Nostalgia fag thread

>>25066275
Here's the article itself: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,34342-1,00.html

>>25066298
My family still plays this game today. We really need an updated version.

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>>25066305
Thanks Anon.

I can agree it worked surprisingly well, I could see there being a huge following in the west for tabletop Pokemon games.

>>25066298
man I loved this game as a kid. sadly my grandmother owned it in her estate, bought it just for us, but a rat crawled in it and died in there so she threw it away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpDRO_osJeE

>>25066364
I still have this somewhere back in my storage at my parents' house. The cover got chewed up by my cat who chewed on paper I loved that cat

>>25066281
those pop-tarts were fucking disgusting

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I fucking love book fairs

>>25066400
You know you still want some though.

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Did anyone see this in person?

https://youtu.be/z4JeRKo3Rr4
https://youtu.be/WBIJCW43K3M

>>25066364
Holy shit I remember reading that when I was younger.

It was the Pokemon book with Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar that got me into reading at a young age though. I remember before touching those I would avoid reading because I found it extremely boring, but I loved that book so much I just sort of became a black hole and read everything in the library till I graduated. Holy shit I'm extremely nostalgic now for it and want to read it again.

>>25066491
I tried for weeks to convince my parents but they said no

>>25066491
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgvIdkD_jnE

No, but we've got the next best thing.

>>25066491
I did, my gay as lying friend told me that they also had hologram stadiums that I could battle in after the show was done. I brought my gameboy and everything cause I was a stupid kid who believed anything

>>25066914
So did you even pay attention to it or you just played on you gameboy....in the dark

>>25066914
You must have been very disappointed
did you paunch that lier in the face

>>25066436
What the fuck dose tl that have to do with nostalgia? Is that a drawing you did?

>>25066382
Rat had good taste

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Anyone remember these

Does anyone remember/have pictures of this fucking novelization of the 1st gen games? All I really remember about it was that it was basically just a yellow book with just Pikachu on the cover.

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these rolling things

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>this gigantic motherfucker

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>>25067991
Wrong toy

>>25067970
I had that framed and it was hanging in my room until 2004. I was 14.

>>25068018
I loved these. slept like a fucking champ

>tfw born in a poor country
>tfw we didn't have anything posted ITT except for >>25067247 the Mew card from >>25067979
>>25068000 and >>25066405
I envy you Americans

>>25066281
I remember when i ate some of those cookies.
Damn they tasted like heaven, maybe now they would taste like shit but when i was a kid those cookies had a celestial flavor. Just because it was pokemon.

Damn, I'm a big nostalfag.

>>25066298
me and my friends have been playing this recently, we made a variation where to have to battle a gym leader in each town and get their badge in order to progress, made the game the longest thing we've ever played so never again

>>25067978
that looks fun

>>25067975
That cover was so cool

>>25066302
>Gen 3
>nostalgia

>>25068118
To be fair, you can have nostalgia about anything, long ago or even more recent, and it has been 14 years.

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>my RBY games all still work
>my GSC games all have dead batteries
Is this just coincidence or did they use shitty batteries the second time around. Anyway has anyone tried changing batteries, is it easy to do?

>>25066491
Fuck yea I did, robo mewtwo exploding into confetti was hype as all fuck

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>>25068222
GSC batteries wore out faster due to the fact they had to keep track of time. Just replace them, it'll be okay. There's a ton of guides on how to do if you don't know how to. It's literally a ten minute job.

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Mine

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>>25068345

I have more, like the trainer manual that came with my Pokémon red and blue all those years ago. But its packed away at the moment

My cards still smell fresh, its a helluva drug

>>25068118
>Gen 1
>nostalgia

>>25068000
I wish I knew where mine was now.

>>25068204
Pretty much this. 2bqh i am already nostalgic about the ORAS hype

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>>25066364
>>25066298
>>25066290
>>25066275
>>25066281
>Tfw when you were still in diapers while people were living out the hype times to the fullest
>Tfw most of this was around to shape the fates of countless of people, but not yours
>Tfw there are people who can literally say this defines their childhood and eventual life

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>>25067240
>January 8, 2000
>2000
>soon this will be a vintage memorabilia like concert tickets from the sixties and seventies
>2000 feels like a technological age ago
>the coffin looks right behind the corner

>>25067247
I still have the ancient mew, and a poliwhirl and jigglypuff gold tablet laying around somewhere. They're breddy neat

>>25066275

Why did Poliwhirl fail to become one of the key flagship pokemon?

Was it just lack of anime appearances? He's one of the most unique and eye-catching designs, and they were pushing him a little back in the day.

>>25068677
I was at the perfect age of 7 when the hype hit big time.

Old enough to understand how to play the games, not old enough to understand most shit beyond type advantages.
Playing the games felt like a literal adventure.

Also, was at the perfect age for suckering parents into buying me all the shit.

>>25068904
probably because the swirling hypnotizing design was easy to demonize by soccer moms who thought pokemon was literally of the devil

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I got a handful of images I took of all my shit a while back.

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here u go bb

>>25066298
Holy fucking shit I remember that game :O

>>25068000
That thing was so cool. I didn't have one but a friend did. You could punch in any valid pokemon number and it would pop up and shit.

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>>25068917
>tfw was 9 and 10 when hype was real

shit was hard in middle school though. I played Gold religiously and I became bullied for being "that Pokemon kid."

>>25068927
>soccer moms
About time someone explains this meme

>>25066298
That game was confusing as fuck

>>25068904
It had no role in the anime and was not very prominent in the games either. They probably felt like they didn't need to push more mascots at the time. I can totally understand that. but it's still a shame because I really like Poliwhirl.

>>25066302
This thread is for nostalgia, i.e., gen 1 ultimate greatness appreciation. Go away, hoennbaby.

>>25068018
I still have these and use them.

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>>25066324
I miss these so much and I don't know why. Isn't it objectively superior to have a sprite for each individual mon?

>>25067247
I have a phone card from the first movie that hasnt been used (japanese) somewhere

>>25068904
The only reason they pushed it was because it's Taijiri's favorite mon. It probably didn't become that popular since being a middle evolution is suffering

>>25069578
Me too. They're legitimately good quality.

>>25069568

I'm almost 28 and was alive and well for the Gen 1 hype. I also have fond nostalgia for Ruby and Sapphire. In fact, there hasn't been a mainline hype/release cycle I haven't enjoyed, and I still look forward to whatever comes next. So this old fart is saying to stop acting like an old fart, they're total buzzkills man.

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>>25069591
Here we go, and two other monuments from my pokemon story

>>25068677
I didn't experience Gen 1 and I still experienced this kind of stuff.
I got the handbook from an older friend and I played the board game at school

>>25068000
Still got it

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>>25068677
>Letting media define your life

That's pretty silly.

>>25068345
>that flareon booster
>>25068338
>those intro decks and rules inserts

Oh god the nostalgia is real.

>>25068978
>not shadowless

Might as well show us a beat-up basic energy card, pleb.

>>25068348
I forgot how amazing that holographic Muk card looks. Looking at these old cards brings back so much nostalgia.

>>25066275
Why was Venusaur the only Kanto starter not on the cover?

>Go to Pokemon Tournament
>Forget playmat
>Find this in my bag
>Nostalgia all day

Still waiting for the true nostalgia of the original Player Guides in RB

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>>25070229
Forgot pic

>>25069592
>pokemon clover
>rotom is dragon fairy

>>25068005
Oh, I had those, the set also included a Poliwhirl with a measuring tape which was the best of them.

And Pikachu was the worst stapler ever.

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>>25068677
I feel sorry for pokéfans who didn't live the golden ages.

Pokémon was way too big. Such an experience lived by a young and impressionable kid can't be explained into words. It was your addictive fantasy world breathing alive at every corner of the real life world, it appeared on the news, on school, on the supermarket, on the cereal and milk you drink every morning. Your friends knew about it, your distant cousins knew about it, the bullies at school knew about it, those poor third worlder kids knew about it, your church, teachers and everyone knew about it. It had no competition and the entire capitalist machine working to support it.
The social and technological state of the world in the late 90's was at the exact point to turn anything big into an unstoppable monster. And Pokémon took that place.

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>>25067970
That was hanging in my room along with that Nintendo Power Calendar.
Bravo.

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>>25071056
The poster in question, BTW. (Not mine)
It was up well into 2000.

>>25066298
>tfw I was a poorfag
>all the rich and middle class kids with their baordgames and gameboys and official TCG cards and stuff
>I could only watch the anime and observe their toys and steal their cards and pogs

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>>25071084
Whoops, wrong pic.

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Hell yeah

>>25069458
The kind of moms that take their kids to soccar, what is to explain

>>25068000

I gave mine away sometime during gen3 like a retard. Though, I have my Gen3 pokedex still.

I found this dex at a thrift store last year for a few bucks, so I bought it. Batteries are still good and all.

>>25071101
> spic tazos
I too collected 'em, gave 'em away because I still have a shitton of pokemon toys tho

>>25071095
That art style is easily the best in my opinion. It's just sometimes the old art was of somewhat poor quality, that calender though is GOAT tier.

>>25068943

I want to fucking buy these, but it's fucking impossible to find a lot online that aren't fucking bootleg.

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>>25071101
>My older cousin has all of them and the pepsicards
>Refuses to sell them to me

Anyone else still own some those Pokemon mini figures by Tomy?

I loved reading the Beckett Pokemon magazines as a kid, I wish I didn't cut alot of them to pieces for stuff to stick onto my binder at the time though.

>>25071095
My English teacher had this calendar up on her door. I wish I had a copy, because that art was top percentage

>>25071307
PKMN Retrospective go away

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>>25067970
>>25071084
TFW when RBY come out on 3ds we can have a wall checklist again.

Actually I wouldn't mind a gen 6 or 7 wall checklist, just seems like it would be way too big.

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I remember having the pikachu one of these and spending a long time carving it out.

Anyone remember those lunchables that had like cards or something you could cut out of the packaging?

>>25066364

picked up a mint condition copy at a used bookstore like, 5 years ago

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DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE RED POSTER WITH THE BLACK AND WHITE POKEMON AND YOU STUCK COLOUR STICKERS ON AND HAD TO COLLECT 'EM ALL GODDAMN THAT SHIT WAS TIGHT NIGGA HOW YOU EVEN GET THOSE STICKERS I FORGET

>>25071043
This so much. No other media franchise has ever got as big as Pokemon during Gen I and II.

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Any of you bitches had one of those?

>>25068018
My grandma used to work at a factory that sewed these things, still have them and a few pillows stored away somewhere.

>>25071277
I wouldn't sell them to anyone if I had them

>>25071899
I have a Psyduck. It doesn't have any batteries though

>born in poor country
>gameboys and nintendo stuff used to cost a small fortune
>first actual pokémon game I got was Soulsilver
fuck, I wish I could have had more opportunities to get Pokémon shit back in the day.

>>25068018
My gran cut mines up and sewed the Pokemon until her own custom pillows. Shit was tight

>>25071101
>poképogs
Fucking brilliant, how come I never seen these and I thought I had pogs

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Nostalgia af

>>25067975
What the fuck was up with this

Who is she
What is she sitting on
Where did I get this book
Why don't I have it anymore

I fucking hate looking back at this.

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>>25072325
And the list. Always thought anything not on this list was considered a Rare Pokemon

>>25067975
>>25072339
at last, someone else that gets it

Pokémon really has put their name on some amount of crap

>>25067970
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>>25071056

This is hanging in my office right now. Directly behind me.

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>>25071095
>1999 was over 50 years ago...

>>25066769
The guy who plays the main character in Book of Mormon played James, that got a laugh out of me.

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>I got you some of those pokey-man cards you've been asking for anon! Happy birthday!

Who know this feel?

>tfw all i have left of the golden days is a factory sealed Red version
Despite everything, I think it makes up for it.

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>>25072467

>>25072556
>>25072467
Are you sure there's a game inside? Maybe you should open it to check it

>>25072566
It's heavy, and feels like one when I shake it.

But nice try anon, can't fool me.

>tfw there is a fresh, unplayed game with a perfect label on it and a never before read instruction booklet inside
It is tempting, I'll tell you that.

>>25072566

This. Most of those "NIB" Gen 1 games are just re-shrinkwrapped

>>25072588
My stepdad had this lying around in his storage unit for like 15 years ago.

A few years back he was having a garage sale, and I saw it sitting in a plastic tupperware container. Had the sticker "videogame, $5" on it.

Asked him where he got it and why it isn't opened, he told me he got it as a gift for someone's kid he was dating years ago but they broke up and he never got to give it to her.

Keep in mind he's like 46 and knows nothing about videogames.

This is the real deal.

>>25071095
Are there HQ versions of this art? Shit is too good

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i have the soundtrack for red, blue, and green. would anyone be interested in a flac rip?

>>25072358
Pidgy looking cool af

>>25072368
Because the name sells. Not the crap it's on.

>>25072576
Don't you want to smell that booklet anon?

That fresh new booklet smell is waiting.

>>25066281
Am I the only one who got like 10+ Chansey figures from those poptart boxes, and never even one Charmander or Poliwhirl?

>tfw was 5 years old in 2000
>tfw couldn't fully experience the bandwagon
>tfw was introduced to the video games through emulators

>>25072779
Doesn't the official OST have a weird echo on all the songs? That's the only thing that I hate about it when just getting a clean rip from the game itself sounds better.

>>25072943

yes it does, i'll still make the rip and upload it tomorrow if this thread is still alive

>>25072400
And the guy playing Giovanni went on to voice Maximillion Pegasus in YuGiOh

>>25066275
Addiction is really a narrative that never gets old, does it?

>>25066302
That is disgusting. If only they didn't push Gen 3 so hard, they might have actually rekindled people's interest at the time.

>>25067970
Should be a gen 2 version with a yellow Tyranitar. Anyone have it?

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battle coins!

>>25067978
there's a relatively recent TOMY set that's similar to this, though no nostalgia bonus multiplier

>>25072999
please do. Also rip it in 256kbps mp3 then convert it to 1000kbps flac just to fuck with audiophiles

>>25067070
nah I saw the show and liked it of course cause I was a kid, but afterwards I looked stupid asking the usher where the hologram battle arena was

>>25067079
Nah I just felt stupid, and I don't talk to that faggot anymore

>>25066364
Teared up.

>>25073022
>pushing gen 1 everywhere, to the point where there's pokemon on fucking poptarts
>a-okay
>putting pokemon on a car to celebrate the 10th anniversary
>OMG FUCKING DISGUSTING STOP LIKING GENS I DON'T LIKE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Feel free to cry some more, genwunner. After all, there's no such thing as 'too much water'.

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>>25073142

Stay mad.

>>25073142
I probably could've expressed myself better.
>10 year anniversary
>the only Pokémon recognizable to actual genwunners/johtoddlers on the vehicle is Pikachu

>>25066364
I had/have the red version, it didn't have Togepi.

>>25073006
well just look at the faggots on this board, clearly they weren't wrong

>>25066298
I still have this. Shitty game honestly. I should probably just give it to someone who will appreciate it more.

>>25073156

How are they supposed to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on marketing gimmicks like that Hummer if it's plastered with old, outdated products? They want you to buy their new products, that's the -entire point-.

>>25073178
10th anniversary Gen 3 included FR&LG which were the latest entries leading up to DP.

>>25073178
They could at least include the old Pokémon that are in the Hoenn Dex, such as Wobbuffet and Jigglypuff.

>>25072556
>that shrinkwrap method
i have bad news for you my friend

>>25066405
i own the one that covers the ss anne and giant pokemon island episodes, good times

>>25072457
All too well. I joined the hype after having moved across the country, where every kid on the block was obsessed with Pokemon and had the cards.

Begged my parents for weeks to get me some cards, eventually they got me those. Sucked big time (until they bought me a starter deck for my birthday).

>>25072921
>pic related
These were the only three I kept out of the 15+ Chanseys I ended up with back then. They're a little beat up, and one has what I think is bite marks from a cat.

In Kindergarten we had what was called the "treasure chest" where we could pick a toy to keep on Fridays if we had perfect behavior for that week. We could also donate toys, so I was dumping my spare Chanseys there. I also gave some to my cousin. Never once did I get a Charmander or Poliwhirl, and I wanted them so bad.

Now that I'm thinking about them, I'll probably hit up eBay so I can settle a 15 year old delima.

Also, >>25066400
They were amazing, what were you smoking? If I had to put a flavor to nostalgia, those poor arts would be it.

>>25073327
>poor arts
Poptarts*

Fucking autocorrect

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>>25073327
>>25073331

Forgot pic too.

This is why I hate mobile

>>25071762
Those are an especially notable collector's item.
There was a massive scare and recall after some dumbass kid put one in his mouth and choked to death because he thought the pokemon inside was candy.

>>25072987
I remember owning that
it was my first introduction into Pokemon video games

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Remember when marill was a pokegod called pikablu

>>25066298
I used to play that game with my cousins. Good times.

>>25067970
I remember owning a poster like this except the mons were arranged in a spiral going from inside-out, I think with a yellow background too. Also had one that was landscape-alligned and had a black background, but I don't remember if it had strictly Gen 1 mons on it or if it included Gen 2 stuff too

>>25071095
You can technically use this every year the January 1st lands on a friday and isn't a leap year

>>25073515
So the next year that calendar can be used would be 2021.

>>25072317
Those were released in Mexico, they came in chips and other junk food, now you know why there are a fuckton of fat kids in Mexico.

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>>25072779
>>25073083

https://mega.nz/#!FZdCDDhB!LapNpNlBWwztKcz8w0V50bGK3W7Vd6r1GEW5iW9hFFI

>>25073225
Bro, my stepdad literally picked this up from a Toys R Us back in the late 90's. Chill out.

>>25072377
No you idiot. 1999 is still underage. 97 however, might as well be 50 years ago

>>25074129
You're right, 1999 is still underage for another year.

Anyone got that video where Pokemon was first releasing in North America and it was some guy teaching you the basics of Pokemon?

>>25066436
the fuck is this?

>>25074204
Are you talking about the Nintendo Power promo video?
https://youtu.be/sa_-wMvF-wM?t=85

>tfw can't find the original rip so I had to link to a version with a faggot talking at the beginning.

>>25072457
Stop doing this to me!

>>25073650
If you got the game as a kid why on Earth would you not open it? Did he buy you two just so you could have one that you wouldn't open? This doesn't make sense to me anon I need some answer before I go crazy.

>>25066364
>>25067240
>>25067975
>>25067991
>>25068000
>>25069585
Got all this stuff lying around somewhere. Now I want to dig it back up. good thread, thanks /vp/

>>25071762
Of course my dumbass as a kid had the Vaporeon, Charizard, Dragonite, and Mewtwo ones until I DESTROYED THEM TO GET THE FIGURINE OUT.
Fuck my life.

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>>25075351
See >>25072603
Try reading the thread next time

>>25076061
thank you mate

>>25072779

more interested in scans of the booklet

>>25071264
if youre still around senpai, buy the chinese bootlegs. Some look like shit but some look quite nice desu, i got 48 for like 8 quid and kept about 30 of them, the others looked like chernobyl survivors

>>25067240
that was my 4th birthday...

>>25071101

I had a whole ton of those. I don't know what happened to them, sadly

>>25076833

unfortunately i don't have the means to scan it, i took a picture of it if you're interested

http://tempsend.com/C466DF8DB3

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>>25072987
Lol my mom hates this thing for the noise it made. I somehow still have it, it sits on a bookshelf in my living room haha.

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still have it

>>25066491
Yeah, twice actually. They had Lapras statues outside the theater.

>tfw family wasn't that wealthy way back when I was living in New York
>tfw I was like 3 or 4 years old
>Mom turned my room into Pokemon incarnate with Yu-Gi-Oh bedsheets
>Giant Pikachu plushie always greeted anyone who walked in
>have literally none of the stuff in my room anymore
>still have the Yu-Gi-Oh bedsheets

>>25071884
Star Wars did last year. But that was just a year.

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>>25066298

FUCK man this hits me so hard. as a kid I made custom rules like this guy >>25068050 and having the first player to reach Indigo Plateau be the "champion" until the next player gets there an then they battle... its sort of a king of the hill type game after you get all badges.


fucking FUN times.

>>25071101
Yaaaasss. I still have every single one of them

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>>25066298
>>25066364
>>25067247
>>25067970
>>25067978
>>25067998
>>25067240
>>25072325
>>25072358
>>25077109
>>25077177


All of this.


I have no words. Just fond memories and tears for what once was.

>>25066298
Seriously, remake when?

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>>25072457
>You know our family is poor but look at the present your uncle just sent you! It's what you have always been asking for!

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>>25076061

https://mega.nz/#!FV1yzZhZ!0QBMH0nWQI837VwDk0YMSUHsM9n44_nsZhvP6xdEeuQ

>>25077710
>Maxim

>>25073570
In all of South America aswell. Extremely popular in Chile.

>>25068018
I still use the pillow covers.
I lost the sheets when my parents divorced

>>25071101
Are those the pogs that came with figurines?

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I actually had this one, i hated it desu, it was loud and had the scariest robotic pikachu voice ever

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have any of you ever been to the pokemon theme park? its abandoned now with the pokemon there still

>>25078444
Where is this, and why am I not looting the Pokemon?

>>25078407
These are brand fucking new jackass.

Are they worth it? Almost bought one last week

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>>25078533
my mistake sorry! they're not mine, i just thought they were old

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I love collecting old Pokemon stuff

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>>25067975
I have this one. Spent hours looking for the Raticate evo we're seeing the back of and the Charizard/Paras/Exeggcute hybrid in the game before reading the cover art was an artist's interpretation of a trainer battle

>>25078756
this is as misleading as that pokemon handbook where oak gives shit advice on types and moves it was the first red edition of that book >>25066364

>>25078855
Advising the use of the Master Ball on Fearow

>>25078756

Oh god unofficial strategy guides with shit ass fanart for illustrations. I rememember that back then, that would never happen these days.

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Found this shit today.

Crazy thing was, this happened the same day as the 1999 NYC Gay Pride Parade.

Also my mom was being a fucking helicopter mom and bitching at the officials when I lost, meanwhile I was having a blast just having people to actually play the game with.

>>25066364
Should I buy this? I think I saw it at a goodwill. I never owned it.

>>25079757
Absolutely.

>>25068677
I had a pokemon website affiliated with what is now bulbapedia (bulbasaur's magical garden) and met most of my life long friends through the major pokemon websites. Now I can hardly find anything in the wayback machine around those glory days. Most of us were 10-15 years old, but our sites were top notch for the day.

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>Christmas 2000
>Get >>25066298
>Get image related
>Get tons of booster packs and starter packs
>Get a $100 walmart gift card I used to buy a gameboy color and pokemon yellow

I don't know where any of those things are now. I really wish I had that rad pikachu blanket still.

>>25079730
That artwork is beautiful. Damn, this thread is both great and depressing.

>>25078418
>Those Eons'

Fuck those are cute

>>25068677
I missed most of it. I only really got into the anime and it was mainly reruns of the original series. Pokemon johto was pretty cool though. I never got into the games because I probably couldn't afford it. I eventually got a GBA but it was stolen so I never even got to play gen 3 games. I got a couple of pokemon cards which was pretty fun to have but not to play. I think I missed most of pokemon because I was also into yu-gi-oh and digimon. I eventually got back into pokemon but I missed most of "pokemania" even if I was there for most of it. The people who got most of it were the people who went full pokemon from day one and never stopped. On average people like me would never get into anything that much.

>>25072457
These where actually better than regular pokemon.

>>25079822
I had that blanket! I think it and the bedspread someone posted are still down in my parents' basement sonewhere

>>25079139
oak the utter mad man

>>25078444
>Asking people who were younger than 14 in 2005 if they went to a theme park in Japan that closed down in 2006

>>25066281
Mmm... I can still taste the cereal.

>>25069130
same except I was bullied since elementary school.

>>25071043
I live in Quebec and the advertising wasn't huge here. In fact there was no advertising for Pokemon Gold which was the first Pokemon game I got.

>>25069130
I can only imagine what it must've felt like if you were, say, in college during those times.

>>25066491
I wish I had, but the show didn't come over to the UK.

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>>25071101
Mi negro!
>>25078404
Nope, Tazos came as a promo from Sabritas (Mexican Lay's). They are made of plastic and not cardboard like Pogs.
I remember kids literally trowing the snacks off the baggies to get more tazos.
Still have a bunch of them. I'll post a few pics if you don't mind.

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In series 2 we got evolutions and cool animated ones.

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Some of them also have stickers (I didn't peel them)

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Gen II came later. (as series 3).
All kids loved them, everyone likes Cheetos, Doritos, Ruffles, etc.

>>25082098
Kabuto was my first one. I vividly remember getting it, during my first year at school, a sunny day with snacks flavor.
Oh god, and now I'm in my last year of university. It's the end of a cycle and Pokémon has been here all along.

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More from Gen II.

>>25082201
I honestly don't remember my first one but we used to trade a lot.

>>25082264
I'm getting a huge nostalgia attack from your pics. Google doesnt have them all. Eventually I know I will pay the price to buy someone's collection.

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Anyone remember back when Jynx was black?

>>25066305
There's actually a proper Pokémon tabletop RPG. It's supposedly pretty good.

http://pokemontabletop.wikidot.com/

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Finally, these are from the latter series. I was in high school when they came.
Metallics, with rubbery edges, with fuzzy texture (Azurril & Pikachu), shinies and prismatics!

Speaking about high school, I remember fondly a nerdy otaku young couple in the morning shift. They were always together and often took their Gameboys SP to school. Honestly I was a little jealous, she was really cute with glasses and all.

>tfw no qt gf to play poké

>>25072457
Oh wow, I had exactly these cards. Were they even licensed? Who made them and why?

>>25066364
Holy shit i had this

>>25082298
You just made me remember that weird kid whose favourite game was "let's pretend you are Brock and I'm a Jynx trying to kiss you".

I hated that.

>>25083305
that was not a common thing, how odd

>>25066491
that chikorita is taller than a venusaur

>>25077307
>iktf
>Living in shitty NYC suburb in the late 90's
>Too poor to afford a N64
>Cousin in NC has one and it's the shit
>She also has a bunch of Pokemon stuff
>Watch the anime and get a bunch of merch
>Get a GBC right at the end of the hype
>First game was Yellow
>Few years later buy Silver on eBay
>tfw my Yellow game still works

>>25073398
Also mewthree

Good times

>>25078653
One of the best pokemon things ever

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>>25066364
>tfw my mother taught 4 year old me how to read with his

I miss her

>>25071762
>>25071762
Fucking spent days carving Poliwhirl out with a butter knife

>>25072325
http://www gamesdbase com/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_Game_Boy//Manual/formated/Pokemon_-_Red_Version_-_1998_-_Nintendo.pdf

Scan of the yellow handbook

>>25066364
This one got me. I didn't even have a gameboy, but I had this, and I loved it so much.

>>25067970
I have the one with the orange background and Ash and Misty on top.

>>25082317
Pokémon tabletop adventures is a fanmade mod of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, and it's pretty damn awful, both as a RPG and a pokémon game.

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Who else had loads of these and built a stadium out of VHS tapes for them to battle in, with green toy soldiers as the trainers?

I can't be the only one....