This video is pure magic. Pure magic. Maybe it’s just me but the 90’s were full of colours, I know it’s weird to say this but everytime I watch a video from the 90’s I feel these amazing vibes. Everything was just pure magic and joy especially for this kind of stuff. I was born in 98 so I couldn’t live these moments but I’m sure they where amazing. That Pokémon stuff in this video is just outstanding, it was the beginning of the franchise and everything was so new and full of excitement ! Beautiful really, watching this it’s like having a Time machine.
These times were pure magic! For a few reasons. Our culture had this sort of futuristic design elements, colorful and fun. Technology was on the up but we weren’t connected too much like we are today. It was the “perfect storm” ❤. And I think these times for many kids like myself back then (I was about 9-10), was the fact that we were kids allowed to enjoy life with no responsibilities, that was true freedom. And I thank my parents for such a great childhood.
I lived it. and missed it all, lost it all late like ash, had gameboy red(lost it), and wanted yellow. had g/s/c Gameboy color growing up..got my cards stolen started/ graduated from HS.Later everything after white and black 2. Ash taught me to follow my dreams no matter what, U2, THAT WAS AN Honest comment, YOU SHARED.. yes it's like going back in time young 1 I feel like dialga with me. I might be in my late 30's but I wanna do a channel showing my pure love for this amazing show. Peace @theelessar98
Oh, man. 1999. That takes me back, lol. The card shop I used to play at back in '99 had this sort of set up going for kids where you could play the pokemon card game with each other and for each game you won, you got a mark on a card provided by the store. There were 'gym leaders' around to observe your matches and to make sure you actually played the game and wouldn't cheat and just say you did. If you collected 10 marks, you got to challenge a 'gym leader', which was basically an older kid (or sometimes an adult) who played a theme deck of pretty strong pokemon and who knew the game pretty well. If you beat them, you got a badge and a stamp on your card. If you lost, you had to start over, but you did get to pick one free card from a binder they had lying around. The badges were just for fluff and show (and obviously to emulate the games and anime), but a full card could be exchanged in the store for one free pack of pokemon cards of your choice. It was a brilliant marketing tactic by the owner, because his shop was bustling at the time. I never played the pokemon card game, because I was into MTG at the time but I observed many of their matches on slower MTG days and the kids loved it. They bought oodles of packs trying to beef up their decks and collect those badges, lol.
Those hanging base blisters and jungle blisters omg. All the sealed theme decks. The booster boxes of base jungle and jungle 1st ed! Thank you for this video!!!!
My dad took me to the Mall Of America when I was really young and he was amazing. We went to the first Pokemon movie which must have bored the living heck out of him, but he was very fun about it. We both got some crazy looking Mew promo cards as well. He then took me to a card shop in the mall (may have even been an official Wizards store?) and bought me an entire box of the Base set (not 1st edition)! As I was walking out a really young kid mentioned something to his mom about me having and entire booster box and he was in absolute awe...so I asked my dad if I could give the kid a pack, and my dad was all for it. The kid opened up a freaking Blastoise! haha...what an awesome memory that must've given him! :D This video really brings me back! I miss my dad!
That was pretty epic. You made that kid’s day for the rest of his life; he might or might not remember your name but remembers the Blastoise he was able to pull with your generosity and your dad’s help 🥇
@@JaimeReyes-d8d My dad personally had no interest in pokemon and the movie was pretty boring for an adult audience, especially if they didn't care about pokemon like my dad.
All these pokemania videos from 1999 are pure gold nostalgia i cry bitter tears cause things are just so weak weird empty i really cant describe enjoy TV anymore.... 2023 december
People had no idea this would have made them millionaires if they kept them. I was born in '87 so only collected gen1. My collection got washed away in hurricane katrina. Had all gen 1 base set, shadowless, team rocket, jungle, base 2, japanese, etc. Gone forever..
Strange story- I opened a base set shadowless Charizard on Sunday May 2, 1999. The next morning on Monday it got stolen by unknown thief along with Mewtwo. About 2 and half years ago a TH-camr by name Phoenix Resale found and bought a shadowless Charizard and Mewtwo for I believe it was $5 in someone's yard sale. I collected Pokemon since 1999 bought off the rest of base set on eBay and finally had at least one copy of 102 original card just like two years ago! I had a lot of fun collecting Pokemon cards I even had the whole evolution set just finished collecting earlier this month!
This is the only time period I'd ever consider going too, if I were offered just one trip in a time machine. Not just to load up on sealed product, but to bask in the essence of the 90's again. I miss it so much.
Exact same aesthetic I remember from my old card shops. All the colorful boxes and eye-catching Japanese text with Beanie Babies everywhere in the backdrop. The colors make me feel incredibly nostalgic. There's a subtle aesthetic that 90's toy stores had that I don't see anywhere. I think I paid $2.50 a pack. One of the shops I remember had a small area in the back where people were playing Magic, though I didn't know what it was at the time.
I'm finally at the age where I can't keep track of how many Pokemon there are anymore. Dropped off around the time there were about 800 or so..now there's 1000+ O_O
My dad used to take me to North Cross Mall in North Austin and they had a Pokémon card shop inside. I was 11 in 1999. He would take me in there and buy me cards all the time!
Boy if i had a time machine...good times back in the 90s i miss it...also got the pokemon starter booster box for Christmas and pulled alot of good stuff..had gyrados and mewtwo..later on got the fossil and jungle boxes to..wish i would've kept them sealed i could buy a house with them nowadays lol.
I have a 5 year old that loves Pokémon. But makes you wonder, what is her generations Pokémon? I’ve stayed in touch with a lot of this stuff, and still 25 years later, haven’t experienced anything even close.
I don’t think anything will ever come close again. It was the perfect time to release Pokémon. Internet was on the rise, tech was on the rise, but we weren’t too connected. We were still grounded. The 90’s pokemania will forever be unique.
@@RolandKoller90just enough to get people out and about to interact with each other via one large community. nothing will quite be the same but I’d have to imagine one day there will be something new that takes the world by storm. maybe we can’t comprehend it.
I would like to go back in time to the first day I discovered Pokemon age 3 1998. Around the time I began talking. I got my parents to buy all those Pokemon vhs videos. 😂
Here we can see when Jungle was just released as there are 1st/unlimited box one of each on that counter with a base set 1 box of unlimited. This was mainly the time when everyone started playing/collecting. Finding 1st edition base set as your start was a very short time and generally before the true hype spread.
I remember it was only $2.75 for a Pokemon base pack in Flushing New York back around 1999-2000. As a teenager I would almost always open it the same day less than buying it within after 1/2 an hour. I wanted to know what was inside and the longest I kept Pokemon pack unopened no more than a week!
@@timothychow177yeah no kid in their right mind would have kept sealed back then. sealed I can imagine only remained when teens or adults got their hands on them.
I would go back to this time period to really experience it again and soak it in and really enjoy it then what I did when it came out. Brings back great memories
they're not lol, they just acquire B-roll footage from the archives of various news channels. that's why the majority of these have timestamps and don't feature any kind of narration
I didn't catch on with the craze of Pokemon card collecting back then. Lot of my geek and nerdy friends (well average friends LOL) had to have them. I might have collected a few over the years in the early 2000s, but I don't know where I put them. My wife has several in an old trapper keeper she kept since she was 14.
The smell the feel in the air the school yard omfg im old im scared i love you pokemon if i die soon i will miss fresh cut grass smell and emerald but im a gen 1 player baseball little league Waxhaw nc
This video is pure magic. Pure magic. Maybe it’s just me but the 90’s were full of colours, I know it’s weird to say this but everytime I watch a video from the 90’s I feel these amazing vibes. Everything was just pure magic and joy especially for this kind of stuff. I was born in 98 so I couldn’t live these moments but I’m sure they where amazing. That Pokémon stuff in this video is just outstanding, it was the beginning of the franchise and everything was so new and full of excitement ! Beautiful really, watching this it’s like having a Time machine.
These times were pure magic! For a few reasons. Our culture had this sort of futuristic design elements, colorful and fun. Technology was on the up but we weren’t connected too much like we are today. It was the “perfect storm” ❤. And I think these times for many kids like myself back then (I was about 9-10), was the fact that we were kids allowed to enjoy life with no responsibilities, that was true freedom. And I thank my parents for such a great childhood.
The world was better in these times, period.
I lived it. and missed it all, lost it all late like ash, had gameboy red(lost it), and wanted yellow. had g/s/c Gameboy color growing up..got my cards stolen started/ graduated from HS.Later everything after white and black 2. Ash taught me to follow my dreams no matter what, U2, THAT WAS AN
Honest comment, YOU SHARED.. yes it's like going back in time young 1 I feel like dialga with me.
I might be in my late 30's but I wanna do a channel showing my pure love for this amazing show.
Peace @theelessar98
To be 6 again fighting in school over if pokemon or digimon is better. Pokemon obviously
Pokémon cards were better but in terms of shows digimon wins
@@Big_Chico No Digimon is stinky pokemon is way better!
@@JosephShemelewski a cannon statement based on your original message 😂
@@Big_Chico Absolutely gotta make 6 year old me proud!
There were fights in the bathroom over this 😂😂
Oh, man. 1999. That takes me back, lol.
The card shop I used to play at back in '99 had this sort of set up going for kids where you could play the pokemon card game with each other and for each game you won, you got a mark on a card provided by the store. There were 'gym leaders' around to observe your matches and to make sure you actually played the game and wouldn't cheat and just say you did. If you collected 10 marks, you got to challenge a 'gym leader', which was basically an older kid (or sometimes an adult) who played a theme deck of pretty strong pokemon and who knew the game pretty well. If you beat them, you got a badge and a stamp on your card. If you lost, you had to start over, but you did get to pick one free card from a binder they had lying around. The badges were just for fluff and show (and obviously to emulate the games and anime), but a full card could be exchanged in the store for one free pack of pokemon cards of your choice. It was a brilliant marketing tactic by the owner, because his shop was bustling at the time.
I never played the pokemon card game, because I was into MTG at the time but I observed many of their matches on slower MTG days and the kids loved it. They bought oodles of packs trying to beef up their decks and collect those badges, lol.
That’s pretty epic 🔥
2:22 "Yeah, my Kid's starting Kindergarten [...]"
That kid, assuming he was five years old at this, fall 1999, will be 30 years-old next year!
Would've been 4 years old
What if he was in 9/11 though
@@empire0No proof he was, he all lived through it 9/11 anyone born in 2001 or prior.
Just like me!
He's me
Those hanging base blisters and jungle blisters omg. All the sealed theme decks. The booster boxes of base jungle and jungle 1st ed! Thank you for this video!!!!
Incredible. Not many videos like this around just what we can remember or think we can remember.
My dad took me to the Mall Of America when I was really young and he was amazing. We went to the first Pokemon movie which must have bored the living heck out of him, but he was very fun about it. We both got some crazy looking Mew promo cards as well.
He then took me to a card shop in the mall (may have even been an official Wizards store?) and bought me an entire box of the Base set (not 1st edition)! As I was walking out a really young kid mentioned something to his mom about me having and entire booster box and he was in absolute awe...so I asked my dad if I could give the kid a pack, and my dad was all for it. The kid opened up a freaking Blastoise! haha...what an awesome memory that must've given him! :D
This video really brings me back! I miss my dad!
Yeah, it was a Wizard’s store! That’s the exact place where I got my Machamp. Good times :)
Your comment made me smile! I miss wotc! I played tournaments there and bought so many cards.
That was pretty epic. You made that kid’s day for the rest of his life; he might or might not remember your name but remembers the Blastoise he was able to pull with your generosity and your dad’s help 🥇
Why would he bored?
@@JaimeReyes-d8d My dad personally had no interest in pokemon and the movie was pretty boring for an adult audience, especially if they didn't care about pokemon like my dad.
All these pokemania videos from 1999 are pure gold nostalgia i cry bitter tears cause things are just so weak weird empty i really cant describe enjoy TV anymore.... 2023 december
Truth
People had no idea this would have made them millionaires if they kept them. I was born in '87 so only collected gen1. My collection got washed away in hurricane katrina. Had all gen 1 base set, shadowless, team rocket, jungle, base 2, japanese, etc. Gone forever..
My mom through away my cards for like no reason.
Same here @@FYCY
My condolences.
Throw away hurricane katrina.
😢
Strange story- I opened a base set shadowless Charizard on Sunday May 2, 1999. The next morning on Monday it got stolen by unknown thief along with Mewtwo. About 2 and half years ago a TH-camr by name Phoenix Resale found and bought a shadowless Charizard and Mewtwo for I believe it was $5 in someone's yard sale. I collected Pokemon since 1999 bought off the rest of base set on eBay and finally had at least one copy of 102 original card just like two years ago! I had a lot of fun collecting Pokemon cards I even had the whole evolution set just finished collecting earlier this month!
Wow people love stealing pokemon cards I swear happened to me in Chicago back than
But you're not keeping an eye on it?
Someone in fourth grade stole half of my deck when I went to recess 😂
@@screepo8845 kids in my junior high were theives and if I took my eyes off my Pokemon cards for a minute the next minute they were stolen!?
That was my birthday! I turned 8 that year! So cool! 🎉
Mom is the real mvp 👏
This is the only time period I'd ever consider going too, if I were offered just one trip in a time machine. Not just to load up on sealed product, but to bask in the essence of the 90's again. I miss it so much.
Just feels so pure in comparison.
Man great video really enjoyed it
You can just feel the nostalgia
Gum ball machine in the background 😢
Our parents are the best for those of us who were young at this time. I wouldn’t have my entire childhood collection if it weren’t for my parents.
Facts 💯
this is AMAZING! thank you so much for uploading!! :o
Glad this is uploaded. Thanks!
Still kind of sad to realise 1999 was one of the last years to be somewhat hopefully. Before 26 years of darkness
Exact same aesthetic I remember from my old card shops. All the colorful boxes and eye-catching Japanese text with Beanie Babies everywhere in the backdrop. The colors make me feel incredibly nostalgic. There's a subtle aesthetic that 90's toy stores had that I don't see anywhere. I think I paid $2.50 a pack. One of the shops I remember had a small area in the back where people were playing Magic, though I didn't know what it was at the time.
Loved when pokemon was more simple to play, it could still be fun now but you got so much going on
The person filming this must have known they were capturing a piece of cultural history
I had a couple of those VhS tapes. I bought them at a grocery store for like $5 each when i was a kid
I'm finally at the age where I can't keep track of how many Pokemon there are anymore. Dropped off around the time there were about 800 or so..now there's 1000+ O_O
Born in 1992 I miss these moments!!!
Man, I haven't thought of those little Pokemon note pads since I was a kid back in 99-2000.
My dad used to take me to North Cross Mall in North Austin and they had a Pokémon card shop inside. I was 11 in 1999. He would take me in there and buy me cards all the time!
The mall we went used to have a kiosk called the PokeMart lol
Boy if i had a time machine...good times back in the 90s i miss it...also got the pokemon starter booster box for Christmas and pulled alot of good stuff..had gyrados and mewtwo..later on got the fossil and jungle boxes to..wish i would've kept them sealed i could buy a house with them nowadays lol.
Wow you got a whole box back then? Was always a childhood dream to one day have a full booster box of one of those sets.
Omg this hits me right in the childhood! Seeing the Beanie Babies does, too.
I have a 5 year old that loves Pokémon. But makes you wonder, what is her generations Pokémon? I’ve stayed in touch with a lot of this stuff, and still 25 years later, haven’t experienced anything even close.
I don’t think anything will ever come close again. It was the perfect time to release Pokémon. Internet was on the rise, tech was on the rise, but we weren’t too connected. We were still grounded. The 90’s pokemania will forever be unique.
@@RolandKoller90just enough to get people out and about to interact with each other via one large community. nothing will quite be the same but I’d have to imagine one day there will be something new that takes the world by storm. maybe we can’t comprehend it.
Aw yes my first obsession.
I would like to go back in time to the first day I discovered Pokemon age 3 1998. Around the time I began talking. I got my parents to buy all those Pokemon vhs videos. 😂
My grandpa used to take me to Toys r Us so I could battle in 1999 lol
Oh...those Pokemon cards 😳. Gotta buy them all!
Here we can see when Jungle was just released as there are 1st/unlimited box one of each on that counter with a base set 1 box of unlimited. This was mainly the time when everyone started playing/collecting. Finding 1st edition base set as your start was a very short time and generally before the true hype spread.
I remembered Pokemon Vhs was at 99 cents only store.
Pokémon was THE SHIT back in 1999. No one, not even me nor my school would escape from the craze. I remember getting Pokemon stuff back in the day.
Sitting here knowing how much a single sealed pack of any of those sets sells for these days...
Between $50 and $500 ea! (I didnt see any1st ed Base)
Thousands of dollars
I remember it was only $2.75 for a Pokemon base pack in Flushing New York back around 1999-2000. As a teenager I would almost always open it the same day less than buying it within after 1/2 an hour. I wanted to know what was inside and the longest I kept Pokemon pack unopened no more than a week!
@@timothychow177yeah no kid in their right mind would have kept sealed back then. sealed I can imagine only remained when teens or adults got their hands on them.
I'm cryng
Yeah...this one was for you Ricardo 😀
I would go back to this time period to really experience it again and soak it in and really enjoy it then what I did when it came out. Brings back great memories
This guy must be a time traveler, he also recorded the 70s
Ikr lol
Ah. Bucket hats! A good fashion trend in the 90s
Yes! i love pokemon!
So do I Brandon
Just sucks how Pokmon has gone downhill over the years though.
Me to
@@SirDinielFortesque naw I can't say that it upgrades so much
Damn i should've bought the whole stock back then 🤣
Literally nothing screams late 90's to me more than Pokémon, South Park, and WWF/WCW.
@@Vrypor uh, no?
@@Vrypor what about WWF/WCW?
@@Vrypor WWF = World Wrestling Federation
WCW = World Championship Wrestling
I'm convinced this youtuber is a time traveler
they're not lol, they just acquire B-roll footage from the archives of various news channels. that's why the majority of these have timestamps and don't feature any kind of narration
@@stardmg yea lol, its pretty neat though!
I didn't catch on with the craze of Pokemon card collecting back then. Lot of my geek and nerdy friends (well average friends LOL) had to have them. I might have collected a few over the years in the early 2000s, but I don't know where I put them. My wife has several in an old trapper keeper she kept since she was 14.
Why am I just now finding this!? Lol
Buying out all of those packs and keeping them fresh would have made you rich today.
Omg, The Season 1 Pioneer Vhs Tapes 📼😍📼
I was 10 really brings me back.
I miss the 90s
WOW! just WOW
BUY IT ALL
My rich grandparents from Midwest would take us to a Pokemon Store and purchase Poke' Merchandise.
I hate to ask, but why are most of these videos compressed so horribly? Can't they be uploaded with less compression?
Because it's shot on the og video recorders...
Maybe
What store is this?
So much..................POKEMON POKEMON POKEMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to see if Chris Chan would pop out in this video. 😆
He's selling the Chinese Auldey figures. Curious.
Wow dude that kid was like me bucket hat and everything. Miss these days so simple so fun and care free.
The smell the feel in the air the school yard omfg im old im scared i love you pokemon if i die soon i will miss fresh cut grass smell and emerald but im a gen 1 player baseball little league Waxhaw nc