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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:52:13 No.43166106 View View Reply Original Report

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Were any of you actually around during Pokemania, or are you all Zoomers? Am I the only one left? I don't want to be alone

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:53:57 No.43166117 Report

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I was 15, so aside from the core games I ignored the rest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:55:14 No.43166128 Report

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>>43166106
If you were around during pokemania you are also a zoomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:56:27 No.43166137 Report

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>>43166128
If you were born 1996 or later there's no possible way you experienced Pokemania. Being alive for it and experiencing it are totally different things. I'd say most 1995s still probably missed it.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:56:31 No.43166138 Report

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Hahaha, it is too late, old man. The zoomers have taken over. This is OUR board now

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 17:58:17 No.43166147 Report

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i just can't get over the fact that on this board starting with gen 1 is being in the minority

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:01:56 No.43166168 Report

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>>43166106
I was and have been following the franchise on and off since. The Go Boom of Summer 2016 is the closest to what Pokémania was like in the last few years, but even that didn't get anywhere near as big as Pokémania.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:02:15 No.43166173 Report

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Yeah I was 9 when red and blue came out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:03:40 No.43166185 Report

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>>43166106
I was born '94 and Pokemon was big in elementary school. I remember in Kindergarten or 1st Grade I had this friend in school that knew the name of all 151 Pokemon and that was really impressive. Lots of kids had Pokemon lunchboxes and backpacks and cards. I used to go to the flea market around here and see all kinds of Pokemon cards and trinkets. I also got a fuzzy Pokemon blanket with the starters on it from some Indian clothing and tapestry store when I was like 5 that's still in my living room.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:07:04 No.43166209 Report

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>>43166137
>1996+ kids are zoomers! We 1994 kids are the true generation!
Keep telling yourself that. You are also a fucking zoomer. Deal with it.q

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:07:18 No.43166213 Report

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>>43166185
>born '94
>Pokemon was not a fad at my school and I was the only one who cared about it
>didn't really get that trading/battling with friends experience until Diamond and Pearl came out
>never got to trade cards and didn't open my first pack until 2008
>didn't get Kids WB at my house until they had already started airing Johto Journeys and I had to rent tapes to watch the Kanto stuff I really wanted to see

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:08:18 No.43166220 Report

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>>43166106
Do you remember PoJo Magazine, anon? I feel like I'm the only one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:09:09 No.43166225 Report

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>>43166209
>Keep telling yourself that. You are also a fucking zoomer. Deal with it.q
Not him but pretty much every meme picture I've seen that lists years says boomer ends around 94 or 95, don't think I've ever seen one end before 94

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:11:30 No.43166235 Report

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>>43166220
same anon here, to put into perspective how fucking huge pokemon was when i was growing up I lived in a small wyoming town. During lunch time at elementary in early grades you would get tickets for behaving well/not screaming and could exchange those for prizes later. One of the big prizes was a huge plastic jug full of opaque envelopes, with 2 guaranteed pokemon cards inside. I went up to get my prize one lunch time and pulled a fucking first edition Charizard and a Bill. The lunch lady started screaming "HE GOT THE CHARIZARD!" and the lunch room went fucking bananas

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:15:12 No.43166261 Report

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I was there in gen 1 friend. Played the hell out of blue and yellow, still have all my pokemon cards and games. My gen 1 merch, like my pokeballs with pokemon in them my pokemon yellow bag with gameboy color the toys from burger king I think and the cards, metal plate and the cards from the first movie. Never got a shiny charizard but I do have 4 first edition shiny gyarados. I used to watch the anime every day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:16:31 No.43166268 Report

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>>43166261
the golden metal plate cards that came in the pokeballs? Pretty sure those were burger king toys during the first movie's release, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:17:18 No.43166279 Report

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>>43166268
yep they were so hype back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:18:10 No.43166286 Report

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>>43166279
hell yeah they were

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:19:14 No.43166302 Report

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>>43166286
>>43166279
>>43166268
so awesome

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:22:08 No.43166323 Report

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>>43166302
any of you guys remember the pokedex like thing inside of the pokeball? It was an electronic gadget, I had one but it never worked correctly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:24:34 No.43166334 Report

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>>43166106
I never played the games but collected the cards and watched the anime religiously back then. Also all of the toys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:32:55 No.43166401 Report

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>>43166106
Reminder that people born after Pokemania are adults now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:35:26 No.43166427 Report

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>>43166401
Not necessarily

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 18:37:10 No.43166440 Report

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>>43166106
‘91 crop here

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:28:17 No.43167452 Report

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>>43166440
dude we are going to be 30 soon what the fuuuuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:31:04 No.43167473 Report

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Everyone born after 1975 is a zoomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:32:34 No.43167480 Report

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>>43166106
I was, but absolutely none of my friends got into Pokemon games until gen 3. One or two watched the anime but not religiously. As much as I was into Pokemon, me and my friends were more into Digimon during Pokemania.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:39:43 No.43167535 Report

Quoted By: >>43167542

>>43166106
I got and ruined a copy of yellow back then cuz the internal battery was fucking shit.
Played from gold up to BW2 on emulator.
I experienced my first official trade on X, and completed my pokedex since then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:41:06 No.43167542 Report

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>>43167535
>that one time you made it to lt surge on a yellow cartridge with a dead battery
>the gameboy dies in the middle of the battle

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:41:49 No.43167552 Report

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Born in 91. It was nice to see and expierence as a kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 20:57:33 No.43167698 Report

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>>43166427
Some people born after Pokemania, not all of them.
People born in 2001 are 18 now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 21:28:15 No.43167919 Report

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>>43166106
More normies I know now are into pokemon then when I experienced it in elementary school. I miss trading during lunch to get gengars and alakazams but being able to buy a game with your friends when it releases feels so much better than having to ask your parents and wait till Christmas a birthday or any other holiday to justify buying it. Still remember getting a copy of silver on Easter because I keep telling my mother about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:00:05 No.43168134 Report

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>>43166106
I'm '99 grandpa

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:02:15 No.43168152 Report

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Pokemania is overrated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:09:54 No.43168200 Report

Quoted By: >>43170521

>>43166106
Pokemon hit my country when I was 7, and I was hooked instantly. I Had the plush starters, the electronic pokedex, trading cards, anime VHS tapes and both games (sister liked it for around a month, gave me her gameboy and her Red game). Then after Gold and Silver came out, Pokemon stopped being cool, me and my friends were losers for still liking it, and I was on course for becoming the degenerate weeb I am today.

No regrets, though. All the people who stopped being my friend are either making no progress in life, on drugs/alcoholics, or just fucking an hero'd themselves. The friends I kept are still my closest friends today.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:18:23 No.43168247 Report

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>>43166106

Yes I'm 26, I was there.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:18:27 No.43168249 Report

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>>43166225
I hate memetards that twist meanings of words. The boomer birth generation ended in 1964. Just just use Gen Y or Millenial if you want to refer to someone born up to the mid 90s.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:23:43 No.43168278 Report

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>>43166106
I had a lot of the dumb merch and toys from that time. I wish i still had the little gameboy that shot a red ball to knock over all the figures you could get, the spring loaded pokeballs on a string, the burger king gold cards in massive pokeballs, and the shitty 8bit pokedex.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:23:58 No.43168282 Report

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>>43166106
Born in 90, mate, I’m peak pokemania too. I still have the original box my Pokémon silver came in, pretty good condition too :)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:24:34 No.43168287 Report

Quoted By: >>43168306

>>43166235
Really? Thats epic.
My school banned cards and i got all mine taken from me. My mom was the person who complained to the school about it and got the cards banned. I went to elementary school in a little southern public school run by conservatives mostly, fyi.
I always resented that she did that.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:27:24 No.43168303 Report

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>>43166106
>be me
>32
>Watch Pokemon on Kids WB, when it aired three goddamn times a day
>Had a Pocket Pikachu
Shit was fucking great

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:27:51 No.43168306 Report

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>>43168287
yeah it was really cool to have that happen as a kid desu. My school banned card games when yugioh came out and all the kids were going apeshit over those

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:29:16 No.43168314 Report

Quoted By: >>43168374 >>43170478

>>43168282
Oh man, I saw an unopened box at the local hobby shop, and the color alone sent me back.
>>43168303
Don't forget the weekday afternoons, and that short period before WB had it when it would air on TBS(?) alongside Sailor Moon and DBZ... I think.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 22:38:03 No.43168374 Report

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>>43168314
It’s nice to still have these, I can’t get rid of them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 23:14:21 No.43168618 Report

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>>43166106
Born in 91'. I remember it fondly. I had the games, watched the anime, went to the movies (I saw the first 3 in the theaters), I was obsessed with it. And so was everyone else. Good times..

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Mar 2020 23:53:08 No.43168848 Report

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>>43166106
Yo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 05:17:45 No.43170464 Report

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>>43168249
Why is it so hard for retards like you to understand that the 4chan "boomer" is different from "baby boomers"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 05:22:40 No.43170478 Report

Quoted By: >>43170863

>>43168314
>and that short period before WB had it when it would air on TBS(?) alongside Sailor Moon and DBZ... I think.
I think what you're thinking of is Toonami on Kids WB which was a vague attempt at cross promotion between WB and Cartoon Network. They aired DBZ and Sailor Moon on Kids WB for like two weeks thanks to it and then dropped them. The Toonami branding stuck around on weekdays for like a year though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 05:35:10 No.43170521 Report

Quoted By: >>43170525

>>43168200
>Then after Gold and Silver came out, Pokemon stopped being cool, me and my friends were losers for still liking it

Holy shit this
This is the part no one talks about
The fad was huge, but the death of it was so sudden and so extreme
It went from 24/7 obsession to something that made you a loser in the span of like 3 months
I've never seen anything like it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 05:36:47 No.43170525 Report

Quoted By: >>43170529

>>43170521
Why was Johto so uncool? Is it just because the franchise had changed?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 05:38:07 No.43170529 Report

Quoted By: >>43170783

>>43170525
That's the thing, it had nothing to do with Johto or anything else happening with the franchise
It was just burn out, I guess
I remember being in like ~5th grade a month or so before GS came out trying to get people excited about how cool they were going to be, and no one cared

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 05:44:30 No.43170549 Report

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>>43166106
I remember my mom watching a shopping show that was selling a japanese holofoil charizard card for $400. That was probably the peak of pokemons (that and all the boomers calling it pokeman)

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 06:28:25 No.43170695 Report

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I was 9 when Red/Blue first came out in the US and played every subsequent generation on (or at least close to) release except 8. I still have the handhelds I played them on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 06:54:42 No.43170783 Report

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>>43170529
In my country, GS came out after the PS2. There was a period of around 2 months where Johto was cool, then it was a about PS2. GS released around 6 months after the PS2 over here, so by that point, the PS2 had a substantial install base. It stopped being about all aspects of a franchise, stated being about racing games, FPS games and FIFA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 07:20:18 No.43170856 Report

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I'm 31. I only really check out this board for corocoro leaks during the rollout of a new core game, though. Only here tonight because insomnia.

I was a kid through peak pokemania, though. Had a binder full of card games and actually kept a link cable in my backpack hoping to find someone to trade with. Alas, I had no friends.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 07:24:46 No.43170863 Report

Quoted By: >>43170902

>>43170478
Not that guy, but my local WB channel aired sailor moon and pokemon, but only before six in the morning on weekdays. Then sailor moon got dropped and Pokemon moved to a more rational kids WB saturday spot. That's what I remember, anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 07:36:52 No.43170902 Report

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>>43170863
Oh you're right, didn't notice the "before WB had it", yeah Pokemon aired in syndication before Kids WB picked it up. I'm not sure DBZ would have still been in syndication by then since Cartoon Network had broadcast rights but it's possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 08:01:02 No.43170981 Report

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>>43168249
Fucking idiot, kill yourself

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 08:02:24 No.43170985 Report

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>>43166138
You can keep the turd the franchise is now, don't worry

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