Thread 723403869

Were you also there? When the biggest franchise in human history was born. Perhaps the most important event in our lifetimes.

>>723403869 (OP)
Yeah, this series peaked after GSC

>>723403869 (OP)
yes, squirtle was my starter and I refuse to play anything past 151 pokemon

>>723403869 (OP)
Sanrio was already a thing when i was born.

>>723403869 (OP)
I was born in 91 so right on time for pokemania kill niggers and zoomers

>>723403869 (OP)
Yes I was and it's always beena mediocre franchise. It gained popularity by stealing designs off better IPs. Series peaked at gen3 then again at gen7 now it's in the dumpster. Embarrassing how they stole a whole game from palworld after sueing them.

Yeah, i remember playing Red at an official event, before the game was out in my country. I immediately fell in love, managed to reach 1st gym with a charmander. It was also my first time playing with a game boy.
Crazy how they took the risk in 1998 to market the games to hell and back before even releasing it. The gaming era started at this very moment for me.

I wish it never became as big as it did. It would have been better off it was less popular.

>>723404469
Many such cases

>>723404062
Lol

>>723403869 (OP)
watching the first 3 movies on release days in theaters was a magical experience

>>723403869 (OP)
Based

I was there, It was a peak kino Christmas.
I just wish they would have made a little more complex the battle system...oh well

Won a Gameboy Pocket in 95 or something, when Mario Land came out. I still remember vividly the first episode of Pokémon airing in my country. My brother got a GBC with Blue and I bought Red for my Pocket. Spoiled ass stepbrother had Yellow, faggot.
Pokemon peaked for me when I got Silver and a GBA. Also collected all 151 cards.
Good times man.
Thanks for reading this useless story

>>723403869 (OP)
I was there. It was great looking back.

>>723403869 (OP)
I'll never forget the excitment I had when my parents went to the store and told me they bought it for me. They said they didn't know which color and I told them I didn't care but they got me the red edition because my dad is cool and knows whatsup. I wish I could experience that happiness again as I played through the game.

Yes I got Red for Christmas that year.

>>723407491
The movies punched way above their weight class

>>723410854
>dad knows whatsup
Reminds me of that one greentext. You know the one

>>723410854
I was bribed cause I was crying my eyes out in a hospital cause I cut a massive gash in me. Was told if I was quiet and let the doctor stitch me up I would go get yellow.

>>723403869 (OP)
I came in late for Gen 1 (around end of 98) but I was there for the beginning of Gen 2. I remember watching Pokemon the movie in theaters. I also had those gold cards inside the Pokeballs.

>>723403869 (OP)
I couldn't afford it but my uncle gave me that funny pikachu plushie that was later popularized with the "Kill em all" meme shirt.

>>723403869 (OP)
>ZA is so shit that Pokeshills are trying to cover it up with nostalgia
KEKAROO

>>723403869 (OP)
Yup. I don't think we'll ever see a phenomenon like it again. It infected every kid around with the same mania, because every kid saw the same show, played the same game, and obsessed over the same cards, which were everywhere.
There are still kids out there who love Pokemon, but for them it's just one interest among thousands

>>723403869 (OP)
Yes.

t. 1989

>>723411275
Only thing I can compare it to is early WoW and warcraft mania

>>723404179
So brave

>>723411106
>I also had those gold cards inside the Pokeballs.
I still have a gold card in a box somewhere. Are they worth anything now?

>>723404469
In the mid 2000s at least there wasn't that much hype.

>>723411224
I'm a no-standards slop consumer who plans to pick up my 'za today but I don't think I'll play it until it gets the inevitable first patch because that was painful to watch, poor fat soijack wannabe. I missed out on a shiny Fletchling like that.

>>723404062
It's funny how no-one outside of Internet basement-dwellers think this

>>723411275
This also happened with Yu-Gi-Oh for a while. It felt like as soon as Pokemania started slowing down everyone was getting into Yu-Gi-Oh.

>>723403869 (OP)
I got into the franchise with the anime and didn't know there were games as a kid. My mom used to rent Pokemon episodes from our local video store for me every Friday. I didn't get into the games until Colosseum.

Anyway here's how to catch Mew.

>>723412259
Funny how every kid knew about Masingo, but no one figured this out. Everyone was convinced it was under the truck.

>>723412259
what the fuck was i doing at the ss anne all those years?

>>723411582
No idea honestly. I remember having a binder full of rares/holographics but over the years cards would go missing or be misplaced, and I haven't even seen that binder in like over 10 years now because we've moved a few times over the years. I wish I took better care of stuff as a kid.

>>723411064
Lucky, when I was screeching over tearing my whole hand open by accidentally hooking it on a loose piece of metal all I got was the chance to put a dollar into a card vending machine.

>>723403869 (OP)
>>>/vp/