What was Pokemania actually like? I feel like I missed out on a huge part of the franchise because I was born in the 2000s and my first games were the DS ones.
>>58841449>This thread again Holy larp
>>58841449It felt magical. I was obsessed with the anime and me and my friends would spend all day outside having pretend Pokemon battles. We also had a bunch of toys and cards.
It felt magical. I was obsessed with the anime and me and my friends would spend all day outside having pretend Pokemon battles. We also had a bunch of toys and cardsfucking miss college man
The anime was the most intriguing part of it to me at the time. It was still early days for anime in the US and I hadn't seen any prior to it. I was so obsessed with how it looked visually, it was immediately noticeable how different it was compared to everything else on TV even if the plots were pretty mundane at times. And when the movie came out, just wow, I had never seen anything like that on the big screen before. As it went on and anime became more prevalent and available, I stopped watching especially because the show really fell off in quality pretty quickly, but I'll never forget just how into it I was. Nowadays I appreciate the games way more.
>>58841454Did most people have link cables? How was it when a new gen came out after gen 1?
same opsame 3 manchildren
>>58841585>manchildren>on the pokemon boardNo way
>58841585>more than one person can’t possibly have enjoyed Pokémon as an older aged millenialKwab
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>>58841449If you were there during the Pokemon Go craze, then there you are. It's just that but with Gameboys instead of phones.
Everyone was talking about Pokemon at my school.....then Gen 3 happened and it stopped.
>>58841798Middle of gen 2 for us. The anime moving at a snail's pace did not help.
>>58841449>every kid at school played Pokemon games and damn near everyone wore at least something with Pokemon shit on it>when a kid got a new game first (Yellow and the Pikachu GBC blew people's minds), that kid became popular for a while>half the kids had some "um, actually there's a secret evolution for Rattata, NO NOT RATICATE" story because knowing something about Pokemon before everyone else was The Cool Thing>every gas station and corner store had (mostly-unlicensed) Pokemon shit in it (thinking back, some of the shit I kept finding in a local corner store might've been imported from Japan, as a bunch of Pokemon names were "wrong". God I miss that store, I think it's gone now)>some kids literally fought over whether Digimon or Pokemon was better/"cooler">everyone seemed to have That One Fat Pikachu stuffed animal>most kids played the TCG early on (before it got too complex, anyway)>you could actually find trades with kids>every new Pokemon movie the first couple gens became actual "events", everyone hyping the shit out of them and leaving the theaters fulfilled every time>kids getting hyped as hell when they got their Happy Meal gold bar Mewtwo or whatever, and half the kids breaking the Pokeball because they threw it like oneMost of Pokemania died some time around late gen 2 or early gen 3 though, it eroded down to being any other nerdy hobby. I still went to Pokemon TCG leagues up until about gen 4, where the game got a lot more complex and sweaty, as more adults started to get in with overpowered expensive meta decks just to stomp on kids.
Pokemania was never a thing.
