>>55828892>most of the Pokemania kids who were now beginning to enter their teen years got over Pokemania's decayThis was me. I liked RS, and had fun with it, but it didn't hit the same way as the first two gens. It wasn't so much I moved on; it was that I got so burned out on Pokemon by that point that I didn't want anything to do with it anymore.
>FRLG were announced and was basically "buy the same shit you bought a few years ago to get your buddies from back then again"Yes, I still had my old games, why I would I want to rebuy them?
>Some places had those real douchebag kids that took advantage of Pokemon's fall from grace to bully others naturally, but that was more a symptom of consolewarsNah, that was just how things were back then. You would have got your ass BEAT at my high school if you were into nerdy things like anime or not sports/shooter videogames. Jocks versus nerds was very much a thing in the 2000's. Zoomers are lucky that they didn't have to grow up with that.
>usual kiddie stuff that was quickly becoming synonymous with Nintendo's brandYes, that's why I went with the xbox 360 when it came out. I wanted a big boy system to play big boy games on.
>>55829410>>55829509Pokemania wore itself out by then. People were tired of it and wanted to move on to something else.
>>55829586>Big KMart not too far away from the in-store Little Caesars pizzeraI want to go back...
>>55829752I'm pretty sure I was the only one who had a Gamecube. Everyone else had a PS2 or Xbox. No wonder I got bullied in my high school years.
>>55830430>The early 2000s was Halo's era.This. Halo was *the* normalfaggot game of that time period. That what the cool kids played and they wouldn't shut up about it. Call of Duty didn't get popular until the late '00s.
