To all the 90s kids was pokemon that big or was it just tv advertisements trying to make kids think it was popular so kids buy pokemon games
>>739782443>>>/vp/ go back
>>739782443It was the biggest thing on the planet.
>>739782443idk if i'm really a 90s kid but yes it was huge and everywheret. born 92
>>739782443Pokemania was so big that nearly 30 years later that there are enough people who accept Game Freak's 0 effort dogshit to fork over millions every single release. If you thought Valvefags and Destinycucks were slavish, just know they don't hold a candle to Pokecultists.
>>739782443Yes it was a huge craze in the late 90s, it was all over the place. Kids were playing it and talking about it at school, the trading cards blew up, the merch was all over the place. It was pretty much impossible to ignore. Bigger than Tickle me Elmo, bigger than Furbies, bigger than Pogs because it lasted longer and cast a much wider net. Only things I can think of that rivaled Pokemania back then was hype for Power Rangers in the mid 90s and TMNT in the late 80s to early 90s
>>739783069Oh and all the joke parodies. Cracked magazine, South Park, Simpsons, tons of other cartoons, sooo many things had Pokemon references or episodes around that time. Everyone knew who Pikachu was. Even today I think it has as much or more recognition than Mickey Mouse or Super Mario
One thing people don't talk about much is that during pokemania the cards were even bigger than the games
>>739782443Pokemania was the craziest and longest lasting trend I've lived through.
>>739782443It was big. I pretended to be too old for that shit but secretly thought that Misty is really hot and pretended to watch it just to keep my younger siblings company.
Remember what they took from you
Is google and youtube offline? To all the 20's retards Are you technologically illiterate or just normal kind of stupid?
>>739782443Yes. I want to go back.
I was like 12 when it came out and I refused to play it. I thought it was gay shit for toddlers compared to real men's games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy.
>>739782443I think gen 1 was kind of big, at least for children. Or it was just my own circle of friends. I remember begging my parents for the mewtwo movie for Christmas and irritating my entire family by watching it regularly. I had a friend who's parents bought him everything he asked for, he had a shit ton of cards and the Gameboy games, and it made me jealous because my family was poor and my mom wouldn't ever buy me cards or a Gameboy because I had a super Nintendo.
>>739782443It was legitimately that popular that wal-mart had dedicated pokemon corners with mini tournaments and schools often banned the cards.
>>739785790Chrono Trigger and FF6 were fun games.
>>739782443I personally avoided pokemon after the first 3 gens, and even then I only ever played the games. Never watched the show or consumed anything else. Now I am 34 and I feel absolutely enthralled playing their stupid ass card game online. I took one crack at it a year ago and this shit invades my each and every weekend. Genuinely, I wish I got into it when I was much fucking younger. I won't ever go to a cringey ass event but the amount of time I spend and joy I receive from this is mind blowing. I hope card games and pokemon still resonate with the kids on school grounds.
>>739782443What the fuck does this even mean? Just look at the numbers, they don't lie.It was huge. There was always someone with a gameboy and pokemon at school trips.
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>>739782443It was bigger than beanie babies
What does she smell like?Hard mode: no flowers
>>739782443I still remember coming back to school in the fall of 99 and it was literally all anyone cared about. Like, before all of the kids at recess would be in their little groups playing games or sports or w/e and during peak pokemania it was all card trading or playing our gameboys. Like most schools it became such a problem that they started to ban it but it didn't stop the hype. There was literally nothing else like it.
>>739782443Shut the fuck up
Yes. What the fuck did you expect?Or did you want fucking stories about it? Like where I gave a girl a Ponyta card and she said it was the coolest looking thing ever. Me trading an Arcanine for Sandshrew and getting shit for it because I liked Sandshrew more. Or when I showed up to a tourney and got fucking DESTROYED by haymaker mixmaxing. Most kids never bothered to learn how to play, largely because the instructions were poorly translated. Recess was pokemon, wrestling, power rangers or dbz. The shit was banned in schools because it was like fucking crack to kids. Churches banned it and called it evil mainly because shithead kids would play gameboy at full volume during church, or loudly talk about pokemon. GOD FORBID PARENTS ACTUALLY PARENT AND TELL JUNIOR TO NOT BRING THE GAMEBOY INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. "Pokemon is satanic" was just a super easy way to get that message across. You could go to any hobbyist store, pokemon. Any video store? Pokemon. Gas stations? Pokemon. Your kmarts, walmarts, and targets were constantly flooded with pokemon merch. KFC made bank because it had pokemon plushies. If you didn't have pokemon to move, you were fucking up. Getting Mewtwo was considered a peak vidya moment. >>739784445They can easily figure shit out. They want fucking stories to reaffirm their beliefs. Millenials and zoomers are guilty of this, but late zoomers and galphas are worse at it. They want another to type up their opinions to validate said opinions.
>>739789525Vagisil
for a couple years it was everything. we had the toys, the sticker albums, the pogs, trading cards, popscicles with temp tattoos, the show ran every day on free to air tv, we went to the movies and got the cool Mex card, got talking plushies, shirts, sneakers, coloring books. We lived and breathed pokemon. Zoomers will never understand as there's never been something similar ever sinceFunnily enough we didn't have the portable games or the 64 games because we were poor third worlders
>>739790634>Mex cardMEW card kek. It's probably not worth much as they gave one to pretty much everyone wo watched the movie
>>739790558What is wrong with you?
>>739782443The game has collecting in hot girls giving it mass appeal. I am hyped for Wind and Waves, especially at the prospect of FEMC in a skintight wetsuit.
>>739789717>Like most schools it became such a problem that they started to ban it but it didn't stop the hype. There was literally nothing else like it.Yu-Gi-Oh was also like this when it started. Teachers threatened to take away kids cards, but everyone would still pull them out during recess. I distinctly remember right when Pokemania was finally dying out Yu-Gi-Oh immediately picked up it's momentum . All the kids went from obsessing over Pokemon to Yu-Gi-Oh as the next thing. After the Yu-Gi-Oh hype died down there was nothing else like Pokemania or the Yu-Gi-Oh craze.
>>739792584>there was nothing else like Pokemania or the Yu-Gi-Oh crazeParents realized they could just get their kid a tablet and refuse to buy them much else. Most toys and schoolyard crazes died because of this.
>>739782443It was I was 7 years old in 2001 and everyone at my school was in to it even people who weren't into videogames. Pet raising anime series/videogames were huge in general though. Things like Monster Rancher/Digimon/Medabots. I never really liked it all that much except for it being a JRPG. My favorite one was the game were you could build hidden bases. Digimon World and Monster Rancher were obviously the superior games and the Pokémon anime was complete dogshit. >>739792584Yu-Gi-Oh was pretty cool I liked the anime and the card game was a lot of fun.
>>739792584Beyblade was pretty big for a while.
>>739782443It was genuinely that big.
>>739794037I think beyblade was still a thing into the 10s. I think the successor ended up being fidget toys, which I'm pretty sure modern kids are still obsessed with although most are different from the spinners and cubes.
>>739784136I was happy I was able to get the Vileplume keychain, but I remember being really frustrated that I never got Voltorb or Tentacruel.
>>739790690I graded mine at an 8 and sold it for 120. Sold my brother's with a huge crease on it for 70 last month.
Anyone else heard about TCG shops opening the packs taking out the rare ones and resealing them? I wonder if I missed out on any rare Yu-Gi-Oh cards in my youth because of this.
>>739782443SEX SEX SEX
>>739794494Reminder that they deliberately design these girls for this response
>>739782443God I wanna rape a brat like that so bad
>>739782443pokemon died when they started americanizing it
>>739794341Where did you get them graded?
>>739794589They were just accurately representing modern europe. They'll return to the good old stuff in Wind and Waves.
>>739782443i remember how much i wanted to fuck Misty
>>739782443Ever wonder why zoomers get so upset that GF panders to genwunners so much?It's because the OG 151 hit late 90s American white suburbia like motherfucking crack.
It was enormous.
>>739782443I only remember like 1 pokemon adeverything else was pure organic hype watching pokemon at home playing pokemon at school/home/car/plane talking about pokemon with friends at school it was just nonstop pokemon
>>739792584Yugioh was a lot smaller, Pokemon was so big that even girls cared about it
>>739782443Even if you weren't there, you just have to consider the fact that we didn't really have the internet at the time and yet everyone knew about things like MissingNo and the Mew rumour. That stuff permeated through word of mouth, not people posting it to the front page of Facebook or Reddit, so naturally everyone was obviously talking about it.
>>739794123Cute female weavile
>>739782443Both
>>739782576FPBP
>>739782443The effect of the show coming to the US cannot be understated as factor in it's popularity. Red/Blue were also fairly revolutionary games for their time and platform.Source: I am 36.
>>739796483not with those ears
>>739782443every store had a pokemon section. even stores that didn't normally sell cards, games, toys, etc
>>739795160>I only remember like 1 pokemon adthe gameboy one where hitmonlee falls in a pitfall? that's the one i remember
>>739797282maybe? it involved a bus or school bus it's very vague memory
>>739791148Nothing, what's wrong with her? Why does she smear so much vagisil on her lady parts that I can smell it from 5 feet away?
>>739782443Pokemon is the most profitable media franchise of all time.Nearly 2x as big as Mickey Mouse.Nearly 3x as big as Star Wars.What do you think?
>>739782443Pokemon was so big that I could go to school with my gameboy and trade with random kids in the bag room
>>739782443I would just be outside with my game boy color in the 90s and some neighbor I've never seen before would come around and want to trade Pokemon. The only other time modern Pokemon was that big where random people on the street or at the park would interact with you about it was when Pokemon Go came out.
>>739797336ON YOUR GAMEBOY, THATS WHEREyou're referring to the one where the fat bus driver crushes a bus full of pokemon to create a gameboy cartridge
>>739797583was just thinking that. imagine pokemon go but bigger
>>739782443>was pokemon that bigPlease refer to the chart.
>>739797598kek now that I rewatch it it's a pretty grim ad for a kids toy
>>739782443Here u go OP.>>739797724very dated chart
>>739797724Proof America and Japan are the only countries with the spirit left.
>>739797724harry potter exploding like that is pretty impressive
>>739797852Wow, they TRIPLED their fucking profits.
>>739797906I'm more amazed that Hokuto No Ken managed to gross twenty billion dollars almost entirely on video games and not merchandising or book sales.
>>739797852I didn't know winnie the pooh was that big.
>>739798349Yeah but that's nothing compared to my poo.
>>739782443pokemania was an ACTUAL cultural phenomenon when the jannies use "cultural phenomenon, nothing we can do" to justify souls and smash shitting up the board for weeks at a time when there's an announcement? yeah no thats not a cultural phenomenon thats just them being lazy and not doing their job.pokemon overtook culture so hard for a while that even old out of touch grandmas knew about the "pikachu monster creatures".you could actually trade pokemon with other students, at the grocery store, with other kids at the park or even on your street.same for pokemon cards, everyone had some. if you ask someone else they might bring a few to trade the next daywe still see echos of it today, like the mainline games (somehow) still being popular when they've devolved to shovelware and scalpers making it so that the cards are impossible to buy for children.there hasnt been anything like it since, closest was pokemon go but there's just not going to be any recreating pokemania.
>>739797906It was pretty much the last popular book series and also one of the last decent series Hollywood put out.
>>739798872thinking on it, harry potter might be the last good movie series :\how depressing
>>739797724Who the fuck actually likes Mickey Mouse? I've never once seen a Mickey Mouse fan, he's just Disney's mascot that they feel obliged to shove into things.
People are still fighting each other over Pokemon card releases
>>739799186Italians.
>>739799186All the dumbasses still buying tickets to enter the parks in person (a lot)
>>739799186The mouse transcends fandom culture, it's an omnipresent brand like coca cola. Most people aren't "fans" of coke but if they want a soda odds are they'll buy one just because it's there and they know it's good enough. same with parents getting any kind of toys or clothes for their kids.
>>739799186Mickey used to be pretty cool. go watch the old 20s and 30s shorts Walt and Iwerks did, he was an actual character rather than just a mascot. those Epic Mickey games are based on that personality, and are good
>>739799186i imagine it encompasses all of disney's animation stuff. minus the princess stuff which seems to be its own franchise
It was huge, man. You cant even possibly imagine. Even christcucks felt threatened. Started calling Pikachu a spawn of Satan and shit.
>>739798484This.Pokemon had a bigger cultural impact than the holocaust.
>>739799809Anal only chastity slave.
I was 5 at its peak. It was absolutely fucking everywhere. I'd get out of my Gengar bed in my Pikachu pajamas, go out to eat my Pokemon pop tart and watch some episodes of the show, then I'd read through some of the picture books, then I'd have Pokemon mac & cheese later with little cut-out pogs on the box that I'd mess with, and I'd play with all the toys that came out of Burger King or McDonald's or wherever. There was nothing else like it ever.
>>739794037Beyblade was going on around the same time as Yu-Gi-Oh if I remember correctly. Yu-Gi-Oh was definitely the bigger of the two.>>739795367It was pretty close. They both took over schools for a while.
Honestly the only parallel to Pokemania would be Roblox today. Kids are crazy about that. But even that doesn't seem to compare to Pokemon's total cultural saturation at its apex. It was like the definition of "phenomenon." A cultural virus/meme that infiltrated all levels of society.Harry Potter mania nearly rivals it, I'd say. But you weren't around for that either, were you?
>>739782443It was that big. Probably bigger than you're imagining.
>>739799296Loved pk
>>739801476even with so few pokemon actually in the game it always felt even just playing red that there was so much to find
>>739782443i still don't get the appeal of sex with her.She's too small
>>739782443It was huge. Like I don't think I could properly express how big it was. You go into any book store on a Saturday morning in the 90s and kids were tangled up in link cables trading pokemon or competing in pokemon tcg leagues. Everything on the shelves in stores was Pokemon. It was crazy.
I was so young when Pokemania was happening I probably didn't appreciate it as much as the older kids. It felt like I was just going along with what all the other kids were doing. I was 4 when it really took off.
>>739782443What everyone else said. It was a big pop cultural deal. I can't think of anything equivalent in modern day, except maybe when Star Wars Episode 7 was everywhere. The difference being people liked and wanted Pokemon instead of it feeling very commercialized. It felt organic like you part of an experience. You had people clamoring for Snorlax, Poliwhirl, Meowth, Jigglypuff, etc. It wasn't just promoting the cover legendaries + starters + [insert Lucario equivalent], it was all the Pokemon being advertised (some more than others). I don't think anything can come close due to the unique culture and way the internet was at the time.
>>739794696As someone who wasn't a fan, I can tell you for a fact that no one gave a FUCK about Pokeshit until they Americanized it.
>>739807064>they Americanized itI think you and the other anon(s) are talking and different things.Gen 1 and 2 are very distinctly Japanese. The anime is extremely Japanese in the first season as well (gen 1 / Kanto, although the gen 2 games were already in development, which is why Ho-Oh is in the very first episode). With the gen 3 games and partway through the Johto anime, they changed things to unify the branding, like removing overtly Japanese cultural elements and real life animals. That's what most people mean about Pokemon getting globalized or Americanized.
>>739782443It was collossal>Literally the biggest videogame since Tetris>Bigger merchandise spinner than Beanie babies or Disney> Bigger card game than Magic the Gathering>Most popular kids Animation of its time The fact these all hit within a short period and all of the arms of the franchise were a mega hits and fed into each other made it all-encompassing.
>>739782443Both, it was everywhere. I lived on a farm in bumfuck nowhere and even I got a little newspaper sheet adressed to ME with info when the first episode was starting on tv. So they did marketing right and then there was a huge craze about. Don't forget that was at a time where anime ,collectables, trading card games, etc weren't really a thing, so it was all new and exciting. Also the first gameboy games were really good for their time
>>739799717>>739799186>>739797724The Yellow part of the chart is Merchandise. Mickey floats entirely on branded merch and mickey mouse ears at Disney parks because he's basically just an icon.I think you can see how Mario beat Mickey in popularity despite Mickey being the bigger brand because most of Mario's income is in games what the character is associated with. Whereas nobody is buying Mickey Mouse cartoons or DVDs and Disney wouldn't dare make a Mickey Mouse movie to put in cinemas.
>>739782443cute boy, name?
>>739782443I'm not really a 90's fag. (born April 1999) But Even I remember Pokemania. Pokemon was literally everywhere, you couldn't escape it. It was all over the cartoon channels, the card games, and the Merchandise was everywhere. In retrospect, I probably was the main intended audience of pokemon during this era, but I was more of Sony and PC fag. Inb4 some fuckhead crusty Millennial comes in and tells me I'm full of shit and don't know what I'm talking about But yeah,It did began to simmer down after gen three. Though.
>>739807929>I probably was the main intended audience of pokemon during this eraKids are always the main intended audience. Pokemon still makes so much money because it's maintained this unbroken chain of kids playing the games and watching the show. The merch is what makes them money, and most of it is kids shoes, t-shirts, lunchboxes, fruit snacks and other junk. I interact with younger kids pretty regularly, and there's never been a time that I can recall Pokemon being unpopular. It just wasn't as absolutely in-your-face insane as the late 90s and early 2000s was.
The actual big boom was all in gen 1. That's when it took over culture as a whole. By the time gen 2 came around, everyone already knew what it was and granny pushed it out of her mind. There were no more mad dashes to Burger King for limited edition gold plated cards but the kids who watched the show, played the games and collected the cards were still mostly along for the ride. That first movie could be compared to any of the blockbusters since and probably outperformed a lot of them. Thinking of recent trends like oppenheimer/Barbie, they don't even come close. The actual "pokemania" was fairly short lived just because like another anon said, it was something new in the culture itself. For Americans anyway. We had a few anime like DBZ and some targeted at a slightly older audience on Toonami but nothing with such mass appeal. By the time Gameboy advance came out, arguably even before that when more people had Gameboy color as opposed to the grey bricks, the mania in pokemania was no longer there. It was just another IP so to speak. Not to say it wasn't still massively popular, just different. When I think of pokemania that is the short period of time I think of. When it just fuckin exploded.
>>739804018She's decently tall and has wide hips. She is what you'd call a little lady.
>>739808663shut up loser
>>739808906I was riding my bike to the penny candy store while you were still swimming in your dad's balls. Show some goddamn respect to your elders, chump.
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>>739782443This shit united literally the ENTIRE world anonIn fact I don't think any franchise has made this big of a splash since. Which means it's still the largest global craze ever in history
>>739804018That's the appeal
>>739782443My dad was a bit uptight about toys and would scoff at us youngsters' little playground fads, but being a tech-savvy boomer he knew his tech trends. One day, out of nowhere, he suggested we go buy a Gameboy Color and Pokemon Blue just so I don't miss out and be excluded at school from the wave that's coming. It was entirely and uniquely his initiative, I wasn't even aware of the game at the time. He did me a solid because when the wave did hit the schoolyard, I wasn't just in on it, I was among the first to ride it. It was so, so much bigger than tamagotchis.
>>739800873Wrong, the only parallel to Pokémania is Simpsonsmania, down to both of them still being technically "alive" today even though they should have died at least a decade ago.
