomes I ulsed to live for the memories.
>ride pass and discover the townhomes and school were recently torn down.

>tfw I will never see my first ever Blastoise plush and deck of Jungle Set Bellsprouts ever again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 02:47:46 No.39564345 Report

Quoted By: >>39564629

>>39558440
>tfw didn't know Pokémon games existed until 2005 when I saw a friend play Pokémon Emerald
God I was clueless back then. Thankfully my friends let me borrow their GBA so I could play Emerald and FireRed on them. They also taught me how to use emulators on the PC, which was pretty cool. Gold and Silver were great games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 02:51:10 No.39564365 Report

Quoted By: >>39576309

>>39551752
Are fanny bags the ultimate loser accessory?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 02:56:44 No.39564403 Report

Quoted By: >>39564591 >>39564708

>>39562439
As a beaner with tazos and Gold I don't get you, somehow my gold's battery lasted until fucking 2014
I hope at least your tazos are near mint condition

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 03:23:52 No.39564591 Report

Quoted By: >>39564708

>>39564403
My Gold's battery lasted until the release of Gold on the VC

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 03:30:33 No.39564629 Report

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>>39564345
I remember for my birthday my mom's roastie friends nephew bought me a usb with all the games I could ever want. It blew my mind. The usb must cost less than 20 bucks but I liked it even better than the bike I got.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 03:34:42 No.39564654 Report

Quoted By: >>39569356

Only 25, but was one of those kids raised by tv and the internet since my dad is a tech guy and my mom bounced around a few different jobs before becoming a teacher. I'd caught the anime during the early days of it's 1st run in the states, like within a couple months of the games' release, and there was a commercial for the games that featured a bunch of animated pokemon on a bus, I thought a lot of them looked cool and the show was great so I immediately got hooked. I was like 4 so I don't remember exactly which episode it was, but it's one of my earliest memories along with playing doom and watching power rangers, that badly cut dub of naussica, mystic knights of tir na nog, and a bunch of disney movies. After that I constantly asked my parents for the games, didn't get any until crystal came bundled with the gba but got a lot of cards and toys and other cheaper or at least somewhat useful merch like clothes and backpacks. Looking back it's pretty clear we were always poor, but my parents did try to make me happy and indulge my interests whenever they reasonably could, and those are definitely my favorite memories from the early days of pokemon. I got a pokedex for my 5th birthday, when I was obsessed with articuno my dad would go on long walks with me to try to find and catch one and always reminded me that legendaries were very rare and told me to keep trying when we obviously wouldn't find one, my mom used to read me the info on my cards and helped me read them as I got older but was still learning to read, I got to see the 1st 3 movies in theaters, and even when most of the other kids had outgrown pokemon they didn't tell me to stop even though at that point they were SO FUCKING SICK of my pokemon obsession and took me to a bunch of irl events during gen 3 and the early days of gen 4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 03:42:30 No.39564708 Report

Quoted By:

>>39564403
>>39564591
Does that mean there's still hope for my old crystal cartridge? If I get another original gen 2 cartridge and change the battery I might still be able to save my original bros? I haven't booted it up since I learned about the battery thing out of fear they'd be gone except once in like 2011 to get pictures of my typhlosion's summary with the intent to hack one as close to identical as possible into a gen 3 game so I could "keep it with me."

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 04:26:36 No.39564953 Report

Quoted By: >>39569356

Great memories everyone!

>Kids being thieving little shits

Okay, so Jungle set had just dropped. Target had a HUGE display of loose booster packs setup inside the store by the garden exit. Middle school me and friends hatch brilliant & daring heist.
>stuff as many as you can into your backpack and then casually walk out the garden section exit.
>Do it once. Get away with it.
Fucking hell we did it once a day for like 2 weeks straight. And the store just kept restocking them.

Pokemon League at Wizards every week was fun. Playing all the games since Red & Blue. The stupid rumors that were always proven fake. The BK pokeballs. Pokemania was crazy!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 04:30:22 No.39564971 Report

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>>39551686
My friend's crazy Christian parents made her burn all of her pokemon cards and toys because it was of the Devil or something. She had a HUGE collection, too, her room was full of stuff. My grandmother was the same way about that but my mom always made her fuck off when she acted some kind of way towards me over literal children's media. Good times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 04:31:23 No.39564978 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552065
Part of growing up is pulling your head out of your ass, anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 04:51:08 No.39565081 Report

Quoted By: >>39569356

>>39551686
I was about 7, my sister's godmother took me and her son to the store after school to buy a booster pack (my very first one). I had never heard of Pokemon until he introduced me to it when I went over to play one day. He had shown me his Pokemon cards that he kept in a tin in his treehouse.

We got home and opened the packs together, he pulled a Butterfree and I pulled a Pidgeotto. He ended up giving me the Butterfree as a sign of friendship.

he ended developing ALS and progressed very rapidly. He essentially lost all motor functions by the time the first movie was released, it was bittersweet watching it. I told him about it the next time I got to visit him at home.

I still have those cards, both in a display case

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 11:28:33 No.39566451 Report

Quoted By:

>>39558204
where i live there was a fakemon drawing contest
to get free tickets for the 1st movie.
i drew some shitty wolf fakemon , whilst edgy was actually pretty well drawn whereas my sister drew some waifumon made of hearts which completely didn't look like a pokemon at all. she won cause it was obviously made by a girl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 14:21:56 No.39567329 Report

Quoted By:

i remember how crazy was to watch this grow to become such a popular thing in a few years

back then i knew pokemon was huge the moment even my boomer mom knew who pikachu was

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 14:28:30 No.39567372 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552182
>doesn’t recognize Chris chan
>implying

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 15:49:56 No.39567881 Report

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>be me
>FRLG just released. Some crisp (chips for you ameritards) brand doing a promotion. Tazos in random packs
>poor school but it's alright
>pokemon not banned in my school yet
>feelsgoodman.jpeg
>amass a decent collection. Become somewhat of a pokemon master on the playground
>greed gets to me. Want more tazos
>come up with a retard plan
>ask one of my rivals to show me their collection for a trade. He has them in some gay bag.
>pretend to sneeze and wack the bag out of his hands. They scatter all on the floor
>apologise profusely, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
>meanwhile, he is crying as people start to pick them up off the floor and try to steal them
>I stand over a few, having chewing gum all over the soles of my shoes
>laughinggirls.jpeg
>teacher comes and gets most of the stolen tazos back to crying autist
>mfw I had around 20 new tazos in my collection

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 15:56:44 No.39567918 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
>a bootleg pre-release translation of Gold and having to deal with the dialogue being half question marks and half bad transliterations of Japanese
>waking up to watch the cartoon show, like the episode with the Surfing Pikachu
>warm nights at my grandfather's house playing Pokémon Pinball
>getting a shit ton of cards for Christmas
>the school announcement that officially banned Pokémon card battling
>teacher going to Japan and bringing back Pokémon erasers (the white thick type, with a sleeve)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:27:10 No.39568110 Report

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>>39564056
>I'm only 23

Fuck off retard. Read the thread.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:33:10 No.39568150 Report

Quoted By: >>39568208 >>39568302 >>39569100 >>39569294

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:38:37 No.39568198 Report

Quoted By:

Tazos
Fucking, Tazos
They were like the main source of gambling in elementary school, everyone who watched Pokemon had tazos.
There was 1 fucking Bellosom I could never win from a boy. he would lose all of them but not that fucking Bellosom,
I tried to fucking hard to get that Beellosom

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:39:53 No.39568208 Report

Quoted By:

>>39568150
I had the jolteon one, when it got beat up I decided to dig the little figure out of the plastic/rubber. Pretty sure I still have that, and a quagsire I got later still in the ball

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:52:08 No.39568286 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551752
>Chris with 2005 shirt
lmao, zoomers

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:53:28 No.39568292 Report

Quoted By: >>39569510

>>39551800
LA MIA PIZZA CON PEPPERONNI, MAMMA MIA!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 16:54:56 No.39568302 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
Seeing the movie in theater with parents, and getting the cards. The burger king toys, the store toys, the vhs tapes, and the trading cards. I still have a box full of old cards, and gen 1 decks. Gym leader ones, and what not. I remember playing my gameboy when my parents dragged me along to go shopping. Some of the places I played the gen 1&2 games in no longer exist. There's this greenhouse style flower shop I recall visiting a few times. Walking behind my mom, gameboy in hand. I drive past that place sometimes, and not only has it been vacant and closed for years but the building is falling apart. I can still imagine the sights, and smells from inside that place.

I was never stolen from. There were some moments of generosity directed towards me, however. At burger king, some older girl gave me her tangela toy. I got yellow for free from some older kid who didn't want it anymore.

>>39568150
I had a bulbasaur.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 17:09:34 No.39568382 Report

Quoted By:

beating a kid for trading me a fake card
even told him that if it was fake id do it.
only got in trouble by teachers, everyone else who mattered were on my side

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 17:13:07 No.39568403 Report

Quoted By: >>39576867

>>39551686
Losing it every time a new tie in food came out. I was a fiend for the cereal and the poptarts when those came out.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 17:14:00 No.39568409 Report

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Going to the first movie with my parents and getting pic related as my promo. I cherish it to this day, life was so full of promise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 17:59:27 No.39568673 Report

Quoted By:

In 90s, probably Charizard, Poliwhirl, Aerodactyl, and Primeape.

>tfw never got the Poliwhirl "gold" card
>tfw never got to go to theaters and see first film, saw it on VHS oncei t went to blockbuster. Never got the ancient mew card
>Got the Lugia coin, nigger stole it from me

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 17:59:32 No.39568676 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552816
>want to engage in sexual intercourse with Pokémon
And there's nothing wrong with that.

t. 26-year-old

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 18:50:17 No.39569100 Report

Quoted By:

>>39568150

these bitches bounced alot holy shit

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:07:31 No.39569231 Report

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One time this niglet told me he saw a life-sized Snorlax pillow in Walmart for $20, so I often asked my parents to take me to Walmart where I kept looking for it. I never found it, but my parents got me other little pokemon toys since they felt bad that I wasn't having any luck finding it.
Deep down, I knew he was a lying piece of shit but I wanted to believe that it was true.

I was overjoyed when they came out with these since they were just like what I imagined, but I never got one because I had already accepted defeat and the shipping for one would've been disgustingly expensive given how big and heavy they are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:16:12 No.39569293 Report

Quoted By: >>39569491

>>39558636
Fuck yeah, OP here. Ruby is my favourite version.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:16:26 No.39569294 Report

Quoted By: >>39569491

>>39568150
free him

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:18:40 No.39569307 Report

Quoted By:

>>39561370
OP here again. Aerodactyl is my favourite too. I still carry this card in my wallet every day. Ill think of this sometimes when i see my card in there. cheers pal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:26:00 No.39569356 Report

Quoted By:

>>39564654
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCd8QjxapXA
Here's the commercial anon.

>>39564953
I remember huge loose bins by the doors at walmart full to the top with pokemon jungle cards. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened everywhere.

>>39565081
Is your favourite pokemon either of these, anon? Or did you develop a different non-sentimental taste?

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:34:38 No.39569422 Report

Quoted By: >>39569673

Getting the first movie on a bootleg vhs months before it came out and every trip to Burger King. My parents threw out alot of my collectibles because the church told them to and the few items that were saved and returned to me over a decade later were then trashed when I moved to be with my partner of 6 years after he kicked me out for not getting a new job in his middle of buttfuck nowhere economically deprived town in under 2 months. All of this is gone now and it breaks my heart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:36:55 No.39569444 Report

Quoted By:

>>39558636
Absolutely fucking based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:42:33 No.39569483 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552506
The only people in my area who still play Go are neckbeards (including me, unfortunately) or single moms with sons that you can already tell will grow up to be like the neckbeards that orbit their mom, e.g this one clearly autistic kid named Cory who gropes people and throws temper tantrums on community day events. I've been watching the anime since gen 2 and playing since gen 3, didn't even start playing Go until early last year.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:43:55 No.39569491 Report

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>>39569294
I had a Vaporeon bouncy ball and used to play with it in the bathtub with my Dratini gashapon figure.

>>39569293
Absolutely adored Ruby even if I thought the contests were a bit weird

I'm reliving some of the hype now as a colleague at work set me the small task of catching him a shiny Mew. I have my original Red but didn't want to restart my save (nostalgia) for the glitch so he loaned me his Blue. Now I need to go find a link cable and a copy of Crystal to see if this is the real deal but I am worried about the attack stat DV value despite the first guy to get one listing 19 as being as valid as 20 or 21.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:46:15 No.39569510 Report

Quoted By:

>>39568292
It's just
>peperoni
in Italian, very good though

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 19:49:26 No.39569540 Report

Quoted By: >>39575922

>>39551686
>Getting Pokemon Blue as my first game
>Getting it stolen by some shithead I dont speak to anymore
>Get Red later
>Learn of the TCG
>Cant really buy much, but there was a local card store that gave me a pack for free

Of course I didnt know much about the rules and shit but it was a good memory

>Made other friends who played the games in elementary and early high school
>People were starting to fall out of the Pokemon "craze" at the time because teen years and w/e
>Most friends continued to play...some did leave it to focus on other things
>Get into competitive around RSE, teach friends about EVs/IVs during Lunchtime
>Getting our gameboys confiscated when we played during classes where our teacher wasnt into teaching much on a given day / a study period, later getting them after a class
Friends get bored of competitive because it took effort to raise Pokemon to be really good
>most friends quit
>Only me and one other left
>We find Netbattle and join a clan to keep battling

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 20:07:20 No.39569673 Report

Quoted By: >>39569818

>>39569422
>Naruto
You deserved faggot.
All joking asides in the mid 2000 when i got an internet connection i was surprised with so many anons having parents who made throw they Pokemon collections because the church told them to, i grow up in a house where each room had at least one saint hanging from the wall and even when we where talking about Pokemon when studding for our first Communion the head Priest told us to leave the Pokemon talk for our free time, and i am talking about the Catholic church.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 20:23:51 No.39569818 Report

Quoted By: >>39570050 >>39574238

>>39569673
Where are you from? I think it was more extreme in the deep south. I grew up in Florida and several kids got pulled out of my school entirely because their parents didn't want them being influenced by other kids that liked pokemon and brought the toys, games, and cards in despite technically being banned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 20:43:23 No.39569977 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
Having the son of the lady who came over to get her hair cut by my mom help me pass the first cave area in Pokemon Red. I was a little too young to figure it out myself and he helped me and i even caught a machop which i thought was an alien.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 20:50:54 No.39570050 Report

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>>39569818
NAYRT but I remember being talked down to on the playground by one of my friend's moms because she didn't want our game of pretend to involve pokemon because she said it was "violent" and "evil". I remember asking her why she thought that and informed her that my family was christian too. To us, it was just a harmless game of pretend that had nothing to do with religious views.

She gave me the most passive-aggressive bitch face ever and just walked away. The rest of us all decided to leave that kid out of pretend because we all wanted to pretend to be pokemon. Made it more of a "our parents are okay with it, sorry your mom isn't" thing.
She came back and got mad at us again for leaving her kid out of the game. We all just told her that she couldn't make us play with her kid if she doesn't want her to play our game and we weren't changing games just for her kid. At that point my own mom stepped in and got her to leave us alone. We invited my friend back to playing pretend again and she decided to be a Vulpix.

I remember that day well because it really baffled me thinking "how pokemon could ever possibly be violent?" The majority of pretend is played either through acting or oral storytelling, so it didn't make sense. Did her mom think we were going to start punching and kicking each other? We were like 7~8, we knew better than that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2019 21:10:42 No.39570243 Report

Quoted By:

>>39552065
>all my friends stopped caring about pokemon after Ash lost to Ritchie
>still like pokemon well into johto
>eventually stop because I couldn't stand being known as the loser who still likes pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 00:12:29 No.39571512 Report

Quoted By: >>39575890

>>39551758
>being poor doesn’t mean your parents don’t love you, anon. It just means that ONLY your parents love you.
Aint that the fucking truth. I never stole anything or hurt people (Mostly just a lot of vandalism) but I vibe with this hard. It really is like this, people get it twisted all the time.

>>39551821
>had the only Japanese community outside of London in the country
Not true, we had one too in Brighton

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 00:48:09 No.39571719 Report

Quoted By: >>39571877 >>39571931

>>39551752
It's genuinely baffling how many responses to this didn't recognise that this was Chris Chan (presumably not knowing who he is)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 01:09:55 No.39571877 Report

Quoted By:

>>39571719
Probably because everyone's so used to seeing him looking like an old, homeless bag lady nowadays that his older pictures don't look like the same person

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 01:10:40 No.39571881 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551686
What’s pokemania?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 01:17:58 No.39571931 Report

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>>39571719
I thought Chris Chan couldn't pray.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 01:29:02 No.39572023 Report

Quoted By:

Going to Walmart or K-mart and seeing all the figures and plushes like pic related and my mom buying one for me once and a while.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 05:51:34 No.39573680 Report

Quoted By: >>39573688 >>39573782

Visited my dad who lived in another state and my grandma bought me a pic related Pokémon disposable camera to take pictures with and when I got it developed there was a sick pokemon border on all the photos.

That was the only time I ever saw him because he got locked up and died in jail a couple years later. Always thought it was weird that the only photos we have together have pikachu and meowth and shit around them but oh well. I also dropped my favorite hitmonlee BK pokemon toy into the Grand Canyon on the same trip and cried for two hours. C'est la vie

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 05:53:40 No.39573688 Report

Quoted By: >>39573719

>>39573680
Forgot pic, not me just only pic of the same film I could find online

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 05:58:17 No.39573719 Report

Quoted By:

>>39573688
>that tiny border of all 150 pokemon
Damn that's fuckin cool

Sorry about the dad tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 06:01:59 No.39573740 Report

Quoted By: >>39573783

>>39551758
>tfw your parents were poor and didnt love you
glad you didnt feel this

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 06:08:35 No.39573782 Report

Quoted By: >>39573844

>>39573680
>there's a half-sunbleached hitmonlee just chilling at the bottom of the grand canyon somewhere

Poetry

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 06:08:36 No.39573783 Report

Quoted By:

>>39573740
Damn I genuinely feel sorry for you. Hope you're in a better position now

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 06:19:53 No.39573844 Report

Quoted By: >>39574008 >>39574013

>>39573782
Explain

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 07:04:52 No.39574008 Report

Quoted By: >>39574013

>>39573844
Not that anon but grand canyon is just eroded rock, so maybe like since hitmonlee is fighting type it lies in revelry, tanning at the site of one nature's most infamous battle against rock, since fighting is super effective against rock. Idk I got B in my freshman English seminar

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 07:07:51 No.39574013 Report

Quoted By: >>39574041

>>39573844
>>39574008
I am that anon and idek I'm high asf and thought it just sounded cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 07:12:03 No.39574029 Report

Quoted By:

>>39551712
>being a poorfag
this basically
pokemania for me was watching the other kids have fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 07:15:15 No.39574041 Report

Quoted By:

>>39574013
Lmao based

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 08:11:52 No.39574238 Report

Quoted By:

>>39569818
Uruguay, forgot to mention that my Mom saw the anime with me to, most of the anons I see complain are from central america or Brazil.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 11:00:09 No.39574954 Report

Quoted By: >>39575787 >>39575853

Bump for more comfy storytime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:24:33 No.39575787 Report

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>>39574954
Not exactly comfy but more of a justice served thing

Went to zoo camp one summer and whenever it rained we got to just stay inside and have free time or whatever all day so of course we all just played gameboy and pokemon tcg.

There was this one kid who kept calling my friend poor/stupid cause he was poor and didn't have a gameboy or any good pokemon cards (basically determined 7 year old hierarchy in 2002) while he had multiple holo base set cards and a full level 100 team in silver. That shit happened for like two weeks and my friend just kept taking it but I got fucking fed up over time.

So one day while it was sunny out and everyone was out learning about polar bears and shit I told one of the counselors I had diarrhea in some roundabout way basically allowing me to stay inside by myself for two hours until lunch. During that two hours I booted up the bully kids silver and started a new save game and wrote over it super quickly.

Kid boots his shit up during lunch and fucking flips the ever loving fuck out, as you could probably imagine. Like full screaming crying banshee tantrum and they make his dad come pick him up.

For some reason he thought it got corrupted or something though? Cause I never got caught and I told my friend and he thought it was hilarious. The bully kid was super depressed after and didn't bully anyone anymore that summer

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:31:42 No.39575818 Report

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Honestly the most hype part of Pokemania were seeing the first 3 movies in theatres. I remember the Celebi movie only being a limited run, and that's when Pokemania basically died down.

Pokemon TCG leagues were fantastic too (way better than now -- leagues I went to back then were ran by parents who were into the game, nowadays it's just spergs).

Pokemon was just genuinely a lot more comfy back then. It feels off nowadays in comparison.

Before y'all hurl the genwunner shit at me, my favourite gen is 4 and 5

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:33:47 No.39575825 Report

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As a 25 Yr old the memory that comes to my mind is being told not to look at this kids chameleon card (the topps ones). Then he started drawing it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:38:09 No.39575853 Report

Quoted By: >>39575888

>>39574954
I Have a comfy story too but it's not as good I don't think.

Would always get those Tops pokemon cards cause no one wanted them and the corner store near me must have bought a shit ton on accident instead of the wizards of the coast cause they sold them super cheap like I wanna say 3 for a dollar or something.

I have like every multiple duplicates of every single pokemon but for some reason can never pull electabuzz. One day I go to school though and my friend has one, so I tell him I'll trade him like four golducks for it cause I had like legit 10 copies of each of this first 70 or so pokemon and golduck was his favorite.

He says yes so we trade and I tell my mom about it, but she gets pissed and calls the kids mom asking for a trade back because she thinks he ripped me off?? I tried explaining but she didn't listen. Anyways they make us trade back so now I don't have electabuzz. I go to my grandmas on Saturday and tell her and she understands immediately.

Next weekend I go over and she says she has a surprise. I open my eyes and it's a wizards of the coast holo electabuzz, not the tops one, but she was so excited for me to be happy so I pretended to be super happy too.

I never actually wound up getting the tops one but I think I understood back then that I was a lucky kid anyways

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:41:32 No.39575872 Report

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>>39551758
>Rich people don't steal
Not even in your wettest American dream.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:45:21 No.39575888 Report

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>>39575853
Why were parents so retarded when it came to pokemon. My dad would always call them "chink-o-mans" and would always just take my gameboy and shut it off without letting me save when he got mad about for like not shutting a light off or something so I always had to spam save when he was around which took fucking forever in the first couple gens

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:45:45 No.39575890 Report

Quoted By: >>39575952

>>39571512
>Implying Brighton matters to anybody except gays and football fans (who are mostly closeted gay alcoholics)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:49:42 No.39575914 Report

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In the ghetto we had a massive trade of counterfeit Pokemon cards. Threatening to ruin to the livelihood of us legit traders. There was an easy way to tell however. whether or not you could see through it.

Or trading away a shiny Fearow, only to get it back months later from someone I didn't know. ( Distinctive marking)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:51:21 No.39575922 Report

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>>39569540

>Netbattle

Confirmed oldfag

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 14:56:06 No.39575952 Report

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>>39575890
>thinking anyone outside of London gives a fuck about London

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:02:28 No.39575992 Report

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>>39558636
What a fuking bro.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:03:49 No.39576002 Report

Quoted By: >>39576329

I had hundreds of Pokemon snap stickers that I would go to Blockbuster to print.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:14:04 No.39576061 Report

Quoted By: >>39576343

Pokemania kid timeline:
>RBY - Pokemania in full swing. Everyone at school watches the anime, collects the cards and a lot of people play the games.

>GSC - Anime-onlys move onto different fads but most people that played the games stick around.

>RSE - The hardest time to be a Pokemon fan, nothing to do with the quality of the games or anything but because Pokemania kids were at the age where they were "growing up" and didn't want to be seen interested in something considered kiddy. Least amount of people publicly playing the game.

>DP - A lot of kids are getting to the age where they care less about what people think and Pokemon starts to become slightly cool again among the nerds, especially with the DS growing in popularity.

>HGSS - DS install base is at insane levels and a lot of the people that quit considered JOHTOOOOOOOOOOOOO the best region so lots of people are getting back into the series, fanbase stays at this level for a while

>PoGo - Anime-onlys from Pokemania days get back into the series, Gamefreak realise how much money they can make off nostalgiabaiting, the series is ruined.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:31:15 No.39576158 Report

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>>39551686
none. it just left the fanbase with people who want a thing to stagnate and rot because they only play due to brand recognition, and often don't even complete the games' story.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:35:44 No.39576191 Report

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>>39551686
At least once a week on the way home from school my dad would always buy me one of these Pokemon lollies. He would play Pokemon with me and my brother too, he got Yellow and me and my brother had Red and Blue

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:51:35 No.39576309 Report

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>>39564365
The weirdest thing is fanny packs are actually in-style now.
So I’m gonna stay out of style as usual.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:54:43 No.39576329 Report

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>>39576002
This one. Pokemon Snap was my first video game and I went so many times to get stickers. I saved all 5 different cards use for making the machine work.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 15:56:22 No.39576343 Report

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>>39576061
I’m not even gonna disagree.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 16:00:00 No.39576363 Report

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>beat silver and almost complete dex
>my fat friend Adam asked to play my silver while he takes a shit
>no problem Adam just don’t fuck up my save at all
> spends an hour in bathroom
> hey bro what’s taking so long
>comes out of bathroom
> where’s my game
> what game
> my fucking Pokémon silver Adam
> I don’t have it
> wtf you mean it’s right there
> oh my mom bought this at a garage sale last weekend
> look I picked cyndaquil
> Mfw

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 16:02:50 No.39576378 Report

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>>39551686
Having an older kid at after-school care give me my first Pokemon card, was Dratini

Borrowing other kids' gameboy even just to feed duplicated rare candy to get theif Pokemon to 100 and do some battles that were all bs

Waking up at 6am and dragging my blanket out to the couch to watch the cartoon half asleep every morning

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 16:15:49 No.39576483 Report

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My mom used to work in El Paso, TX while we lived in Juarez, Mexico allowing us to take advantage of the U.S minimum wage laws and the dirt-cheap cost of living in Mexico, one christmas she just went to the TX Toys R' Us and bought literally everything that had the Pokemon brand on it. She spoiled the fuck out of me when she could.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 17:01:23 No.39576759 Report

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Odd, I gave my aunt a flashcard to give to her sister's kid with alot of pokemon games installed on it some years back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 17:20:04 No.39576867 Report

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>>39568403
I remember eating this one Saturday morning, going out to some garage sales with my parents, and then violently throwing up in the car.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 21:43:59 No.39578734 Report

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32 here, my mom passed in '99, she was in the hospital years before that on and off, my brother and I remember spending a lot of time in the waiting room there. Only thing that could make us happy was playing our game boys side by side with him on red and me on blue.

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