>tfw you weren't born fast enough to experience

>tfw you were born fast enough to experience PokeMania
>tfw it was awful

You didn't miss anything.

I was but I was a lil hipster child

>>33376612
t. actually underage

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>tfw you were born

I was 8 when Pokémon came to the US.
It was glorious. Rumors still spread primarily by word-of-mouth at school because the internet was still young and not as accessible. Really, it was a great time.
>>33376612
Is lying and jealous of missing gen 1 and 2

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>>33376612

it was p cool. pokemon cereal, pokemon poptarts, pokemon at every single store you could think of.

[%]no bills, no real responsibilities.. fuck i wanna go back[/%]

>tfw you were the most popular kid in class because you had a game guide for R/B

>>33376603
I never even tried to catch them all

>>33376612
Fuck off, the only time I felt like a rockstar was Pokémon mania

>>33376831
MOOOODS

>>33376845
?

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>mfw Blue being the final boss in RBY and Kanto being in GSC was spoilers at the time
>mfw when I discovered all of this by myself because it was before idiots on the internet would post spoilers of everything everywhere and all the time

>>33376856
>he didn't read the rules
modsmodsmods

>>33376612
t. Hoennbaby

Say what you want about the games at the time, but it was the only time I played pokemon with other people irl. No, it wasn't like Pokemon Go.

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>tfw plushes everywhere
>tfw pokemon related presents
>that kid who said you can get a motocycle in blue
>sitting outside playing on your gameboy with your friends trying to make the screen not glare at you.
>mew truck myth making it around the world without internet

>born too fast to experience pokemania
>pokemon go comes out
>everyones outside talking about their favorite pokemon, socializing, making life worth living
by what multiplier was pokemania better than this? i want to know what i missed out on

>>33377109
A 1000x

>Everyone who liked it were in the know
>No us vs them shit like with Go and proper players
>no internet so you got people telling crazy stories
>getting excited and speculating about what the first film and 2000 will be like
>Inviting friends to play some wired battles either on stadium or gameboy
>genuine wonder and excitement at every new discovery
>Merch was everywhere
>Doing some sick card trading for a hollow card
>being a kid and able to play and express your love about pokemon in public without feeling ashamed. :(

>>33377227
I remember having Stadium parties.
Where we'd upload our teams and fight in 3D....

That shit was tight.

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>>33377236

All of my buddies and me used to capture as much as we can and give them different names to see how they would appear

I fucking love how you can get different color depending on what name you give to your pokemons

>>33377227
>wired battles
God, I miss the Link Cable. Wireless and internet trading and battling is way more convenient, but there's just something so satisfying about having a solid length of wire connecting your Gameboy with your friends' when battling or trading.

>>33377227
It also lasted more than a week.

>>33376603
How can you be "born fast"? Would you be shot out of the womb like a cannon? Even then that would only save a few hours.

>>33377262
I used to battle against my sisters a lot in RBY but we lost our cable at some point and couldn't trade. And we were so close to completing the pokedex in one of our cartridges too, so I don't really miss it.

>>33376826
Fuck that, games were out already.

>tfw you were the popular kid for bringing Japanese gsc leaks to school

>You didn't spend all your money on Pokemon
>You didn't buy a bunch of cards for a game you didn't play
>You didn't buy fake cards because you were such a drone it didn't matter
>You weren't ridiculed for still being into Pokemon after most people dropped it
>You don't remember shitty "protect the children" groups demonizing the series
>You weren't a dickwad hating everything slightly similar to Pokemon

Sucks you missed out though, it was fun.

>>33377390
You clip through the uterus

>>33377227
>hollow card
I think you mean 'holo'

>>33376603
I was born in 1997 and didn't get into the series until a little bit before Ruby and Sapphire

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>mfw born in '97 so by the time I got old enough to actually comprehend things beyond watching TV, PokeMania was already ending because everyone who was into it was growing out of it especially when Gen 3 revealed you couldn't transfer from Gen 1-2
>mfw didn't give a shit about anything and had a blast with Silver and Ruby, eventually got Yellow from a Yard Sale so all turned out pretty well despite being a friendless faggot

>>33377491
Me and my brother had tons of cables back then. They were cheaply made, so they got busted very soon.

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>mfw it doesn't matter that I was born too late because Pokémania wasn't as strong in México as it was in the US.

It sucks to be a spic.

>>33376603
>tfw you have the exact same birthday as Mewtwo
I can remember getting Red and Blue when it first came out, somehow managed to complete the game, stole my brothers Gengar and abused the missingno glitch, those were good days
Pokemania was great, getting a pack of cards every day before school, watching my brother get in deep shit for trading 200+ cards for a charizard and having to swap them back, getting the first movie on VHS just for the cards
Shit was fucking amazing

>>33377569
>You weren't a dickwad hating everything slightly similar to Pokemon
Oh god the fucking wars, you were either Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, no in between, if you said Digimon you were shunned by everyone

>>33378966
YuGiOh didn't hit the mainstream until a few years after Pokemania died down IIRC.

>>33377109
It's a similar thing, but just imagine the feeling of excitement when you were a child vs. adulthood. It's just a different level of intensity.

Plus it was everywhere. Cards, games, TV show, merchandise. There were Pokemon jelly jars, Pokemon fruit snacks, Pokemon eraser tops.

One of my favorite memories was a roller skating field trip where they played the theme song and every single child screamed and got in the rink and sang every word while skating.

>>33378977
Id say Yu-Gi-Oh kicked off around maybe 2003-04? All I remember is everyone jumped onto it bar like 5-6 people in my school

>>33378994
The bubble popped in late 1999/early 2000 at my school, and everybody was into pro wrestling or DBZ afterwards. It was a shitty three years for me.

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>born just in time for Pokemania
>parents didn't know Pokemon from Digimon from Medabots from Yugioh...
>my peers mindlessly hated on anything that wasn't Pokemon
>by 2003 I had the most seasoned taste in my class

>>33376603
I've actually had this thought before. I'm 13, and I love Pokémon. PoGo was cool for a couple months, but now everyone just calls us fags. I might do it I just don't really give a shit anymore

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>>33379029
MODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>33379029
Being 13 means you're underage.
Underage b&.

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>>33378966
>tfw I liked Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Medabots and many other anime.

It feels good to not be a closed minded person.

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>>33376612
Man, you must be really jealous for not living it because Pokémania was one of those things that are so big worldwide that you can not even pretend to look away. It was 100% bliss.

>>33376603
>tfw you were too old to properly experience PokeMania by the time it even made it to America

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>>33376826
Even the retards and losers could be the coolest kid any day as long as they had pokémon knowledge/good pokémon cards/good pokémon pogs/a N64 witth Stadium/watched the anime last night on Cartoon Network and just want to discuss what crazy new thing happened to Ash.

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>>33378900

Here in Chile it shaked the entire fucking country. It was popular as fuck. Sorry m8.

>>33376603
I was old enough for Pokemania but not rich enough. All I got was to see the anime and a handful of cards. It was fine since everyone else was poor in my school so only a handful of kids had a gameboy. We all jumped ship to Yugioh because it seemed so more mature than Pokemon.

I didn't rediscover pokemon until after 2007. The first pokemon game I actually played was a ROM of FRLG.

I was around for Pokemania but I pretty much missed the hype.

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Back when everyone thought the game was based on the anime and no the other way around
>the face of surprise and confusion when people, adults or kids, learn that a fucking beep beep GameBoy videogame inspired something as "big" as a TV series
The 90's feel so old now. Most videogames today have higher production value than TV shows.

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>you'll never again get that feeling when turned his hat backwards and you knew it meant business

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>>33379151
The tazos (pogs), cardgames, and the sticker albums were the best shit of the chilean pokemania. No internet, everything tangible, you can directly socialize and nerd out in the recess and afterschool. Good times.

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>>33376831
>>33376856
>>33376882

>>33376603
The Minecraft boom was enough for me, so I can live on.

hey, my dad works for nintendo and he says that you can get to the grass on either side of Pallet Town and it's called the secret garden of bulbasaur and you can catch INFINITY bulbasaur there even if you didn't pick it as your starter

oh, and he also told me you can get a secret Mewthree by trading; just send me your Mewtwo and I promise I'll send it back after it's finished evolving. you have to wait like a week though.

>>33379120
>tfw I would "borrow" my brothers Pokémon Red to show my friend on the bus ride home.
God it was magical. And the strategy guides, and the childhood recess Pokémon discussions. I miss it

>>33379029
Enjoy your ban.

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>>33379428
why mods didnt applied rule 6 when the entire game leaked before sun moon get released?

>>33379576
Because as long as you're planning to do it, it's fine, you can say I don't have a complete dex as long as you plan to do so at some point

I lived in the third world so while Pokemania did arrive, it only did in the form of the anime and shitty toys. I was the only fucker in the entire school who actually played Pokemon. When I brought it up people asked if you played as Ash, and thought it was a spinoff.

To this day people here think Pokemon is an anime and that the games are based off it. Kill me and use my shit to build the wall please.

>>33379654
You are not alone, fellow spic.

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>>33379347
>Ese mini album de Salo
Siempre lo quise. Nunca me dejaron comprarlo.

Donde puedo comprarlo online? E importarlo a Europa...

>>33379471
fuck you derek you little faggot

i still haven't forgiven you for not giving me back my zapdos after i traded it to you

>>33379668
Deberías intentar Ebay. Quizás algún chileno lo haya puesto por ahí

English, spoiler and "build the wall" antib&

>>33379101
If you weren't at least out of high school, you are full of shit. My brother was 15 when Pokemon was getting big in America, and it ran rampant through his school the same way it did mine.

>>33379735
I was one of those kids that rode the short bus in high school, and I was the kid that liked it the most out of anyone there.

>>33379668
En mercado libre vi unos varios hace 2 años app

>kids used to walk a half mile or more from the other side of the neighborhood to battle kids from the side I lived on
>became one of the most popular kids in the neighborhood for being one of the first to get a link cable
>the drive to wanting to be the best in the neighborhood got me started into devising my own competitive movesets but by that time, pokemania was already winding down
I miss those days. Practically every kid in the neighborhood played and almost all of them quit before GSC came out. Most of them were making fun of people playing the game by calling them kids a year later (even though we were all still 9 and 10 years old)

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>>33379471
>that post
>that name

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>>33378900
Man, I lived in Mexico as a kid then visited the US during the middle of it all. It was insane, from the merchandise infesting every store to convincing my parents to take me to watch Pokémon 2000 even if I didn't understand shit. I also got my first Pokémon game, Blue, that trip. I came back with the knowledge that Digimon would be released soon in Mexico and we started hating it preemptively hahaha.

It was a magical moment of my life and I'm sure no Pokémon Go fag will be able to match.

You know, I livedd some pretty bad things in my childhood and I notice only now how pokemon and video games in general are some of my best memories. I remember watching the first three pokemon movies for the first time during hospital stays and how it made me feel less like shit going there all the time.

>>33379347
Holy shit I forgot pogs were even a thing. I used to have so many of them too

>>33379824
I know that feel. I was one of the last hold outs at my school when I was around 11 or 12, and when kids started making fun of my for wearing my Pokémon shirt I stopped playing, in between Crystal and Ruby/Sapphire. I never played RSE or DPPt as a result. Started playing again around 2007 or 2008 with FRLG because a couple of my friends picked it back up, then we play HGSS when t came out and I've been back in ever since.

>>33377262
Nonsense. The Wireless Adapter and then the DS and on was one of the best things to happen to the series.

Link cables were annoying. Especially in the beginning of Gen 3 when you needed 3 of them to connect the 4 possible players in what was ultimately a mess.

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>>33376603
>but anon what about Pokémon Go?

>>33380500
Doesn't compare. It was fuelled by nostalgia, not actually enjoyment, and fizzled out within a couple of months.

>>33378797
I have 4 of them one GB and 3 GBA (and 2 Wireless Adapters from buying FR/LG) and they all still work perfectly fine.

Annoying to have to be within a set distance for the cables when I play my old save battery replaced physical copies but they work fine.

You should try not buying cheap knock-offs over officially licensed ones.

>>33379151
>>33379347
Chile spic here. Almost nobody was aware that Pokemon was indeed a game and everybody thought it was just the anime.

I loved to watch that anime. I remember 9 old me hallucinating when that Charmeleon evolved.

It's impressive how easy was to astonish a kid, before children had access to internet and smartphones.

When Pokemania was around, I didn't realize how obsessed other kids were with it at the time, and wasn't as personally obsessed with it as I would be later. I just thought it was something people, including adults, casually enjoyed like anything else.

>>33380396
I quit competitive in 2005 and sorta quit the franchise itself in 2006. Had never even realized D/P was a thing until 2008 where I was sneaking peaks at this guy's DS who was sitting in front of me and was confused as hell because he was just going around catching legendaries with a single ball like it was nothing. Was too much of an autist to ask him what was going on and still never understood what was going on until reaching Pal Park.

I Did meet some people that played during the gen 2 era and some in the gen 3 era but it was all short lived because they ended up moving away a year later. In the cause of the four gen 3 people, I ended up getting them all into competitive battling and tutored them a bit since I used to hang out around the old school Smogonfags on their Netbattle server before they created the site.

>>33380504
>all those people who bashed pokemon for it being kiddy and or never played it who immediately downloaded Go and hyped it up as the best thing ever
I've never felt more betrayed in my entire life

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>>33376603
But you were born in time to experience PokemonGoMania, rejoice anon

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>>33376603
Where were you when the PokeMania of our time happened

>>33381132
All 8 weeks of it!

>>33377262
>>33380493
>wireless communication is way more convenient
>NUH UH! Wireless is WAY more convenient!
Did you even read my post?

>>33382271
>link cables are satisfying
>no, link cables are annoying

Did you read his?

>>33376603
what mania?
I lived through that time period and it was just school kids being into it but it didn't matter because they were stupid assholes (some even claimed to hate pokemon and didn't get hyped at all) and are even worse now as adults.

the rest was just advertising for the games in the Nintendo Magazine with some additional comic and while that was interesting and good, it's nothing compared to what happens now content-wise.

wow, such pokemania.
probably was much bigger in the US or in Japan though. can't comment on that though.

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>>33376603
Aw shit I remember the nostalgia. Back in those days we actually had TCG contests at the local bookstore and we would spend money every now and then to buy booster packs.

But the bookstore doesn't even sell Pokemon cards anymore, man it sucks

>>33382676
Greekfag here and I can tell you it was real even outside of America. Important factors here were definitely the pogs and the Greek anime dub. But I can distinctly remember pokemon stickers being everywhere, and wherever you looked they sold pokemon knickknacks and chinese knockoffs. It was like Pogo but for much longer.

Did your country dub the anime?

>>33382804
>Did your country dub the anime?

nope. Austrian here. Germany dubbed it, like most anime series in german.

I honestly don't even know if my peers back then watched the anime. I know I enjoyed it lots but I also had fun watching german dubbed Ranma 1/2, Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragon Ball, next to the Pokemon OS.

I remember I did have Pokemon stickers as well once Gen 2 happened. not doubting you in any case. Might have been a bigger mania than I thought here in Europe.

>>33382825
Yeah the anime is a big thing, you can't have pokemania if the children don't get their weekly poke-brainwashing.

>>33379824
I was the special kid who had a tendency to flip out and try to maul people because I had no self control nor social skills

Made it easy to avoid being teased for Pokemon

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>>33378788
Literally same. Got into the games when I was like 8-9 (Started with Emerald). Then played gen 1-3

Gen 4 released without me knowing, so when I played it, everything was new and unknown to me. Gen 5 was my first experience with a leak season, being excited by Tepig and dissapointed by the redt of the line

God, I want to go back

Born in '94, so I have kinda foggy memories of Pokemania, but I do remember it, and it was glorious.

I've been thinking a lot about it recently actually. I used to roll my eyes at "nostalgiafags", but Fuck if I haven't been rewatching the OS and feeling overwhelmingly happy about it.

I remember trading pokemon cards on the school playground, even into the GS expansions. The iconic 4Kids logo and when WotC handled the TCG. Reading bad pokemon fanfics online and browsing pokemon fan sites.

Nostalgia actually hit me so hard this morning I looked into the fate of 4kids and it looks like they went entirely under. Legitimately depressing.

>>33376603
You at least got to enjoy gen 4 how it should be experienced: isolated from everything else except probably gen1 lol