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Veteran here and i confirm. I used to get all my pokemon figures from kb toy works. I still have most of my collection from when i was a wee lad. I even collected the cut out cards from the back of lunchables boxes.
I was in 5th grade when I first heard about pokémon.. The cards and games ended up getting banned at our school cuz everyone was obsessed. The 90s were great lol.
My teacher had a cabinet full of them given how much she confiscated glad teachers can't do that anymore because that was just plan thievery and if one of them was a first edition charazard than may she rot in hell
God I miss the 90's. Pokemania back then is something that I couldn't explain adequately to someone who wasn't there. When you say it was everywhere, it really was. Pokemon was such a phenomenon that it was kinda ridiculous, and I loved every moment of it as a kid. I feel like it could still be that big, but they have made some serious missteps and haven't evolved the formula (no pun intended) enough to keep the fanbase growing like it did initially.
Pokemon is just as great as it was in the 90s imo. It was big then because it was new and fresh. It's 25 years old and that golden age is done now, but they have done a helluva job keeping it relevant
@@brandonslone8937 don’t get me wrong, Pokémon as a franchise is still very strong. But as with anything, when you repeat the same thing over and over and don’t really change it, it becomes stale and less interesting. The games I think have taken a dive in quality since Gen 5 in general. They could do so much more with everything but they want to stay safe and predictable. It will never die, but it will also never truly reach the greatness it could reach with their current direction.
Type "Bulbapedia Generation III", it will give you a page with all the changes brought by Ruby&Sapphire. Then replace the number III by V, VI, VII and then come back and say that they have repeated the same thing over and over. All Pokemon games are the same... except it's not the same region, not the same story, not the same Pokemons, not the same moves, not the same Battle systems, not the same menus, not the same features, not the same catching/evolving methods, not the same stats... EDIT : Apparently the word "G..gle" is now censored from youtube comments, wtf?
@@Dante02d12 I didn’t say things didn’t change, but the games all basically flow the same way and there’s no real surprises in them. They’re also technically inferior to other RPG titles and it seems to be getting more and more noticeable since they left the DS/3DS and went to the switch. I mean look at the consensus of reviews on scarlet/violet so far. The games are adequate but not great, and it’s obvious that they aren’t polishing what they make due to their rush to put one out every 2 years.
I miss the Pokemon hype of the 90s. I played gens 1 and 2 then dropped the series for almost 13 years then got hooked when a co worker said "wanna see my pokemon?" And showed me the Gen 3 game he was playing on an emulator on his phone. That was it, showed me how to tet the emulator I downloaded and replayed Blue (felt like being a kid again stayed up almost a full weekend playing) recently started buying used systems and games to play old ones and got a Switch just to play the gen 8 games. Happy to ve be back, I missed the series.
I miss the hype from the 90’s too. Born in ‘91 and all I wanted to do was play red & silver, and open packs. I didn’t get to rip packs much, but the cards meant everything to me (probably because I had very few) 2020 brought that feeling of hype and obsession with the cards back. So I became a vintage collector/seller and have built a collection that means a TON to me, and the 9 year old version of me. It may be a while until that hype re-visits us, but it’s certainly always in our hearts. May Pokémon live forever 🙏🏼.
Born in 92, I remember those days fondly. I remember watching the show on UPN when it first started airing in the states and the huge binders filled with cards kids would bring to school. I would beg my parents for Wizard magazine to look at the cards. Gen 1 was awesome but Gen 2 is hands down my favorite, even to this day. Imagine what it was like as a kid to beat the elite 4, only to find out that there’s a whole kanto post game to complete as well. Beating Red in Mt. Silver was icing on the cake.
Us 90s kids have witnessed the birth of the biggest media franchise of all time, something that will hardly ever be replicated. The boom and hype were unreal. EVERYONE loved Pokémon.
My first game was Leaf Green but my fondest memories are probably from Diamond and Pearl, I played white and was a bit older then but I don't' really remember it at all.
That Goldenrod City theme just brought me back 🥲🥲. Remember playing Pokémon Silver nonstop on my atomic purple gbc. The Pokémon hype has indeed died down, but it still lives in the hearts of its fans. This was a well needed stroll down memory lane. Thank you.
My cousin would be considered a GenWunner he likes the original 151 he started with Gen 1 in the 90s,Although if it weren't for him I wouldn't think I would be the Pokemon Fan as I am today! I started with Gen 4 with Pokemon Platinum.
Grateful to have been born in '88, as I was right at Ash's age when it all started in the US. I remember my brother and I spending countless hours back then playing Pokemon on our Gameboy Pockets / GBA's and the N64. We played up until the games started coming out on the DS. I got back into Pokemon this year after playing Pokemon Black on an emulator and then went out and bought a Switch (my first Nintendo since the Gamecube) lol. :)
Kind of a shame something this big like Pokemania won't happen again for a long time. Even Pokémon Go, despite taking the world by storm, wasn't any near as big as 90's Pokémaniac.
Yes. And the same is true in a lot of other areas like Sports movies etc. When something was big in the 90s it was BIG. Unavoidable. Everyone got into same thing. Now people seem to sleep under a rock thanks to everything being accessible too easily in post internet world
Ooooh man. I remember how much the Pokemon craze was(as us 90's kids would say) 'totally fly' back in the day. I remember how it all started and began like it was yesterday. Good times, good times!
I'm 26 and was born in '96, so I feel like I'm a mix between a millennial and a gen Zer. I was only a baby during pokemania, so I sadly didn't get to experience those "Mew under the truck" playground rumors, trading and battling with friends at school, etc., although I do still have some vague memories during those times like the toys and merch I used to have, thanks to my brother, who actually experienced pokemania. Also I used to watch my brother play Pokemon Blue on our old CRT tv (it was through the GB Tower in Pokemon Stadium which lets you play Pokemon Red & Blue on the tv), and I also remember him having a binder that held all his Pokemon cards that he'd show his friends, though he sadly got rid of it years ago. Oh man, we used to have so many pokemon toys and plushies, and we'd watch some of the old VHS tapes of the original series on our old CRT. So in a way, I guess I DID experience pokemania somewhat despite not being a full-on millennial, thanks to my brother. Also, sorry if this comment is so poorly worded, I just get extremely passionate about sharing my memories of pokemon and other stuff, like I REALLY wanna share this stuff, but some of my experiences are really hard to put into words at times, so I end up not being able to form clear coherent sentences in the process, lol.
I was 8 years old when Red and Blue Version released. I got Blue Version on the day I got F-Zero X. Originally I wanted only F-Zero X since I had the SNES F-Zero too, but my dad said he would help me buy another game too. I searched hard for another game I was interested, and when I saw Pokemon Red and Blue, I hesitated. I wasn't sure if I wanted a game I never heard of, but my instincts were telling me to get Pokemon. So I got Pokemon Blue because I loved Blastoise's design. But I ended up starting out with Charmander, ironically. I didn't know there was a Pokemon anime until months later, and the very first episode I saw was called "Battle of the Eevee Brothers" or something like that.
"The craze has died off a bit since then." Man, please don't remind me about that. I was there when legends were written. There wasn't a kid who couldn't sing along to the opening theme song. Up until Gen 5 release, I was considered the Pokedex by my friends because I digested every single piece of trivia up to that point.
I'd argue gen 1's story is actually one of the better stories. You have your evil team and the gym leaders true. You can blast by without any narrative or context. However, if you go out of your way and explore, you find vague information on the legendary Pokemon and where you can find them. For example, some npcs briefly mention a bird in the mountains, you look through the binoculars and you can see a mysterious bird. If you go to seafoam islands, you'll be rewarded with a chance to catch Articuno. Catching it will give you its background info, completing that story. Then there's the diary entries talking about Mewtwo. There's no prof or gym leader shovel feeding you the backstory. You're reading it from a kids perspective, so you're left to wonder until you make it to the cave and find Mewtwo. The story elements are different than modern games, but they're tied to exploration and discovering. That's what the first gen was al about. The stories are a lot more grand now I guess, but there's no room for exploration as each town has a cutscene unravelling the backstory of the legendary Pokemon on the box.
I watched the first episode, played Blue & Red, adored Yellow since you were basically Ash, bought the first booster packs, watched the first movie in a fully packed theater and couldn't wait for Gen II. Having been there since the beginning is something special and a once in a lifetime experience. The mania was and always will be unrivalled
I really wish I could have lived more in the late 90s with Star Trek and Pokémon being huge during that time and the fact my favorite sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond was running!
Yeah, in 99 things took a turn for the worse for me, and then things got worse, and then things got worse still, and then even worse, and that trend has continued untill today, and things are still getting worse every single day :)
I was 8 when pokemon first aired in Australia it was insane how popular this franchise was during the late 90s early 2000s everyone and i mean everyone was playing talking or collecting pokemon at our age
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@@tvstellar I'll be interesting for you to do gen2/ 3..... It was the dark times for me.... It was hard finding cards and toys during this era as the popularity was going down and the stuff I found was discounted gen 1 stuff( I was of course still excited to find that stuff). ... And I was considered a dork back then because I still liked Pokemon while Yugioh came out. Pokemon was considered "kiddy" in my school even though we were all in second grade..... How ironic......
A few episodes on VHS? Oh, no, man. This was the only children's show I've ever seen where they released the entire first season on VHS- most of it while the first season was still airing- with tapes containing about 3-5 episode bursts. And season one is 78 episodes, if we're ignoring the two they didn't release in the US.
2016 pokemania was almost like the OG era since it was the 20th anniversary. Red, blue and yellow were rereleased on the 3DS, Boomerang reaired OG seasons of the anime (Indigo League to Advanced), and TPC reprinted old cards. Glad i got to experience all that, but at the same time, oh how i wish i was a 90s kid just to experience pokemania!
I remember when Pokemon came here to Slovenia and of course I got into it due to the anime(didn't learn that the franchise is actually games until 2009) and when toys appeared in the stores my mom brought me and my brother those plastic pokeballs with the figurines inside and I got totodile and my brother got cyndaquil, I also remember that pokedex toy, however I didn't own it, however do still have my pikachu plushie I got for my saints day as a gift.
As much as the craze was a money grab on Nintendos part, having so many different kinds of toys and cards and things like that helped us all immerse ourselves so much better than just playing the game or watching the anime. In a way I’m glad nintendo is greedy LOL.
Awesome video, The 90's were crazy for Pokemon. I started with Red and Blue however Gold/Crystal/Silver and Sapphire/Emerald/Ruby will always be my favorite Generations. I recently lost my Crystal in a move or can't find it this moment.... but I still have my boxed Copies of Fire red and Emerald!!!
I try to recapture the magic every now and then, and I do get a little comforting nostalgia, but it saddens me that I’ll never be able to experience it again, the phenomenon of Pokémon in the nineties
It was intentional to not add a backlight to the game boy and gbc. The game gear needed 6 AA batteries and only gave 3-4 hours of battery life. The GB needed 4 and gave 30 hours, and the GBC needed 2 and gave 10 hours. It was economical and made parents much more attracted to it. Great vid!
Oh wow, interesting hearing pokemania from someone born in the early 00s. It was a crazy time to be alive. I was born the year red and green released in Japan so I was a bit too young for Pokemon in gen 1 but got to experience gen 2 and became a dedicated fan in gen 3.
I was 4 and couldn’t read when Pokémon Red was popular, so I got stuck in Viridian City because I didn’t know I had to go to the PokeMart and then deliver a parcel to Prof. Oak. I gave the game to my 11-year old neighbor, and when I got it back a week later, I had 99 rare candies and a Hitmonlee. I remember him telling me, “be careful… after you use those rare candies, there are no more left in the game.” 😂😂 The same neighbor ended up giving me his whole Pokémon card collection when he grew out of them, and I ended up passing all of my cards onto my younger neighbor 8 or 9 years later… the tradition continues!
In the sense that it doesn't make news headlines and there's generally way less buzz about the new games and stuff like that. I also imagine that the toy sales aren't doing as well as they did in the 90s. But yea it's still huge lol.
I play the Pokémon Theme from the 2BAMaster at the bar that I go to on the Jukebox. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who start singing along! 😂
My toddler old loves pokemon and pikachu is her favorite of coarse. I never thought that almost 30 years after I was a pokefan I'd have a kid week is too.
As someone who got into Pokémon during the gen 1 phase rather late, around winter/spring 2000, it really was like being immersed in a steaming cultural bath. I can’t adequately recall a moment in-between; one day there’s no pokestuff around but the next there’s loads of it, and this coming from someone who used to frequent video game stores quite a bit. With subsequent Nihonese franchises, such as Digimon, Yugioh, and Beyblade, I do remember the introduction of products and their gradual disappearances. Pokémon has just never seemed to go away entirely.
When I Was In Standard 1 I Started To watch Pokemon But sadly I never played Red/Blue And Fire Red was My First Pokemon Game And More than Games I Like Anime(Specially Gen1) Litrally It's So Nostalgic When I Remember About it then tears came in my eyes.
I just recently bought the 1st movie on DVD with the ancient mew card I remember being little and me and my brother were so hype when we saw it on theaters we are both 25 and ,28 and still collect
Growing up in that time it was huge! People think its big now but back then it was literally every where. Having mom take me to 7/11 to 7/11 just to find packs of cards only to be told “sold out”. Huge signs that said no pokemon, dont ask, ect ect. After all this time though I still have all my original toys and collectibles. Card sets and games you name it. Pokemon was just a way of life for kids in the late 90s early 2000s
Looks like I did my job then! It’s harder than I thought to keep the 90s series train rolling just cause it’s soooo expensive to keep buying all the merch lol.
I used to have most of the pieces and cards but never the board.... used to love monopoly growing up total shame I couldn't play the pokemon version LOL
@@tvstellar I think I have all pieces in the set, I was given the set a few years ago. Unfortunately I did buy it back when pokemania was at its peak as I was not born at the time but I wish I was, would have been so cool to experience Pokémon at the height of it's popularity.
Yellow version was the funnest for me, it is exactly the anime in a video game. The primitive technology and underwhelming graphics made jt that much better.Crystal is my all time favorite though
Pokémania was so, SO much bigger than just what the video shows but like you said, you were born a few years after it got big. Either way, this video is still a great intro to how this series blew up back in the day (which is a phrase I say one hundred percent unironically).
I grew up in this. Pokemon was everywhere. Tv, cereal boxes, newspapers, school, billboards, merch in every store. for a few months, it truly was like living in a pokemon world.
The reason the Gameboy didn't have a back lit display was cost, Nintendo was able to make the Gameboy cheap and that's why it absolutely wrecked the game gear, battery life was also a large factor but cost was the biggest one. For anyone interested a Gameboy pocket was $69 and took 2 batteries a game gear was $149 and took 6 batteries but still had less battery life.
I lived trough the pokemania craze, but i've never seen a pokedex. I would have wanted one, guess my parents avoided pokemon like the plague. I had so many plushies, I want my squirtle plushie back!
Great video! I went back to these days, even though I'm from Latam, we lived almost the same fever over here, thanks to the anime, and the first time I saw Pokémon Gold, I was in love and it fulfilled all my expectations as someone who wanted to know how would it be like to be in a Pokémon world!
If I have to say what are two of the biggest franchises to come out of the 90s Power Rangers and Pokemon everywhere you went back in the day you couldn't go anywhere without seeing Pokémon or Power Rangers that's how huge both franchises were in the 90s and honestly I feel like that's something we'll never see again because it was a phenomenon that can never be reduplicated I'm glad that I grew up in the 90s I feel bad for this current generation don't ever get to experience what we had growing up I'm still a huge fan of Power Rangers right to this day but Pokemon at one point I used to be very into it but I fell out of it once Yu-Gi-Oh came out that was when I got into Yu-Gi-Oh but I hope you do a video on the 1990s craze of Power Rangers and how much of an impact it left behind this was an excellent video on Pokémon media in the late 1990s it took me back to my childhood thank you so much for this video
5th grade my first card was diglet given as a gift. Second was starmie given as a gift then a golden as a gift. They got banned because we became obsessive. Amazing time to be alive. We smuggled the cards on the playground.
I was in elementary school in the late 90s, so Pokémon was phenomenal in my peak childhood! I have fond memories of getting a Gameboy and Pokémon Blue for Christmas, playing with my friends down the street, trading with my brothers (who had Red version too)! Ah, good times! Before getting the games, we would get up before school to watch episodes of the anime on television. We would be delighted by the PokéRap as it showed us all these "super cool" monsters. I liked the show mostly as a means to appreciate the mon designs (given that the in-game graphics were kinda trash in Gen1). I never got into the card game, but my cousin had a pretty slick collection of them in one of those binders used for baseball cards.
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I was going to ask why all the "fucks" all along the video, but I guess is answered already lol
after equiping abilitys like surf, you have to press start then select the pokemon, and activate.
when gold and silver are released, just press a.
Why the unnecesary swearing.
There is no reason, also it does not make you more funny or cool. 🙄
@@MMMMMMMMMM857 Cause I can say whatever I want in my videos. You however, do not need to watch if it bothers you so much.
As a Gen 1 veteran, nothing was more wild than when Pokémon boomed back in the day as far as the franchise is concerned.
Veteran here and i confirm. I used to get all my pokemon figures from kb toy works. I still have most of my collection from when i was a wee lad. I even collected the cut out cards from the back of lunchables boxes.
@@kr4t0sg.28 lmao wowwww that was so long ago… like 1998
@@Max-zv8hm are you trying to shame people younger than you? Good luck, boomer.
I used to have Jessie and James Action figure 😆
@@HustlerHorstRuediger no I’m just in awe.
I was in 5th grade when I first heard about pokémon.. The cards and games ended up getting banned at our school cuz everyone was obsessed. The 90s were great lol.
My school was pokemon cards and beyblades LOL
I'm not surprised. EVERYONE played them...
Same at my school. 😂 The audacity of kids walking around with the cards in their front pants pocket with no sleeve!
My teacher had a cabinet full of them given how much she confiscated glad teachers can't do that anymore because that was just plan thievery and if one of them was a first edition charazard than may she rot in hell
Same here! And 20 years later the Pokemon Go app was banned from my workplace 😂 Our generation has a bond with Pokemon like no other...!
What a time to be a kid in the late 90s. Pokemon was a huge deal to kids back in those days.
I remember sitting at lunch with my friends back in second grade and all we talked about was how far we were in red and blue
God I miss the 90's.
Pokemania back then is something that I couldn't explain adequately to someone who wasn't there. When you say it was everywhere, it really was. Pokemon was such a phenomenon that it was kinda ridiculous, and I loved every moment of it as a kid.
I feel like it could still be that big, but they have made some serious missteps and haven't evolved the formula (no pun intended) enough to keep the fanbase growing like it did initially.
Pokemon is just as great as it was in the 90s imo. It was big then because it was new and fresh. It's 25 years old and that golden age is done now, but they have done a helluva job keeping it relevant
@@brandonslone8937 don’t get me wrong, Pokémon as a franchise is still very strong. But as with anything, when you repeat the same thing over and over and don’t really change it, it becomes stale and less interesting.
The games I think have taken a dive in quality since Gen 5 in general. They could do so much more with everything but they want to stay safe and predictable. It will never die, but it will also never truly reach the greatness it could reach with their current direction.
@@Helljumper91 That, I agree.
Type "Bulbapedia Generation III", it will give you a page with all the changes brought by Ruby&Sapphire. Then replace the number III by V, VI, VII and then come back and say that they have repeated the same thing over and over.
All Pokemon games are the same... except it's not the same region, not the same story, not the same Pokemons, not the same moves, not the same Battle systems, not the same menus, not the same features, not the same catching/evolving methods, not the same stats...
EDIT : Apparently the word "G..gle" is now censored from youtube comments, wtf?
@@Dante02d12 I didn’t say things didn’t change, but the games all basically flow the same way and there’s no real surprises in them. They’re also technically inferior to other RPG titles and it seems to be getting more and more noticeable since they left the DS/3DS and went to the switch. I mean look at the consensus of reviews on scarlet/violet so far. The games are adequate but not great, and it’s obvious that they aren’t polishing what they make due to their rush to put one out every 2 years.
It completely defined a generation. Hell, I’m 29 and still play all the games.
28 here, and I feel you. But for me,I only played the first three generations.
I moved on from Pokemon for 23 years. I'm 30, looking back and I understand why I love Pokemon.
36 ;)
I miss the Pokemon hype of the 90s. I played gens 1 and 2 then dropped the series for almost 13 years then got hooked when a co worker said "wanna see my pokemon?" And showed me the Gen 3 game he was playing on an emulator on his phone. That was it, showed me how to tet the emulator I downloaded and replayed Blue (felt like being a kid again stayed up almost a full weekend playing) recently started buying used systems and games to play old ones and got a Switch just to play the gen 8 games. Happy to ve be back, I missed the series.
I’m always on and off with the series but I’ll always remember the first time I booted up red and gold and sapphire
I miss the hype from the 90’s too. Born in ‘91 and all I wanted to do was play red & silver, and open packs. I didn’t get to rip packs much, but the cards meant everything to me (probably because I had very few)
2020 brought that feeling of hype and obsession with the cards back. So I became a vintage collector/seller and have built a collection that means a TON to me, and the 9 year old version of me. It may be a while until that hype re-visits us, but it’s certainly always in our hearts. May Pokémon live forever 🙏🏼.
Born in 92, I remember those days fondly. I remember watching the show on UPN when it first started airing in the states and the huge binders filled with cards kids would bring to school. I would beg my parents for Wizard magazine to look at the cards. Gen 1 was awesome but Gen 2 is hands down my favorite, even to this day. Imagine what it was like as a kid to beat the elite 4, only to find out that there’s a whole kanto post game to complete as well. Beating Red in Mt. Silver was icing on the cake.
Us 90s kids have witnessed the birth of the biggest media franchise of all time, something that will hardly ever be replicated.
The boom and hype were unreal.
EVERYONE loved Pokémon.
@udokee7409 Yes man!
1990 here.
We were blessed
We are legends, my age is 92 years old I am an old Japanese man
Pokemon Black and White were my first and favorite pokemon games, they introduced me into the series and I became a fanatic since then
My first game was Leaf Green but my fondest memories are probably from Diamond and Pearl, I played white and was a bit older then but I don't' really remember it at all.
That Goldenrod City theme just brought me back 🥲🥲. Remember playing Pokémon Silver nonstop on my atomic purple gbc. The Pokémon hype has indeed died down, but it still lives in the hearts of its fans. This was a well needed stroll down memory lane. Thank you.
Atomic purple is my favorite color cause of the game boy 🥲 Thanks for watching!
My cousin would be considered a GenWunner he likes the original 151 he started with Gen 1 in the 90s,Although if it weren't for him I wouldn't think I would be the Pokemon Fan as I am today! I started with Gen 4 with Pokemon Platinum.
Glad i lived and breathed that era. It was mind blowing. It was like cocaine for kids. We couldn't get enough.
Oh believe me even in the 2010s I couldn't get enough. I can't even imagine what it must've felt like back then lol.
Grateful to have been born in '88, as I was right at Ash's age when it all started in the US. I remember my brother and I spending countless hours back then playing Pokemon on our Gameboy Pockets / GBA's and the N64. We played up until the games started coming out on the DS. I got back into Pokemon this year after playing Pokemon Black on an emulator and then went out and bought a Switch (my first Nintendo since the Gamecube) lol. :)
Kind of a shame something this big like Pokemania won't happen again for a long time. Even Pokémon Go, despite taking the world by storm, wasn't any near as big as 90's Pokémaniac.
Yes. And the same is true in a lot of other areas like Sports movies etc. When something was big in the 90s it was BIG. Unavoidable. Everyone got into same thing. Now people seem to sleep under a rock thanks to everything being accessible too easily in post internet world
Ooooh man. I remember how much the Pokemon craze was(as us 90's kids would say) 'totally fly' back in the day. I remember how it all started and began like it was yesterday. Good times, good times!
I'm 26 and was born in '96, so I feel like I'm a mix between a millennial and a gen Zer. I was only a baby during pokemania, so I sadly didn't get to experience those "Mew under the truck" playground rumors, trading and battling with friends at school, etc., although I do still have some vague memories during those times like the toys and merch I used to have, thanks to my brother, who actually experienced pokemania. Also I used to watch my brother play Pokemon Blue on our old CRT tv (it was through the GB Tower in Pokemon Stadium which lets you play Pokemon Red & Blue on the tv), and I also remember him having a binder that held all his Pokemon cards that he'd show his friends, though he sadly got rid of it years ago. Oh man, we used to have so many pokemon toys and plushies, and we'd watch some of the old VHS tapes of the original series on our old CRT. So in a way, I guess I DID experience pokemania somewhat despite not being a full-on millennial, thanks to my brother.
Also, sorry if this comment is so poorly worded, I just get extremely passionate about sharing my memories of pokemon and other stuff, like I REALLY wanna share this stuff, but some of my experiences are really hard to put into words at times, so I end up not being able to form clear coherent sentences in the process, lol.
For Millennials it was our Beatles, there was nothing bigger at the time . Good times
I was 8 years old when Red and Blue Version released. I got Blue Version on the day I got F-Zero X. Originally I wanted only F-Zero X since I had the SNES F-Zero too, but my dad said he would help me buy another game too. I searched hard for another game I was interested, and when I saw Pokemon Red and Blue, I hesitated. I wasn't sure if I wanted a game I never heard of, but my instincts were telling me to get Pokemon. So I got Pokemon Blue because I loved Blastoise's design. But I ended up starting out with Charmander, ironically. I didn't know there was a Pokemon anime until months later, and the very first episode I saw was called "Battle of the Eevee Brothers" or something like that.
"The craze has died off a bit since then." Man, please don't remind me about that. I was there when legends were written. There wasn't a kid who couldn't sing along to the opening theme song.
Up until Gen 5 release, I was considered the Pokedex by my friends because I digested every single piece of trivia up to that point.
I'd argue gen 1's story is actually one of the better stories. You have your evil team and the gym leaders true. You can blast by without any narrative or context. However, if you go out of your way and explore, you find vague information on the legendary Pokemon and where you can find them. For example, some npcs briefly mention a bird in the mountains, you look through the binoculars and you can see a mysterious bird. If you go to seafoam islands, you'll be rewarded with a chance to catch Articuno. Catching it will give you its background info, completing that story. Then there's the diary entries talking about Mewtwo. There's no prof or gym leader shovel feeding you the backstory. You're reading it from a kids perspective, so you're left to wonder until you make it to the cave and find Mewtwo. The story elements are different than modern games, but they're tied to exploration and discovering. That's what the first gen was al about. The stories are a lot more grand now I guess, but there's no room for exploration as each town has a cutscene unravelling the backstory of the legendary Pokemon on the box.
I feel so lucky to have been around at this time of pokemon, what a truly enjoyable experience
I watched the first episode, played Blue & Red, adored Yellow since you were basically Ash, bought the first booster packs, watched the first movie in a fully packed theater and couldn't wait for Gen II.
Having been there since the beginning is something special and a once in a lifetime experience.
The mania was and always will be unrivalled
Well said 💪🏼
I really wish I could have lived more in the late 90s with Star Trek and Pokémon being huge during that time and the fact my favorite sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond was running!
I would've liked to live in the 90's too, but I would also be in my 30's now so eh LOL.
Yeah, in 99 things took a turn for the worse for me, and then things got worse, and then things got worse still, and then even worse, and that trend has continued untill today, and things are still getting worse every single day :)
I was 8 when pokemon first aired in Australia it was insane how popular this franchise was during the late 90s early 2000s everyone and i mean everyone was playing talking or collecting pokemon at our age
genuinely a good video. production and the content of the video is that of something I’d expect from a multi million sub channel.
Thanks!!! This means so much more to me than you know! I've been editing for a very long time and these past couple of months have been my best content wise! Thanks for watching the video and I hope you're able to stick around for more!
im so happy to be born in 1989 so that i could get to see that age and participate in it
I hope this is a series. Please do gen 2 next
I think I'll be doing in depth reviews for gen 1, 2, and 3 at some point but I don't plan on making a ton of pokemon videos
@@tvstellar I'll be interesting for you to do gen2/ 3..... It was the dark times for me.... It was hard finding cards and toys during this era as the popularity was going down and the stuff I found was discounted gen 1 stuff( I was of course still excited to find that stuff). ... And I was considered a dork back then because I still liked Pokemon while Yugioh came out. Pokemon was considered "kiddy" in my school even though we were all in second grade..... How ironic......
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo if only they knew that people who still like yu gi oh in this day and age are considered the dorks…
A few episodes on VHS? Oh, no, man. This was the only children's show I've ever seen where they released the entire first season on VHS- most of it while the first season was still airing- with tapes containing about 3-5 episode bursts. And season one is 78 episodes, if we're ignoring the two they didn't release in the US.
2016 pokemania was almost like the OG era since it was the 20th anniversary. Red, blue and yellow were rereleased on the 3DS, Boomerang reaired OG seasons of the anime (Indigo League to Advanced), and TPC reprinted old cards. Glad i got to experience all that, but at the same time, oh how i wish i was a 90s kid just to experience pokemania!
I remember when Pokemon came here to Slovenia and of course I got into it due to the anime(didn't learn that the franchise is actually games until 2009) and when toys appeared in the stores my mom brought me and my brother those plastic pokeballs with the figurines inside and I got totodile and my brother got cyndaquil, I also remember that pokedex toy, however I didn't own it, however do still have my pikachu plushie I got for my saints day as a gift.
As much as the craze was a money grab on Nintendos part, having so many different kinds of toys and cards and things like that helped us all immerse ourselves so much better than just playing the game or watching the anime. In a way I’m glad nintendo is greedy LOL.
Awesome video, The 90's were crazy for Pokemon. I started with Red and Blue however Gold/Crystal/Silver and Sapphire/Emerald/Ruby will always be my favorite Generations.
I recently lost my Crystal in a move or can't find it this moment.... but I still have my boxed Copies of Fire red and Emerald!!!
I so wish I had a boxed copy of sapphire LOL or any of the gameboy games honestly
I agree with you.
I try to recapture the magic every now and then, and I do get a little comforting nostalgia, but it saddens me that I’ll never be able to experience it again, the phenomenon of Pokémon in the nineties
I feel the same way about my own childhood, but if it’s something you’re fond of find solace through knowing you were able to experience it at all!
It was intentional to not add a backlight to the game boy and gbc. The game gear needed 6 AA batteries and only gave 3-4 hours of battery life. The GB needed 4 and gave 30 hours, and the GBC needed 2 and gave 10 hours. It was economical and made parents much more attracted to it.
Great vid!
Us as kids went apeshit for pokemon back in the day
Those Burger King toys were the peak of the franchise. Awesome video!
Yeah how many toys do you know that have a body count? LOL
Nothing like coming home from school to sit and watch KidsWB. Pokemon was such a hit, it ran everyday except maybe sunday.
Genwunner here, I probably had killed over thousands of batteries playing Pokemon Yellow and Crystal
This makes me proud to be a 90s child.
Pokémania And Red Version Is Where I Started.
Damn I Miss The 90s.
Oh wow, interesting hearing pokemania from someone born in the early 00s. It was a crazy time to be alive. I was born the year red and green released in Japan so I was a bit too young for Pokemon in gen 1 but got to experience gen 2 and became a dedicated fan in gen 3.
Damn, I'm shocked to see how low your sub count is, this is an great video, if it said 500k subs I wouldn't have batted an eye.
Thanks!!! I try my hardest to make my videos as good as possible, so this means a lot to me! :)
I was 4 and couldn’t read when Pokémon Red was popular, so I got stuck in Viridian City because I didn’t know I had to go to the PokeMart and then deliver a parcel to Prof. Oak.
I gave the game to my 11-year old neighbor, and when I got it back a week later, I had 99 rare candies and a Hitmonlee.
I remember him telling me, “be careful… after you use those rare candies, there are no more left in the game.” 😂😂
The same neighbor ended up giving me his whole Pokémon card collection when he grew out of them, and I ended up passing all of my cards onto my younger neighbor 8 or 9 years later… the tradition continues!
Lmfao! You actually played the lavender town death song when you were talking about suffocating pokeballs 😂😎🇺🇸🧟♂️
Gotta set a mood amirite?
I stopped buying games after sun and moon but I still regularly play rom hacks on my flash carts
It’s crazy people act like the craze died off when it’s the most valuable IP of all time
In the sense that it doesn't make news headlines and there's generally way less buzz about the new games and stuff like that. I also imagine that the toy sales aren't doing as well as they did in the 90s. But yea it's still huge lol.
I play the Pokémon Theme from the 2BAMaster at the bar that I go to on the Jukebox. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who start singing along! 😂
The older we get the more that will happen 😂 33 yrs old here
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My toddler old loves pokemon and pikachu is her favorite of coarse. I never thought that almost 30 years after I was a pokefan I'd have a kid week is too.
I miss being able to see Pokémon in the cinemas and getting an exclusive card. 💀
Recently for detective pikachu they did this but yea I'm surprised they aren't making more pokemon movies lol
@@tvstellar True, but they were out when I went, and to be honest. The movie designs are ugly so I wouldn't want a card anyway. 🤣
As someone who got into Pokémon during the gen 1 phase rather late, around winter/spring 2000, it really was like being immersed in a steaming cultural bath. I can’t adequately recall a moment in-between; one day there’s no pokestuff around but the next there’s loads of it, and this coming from someone who used to frequent video game stores quite a bit. With subsequent Nihonese franchises, such as Digimon, Yugioh, and Beyblade, I do remember the introduction of products and their gradual disappearances. Pokémon has just never seemed to go away entirely.
It's a monolith for sure. Pokemon will never go away but I don't think it'll get as popular as it did in the 90s/early 2000s.
The deaths by Pokeball with the lavender town music in teh background is perfect.
Gotta catch em all!
Pokémon Live sure had some nice jiggle physics 💯😂
we don't talk about it, we silently appreciate it...
When I Was In Standard 1 I Started To watch Pokemon But sadly I never played Red/Blue And Fire Red was My First Pokemon Game And More than Games I Like Anime(Specially Gen1) Litrally It's So Nostalgic When I Remember About it then tears came in my eyes.
5:36 me and my gf who've been keeping up with the anime in Japanese since XY 👫
Oh no the video of pokemon live awkward silence from people not giving a damn hurt me so fucking much.
I just recently bought the 1st movie on DVD with the ancient mew card I remember being little and me and my brother were so hype when we saw it on theaters we are both 25 and ,28 and still collect
I know its not everys favorite of the gens but gen 2's soundtrack was amazing.
Gen 2 release was incredible. It felt insanely magical since they captured us all with gen 1.
Growing up in that time it was huge! People think its big now but back then it was literally every where. Having mom take me to 7/11 to 7/11 just to find packs of cards only to be told “sold out”. Huge signs that said no pokemon, dont ask, ect ect. After all this time though I still have all my original toys and collectibles. Card sets and games you name it. Pokemon was just a way of life for kids in the late 90s early 2000s
Man I still come back to watch this video every now and again, it makes me so nostalgic.
Looks like I did my job then! It’s harder than I thought to keep the 90s series train rolling just cause it’s soooo expensive to keep buying all the merch lol.
@@tvstellar I just spent about $250 on Nintendo manga from Japan for a video and boy is this something that is probably not worth the investment lmao.
@@SCLASSAnime so long as one person is entertained I think it's worth going totally bankrupt :,)
I remember a kid in 2nd grade asking me if I played pokemon, I gave him a confusing no. 3 months later I was obsessed
“Who needs this #%^*^%# many Pokemon games”
Me: (raises hand)
13:30 I have that Pokémon Monopoly Collection Edition
I used to have most of the pieces and cards but never the board.... used to love monopoly growing up total shame I couldn't play the pokemon version LOL
@@tvstellar I think I have all pieces in the set, I was given the set a few years ago. Unfortunately I did buy it back when pokemania was at its peak as I was not born at the time but I wish I was, would have been so cool to experience Pokémon at the height of it's popularity.
Pokémon has been around for 26 years.
When I was young, I thought Pokémon was the only show to have the anime art style, so I assumed every anime was either Pokémon or a rip off of it.
Man I used to have that pokedex and so much of those early toys and cards when I was kid
I grew up watching the original show and never even touched the games until my friend let me borrow his gameboy and his copy of sapphire.
5:34 Not younger kids. It's mainly of those who like the anime.
I wish I was a kid in 1998-2003 which was the Pokemania era.
Right, looks like Diglett can do rapid spin now yea! XD
Yellow version was the funnest for me, it is exactly the anime in a video game. The primitive technology and underwhelming graphics made jt that much better.Crystal is my all time favorite though
We couldn't even buy instant meals without the Pokemon branding being on it. Truly an amazing time to be alive 😂
I had the Pokedex toy, and it broke and said every Pokemon was Blastoise
I remember getting a VHS about Pokemon, and my friend and I watched it over and over again, we were so hyped.
Pokémania was so, SO much bigger than just what the video shows but like you said, you were born a few years after it got big. Either way, this video is still a great intro to how this series blew up back in the day (which is a phrase I say one hundred percent unironically).
I grew up in this. Pokemon was everywhere. Tv, cereal boxes, newspapers, school, billboards, merch in every store. for a few months, it truly was like living in a pokemon world.
Well you know what they say about the Pokémon world…. That we all live in it….
The reason the Gameboy didn't have a back lit display was cost, Nintendo was able to make the Gameboy cheap and that's why it absolutely wrecked the game gear, battery life was also a large factor but cost was the biggest one. For anyone interested a Gameboy pocket was $69 and took 2 batteries a game gear was $149 and took 6 batteries but still had less battery life.
I went to Pokemon live as a kid and I don't remember much about it but still have merch from it
Keep em coming my man
I've always preferred Ruby and Sapphire over Emerald simply because I like May's red outfit over the green one.
Your content is great.
Thank you!!! I'm only just getting started! :)
I got pokemon blue and gameboy color in like 1998 at 7/8 years old and the rest is history
I lived trough the pokemania craze, but i've never seen a pokedex. I would have wanted one, guess my parents avoided pokemon like the plague. I had so many plushies, I want my squirtle plushie back!
Great video!
I went back to these days, even though I'm from Latam, we lived almost the same fever over here, thanks to the anime, and the first time I saw Pokémon Gold, I was in love and it fulfilled all my expectations as someone who wanted to know how would it be like to be in a Pokémon world!
My pokedex still works and still has the original batteries
holy shit that's Drake Bell in that first commercial
Great footage . Also Pokémon lunchables and sticker machines
If I have to say what are two of the biggest franchises to come out of the 90s Power Rangers and Pokemon everywhere you went back in the day you couldn't go anywhere without seeing Pokémon or Power Rangers that's how huge both franchises were in the 90s and honestly I feel like that's something we'll never see again because it was a phenomenon that can never be reduplicated I'm glad that I grew up in the 90s I feel bad for this current generation don't ever get to experience what we had growing up I'm still a huge fan of Power Rangers right to this day but Pokemon at one point I used to be very into it but I fell out of it once Yu-Gi-Oh came out that was when I got into Yu-Gi-Oh but I hope you do a video on the 1990s craze of Power Rangers and how much of an impact it left behind this was an excellent video on Pokémon media in the late 1990s it took me back to my childhood thank you so much for this video
I do plan on a power rangers video! It’ll be a bit tho since I’m still doing a Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon one before it.
Grew up in the 90s watching pokemon daily ! Nice video 🔥
I remember playing pokemon monopoly with my friends I first grade and having a war over who got to be pikachu lol
5th grade my first card was diglet given as a gift. Second was starmie given as a gift then a golden as a gift. They got banned because we became obsessive. Amazing time to be alive. We smuggled the cards on the playground.
I still have a few player pieces from my monopoly set, unfortunately that's all that survived over the years.
Let me put it this way kids... Pokemon in the 90s felt bigger and better than fortnite
It was bigger than Fortnite, Pokémon is still the highest grossing franchise of all time
Damn right, it took the world by storm. Things felt much different back then. Great childhood memories.
Bye Bye Butterfree was the first episode I saw too!
I love Pokémon monopoly
I was in elementary school in the late 90s, so Pokémon was phenomenal in my peak childhood! I have fond memories of getting a Gameboy and Pokémon Blue for Christmas, playing with my friends down the street, trading with my brothers (who had Red version too)! Ah, good times! Before getting the games, we would get up before school to watch episodes of the anime on television. We would be delighted by the PokéRap as it showed us all these "super cool" monsters. I liked the show mostly as a means to appreciate the mon designs (given that the in-game graphics were kinda trash in Gen1). I never got into the card game, but my cousin had a pretty slick collection of them in one of those binders used for baseball cards.
I still own that original Pokedex and it still works.
The old pokedex's hold up surprisingly well!
@@tvstellar Yeah
I think the actors playing Jessie & misty should have switched but, i understand the reasoning (pokemon live)
The greatest time to be alive.