/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2310384
So far we have Pokemon pop tarts and Pokemon waffles

One of the greatest regrets of my life is not buying the Jet Set Radio pachinko machine when I had a chance

For those wondering, Pac-Man cereal tasted better than Donkey Kong cereal (which was made by a pet food company).

>>2310397
Mine is having not eaten those waffles.

This stuff was fantastic

>>2310407
>Corn cereal.
>Sweetened.
>With fucking marshmallows to top it of.
>Americans eat this shit for breakfast.

>>2310416
I still have a couple of these for use as drinking glasses. Shit is awesome.

>>2310418

You never heard of Lucky Charms? I'm too /ck/ for cereal but this is pretty common.

Anyone here ever brought the shirts and stuff advertised in PS1 manuals?

>>2310418
It's how we dominated the earth 4.5 billion years ago.

>>2310436
I wanted to but didn't want to damage the manuals.

>>2310384

>tfw you were too young to fully experience the Pokemon fad days
>there hasn't been a game fad of equal proportions since

I love novelty crap.. I have this memory of my mom buying me Pokemon crayons when I was little however I don't know if they were licensed or bootlegs

>>2310457

Too young? What are you, 18?

>>2310457
>too young to experience Pokemon fads
underage confirmed

>>2310464

Nineteen.

>>2310491

I was a toddler at the time. Kids that age can't even read.

>>2310493
Hope you're not one of those "born in the wrong generation" dipshits

>>2310496

I am in the same generation as Pokemon kids, I am just slightly younger.

That whole Burger King deal with Pokemon was the best shit. I had homies who had mutliple complete sets of the pokemon, and the gold cards on deck. His mom babysat me so he would hook me up with Bulba,Ivy, and Venusaur. I am a Venusaur guy.

>>2310579
Holy fuck I forgot about the gold cards
I used to have the Charizard one.
I brought it to my kindergarten class and everyone was so fucking jelly.

>>2310579
Too bad some kids had to suffocate on the pokeballs to fuck it up.

>>2310579
that reminds me, some kid in second grade had one of those water-squirting toys from KFC or whatever. it was an Ivysaur and I thought it was the coolest shit, and this dumb fucker brought it to school every day.

so one day, I see the opportunity to snatch it and shove it in my pants, carrying it in there for hours (even sitting next to him on the bus, him being none-the-wiser)

man I fucking miss elementary school.. that toy is so fucking great, but my dog fucking ate it.

>>2310634
You are the worst kind of person.

>>2310457
It was fun when it lasted, but that shit backlashed as fuck when all the other kids got bored with it and the fad died. You would get bullied and ridiculed for still liking Pokémon.

Kids are fucking harsh.

>>2310636
no kidding? I definitely haven't heard THAT before..

that was a pretty mild story compared some other evil shit I did in grade school

>>2310641
The details don't matter. You're an unrepentant thief.

>>2310632
the promotion ended it, not that, these sort of things always go on for a limited time. I'm pretty sure the pokeball suffications happened after the promotion had already ended. but then again this entire topic isn't even related to this board because that was the mid 00s..

dear fucking lord, you pokemon kids, are you on a fucking mission to ruin every god damn thread or something, there is an ENTIRE BOARD for you people, go there and stop turning any thread where something pokemon related into a pokemon only thread, god damn it.

>>2310638
>I am going to make an article about eating old cookies so you obviously want to read about my personal life instead
wtf... well at least this is proof that these sort of types DID exist before youtube.

>>2310658
Honey, youtube was around before 2009.

>>2310658
>2009

Sorry, but YouTube is more than 6 years old. Also, do you really think that people posting about their real lives on the internet originated with YouTube?

>>2310647
Are you dumb?

>Burger King and the Consumer Product Safety Commission held an effort in 1999 and 2000 to recall plastic containers resembling Poké Balls in the United States after it was determined they presented a suffocation hazard. It was one of the largest and most expensive recalls in history.

It happened DURING the promotion. That is why later toys came without the pokeballs.

>>2310679
Also mid 2000's?
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9
9
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>>2310658

everybody is an attention-seeking whore, it#s in the nature of humans, every post proves that point.

>>2310384

I think i got one of these somewhere up in the attic, used to love it as a kid... as far as i know there was more blanket, pillow and towel crap

>>2310646
and don't you forget it.

>>2310638
>cemetery
>calls it a graveyard

>>2310690
please try to keep your autism under control
this is not /r9k/

>>2310686
>>2310673
>>2310664
I didn't notice the date and thought it was from 2003 or something because of the format and font. Also, my post was aimed at the people that DO seem to think that attention whoring DID start on youtube.

>>2310686
why did you spoil an image that actually has to do with this thread?

>>2310707

i dun goofed

>>2310384
Ohh shit I just had a nostalgiagasm, I can still taste it

>>2310407
Is he eating his hand?

>>2310435
I still have on... unopened, jelly still inside.

>>2310725
6edgy8me

>>2310384
These were the best. My mom's awesomeness showed itself during Pokemania. Still have everything she got us.

>>2310457
I feel bad for you dude. Between the Pokemon heyday and Star Wars resurgence, 1998-2001 were the best years of my childhood.

>>2310457
You missed out so badly
Literally everywhere you would go you would see something Pokemon. Random ass stores would sell the cards just because they knew it was money. Kitsch merchandise everywhere and knockoffs galore

>>2310896
Not just that, but Pokemon itself was way more exciting.
The thought of new Pokemon was mindblowing, we had no idea another 100 or so would be dumped on us every few years for the next 2 decades.

>>2310918
>tfw I always used to go to a small Japanese import store at a nearby mall and buy Japanese boosters and other Pokemon related shit
>import stores barely exist anymore

I miss those days.

>>2310941
Things only get worse, anon. Why do you think we're attracted to old games?

>>2310410
cool. I miss keen.

>>2310949
Now THAT brings back memories.

I used to be all about these figurines as a kid (they taught me the word "figurine"). Long after they were sold in stores, they were apparently sold to grocery store bakeries for use as cake toppers--at that point, they were painting Mario's hair brown, but the overalls were still red.

>>2310962
Peach has seen some shit.

>>2310967
Mine certainly did. As the quintessential damsel in distress, she was often put in suspended animation (frozen in a cup of water) and held captive by the bad guys (which wasn't Bowser since he didn't really have much in the way of toys at the time).

>>2310972
I would love a Mario game where Peach and Mario fight Skeletor and Cobra Commander.

>>2310384
Holy shit I ate those as a kid.

I can almost remember the taste. Or at least that's what my brain says. It could be just making the flavor of the sprinkles up.

>>2310384
>Not posting the popsicles.

>>2311050
That Pikachu artwork betrays its non-vr status, though the popsicle itself probably existed since the beginning and they just modified the graphics accordingly, like pic related.

Fuck, now I want a Mario bar. Or a Cherry Vanilla Coke, which tasted the same. I didn't even love either when they were available.

>>2310384
the sprinkles ruined the poptarts but it's nice to have that poliwrath and charmander staring at me from my shelf

>>2310638
that old bib fortuna cookie looks kinda like jarjar

>>2310384
I swear, the big thick sprinkles they used to put on Pop-Tarts were indigestible.

>>2311150
>No Nintendo Cereal

What?

>>2310457
>Too young
Literally underage. I'm 18 and was in the Pokemon hype full force, you have to actually be a millennial to have missed it

>>2310967
I guess she has PeachTSD

>>2311186
lol you were way too young to remember it when it was full force. you were barely even talking

>>2311159
>Link cereal is just dicks

>>2310652
Gotta Catch Em All, bitch

>>2311186
>18
>He thinks he was around during the fever pitch
AG was the start of the decline, son.

>>2311195
Lel I grew up watching the anime after preschool and playing Yellow on a GBC and Stadium on N64. Cousins had Snap and if you don't think that's the tightest shit then get outta my face. I've seen the promotional food, fast food toys, the raw hype for the movies and everything.

To be fair I may have started young since I was playing vidya about as early as I could read.

>>2311214
Is this the part where you assert you learned to read at age 2?

>>2311212
No shit sherlock. I grew up on the original seasons.

My first waifu was Sabrina from the anime, the shrinking thing did weird stuff for me.

>>2311218
>18
>born circa '97
>"I grew up on the original seasons"

No, you didn't. You were too young to comprehend what you were watching.

>>2311216
I think it was actually 3 or so for me. I never knew enough to get very far in G1 until I was older but I was still fucking obsessed.
Probably because the preschool/daycare I went to had a block in the afternoon where they'd leave the TV on and it was right when the anime would come on. Heavy doses of Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z and Digimon.

>>2311224
Please..just stop.

>>2311224
Three years olds don't quite absorb things the way you assert you did. Most people don't vividly recall what they watched, much less movie hype that was abuzz at the time. You're trying really, really hard to present yourself as some kind of OG Pokemon Lord... of all things, you're trying to bullshit over this. To what, fit in? Ironically you're just making yourself look like an ass to those you're trying to impress.

>>2311223
Granted I may have been seeing re-airings since I believe the G2 anime episodes were also showing, but I preferred G1 episodes even before I knew the difference because Brock > Tracey.

>>2311232
G2 had Brock as well. Tracey was only in a small batch of a small in-between season. But that's what you meant, I'm sure. You were there, you know.

>>2311232
Dawg, you're ruining the thread

>>2311231
>Present yourself as an OG Pokemon Lord
Fucking what?
I know tons of people my age who grew up just as enraptured by Pokemon as I did. I'm just relating my own experience to people who seem to think they're the only ones who got the 'real' Pokemon experience.

I grew up watching and playing the original games and anime and being just as much of a huge fanboy as anyone else. Damn near anyone with a TV or a Nintendo videogame who was a kid in the nineties did. It's you guys trying to act like you're hot shit and nobody else grew up with it, not me.

>>2311223
people can grow up with things that were made before they were born you know.... I grew up with the moody blues because my parents listened to them a lot. I know the poster already explained but this is some shit you guys can't seem to get, this is like the 3rd time I've seen a comment like this in here tonight.

>>2311246
>I know tons of people my age who grew up just as enraptured by Pokemon as I did.
I'm sure you do How many of them claim they were bangin' during the peak of the craze? At its peak, YOU WERE IN DIAPERS.

> relating my own experience to people who seem to think they're the only ones who got the 'real' Pokemon experience.
It's great that you experienced Pokemon during your childhood. No one's refuting that much. But again, the national craze reached its peak well before you would be capable of being cognizant of it. By movie 3 the craze was on the decline--there's no way you accurately remember the sheer hyper of the first two movies. It's not possible. That's what people are rejecting--your assertion that you experienced things you couldn't possibly have.

>>2311251
Yeah, we know. It's one thing to catch reruns, but you cannot "rerun" the national craze. By time he was old enough to remember what was happening around him, that was long gone.

>I grew up with the moody blues because my parents listened to them a lot.
That's awesome! Does that mean you were a fan when the Moody Blues were at their most celebrated? NO. You weren't around then. That's the difference we've been discussing.

>>2311246
>born in '97
>"nineties kid"

You may have played Pokemon between 1997-2000, but you did not truly understand what you were doing. You were 3. Three years olds cannot play Pokemon in a meaningful way.

>in before "I did, I was special"

>>2311262
>The pokemon craze only lasted/peaked as long as I say so
Fuckin nope, sorry man. The pokemon craze lasted pretty squarely through at LEAST the US release of the 2k movie and I know for a fact I was playing the game/watching the show by that point.

Why does it bother you so much that someone younger than you might have shared in a piece of your nostalgia? Anybody else would be excited about that prospect but of course come on 4chan and anybody with a different experience to mine must be a turbonigger right.

>>2311276
>the US release of the 2k movie and I know for a fact I was playing the game/watching the show by that point.

You were TWO. THREE at most. Again: you couldn't possibly comprehend what was going on around you, even if you were technically there. You no more "played" the games at that age than you did "read" a book.

>Why does it bother you so much that someone younger than you might have shared in a piece of your nostalgia? Anybody else would be excited about that prospect but of course come on 4chan and anybody with a different experience to mine must be a turbonigger right.

It doesn't bother me when it's actually true. You're full of shit, and it's pretty fucking sad that

>Anybody else would be excited about that prospect

Is quite clearly what you're trying to attain.

>>2310637
Fucking this. Most fads just sort of fade away but still enjoying Pokemon past its initial hype phase (98-00') as a kid was suffering. It was around that time I decided to become a closet nerd and I've hid my power level ever since.

worked at a shop that sold these
my mate won 17 quid on one

>>2311268
I'm almost 30 and I don't think I ever played the card game correctly.

>>2311324
That's a little different than "I was three and didn't have the cognitive development to understand what I was doing"... or at least for your sake I sure hope it is.

Pokemon came out in the US when I was in 5th grade. I remember not being to hyped about it but eventually fell in love. I remember watching pic related at a friends house. Can't remember if I ever received one...

>>2311334

>>2311323
Not so long ago here in Australia we had Space Invader scratch tickets, might still be around, gotta check.

>>2311262
>>2311268
>you can only enjoy things from first hand experience
screw off

This commercial's jingle has been burned into my memory since I was about six years old.

https://youtu.be/ebk-y2FdAEQ

>>2311342

I didn't say that. That's fine. But this:

>I've seen the promotional food, fast food toys, the raw hype for the movies and everything.
>I'm 18

Not possible. "Screw off."

>>2311218
You kids and your 'waifus'. When I was a kid I would just draw anime bitches and then jerk off to them, I never thought about falling in love with them and marrying them.

>>2311342
That's pretty much true. I can't say I enjoyed watching the initial theatrical run of Snow White when I wasn't even born. I can enjoy reading about it, I can enjoy the film itself, but I can't enjoy the actual experience. We've yet to invent time travel.

im 18 so I did get to experience the pokemon fad a little but not much. I went to a private school for years and never went full public school until high school. Kids I had in class were freaks, rodeo kids, small popular kid group (3 people), or christian kids who's parents didn't let them do crap. I missed a whole shit ton of my childhood. My toys consisted of fucking tractors, thomas the tank, and a snes with 1 game. Hell I had to deal with pbs kids until I was 8 or so besides 1 year we got nick so I got to watch rugrats but since we only got pbs for cartoons I didn't watch many movies or tv until I was 9. I had like 3 pokemon vhs tapes and I run that shit into the ground. Fucking country life I hated it besides the big yard

>>2310941
Just go to a brick-and-mortar comic shop. Those places usually double as hobby stores. It's where I used to pick up the Tomy Pokemon toys that hadn't made it overseas yet, back in middle school.

>>2311186
Millennials are people who reached adolescence around the year 2000, i.e. people in their mid-to-late 20's now.

Anyone remember Doom wine?

In the late 90's or early 00's I saw an article in gaming magazine of video game related wines. There was this awesome Doom bottle with the monster sprites on the label.

However I can't remember if it was 'if there was video game wines' kind of article or if it was for real.

>>2311398
Was it just regular wine with a Doom label?

>>2311186
>millennial

I don't think you know that word means. If you were born atleast around 87-96, then you're a millennial.

>>2311405
As I remember the wine was brighter red than regular wine. Now as I'm thinking it could actually be some other booze as well.

Just think I should point out, Pokemon has never really died out, in fact Nintendo sells more copies of the latest games with each generation. It's become the main reason, or for some the only reason, to own a Nintendo handheld.
If you go to an elementary school today you'll find that the kids there are into the exact same shit that we were at their age. Most of them have a DS, and they're playing newer versions of the same games we flipped shit over, and swapping cartridges just like we did. My 10 year old cousin lost his mind when he saw that I not only had the "super rare Pokemon first color games" but also both of the [also "super rare"] oracles games. He knew exactly what they were because he has the most recent entries in the series. They still get the horrible X themed pop tarts or waffles, and special cups, and happy meal boxes, T-shirts, and especially these fuckers >>2311050 . They're kids, they fall for marketing ploys like old people do for down-on-their-luck Nigerian prince's. So much so that there are whole TV shows and games designed with the sole purpose of selling merchandise as opposed to the actual media itself (see: transformers).

That said, its entirely plausible for someone born late in their generation to experience an almost identical thing as those older than them. I don't know why, but elementary schools seem to have their own little cultural boundaries. Sometimes they retain fads longer than average, sometimes they morph them into something unique, and sometimes they seem to have an almost hivemind effect. Like that "S" thing that we all used to draw, or the MASH game girls played.

So yes, its plausible for that 97' fag to understand some of the G1 hype. Maybe not as well as the rest of us, but he /could/ have seen at least the very tail end of it.

>>2311434
>gottameltfast.jpg

Can anyone ever remember jokemon cards? I remember I ended up with a card with a drunk blastoise drinking a bud and pissing on a building... I wish I still had it

>>2311413
>the kids there are into the exact same shit that we were at their age
>they're playing newer versions of the same games we flipped shit over

Pokemon wasn't a thing when some of us were young. Sure, this projection thing isn't that big of a deal and I normally wouldn't post about it, but people just don't seem to understand that Pokemon isn't this huge deal for everybody.

Hell yes

>>2311510
Okay, but for most people here (people in their 20s), it generally was. And it's natural that it would come up a lot in a thread like this, because Pokemon was a retro game that had avalanches of crappy tie-in products.
>projection
What? That's not at all what's happening. What negative trait is being projected onto someone else?

>>2310413
Damn, I forgot about these. Made with prime quality hedgehog.

>>2311413
Pokemon died to me at gen 2, at that point I just stopped liking Pokemon. It was stupid how they explained the discovery of new Pokemon all of the sudden.

The worst thing was the trading cards, it was like getting addicted to crack. Every time I would get money it would go towards buying pokemon cards. I wish I stopped at buying Pokemon cards, from Pokemon cards I just went to Digimon, DBZ, Yugioh. I didn't even know how to play with the DBZ or Digimon cards. Fuck most of the kids I knew didn't even know how to play with Pokemon cards. They just made up their own rules. I learned how from playing the trading card game for gbc. I also remember buying a starter deck with an instruction game disc on how to play the game.

>>2311524
Not a negative trait, perhaps I shouldn't have said projecting, I just meant Assuming that we all played/watched/collected Pokemon.

>>2311510
>the kids there are into the exact same shit that we were at their age
>they're playing newer versions of the same games we flipped shit over
This goes for more than just pokemon, but I assume you understood that.

>Pokemon wasn't a thing when some of us were young.
ok gramps.
>Sure, this projection thing isn't that big of a deal and I normally wouldn't post about it,
Most of the people in this thread seem to be talking about pokemon, and anyone from 18 up to the late 20's would not have been able to miss this growing up unless you were heavily sheltered as a child/pre-teen. It's a fairly relatable thing to the majority of us. Even if some didn't enjoy, or even play, the games.
>but people just don't seem to understand that Pokemon isn't this huge deal for everybody.
No, I get that. Its just that there was a big shitstorm a few posts back about whether or not someone born late into the 90's would be some kind of true pokemon fan or not. I was calling them all retarded in a very round about manner.

>>2311558
Pokémon TCG was the shit.
My mom used to take me to these tournaments where you could win rare Pokémon cards and gym leader badges if you got enough stamps in your competition book.
They sold limited edition cards like that ancient holographic Mew there as well.

First price was a huge chest full of booster packs, but it was mostly the adults winning big.
I still have a binder with the complete season 1 and 2 sets, I think.

>>2311574
It's me, the gramps back here. I', 29, so I guess technically and biologically I could just about be a grandpa. I remember when the show started airing, which started the craze here. I didn't get into it, and I don't know anyone my age who does anything relating to Pokemon. I know one person who is older than me.though, who likes them a bit, but he is the anomaly. Obviously there is nothing magical about older people so they couldn't find it appealing, but it just was after my/our time.

The person I replied to actually defused me of my irritation, but I'm guessing I won't be able to return the favor to you, sorry if that's the case. I don't mean to come across some pompous elder. It's not like anything I like is legitimately better than what other people like.

>This goes for more than just pokemon, but I assume you understood that.
Yeah, I agreed until last week, but I guess recent events convinced me momentarily otherwise. Apparently kids or even people under 20 don't like Ninja Turtles, Simpsons or Final Fantasy, so I just have second hand information of the contrary.

>>2311517
Burger King did similar ones for Sonic R.

That game got a huge advertising push in the UK, but it sold dick all.. and rightly so.

>>2310407
it looks like he's jacking off an invisible cock into his mouth

>>2311619
> I don't mean to come across some pompous elder.
It was a joke. No anger intended. I doubt there are many on /vr/, or even 4chan who could be considered a grandparent. Not to say there aren't an at all, I know there's at least one anon on here who's over 50.

>I'm 29 ...I didn't get into it, and I don't know anyone my age who does anything relating to Pokemon.
You would have been in late middle, early highschool around that time right? You're excused from not caring about it. Well, until you have kids at least, then you're stuck with the rest of us.
I would make some kind of comparison between expecting anyone your age to be into pokemon in some way, and someone my age being into, idk, ben10 or some shit. But I see people my age with spongebob and adventure time stuff all the time. So it wouldn't really work.

>>2311657
Oh, all right then.

I actually think Adventure Time can be pretty good at times. Math being a curseword, and

>You almost knew my name!
>I have approximate knowledge of many things.

But now I think I'm bordering on blog, so please excuse me.

>>2311629
>>2311517
OMG i want those!
im from argentina and we never had any sonic toys whatsoever.
And i was a huge sonic fan, back when it meant "im into games" not "im a furry"

www.sonicgear.org

So much Sonic merchandise

>>2311186

You are literally too young to have experienced it. Did you play Pokemon cards? Did you have a Game Boy? Did you read the manga? How many anime episodes can you remember watching as a little kid?

>>2311223

I have memories of the original seasons and I am eighteen, turning nineteen. I remember being hyped for the first movie.

>>2311393

Millenials refers to people born in the 80s to nk8w

>>2311057

Do they still sell video game popsicles? I haven't visited Mr Frosty in a decade

actually found one of these at a garage sale for 50 cents. Everyone i know had one of these pikachus. And the bed sheets.

>>2311517

>>2311896
>I remember being hyped for the first movie.

You were two, give or take. I reject the assertion that you remember much of anything. You were hyped for a cup of cheerios at that age.

>>2311901
I don't know... the Mario in particular I think I only ever purchased via an ice cream truck. I seem to recall it still being sold last time I saw an ice cream truck, but it's been a few years.

Guys I hate to break it to you but the Pokemon fad never died, it just continued outside of your peripheral. My 13 year old cousin even went through Pokemon hype years ago.

I'm not saying it's the same as those of us approaching or over our 30s (good god its close) but it was still there before you dismiss it too hard.

In England the main pokemon hype was being the cool guy who imported the games before they were released, and i would draw peoples favourite pokemon in exchange for cards. I collected tonnes of junk cards until I could get this one card, then I gave up. All was well in the world. Got bored during G2 and that was my hypeventure.

>>2311342
You can only enjoy a phenomena first hand.

Watching that first movie in theaters, combing Nintendo Power for mentions of Gold and Silver, those Burger King collectable Pokeballs... adds everywhere. Knockoff talking Pikachus all over Chinatown. Kids passing urban legends about Pokemon. Discovering that one kid's Ancient Mew... All that themed food.

That world's over. There's no way to go back and experience that.

>>2312234
No one has been saying that Pokemon ever truly died at any point; they're saying that the fad has lost its international craze status. People who were around at the time (and old enough to actually remember) can see the difference.

It's nice that your cousin got went through the hype, but that doesn't mean it's still an international craze that hasn't ever lost its momentum. This is like saying "my cousin got into his Tomogatchi so that means Tomagatchi is still as popular as ever."

>>2312234

Oddly enough, everyone in my little fuckshit area of the country (American) also completely lost interest around Gen 2 (which ironically I thought was the best). And just as >>2310637 said the great Pokemon witch-hunt and purge began.

Fuck 'em. Most grew up to be hillbilly cawadooty shitheads anyway.

>>2310410
>>2310959

So do I..... ;-;

On the bright side the fan-made The Universe Is Toast! series is quite nice.

I had this as a kid.

It was a surprisingly good game.

>>2312260

Yeah, I had a poster of the first 150 on my wall with that gorgeous manual artwork. Checked them off as I went and for a long time could quote them all in order by heart. What a good game.

>>2312246
This.
Another perfect example would be the Beatles. They've never not been extremely popular, but "Beatlemania" is a historically defined period in the early '60s.

>>2312282
You know there had to have been a few dorks who were born in 1963 but claim to remember Beatlemania.

>>2310885
Those were some cool fucking times to be a kid

>>2311390
>brick-and-mortar comic shop
Not him, but I have never seen one of these in real life. I'm assuming they're something within larger inner cities.

>>2312440
Out of curiosity where are you?

>>2312440
I'm quite amazed that my local brick-and-mortar comic book shop is still alive in my small town. When its building was suddenly vacant, I thought it had finally bit the bullet, but nope: it moved to a larger building down the street.

Still, definitely an anomaly. The only other one I know of in my area is in a bustling commercial area (that happens to be popular with affluent youth).

>>2312447

Prolly the same place I am; Bumfuck Nowhere.

I hope not for your sake, >>2312440 . It is a bad fucking time to be in Smalltown, USA.

>>2312453
I was just curious, seems like some smaller towns (or nearby ones) have em and others don't. One of my favorites is Comics World in Windber, PA (original owner went to jail for offing his ex-wife though).

LEMONADO!

Was nice too.

>>2311896
>Millenials refers to people born in the 80s to nk8w
No, people born after the early 2000s are Generation Z.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z

>>2311246
You weren't a kid in the 90's, you were a baby still shitting in diapers.

>>2312234

No, the FAD died years ago. Now Pokemon is just a normal gaming series.

When I was in sixth grade I got mad into Pokemon Diamond however it was long past the fad days. Didn't stop me from getting into it.

>>2312152

I remember the prerelease to the movie fair enough. Not as well as an 8 or 12 year old but I remember the trailers and remember being excited for it.

I have memories of watching Pokemon on Kids WB and my brother collecting cards. I had Pokemon merchandise and some VHS tapes. I didn't play the games though. I don't know if I even knew Game Boy's were a thing until I got a GBA

>>2311050
That Pikachu looks... unnerving.

>>2310885

Eh, every generation pities and/or scorns the next. I bet 80s kids feel bad that you didn't experience Pac Man Fever or 50s kids laugh at you not being a Beatlemaniac

>>2312492
>using a very fat person to promote premade sugar loaded soft drinks
well at least their advertising was truthful.

>>2312506
please stop, your troll was old before it started

What if I ate some of the food in this thread?

>>2312597
The rest is fine, but...

>I remember the prerelease to the movie fair enough.

I believe that you believe that.

>>2311372
he has already said that he saw them during re-runs and never claimed to have seen them when they first aired.

>>2312640
He did claim to clearly remember the peak of the craze, including all the movie buzz. He was too young to remember that. He can watch the movies on home video, but he can't "remember the hype." There's no VHS that can replace that.

>>2312638
I remember little snipets from when I was 3 - 5 myself, I do not understand why it's hard to believe that some one that is younger would as well...

>>2312647
I remember things from when I was a little kid too, I don't think it's that hard to believe, especially when it was pushed to death by the media.

>>2312647
>but he can't "remember the hype." There's no VHS that can replace that.
god, you are the type of fan that every other fan hates, also
>>>/vp/

>>2312634
Like now? You'd probably get sick.

>>2312653
"The media" doesn't register to a 2-3 year old. The more you people continue asserting that you somehow did, the more desperate you look. Just let it go.

>>2312658
You seem to have mistaken my intent. I'm not claiming I'm a better fan because I was present and cognizant for the hype; I'm saying his claims that he himself was cognizant of the hype is bullshit because his age at the time makes that impossible.

>>2312634
It would make you sick.
Not just because it's old either, it's all just shit-tier poptarts and ravioli.

I find it funny to see on here people/a person desperate to be considered 90s kids or whatever claiming to remember the Pokemon hype from when they were 2 years old are trying to do.

If you weren't in elementary school or middle school or whatever when the series came out I doubt you experienced much at all of the true hype. Did you ever have people obsessing over Pikablu or whatever other schoolyard and early internet bullshit there was about the game, buying Japanese Pokemon cards from sets like Fossil and Team Rocket or those gym leader decks, seeing the series transition from syndication to WB, etc etc? Probably not, or at least not when the first games were brand new and the then upcoming G/S were becoming mysterious sources of intrigue and excitement.

But that's OK. I was born in '88 and missed the NES hype. I still played my NES a lot as a kid and still love the games, but I didn't experience it when it was hot and new. You can still fit in. Sure you missed out on part of something that other posters here experienced, but that's just how life works.

>>2312660
>little children can't see things on tv and get excited over them
oh, ok

>>2312669
>Pikablu
>gym leader decks
>WB

Fuck, can I please just go back for one day?

>>2312660
I can pretty clearly remember watching TV with my older brother, including the theme songs to the shows and the songs in frequently-run commercials. Some of those are from when I was around 3 years old.

Ch-ch-ch-chia!

>>2312681
Being individually excited about something is not the same as being aware of a cultural phenomenon. 2-3 years are not able to see something and think about it beyond themselves--they're certainly not saying "wow, the nation is ablaze with Pokemania."

>>2312669

People remember things differently. It does not make their experiences any less legit

>>2312694
but he never said what you are claiming he said, he only said he remembers the stuff on tv and being excited over it. Also, I am done, this circular troll argument is retarded.

>>2312692
You just illustrated my point in >>2312694. So you watched the TV show and liked it. Great. That doesn't mean you were capable of recognizing the national craze swelling around you, just your own self-interest. Do you really think repeating a Chia Pet jingle was indicative of its popularity? My three year old regurgitates the slogan of local lawyer commercials. That's what children that age do.

>>2312698
>>2311186
I'm 18 and was in the Pokemon hype full force,

>>2311214
>I've seen the promotional food, fast food toys, the raw hype for the movies and everything.

Good thing you quit while you were behind.

>>2312669
>WB
Fuck. I asked for a portable TV for Christmas, just so I could watch Pokemon on the bus on the way home from school. (It was a long way home.)

>>2312694
Nail on the head. There's a difference between remembering commercials and understanding a craze.

>>2312698
I think what he's saying is that remembering a commercial doesn't really prove anything.

Just because someone disagrees with you or is being obstinate doesn't mean they're trolling, by the way. That's not what a troll is.

>>2312260
I still have that

I still play it from time to time too.
Great board game

>>2312705
well the hype lasted for almost 10 years... so...

>>2312659
>>2312667

Would I throw up?

>>2312705

That was someone else, not me. I have selective memory of Pokemon. There's more than one eighteen - nineteen year old on this board

>>2312710
I remember before WB picked up Pokemon, my TV viewing area had Pokemon on fucking UPN. Good times.

>>2312721

I have seen people on Youtube eat canned foods 50+ years old and cereals from the 90s. It depends on the food

>>2312729

If I ate the old ravioli, I'd definitely throw up?

Would I get food poisoning?

>>2312710
In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[3]

>>2312720
Not like it was in the first few years. As has been stated many times now, Pokemon never faded into obscurity, but it enjoyed insane popularity and ubiquity in the first few years that it has never enjoyed since. If you can't accept this, I strongly suspect that in no time in your lifespan did Pokemon ever not exist.

>>2312723
Of course!

>>2312738

We haven't had a fad like that since. Minecraft might be the current Pokemon but I doubt it

>>2312735
Oh, so you're using the really vague "it upsets me" usage. I thought we were going with the more concrete "purposely trying to make people angry" one.

Carry on, I guess.

>>2312738
first off, why do you idiots assume that anyone that points out the logical faults of your stupid argument is the same person.
Second off, I am 35 years old, I was a teenager when pokemon was in full swing. I liked the games and some of the toys but thought of the fad it's self as a stupid kid's thing.

>>2312759
>first off, why do you idiots assume that anyone that points out the logical faults of your stupid argument is the same person.
One of the pitfalls of anonymity, I guess. Best you can really do is say, "Not that other guy, but..."

>>2312759
You didn't point out a logical fault in my argument, you only indicated that you overgeneralized your own. The "ten year fad" didn't have the same level of intensity during all ten years, or even during five.

>>2312754
2/10
also that clearly was the "purposely trying to make people angry" definition, it explicitly says as such. Also, even though I know you are trolling yourself, it would be pretty stupid to not think that these people aren't purposely trying to make people angry. No one actually thinks the stupid things they are saying.

>>2312782
The mentality of some people is endlessly fascinating. You'd make a very entertaining political candidate someday.

>>2312782
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, because (quoting myself here):
>Just because someone disagrees with you or is being obstinate doesn't mean they're trolling

If they have a shitty opinion, expressing it doesn't mean they're trying to get your goat.

>...it would be pretty stupid to not think that these people aren't purposely trying to make people angry. No one actually thinks the stupid things they are saying.
This smacks of self-centeredness and a sheltered life. People have different opinions than you; those opinions are not necessarily stupid or antagonistic, by nature or design. They CAN upset you, though, which is why I gave you the benefit of the doubt.

>>2312712
And just like in childhood, the fact that you own that makes me want to be your friend to play it.

Anyone remember the pokemon gen II fruit snacks?

>>2310384
oh fuck, I remember those
they were pretty great (of course, they're just ordinary poptarts with Pokemon sprinkles)

>>2312254
>witch hunt
where I lived, everyone was still at least kind of into Pokemon until 4th gen was announced

and then there was a lull for a few years
and now a stupidly large amount of people at my university are fucking crazy about Pokemon

>>2312492
>LEMONADO
I read that as le monado at first and then hated the living shit out of myself

>>2310413

>franco-american

lmao what the fuck kind of off-brand shit is this?

>>2313223
The brand that produces household name Spaghetti-Os.

>>2311946
How the fuck do I remember this. The game must have taught me well.

>>2310384
I think I still have the gold-trim card that came with these. I remember at the time my friend tried to jew me out of it for $3 when it was worth $50, but I'm sure it's worth nothing today.

>>2313656
You mean the ones from Burger King? I don't remember anything extra coming from the Pop Tarts.

>>2313656
>>2313661
Just looked it up, and apparently Fruit Roll-Ups came with a gold-bordered Meowth card. So maybe that's what he meant?

Anyone else have these?

>>2313998
Open

>>2314000


Bought them all at bk as a kid threw them out 5 years later

lolz

>>2314014
Threw them out?
Why? I mean, they have GOLD in them!

>>2310638
Used to love sydlexia

>>2313998
>>2314000

>The magnification glass on the crt

>>2311893
>those macdonalds crash and spyro minigame things
Hot damn those were great. The kart one was my favorite, my brother managed to beat it a couple of times.

>>2312260
I still have that game somewhere. The player pieces/pegs are gone and the box is falling apart, but the cards and everything else are still there.

At least being born in the third world helped me have some taste of the fad, despite being 18. And my big brother just went ahead and gave me his N64 (with pokemon stadium), his cards and his GBC with pokemon yellow so I spent a lot of my time playing. And the cartoon kept airing over and over in shitty channels so I remember a decent portion. I kept playing pokemon until like the fourth generation which killed my boner forever. I remember trading pokemond with some kids too and playing TCG with them but it was like just 5 or 6 of us in the school,

>>2311882
ebay is your friend

>>2310637
I remember when 3rd gen games came out no one I used to know played them, even people who were craxy about RBY and GS. That must have been the lower peak in pokemon popularity.

I wish I brought those crappy PS1 shirts the manuals advertised.

>>2314235

No, it's just you outgrew it. Gen 3 was a sour period but it was still a best seller

>>2314241

No, there was some definite (and very justified, IMO) disappointment over how much Gen 3 managed to regress the series. Unfortunately, as you said, the marketing machine more than made up for it. I don't think sales figures even blinked.

>>2312260
I actually played this with some friends a few months back.

actually neat game but the end is total bullshit

as for the whole argument about "experiencing" pokemon as you grew up it all depends on where you were. Some people just didn't get into it despite it being the time, and others got in on it after the main period was over. My best friend was younger than me but remembers it more than other people who are older than me. if you were into you were into it, who gives a fuck about statistic time frames

also those pop tarts were delicious

>>2314263
What was wrong with gen 3?

>>2314287
gen 3 was hit or miss. It added a lot of stuff that you might like or hate. One thing many people didn't like was how you couldn't connect Gen 2 to Gen 3 so all your mons can't transfer. Also there was a bit more words and plot than usual. R/S overall was a bit rough although Emerald was fucking great.

Personally I like most of the improvements it made but I get why people weren't fans.

>>2314292
>One thing many people didn't like was how you couldn't connect Gen 2 to Gen 3 so all your mons can't transfer.
That was because Gen 3 fixed stats for a lot of Pokemon. At this point it's kind of moot since we have HG and SS.

>>2314292
Ah, I had Emerald, so I may not have seen some of the worse aspects.

I was also slightly dismayed that you couldn't transfer from gen 2 to 3, but I had already given up on catching all 386.

>tfw you missed all of the special events

>>2314292
My biggest gripe with Gen 3 was the endgame in comparison to Gold and Silver. People bitch and moan about how empty and small Kanto is in Gen 2, but I think they forget just how much of a shock it was that the game wasn't even halfway done when you beat the elite four, and you got to fight your gen 1 counterpart at the end. I thought they were going to take that a step further when I beat Sapphire, expecting to go to Johto and Kanto again to get all the old Pokemon (Remember, this was before FireRed and LeafGreen reinserted the missing Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon into Gen 3), and in the end you get Rayquaza and the Battle Tower. Nothing new to explore, no more old Pokemon, no big surprises, no nothing. I liked Gen 3 a lot but beating it was a huge disappointment compared to Gold and felt like a huge step backward into Red and Blue territory.

As a kid I'd never understand why Brock's eyes were always closed. It was really unnerving.

>>2314287

A lot of people didn't like that they axed the day/night cycle for no fucking apparent reason. Also a lot of it just felt generally rehashed; like it was gen 2.5 instead of genuinely a whole "version number" of improvements.

>>2314000
we never had those in germany. all i wanted was a normal-sized pokeball to become a real trainer

Anyone tried eating this?

>>2315259
I turned in Rocksteady when I ate it.

>>2314287

Go to /vp/ and ask that question. Pokemon talk is awkward on /vr/; too many people who stopped at gen 2

>>2315259
no, because everything sticks to it and it gets gross quickly.

>>2312260
I actually love this game and wish I had a copy. Someday I'll buy it on eBay...

>>2312492
>Mr Blobby

I met that nigger once when I was about five, he was cold and he made me cry. Probably for the best that Crinkly Bottom has been destroyed and his house is a crack den.

>>2310949
Oh, god. I'd have loved the shit out of this back in the day.

It's a waste basket, fyi.

I made it to 2015 with all this Poké-jazz

alt 1 3 0

>>2313998
I want that monitor

>>2317387
The CRT or the LCD?

>>2310851
>>2311649
Both valid answers, I guessed he was doing the "*cough*BULLSHIT*cough*" thing.

>>2312721
>>2312734
You'd probably puke your guts out. Worse-case, if the can's swollen you'd probably die of botulism. Based on the youtube videos like >>2312729 mentioned, with cookies and cereal and shit you'd have less of a chance of puking, it would just be nasty and stale.

>>2314310
I thought he was Asian.

>>2314000
>>2313998
I had them all but I don't know what happened to them

>>2310418
As a follow-up, the fact that we Amerifats eat that shit isn't the problem. It's that we have retarded parents with retarded kids that eat things like Pokeballs or Kinder Surprise capsules, and we can't have nice things as a result.

>>2316563
Noel Edmonds for next celebrity pedophile. I fucking hated Mr. Blobby.

>>2318162

Everyone in Pokemon is Asian. Brock still stands out.

It's a Japanese trope to have characters with closed eyes. Even western characters, like Jughead, do it

Pokemon was never really that popular in my area, so I was never part of it. I knew about it, but it looked meh, I was too much into teh hedgehog hype still.

>>2318260
I know, it's just that with all the brown girls it's easy to forget.

>>2310384
I got a Charmander keychain from those things!

>>2318260
>Everyone in Pokemon is Asian.
Only in Generations I to IV. Except for Lt. Surge, who is American, and probably some others I'm forgetting.

>>2311915
I remember my dog fucked the shit out of that thing. didn't understand until years later why it was covered in white crusty patches. I thought it was dried drool... but no.... Pikachu was BRUTALLY RAPED.

Yes I had the bedsheets.

>you will never be cynically exploited by the Japanese for your toddler money again

>>2310638
Last year I tried a stick of gum in a star wars trading card pack from the 80's. Didn't taste like anything and was so petrified that it just broke into glass-like fragments.

This Game Boy bubble gum was awesome. It came with hint cards for the games and some cool stickers.

I remember I stuck a bunch of 'em to my bedroom's window. One was rabbit Mario from SML2.

>>2310410
Dude you are pretty blatantly just reposting DinoDrac.

>>2312260
I have this. It's missing three of the pieces, but I own this and want to get rid of it.

>>2318996

If I remember correctly, that's exactly how the gum was when it was new. Shit, you were lucky if you didn't cut your mouth on that shit.

>>2318107
the tiny one

>>2318935

I am aware of Kalos and Unova

>>2319063
Thats a old B&W portable TV I converted to use as a monitor. I use a maginfying glass to enlarge the image or read text.
Currently it serves as a terminal or spare screen.

I want to own the Game Boy walkman (radio?)

>>2319367
Me too.

A Gameboy TV transmiter would be cool too, but the only place I can find them is this schetchy ~2004 website.

I got these nifty stickers from E3 '98 with the different prototype names.
Am I OG Pokemon Lord yet?

>>2319475
Oops fucked up the picture, oh whale.

I know I have some SMB3 McDonalds toys somewhere.

Late post but:

While, yes, Pokemon has never died, there's no denying the fact that from Gen I to Pokemon The Movie 2000, it was a monster of capitalism that has yet to be reached by something so specific since. You couldn't escape Pokemon at the time between cards, games, random memorabilia, etc. You'd go to a damn gas station and the cards would be right up front. Now if you wanna find Pokemon cards you have to go to a tiny corner of a Target where they're lumped with all the other TCGs.

>>2319607
As a lifelong Pokemon fan, it kind of worked out perfectly that way.
As a kid the constant hype made Pokemon both really exciting and accessible.
But now as I'm older, I'm glad it's more of a niche interest (I'm using niche very loosely since it's still pretty popular).

>>2319027
and?

>>2318974
While there was a marketing machine in place, "The Rise and Fall of Pokémon" paints the Japanese view of Pokémon's global success as a cultural victory as opposed to monetary. The Japanese felt something akin to vindication as they had exported a cultural icon that could carry the same recognition as Mickey or Bugs.

>>2319706
They'd already done that with Mario, though, at minimum.

>>2319823
I'll admit to knowing nothing about all that, but I would imagine that Pokemon comes across as more immediately Japanese than Mario in a lot of people's eyes.

>>2319827
Probably, but that aspect wasn't part of the original statement. Is this your idea, or is "The Rise and Fall of Pokemon" a book you're citing?

>>2319889
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pikachus-global-adventure-joseph-tobin/1100923877?ean=9780822332879

It's a neat collection of essays about the Pokémon craze, written between 2000 and 2002. It detailed Pokémon's slow rise to success in Japan, first as a game, then as a manga, then as an anime, and how the phenomenon was replicated in America, then Europe, and then Israel.

Some of the writers involved focused on the aspect of Pokémon as a cultural export, with many quotes from Japanese public opinion. Others focus on Pokémon's effect on kids in American classrooms, opinions of it by age and gender, and how opinions changed over time (11 year old boy likes Pokémon, but by 13 thinks it's no longer cool and the child has created a "kill Pokémon" website.)

Another author did a case study on a classroom where a normally shy, unpopular boy was able to become the center of attention as he possessed more knowledge than the others in orchestrated Pokémon play. Another wrote at length on his own child's obsession with the Gameboy game (none of the authors involved were gamers, and routinely refer to Red & Blue as "computer games"), then the anime, and then the trading cards. Another author dissects the masculine aspects of the franchise, training, ownership, pursuit of mastery, pursuit of technical knowledge, ect. Another examines each episode of the original anime and contrasts it with the heavily edited version broadcast overseas.

It's a fascinating read in 2015, since it was written during the evening years of the craze. None of the writers involved imagined the franchise would still be going a dozen years later.

>>2310725
This is supposed to be a dragon, wat

>>2312628
Butthurt kid sad he will never witness the Golden Age of Pokemon

>>2319827

Pokemon was very Japanese in the early days. Mario is an Italian, most characters are probably White,, and they speak Japanese. Pokemon characters are obviously Asian even when given Americanized names and there's a large Japanese influence

>>2319475
>koffing
>NY
Jokes about the New York, they really should have kept that.

Relevant, but the awful proto names

>>2321098
Kinda hilarious, although most seem like they just forgot a few letters.
>Foxfire
Top kek

>>2321098
>Ess
>Kargo
Why didn;'t we use these names?

>>2321098
Looks like they were limited to seven characters in the early localization stages. Weird that they didn't even make an attempt to shorten the names like they did with Feraligat[o]r and just straight up cut off the end of most of the limited names.

>>2321098
>Metapod is "Kokoon"
>Kakuna is "Metapod"
huh

>>2321098
>Pudding
>Custard
What the fuck

>>2321098

Jesus, and I thought the gen 1 Japanese names were embarrassing

>>2321150
Their Japanese names roughly translate to/are a play on the word "pudding."

>>2321098
I think the names are like that because they had a 7 character limit on names.

>>2311159

> nin-ten-do
> it's a cereal, WOW

>>2317302
I hate you. My sister had the Ono manga's and sold them at a yard sale. Been trying to get them back since. I do have the little manga that came with 2000 tho.

>>2319475
Does anyone have the stickers with the GEN 1 game sprites on them? I LOVE those!

>>2319607
>tiny corner of Target
FUCKING THIS, I CANT FIND MARS ATTACKS CARDS ANYWHERE

>>2321098

Oh boy, my Pidgeot evolved into a Pidgeot

>>2311517
Damn I never realized how shitty these looked when I was a kid. Had all of them except Knuckles

>>2321583
To me, Knuckles is the only one that looks derpy. I also want to say Knuckles looked better in reality than it did in that stock photo, but I could be wrong. Eggman was based on his TV appearance.

My toy Knuckles must've seen some serious shit; its dust cloud had broken off (leaving a long screw behind) and one of his cheeks had a huge gash in it. Thus, it became one of the "rough 'n tumble crew member who's seen some shit" guys in my toy adventures.

>>2321583
I had the Knuckles and Robotnik. Also some of those SMB3 McDonalds toys. I always thought Knuckles and Luigi were floating on clouds for some reason, didn't realize until way later when I saw them on the internet again that it was supposed to be the dust kicked up from them running
kekkeroni

Speaking of chain-drugs, who else got the topps pokemon cards, digimon cards, and or monster rancher cards as well?

>>2310418
Yeah fuck kids having fun things! That being said the parents who give their kids this kind of stuff every morning and then go blame their hyperactivity on ADHD pisses me off.

>>2311186
1: You are a millennial
2: You're full of shit, I'm almost 22 and barely remember a lot of it because I was only five or six at the time. There's no way someone who was 2 or 3 would remember a ton of it let alone experience it.

>>2319475
>reaf it as Giardia

>>2322018
>read

>>2311517
I only ever remember seeing the Sonic one, at least twice in my lifetime.

...Yes, it was one of my favorite toys as a little kid.

>>2310457
>Be teenager when pokemon comes out.
>Be retarded "I'm to cool for those kids games"
>Miss all the fun
Even though I never really liked pokemon. I tried to, but didn't like it.

Six months ago, or so, those arrived here in the mcdonalds kids meal. They were pretty well done, the Mario in the pipe had this switch that made him pop from inside, the coin with the other Mario spins and DK has this barrel with this light that projects some drawings, which you can change by turning some dial.

I only got DK.

>go and get a kids meal at mcdonalds and get DK
>while eating it, see a guy sit in the table in front of mine, also with a kids meal
>he opens his toy, it's Peach
>first thing he does is look under her skirt

>>2321972

ADHD has nothing to do with sugar

>>2321228

Electric Tale of Pikachu is quite cheap. Just use Amazon

>>2321969
Topps here. They're relegated to a ghetto at the end of my Pokémon TCG binder.

>>2322225
>>2321972
Being hyper has nothing to do with sugar, while we're at it. It's just that the places where kids eat a ton of sugar (birthday parties, Halloween, etc) are also exciting times where they're all riled up.

>>2322225
I wasn't claiming they had ADHD because of sugar.

>>2322225
It's not about ADHD

don't you know what excessive intake of sugar in the morning does to you, especially when you're very young?

That's been a thing since like forever, it's pretty common knowledge.

>>2310457

I wasn't too young but I was too busy being one of those nerds that liked digimon more so I never really got into pokemon until like 2003 or so.

On one hand I still hold that Adventure (and Tamers, 02 was trash in retrospect) were better than anything pokemon related but at the same time I feel like I missed out hard by not really caring about the biggest thing when I was a kid.

Still assmad that I didn't get to keep the burger king pokeballs, that said. Just because I was a digimon kid doesn't mean my brother was, or that I didn't want those kid meal toys anyway.

>>2319027

>tfw your mug got posted

>>2321098
some of those are decent
most of those are awful
a significant amount are just truncated to 7 characters and it looks like this was going to be one of THOSE translations (seriously, there's a bunch of random RPGs from around that time where all the moves and monster names look like that, stripped vowels and truncated to hell and back, also lots of shit names)

>>2323014
The only person I knew that really knew what Digimon was, let alone liked it, was some Muslim kid in the fifth grade.

Lmao does Vince McMahon post on /vr/?

"IT'S THESE DAMN MILLENNIALS"

Felt good to be born in '88. Being 10 at the time was the perfect age for when the Pokemon craze took over the world for a couple years. It all felt so surreal being surrounded by the anime, games, media, merchandise, food, and the like. It was simply mind blowing at the time.

>And here's where this post turns into a blog.

I really miss it, was definitely a simpler and happier time in my life and I sadly don't think I'll ever be able to experience that same phenomenal feeling ever again. You couldn't turn the corner without seeing something related to the franchise and it always made me smile. Watching the show on UPN with the "we'll be right back" bumpers when it was in syndication, then eagerly anticipating Sunday mornings on Kids WB when they picked it up. All while eating Pokemon cereal or waffles. My imagination getting me sucked into that wonderful little world on the Gameboy playing through Red and then a couple years later playing Silver. Johto is still my favorite region to this day. If I could ever go back in time I would totally love to relive the tail end of '97 when rumors were just starting to spread about a "Pocket Monsters" game Japan had that was coming over to the western market, all the way to '02 again. Too bad Gen 2 was during Junior High when kids started to make fun of anyone who still played it. I didn't care though, to me the games and the anime were still incredibly fun and they hype train everywhere was still rolling, even if it did start to lose a little steam. Still had friends and my brothers to talk to about Pokemon and Battle / Trade with them.

Then Gen 3 hit and without warning, everything Pokemon just seemed to vanish from around me one by one. The craze died off, people stopped talking about it, and I entered High School as the only one still completely invested. Was quite a shame to see it end so suddenly. Almost felt like losing someone close.

>>2323631
Adding on to this blogpost, I never actually cared for the Gen 3 games all that much anyway though. Still liked the anime, even if I was "too old" for it, but the games felt empty to me, like they lost their charm. I think I really only resented them so much because I somehow felt like that generation was responsible for the fad dying off. I actually still vividly remember when the anime got cancelled on network TV too, was shortly before I graduated High school. I think most people would have called it quits with Pokemon at the age of 17 but I still loved it even if it started to lose it's appeal. Kinda felt a bit hearbroken that after over 7 years of Pokemon at the time, it all sorta ended with a terrbly dubbed anime special. That's about when it finally hit that the fad was truly over with. Nobody cared about it anymore by that point. I didn't have cable so I went a few years without watching the show again. Wasn't until late into college that I found the anime online and caught up on episodes I missed since it was pulled from Kids WB. Watched it up until halfway through the Diamond & Pearl series with that horrible replacement voice cast and shitty writing, and then permanently switched to the subs when that became a thing. Never looked back since, still watch new episodes subbed and still play the new games to this day, just not nearly as frequently as I used to. It's a bit jarring looking back on it all though. As much as I still like Pokemon, it feels like the joy has been sucked out of it. I wanted to go into X & Y with the same feeling I had playing the first two generations but it never brought that same feeling back. I will say OR / AS made me appreciate Gen 3 a little more though, even if I still don't care much for Hoenn.

>>2323637
It's also dissapointing going back to play Gen 1 & 2 again now since it can't replicate that initial wonder and amazement of playing through them for the first time as a kid. Not really sure if it's just because I'm nearly 27 still trying to get enjoyment out of a franchise that's past it's prime and catered to a younger demographic or if it's the fact nobody really talks about it anymore like they used to back then, and the only merch you'll see is on a small shelf in a toy store. It's a stark contrast to how it used to be in the late 90's and early 00's. I haven't been legitimately excited for pokemon since the end of Gen 2, but I'm going to stubbornly cling on to it as long and as much as I can. As long as I still get some enjoyment from it, it's going to continue to be something I take part in.

Honestly makes me sad a lot of people here weren't old enough to really live through that wild ride. As much as you still see kids playing Pokemon games, they aren't nearly as invested as they used to be. They're not bringing cards and their games to school to battle and trade with their friends. They aren't discussing tactics on how to progress through an impossibly dark cave. They can't appreciate playing on a Gameboy Pocket or Color while hiding under the covers trying to play past their bedtime with the only way to see the screen is by using a wormlight or playing directly under a lamp. They aren't running around during recess pretending to be Pokemon Trainers throwing their suffocation hazard Pokeballs from Burger King with their Pokemon figures inside, they don't have Pikachu pencil tops or Pokemon lunchboxes, Charizard thermoses, Pokemon bedsheets and sleeping bags, plush figures, or pokemon shaped food. They can't appreciate the style and humor of the original season of the anime as it was airing on tv, getting up to watch it when it was airing at a reasonable time, with a bowl of Razzle Dazzle Rice Krispies or Pokemon cereal on the weekends. They aren't getting hyped for a movie that will be playing in theatres or the prospect of 100 new Pokemon past 151 in a generation that will take place in a new region, with rumors of a skateboard replacing the bike and finally be fully in color. They aren't making up various methods and theories on how to get a mew, or freaking out over trying to see what the hype over a glitch pokemon was, making up Pokegods that someone swears exists like "Charcolt" or fusions like Venustoise being possible, lying about ways to get pokemon that don't exist at all, don't exist yet, or don't exist in an earlier game. They aren't running to McDonalds or Burger King trying to get that Happy Meal toy or Kids Meal gold plated metal rectangle with a Pokemon on it that they have been trying to get a hold of.

>>2323645
They aren't seeing everyone and every place having Pokemon related items everywhere they look. They don't have to get in physical contact with one another and connect with a link cable to battle and trade, and don't have to worry about their teachers confiscating their pokemon cards while feeling like they might never see them again. And they sure as hell don't understand what it actually felt like having the Pokemon we grew up with 20 years ago being a massive worldwide phenomenon and how much that it really meant to us.
Yet, even after all of that, the Pokemon they know now is what they'll remember 20 years from now. They will have different reasononings and claims, and while it may not ever be as big as it used to be, they will still have their own fond memories of it just like we did.

...Ours were just better.

Let's be real here blogman, kids these days will have the same kind of memories, just with Minecraft.

>>2323649

No! That's not MY childhood, so it's shit!

>>2323631

I honestly would have preferred to be an adult in the 90s then a kid.

>>2323624

/vr/ is 25 and 34 year olds acting like 70 year olds.

>>2323649
It's the truth, and yet it's still so strange and foreign to think about. Still, there is the difference of how prevalent the internet is today. Those silly rumours probably still go around the playground every now and again, but any kid can just look them up and see if they're true these days. Whether that's good or bad is difficult to say, but it's certainly not the sort of world those who grew up during the Pokemon craze lived in.

>>2323001
He's saying that that's wrong, though. And it is.

From Yale Scientific,
>In 1982, the National Institute of Health announced that no link between sugar and hyperactivity had been scientifically proven. Why, then, does this myth still persist? It may be mostly psychological. As previously stated, experimentation has shown that parents who believe in a link between sugar and hyperactivity see one, even though others do not. Another possibility is that children tend to be more excited at events like birthday and Halloween parties where sugary foods are usually served . People may have confused proximity with correlation although the environment is probably more to blame than the food.

From WebMD,
>However, the majority of studies so far haven't found a connection, and most in the medical industry maintain there is no known link between sugar and hyperactivity.

From Science News,
>Sugar doesn’t change kids’ behavior, a double-blind research study found way back in 1994. A sugary diet didn’t affect behavior or cognitive skills, the researchers report. Sugar does change one important thing, though: parents’ expectations. After hearing that their children had just consumed a big sugar fix, parents were more likely to say their child was hyperactive, even when the big sugar fix was a placebo, another study found.

Just because it's "been a thing since forever" doesn't mean it's right. It's a common misconception.

>>2323824
>/vr/ is 25 and 34 year olds acting like 70 year olds.

More like 17 and 18 year olds acting like 70 year olds surrounded by 25 and 34 year olds acting like 40 year olds.

>>2324276
And they all act like 3 year olds if you say the wrong thing.

>>2319025

I don't understand why the GB had so much merchandise.

>>2326173
All of those things are portable devices that fit in your pocker, so if you're going to brand something with Nintendo, it makes sense to model it after Nintendo's portable device that kindasorta fit in your pocket. These also come from a time when it wasn't hip to plaster the image of the NES pad over everything under the sun.

>>2323624
It's just one guy who is probably under 18 trying to fit in. It cracks me up seeing people use the term millennial as an insult on 4chan because it's more than likely they are one most the time.

>>2326173
Kids who couldn't afford the real thing would often have to settle for much less

>>2326232
Oh you got Metroid II that's cool.

Just... just playin' my Watch Boy... *sniff*

>>2313661
>>2313684
no, it was like a normal card but with the yellow trim a brownish gold. i think it was an electrabuzz but i'm not positive.

>>2321186
>nin-ten-do
>IT'S TWO CEREALS IN ONE, WOW!

>>2323631
Jesus Christ

>>2329185
Remember Bobby's World?

>>2323631
>>2323637
>>2323639
>>2323645
>>2323648
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LLJT9yzPao
Relevant

i remember back before i even had a game boy to play pokemon i would collect these circle things from the back of pokemon mac and cheese and do war-strategy games using them by dragging them around the floor and pretending something exciting was going on

>>2330717
pogs. those were pretty popular back in the day though i never got into em.

>>2311517
I had Sonic, I remember wanting Tails so fucking bad. I wasn't even from the US, I think I was only visiting some relatives and they gave me the Sonic one as a gift. I would beg my aunt to look for the "fox toy thingy from Sonic", , but I believe by then they were no longer being offered in the kids meal. she looked around at flea markets and such but never found anything. A friend in school said he had it, but offcourse, when I offered to buy it from him he never fucking showed it to me, not sure if he really lost it or was just fucking with me.

I did end up finding Robotnik and Knuckles later in flea markets, though.

Speaking of Sonic merchandise, I also had pic related. I thought it was a pretty decent statue/figure considering it was just a container for shitty gum and pretty cheap, then again, Sonic toys weren't really a thing when this thing was out, so there wasn't much competition.

>>2321098
>Ny
>La
huehue

>>2310491
>1998 was 17 years ago.

>>2322060
lol that greentext story

Same toy set came to my town a few months ago. I went with my gf and ordered a happy meal when I saw mario toys. I have the mario with his arms out (1st toy in your image) on my desk right now.

Anyway regarding the thread:

I have some of the rarest OG Yugioh cards. The God cards (playable), all variants of the blue eye dragons and the ultimate blue eye white dragon. all variants of dark magician, joey's dragon, etc. OG Jinzo secret rare, and lots of other shit like the black luster soldier both ritual and non ritual, the fusion with 3 headed bewd, etc.

I'm 21 but thanks to living in Serbia the Pokemon fad came here during early 00's. Well in Croatia but I visited there every year for a few months and got to live trough the Pokehype.

I have the cards, gameboy games and everything. even some sticker albums and small toys. Ah the good old days of trading pokemon via the cable. I would go visit this one island in Croatia where all..literally ALL the kids had a gameboy and pokemon. There would be like 10 of us running around playing pokemon and having battles via cable. so much fun. same things with pokemon cards and later yugioh.

Anyway I'm a loyal DBZ fan and have a shit ton of action figures pic related not my collection but similar size. I have most of these + stuff from new collections 2008+

Also I have bought every single Need for Speed since the first one in 1994

>>2330918
>Misty

The little puerto rican store down my block were selling these when Poke-cards were super Hype. Nothing fancy, just recolored artwork rips put on a cheap "poke-card" background. They are actually stickers. The other side is sparkle-fied scenes from, I think, the first movie? Me being me, I never used the stickers. Glad I didnt.

I also have some of the Manga. Used to have the complete books, but I sold those and kept my paper versions.

As to the whole "My pokemon dick is bigger than you" argument, you forget that childhood spans a large swath of ages of children during that time. Pokemon was not an age specific kid thing. I saw just as many soccer moms going after merchandise for their little 3-5 year olds as for their 10-12 year olds.

I am 30. Pokemon was 17 years ago. I was 13, prime age to enjoy this shit to the full effect, and I was born in the 80s. My entire class played pokemon. Bike riding on my street, comparing pokemon cards, battling each other. That was my childhood of 1998. My sister had a poster for her room. I collected the cards like a maniac. (And I still have both my sisters cards and mine.) It wasnt an age specific phenomenon. Any child who could turn on the TV or beg their parents for merchandise were into it. Thats why it was so successful.

Trying to claim a territory in a fandom and decrying anyone else who enjoyed it as being "too young" or "too old" doesn't fully remember the effect of that brief and frantic fad, and does a disservice to others who would otherwise sympathize and reminisce with you. Cant we all just like something without comparing cock sizes?

>>2326257
>>2326232
>mfw kids were playing their Game Boys and I tried to fit in with the Game-and-watch style GB keychain game I stole from Walgreens

>>2317302
>that sexy misty sideboob

Normal Yahtzee game except if you roll ditto on the dice, it counts as any number. So basically Yahtzee with a cheat.

>>2330930
GBA isn't retro... how many times do you people need to be told..

>>2331361
you went to the special classes, didn't you?

>>2316952
I had this one as a kid

>>2310384
I know this is only tangentially related, but
>Get home from work
>Bought pop-tarts at the gas station
>Pop-tarts are cooked by the intense heat that my laptop is giving off in my bag
>Eating semi-cooked pop-tarts for the first time in years
Feels good, man.

>>2331426
damn, forgot the pic

>>2331418
>handheld equivalent of SNES
>not retro

b-but muh rules

>>2330930
wtf is the blue guy on the end? is that supposed to be link?

>>2331432
>rules only matter when they suit me

>>2331439
Oh come on, the gameboy advance is fairly old now, and there's plenty of retro games on the gba.

>>2331407
I have that card, too, and it felt like a minor grail victory to my underage mind.
>It's a Pokémon character! Naked!
>It's too hot for American kids!
Didn't help that I waifu'd Misty at the time.

>>2319475
i think i have that poster too somewhere in a locker or something. I wish i could get excited over a game as i was when pichu, elekid and marrill were announced

>>2322060
i have luigi, coin mario, yoshi, and toad.
I wish i had pipe mario and mushroom too.

McDonalds didn't get toys i cared about since like 2002

>>2330830
i love that.
Reminds me of some Dragon ball Z toys they sold in like 1999, they came in little metallic bags with some card. They were very well done, and smelt great

>>2330918
not those, they were like 5 cm tall at most

>>2316563
>Probably for the best that Crinkly Bottom has been destroyed and his house is a crack den.

>>2311050
Yesssssssss!

>>2329674
IT WAS A GOOD SHOW

>>2312723
We had this even in Argentina, a country where thematic cereals and marshmallows in cereal practically don't exist

>>2311893

Are those the toys that inspired Fake Crash?

I'd say to really remember and appreciate POKEMANIA RUNNIN' WILD BROTHER you'd have to have been born by like '91-'92 at the very latest.

I was born in '89 so I was 9 when that shit hit out of nowhere. I remember kids talking about some crazy game that had to do with monsters that took Japan by storm and it was coming to the states. I asked for, and got a Gameboy pocket for my birthday in the summer of '98 with mortal kombat, killer instinct, and wwf King of the ring. Those were all to tide me over though for when the new monster game was coming out later that year. I got red version for Xmas 98 and was a full on POKEMANIAC BROTHER for the next 2-3 years.

That shit was everywhere. The show, the food, the toys, the games, the cards, fucking anything that could have anything to do with Pokemon did. Everyone wanted on the pokemon cash train.

Fuck. Even liquor stores around where I live sold the cards. I remember my dad on Monday nights would have a couple friends over for wrestling and he'd get a 12 pack or some shit for them for the night. Not every night, but a lot of nights he'd get back from the beer run with booster packs for me and my younger brothers. We'd each get one. Sometimes if we were super fuckin lucky, he'd stop at Burger King on the way home too and get us some of those sweet ass toys with the kids meals. Fuck that shit was awesome.

>>2321150
>Jigglypuff
>Wigglytuff
What the fuck

Somebody wanna tell me how I scroll through this entire fucking thread with no mention of these fuckers? The 7-11 in the middle of nowhere (my home) sold them when I was a kid and I just about died.

>>2310725
what the fuck

>>2310384
I had this wonderful ape, Diddy and Cranky. Fucking awesome toys, wish I had 'em still for nostalgia sakes.

I recall looking through some shit and finding my older sister's old Pokemon Gold & Silver sticker book. In it were notes and stories about her favorite pokemon. IIRC, she liked Azumarill the most.

>>2310384
MY POKEMANZ

>>2310384
Looks like an edible seizure.

>>2341021
Overdose on pure sugar in Pokemon form, while having a seizure from an episode of Pokemon. What a time to be a kid.

>>2310658

It's like you've never read I-mockery or Seanbaby.

These Pokemon posts are confusing me a bit considering I was born in the mid 90's, but I don't get why you guys think certain things just stopped.

Pokemon cards were still popular as shit where I lived in the early 2000's. No one knew how to actually play them but they were popular. Toys R Us was still infested with Pokemon merch.

You could still buy Pokemon Yellow back then from EB Games, too.

>>2330967
I remember getting some of the comics on the top left from a dollar store.

Weirdass rumors were still being passed around in school and daycare in the 00's too.

>>2311186
Uh you would have been like 2, tops. The fever for Pokemon was like 98-99.

>tfw you're 28 so you actually lived through the Pokemon craze
Shit was bananas.

>>2311335
Oh god, I still have one these in storage. I think I was in all of first grade back then.

>>2341680
I agree. I'm 23. I'm just old enough to remember a lot of the pokemon craze in the beginning. Kids in the play ground knocking each other's teeth out up over a Mew card, the old card game pokemon leagues, Gen 1, The Electric Tale of pikachu, the movies, etc. But I'm also young enough to have had a lot of my childhood be the early 2000's.

Third Gen wasn't QUITE as monolitihic, but Pokemon was still certainly going strong for a bit. A lot of the kids like myself who grew up with Gen 1 or 2 earlier weren't old enough to grow out of it. However, by like 2003-4, so there was certainly a dead period between gens 3 & 4.

>>2330918
>DBZ DBZ DBZ DBZ DBZ DBZ DBZ DBZ
>a lone Misty

You had one job...

>>2344029
Having a kid showed me that the fever for Pokemon was actually 1998-2015.

>>2344246
What he's saying is that "Pokémania" as a thing was a distinct period. Pokémon never died, just like Nintendo stuff in general has never been unpopular, but the peak was that time when you could just walk into a convenience store in bumblefuck-nowhere and buy a booster pack off the counter.

It's like 70s kids saying they were around for Beatlemania. Yeah, obviously the Beatles never stopped being popular, but it was a cultural force that had a definite peak.

>>2344863
I can still buy Pokemon cards at any grocery or convenience store where I'm at. Kids clothes still have Pikachu on them.

I get you're saying that there was a distinct period where possibly you and your peers were in the height of Pokemon fever but seriously, man, it has really maintained that level of hype. Since it came out there really hasn't been a point in time where Pokemon wasn't hot shit.

Yeah, Pokémania in the US peaked from '98 to '01. The franchise is still running strong though, and kids are still naturally drawn to it.

My lil bro was born in '03, and he loves Pokémon. He's got roms and emulators for every game up to the DS era, tons of related books he's pored over, and a binder of hand-me-down cards he keeps meticulously organized. My nephew is 8, and while he doesn't have any of the games he's got books and cards and stuffed Pikachus galore.

>>2344876
Just because it still exists doesn't mean it's as popular as before.
My little brother is nine years younger than me and did not experience the same Pokemon phase I did. Sure, he enjoyed it, played the games, watched the show, etc, but he wasn't interested in (nor his friends afaik) nearly the amount of merchandise my friends and I were.
No, this is not conclusive evidence, but I do think there was a certain time period where Pokemon exploded and have simply persisted since.

>>2344876
I'm not disputing that it's always been hot shit. But there was a period when it was constantly in the news -- a time when schools would make special rules just because Pokémon cards were a problem, and fundamentalist religious groups would protest it, and it was involved in promotions with just about every unrelated foodstuff. I would say it was even a tentpole of the early 2000s anime bubble, along with Toonami.

>>2344885
Basically this. Obviously Pokémon is still a cultural juggernaut, but it's not the frenzy it was in the beginning. A "mania," if you will.

>>2341680
Honestly, I think a good chunk of people who grew up with original pokemon just cant place the dates right.

Actually, no. I speak only of myself. I am not 100% sure when I enjoyed Pokemon. Around the 98 era.

>>2312665
why do you care? Stop caring about the experiences of other individuals

>>2310418
Amerifat here. I hate Marshmallows too. I like my cereal crunchy, not alternating from crunchy to soft...unless that's the milk's fault

>>2344913
I can, I guess? I got the game right around US launch, which means I was in the 5th grade. I watched the Pokemon anime right around when it first debuted, back when it was in syndication (UPN in my area) and not yet a WB thing.

I don't know the lauch of X and Y was pretty big.

But i guess that's what happens with things that get extremely popular, they gain a huge fanbase at first but later they become things that have their fans and a big audience but don't have the cultural impact.

>>2310457
>>2310493
I'm 19 too and I fully experienced the Pokemon fad, I had a gameboy color, blue/yellow/silver/crystal, still have like 300+ Pokemon figures, even have some original 1999 Burger King stuff. I had that Tiger electronics pokedex. I went to the store almost every week for new pokemon shit even though my family was never rich. It was the first thing I was ever into pretty much, I remember trading a Moltres figure for Zapdos in kindergarten, and I had the handbook and everything. When the anime came out I watched it religiously every saturday, i didn't even give a shit about other saturday morning cartoons, pokemon was all i cared about

I honestly don't know how you missed it

Anyone ever have these? They rev up. I had luigi mario donkey kong and wario but I haven't seen them in over a decade

Not having one

>>2347324
Me and my sisters had Mario, Luigi and Wario, but we eventually lost them all.

>>2335937
Oh wow I remember those. I had DK, Yoshi, Mario and Toad

>>2344193
>>2344193
implying misty wouldnt make a sick ass Z-fighter.

>>2311893
have the second spyro in the back

>>2312234
Pokemon is dying, though. It's getting at the age where it's no longer a cool thing for little kids and it's instead "that thing my parents liked when they were kids" which makes it have a new uncool factor.

I've only heard of that being a major "issue" in Japan where Yokai Watch is pretty much the new Pokemon, but it the franchise is reaching its 20th anniversary stateside so it's coming soon here as well.

>>2350762
I can confirm that Pokemon card trading is at such a fever pitch at my son's school I'm getting letters from the principal about it.

Dying my ass.

>>2350856
Notice I was mostly talking about Japan. I understand it's hard to read the whole post, but I'm sure you can do it if you try.

All pokemon needs to kill it is a replacement that actually stands the test of time. Something Yugioh sized, but not so soon afterwards.