>Gary Oak: the GBA killed Pokemania.

Words spoken by someone who wasn't alive in 1999

>>59387457
I mean yeah, Gary Oak is a dedicated loser whose role in the games is to job to you. Makes sense he'd say something stupid like that.
>>59387716
>Fell for a marketing campaign award

kys frogslop

Poke: Nintendo killed Pokemania becaude they didn't want Mario to be surpassed (they failed)

>>59387367
Time killed Pokemania

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>>59388507
Why did they do it?

>>59388513
Because once you get on Time magazine you peaked and its over

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>>59388513
>soul
>souless

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Why do zoomers believe Pokemania didn't happen? Do you deny 9/11 too?

>>59387367
>Hoennbabies malding at the truth thread
Weird but ok

>>59389278
They are eternally seething for not experiencing it. Go confirmed that it was indeed real and they seethe and cope by saying Go is non canon.

>>59389278
9/11 happened but not for the popularly cited reason. The Holocaust, however...
>>59389308
>Hoenn out of nowhere
OBSESSED.
>>59389312
What are you talking about? Go created the real, organic Pokemania. What is commonly referred to as "Pokemania" by /vp/edophile boomers was just a fad driven by a marketing campaign and an admittedly decent anime. It didn't last long at all, hence the fact the objectively superior sequel was nowhere near as popular because the new gaming hotness- the PS2- had come out the same year.

>>59389315
>out of nowhere
(You) mentioned Hoenn (gen 3) first retardbro.

>>59389315
Go craze was just pokemania 2.0, all the kids who watched the original anime and played RBY were now grown up and played Go. That's it.

>>59389332
>Implying Gen 3 was just Hoenn
>Implying OP only mentioned Gen 3
OK retard.
>>59389336
No because the "first Pokemania" wasn't real. it was an artificial fad driven by marketing and mythologized by genwunners.

>>59388410
Nigga Pokémania WAS the marketing campaign. That's all that Pokémania was. A very, very successful marketing campaign, carefully planned out and executed by the western marketing team.
Wtf did you think Pokémania was??
>>59389315
The Pokémon Go hype was nothing but an aftershock of Pokémania. It never would've happened if Pokémania didn't happen.

>>59389344
>Wtf did you think Pokémania was??
Exactly what you just described, hence why genwunners bitching that [X] "killed" Pokemania are retards as if it was some kind of magical phenomenon and not just marketers taking advantage of the stupidity of 90s kids.
>The Pokémon Go hype was nothing but an aftershock of Pokémania. It never would've happened if Pokémania didn't happen.
On the contrary; Pokemon Go's popularity was unexpected and organic compared to the soulless fad that was the "original".

>>59389338
It was real to me as kid and was real enough to create the Go craze. Mald about it zoomie.

>>59389356
Kek based

>>59389356
Every kid watched the show, played the games and had the toys, sorry you never experienced anything like it zoomie, stay mad.

>>59389378
Sure they did, Rosenberg. And that was totally the result of organic popularity and not aggressive marketing to braindead 90s kids.

>>59389348
I mean it was obviously a fad/trend, and those don't last. They naturally die down. So yes, "X killed Pokémania" posts are retarded, because its "death" was completely inevitable, especially because it pandered to kids and kids get bored of things very quickly. But that doesn't make Pokémania any less "real". It happened. You setting up requirements like "it has to be organic" is just moving the goalposts to make an argument that doesn't exist. Pokémania existed, and was the result of aggressive marketing, simple as.
And no, Pokémon GO's success was 100% due to people going "DUDE remember POKÉMON from our heckin childhood?? Let's play this on our epic new smartphones" and kids jumping on the popularity train. Literally all that is to it, and literally still the same reason why Charizard and and Kanto shit is still shilled so hard. It's nostalgia bait for the normies who only care about their childhood memories of consuming media and don't actually care about the franchise.

>>59389397
NTA (I'm pretty sure he's trolling) but there are a LOT of people who act like Pokemania was some kind of miracle from a utopian era (as opposed to a clever marketing scheme) and that people who experienced it are some kind of superior breed (as opposed to, you know, easy targets). Certainly it's why I roll my eyes whenever anyone starts rambling about Pokemania.

>>59387367
Metagross level IQ: Pokèmania never ended in first place

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>>59389406
This is actually true in Japan

>>59389278
Because theyre mad they were egg cells in their mommys ovaries while oldchads were out here eating good with the simple og 151 dex, people far and wide getting hype with all the cool new dicoveries and rumors without some retarded bong with an outdated website or 100s of articles and youtube videos autistically spoiling everything seconds after release and picking up what are now vintage cards on the cheap while bring free of the frenzied scalpers, furshit mons and DLC garbage we get today

>>59387367
What "killed" pokemania is that the kids grew up and played other games. Pokemon GO brought many of them back briefly via nostalgia.The franchise has slowly turned into bland, widely appealing friendship instead of cool monster fights with a target audience, so it can never really have the same unique and distinct niche yet passionate fan base among kids like it used to. People will just be like 'oh, Pokemon thats fine' or 'muh nostalgia:

>>59387367
>Gen 3 killed Pokemania
The only Truth

Zoomies don't understand that Pokémania was just peak 90s consoom culture fueled by a grand scale marketing campaign. People were rich, houses were cheap, everyone had excess money to buy their kids shitty toys and random tech crap that was aggressive advertised. It was the perfect time to sell shit to kids, and kids love popular things, so Nintendo marketers went fucking nuts on the advertising, toy production, brand deals etc
This consoom culture started dying down in the 2000s and then crashed and burned in the 2008 financial crisis, people didn't have money to spend on useless shit. That's why we've never seen another phenomenon like Pokémania since then, no brand dares to go all in on marketing cause it wouldn't be worth it anymore, people don't have enough money to spend (plus kids care less about physical toys now cause of phones)
That's why zoomers don't understand what Pokémania even is, they've never experienced anything like it, so why would they believe that it existed? They grew up during the financial crisis lol, they have no fucking clue about 90s consoom culture
Anyway just watch this video, every other toy store looked like this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cnN2VT67hUY

Also this anon is right >>59389449

>>59389558
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l7_LyYTb8vg
This is also a good video, honestly there's tons of videos like that on Youtube. Zoomers should just watch these if they still think Pokémania "wasn't real"

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>>59389397
>>59387367
New anon here. And WOW are zoomers cancer.
>Nooo pokemania not really!
>However GO very natural and not fake
Jesus FUCK are zoomers shit.

Everything from a mega corporation is shilled and therefore artificial this includes NES, he-man and pokemania and GO.

And it is not simple Le good marketing. It is insane shilling and a coordinated shill campaign.

Remember the NES? Remember the people who let kids play NES for free in stores? Do you think they where not payed by Nintendo to do it?

Remember the random pretty ecig ladies who started talking to adults and asking if they smoke only to shill ecigs as some way to quit smoking? Do you think the mega corporations did not pay these shills to be there?

So no it is not only Le good marketing.

And NES did far more then Pokemon ever did the SAGA vs Nintendo literally managed to make kids have tribalism for the game console!!!!!

However there is the other side of the coin.
The product must be good or new/interesting.

For example kids did NEVER see something like a NES before.
>Muh Atari and arcades
Shut up!
These are kids they either never played Atari or have fuzzy memories of it. Also the NES unlike Atari was like a interactive cartoon with music unlike the simple blips and graphics of Atari.

So the idea was mind blowing. Also Nintendo restricted the shovel ware shit that tanked Atari games.

Pokemania was a planed shilling operation what sold pokemon was the anime because sure as shit the shit sprites of the Gameboy did not sell it.

Using cartoons as commercials is nothing new (he-man) however the feeling of the pokemon world was sold in the anime not the games.

What made pokemon interesting was the idea. There are over 100 or 50(final evolutions) pokemon to collect, they all are colorful new creatures attractive to children. Also the idea of a franchise having multiple like 50 and more creatures to collect is mind blowing.
1/2

>>59389602
So you're saying Pokemania was real, and it was bad? 'cuz that's arguably worse than it not existing at all.

>>59389602
2/2 think about he-man you have 1 main character and what 5 on the good team and 1 bad guy and 5 on the bad team,?

He-man ended when the corporation was trying to sell shit character ideas to kids to buy new toys look up the He-man toys who are guys who transform into rocks.

In any cartoon you have a max of 12 characters in pokemon g1 you have like 50 final evolutions. And while there are the favs even the shitmons have people who like them.

The idea of a franchise so expensive that it has over 50 pseudo-chatacters in incredible and because the franchise builds on the human desire to collect/hoard it is sucesfull (contrast to digimon where the anime is you get 1 mon for your life and love it) in pokemon it is what mon do you want to try?

And the original choice of starters cements another idea I think it is the Ikea effect where you get more invested if you make a choice.

People can cry that dragon quest or monster world or whatever that toriama monster catching game is existed before however it was not mass shilled like pokemon was.

Also digimon while it has a better anime had a total disconnect from the games who are basically trying to be a monster collecting game like pokemon while the anime is not, I think only later seasons tried to turn the anime into pokemon monster collecting however it was to late.

>>59389608
I am saying it was real the same as any other shilled campaign on children like transformers or he-man.

>Bad?
Interesting interpretation.
While we can have a talk if corporations manufacturing an artificial obsession for kids is a good or bad thing I only presented the facts and how it got popular.

The main take here is that the big franchises if they are not based on a terrible idea or self sabotage like digimon (I like the anime however the franchise is based on a idea that is literally impossible to put into a game and the disconnect between the games being monster catching while the anime is not is what hurts the franchise) and even if you have a great idea what will make it big is the unreal and deceptive shilling that a mega corporation needs to do on children.

So this is the reason why we talk about pokemon and not dragon quest monster world or whatever the FUCK the name of that game is that toriama made the graphics for.

>Bad?
Was there an anime for pokemon YES or No?

Was the anime not basically a tutorial for the game (defeated fire pokemon with water type) on a insane level? That is like 20% of the anime.

Yes or No?

Contrast to
Is the digimon anime a good representation of the digimon games? Yes or no?
In like anime logic
>Get literally 1 and only 1 digimon
>You can never change it
> You can never chose your digimon
>You will love this digimon and never change your mind or want another
>It will evolve

>>59389608
WTF is your obsession with calling pokemania not real?

Here are other words to use
Artificial
Manufactured

>>59389699
Because it wasn't real. Its popularity was greatly exaggerated by genwunners, who are so utterly pathetic they will look for anything to claim "superiority" over other people with.

>>59389711
>Not real
>Not real
Do you have any idea how retarded you sound?

I have a counter question is in your fantasy world the He-man mania also not real? Answer that.

>>59387367
Pokemania was very real dumb frogposter

>>59389729
He-Man "mania" was even more forced, as we can see by the recent movie flopping hard.

>>59389748
See >>59389729
I think he is only a retarded zoomer who has a case of the zoomeroidisms and zoomer lack of words.

We talk about pokemania because it was very popular far more popular then digimon or monster rancha remember monster rancha? It was out at the same time.

>Frog poster
Very good, I forgot to spot that everything a frog poster says is retarded and wrong however I think it is another case of the zoomer being a zoomer what a shit generation.

>>59389750
I asked was it not real in your world.
>Forced
Forced and not real are not the same thing retard!

>Muh 2026 movie
Are you retarded?

We are specifically talking about what was going on in the 80s!

>>59389780
>Forced and not real are not the same thing retard!
Yes they are. It was never that popular, of course the marketing would claim everyone loved it.
Pokemania, He-Man Mania and other such things were just fads with their popularity exaggerated by marketers and the brand cultists they have brainwashed.
It. Was. Not. Real.
>We are specifically talking about what was going on in the 80s!
And if it had been that popular in the 80s the movie wouldn't have bombed so badly as there'd be loads of nostalgia for it, no?

>>59389790
>Yes it is
Do we pull up a dictionary or ask chat GPT?
You raging zoomeroid FUCK?
Like how comical is this!?

Also answer the question about he-man.
Another question on your world are zoomers like you also not real?

>>59389801
>Also answer the question about he-man.
I did.
>Another question on your world are zoomers like you also not real?
Unironically using -oomerisms are a sign of mental deficiency, usually by fake oldfags, so...

>>59389790
>If popular why The Le movie bombed
Are you fucken retarded?

Do you not understand numbers?
Kids who where 3 in in 1981 are how old in 2026?

Also do adults like the same cartoons and media they liked when they where 9-12?

Also the 80s movie also failed and some say it was the start of the dawnfall of he-man. Movies are weird.

PS
>if minecraft is real then why did the Minecraft movie fail? Zoomers confirmed to not be real!

>>59389807
> Oh no someone pointed out my retarded behaviore and the retarded behavior of my cancerous generation better deflect!

>>59389820
>if minecraft is real then why did the Minecraft movie fail? Zoomers confirmed to not be real!
Did it? It's getting a sequel last I checked.
Sounds to me like you're mad that your totally organic and not at all inflated shilling campaign has been recognized for what it is.
>>59389828
>Those pesky kids don't like the same things as me! They need to get off my lawn!
Get a life.

>>59389711
>Its popularity was greatly exaggerated by genwunners
You literally have a crowd of hundreds of children frantically chanting "PIKACHU" in this video >>59389566
It's not exaggerated by any means retard

>>59389602
You sound very retarded.

Its so easy to bait autistic losers, lmao.

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>>59390012
>zoomer who will never experience pokemania:

>>59390012
You're not supposed to admit that you're trolling.