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Veteran here and i confirm. I used to get all my pokemon figures from kb toy works. I still have most of my collection from when i was a wee lad. I even collected the cut out cards from the back of lunchables boxes.
I was in 5th grade when I first heard about pokémon.. The cards and games ended up getting banned at our school cuz everyone was obsessed. The 90s were great lol.
My teacher had a cabinet full of them given how much she confiscated glad teachers can't do that anymore because that was just plan thievery and if one of them was a first edition charazard than may she rot in hell
God I miss the 90's. Pokemania back then is something that I couldn't explain adequately to someone who wasn't there. When you say it was everywhere, it really was. Pokemon was such a phenomenon that it was kinda ridiculous, and I loved every moment of it as a kid. I feel like it could still be that big, but they have made some serious missteps and haven't evolved the formula (no pun intended) enough to keep the fanbase growing like it did initially.
Pokemon is just as great as it was in the 90s imo. It was big then because it was new and fresh. It's 25 years old and that golden age is done now, but they have done a helluva job keeping it relevant
@@Brsn98 don’t get me wrong, Pokémon as a franchise is still very strong. But as with anything, when you repeat the same thing over and over and don’t really change it, it becomes stale and less interesting. The games I think have taken a dive in quality since Gen 5 in general. They could do so much more with everything but they want to stay safe and predictable. It will never die, but it will also never truly reach the greatness it could reach with their current direction.
Type "Bulbapedia Generation III", it will give you a page with all the changes brought by Ruby&Sapphire. Then replace the number III by V, VI, VII and then come back and say that they have repeated the same thing over and over. All Pokemon games are the same... except it's not the same region, not the same story, not the same Pokemons, not the same moves, not the same Battle systems, not the same menus, not the same features, not the same catching/evolving methods, not the same stats... EDIT : Apparently the word "G..gle" is now censored from youtube comments, wtf?
@@Dante02d12 I didn’t say things didn’t change, but the games all basically flow the same way and there’s no real surprises in them. They’re also technically inferior to other RPG titles and it seems to be getting more and more noticeable since they left the DS/3DS and went to the switch. I mean look at the consensus of reviews on scarlet/violet so far. The games are adequate but not great, and it’s obvious that they aren’t polishing what they make due to their rush to put one out every 2 years.
I miss the Pokemon hype of the 90s. I played gens 1 and 2 then dropped the series for almost 13 years then got hooked when a co worker said "wanna see my pokemon?" And showed me the Gen 3 game he was playing on an emulator on his phone. That was it, showed me how to tet the emulator I downloaded and replayed Blue (felt like being a kid again stayed up almost a full weekend playing) recently started buying used systems and games to play old ones and got a Switch just to play the gen 8 games. Happy to ve be back, I missed the series.
I miss the hype from the 90’s too. Born in ‘91 and all I wanted to do was play red & silver, and open packs. I didn’t get to rip packs much, but the cards meant everything to me (probably because I had very few) 2020 brought that feeling of hype and obsession with the cards back. So I became a vintage collector/seller and have built a collection that means a TON to me, and the 9 year old version of me. It may be a while until that hype re-visits us, but it’s certainly always in our hearts. May Pokémon live forever 🙏🏼.
Born in 92, I remember those days fondly. I remember watching the show on UPN when it first started airing in the states and the huge binders filled with cards kids would bring to school. I would beg my parents for Wizard magazine to look at the cards. Gen 1 was awesome but Gen 2 is hands down my favorite, even to this day. Imagine what it was like as a kid to beat the elite 4, only to find out that there’s a whole kanto post game to complete as well. Beating Red in Mt. Silver was icing on the cake.
Grateful to have been born in '88, as I was right at Ash's age when it all started in the US. I remember my brother and I spending countless hours back then playing Pokemon on our Gameboy Pockets / GBA's and the N64. We played up until the games started coming out on the DS. I got back into Pokemon this year after playing Pokemon Black on an emulator and then went out and bought a Switch (my first Nintendo since the Gamecube) lol. :)
I'm a gen 1 player. I was 10 when ash first aired in the first episode. Same age as him. This franchise hit hard for me. I had it all and caught em all. I was the true poster child for a pokemaniac. I have still kept up with the franchise playing every game. I was around when pikablue rumor started. I am the king of pokemon.
Man, exactly this. Dude, Pokemon is the very reason our generation struggles with 9-5 and responsibilites in general. our world was in this fantasyworld of amazing Pokémon, how can the you then expect us to just step out of it and do boring everyday stuff that has nothing to do with Pokémon? We are the die hard fans, we have sacrificed!
My first game was Leaf Green but my fondest memories are probably from Diamond and Pearl, I played white and was a bit older then but I don't' really remember it at all.
That Goldenrod City theme just brought me back 🥲🥲. Remember playing Pokémon Silver nonstop on my atomic purple gbc. The Pokémon hype has indeed died down, but it still lives in the hearts of its fans. This was a well needed stroll down memory lane. Thank you.
My cousin would be considered a GenWunner he likes the original 151 he started with Gen 1 in the 90s,Although if it weren't for him I wouldn't think I would be the Pokemon Fan as I am today! I started with Gen 4 with Pokemon Platinum.
I'm 26 and was born in '96, so I feel like I'm a mix between a millennial and a gen Zer. I was only a baby during pokemania, so I sadly didn't get to experience those "Mew under the truck" playground rumors, trading and battling with friends at school, etc., although I do still have some vague memories during those times like the toys and merch I used to have, thanks to my brother, who actually experienced pokemania. Also I used to watch my brother play Pokemon Blue on our old CRT tv (it was through the GB Tower in Pokemon Stadium which lets you play Pokemon Red & Blue on the tv), and I also remember him having a binder that held all his Pokemon cards that he'd show his friends, though he sadly got rid of it years ago. Oh man, we used to have so many pokemon toys and plushies, and we'd watch some of the old VHS tapes of the original series on our old CRT. So in a way, I guess I DID experience pokemania somewhat despite not being a full-on millennial, thanks to my brother. Also, sorry if this comment is so poorly worded, I just get extremely passionate about sharing my memories of pokemon and other stuff, like I REALLY wanna share this stuff, but some of my experiences are really hard to put into words at times, so I end up not being able to form clear coherent sentences in the process, lol.
I watched the first episode, played Blue & Red, adored Yellow since you were basically Ash, bought the first booster packs, watched the first movie in a fully packed theater and couldn't wait for Gen II. Having been there since the beginning is something special and a once in a lifetime experience. The mania was and always will be unrivalled
Ooooh man. I remember how much the Pokemon craze was(as us 90's kids would say) 'totally fly' back in the day. I remember how it all started and began like it was yesterday. Good times, good times!
Kind of a shame something this big like Pokemania won't happen again for a long time. Even Pokémon Go, despite taking the world by storm, wasn't any near as big as 90's Pokémaniac.
Yes. And the same is true in a lot of other areas like Sports movies etc. When something was big in the 90s it was BIG. Unavoidable. Everyone got into same thing. Now people seem to sleep under a rock thanks to everything being accessible too easily in post internet world
Us 90s kids have witnessed the birth of the biggest media franchise of all time, something that will hardly ever be replicated. The boom and hype were unreal. EVERYONE loved Pokémon.
I was 8 when pokemon first aired in Australia it was insane how popular this franchise was during the late 90s early 2000s everyone and i mean everyone was playing talking or collecting pokemon at our age
My first exposure to Pokemon was from borrowing my cousin's gameboy color in 1999 In early 2000, I got into Anime where despite myself like it better than any other Pokemon medium, it cursed to fail to do other mons series' go-to ways of preventing seasonal rots: fully changing entire protagonists. The anime can goes as far as leaving out certain type of Pokemon trainers in more recent gens(to limit the superpowered beings that exist in pokemon world to Pokemon themselves) Mystery dungeon is *Pokemon are the only superpowered beings that exist* done right
I try to recapture the magic every now and then, and I do get a little comforting nostalgia, but it saddens me that I’ll never be able to experience it again, the phenomenon of Pokémon in the nineties
I really wish I could have lived more in the late 90s with Star Trek and Pokémon being huge during that time and the fact my favorite sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond was running!
Yeah, in 99 things took a turn for the worse for me, and then things got worse, and then things got worse still, and then even worse, and that trend has continued untill today, and things are still getting worse every single day :)
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"The craze has died off a bit since then." Man, please don't remind me about that. I was there when legends were written. There wasn't a kid who couldn't sing along to the opening theme song. Up until Gen 5 release, I was considered the Pokedex by my friends because I digested every single piece of trivia up to that point.
I was 8 years old when Red and Blue Version released. I got Blue Version on the day I got F-Zero X. Originally I wanted only F-Zero X since I had the SNES F-Zero too, but my dad said he would help me buy another game too. I searched hard for another game I was interested, and when I saw Pokemon Red and Blue, I hesitated. I wasn't sure if I wanted a game I never heard of, but my instincts were telling me to get Pokemon. So I got Pokemon Blue because I loved Blastoise's design. But I ended up starting out with Charmander, ironically. I didn't know there was a Pokemon anime until months later, and the very first episode I saw was called "Battle of the Eevee Brothers" or something like that.
2016 pokemania was almost like the OG era since it was the 20th anniversary. Red, blue and yellow were rereleased on the 3DS, Boomerang reaired OG seasons of the anime (Indigo League to Advanced), and TPC reprinted old cards. Glad i got to experience all that, but at the same time, oh how i wish i was a 90s kid just to experience pokemania!
I remember when Pokemon came here to Slovenia and of course I got into it due to the anime(didn't learn that the franchise is actually games until 2009) and when toys appeared in the stores my mom brought me and my brother those plastic pokeballs with the figurines inside and I got totodile and my brother got cyndaquil, I also remember that pokedex toy, however I didn't own it, however do still have my pikachu plushie I got for my saints day as a gift.
As much as the craze was a money grab on Nintendos part, having so many different kinds of toys and cards and things like that helped us all immerse ourselves so much better than just playing the game or watching the anime. In a way I’m glad nintendo is greedy LOL.
@@tvstellar I'll be interesting for you to do gen2/ 3..... It was the dark times for me.... It was hard finding cards and toys during this era as the popularity was going down and the stuff I found was discounted gen 1 stuff( I was of course still excited to find that stuff). ... And I was considered a dork back then because I still liked Pokemon while Yugioh came out. Pokemon was considered "kiddy" in my school even though we were all in second grade..... How ironic......
Designs back then when I was a kid was awesome for the time. Obviously, Art has gotten better but at the same time nostalgia gets the best of me and then I start replaying, red and blue through it and I realize holy crap. I cannot play this no more.Lol
I'd argue gen 1's story is actually one of the better stories. You have your evil team and the gym leaders true. You can blast by without any narrative or context. However, if you go out of your way and explore, you find vague information on the legendary Pokemon and where you can find them. For example, some npcs briefly mention a bird in the mountains, you look through the binoculars and you can see a mysterious bird. If you go to seafoam islands, you'll be rewarded with a chance to catch Articuno. Catching it will give you its background info, completing that story. Then there's the diary entries talking about Mewtwo. There's no prof or gym leader shovel feeding you the backstory. You're reading it from a kids perspective, so you're left to wonder until you make it to the cave and find Mewtwo. The story elements are different than modern games, but they're tied to exploration and discovering. That's what the first gen was al about. The stories are a lot more grand now I guess, but there's no room for exploration as each town has a cutscene unravelling the backstory of the legendary Pokemon on the box.
I vividly remember reading an article about pokemon in a magazine of sorts around the release of Red and Blue. I still knew very little about pokemon at the time because it was still so new and I didn't have either game, but the article showed a picture of Clefairy. I was convinced that it was a female Pikachu. Good times.
I play the Pokémon Theme from the 2BAMaster at the bar that I go to on the Jukebox. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who start singing along! 😂
A few episodes on VHS? Oh, no, man. This was the only children's show I've ever seen where they released the entire first season on VHS- most of it while the first season was still airing- with tapes containing about 3-5 episode bursts. And season one is 78 episodes, if we're ignoring the two they didn't release in the US.
It was intentional to not add a backlight to the game boy and gbc. The game gear needed 6 AA batteries and only gave 3-4 hours of battery life. The GB needed 4 and gave 30 hours, and the GBC needed 2 and gave 10 hours. It was economical and made parents much more attracted to it. Great vid!
Awesome video, The 90's were crazy for Pokemon. I started with Red and Blue however Gold/Crystal/Silver and Sapphire/Emerald/Ruby will always be my favorite Generations. I recently lost my Crystal in a move or can't find it this moment.... but I still have my boxed Copies of Fire red and Emerald!!!
I just recently bought the 1st movie on DVD with the ancient mew card I remember being little and me and my brother were so hype when we saw it on theaters we are both 25 and ,28 and still collect
Oh wow, interesting hearing pokemania from someone born in the early 00s. It was a crazy time to be alive. I was born the year red and green released in Japan so I was a bit too young for Pokemon in gen 1 but got to experience gen 2 and became a dedicated fan in gen 3.
My toddler old loves pokemon and pikachu is her favorite of coarse. I never thought that almost 30 years after I was a pokefan I'd have a kid week is too.
As someone who played pokemon since the beginning I would say gen 1 and 2 were the only pokemon games I truly enjoy and that counts for the remakes like fire red soul silver etc except for let's go from that point on I only pick up the games out of tradition
Looks like I did my job then! It’s harder than I thought to keep the 90s series train rolling just cause it’s soooo expensive to keep buying all the merch lol.
When I Was In Standard 1 I Started To watch Pokemon But sadly I never played Red/Blue And Fire Red was My First Pokemon Game And More than Games I Like Anime(Specially Gen1) Litrally It's So Nostalgic When I Remember About it then tears came in my eyes.
Growing up in that time it was huge! People think its big now but back then it was literally every where. Having mom take me to 7/11 to 7/11 just to find packs of cards only to be told “sold out”. Huge signs that said no pokemon, dont ask, ect ect. After all this time though I still have all my original toys and collectibles. Card sets and games you name it. Pokemon was just a way of life for kids in the late 90s early 2000s
As someone who got into Pokémon during the gen 1 phase rather late, around winter/spring 2000, it really was like being immersed in a steaming cultural bath. I can’t adequately recall a moment in-between; one day there’s no pokestuff around but the next there’s loads of it, and this coming from someone who used to frequent video game stores quite a bit. With subsequent Nihonese franchises, such as Digimon, Yugioh, and Beyblade, I do remember the introduction of products and their gradual disappearances. Pokémon has just never seemed to go away entirely.
I was in elementary school in the late 90s, so Pokémon was phenomenal in my peak childhood! I have fond memories of getting a Gameboy and Pokémon Blue for Christmas, playing with my friends down the street, trading with my brothers (who had Red version too)! Ah, good times! Before getting the games, we would get up before school to watch episodes of the anime on television. We would be delighted by the PokéRap as it showed us all these "super cool" monsters. I liked the show mostly as a means to appreciate the mon designs (given that the in-game graphics were kinda trash in Gen1). I never got into the card game, but my cousin had a pretty slick collection of them in one of those binders used for baseball cards.
Yellow version was the funnest for me, it is exactly the anime in a video game. The primitive technology and underwhelming graphics made jt that much better.Crystal is my all time favorite though
I lived trough the pokemania craze, but i've never seen a pokedex. I would have wanted one, guess my parents avoided pokemon like the plague. I had so many plushies, I want my squirtle plushie back!
Pokémania was so, SO much bigger than just what the video shows but like you said, you were born a few years after it got big. Either way, this video is still a great intro to how this series blew up back in the day (which is a phrase I say one hundred percent unironically).
When I was wathing and playing pokemon, I was so young I didnt even realised they were animes and rpgs. And to discover the genre and theres were more stuff simillar to them was mindblowing lol
I was 4 and couldn’t read when Pokémon Red was popular, so I got stuck in Viridian City because I didn’t know I had to go to the PokeMart and then deliver a parcel to Prof. Oak. I gave the game to my 11-year old neighbor, and when I got it back a week later, I had 99 rare candies and a Hitmonlee. I remember him telling me, “be careful… after you use those rare candies, there are no more left in the game.” 😂😂 The same neighbor ended up giving me his whole Pokémon card collection when he grew out of them, and I ended up passing all of my cards onto my younger neighbor 8 or 9 years later… the tradition continues!
Thanks for a trip down memory lane, but it's really hilarious listening to an early 20 something talk about it like they experienced it first hand. Playing the games and watching the media after the fact doesn't come close to experiencing the phenomenon first hand like I did. I was 6 in 1998 when the anime was first released in Canada (we got it a little later than the US I think) and this was when the internet was in its infancy, as in most people didn't even have a home computer, never-mind the internet. Back then it was absolutely nuts, kids would get into fights over cards, you'd get challenged to battles on the games, it was crazy. Shortly after the OG games came out, Pokemon Stadium came out and changed everything again, it was a wild time.
@@tvstellar Because you didn't experience it first hand, it's not the same. That's ok though, I'm glad you appreciate gen 1 culture. The video was good, I learned a few things that wasnt well known where I live in Canada.
@@KellenN92 I’d like to think that I lived just “adjacent” to pokemania. Everything shown in the video were actually my childhood Pokémon toys and whatnot. Either way I love the early gens waaay more than the stuff from directly when I was a kid.
If I have to say what are two of the biggest franchises to come out of the 90s Power Rangers and Pokemon everywhere you went back in the day you couldn't go anywhere without seeing Pokémon or Power Rangers that's how huge both franchises were in the 90s and honestly I feel like that's something we'll never see again because it was a phenomenon that can never be reduplicated I'm glad that I grew up in the 90s I feel bad for this current generation don't ever get to experience what we had growing up I'm still a huge fan of Power Rangers right to this day but Pokemon at one point I used to be very into it but I fell out of it once Yu-Gi-Oh came out that was when I got into Yu-Gi-Oh but I hope you do a video on the 1990s craze of Power Rangers and how much of an impact it left behind this was an excellent video on Pokémon media in the late 1990s it took me back to my childhood thank you so much for this video
I grew up in this. Pokemon was everywhere. Tv, cereal boxes, newspapers, school, billboards, merch in every store. for a few months, it truly was like living in a pokemon world.
Great video! I went back to these days, even though I'm from Latam, we lived almost the same fever over here, thanks to the anime, and the first time I saw Pokémon Gold, I was in love and it fulfilled all my expectations as someone who wanted to know how would it be like to be in a Pokémon world!
I wish we could all go back to simpler times... I suppose it wasn't so simple back then (or even 20 years ago) and that's just nostalgia talking but even with pokemon these all we get is disappointment
5th grade my first card was diglet given as a gift. Second was starmie given as a gift then a golden as a gift. They got banned because we became obsessive. Amazing time to be alive. We smuggled the cards on the playground.
Backlit screens were a lot more expensive back then, and drained the battery a lot faster, which is why the Game Gear and Atari Lynx had absolutely abysmal battery life given the number of batteries needed. (I think they both needed 4 AAA or something??) Also, the Game Boy Light wasn't even released outside of Japan.
I can't say that I was alive in the 90s, or even really much more than 1 year of the 2000s. Pokémon white was my first game And I love it. Best Pokémon game ever (yes I have played every single Pokémon generation) (my emerald was fake though so was cheap but I've found no problems with it)
First pokemon I played was red like in 1998. Still remember going to the store to buy it. All of us kindergarten kids trading and battling with the link cable was legit lol
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I was going to ask why all the "fucks" all along the video, but I guess is answered already lol
after equiping abilitys like surf, you have to press start then select the pokemon, and activate.
when gold and silver are released, just press a.
Why the unnecesary swearing.
There is no reason, also it does not make you more funny or cool. 🙄
@@MMMMMMMMMM857 Cause I can say whatever I want in my videos. You however, do not need to watch if it bothers you so much.
As a Gen 1 veteran, nothing was more wild than when Pokémon boomed back in the day as far as the franchise is concerned.
Veteran here and i confirm. I used to get all my pokemon figures from kb toy works. I still have most of my collection from when i was a wee lad. I even collected the cut out cards from the back of lunchables boxes.
@@kr4t0sg.28 lmao wowwww that was so long ago… like 1998
@@Max-zv8hm are you trying to shame people younger than you? Good luck, boomer.
I used to have Jessie and James Action figure 😆
@@HustlerHorstRuediger no I’m just in awe.
I was in 5th grade when I first heard about pokémon.. The cards and games ended up getting banned at our school cuz everyone was obsessed. The 90s were great lol.
My school was pokemon cards and beyblades LOL
I'm not surprised. EVERYONE played them...
Same at my school. 😂 The audacity of kids walking around with the cards in their front pants pocket with no sleeve!
My teacher had a cabinet full of them given how much she confiscated glad teachers can't do that anymore because that was just plan thievery and if one of them was a first edition charazard than may she rot in hell
Same here! And 20 years later the Pokemon Go app was banned from my workplace 😂 Our generation has a bond with Pokemon like no other...!
What a time to be a kid in the late 90s. Pokemon was a huge deal to kids back in those days.
It completely defined a generation. Hell, I’m 29 and still play all the games.
28 here, and I feel you. But for me,I only played the first three generations.
I moved on from Pokemon for 23 years. I'm 30, looking back and I understand why I love Pokemon.
36 ;)
I remember sitting at lunch with my friends back in second grade and all we talked about was how far we were in red and blue
God I miss the 90's.
Pokemania back then is something that I couldn't explain adequately to someone who wasn't there. When you say it was everywhere, it really was. Pokemon was such a phenomenon that it was kinda ridiculous, and I loved every moment of it as a kid.
I feel like it could still be that big, but they have made some serious missteps and haven't evolved the formula (no pun intended) enough to keep the fanbase growing like it did initially.
Pokemon is just as great as it was in the 90s imo. It was big then because it was new and fresh. It's 25 years old and that golden age is done now, but they have done a helluva job keeping it relevant
@@Brsn98 don’t get me wrong, Pokémon as a franchise is still very strong. But as with anything, when you repeat the same thing over and over and don’t really change it, it becomes stale and less interesting.
The games I think have taken a dive in quality since Gen 5 in general. They could do so much more with everything but they want to stay safe and predictable. It will never die, but it will also never truly reach the greatness it could reach with their current direction.
@@Helljumper91 That, I agree.
Type "Bulbapedia Generation III", it will give you a page with all the changes brought by Ruby&Sapphire. Then replace the number III by V, VI, VII and then come back and say that they have repeated the same thing over and over.
All Pokemon games are the same... except it's not the same region, not the same story, not the same Pokemons, not the same moves, not the same Battle systems, not the same menus, not the same features, not the same catching/evolving methods, not the same stats...
EDIT : Apparently the word "G..gle" is now censored from youtube comments, wtf?
@@Dante02d12 I didn’t say things didn’t change, but the games all basically flow the same way and there’s no real surprises in them. They’re also technically inferior to other RPG titles and it seems to be getting more and more noticeable since they left the DS/3DS and went to the switch. I mean look at the consensus of reviews on scarlet/violet so far. The games are adequate but not great, and it’s obvious that they aren’t polishing what they make due to their rush to put one out every 2 years.
I miss the Pokemon hype of the 90s. I played gens 1 and 2 then dropped the series for almost 13 years then got hooked when a co worker said "wanna see my pokemon?" And showed me the Gen 3 game he was playing on an emulator on his phone. That was it, showed me how to tet the emulator I downloaded and replayed Blue (felt like being a kid again stayed up almost a full weekend playing) recently started buying used systems and games to play old ones and got a Switch just to play the gen 8 games. Happy to ve be back, I missed the series.
I’m always on and off with the series but I’ll always remember the first time I booted up red and gold and sapphire
I miss the hype from the 90’s too. Born in ‘91 and all I wanted to do was play red & silver, and open packs. I didn’t get to rip packs much, but the cards meant everything to me (probably because I had very few)
2020 brought that feeling of hype and obsession with the cards back. So I became a vintage collector/seller and have built a collection that means a TON to me, and the 9 year old version of me. It may be a while until that hype re-visits us, but it’s certainly always in our hearts. May Pokémon live forever 🙏🏼.
Born in 92, I remember those days fondly. I remember watching the show on UPN when it first started airing in the states and the huge binders filled with cards kids would bring to school. I would beg my parents for Wizard magazine to look at the cards. Gen 1 was awesome but Gen 2 is hands down my favorite, even to this day. Imagine what it was like as a kid to beat the elite 4, only to find out that there’s a whole kanto post game to complete as well. Beating Red in Mt. Silver was icing on the cake.
Grateful to have been born in '88, as I was right at Ash's age when it all started in the US. I remember my brother and I spending countless hours back then playing Pokemon on our Gameboy Pockets / GBA's and the N64. We played up until the games started coming out on the DS. I got back into Pokemon this year after playing Pokemon Black on an emulator and then went out and bought a Switch (my first Nintendo since the Gamecube) lol. :)
I'm a gen 1 player. I was 10 when ash first aired in the first episode. Same age as him. This franchise hit hard for me. I had it all and caught em all. I was the true poster child for a pokemaniac. I have still kept up with the franchise playing every game. I was around when pikablue rumor started. I am the king of pokemon.
I would think the current world champ is the “king of Pokémon”. I mean… going by your standards, I should be a Queen of Pokémon and… I’m not. 😂
Same here haha!
Ok
Pikablu/missingno/s.s.anne speculation/cerulean city mew the 1st gen was epic
Man, exactly this. Dude, Pokemon is the very reason our generation struggles with 9-5 and responsibilites in general. our world was in this fantasyworld of amazing Pokémon, how can the you then expect us to just step out of it and do boring everyday stuff that has nothing to do with Pokémon? We are the die hard fans, we have sacrificed!
Pokemon Black and White were my first and favorite pokemon games, they introduced me into the series and I became a fanatic since then
My first game was Leaf Green but my fondest memories are probably from Diamond and Pearl, I played white and was a bit older then but I don't' really remember it at all.
That Goldenrod City theme just brought me back 🥲🥲. Remember playing Pokémon Silver nonstop on my atomic purple gbc. The Pokémon hype has indeed died down, but it still lives in the hearts of its fans. This was a well needed stroll down memory lane. Thank you.
Atomic purple is my favorite color cause of the game boy 🥲 Thanks for watching!
My cousin would be considered a GenWunner he likes the original 151 he started with Gen 1 in the 90s,Although if it weren't for him I wouldn't think I would be the Pokemon Fan as I am today! I started with Gen 4 with Pokemon Platinum.
I'm 26 and was born in '96, so I feel like I'm a mix between a millennial and a gen Zer. I was only a baby during pokemania, so I sadly didn't get to experience those "Mew under the truck" playground rumors, trading and battling with friends at school, etc., although I do still have some vague memories during those times like the toys and merch I used to have, thanks to my brother, who actually experienced pokemania. Also I used to watch my brother play Pokemon Blue on our old CRT tv (it was through the GB Tower in Pokemon Stadium which lets you play Pokemon Red & Blue on the tv), and I also remember him having a binder that held all his Pokemon cards that he'd show his friends, though he sadly got rid of it years ago. Oh man, we used to have so many pokemon toys and plushies, and we'd watch some of the old VHS tapes of the original series on our old CRT. So in a way, I guess I DID experience pokemania somewhat despite not being a full-on millennial, thanks to my brother.
Also, sorry if this comment is so poorly worded, I just get extremely passionate about sharing my memories of pokemon and other stuff, like I REALLY wanna share this stuff, but some of my experiences are really hard to put into words at times, so I end up not being able to form clear coherent sentences in the process, lol.
I watched the first episode, played Blue & Red, adored Yellow since you were basically Ash, bought the first booster packs, watched the first movie in a fully packed theater and couldn't wait for Gen II.
Having been there since the beginning is something special and a once in a lifetime experience.
The mania was and always will be unrivalled
Well said 💪🏼
I feel so lucky to have been around at this time of pokemon, what a truly enjoyable experience
Ooooh man. I remember how much the Pokemon craze was(as us 90's kids would say) 'totally fly' back in the day. I remember how it all started and began like it was yesterday. Good times, good times!
Kind of a shame something this big like Pokemania won't happen again for a long time. Even Pokémon Go, despite taking the world by storm, wasn't any near as big as 90's Pokémaniac.
Yes. And the same is true in a lot of other areas like Sports movies etc. When something was big in the 90s it was BIG. Unavoidable. Everyone got into same thing. Now people seem to sleep under a rock thanks to everything being accessible too easily in post internet world
Us 90s kids have witnessed the birth of the biggest media franchise of all time, something that will hardly ever be replicated.
The boom and hype were unreal.
EVERYONE loved Pokémon.
@udokee7409 Yes man!
1990 here.
We were blessed
We are legends, my age is 92 years old I am an old Japanese man
I was 8 when pokemon first aired in Australia it was insane how popular this franchise was during the late 90s early 2000s everyone and i mean everyone was playing talking or collecting pokemon at our age
My first exposure to Pokemon was from borrowing my cousin's gameboy color in 1999
In early 2000, I got into Anime where despite myself like it better than any other Pokemon medium, it cursed to fail to do other mons series' go-to ways of preventing seasonal rots: fully changing entire protagonists. The anime can goes as far as leaving out certain type of Pokemon trainers in more recent gens(to limit the superpowered beings that exist in pokemon world to Pokemon themselves)
Mystery dungeon is *Pokemon are the only superpowered beings that exist* done right
I try to recapture the magic every now and then, and I do get a little comforting nostalgia, but it saddens me that I’ll never be able to experience it again, the phenomenon of Pokémon in the nineties
I feel the same way about my own childhood, but if it’s something you’re fond of find solace through knowing you were able to experience it at all!
I really wish I could have lived more in the late 90s with Star Trek and Pokémon being huge during that time and the fact my favorite sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond was running!
I would've liked to live in the 90's too, but I would also be in my 30's now so eh LOL.
Yeah, in 99 things took a turn for the worse for me, and then things got worse, and then things got worse still, and then even worse, and that trend has continued untill today, and things are still getting worse every single day :)
genuinely a good video. production and the content of the video is that of something I’d expect from a multi million sub channel.
Thanks!!! This means so much more to me than you know! I've been editing for a very long time and these past couple of months have been my best content wise! Thanks for watching the video and I hope you're able to stick around for more!
Glad i lived and breathed that era. It was mind blowing. It was like cocaine for kids. We couldn't get enough.
Oh believe me even in the 2010s I couldn't get enough. I can't even imagine what it must've felt like back then lol.
For Millennials it was our Beatles, there was nothing bigger at the time . Good times
"The craze has died off a bit since then." Man, please don't remind me about that. I was there when legends were written. There wasn't a kid who couldn't sing along to the opening theme song.
Up until Gen 5 release, I was considered the Pokedex by my friends because I digested every single piece of trivia up to that point.
I was 8 years old when Red and Blue Version released. I got Blue Version on the day I got F-Zero X. Originally I wanted only F-Zero X since I had the SNES F-Zero too, but my dad said he would help me buy another game too. I searched hard for another game I was interested, and when I saw Pokemon Red and Blue, I hesitated. I wasn't sure if I wanted a game I never heard of, but my instincts were telling me to get Pokemon. So I got Pokemon Blue because I loved Blastoise's design. But I ended up starting out with Charmander, ironically. I didn't know there was a Pokemon anime until months later, and the very first episode I saw was called "Battle of the Eevee Brothers" or something like that.
2016 pokemania was almost like the OG era since it was the 20th anniversary. Red, blue and yellow were rereleased on the 3DS, Boomerang reaired OG seasons of the anime (Indigo League to Advanced), and TPC reprinted old cards. Glad i got to experience all that, but at the same time, oh how i wish i was a 90s kid just to experience pokemania!
I remember when Pokemon came here to Slovenia and of course I got into it due to the anime(didn't learn that the franchise is actually games until 2009) and when toys appeared in the stores my mom brought me and my brother those plastic pokeballs with the figurines inside and I got totodile and my brother got cyndaquil, I also remember that pokedex toy, however I didn't own it, however do still have my pikachu plushie I got for my saints day as a gift.
As much as the craze was a money grab on Nintendos part, having so many different kinds of toys and cards and things like that helped us all immerse ourselves so much better than just playing the game or watching the anime. In a way I’m glad nintendo is greedy LOL.
im so happy to be born in 1989 so that i could get to see that age and participate in it
I hope this is a series. Please do gen 2 next
I think I'll be doing in depth reviews for gen 1, 2, and 3 at some point but I don't plan on making a ton of pokemon videos
@@tvstellar I'll be interesting for you to do gen2/ 3..... It was the dark times for me.... It was hard finding cards and toys during this era as the popularity was going down and the stuff I found was discounted gen 1 stuff( I was of course still excited to find that stuff). ... And I was considered a dork back then because I still liked Pokemon while Yugioh came out. Pokemon was considered "kiddy" in my school even though we were all in second grade..... How ironic......
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo if only they knew that people who still like yu gi oh in this day and age are considered the dorks…
Designs back then when I was a kid was awesome for the time. Obviously, Art has gotten better but at the same time nostalgia gets the best of me and then I start replaying, red and blue through it and I realize holy crap. I cannot play this no more.Lol
I'd argue gen 1's story is actually one of the better stories. You have your evil team and the gym leaders true. You can blast by without any narrative or context. However, if you go out of your way and explore, you find vague information on the legendary Pokemon and where you can find them. For example, some npcs briefly mention a bird in the mountains, you look through the binoculars and you can see a mysterious bird. If you go to seafoam islands, you'll be rewarded with a chance to catch Articuno. Catching it will give you its background info, completing that story. Then there's the diary entries talking about Mewtwo. There's no prof or gym leader shovel feeding you the backstory. You're reading it from a kids perspective, so you're left to wonder until you make it to the cave and find Mewtwo. The story elements are different than modern games, but they're tied to exploration and discovering. That's what the first gen was al about. The stories are a lot more grand now I guess, but there's no room for exploration as each town has a cutscene unravelling the backstory of the legendary Pokemon on the box.
I vividly remember reading an article about pokemon in a magazine of sorts around the release of Red and Blue. I still knew very little about pokemon at the time because it was still so new and I didn't have either game, but the article showed a picture of Clefairy. I was convinced that it was a female Pikachu. Good times.
I only went to the movies for the promo cards…
Although useless in the normal card game, ancient mew was a favorite of mine!
@@tvstellar Hello :)
I’m 28 years old and aside from working 45 hours a week and maintaining my property, I play Gen 1-6 Pokemon games every day at least 1 hour
I play the Pokémon Theme from the 2BAMaster at the bar that I go to on the Jukebox. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who start singing along! 😂
The older we get the more that will happen 😂 33 yrs old here
@@RolandKoller90 32😎
A few episodes on VHS? Oh, no, man. This was the only children's show I've ever seen where they released the entire first season on VHS- most of it while the first season was still airing- with tapes containing about 3-5 episode bursts. And season one is 78 episodes, if we're ignoring the two they didn't release in the US.
I know its not everys favorite of the gens but gen 2's soundtrack was amazing.
Gen 2 release was incredible. It felt insanely magical since they captured us all with gen 1.
Damn, I'm shocked to see how low your sub count is, this is an great video, if it said 500k subs I wouldn't have batted an eye.
Thanks!!! I try my hardest to make my videos as good as possible, so this means a lot to me! :)
This makes me proud to be a 90s child.
It was intentional to not add a backlight to the game boy and gbc. The game gear needed 6 AA batteries and only gave 3-4 hours of battery life. The GB needed 4 and gave 30 hours, and the GBC needed 2 and gave 10 hours. It was economical and made parents much more attracted to it.
Great vid!
Awesome video, The 90's were crazy for Pokemon. I started with Red and Blue however Gold/Crystal/Silver and Sapphire/Emerald/Ruby will always be my favorite Generations.
I recently lost my Crystal in a move or can't find it this moment.... but I still have my boxed Copies of Fire red and Emerald!!!
I so wish I had a boxed copy of sapphire LOL or any of the gameboy games honestly
I agree with you.
Right, looks like Diglett can do rapid spin now yea! XD
I just recently bought the 1st movie on DVD with the ancient mew card I remember being little and me and my brother were so hype when we saw it on theaters we are both 25 and ,28 and still collect
Oh wow, interesting hearing pokemania from someone born in the early 00s. It was a crazy time to be alive. I was born the year red and green released in Japan so I was a bit too young for Pokemon in gen 1 but got to experience gen 2 and became a dedicated fan in gen 3.
Those Burger King toys were the peak of the franchise. Awesome video!
Yeah how many toys do you know that have a body count? LOL
Oh no the video of pokemon live awkward silence from people not giving a damn hurt me so fucking much.
UA-cam shadow banned my comment. Anyways. A shiny geodude that was this shade of blue 2:34 would look sick
My toddler old loves pokemon and pikachu is her favorite of coarse. I never thought that almost 30 years after I was a pokefan I'd have a kid week is too.
As someone who played pokemon since the beginning I would say gen 1 and 2 were the only pokemon games I truly enjoy and that counts for the remakes like fire red soul silver etc except for let's go from that point on I only pick up the games out of tradition
Nothing like coming home from school to sit and watch KidsWB. Pokemon was such a hit, it ran everyday except maybe sunday.
Gotta catch em all!
Pokémon was our religion in the 90s. My youth was spent staring at my game boy screen haha
Man I still come back to watch this video every now and again, it makes me so nostalgic.
Looks like I did my job then! It’s harder than I thought to keep the 90s series train rolling just cause it’s soooo expensive to keep buying all the merch lol.
@@tvstellar I just spent about $250 on Nintendo manga from Japan for a video and boy is this something that is probably not worth the investment lmao.
@@SCLASSAnime so long as one person is entertained I think it's worth going totally bankrupt :,)
The deaths by Pokeball with the lavender town music in teh background is perfect.
When I Was In Standard 1 I Started To watch Pokemon But sadly I never played Red/Blue And Fire Red was My First Pokemon Game And More than Games I Like Anime(Specially Gen1) Litrally It's So Nostalgic When I Remember About it then tears came in my eyes.
I remember getting a VHS about Pokemon, and my friend and I watched it over and over again, we were so hyped.
Grew up in the 90s watching pokemon daily ! Nice video 🔥
Lmfao! You actually played the lavender town death song when you were talking about suffocating pokeballs 😂😎🇺🇸🧟♂️
Gotta set a mood amirite?
I remember a kid in 2nd grade asking me if I played pokemon, I gave him a confusing no. 3 months later I was obsessed
Pokémania And Red Version Is Where I Started.
Damn I Miss The 90s.
Growing up in that time it was huge! People think its big now but back then it was literally every where. Having mom take me to 7/11 to 7/11 just to find packs of cards only to be told “sold out”. Huge signs that said no pokemon, dont ask, ect ect. After all this time though I still have all my original toys and collectibles. Card sets and games you name it. Pokemon was just a way of life for kids in the late 90s early 2000s
I stopped buying games after sun and moon but I still regularly play rom hacks on my flash carts
Man I used to have that pokedex and so much of those early toys and cards when I was kid
As someone who got into Pokémon during the gen 1 phase rather late, around winter/spring 2000, it really was like being immersed in a steaming cultural bath. I can’t adequately recall a moment in-between; one day there’s no pokestuff around but the next there’s loads of it, and this coming from someone who used to frequent video game stores quite a bit. With subsequent Nihonese franchises, such as Digimon, Yugioh, and Beyblade, I do remember the introduction of products and their gradual disappearances. Pokémon has just never seemed to go away entirely.
It's a monolith for sure. Pokemon will never go away but I don't think it'll get as popular as it did in the 90s/early 2000s.
I was in elementary school in the late 90s, so Pokémon was phenomenal in my peak childhood! I have fond memories of getting a Gameboy and Pokémon Blue for Christmas, playing with my friends down the street, trading with my brothers (who had Red version too)! Ah, good times! Before getting the games, we would get up before school to watch episodes of the anime on television. We would be delighted by the PokéRap as it showed us all these "super cool" monsters. I liked the show mostly as a means to appreciate the mon designs (given that the in-game graphics were kinda trash in Gen1). I never got into the card game, but my cousin had a pretty slick collection of them in one of those binders used for baseball cards.
Yellow version was the funnest for me, it is exactly the anime in a video game. The primitive technology and underwhelming graphics made jt that much better.Crystal is my all time favorite though
I lived trough the pokemania craze, but i've never seen a pokedex. I would have wanted one, guess my parents avoided pokemon like the plague. I had so many plushies, I want my squirtle plushie back!
I went to Pokemon live as a kid and I don't remember much about it but still have merch from it
“Who needs this #%^*^%# many Pokemon games”
Me: (raises hand)
Pokémania was so, SO much bigger than just what the video shows but like you said, you were born a few years after it got big. Either way, this video is still a great intro to how this series blew up back in the day (which is a phrase I say one hundred percent unironically).
I miss being able to see Pokémon in the cinemas and getting an exclusive card. 💀
Recently for detective pikachu they did this but yea I'm surprised they aren't making more pokemon movies lol
@@tvstellar True, but they were out when I went, and to be honest. The movie designs are ugly so I wouldn't want a card anyway. 🤣
Your content is great.
Thank you!!! I'm only just getting started! :)
When I was wathing and playing pokemon, I was so young I didnt even realised they were animes and rpgs.
And to discover the genre and theres were more stuff simillar to them was mindblowing lol
Man, i wish i was around for the very beginning of pokemon. I would have acquired such a massive collection!
Great footage . Also Pokémon lunchables and sticker machines
I was 4 and couldn’t read when Pokémon Red was popular, so I got stuck in Viridian City because I didn’t know I had to go to the PokeMart and then deliver a parcel to Prof. Oak.
I gave the game to my 11-year old neighbor, and when I got it back a week later, I had 99 rare candies and a Hitmonlee.
I remember him telling me, “be careful… after you use those rare candies, there are no more left in the game.” 😂😂
The same neighbor ended up giving me his whole Pokémon card collection when he grew out of them, and I ended up passing all of my cards onto my younger neighbor 8 or 9 years later… the tradition continues!
Keep em coming my man
Thanks for a trip down memory lane, but it's really hilarious listening to an early 20 something talk about it like they experienced it first hand. Playing the games and watching the media after the fact doesn't come close to experiencing the phenomenon first hand like I did. I was 6 in 1998 when the anime was first released in Canada (we got it a little later than the US I think) and this was when the internet was in its infancy, as in most people didn't even have a home computer, never-mind the internet. Back then it was absolutely nuts, kids would get into fights over cards, you'd get challenged to battles on the games, it was crazy. Shortly after the OG games came out, Pokemon Stadium came out and changed everything again, it was a wild time.
Well hey if no one that actually lived through it was making a video about it I figured why not? lol
@@tvstellar Because you didn't experience it first hand, it's not the same. That's ok though, I'm glad you appreciate gen 1 culture. The video was good, I learned a few things that wasnt well known where I live in Canada.
@@KellenN92 I’d like to think that I lived just “adjacent” to pokemania. Everything shown in the video were actually my childhood Pokémon toys and whatnot. Either way I love the early gens waaay more than the stuff from directly when I was a kid.
Genwunner here, I probably had killed over thousands of batteries playing Pokemon Yellow and Crystal
If I have to say what are two of the biggest franchises to come out of the 90s Power Rangers and Pokemon everywhere you went back in the day you couldn't go anywhere without seeing Pokémon or Power Rangers that's how huge both franchises were in the 90s and honestly I feel like that's something we'll never see again because it was a phenomenon that can never be reduplicated I'm glad that I grew up in the 90s I feel bad for this current generation don't ever get to experience what we had growing up I'm still a huge fan of Power Rangers right to this day but Pokemon at one point I used to be very into it but I fell out of it once Yu-Gi-Oh came out that was when I got into Yu-Gi-Oh but I hope you do a video on the 1990s craze of Power Rangers and how much of an impact it left behind this was an excellent video on Pokémon media in the late 1990s it took me back to my childhood thank you so much for this video
I do plan on a power rangers video! It’ll be a bit tho since I’m still doing a Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon one before it.
I got pokemon blue and gameboy color in like 1998 at 7/8 years old and the rest is history
I grew up in this. Pokemon was everywhere. Tv, cereal boxes, newspapers, school, billboards, merch in every store. for a few months, it truly was like living in a pokemon world.
Well you know what they say about the Pokémon world…. That we all live in it….
I've always preferred Ruby and Sapphire over Emerald simply because I like May's red outfit over the green one.
Pokemon red and later on Fire red are still my top favorites. Gen 1 and 2 just hits different for me.
Pokémon has been around for 26 years.
Great video!
I went back to these days, even though I'm from Latam, we lived almost the same fever over here, thanks to the anime, and the first time I saw Pokémon Gold, I was in love and it fulfilled all my expectations as someone who wanted to know how would it be like to be in a Pokémon world!
I wish we could all go back to simpler times... I suppose it wasn't so simple back then (or even 20 years ago) and that's just nostalgia talking but even with pokemon these all we get is disappointment
Fire starter since Pokémon Red.
Fuecoco 🔥 🐊
5th grade my first card was diglet given as a gift. Second was starmie given as a gift then a golden as a gift. They got banned because we became obsessive. Amazing time to be alive. We smuggled the cards on the playground.
5:36 me and my gf who've been keeping up with the anime in Japanese since XY 👫
Us as kids went apeshit for pokemon back in the day
I wish I was a kid in 1998-2003 which was the Pokemania era.
What a trip down memory lane! I actually still have that Poke'mon Monopoly!! Haha
Backlit screens were a lot more expensive back then, and drained the battery a lot faster, which is why the Game Gear and Atari Lynx had absolutely abysmal battery life given the number of batteries needed. (I think they both needed 4 AAA or something??) Also, the Game Boy Light wasn't even released outside of Japan.
I'm very aware, I was playing it off more as a joke than as legitimate criticism of the consoles.
I can't say that I was alive in the 90s, or even really much more than 1 year of the 2000s. Pokémon white was my first game And I love it. Best Pokémon game ever (yes I have played every single Pokémon generation) (my emerald was fake though so was cheap but I've found no problems with it)
First pokemon I played was red like in 1998. Still remember going to the store to buy it. All of us kindergarten kids trading and battling with the link cable was legit lol
I remember playing pokemon monopoly with my friends I first grade and having a war over who got to be pikachu lol