90s kid thread
We'll never have another pokemania in the world again. They did a full on media blitz. Anime, games, card games for the nerds, plushies for the girls. It was beautiful and we couldn't help ourselves. Adventure, battles, trading. It's something that will never happen again.
>>737709841Genwunner here. We had a comic and card shop in my town and the owner refused to carry pokemon or any other Japanese things. This was during it's peak popularity. He would call it "Jap crap" he closed his store 3 years later after 20 years in business.
Is the past really a foreign country?
>>737709707I want to go back
>tfw school banned pokemonEvolution made the poor kids’ parents angry.
You had to be there to experience it.
>>737710069there was also tamagotchi mania, that felt almost as intense but it just fizzled out very fast
>Buying some shit cereal you never eat to get the game
>>737710069We just had a second one in 2016, retard.
>>737712776it lasted about a month and died off as all fotm do. once people stopped wanting to buy incubators all the time, they dropped it. it became a "(You) still play that game?" thing from the end of 2016 to today and beyond.
>>737709707Fuck I was a le 90's kid.
>>737712375i remember when lays used to have money inside their bags. you could get $1-$100 bills. i always got $1.
