This is hands down (hah) one of the best composed Game Boy songs of all time. Extremely catchy tune, and, unlike a lot of video game music of its time and earlier, it doesn't start to loop until about 2:10 into the song. That's legitimately impressive and great composition there, especially on such limited hardware and for one of the core tunes in the game. It's especially great that the song is so long since the duels in the game typically are pretty time consuming, so the music doesn't tend to become grating like a shorter composition might. *TL;DR: This song is fantastic and the composer (Ichiro Shimakura) should be commended for the work that was done on this song and soundtrack as a whole.*
+TackyRackyComixNEO good point that i hadn't bothered thinking about. I think that standard held throughout the whole game, but that it especially made the difference here since this is the most repeated tune
@@raeomew Yes! It really is a lot like those. I love those soundtracks too, those two are probably among my favorite video game soundtracks. Kirby's Block Ball's music has some really intricate pop melodies that I never get tired of, and Fantasy Zone's music is in a league of its own. I'm glad those were the two you mentioned :)
This game was the reason I knew how to play the game when I was a kid. It didn't matter though, nobody else in the whole school or neighborhood knew how. People just used them as status and trade barter.
So true. Even when you did find somone who knew the rules they would still bullshit, like: 1. "I used a pluspower on my Exeggutor, therefore i do 10 extra damage for EVERY COIN FLIP!" (Regardless of outcome for each individual flip, of course...) 2. "Oooops, hahaha! Sorry bro, i forgot FOR THE SEVENTH TIME that you can only have 4 of any kind of card other than basic energy. Wooops, sorry bro! We're still finishing the match, right?" 3. "What do you mean 'double normal energy is not a basic energy card', they're energy cards! Hahahahahahha, you're stupid!" (Typically argued when using Energy Retrieval etc.) 4. "Alright, my Lapras will use Confuse Ray, coin flip for confusion! *TAILS* That one doesn't count, cause my friend coughed during the flip, flip again! *HEADS* Yeah, take that, your Pokémon is confused!" I also remember a kid using Elekid's Playful Punch as an "extra attack", even though the card stated "this ends your turn": www.pokemon-cards.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/gen1/GEN1E022.jpg Oh the violent arguing/fights i would cause over these situations... I still enjoyed the trading and the few less-bullshitty kids i got to play Pokémon TCG with though, it was fun...
HAHAHA long ago, I learnt the difference between multiplier and addition attacks, but in an unfair way, my opponent play his multiplier attacks like an additional ones, where he hit tail 1st, and when I called he cant flip anymore, he still wants to and manage to defeat my pokemon, and that my friend is when I retire from playing (still collecting though) [my point is, its no fun to play if they don't know how to really play it, and back then Im such a sore loser hahaha] fun times *playing this tcg than IRL*
I would honestly guess this is either cause how it was recorded or to save space, but they shufle noise can be activated at a later time so i dont think its the second one
Ahh... I remember. I was eager to have a Pokémon game for the first time when I traded one of my gbc games to a friend and he told me he would bring his "Pokémon" game to school next day and would give it to me. After some days of him not coming to school, I decided to visit him at his house and go on a small journey through the mountains where I lived to his house. When I arrived, he was like "oh dude, come here! I have it here!" And when I saw that it wasn't Pokémon Crystal... and less even, Pokémon Red or Blue... I was extremely disappointed. Then I decided to just pop it in to the GBA SP and start it because, well, why not? Little did I know, that from that moment onwards, I would create some awesome experiences and moments with it and its great soundtrack. I'll say it now, this soundtrack sounds catchier and better than Red/Blue's stellar one. But well. That's why I come back for this one often.
Well I had just gotten hold of a Gameboy and went to the shop to buy a good Pokemon game. I thought I bought a Pokemon game like yellow blue or red but I found out I bought the wrong game. Anyway first I didnt like it but then I began to like it. Still playing :d
Well my story is quite a bit similar when I was in 6th grade (now in 12th) I wanted to play a Pokémon game everyone did on Mobile (emulator) or their Nintendo systems while I didn't have one like XY/ORAS or a smartphone neither. I saw a virtual console Pokémon game for cheap in the e-shop and bought it with just a little bit of money left on that account I thought it was like the mainline games I was very dissapointed when I found out it's a card game but still gave it a shot it was difficult and I never finished it my 2ds is dead now BTW accidentally slammed it on the ground. That game may not be a mainline game where you catch and train but I still had a great time with it winning in two gyms and trying to draw the legendary Zapdos every beginning. This game is nostalgic for me cause this game showed me that whatever your situation is be happy with what you got.
Just played this game for the first time in my 20's and wow this theme is amazing from a structural perspective and from a gameboy limitation perspective. Obviously the theme you will hear the most needs to be good but wow this goes on for long before looping which is so rare for this era. a whole 2+ minute loop
I feel like this game had one of the best soundtracks of the early Nintendo days. Every track is insane. Espesially when you consider what they had to work with
This games brings me back to 2001 and 2002 when I played this game a lot next to Yellow and Gold/Crystal. I loved sitting in the garden with my GBC and playing this game. Reason why Gen 1 Pokémon are more familiar than the others.
Isn't it weird that this game-- a game about a trading card game-- can be so memorable and so much fun? The music is even fantastic. It makes me smile.
@es Of course, if playing against human players, that was a dangerous strategy. Oh, what's that, you have a hand of 32 cards, most of which you desperately want to use? Imposter Prof Oak, all those cards now go to the Discard pile.
came across this music the other day... i was surprised of the musical intensity that lies within this piece and the whole soundtrack of p. trading card game.... these are not just little pieces in my opinion. if they were performed by an orchestra, people would never guess they originally come from a videogame!
I've got no particularly deep connections with this game. Used to own it as a kid and played it when I've got bored of other pokemon games. But the sound and composition of this soundtrack really got ingrained into my memory, to a point where I want to have this play on my funeral or something. It's truely impressive for its time and seems great even for today's standards. Can honestly not express the amount of joy the song gives me.
I literally just started a playthrough of this earlier after so many years. Of course I went with my favorite Squirtle and Friends deck. Love this game to bits. I listen to this song while working from home too. Gets the brain cells going.
I played this game exactly one time when I was 8 or something at my cousin's house and I still remember this song. So damn catchy. (It makes me want to play the game...)
I remember even as a child when I played this game I thought this song was awesome. It was one of the reasons I ended up playing so much of the damn game.
i got this game at the age of 5 and i thought i wasted my parent's money but after 2nd grade i learn how to actually read and this game was a unforgetable one. i am glad ppl didnt forget about this game =D
My childhood! Tears instantly falls down my cheeks... ;-; I remember loving this tune so much that I would occasionally leave my game boy speaker on my ear. Remember getting $1 headphones at the 99 cents store to listen this and pikachus thundershock in Pokémon yellow. It was so cool. :D
God. This music brings me back. Ugh. SO MUCH FUN was had playing this game. I actually still have it. and my old GBC. I think i may just bust this out sometime today.
everytime I listen to this i cry because the music brings back so many memories and i want to play it again but i cant because i cant find one yet and this was the first music you here on the practice duel when they teach you how to play and the his first card was a Machop i had soo much fun i couldnt stop and i hated it when my game ran out of batteries and i coulnt get any
oh yeah thats the stuff i remember when it 1st came out right after pokemon card became somewut obsolete... yup good times... good times... but u could never forget this song it was catchy and playful. Awsome song!!
4 year old comment but still. There is a fan translation rom for the sequel. The 2nd game adds quite a bit ontop of the original so if you havent tried it, I'd say its worth it
I had pokemon cards i had sets of them from alpha to omega to medi deck and my nephew comes to live with us for a bit and in that time he is talking about how pokemon is the new craze and I tell him about my cards and I bring out my decks.and before he left I gave him my rules on playing Pokemon on a printed google doc and wrapped in that paper........Was my alpha deck :) (I still miss my cards from time to time)
awh the times i had with this game i remember when i lost my back piece to the battery thing and every end of a club leader as soon as i almost win the batteries fall out lmao
I would watch my brother play this game as a child... but I don't remember anything about the music D: I'M SO SAD BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A WONDERFUL SONG
omfg this games ost is better than most of these games ost. pokemon always has good composer. fuck i cant take it anymore ima cry i member the days my cousin let me borrow this when i was 10 way back in 2000 and i got hooked on my gbc and took to take a shit sittn on toilet playin gameboy.
This is hands down (hah) one of the best composed Game Boy songs of all time. Extremely catchy tune, and, unlike a lot of video game music of its time and earlier, it doesn't start to loop until about 2:10 into the song. That's legitimately impressive and great composition there, especially on such limited hardware and for one of the core tunes in the game. It's especially great that the song is so long since the duels in the game typically are pretty time consuming, so the music doesn't tend to become grating like a shorter composition might.
*TL;DR: This song is fantastic and the composer (Ichiro Shimakura) should be commended for the work that was done on this song and soundtrack as a whole.*
+TackyRackyComixNEO
good point that i hadn't bothered thinking about. I think that standard held throughout the whole game, but that it especially made the difference here since this is the most repeated tune
+TackyRackyComixNEO really good, thank you I totally agree with you
agree 100% this song is one of the best 8bit songs
pokemon tcg has quite unique songs in general
It reminds me a lot of the music from Kirbys Block Ball or Fantasy zone. Give these osts a listen if you like this song
@@raeomew Yes! It really is a lot like those. I love those soundtracks too, those two are probably among my favorite video game soundtracks. Kirby's Block Ball's music has some really intricate pop melodies that I never get tired of, and Fantasy Zone's music is in a league of its own. I'm glad those were the two you mentioned :)
This game was the reason I knew how to play the game when I was a kid. It didn't matter though, nobody else in the whole school or neighborhood knew how. People just used them as status and trade barter.
SecretHat we'd make our own rules.
So true. Even when you did find somone who knew the rules they would still bullshit, like:
1. "I used a pluspower on my Exeggutor, therefore i do 10 extra damage for EVERY COIN FLIP!" (Regardless of outcome for each individual flip, of course...)
2. "Oooops, hahaha! Sorry bro, i forgot FOR THE SEVENTH TIME that you can only have 4 of any kind of card other than basic energy. Wooops, sorry bro! We're still finishing the match, right?"
3. "What do you mean 'double normal energy is not a basic energy card', they're energy cards! Hahahahahahha, you're stupid!" (Typically argued when using Energy Retrieval etc.)
4. "Alright, my Lapras will use Confuse Ray, coin flip for confusion! *TAILS* That one doesn't count, cause my friend coughed during the flip, flip again! *HEADS* Yeah, take that, your Pokémon is confused!"
I also remember a kid using Elekid's Playful Punch as an "extra attack", even though the card stated "this ends your turn":
www.pokemon-cards.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/gen1/GEN1E022.jpg
Oh the violent arguing/fights i would cause over these situations...
I still enjoyed the trading and the few less-bullshitty kids i got to play Pokémon TCG with though, it was fun...
Same here lol. Lone wolf
HAHAHA long ago, I learnt the difference between multiplier and addition attacks, but in an unfair way, my opponent play his multiplier attacks like an additional ones, where he hit tail 1st, and when I called he cant flip anymore, he still wants to and manage to defeat my pokemon, and that my friend is when I retire from playing (still collecting though) [my point is, its no fun to play if they don't know how to really play it, and back then Im such a sore loser hahaha] fun times *playing this tcg than IRL*
...we didn't even use energy, nor did we evolve from basic pokemon, we would just slap down pokemon cards, and attack.
What the hell im 31 now and this song just popped in my head randomly lol
Yeah route one for me from pokemon red and blue
The same with me ahha
The same here
28, that just happened to me
27 & same lol happens every few years, theme was 🔥🔥🔥
its insane how intricate and layered this song is for such an old game
I like how the prize cards being placed is part of the tune.
SpaceYeti actually it's the deck shuffling
@@marinellovragovic1207 well said
I would honestly guess this is either cause how it was recorded or to save space, but they shufle noise can be activated at a later time so i dont think its the second one
Your mind is filling in the blanks LOL
Haha yes
This is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated themes in one of the most underrated games ever.
TRUE. Such an AMAZING card game for the ORIGINAL GAME BOY. Fully functional card games are rare in that era
that shuffle tho. so many memories
I know!! I love this game still!!
Ahh... I remember.
I was eager to have a Pokémon game for the first time when I traded one of my gbc games to a friend and he told me he would bring his "Pokémon" game to school next day and would give it to me.
After some days of him not coming to school, I decided to visit him at his house and go on a small journey through the mountains where I lived to his house. When I arrived, he was like "oh dude, come here! I have it here!"
And when I saw that it wasn't Pokémon Crystal... and less even, Pokémon Red or Blue... I was extremely disappointed.
Then I decided to just pop it in to the GBA SP and start it because, well, why not?
Little did I know, that from that moment onwards, I would create some awesome experiences and moments with it and its great soundtrack. I'll say it now, this soundtrack sounds catchier and better than Red/Blue's stellar one.
But well. That's why I come back for this one often.
Well I had just gotten hold of a Gameboy and went to the shop to buy a good Pokemon game.
I thought I bought a Pokemon game like yellow blue or red but I found out I bought the wrong game.
Anyway first I didnt like it but then I began to like it. Still playing :d
Well my story is quite a bit similar when I was in 6th grade (now in 12th) I wanted to play a Pokémon game everyone did on Mobile (emulator) or their Nintendo systems while I didn't have one like XY/ORAS or a smartphone neither. I saw a virtual console Pokémon game for cheap in the e-shop and bought it with just a little bit of money left on that account I thought it was like the mainline games I was very dissapointed when I found out it's a card game but still gave it a shot it was difficult and I never finished it my 2ds is dead now BTW accidentally slammed it on the ground. That game may not be a mainline game where you catch and train but I still had a great time with it winning in two gyms and trying to draw the legendary Zapdos every beginning. This game is nostalgic for me cause this game showed me that whatever your situation is be happy with what you got.
@@RavenPavenIt just goes to show when you’re a kid and don’t have the ability to get whatever you want, you’re happy you have something at all.
this takes me back, the height of gameboy color music
Damn. These motherfuckers went OFF in this song! All these years later. Still a great piece of music. Makes me dance every time I hear it
子供の時に遊んだゲームだけど、今でも口ずさむBGM
Just played this game for the first time in my 20's and wow this theme is amazing from a structural perspective and from a gameboy limitation perspective.
Obviously the theme you will hear the most needs to be good but wow this goes on for long before looping which is so rare for this era. a whole 2+ minute loop
1:35-2:10 was always my favorite part , I always tried to win right as it ended lol god I love this game
Ah.. I miss this game. I used to play this all the time as a kid. It's actually how I learned to play the real thing.
This was one of the ways for me to learn too!!
if you have a switch and pay for online you can get it now
I feel like this game had one of the best soundtracks of the early Nintendo days. Every track is insane. Espesially when you consider what they had to work with
Started hunming this radnomly after decades. I swear I can still hear the Pikachu coin flip sound effect like i'm in a real duel.
This games brings me back to 2001 and 2002 when I played this game a lot next to Yellow and Gold/Crystal.
I loved sitting in the garden with my GBC and playing this game. Reason why Gen 1 Pokémon are more familiar than the others.
Isn't it weird that this game-- a game about a trading card game-- can be so memorable and so much fun? The music is even fantastic. It makes me smile.
One of the best Pokemon tracks out there! So lush and full sounding considering the hardware limitations.
when you got a hang of this game holy hell you'd go into a battle and just merk people
Lol, fighting the Psychic Club Master. Now that was fun/annoying.
@es What if all of them were stuck as prizes?
@es Of course, if playing against human players, that was a dangerous strategy.
Oh, what's that, you have a hand of 32 cards, most of which you desperately want to use? Imposter Prof Oak, all those cards now go to the Discard pile.
came across this music the other day... i was surprised of the musical intensity that lies within this piece and the whole soundtrack of p. trading card game....
these are not just little pieces in my opinion.
if they were performed by an orchestra, people would never guess they originally come from a videogame!
This more like music that a Jazz band would play.
So much nostalgia right now!
Feels good. Thinking of all the hours I spent on this as a kid.
*Totally don't have a tear in my eye or anything*
Is it nostalgic now? Hehe
Very underrated game song! One of my favorites from the series.
I just realised how much I loved this game and am pumping this song on loop lol.
I've got no particularly deep connections with this game. Used to own it as a kid and played it when I've got bored of other pokemon games.
But the sound and composition of this soundtrack really got ingrained into my memory, to a point where I want to have this play on my funeral or something.
It's truely impressive for its time and seems great even for today's standards. Can honestly not express the amount of joy the song gives me.
I literally just started a playthrough of this earlier after so many years. Of course I went with my favorite Squirtle and Friends deck. Love this game to bits. I listen to this song while working from home too. Gets the brain cells going.
I played this game exactly one time when I was 8 or something at my cousin's house and I still remember this song. So damn catchy. (It makes me want to play the game...)
I never finished this game but I still have my cardridge ;w;
This music is a 8bit masterpiece
You again!
(I saw you on a Kingdom Hearts 3 OST video.)
@@milanmalfait9914 oh hi! Well I have xehanort as my profile pic so it's not surprising
Sounds like you need to finish it then
Surfing Pikachu, hell yeah
Includes the deck shuffle i remember as a child, burned into my brain! ty for this!
Someone stole this game from me when I was a kid, man I miss it.
andrewsallee how’s it going buddy, this is 9 years old now. Give us an update on your life now
After over 20 years I have returned to listen
That key change though - like liquid gold for your ears.
I remember even as a child when I played this game I thought this song was awesome. It was one of the reasons I ended up playing so much of the damn game.
i got this game at the age of 5 and i thought i wasted my parent's money but after 2nd grade i learn how to actually read and this game was a unforgetable one. i am glad ppl didnt forget about this game =D
My childhood! Tears instantly falls down my cheeks... ;-; I remember loving this tune so much that I would occasionally leave my game boy speaker on my ear. Remember getting $1 headphones at the 99 cents store to listen this and pikachus thundershock in Pokémon yellow. It was so cool. :D
I love this song, its very nostalgic for me. Thank you Game Boy Color
Nothing like playing a friendly card game with such happy music = D. Brings me back memories.
Wooooow... this brings me back. I can't listen to this song with out hearing those quirky sound effects of Pokemon attacking each other. :D
1:14 FTW!
God. This music brings me back. Ugh. SO MUCH FUN was had playing this game. I actually still have it. and my old GBC. I think i may just bust this out sometime today.
My stepdad told me that he would be choosing their deck and this song would play so often that they would hear it trying to sleep
I still play this in my head when I'm playing the physical game
Just popped in my head while working lmao, pure nostalgia.
I still humm this song sometimes when I'm by myself or focusing.
Me, too!!!! It's my favorite song on this game. It sure does bring back memories.
I'm glad I have this game again. Its been so long since I had this game. Love it.
lol def in the top 5 of best video game music EVAR! I used to play just to listen to this lol
everytime I listen to this i cry because the music brings back so many memories
and i want to play it again but i cant because i cant find one yet
and this was the first music you here on the practice duel when they teach you how to play and the his first card was a Machop
i had soo much fun
i couldnt stop
and i hated it when my game ran out of batteries and i coulnt get any
Always loved this game! :)
I STILL have that Limited Edition Meowth card you get when you buy this game. It's still in my folder. I will NEVER trade it because of the memories.
wtf I commented on here 11 years ago hahaha
This tune just won't ever leave my head I don't think.
This tune is MY JAM.
And you're my peanut butter .
Oh oh~ I used to play this so much.. gotta love all the musics
omg, im gonna cry guys :C
so nostalgic.
oh yeah thats the stuff i remember when it 1st came out right after pokemon card became somewut obsolete... yup good times... good times... but u could never forget this song it was catchy and playful. Awsome song!!
I'm currently in my first real Pokemon card battle and I'm using this as the background noise
love this music. i can listen to this all day
懐かしいノゥ。
すごく懐かしいよ！約15年前にこのゲームをしていた
I remember there was going to be a sequel to this, but I guess it was never released to the US. Shame.
4 year old comment but still. There is a fan translation rom for the sequel. The 2nd game adds quite a bit ontop of the original so if you havent tried it, I'd say its worth it
Love that deck shuffle sound
The shuffle made this 100 times better
@CronoThrash ONE OF THE BEST POKEMON SONGS!!!!1
I felt a lot of times I was the only one who played this game, I glad I was wrong
NOSTOLGIA. IT BURNS SO, BUT FEELS SO GOOD.
they should make a modern version of this song
this is peak 8-bit music
Hearing it? I'm playing it in the background!
I had pokemon cards i had sets of them from alpha to omega to medi deck and my nephew comes to live with us for a bit and in that time he is talking about how pokemon is the new craze and I tell him about my cards and I bring out my decks.and before he left I gave him my rules on playing Pokemon on a printed google doc and wrapped in that paper........Was my alpha deck :) (I still miss my cards from time to time)
First game I ever played on the GB... I fell asleep listening to the music as a kid haha.... Those were the days
I can listen to this song all day if I could. I love this game.
Underrated game track🔥 Nostalgia🥹
No card game will ever come as close as this one. (except the sequel)
The new cards today are super OP. The original cards were so well balanced.
I loved this game and this song.
Not to be that guy, but hey y'all, i just made a cover of this.
Man, this is chiptune at it's best. So good
This is some old school feel good music right here
crazy that they made this song be playable on a chipset with 8 channels
4 channels
4 stereo channels, so 8@@isakmagnusson8647
Best song of all time hands down
This plays in my head any time I play any card game lol
Huh.. it's much lower pitched than I remembered... anyway I really love this one!
The OST from Pokémon TCG is just AMAZING :D !
Man playing this on the Switch again is amazing
i remember playing this on the GBC, and it was because of this game that i learned how to play the real thing.
this is a certified hood classic
I listened to this the other day while looking for Pokemon outside.
I love it so fucking much🥺 i instantly remember when i was a little kid🥺🥺
This song brings me back to first grade 😅😇
this was stuck in my head for whatever reason and now im here at 10 am
me too i love this song i still have the game and when i play it i always hum it lol (sigh) nostalgia
awh the times i had with this game i remember when i lost my back piece
to the battery thing and every end of a club leader as soon as i almost win the batteries fall out lmao
I would watch my brother play this game as a child... but I don't remember anything about the music D:
I'M SO SAD BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A WONDERFUL SONG
I got attacked by the nostalgia as soon as i heard 0:00 the intro battle sound
omfg this games ost is better than most of these games ost. pokemon always has good composer. fuck i cant take it anymore ima cry i member the days my cousin let me borrow this when i was 10 way back in 2000 and i got hooked on my gbc and took to take a shit sittn on toilet playin gameboy.
I Love this soundtrack
oh, oh this music
the sound the the cards being dealt
and the beeping of being at low health.
WHERE IS MY GAMEBOY
Ah! I was so young...
I can literally still hear the attack sound effects
The nostalgia is real
ゲームの中でポケモンカードパックを買えるのが子供心に嬉しかった。