What was Pokemon like Stateside before the English version of

It did not really exist, pokemania kinda hit all at once(within about 2 weeks)

Got the games when they first came out. Didn't really hit it big until late 1998/early 1999.

They weren't a thing. Nobody knew about it in the states until gen1 got English translations and the anime came out

>>31198993
Christmas 1998 was weird. My parents, in all of their parental love, got me the game because of pokemania. I was 4.

>>31198359
Dutchfag here.

We had the Anime long before we had the games. So the hype was extremely built up during that period. Once Pokemania hit its stride it was glorious.

>>31198359
Nonexistant. The internet was shit, I'd wager that like, a dozen people were proto weeb enough, or had actual buisness there and cared about vidya to know what a Pokemon was.