@@theloudstarkirby4203 yeah I don't really know what they have planned other than the weird music stuff I've seen...I'm more excited for new Pokémon snap! 😁 Glad you enjoyed the video, also did one on my Pokémon collection 😁
@@oddpodshow I still got my n64 and I'm trying to get the original pokemon snap game,I'm looking forward for new Pokemon toys,cards,games. I don't got much pokemon stuff Bec I keep forgetting to buy them,I was a 90s kids and my first pokemon game was pokemon ruby on gameboy advance.cant wait for new pokemon snap to.it toke like 20 years to make a second pokemon snap game
@@oddpodshow that's good,hey what's the name of that song from the video that show on the news that repeat pokemon over and over again. I can't find name of song.
I’m so glad I lived in this time. I got the chance to experience the Pokémon craze where it was everywhere every kid knew about it liked it and very few hated it everyone had cards everyone had movies, toys and etc. it’s sad because these days I don’t think there’s been anything else that has been nearly as big of a craze as Pokémon ever was.
Was looking for a dose of warm nostalgia after a rough year and absolutely loved this, thank you. I lived through the 90s Pokemon craze in middle school and everything you're saying was exactly like me - loving every bit of it, living and breathing Pokemon, pretending to be catching Pokemon and fighting Team Rocket on the playground - being friends-for-a-day with practically anyone because we all had this shared love for these little monsters and their incredible world. It was such a simple connection, and it was everywhere. I am also SO happy I got to live through the first years of it. Pokemon didn't feel like just another craze the way Beanie Babies and Furbies did to me - it was a full time experience, between the anime, games, toys, cards, music, movies! And while parents and teachers were fretting about possible negative effects of Pokemon, I look back at that part of my past as the fondest years of my life so far. The Pokemon world had such a positive impact on me and touched so many of us. The resurgence Pokemon Go brought about when it was first released brought back such great memories. But the late 90s through the early 2000s was the golden era of it and I can't think of any time in my life that I was happier!
Oh definitely, it wasn't JUST a craze it became a lifestyle ha ha it was just everything for a while. I loved it. Glad you got nostalgia from it, that's what Odd Pod is for, also did a vid showing my Pokémon Collection check it out as you may see some things you had as a kid. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, means a lot. 😁
I couldn't have said it better my man! Exactly what I'm feeling. Wanted some nostalgia that could make me want these times back so badly and this video provided well 😀 Pokémon, especially the games, were life itself. The obsession to get a bit further, go catch a certain Mon, just 1 more battle!...It was foreshadowing people today stuck to their mobile phones 😅 truly obsessed 😜 difference is my god I wonder how many batteries we all went through with over 100 hours put into each game ? 😅
I don't think there will ever be another trend like it. Its a huge part of many people's childhood, think when Pokemon Go came out it showed how much love people still have for it.
I remember bragging to my friends about my catches, we would compare pokemon. Out of the 5 of us, there was only one kid with a transfer cable, he naturally was there every time we hung out. This game evokes great memories of adventure, achievement, and friendship.
The Carrier of the cord. They who Knew the Secret Being. They Who Knew the Forbidden One. Every playground had them. Some were benevolent and shared their knowledge- others used this knowledge for barter, a bag of Cheetos for the secret Being, cards for the secret to infinite master balls- Truly, the internet ruined the magic that was hidden knowledge.
Great video. I love 90s Pokemon nostalgia. I was 9 in 1999 and loved it all, the games, the cards, the anime, the movies, the toys. Watching the anime before school, going to school and playing red or blue, trading cards etc. The games were the best part. Red and Charizard for life.
Was such a fun time, Pokémon everywhere, loving all that and if that wasn't enough Digimon, monster rancher and more came out and I loved all that too ha ha. The Pokemon craze was great, thanks for watching, I did a vid on my pokemon collection a while back, check it out, you might see some stuff you had
@@oddpodshow you know what was great about the late 90s/early 2000s? Everything man. The games released were great, Metal Gear on PS1, Shenmue on the Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure. RTS games like Command & Conquer on the PC, Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 007 and Banjo Kazooie on the N64. TV was awesome too. WWF was so good back then with the Attitude Era, Stone Cold and The Rock. Movies in the cinema were great like Rush Hour. Cartoons on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon were awesome. Kenan & Kel, Dexter's Laboratory, Rugrats, Cow and Chicken etc. Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, and on top of all of it, Pokemon was awesome. I'll defo be checking your channel out man.
I was one of those teenagers. I remember having a poster, a Pikachu backpack, figure, a large version, the beanie plushies, the cards. Ironically I never actually played the game. I was more interested in the merch.
11:03 seeing this triggered my memory! I forgot I had the book in the middle! You literally just made me order one in great condition off eBay 😂 I love Pokémon ❤
Pokemon was a huge part of my childhood (still a big part of me today), and my 3 brothers. I still have all our old cards, which includes over 1000 of the base set alone. 1998 to 2001 is the most nostalgic time for me. I went to see the live stage show and hardly remember anything from it, but after watching it again on youtube I have no idea how my parents sat through that. But the games, the anime, and the cards...i couldn't get enough of them.
Yeah the pokemon craze was such a great time, I have so much nostalgia for it. Check out my pokedex video too for more pokemon nostalgia and a little adventure from where I live 😁
It was after gen 1 it was trash just like wrestling and power rangers Digimon yugioh they were all short lived trends people who still watch and play the new ones are desperate
Great video took me way back to my last primary school years trading pokemon cards in the playground and drawing them all. One memory that will always stick with me was the day i bought a pack from Toys R Us and opening it to find shiny Charizard , at the time i had no idea how big of a deal he was! i stupidly let some bully look at it but he stole it and ran home with it! My son’s 6 and we’ve watched s1-s4 so far 1 or 2 episodes a day sometimes repeats.He’s obsessed with the original 150 which makes me very happy! He loved watching your vid i got to share that extreme pokemon hype filled nostalgia.Wants a N64 for xmas so he can play Pokemon Stadium and Snap now 👍😆
That's awesome, yeah the Pokémon Craze was amazing. Really glad you enjoyed the vid, if your kid liked this one definitely show him 2 other vids we've done, 1. My Pokémon Collection video and 2. My Pikachu N64 video. Should enjoy those. Thank you for watching :)
Wonderful memories man. What a time to be alive. I also felt exactly the same way. I lived through all of this and am still living and loving it. Great video!
Yeah it was such a great time, I actually watched a Pokémon the first movie promo VHS the other day and on it they were talking about how they think Pokémon will still be around in 20 years and how big the craze is, was quite nostalgic. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watch 😁 more Pokémon vids to come in the future
Lol at the news reporter. So like a parent. "Pokémon the trading card!" It reminds me of my grandma back in the 90s telling my mum that I was all day in my room playing on my playboy.
Same here in argentina! It was huge soon after it was released, i was around 8-9 so i was totally the market target. Yes, ive got the games, watched the movie when it was released, got and traded the cards, and Pretty much everything that you mention! And also, same situation for All the kids from my school. Its a franchise that always have been part of my life, not only with memories but also part of the present. The thrill to know the new creatures of new games about to be released is amazing.
Was such a fun and amazing time when it was at its peak of popularity, loved it. I did a video on my pokemon collection a while back too, you might see some stuff that you had back in the day, thank you for watching and commenting :)
@@oddpodshow one of my favorite memories was when i was a little kid and i played pokemon yellow and pokemon snap at the same time to compare. At the time i also used to bring my pokemon yellow to school but unfortunately my classmates had pokemon gen 2 so when we would link our gameboys, i want able to battle or trade with them, only donate pokemon
I have so many amazing memories... I can still remember opening fossil card packs from my Christmas stocking...hoping my "rival" would be at the Eagle's Nest for kids in Giant Eagle (grocery store) when we went grocery shopping...playing in the Pokemon league at Toys r Us... so many absolutely incredible experiences!
Best time of my life hands down. Thanks for the vid. Dragon Ball Z & Yu-Gi-Oh soon came along where u developed a whole new obsession but Pokémon has that extra sparkle because EVERYONE was involved with it and it was in every shop! The years of 1999-2004 say, could not have been more incredible.
I was about 7 years old in 1998. I remember playing the card game with my friends, and watching other people on the school yard playing Red and Blue on their Gameboys. The Pokemon Craze really was a fun time, and i have a lot of fun memories with it.
So much nostalgia!!! I was in love with the anime which came out when I was in primary school. I remember we also bought this " sticker magazine" which had all first generation Pokémon in numbers, and then we would buy stickers packs (just like cards but in stickers) and we would stick each Pokémon to its number until the whole magazine was complete. It still is my favourite anime / kids program (yes, more than even Power Rangers, Dragonball'z, Sailormoon and other big hits of the time). The first and only Pokémon game I played was Pokémon Gold and I loved it!!!!!!! Made me love generation 1+2 Pokémon so much. My brother was also buying these small Pokémon figurines, he had a whole box of those which unfortunately he gave away to some other neighbourhood kids after he grew up. Love the Pokémon craze - made our childhood so much beautiful! Edit: Forgot to mention that my best friend had the Pokédex too which was so cool back then!
Yeah the pokèmon craze was great, if you enjoyed this then you probably enjoy my video showing my pokemon collection, might have some things in there to being back memories :)
Man I remember when that first movie came out. I've never seen a theater so jam packed with ppl since. I mean they had to shut down the parking lot there was so many ppl.
This time was bittersweet. At school, most of the boys had all the nice cards and gameboys, nice backpacks and stuff. We were poor af… sigh, whatever better than nothing I guess. It’s all memories now
was in on the craze in 98, remember when the whole school yard was just trading cards or showing off cards, played all the games, all the merchandise, fun times! but around 2001 I think I stopped. I never got into pokemon after one hundred fifty.
I was still going for years, slowed down a bit around 2006 or 2007 but I've remained a fan, I just prefer the first few years worth of pokemon stuff the most
@@oddpodshow I still played pokemon stadium late into my teens just because of how fun it was to change the pokemon color and battle at the big tournament. I think I was the first person at my school who knew what pokemon was, my brother woke me up early said a new cartoon on telly with creatures inside balls, I thought he meant American gladiator where they are in those big balls and bashing into each other. I got obsessed soon as I watched it, I remember the one in the hsoital where we first see the nurse and kept drawing pictures of all the pokemon I saw. No one at school knew what Pokemon was, I was the only one until later when the cards and game got popular. I think I spread it because I would bring the cards in.
BRO SAME!! i actually got into pokemon when i was almost 13, i picked blue version and chosed squirtle!! (favorite mon is blastoise), even though im an early 2000s kid, i played the original games through 3ds virtual console back in 2016, im such a huge fan now and played all the main games! my favorite seasons of the anime are indigo league to gold & silver! Pokemon ,to me, is the one reason to be a 90s kid ever!
I really loved this video, can't stop rewatching it every few weeks. I am a bit younger so I have really fallen in love with the first 2 generations of Pokemon. I wish I could go back since in my generation it is not as popular. Liked and subscribed, looking forward to future videos :)
That's really nice to know, thank you so much, Definitely got some cool Pokémon video ideas on the horizon, yeah the Pokémon craze was amazing back in the day but at least it's still around and you can see videos like this too 😁
I remember watching the first-ever episode on SMTV Live in my bedroom on a Saturday morning like it was yesterday. I got blue and a big brick yellow Gameboy for Christmas and it was amazing!
I was 17 and in college when the Pokemon craze hit the UK, I was a bit too old for it so the whole craze completely passed me by personally. The only Pokemon game I've ever played was a couple years ago when Pokemon GO! came out for mobile phones and I wasn't fond of it if i'm honest lol. I do however remember how big Pokemon was though and how much it took over everything. I think it was a Woolworths I walked into once around Christmas time and I think they had a whole isle just dedicated to nothing but Pokemon. I even remember sitting behind a lad on the bus and watching him playing it on his GameBoy on my way to college one morning. Was great to hear your memories and passion for it though, Dan. But yes unfortunately I was well above the demographic age for Pokemon during the craze, I had moved on to beer and women as my main craze hahaha.
If I was just a bit older it might have passed by me too, glad it didn't as I love it. Yeah it took over, like I said in the video even if you didn't like it you still definitely know what it was as you couldn't get away from it
Great video as always. My experience with Pokémon was very similar, it was really huge, it's difficult to explain to people who weren't there at the time just how big. I turned 18 in 1999 so even older than you are but I still got swept up in the anime and the game. I had Pokémon Blue and completed it with all 151 and trained them all up as high as they'd go (I traded with others and used a Game Shark to unlock Mew Too). By 2000 I had told my N64 and bought a Dreamcast, but I bought the Pokémon Stadium Battle Edition console just so I could play on TV and see my Pokémon in 3D 😊 Side note: My parents divorced in 1999 and I was living with my Dad. My Mum asked me what I wanted for Xmas and I asked for a Pikachu plushie as I figured it was such a big craze they would be everywhere and easy to get. Turns out they were sold out everywhere and she trawled round over 30 shopsand phones round lots trying to find one. Cos she'd only just left home she thought it was important to "not let me down"... I felt bad when I found out as I didn't mean to pick something difficult and cause her worry/stress! But it shows what a massive craze it was at the time 🤣
Ha ha, yeah Pokémon was everywhere, I even remember walking in the living room and coronation Street was on and there was a Pokémon poster in the background of the scene. It was EVERYWHERE! I loved it so much, thanks for watching :)
Grew up in the UK, was about 11/12 when it came out and quickly got obsessed with it. Blue was my first game (wanted red but it was sold out). The cards were my favorite thing, partly because of the friend thing you mentioned in the video. I'd recently moved to a new town and school when Pokemon came out. I was a very shy kid, but Pokemon cards gave me an excuse to talk to other kids and have kids come talk to me. It was awesome!
This is such a cool video, I was part of this craze but I was in America. It's cool that many people had the same great experience despite living so far away from each other.
Yeah it really just took over the world, was such a fun and crazy time with Pokémon being everywhere. Got more Pokémon themed videos in mind for the future so stick around 😁 and thanks for watching
No piece of media in history was bigger than Pokemon in the late 90s, neither before or after. You couldn't escape from Pokemon if you tried, it was everywhere. And keep in mind, this was back when plenty of people didn't have internet. Sure fortnite came along, and roblox too was also huge, and cant forget minecraft, but those just were not at the level of pokemon in the 90s.
I remember when Pokemon was big, too. I was living in Oregon state in 1999, at the age of six and seven. I remember vaguely seeing a magazine showing off some trading cards on the front, and I thought it was awesome. I felt a great need for the cards, the anime, ANYTHING Pokemon related, but my mom wouldn't let me see or have any of that; I had other stuff obsessed about at the time. That Christmas though, I got a talking animatronic Pikachu doll, and I loved it. But I still didn't really watch the show or collect the cards in earnest until later in life. I even didn't really start playing the video games fully until 2011; I had a used Pokemon Crystal version for my Game Boy Advance, but I lost it. With the new games coming in November, I felt like reminiscing about the series big explosion in popularity in '99.
Wow, you missed out a little on the big craze but still good that you had something. I have that animatronic Pikachu you are talking about I think. You might see it in a video I did on my collection. Are you going to get the new game later this year? Thanks for watching, hope it brought back some memories
I remember how insanely popular Pokémon was. I was into Pokémon for a year or so, though I gave up on it. The slogan should be changed from "Gotta Catch 'em all!" to "Try and catch 'em all!" Also fun fact, the Veridian road song is a 8bit chip tune of "Polly Wadda Doodle".
Oh it was such an amazing time, hope you enjoyed hearing about it. I've done a few other pokemon videos including showing my collection. Thanks for watching
Great video mate, really impressed with the amount of effort you put into your content. Used to LOVE the cartoon and the gameboy games. It was on smtv live on Saturday mornings if I remember correctly.
I was 1 in 1999. So I was too young to appreciate it then. Didnt really get into it til I was a little bit older (around 3ish). I watched a little bit of the show growing up but not that much of it. I'm almost 23 now. Still love it
I was four when the anime hit the screens in America. That’s around the same time my older brother and his friends got into it. Since I am close in age to my brother and his friends, it was only natural that I would follow them into Pokemon. We had everything-the games, the stuffed animals, the cards, even cassettes of the show. I even had a Pokemon themed birthday. I have pictures of that birthday with little me wearing a red shirt with Pikachu on it. I received my first Gameboy on that birthday. It was hot pink and I called it my “Gamegirl”. My first game was Pokemon Yellow. My mom took me, my brother, and his friends to see the movie and received a Mew sticker. It feels so long ago. I miss those days sometimes.
That's an awesome memory, I want a Pokémon birthday party! Ha ha 😂 yeah the Pokémon craze was such a great time, nice that you have that memory. Thanks for watching 😁
I think I was like 4 as well, lowkey wish I was about 7 when it first released so I could have really appreciated R/B/Y to the fullest and Gen 1 base set packs.
at 2:00 there is a little bit of misinformation that i would like to correct briefly: in japan, the blue edition came out after the red and green and had countless bug fixes and improvements, and served as the basis for the red and blue editions released outside of japan.
Not really misinformation as I just said that japan got blue after, which they did. Just didn't give the explanation as to why as I didn't really know when I made this video. But thanks for watching anyway :)
I was born in 1987 on 7/14 back then I played pokemon blue but sadly I lost my old gameboy color and the game I think I left it in the car or at the movies but sadly I don’t keep up to date on the tv show sadly I don’t have a brother or dad anymore both died a few years ago and my brother was like me we both played pokemon we had the cd and the toys and video games lookin back on this I get emotional listening to the Pokemon songs because my dad takes us to see the Pokemon movies at the movies in the next town I was born on 7/14/1987 and the movie released at the movies on 7/21 but I still watch Pokemon2000s favorite Pokemon movie never gets old time has definitely changed but what I have learned about Pokemon thy make life lessons that teach kids about life and friendship i don’t think the kids twoday will not know what Pokemon was everything and everywhere in the early 90s I even have Pokemon2000s digital movie seen it at the movies on release day it came out on 7/21 men I miss being kid I was so far intwo it now that I’m over 30s year old I can’t remember some of the old Pokemon names but fire and ghost type of Pokemon is my favorite
Yeah it's a special thing, it definitely brings back a lot of memories for me too. Maybe you should watch some again and play one of the games to bring back some memories. Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video
Never did get into the pokemon cards cause yugioh was a thing, but i will never forget the first one i played which was pokemon silver, then red then yellow then the rest.
The school I attended sent letters to parents banning anything related pokemon no cards could be brought to the school premises even banning any kind of clothing including socks!
I was born in '91 and I remember the Pokemon craze quite well lol. Unfortunately I got Pokemon Red late in it's lifespan, I believe I got the game in late 1998 or early 1999 (North American here) and I remember enjoying but I never actually beat it. I think the furthest I got up to was the 7th badge. And then I eventually lost the game during a move but needless to say, while I was a little late to the craze in terms of playing the first game, I got to partake in the anime and the toys and just looking at how Pokemon was everywhere. I remember a year prior before getting Pokemon Red how so many kids at my school would be trading Pokemon cards in their binders full of them as well as kids playing either Pokemon Red or Blue on their Game Boy Colors and how much I wanted to play but couldn't just yet until my brother and I got Game Boy Colors the following year.Thankfully as far as the games went, I got to experience Pokemon Gold/Silver in their prime since we got those games when they came out. But aside from that, we got really into the anime, so much so that we got caught up in the hype for the theatrical release of Pokemon the First Movie, now that was wild with how much excitement was in the air for that movie lol. It's crazy how Pokemon has been around for so long but I can't help but feel so nostalgic when I think back to the "Poke-mania" of the 90s because sadly there was nothing like it after the second generation of games but I'm glad I got to experience it.
You weren't late to the games at all really as it released in North America in September 1998 so not long at all really. Yeah I'm super Nostalgic for the classic Pokémon stuff, was such a great time. Thanks for watching 😁
@@oddpodshow Oh no what I meant was that by the time I got Pokemon Red, it was a good while after many other kids already had and even beaten the game haha. But yeah I guess I wasn't as "late" late as I thought lol And yeah with how much Pokemon has managed to stay around, seeing first gen, classic Pokemon will always take myself (heck, most of us) back to those days. It's bittersweet really haha.
@@oddpodshow It really was and sadly I just don't think we'll ever see anything like that again. Pokemon Go almost did but it was poorly handled and the fad dyed rather quick compared to Pokemania of the 90s lol.
I was the perfect age to experience all of this (well, maybe not the PERFECT age as I was too young to have much of my own money to buy them and thus I probably would've bought more if I'd been a hair older, but whatevs). Was a great time to be a kid.
I remember swapping a yu-gi-oh card for silver, was a great trade and I got pretty far but i left the cartridge in my pocket and it ended up in the washing machine, couldn't save games again 😭 and then I got yellow from gamestation. I miss childhood!
Definitely miss this era, as it was all about the fun as a kid and not about skyrocketing collector values and all that nonsense. This definitely predates a golden time before social media got crazy. Lol.
Yeah scalpers are definitely ruining the fun, did you see what they were like at the pokemon van gogh colab? Yeah just meeting people over pokemon and bonding that way is always fun :)
@oddpodshow alright bro it's a mad one for me because right now my brain is saying mew umbreon, charmander 😅 but when you go back to the 90s early 2000s that gen 2 really got me lugia the second gen starters, obviously adding the original og 151 it's to hard for me to choose 😅 even though I have said what I liked in about an hour I'll be thinking of pokemon I missed 😅😂
@nostalgialad9467 ha ha, for some reason mine have always been Squirtle, sandshrew, beedrill, polywhirl and nidoking. Oh I did a video showing my pokemon collection too, you might get some nostalgia from that
Sometimes my school banned pokemon cards since it distracted us Haha I feel like present childhood just doesn't stick with a main trend. Everything is available and everything sells fast where it feels oversaturated.
They said it was red and blue because in the west, they were considered to be more "opposite" colors. While in Japan Red and Green were considered "Opposite" colors
Oh it is definitely but nothing like the first few years of the craze, it was insane how big it was. But its great that its still popular after all these years.
@@oddpodshow i was 7 years old when the craze started. And now my kid tell me the same story. Everyone in school play pokemong and the tcg pokemon. I think its the same now too lol.
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You ready for the 25th anniversary of Pokemon this week....you did a good video and great job
@@theloudstarkirby4203 yeah I don't really know what they have planned other than the weird music stuff I've seen...I'm more excited for new Pokémon snap! 😁 Glad you enjoyed the video, also did one on my Pokémon collection 😁
@@oddpodshow I still got my n64 and I'm trying to get the original pokemon snap game,I'm looking forward for new Pokemon toys,cards,games.
I don't got much pokemon stuff Bec I keep forgetting to buy them,I was a 90s kids and my first pokemon game was pokemon ruby on gameboy advance.cant wait for new pokemon snap to.it toke like 20 years to make a second pokemon snap game
@@theloudstarkirby4203 I have my Pikachu N64 to play Pokémon snap on. We are planning on doing a Pokémon snap N64 review sometime in the future
@@oddpodshow that's good,hey what's the name of that song from the video that show on the news that repeat pokemon over and over again. I can't find name of song.
I’m so glad I lived in this time. I got the chance to experience the Pokémon craze where it was everywhere every kid knew about it liked it and very few hated it everyone had cards everyone had movies, toys and etc. it’s sad because these days I don’t think there’s been anything else that has been nearly as big of a craze as Pokémon ever was.
Yeah I can't think of anything that took over the world as hard and huge as pokemon did, was an amazing time. Thanks for watching 😁
Yeah the only kids who didn't like it were the Digimon losers lol 😂
@@jimboramba or you liked both like me.
Was looking for a dose of warm nostalgia after a rough year and absolutely loved this, thank you. I lived through the 90s Pokemon craze in middle school and everything you're saying was exactly like me - loving every bit of it, living and breathing Pokemon, pretending to be catching Pokemon and fighting Team Rocket on the playground - being friends-for-a-day with practically anyone because we all had this shared love for these little monsters and their incredible world. It was such a simple connection, and it was everywhere. I am also SO happy I got to live through the first years of it. Pokemon didn't feel like just another craze the way Beanie Babies and Furbies did to me - it was a full time experience, between the anime, games, toys, cards, music, movies! And while parents and teachers were fretting about possible negative effects of Pokemon, I look back at that part of my past as the fondest years of my life so far. The Pokemon world had such a positive impact on me and touched so many of us. The resurgence Pokemon Go brought about when it was first released brought back such great memories. But the late 90s through the early 2000s was the golden era of it and I can't think of any time in my life that I was happier!
Oh definitely, it wasn't JUST a craze it became a lifestyle ha ha it was just everything for a while. I loved it. Glad you got nostalgia from it, that's what Odd Pod is for, also did a vid showing my Pokémon Collection check it out as you may see some things you had as a kid. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, means a lot. 😁
I couldn't have said it better my man! Exactly what I'm feeling. Wanted some nostalgia that could make me want these times back so badly and this video provided well 😀 Pokémon, especially the games, were life itself. The obsession to get a bit further, go catch a certain Mon, just 1 more battle!...It was foreshadowing people today stuck to their mobile phones 😅 truly obsessed 😜 difference is my god I wonder how many batteries we all went through with over 100 hours put into each game ? 😅
We were spoiled to have the 1) Pokemon 2) Attitude Era and 3) Anime Boom crazes at around the same time 🔥
Oh definitely, it was a great time to be alive 😁
I don't think there will ever be another trend like it. Its a huge part of many people's childhood, think when Pokemon Go came out it showed how much love people still have for it.
Yeah definitely, I'll be very surprised if a craze ever hits as big as the Pokémon Craze, it was amazing
Probably not in our lifetime, innovation has tapered…
I remember bragging to my friends about my catches, we would compare pokemon. Out of the 5 of us, there was only one kid with a transfer cable, he naturally was there every time we hung out. This game evokes great memories of adventure, achievement, and friendship.
That's awesome, yeah those times have so many great memories :) thanks for watching
The Carrier of the cord. They who Knew the Secret Being. They Who Knew the Forbidden One.
Every playground had them. Some were benevolent and shared their knowledge- others used this knowledge for barter, a bag of Cheetos for the secret Being, cards for the secret to infinite master balls-
Truly, the internet ruined the magic that was hidden knowledge.
Great video. I love 90s Pokemon nostalgia. I was 9 in 1999 and loved it all, the games, the cards, the anime, the movies, the toys. Watching the anime before school, going to school and playing red or blue, trading cards etc. The games were the best part. Red and Charizard for life.
Was such a fun time, Pokémon everywhere, loving all that and if that wasn't enough Digimon, monster rancher and more came out and I loved all that too ha ha. The Pokemon craze was great, thanks for watching, I did a vid on my pokemon collection a while back, check it out, you might see some stuff you had
@@oddpodshow you know what was great about the late 90s/early 2000s? Everything man. The games released were great, Metal Gear on PS1, Shenmue on the Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure. RTS games like Command & Conquer on the PC, Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 007 and Banjo Kazooie on the N64. TV was awesome too. WWF was so good back then with the Attitude Era, Stone Cold and The Rock. Movies in the cinema were great like Rush Hour. Cartoons on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon were awesome. Kenan & Kel, Dexter's Laboratory, Rugrats, Cow and Chicken etc. Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, and on top of all of it, Pokemon was awesome. I'll defo be checking your channel out man.
@@DavidFarooq I couldn't agree more, yeah if you love nostalgia then you should enjoy Odd Pod. Hope you like the videos and lots more to come :)
@@DavidFarooq I did the same as you said in your original comment. Great times. I miss them dearly. Was also born in 1990 so I was 9 as well in 99.
I was one of those teenagers. I remember having a poster, a Pikachu backpack, figure, a large version, the beanie plushies, the cards. Ironically I never actually played the game. I was more interested in the merch.
Yeah I only played the card game a few times, the merch was a bigger thing for me too. Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the vid :)
I remember playing Pokemon Gold on my Gameboy Color and seeing my friends in my elementary school playing Gold,Silver,or Crystal
Nice, was great when Pokémon was at its biggest
Gold and Silver felt like a dream! It was so cool!
Man the late 90s was the greatest, major stake in my childhood . Cherish it til this day. Pokémon 4ever 💪🏽💯
Definitely, thanks for watching :)
I will never forget getting Pokémon blue in 98. I was 8. There was and will never be anything like those times again. Perfect part of my childhood ❤
This was great. Really brought back some great nostalgic memories.
Forgot how massive Pokemon was.
Yeah Pokémon just suddenly exploded and it was the biggest thing in the world, glad you enjoyed the video, lots more nostalgia on here to enjoy
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The 90s Pokemania Craze was so awesome. Pokémon Red baby!
Pokémon bluueeeeee! 😁😁 Yeah the Pokémon craze was so good, such a fun special time. Hope the video brough back some memories, thanks for watching 😁
11:03 seeing this triggered my memory! I forgot I had the book in the middle! You literally just made me order one in great condition off eBay 😂 I love Pokémon ❤
Ha ha nice, yeah it's a great thing nostalgia but also bad as it empties the wallet ha ha 😂 thanks for watching
Sooo glad, we experienced these golden times!
Definitely, it was a really great time
It was. My mom went bonkers because she didn’t get the Pokémon craze 😂😂😂😂
Pokemon was a huge part of my childhood (still a big part of me today), and my 3 brothers. I still have all our old cards, which includes over 1000 of the base set alone. 1998 to 2001 is the most nostalgic time for me. I went to see the live stage show and hardly remember anything from it, but after watching it again on youtube I have no idea how my parents sat through that. But the games, the anime, and the cards...i couldn't get enough of them.
Yeah the pokemon craze was such a great time, I have so much nostalgia for it. Check out my pokedex video too for more pokemon nostalgia and a little adventure from where I live 😁
When i was a kid i thought Pokémon was just gonna be a shortlived trend. Boy was i extremely wrong! Lol
So wrong ha ha 😂
I was into this and Animorphs. :)
Define trend and watch pokemania again what was that 🤔 a trend is it not short-lived
@@rainehappy7097 classic anamorphs
It was after gen 1 it was trash just like wrestling and power rangers Digimon yugioh they were all short lived trends people who still watch and play the new ones are desperate
I wish I could go back and live these memories again.
Yeah same, they were a great time. Hope this video brought back some good memories :)
@@oddpodshow oh it definitely did thank you for sharing such fun and good memories :).
@@crimsonknight6721 awesome 😎
Oh man. I remember back when i was 10, watching the show and playing the game *at the same time.* Trying to catch that damned Mew. 😂
Ha ha yeah, was so much fun being part of the craze where everything was Pokémon everywhere ha ha
Great video took me way back to my last primary school years trading pokemon cards in the playground and drawing them all. One memory that will always stick with me was the day i bought a pack from Toys R Us and opening it to find shiny Charizard , at the time i had no idea how big of a deal he was! i stupidly let some bully look at it but he stole it and ran home with it! My son’s 6 and we’ve watched s1-s4 so far 1 or 2 episodes a day sometimes repeats.He’s obsessed with the original 150 which makes me very happy! He loved watching your vid i got to share that extreme pokemon hype filled nostalgia.Wants a N64 for xmas so he can play Pokemon Stadium and Snap now 👍😆
That's awesome, yeah the Pokémon Craze was amazing. Really glad you enjoyed the vid, if your kid liked this one definitely show him 2 other vids we've done, 1. My Pokémon Collection video and 2. My Pikachu N64 video. Should enjoy those. Thank you for watching :)
OMG that bus advert is horrific!
Ha ha 😂 yes it is, it's a classic though 😅
Wonderful memories man. What a time to be alive. I also felt exactly the same way. I lived through all of this and am still living and loving it. Great video!
Yeah it was such a great time, I actually watched a Pokémon the first movie promo VHS the other day and on it they were talking about how they think Pokémon will still be around in 20 years and how big the craze is, was quite nostalgic. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watch 😁 more Pokémon vids to come in the future
Lol at the news reporter. So like a parent. "Pokémon the trading card!" It reminds me of my grandma back in the 90s telling my mum that I was all day in my room playing on my playboy.
Ha ha 😂
Same here in argentina! It was huge soon after it was released, i was around 8-9 so i was totally the market target. Yes, ive got the games, watched the movie when it was released, got and traded the cards, and Pretty much everything that you mention! And also, same situation for All the kids from my school.
Its a franchise that always have been part of my life, not only with memories but also part of the present. The thrill to know the new creatures of new games about to be released is amazing.
Was such a fun and amazing time when it was at its peak of popularity, loved it. I did a video on my pokemon collection a while back too, you might see some stuff that you had back in the day, thank you for watching and commenting :)
Dude this video is so gnarly, i played all the classic pokemons since i was a little kid
Glad you enjoyed the vid, do you have a favourite nostalgic memory of the Pokémon craze?
@@oddpodshow one of my favorite memories was when i was a little kid and i played pokemon yellow and pokemon snap at the same time to compare. At the time i also used to bring my pokemon yellow to school but unfortunately my classmates had pokemon gen 2 so when we would link our gameboys, i want able to battle or trade with them, only donate pokemon
I have so many amazing memories... I can still remember opening fossil card packs from my Christmas stocking...hoping my "rival" would be at the Eagle's Nest for kids in Giant Eagle (grocery store) when we went grocery shopping...playing in the Pokemon league at Toys r Us... so many absolutely incredible experiences!
That's awesome, it's great that this craze left so many fun memories for people
Best time of my life hands down.
Thanks for the vid.
Dragon Ball Z & Yu-Gi-Oh soon came along where u developed a whole new obsession but Pokémon has that extra sparkle because EVERYONE was involved with it and it was in every shop! The years of 1999-2004 say, could not have been more incredible.
Totally agree, glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah that feeling around the Pokémon craze was definitely something special.
i jumped for joy when i got a aussie gameboy colour n pokemon yellow one christmas my eyes were glued to the screen.
Yeah I bet, so much fun playing that :)
Wow, you really brought me back....what a time that was. I was about 11 years old when it came out. Obsessed with it just like everyone else.
Yeah it was a great time, was such an amazing craze. Was good to be part or it
Do "Adults" still call them "pokeymans"? I haven't heard that in forever
I was about 7 years old in 1998. I remember playing the card game with my friends, and watching other people on the school yard playing Red and Blue on their Gameboys. The Pokemon Craze really was a fun time, and i have a lot of fun memories with it.
Yeah it was great, just exploded and it was suddenly everywhere, lots of fun memories of that time. Thank you for watching :)
So much nostalgia!!! I was in love with the anime which came out when I was in primary school. I remember we also bought this " sticker magazine" which had all first generation Pokémon in numbers, and then we would buy stickers packs (just like cards but in stickers) and we would stick each Pokémon to its number until the whole magazine was complete. It still is my favourite anime / kids program (yes, more than even Power Rangers, Dragonball'z, Sailormoon and other big hits of the time). The first and only Pokémon game I played was Pokémon Gold and I loved it!!!!!!! Made me love generation 1+2 Pokémon so much. My brother was also buying these small Pokémon figurines, he had a whole box of those which unfortunately he gave away to some other neighbourhood kids after he grew up. Love the Pokémon craze - made our childhood so much beautiful!
Edit: Forgot to mention that my best friend had the Pokédex too which was so cool back then!
Yeah the pokèmon craze was great, if you enjoyed this then you probably enjoy my video showing my pokemon collection, might have some things in there to being back memories :)
Man I remember when that first movie came out. I've never seen a theater so jam packed with ppl since. I mean they had to shut down the parking lot there was so many ppl.
Nice, I remember the first time I saw it in the cinema there was such a great buzz of excitement all around me. Was great.
This time was bittersweet. At school, most of the boys had all the nice cards and gameboys, nice backpacks and stuff. We were poor af… sigh, whatever better than nothing I guess. It’s all memories now
Well hopefully just pokemon itself without all the merch was a nice memory for you?
was in on the craze in 98, remember when the whole school yard was just trading cards or showing off cards, played all the games, all the merchandise, fun times! but around 2001 I think I stopped. I never got into pokemon after one hundred fifty.
I was still going for years, slowed down a bit around 2006 or 2007 but I've remained a fan, I just prefer the first few years worth of pokemon stuff the most
@@oddpodshow I still played pokemon stadium late into my teens just because of how fun it was to change the pokemon color and battle at the big tournament. I think I was the first person at my school who knew what pokemon was, my brother woke me up early said a new cartoon on telly with creatures inside balls, I thought he meant American gladiator where they are in those big balls and bashing into each other. I got obsessed soon as I watched it, I remember the one in the hsoital where we first see the nurse and kept drawing pictures of all the pokemon I saw. No one at school knew what Pokemon was, I was the only one until later when the cards and game got popular. I think I spread it because I would bring the cards in.
Metaluna Zombie yeah it was so much fun discovering it for the first time, I still play Pokemon to this day, really fun game
thank you for not turning into a nihilistic view so many take when going into nostalgia
Hope you enjoyed the video, thanks for taking the time to watch :)
BRO SAME!! i actually got into pokemon when i was almost 13, i picked blue version and chosed squirtle!! (favorite mon is blastoise), even though im an early 2000s kid, i played the original games through 3ds virtual console back in 2016, im such a huge fan now and played all the main games! my favorite seasons of the anime are indigo league to gold & silver! Pokemon ,to me, is the one reason to be a 90s kid ever!
Glad you have great memories of Pokémon, blastoise is a great choice 😁 thanks for watching 😁
I've rewatched this a few times and come back to it often to relive my childhood!
thanks!
Thank you for letting me know, I always hope some of our videos are rewatched and enjoyed by people. Glad it brings back memories. 😁
I really loved this video, can't stop rewatching it every few weeks. I am a bit younger so I have really fallen in love with the first 2 generations of Pokemon. I wish I could go back since in my generation it is not as popular. Liked and subscribed, looking forward to future videos :)
That's really nice to know, thank you so much, Definitely got some cool Pokémon video ideas on the horizon, yeah the Pokémon craze was amazing back in the day but at least it's still around and you can see videos like this too 😁
I remember watching the first-ever episode on SMTV Live in my bedroom on a Saturday morning like it was yesterday. I got blue and a big brick yellow Gameboy for Christmas and it was amazing!
Nice, smtv was great, I'll have to do a video on that sometime. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
I was 17 and in college when the Pokemon craze hit the UK, I was a bit too old for it so the whole craze completely passed me by personally. The only Pokemon game I've ever played was a couple years ago when Pokemon GO! came out for mobile phones and I wasn't fond of it if i'm honest lol. I do however remember how big Pokemon was though and how much it took over everything. I think it was a Woolworths I walked into once around Christmas time and I think they had a whole isle just dedicated to nothing but Pokemon. I even remember sitting behind a lad on the bus and watching him playing it on his GameBoy on my way to college one morning.
Was great to hear your memories and passion for it though, Dan. But yes unfortunately I was well above the demographic age for Pokemon during the craze, I had moved on to beer and women as my main craze hahaha.
If I was just a bit older it might have passed by me too, glad it didn't as I love it. Yeah it took over, like I said in the video even if you didn't like it you still definitely know what it was as you couldn't get away from it
Mi mejor anécdota de Pokémon en los 90s es que durante un día de campo encontre una figura de venusaur de takara tommy la cual aún conservo 👌
Ooo that's great, good find 😊
I was about 10 when Pokémon's popularity was at its peak. What a time to be alive. It made my childhood truly amazing.
Perfect age for it. Yeah it was just this magical moment in time when it took over. Thanks for watching 😁
Would you consider Gen 3 the peak?
Great video as always. My experience with Pokémon was very similar, it was really huge, it's difficult to explain to people who weren't there at the time just how big. I turned 18 in 1999 so even older than you are but I still got swept up in the anime and the game. I had Pokémon Blue and completed it with all 151 and trained them all up as high as they'd go (I traded with others and used a Game Shark to unlock Mew Too). By 2000 I had told my N64 and bought a Dreamcast, but I bought the Pokémon Stadium Battle Edition console just so I could play on TV and see my Pokémon in 3D 😊 Side note: My parents divorced in 1999 and I was living with my Dad. My Mum asked me what I wanted for Xmas and I asked for a Pikachu plushie as I figured it was such a big craze they would be everywhere and easy to get. Turns out they were sold out everywhere and she trawled round over 30 shopsand phones round lots trying to find one. Cos she'd only just left home she thought it was important to "not let me down"... I felt bad when I found out as I didn't mean to pick something difficult and cause her worry/stress! But it shows what a massive craze it was at the time 🤣
Ha ha, yeah Pokémon was everywhere, I even remember walking in the living room and coronation Street was on and there was a Pokémon poster in the background of the scene. It was EVERYWHERE! I loved it so much, thanks for watching :)
I remember when the first episode came out of the anime me and my siblings were glued to that tv
Yeah it was a special moment :)
Needed a drop of nostalgia. i was 6 in 1999 and got yellow and stadium for my birthday was hooked ever since.
Nice, I played stadium so much, you still playing the games now?
@oddpodshow yep still have em all and do a playthrough of yellow at least once a year.
@Necrimonican awesome, I'm currently replaying blue. Probably my favourite video game map and music
@oddpodshow i started with yellow so it will always be my go to, red and blue came to me much later in life both are still good plays.
@Necrimonican yeah yellow is great, I remember playing it a lot when I got it. Always nice thinking back on the pokemon craze, was such a cool time
Woolworths…haven’t heard that name in a long time holy shit
All about those nostalgic words here at odd pod 😁 thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video
Looks like Team OddPod is blasting off again!
*Murray gives Wobbuffet salute*
Ha ha 😂
Every morning before school I would watch Pokémon ❤️
Same :)
Grew up in the UK, was about 11/12 when it came out and quickly got obsessed with it. Blue was my first game (wanted red but it was sold out). The cards were my favorite thing, partly because of the friend thing you mentioned in the video. I'd recently moved to a new town and school when Pokemon came out. I was a very shy kid, but Pokemon cards gave me an excuse to talk to other kids and have kids come talk to me. It was awesome!
That's great, it was such a great time. Thanks for commenting. Nice to see other people had such great memories of the craze too
'96 was the year I moved from NYC to Georgia. My how time flies.
🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Nice, yeah time goes fast. I still keep thinking the 90s was about 10 years ago and not 20! Ha ha
the Pokemon craze just made a comeback here in Australia 🎉
It did? In what way?
We were so lucky to live through that craze I miss how much fun it was
Yeah we were, such a fun and cool time
This is such a cool video, I was part of this craze but I was in America. It's cool that many people had the same great experience despite living so far away from each other.
Yeah it really just took over the world, was such a fun and crazy time with Pokémon being everywhere. Got more Pokémon themed videos in mind for the future so stick around 😁 and thanks for watching
No piece of media in history was bigger than Pokemon in the late 90s, neither before or after. You couldn't escape from Pokemon if you tried, it was everywhere. And keep in mind, this was back when plenty of people didn't have internet. Sure fortnite came along, and roblox too was also huge, and cant forget minecraft, but those just were not at the level of pokemon in the 90s.
Oh definitely, there have been so many crazes and stuff over the years but I've never seen anything take over the world like pokemon did
Awesome video. Really, good stuff.
Thank you 😊
I remember when Pokemon was big, too. I was living in Oregon state in 1999, at the age of six and seven. I remember vaguely seeing a magazine showing off some trading cards on the front, and I thought it was awesome. I felt a great need for the cards, the anime, ANYTHING Pokemon related, but my mom wouldn't let me see or have any of that; I had other stuff obsessed about at the time. That Christmas though, I got a talking animatronic Pikachu doll, and I loved it. But I still didn't really watch the show or collect the cards in earnest until later in life. I even didn't really start playing the video games fully until 2011; I had a used Pokemon Crystal version for my Game Boy Advance, but I lost it. With the new games coming in November, I felt like reminiscing about the series big explosion in popularity in '99.
Wow, you missed out a little on the big craze but still good that you had something. I have that animatronic Pikachu you are talking about I think. You might see it in a video I did on my collection. Are you going to get the new game later this year? Thanks for watching, hope it brought back some memories
I remember how insanely popular Pokémon was. I was into Pokémon for a year or so, though I gave up on it. The slogan should be changed from "Gotta Catch 'em all!" to "Try and catch 'em all!" Also fun fact, the Veridian road song is a 8bit chip tune of "Polly Wadda Doodle".
I didn't know that, interesting.
Yeah pokemon took over the world then. Thanks for watching :)
I wish I was old enough to have experienced this!
Oh it was such an amazing time, hope you enjoyed hearing about it. I've done a few other pokemon videos including showing my collection. Thanks for watching
Love your collection so jealous
Thank you, I want more ha ha 😂
@@oddpodshow same
Great video mate, really impressed with the amount of effort you put into your content. Used to LOVE the cartoon and the gameboy games. It was on smtv live on Saturday mornings if I remember correctly.
Yeah it was, ant and Dec used to do little Pokémon skits all the time, was great :)
@@oddpodshow yup, the pokerap! lol
@@revivedfears ha ha yeah, I used to know the pokerap word for word
I was 1 in 1999. So I was too young to appreciate it then. Didnt really get into it til I was a little bit older (around 3ish). I watched a little bit of the show growing up but not that much of it. I'm almost 23 now. Still love it
Well at least you got into it eventually but you definitely missed out on the amazing craze period. Thanks for watching :)
I was four when the anime hit the screens in America. That’s around the same time my older brother and his friends got into it. Since I am close in age to my brother and his friends, it was only natural that I would follow them into Pokemon. We had everything-the games, the stuffed animals, the cards, even cassettes of the show. I even had a Pokemon themed birthday. I have pictures of that birthday with little me wearing a red shirt with Pikachu on it. I received my first Gameboy on that birthday. It was hot pink and I called it my “Gamegirl”. My first game was Pokemon Yellow. My mom took me, my brother, and his friends to see the movie and received a Mew sticker. It feels so long ago. I miss those days sometimes.
That's an awesome memory, I want a Pokémon birthday party! Ha ha 😂 yeah the Pokémon craze was such a great time, nice that you have that memory. Thanks for watching 😁
I think I was like 4 as well, lowkey wish I was about 7 when it first released so I could have really appreciated R/B/Y to the fullest and Gen 1 base set packs.
how ironic that pokemon created a hybrid experience between handheld (gameboy pokemon) and home console (stadium) and now we have the switch
Wish we got a stadium 3 game for switch. Thanks for watching :)
at 2:00 there is a little bit of misinformation that i would like to correct briefly:
in japan, the blue edition came out after the red and green and had countless bug fixes and improvements, and served as the basis for the red and blue editions released outside of japan.
Not really misinformation as I just said that japan got blue after, which they did. Just didn't give the explanation as to why as I didn't really know when I made this video. But thanks for watching anyway :)
Great video man. Enjoyed your stories about growing up playing with the Poke'
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video :)
I was born in 1987 on 7/14 back then I played pokemon blue but sadly I lost my old gameboy color and the game I think I left it in the car or at the movies but sadly I don’t keep up to date on the tv show sadly I don’t have a brother or dad anymore both died a few years ago and my brother was like me we both played pokemon we had the cd and the toys and video games lookin back on this I get emotional listening to the Pokemon songs because my dad takes us to see the Pokemon movies at the movies in the next town I was born on 7/14/1987 and the movie released at the movies on 7/21 but I still watch Pokemon2000s favorite Pokemon movie never gets old time has definitely changed but what I have learned about Pokemon thy make life lessons that teach kids about life and friendship i don’t think the kids twoday will not know what Pokemon was everything and everywhere in the early 90s I even have Pokemon2000s digital movie seen it at the movies on release day it came out on 7/21 men I miss being kid I was so far intwo it now that I’m over 30s year old I can’t remember some of the old Pokemon names but fire and ghost type of Pokemon is my favorite
Yeah it's a special thing, it definitely brings back a lot of memories for me too. Maybe you should watch some again and play one of the games to bring back some memories. Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video
I'm so proud to be a 90s child.
Yeah :) we had it good 😁
Nostalgic! Now we are with Scarlet and violet! Ok no lie I want it to blown up like crazy again 😂
Yes :)
Wish I was alive in the 90s to see this craze
It was a great time, being around in the height of a craze is fun, went through the pogs, Tamagotchi, Pokémon and more crazes, thanks for watching :)
Very similar experience to my childhood
Nice, the Pokémon craze was such a great time :)
Never did get into the pokemon cards cause yugioh was a thing, but i will never forget the first one i played which was pokemon silver, then red then yellow then the rest.
Nice, the Pokémon craze was a great time. Blue was my first one, love it, thanks for watching
@Weston Meyer I liked the Yu-Gi-Oh video games and anime but didn't collect the cards much
An amazing time for Pokemon!!! Great video!!
Yes it was, thank you for watching. Really appreciate it. More pokemon vids on the channel to enjoy ;)
@@oddpodshow I will check them out! Thanks!
@@kelseymatarese Hooe you enjoy
The school I attended sent letters to parents banning anything related pokemon no cards could be brought to the school premises even banning any kind of clothing including socks!
Wow that's quite a ban. I wonder if the school had an underground pokemon Trading group like dealing drugs but with pokemon ha ha
I was born in '91 and I remember the Pokemon craze quite well lol. Unfortunately I got Pokemon Red late in it's lifespan, I believe I got the game in late 1998 or early 1999 (North American here) and I remember enjoying but I never actually beat it. I think the furthest I got up to was the 7th badge. And then I eventually lost the game during a move but needless to say, while I was a little late to the craze in terms of playing the first game, I got to partake in the anime and the toys and just looking at how Pokemon was everywhere. I remember a year prior before getting Pokemon Red how so many kids at my school would be trading Pokemon cards in their binders full of them as well as kids playing either Pokemon Red or Blue on their Game Boy Colors and how much I wanted to play but couldn't just yet until my brother and I got Game Boy Colors the following year.Thankfully as far as the games went, I got to experience Pokemon Gold/Silver in their prime since we got those games when they came out. But aside from that, we got really into the anime, so much so that we got caught up in the hype for the theatrical release of Pokemon the First Movie, now that was wild with how much excitement was in the air for that movie lol.
It's crazy how Pokemon has been around for so long but I can't help but feel so nostalgic when I think back to the "Poke-mania" of the 90s because sadly there was nothing like it after the second generation of games but I'm glad I got to experience it.
You weren't late to the games at all really as it released in North America in September 1998 so not long at all really. Yeah I'm super Nostalgic for the classic Pokémon stuff, was such a great time. Thanks for watching 😁
@@oddpodshow Oh no what I meant was that by the time I got Pokemon Red, it was a good while after many other kids already had and even beaten the game haha. But yeah I guess I wasn't as "late" late as I thought lol And yeah with how much Pokemon has managed to stay around, seeing first gen, classic Pokemon will always take myself (heck, most of us) back to those days. It's bittersweet really haha.
@@decadentgamer3108 ahhh okay 😅 yeah those first few years of Pokémon during the craze of it was so fun 😁
@@oddpodshow It really was and sadly I just don't think we'll ever see anything like that again. Pokemon Go almost did but it was poorly handled and the fad dyed rather quick compared to Pokemania of the 90s lol.
@@decadentgamer3108 yeah, I see Pokémon as the last huge craze that happened. I can think of any other crazes that had such a huge impact than that.
I was the perfect age to experience all of this (well, maybe not the PERFECT age as I was too young to have much of my own money to buy them and thus I probably would've bought more if I'd been a hair older, but whatevs). Was a great time to be a kid.
Yeah it was great, just think of all the pokemon heavy Christmases around that time. Awesome
Enjoyable video 👍
Thank you very much :)
I was too old to make new friends even then. 😆 it sucked cause i loved trading cards. I have a lot of your stuff. Your collection is cute.
Well I'll be your friend 😂 thanks yeah I like my Pokémon collection, need more though! Ha ha
You're never too old to make new friends :)
I love it
Thanks for watching :) what was your first pokemon game?
@@oddpodshow red Pokémon game
@Matthew Hahn nice, hope you enjoyed the video. Also have one showing my pokemon collection you might enjoy :)
So sad the newer generation won’t ever get something like this again.
Yeah this was truly a special once in a lifetime thing. Was such a special time
I remember swapping a yu-gi-oh card for silver, was a great trade and I got pretty far but i left the cartridge in my pocket and it ended up in the washing machine, couldn't save games again 😭 and then I got yellow from gamestation. I miss childhood!
Poor silver! Yeah a lot of us miss it, that's why channels like Odd Pod exist so you can revisit those memories. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
I remember my mom thinking it would be a phase.
Noooooope lol.
Ha ha yeah if so then it's a loooooong phase 😁
best childhood ever
Yes 😁
any thought of the pokemon the first movie soundtrack no.2?
Like the one with the score rather than pop music?
@@oddpodshow the pops ones the M2M ones
Great times!
Yes they were, thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the vid 😁
Definitely miss this era, as it was all about the fun as a kid and not about skyrocketing collector values and all that nonsense. This definitely predates a golden time before social media got crazy. Lol.
Yes, all about just enjoying the craze and having loads of fun. Great time :) thanks for watching
2:58
I use to wake up at that ungodly hour to watch tv?
Ha ha yes 😄
Before scalpers were in the hobby. I'm 30 and I ask for pokemon cards at yard sales and like you said I meat new people that way!
Yeah scalpers are definitely ruining the fun, did you see what they were like at the pokemon van gogh colab?
Yeah just meeting people over pokemon and bonding that way is always fun :)
I was also the perfect age for this phenomenon.
Such a great time
I was 10 when Pokémon came to NA, perfect age.
Nice, yup definitely the perfect age for it
Pokémon was our religion back in the 90s. Still is for some of us 😅
Definitely:)
What is that thing with the large Squirtle on the red base?
I think what you saw was a squirtle water bottle standing on the red pokekon pinball game
Pokémon Stadium was fun
Yeah love pokemon stadium, thanks for watching :)
I was born 91 it completely got me
It was a fun time, did you have a favourite pokemon?
@oddpodshow alright bro it's a mad one for me because right now my brain is saying mew umbreon, charmander 😅 but when you go back to the 90s early 2000s that gen 2 really got me lugia the second gen starters, obviously adding the original og 151 it's to hard for me to choose 😅 even though I have said what I liked in about an hour I'll be thinking of pokemon I missed 😅😂
@nostalgialad9467 ha ha, for some reason mine have always been Squirtle, sandshrew, beedrill, polywhirl and nidoking. Oh I did a video showing my pokemon collection too, you might get some nostalgia from that
Dan I choose you. Use tail whip now!
Dan uses tail whip...Dan has fainted
@@oddpodshow Dan is asleep. Get up Dan. Dan is still sleeping. Dan thinks he's Snorlax.
Sometimes my school banned pokemon cards since it distracted us
Haha
I feel like present childhood just doesn't stick with a main trend. Everything is available and everything sells fast where it feels oversaturated.
Yeah, back then we didn't have as many other distractions either so we just focused on whatever the big craze was.
They said it was red and blue because in the west, they were considered to be more "opposite" colors. While in Japan Red and Green were considered "Opposite" colors
Yeah there are a bunch of different reasons I've read and heard over the years
Love it!
Thanks
It's still very popular
Oh it is definitely but nothing like the first few years of the craze, it was insane how big it was. But its great that its still popular after all these years.
@@oddpodshow i was 7 years old when the craze started.
And now my kid tell me the same story.
Everyone in school play pokemong and the tcg pokemon.
I think its the same now too lol.
You should talk about Pokémon Live in 2000.
Definitely want to do a video on Pokémon live sometime 😁
Gen 1 ner for life babyyyyyyyy
Yesssss :)
A friend who was in my house stole my Charizard card. I knew it was him but he never admitted to it.
I think it's time we hunted him down!