>>56898962It was crazy. Take any recent fad (like fidget spinners or whatever) and multiply it by 20. That's what Pokemania was like. Toy stores were 80% Pokémon products. Children's clothing stores were full of Pokémon shirts, bags and hats.
Kids collected all things Pokémon they could find. Cards, stickers, bouncy balls, everything you could collect. There were regular fights over Pokémon collections on every schoolyard to the point where teachers had to ban Pokémon stuff from school.
As weird as it seems, the games themselves weren't actually THAT big. Only a bunch of kids in my class played it. Most just watched the anime. I remember the music CD being really big too, almost everyone had it.
