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I think my entire elementary school played based on "here's my HP, here's your attack, we go back and forth until one of us goes down", like with no strategy outside of laying down the cards with the biggest numbers.
I was the guy who always read the manuals. Because to me a card game you can't play is worthless. Why even bother buying the cards if all you can do is look at them?
Maybe I had the minority experience, but I searched out the rules when I collected back in elementary and played with some friends and my mom. It definitely has flaws on the world building side of things, and kinda forces you to play only the "better" evo lines and honestly play more trainers than pokemon sometimes.
@@whitewolf3051 They had to introduce new mechanics to the game to keep it interesting or else you're just going to be seeing the same decks and same strategies over and over in tournaments (once people realize 'oh this particular deck combo/these specific cards are really good' it's all people want to play and all you end up seeing, and this isn't exclusive to YGO) and, people are gonna get bored. Which means, new archetypes, new summoning methods and new support for older archetypes. Which means that, bit by bit it's going to get more complex (and the longer card text to try and avoid confusion on things/keep things from being game breaking or OP'd) This is actually, as far as I know, part of the reason for the new Rush Duel style introduced in the current series. It IS simple and straight forward, with fewer rules (and fewer steps) and meant to help younger players develop and interest in playing and actually, play. Cause yeah the current main game is complicated af.
I'm pretty sure that was in reference to setup and accoutrements, which haven't changed at all, except for having to take care to make decently recognizable columns now I guess.
My buddy had the Pokémon TCG GB game, which we referred to as Pokémon Black before Black version was a thing, because of the cartridge colour. I gotta say, I was 5 at the time and we didn't speak English yet (we barely spoke our own language, haha) and this game reeeeally isn't fun if you can't read it.
I really would love a return of Pokemon Radio, where you could hear music in your journey. You also could tune in other cool stations like you had in Gold and Silver
"When you're young, you don't really need a lot because your imagination does the rest" Great quote... I really miss my childhood years. Nevertheless, I enjoy the new adventures in adulthood.
I played a lot of this game growing up, and now that the second one with Gen 2 cards has been Fan Translated and is longer and harder , it's make me sad that we never got a follow up on modern hardware.
Trust me ive played through the second one. The second one is harder not because of tactics but because you *need* to have specific cards that you can *only* get from *specific* packs given to you after beating *specific* npcs. I was so done after that nonsense that i just cheesed the final boss.
Thanks to an older video of Tama herself, I know that there was a follow up for the Pokémon TCG on the Nindendo DS called "Pokémon Card Game Asobikata DS". However, said game never got released outside of japan, which is a real shame!
Right? i loved this game as a kid and after playing it and learning how to play the actual tcg i wanted to play it with other kids... But nobody cared about actually playing. Also i just found out you can actually purchase a fan translated GBC cartridge off of etsy. So we may not have ever had a follow up game to the original back then like japan had. But we do now "somewhat"
It's a hard things for kids to get their mind around, even adults at times when it comes to these types of card games. The best cards generally aren't the pokemon but the trainers, having 4 bills and 4 professor oaks is a must. Getting to your power cards quickly is the most important part of any competitive card game, as you've seen without it the game come down to massive amounts of luck. That video game is one of the best games I have every played that could teach someone how to play by the card game rules. Most Yu-Gi-Oh games didn't play by the rules at all.
the world championship series of games did a good job, but they're the exception & only ran from gba to NDS, link evolution does it too but underperforms fan made simulaters and mobile games as a play experience
Funny enough the earliest Yugioh games that ACTUALLY taught the player were on GBA circa 2003 or so (outside of Sacred Cards and Reshef which were built off the GB/C ruleset). Eternal Duelist Soul is one a lot of people (myself included) seem to cite as their introduction to the actual non-anime influenced rules.
I definitely did deck building wrong back in these early days! I filled my decks with energy and Pokemon and basically ignored most Trainer cards which left me often with dead hands and the wrong cards. When I started making the deck maybe 50-60% trainers it all went a lot smoother!
You had to go into the game already knowing what decks you wanted to build. I kept a custom decklist of the same deck I used in the real TCG and just remade it (with a few subs- an Oak in exchange for Challenge!, which wasn't in the game), but for the most part my psychic/grass deck just wrecked face in it. Not to mention you had to also go for the tournaments in the game as well because Promo Mewtwo was absolutely bonkers powerful in pulling energy out of the graveyard- having an ability like Venusaur's Energy Trans to get it off the Mewtwo and onto something else was just plain evil. And yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh might have been easier to play, but the trade-off was the early Yu-Gi-Oh! video games were absolute junk. I mean, two words: Forbidden Memories. *shudder* Man oh man, what a terrible game.
Seriously kids, do drugs it's cheaper. Also WotC is getting more amoral by the day. It's like every time someone complains about their products a finger on monkey paw moves.
That is what WotC wanted. It certainly worked out that way for some, but left a bad taste in the mouthes of others, such as myself. Oh, and a deep seated distrust of WotC.
@@KamisamanoOtaku Fr like why would wizards even need to live on the coast anyways. There’s no way fish have more magical potential than all the other animals
@@lusciouslocks8790 One of my first decks was called 'Wizards of the Coast'. Mono-blue Wizard tribal deck with as much beach, ocean, and crabs in the art as I could fit. Every day is a beach episode for WotC Deck.
I do the same but I do it in a New Game + kinda format - instead of deleting my save I'll use the Cards I have from after beating the Dome to beat all trainers/masters again in any order, of course getting to use cards I get along the way as with previous runs :)
It's worth noting that Dark Duel Stories was developed along side the rules for the TCG in Japan. IIRC, it represents an earlier version of the TCG rules; the dev team was working with an old version of the rules, while the TCG team changed things on their own, and by the time they found out it was too late for an overhaul.
It’s similar to early yugioh in that there aren’t many ways to search out cards from the deck and do combos. The first couple sets of yugioh were mostly normal monsters with lackluster stat lines, equip spells for each attribute, and then your meta cards like dark hole, swords of revealing light, mirror force, etc
O_o not many cards to search?? - Computer Search -> discard 2 get any card from the deck - Pokemon Trader -> Put pokemon back into deck and get new one - Professor oak -> discard all cards get 7 new - Bill -> draw 2 - item finder -> discard 2 get any trainer from discard pile i mean you can dig through most of the deck in one turn
I was so into yugioh, even though most of my cards were fake, instead of bothering my friend with constantly duels i would make tournaments with my stuff animals and switch to the other side of the bed each turn. I even pretended one of my cards was the Seal of Orichalchos and the loser plush would be trapped in their most powerful card.
Ah the seal of Orichalcos. I even used to pretend it had its anime effect that supposedly allowed you to have up to 10 monsters on the field at one time. I also used to pretend Pyramid of Light had its anime effect of destroying all God cards and preventing them from returning.
I just visited my grandma’s house a few months ago and found 3 binders full of cards she kept for me. It was great seeing all the cards I used to play with 10 or 20 years ago.
For anyone who doesn't know: There's a sequel, Pokemon Card GB2, with a whole new island filled with gyms, it adds the Team Rocket set, loads of Japan only promos, and even more GB exclusives. The possibilities for decks are so much greater, and there are deck-restrictive challenges which prevent you from just steamrolling the game with a single deck and keeps things interesting. Highly, highly recommend playing it if you never have. It was never released in the US so it never had an official English release, but there've been a couple of patches/romhacks over the years with English translations for the Japanese ROM. You can track it all down if you are diligent enough, though I feel like it's become harder to recently.
Best game ever. I love starting a new game and collecting all the cards. Every game was fresh with the restrictions so u couldnt just spam OP gyarados. 10/10 am gonna play again today
@@pandathug6806 Yeah. And because of how many cards there are, what decks you play with is very dictated by whatever you happen to pull, which makes each playthrough pretty unique in a way that's tough to get on the original with such a smaller carpool.
Just finished playing through this. Wow, much better than the original! The deck restriction challenges were great, and forced me to have a deck of every type. Downloading the ROM/translation was pretty quick/easy. Very glad I was able to play this, and look forward to replaying it through the years.
I actually want to say a quick thing about Yugioh here for a sec, in regards to what you were saying about Roleplaying. I always found this a barrier to the Pokemon TCG too, since I felt I was playing a game ABOUT Pokemon... rather than just, playing Pokemon? In Yugioh, the concept of a Duelist with their own personal optimized deck is baked right into the lore itself, making it really easy to see yourself in the series itself, dueling or hanging out with the characters via a shared interest (even easier in the spin-offs due to their settings in some cases). With the Pokemon card game, I never felt like I was simulating the fun of being a Trainer while ALSO enjoying the mechanics of the game, which for Yugioh, is inherent to the franchise because it's literally all ABOUT real people playing a fictional game (despite heightened elements ofc).
I absolutely love this game, though I do like the second Japan-only game a bit more. It's crazy reading the comments and seeing how many people actually don't know how to play the game! I mean, if you don't know how to play the Pokemon TCG, then good luck with Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG, those games are insanity in comparison to Pokemon. That aside, the music in this game, specifically all of the dueling themes, and ESPECIALLY the Club Leader Duel are some of the best out there, and if I may make a recommendation, look up Jonny Atma's cover of that song, that's how you give some representation to a very underrated track. EDIT: The fact that YOU did a Professor Oak's Challenge is awesome, glad to see it's become popularized!
When I was a kid Yu-gi-oh was definitely easier to get into then pokemon. Pokemons rules just seemed more extra. All the coins tosses, tokens and energy cards put me off of playing the game in real life anyway. I did like the Gameboy color version. With early Yu-gi-oh all you usually needed was your deck of cards and a pencil and paper for life points. A couple cards might ask for a coin flip or a dice roll but those weren't abundant. So back in the early days Yu-gi-oh was definitely simpler to learn.
I used to watch her when I was extremely young (like 8 or something) but then I moved away from Pokemon. Today I randomly stumbled upon this channel, it it brought be so much joy to see that a bunch of my old favorite UA-camrs haven't changed! I haven't felt nostalgia like this in a long time, so thank you for that!
Back when I was in elementary school I had some knowledge of the card game (but it took to long to set up and play) [also they banned them from schools for obvious reasons which I still think was dumb] ...
I wish there was a Pokemon/Yugioh TCG video game that starts out with the original cards and then as you progress through the story, the formats change just like they did in real life. It happens slow enough that you're able to appreciate every format and the change to current format isn't so jarring.
pokemon tcg aged like wine, getting boosters in the game was brilliant and the gameplay ai did cheat but it was also challenging and not too easy which is good.
When you said "a game of Yu-Gi-Oh can be pulled off waiting for class to start" you unintentionally made me remember how badly Konami has wrecked the meta. Games sometimes take like 9-10 turns nowadays XD
Great video as always, Tama! In the beginning, I definitely had a lot of trouble not overloading my deck with Pokémon, cause I wanted to play with all my favorites, not just the good cards. Now I know I have to build a balanced deck, which is fun to play when you get all the combos going, but building them is kind of a drag.
Uno can also transcend the language barrier which is great when any game let's you play with anybody regardless of their native language. Since you guys both speak the card game and that's enough to communication just on that.
This was my first "official" Pokemon Game, because I didn't understand the idea of a tcg. I still have it and it's one of favorite games, wish there was more.
You are simply bad at the game. I felt your judgement of the game was unfair. There are more things to talk about but you simply couldn't complete it. I'm passionate about card games, chess and Pokémon and I think the Pokémon TCG for gameboy is a masterpiece. You didn't talk about the rival and the rival music in this game. You didn't talk about the clubmaster music and the grandmaster music, those are among the best music themes in the gameboy or in any Pokémon game. You need someone to teach you how to approach this gameboy game and to teach you the strategies but I guess you just can't appreciate it completely.
There's a lot of strategy to the Pokemon TCG GB game. I dont think Ive ever had a bad experience with the coin flips. Its learning how to work with and/or around it, and I think thats where the game shines (both in real life and digitally). And I think thats also why a lot of people don't like D&D, they have to let the dice decide and then look up all these tables to see what is available to help.
In the PkM TCG they want you to grind up to get more packs and change out decks depending on the trainer/gym master. I hear ya though ... coin flips in this game can really draw things out. Draws can be miserable. I like the Dark Souls like brutality though this game sometimes provides. I know a game is good/challenging when I start sass mouthing/ threatening the NPCs. ha!
Wonder if there are meta decks in the Pokémon tcg compared to the Yugioh tcg/ocg where you won’t get a single turn in because your opponent locked your entire your field or board wiped everything to where you can’t play the game and discarded your entire hand.
Fun fact: In Pokemon GBC 2, there was a primape card that did near double damage when confused, and the Computer has Imakuni! In his deck to cause that on purpose.
I've never understood why the video game adaptations of Yu-Gi-Oh! were so thoroughly bastardized (to the point of barely even being consistent with *each other)* but I did really enjoy Dark Duel Stories for what it was once I came to understand the mechanics. The weirdest change imo was how some of the monster elements were renamed (or removed entirely, changing monsters of that element to another element) and given type matchups like Pokémon. It was weird to get used to after playing the physical card game for a couple years, but it added an interesting layer of strategy to make up for the absence or simplification of certain card mechanics on the Gameboy, and it was a pretty fun game. Let's not talk about the terrible English translation though 🤣
Man, I remember going to an event at the local mall when the TCG was new and they taught me how to play the game then, I lost the game but at least I was able to learn the basics. Also, to be honest the TCG game boy game is my favorite Gameboy game.
I negated the luck rng mechanics by using a game shark. 😆 However, I believe if you press the A button when you see pikachu’s face on the coin should always make it flip on “heads” instead of “tails”.
there is always luck in tcgs. but not as much as you seem to think. otherwise there wouldnt be competitive scenes. learn how to actually build a deck before making a comment like that.
This was one of my favorite games in the Pokemon franchise, mainly because of how charming it is. The beginning can be a bit challenging I agree, the best strategy in the early game is to utilize cheap commons with easy consistent value like Staryu and Machop while you hunt rares. Also to get more energies, you can play the guy from the tutorial. The decks don't get shuffled so you can beat him the same way over and over.
"You play this once and you'll be humming the battle theme for the rest of your life" TRUE. This music piece alone keeps me coming back to the game every now and then. And there's some charm to the simplest gameplay from the beginnings of the TCG that you can't find in the modern formats. I love building a Venusaur deck on this game.
HEY TAMA! I felt the same way when I first played the tcg for gbc. I've found theres 2 ideal decks, and it's not what you'd think. 1st is Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Kangaskahn, double colorless, grass energy,and the card that let's you search your deck. The other is the same thing, but replace the eggs w the Abra line w psychic energy. If Alakazam comes out, his ability pulls the teeth out of anybody's deck. But the "computer search" trainer will guarantee that you get the card you're fishing for. Anywho, nerding out now, but those should never do you wrong. 🧡💛💙 Edit: I'm remembering Scyther and Jynx no that I've thought about it. Each deck needs a heavy hitter that can come out quick
I did played the pokemon card game with a friend. However! We did not figured out how the game actually worked so we played it all wrong... Should have read the manual... But I did buy the gbc game and then learned how to play that shit. But at that time no one was interested in the Pkmn card game anymore.
I remember picking this up on the gameboy VC and really enjoying it. The artwork for the cards and trainers was really memorable, but I think I fell off because of how linear the good decks played. The coin flips accentuated the problems of randomness that card games have inherently, so it feels a lot less skill-based than MtG or something else. I really love the core system though and maybe modern Pokemon has addressed this issue, if so, I'd love to start collecting again.
We also made up our own rules to play the card game, and one time I got so excited that I "evolved" my pikachu that I accidentally broke my friends glasses
Omg I'm so happy you reviewed Pokemon TCG, I love this game so much ❤ It's simple, straight to the point and the soundtrack is so catchy that I listen to it even to this day ^-^ About your complaint of the game randomness, I've to say that I kind of like it, I mean, of course it's very different from the mainline games that you have more control to make stratregies, but I think that it translates very well the phisical version of the game that is also very lucky based, even if you have good cards. But of course, I'm very biased to say this as it is one of my favorite Pokémon games XD
There's a sequel with a whole new island filled with gyms, it adds the Team Rocket set, Japan only promos, and even more GB exclusives. The possibilities for decks are so much wider, and there are deck-restrictive challenges which prevent you from just steamrolling the game with a single deck. Highly, highly recommend playing it if you never have. It's also got some bangin tracks, a couple of which are favorites in the series.
@@turntsnaco824 Oohh Thank you for these informations! * - * I did knew about the existence of a Pokemon TCG sequel, but not about some of these new cool stuff! XD The only reason I've never played it yet It's just because It never got an oficial release outside Japan, but after seeing your comment I'm very interested in playing it, maybe I'll get a fan translation for playing it on a emulator ^-^
When I was probably like 9, I found a Japanese copy of the game at a flea market before it came out in the US. I ended up getting it for Christmas like right after and was super excited because I had a pokemon game that I never heard of that hadn’t come out here (at that point). My biggest claim to fame is that I was so determined to play it that I managed to fumble my way through it and beat it in Japanese at 9 years old LOL. 20 years later and I still never knew what the story was about.
I’d highly recommend checking out later formats or higher level play in general for a better TCG experience. In reality the game has few coin flips and practically no complete RNG mechanics. Problem is the Gameboy game and to an extent the TCGO campaign don’t do a great job at displaying this.
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I'm here from Jack and also I have a bunch of pokemon cards
Yeah I remember in the fifth grade trading my or maybe was the sixth grade trading My game boy advance for some pretty rare Pokemon cards
@Hacker Killer now im curious lol...who is Jack? Do they also make Pokemon TCG videos?
@@qsxsqsxs Same. Please someone answer!
i dressed as Imakuni? for halloween once - figured if i was going to be standing alone in a corner all night long, at least i'll do it in character
MtG for the win! Been playing since 97!
That’s the best Halloween costume idea ever. You’re my hero holy shit.
I remember everyone just trading the cards for favors and NO ONE knew how to play and also great video!
the yugioh anime season 1 did not help teach the game too much
LoL same on our school nobody knows how to play it so we just trade card😂
I think my entire elementary school played based on "here's my HP, here's your attack, we go back and forth until one of us goes down", like with no strategy outside of laying down the cards with the biggest numbers.
I was the guy who always read the manuals. Because to me a card game you can't play is worthless. Why even bother buying the cards if all you can do is look at them?
Maybe I had the minority experience, but I searched out the rules when I collected back in elementary and played with some friends and my mom. It definitely has flaws on the world building side of things, and kinda forces you to play only the "better" evo lines and honestly play more trainers than pokemon sometimes.
"Yugioh requires a lot less extra steps"
Oh, how that has changed exponentially.
I was gonna say "oh no, she's unaware" 😂
'So, how are those Card descriptions, guys!'
Yeah, the new series in the anime didn’t help matters. Why couldn’t they just keep it simple?
@@whitewolf3051
They had to introduce new mechanics to the game to keep it interesting or else you're just going to be seeing the same decks and same strategies over and over in tournaments (once people realize 'oh this particular deck combo/these specific cards are really good' it's all people want to play and all you end up seeing, and this isn't exclusive to YGO) and, people are gonna get bored. Which means, new archetypes, new summoning methods and new support for older archetypes.
Which means that, bit by bit it's going to get more complex (and the longer card text to try and avoid confusion on things/keep things from being game breaking or OP'd)
This is actually, as far as I know, part of the reason for the new Rush Duel style introduced in the current series. It IS simple and straight forward, with fewer rules (and fewer steps) and meant to help younger players develop and interest in playing and actually, play. Cause yeah the current main game is complicated af.
I'm pretty sure that was in reference to setup and accoutrements, which haven't changed at all, except for having to take care to make decently recognizable columns now I guess.
My buddy had the Pokémon TCG GB game, which we referred to as Pokémon Black before Black version was a thing, because of the cartridge colour. I gotta say, I was 5 at the time and we didn't speak English yet (we barely spoke our own language, haha) and this game reeeeally isn't fun if you can't read it.
What language did you speak when you were 5?
Also why did ur buddy buy the game if he couldn’t speak English?
@@astrograph7875 you think we bought games ourselves at 5? 🤣
I think it was his brothers' at some point.
@@DavidDumbedDown we're Dutch. Though we learn English at a very young age nowadays, Pokémon Silver for me was a big contribution to that.
@@LangeManGlenn
I learned to read English by playing pokemon yellow, or at least it was a big motivator.
Ahh, the neverending suffering of having good Pokémon music tracks on spin-offs and never being able to listen to them in the main series of games.
PDM Red and Blue Rescue Team's sad theme will always be in my heart
I believe the Grass Gym music (or one of the tracks) is the same as the music for Fortree City in Ruby iirc. 🤔
Pokemon Typing Adventure's Boss Theme
I really would love a return of Pokemon Radio, where you could hear music in your journey.
You also could tune in other cool stations like you had in Gold and Silver
Pokémon Pinball GBC Catch 'em Mode in Blue Field
"When you're young, you don't really need a lot because your imagination does the rest"
Great quote... I really miss my childhood years. Nevertheless, I enjoy the new adventures in adulthood.
So damn true. I keep telling the grandparents and aunts and uncles this but they refuse to stop buying our daughter a ton of crap.
I played a lot of this game growing up, and now that the second one with Gen 2 cards has been Fan Translated and is longer and harder , it's make me sad that we never got a follow up on modern hardware.
Trust me ive played through the second one. The second one is harder not because of tactics but because you *need* to have specific cards that you can *only* get from *specific* packs given to you after beating *specific* npcs. I was so done after that nonsense that i just cheesed the final boss.
Thanks to an older video of Tama herself, I know that there was a follow up for the Pokémon TCG on the Nindendo DS called "Pokémon Card Game Asobikata DS". However, said game never got released outside of japan, which is a real shame!
@@angehanon7749 Yeah, there is a few english patch for the rom on the internet but most of them just have the cards ranslated and nothing else.
Right? i loved this game as a kid and after playing it and learning how to play the actual tcg i wanted to play it with other kids... But nobody cared about actually playing. Also i just found out you can actually purchase a fan translated GBC cartridge off of etsy. So we may not have ever had a follow up game to the original back then like japan had. But we do now "somewhat"
It's a hard things for kids to get their mind around, even adults at times when it comes to these types of card games. The best cards generally aren't the pokemon but the trainers, having 4 bills and 4 professor oaks is a must. Getting to your power cards quickly is the most important part of any competitive card game, as you've seen without it the game come down to massive amounts of luck. That video game is one of the best games I have every played that could teach someone how to play by the card game rules. Most Yu-Gi-Oh games didn't play by the rules at all.
the world championship series of games did a good job, but they're the exception & only ran from gba to NDS, link evolution does it too but underperforms fan made simulaters and mobile games as a play experience
Funny enough the earliest Yugioh games that ACTUALLY taught the player were on GBA circa 2003 or so (outside of Sacred Cards and Reshef which were built off the GB/C ruleset). Eternal Duelist Soul is one a lot of people (myself included) seem to cite as their introduction to the actual non-anime influenced rules.
I definitely did deck building wrong back in these early days! I filled my decks with energy and Pokemon and basically ignored most Trainer cards which left me often with dead hands and the wrong cards. When I started making the deck maybe 50-60% trainers it all went a lot smoother!
You had to go into the game already knowing what decks you wanted to build. I kept a custom decklist of the same deck I used in the real TCG and just remade it (with a few subs- an Oak in exchange for Challenge!, which wasn't in the game), but for the most part my psychic/grass deck just wrecked face in it. Not to mention you had to also go for the tournaments in the game as well because Promo Mewtwo was absolutely bonkers powerful in pulling energy out of the graveyard- having an ability like Venusaur's Energy Trans to get it off the Mewtwo and onto something else was just plain evil.
And yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh might have been easier to play, but the trade-off was the early Yu-Gi-Oh! video games were absolute junk. I mean, two words: Forbidden Memories. *shudder* Man oh man, what a terrible game.
Computer Search/Bill/Prof Oak/Scoop Up OP don't @ me
Pokemon cards were a gateway drug to Magic The Gathering.
Seriously kids, do drugs it's cheaper.
Also WotC is getting more amoral by the day. It's like every time someone complains about their products a finger on monkey paw moves.
That is what WotC wanted. It certainly worked out that way for some, but left a bad taste in the mouthes of others, such as myself. Oh, and a deep seated distrust of WotC.
@@KamisamanoOtaku Fr like why would wizards even need to live on the coast anyways. There’s no way fish have more magical potential than all the other animals
@@lusciouslocks8790 One of my first decks was called 'Wizards of the Coast'.
Mono-blue Wizard tribal deck with as much beach, ocean, and crabs in the art as I could fit. Every day is a beach episode for WotC Deck.
guy I use to consider good friend wasted $2,000 on MtG.
Lol screw card games. Monumental waste of time, and you end up looking like The Quartering.
I replay the TCG game for the gameboy color every now and then. Definitely brings back nostalgic memories!
Me too! I run Venu-Center all the time when I do it! :)
Same dude. This game is so fun to play! U should play the sequel, its even better
@@pandathug6806 i have never found an English version of it sadly.
@@yousaymercy2366 u can find the english translated rom online
I do the same but I do it in a New Game + kinda format - instead of deleting my save I'll use the Cards I have from after beating the Dome to beat all trainers/masters again in any order, of course getting to use cards I get along the way as with previous runs :)
It's worth noting that Dark Duel Stories was developed along side the rules for the TCG in Japan. IIRC, it represents an earlier version of the TCG rules; the dev team was working with an old version of the rules, while the TCG team changed things on their own, and by the time they found out it was too late for an overhaul.
It’s similar to early yugioh in that there aren’t many ways to search out cards from the deck and do combos. The first couple sets of yugioh were mostly normal monsters with lackluster stat lines, equip spells for each attribute, and then your meta cards like dark hole, swords of revealing light, mirror force, etc
O_o not many cards to search??
- Computer Search -> discard 2 get any card from the deck
- Pokemon Trader -> Put pokemon back into deck and get new one
- Professor oak -> discard all cards get 7 new
- Bill -> draw 2
- item finder -> discard 2 get any trainer from discard pile
i mean you can dig through most of the deck in one turn
When I was a kid, the card with the coolest artwork "won" we didn't bother to learn actual rules
Moltres would be the best bird for once lol
I was so into yugioh, even though most of my cards were fake, instead of bothering my friend with constantly duels i would make tournaments with my stuff animals and switch to the other side of the bed each turn. I even pretended one of my cards was the Seal of Orichalchos and the loser plush would be trapped in their most powerful card.
same, I had quite a few decks built for each stuffed animal.
Ah the seal of Orichalcos. I even used to pretend it had its anime effect that supposedly allowed you to have up to 10 monsters on the field at one time.
I also used to pretend Pyramid of Light had its anime effect of destroying all God cards and preventing them from returning.
to be fair, the official western company for yugioh was involved in creating fake cards, most people ended up with some fakes, even from retail
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I just visited my grandma’s house a few months ago and found 3 binders full of cards she kept for me. It was great seeing all the cards I used to play with 10 or 20 years ago.
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There's a sequel, Pokemon Card GB2, with a whole new island filled with gyms, it adds the Team Rocket set, loads of Japan only promos, and even more GB exclusives. The possibilities for decks are so much greater, and there are deck-restrictive challenges which prevent you from just steamrolling the game with a single deck and keeps things interesting.
Highly, highly recommend playing it if you never have. It was never released in the US so it never had an official English release, but there've been a couple of patches/romhacks over the years with English translations for the Japanese ROM. You can track it all down if you are diligent enough, though I feel like it's become harder to recently.
Best game ever. I love starting a new game and collecting all the cards. Every game was fresh with the restrictions so u couldnt just spam OP gyarados. 10/10 am gonna play again today
@@pandathug6806 Yeah. And because of how many cards there are, what decks you play with is very dictated by whatever you happen to pull, which makes each playthrough pretty unique in a way that's tough to get on the original with such a smaller carpool.
Didn't even know this existed, thanks for posting! Downloaded the translated ROM to my phone and look forward to playing it soon.
Just finished playing through this. Wow, much better than the original! The deck restriction challenges were great, and forced me to have a deck of every type. Downloading the ROM/translation was pretty quick/easy. Very glad I was able to play this, and look forward to replaying it through the years.
I actually want to say a quick thing about Yugioh here for a sec, in regards to what you were saying about Roleplaying. I always found this a barrier to the Pokemon TCG too, since I felt I was playing a game ABOUT Pokemon... rather than just, playing Pokemon? In Yugioh, the concept of a Duelist with their own personal optimized deck is baked right into the lore itself, making it really easy to see yourself in the series itself, dueling or hanging out with the characters via a shared interest (even easier in the spin-offs due to their settings in some cases). With the Pokemon card game, I never felt like I was simulating the fun of being a Trainer while ALSO enjoying the mechanics of the game, which for Yugioh, is inherent to the franchise because it's literally all ABOUT real people playing a fictional game (despite heightened elements ofc).
I’ve spent so much money on tcg and don’t even know how to play. I just like collecting them lol. I have all the e-reader tcg cards 💕
The E reader sets were some of the best sets ever. The art is soooo aesthetic.
Love those sets
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I absolutely love this game, though I do like the second Japan-only game a bit more. It's crazy reading the comments and seeing how many people actually don't know how to play the game! I mean, if you don't know how to play the Pokemon TCG, then good luck with Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG, those games are insanity in comparison to Pokemon. That aside, the music in this game, specifically all of the dueling themes, and ESPECIALLY the Club Leader Duel are some of the best out there, and if I may make a recommendation, look up Jonny Atma's cover of that song, that's how you give some representation to a very underrated track.
EDIT: The fact that YOU did a Professor Oak's Challenge is awesome, glad to see it's become popularized!
When I was a kid Yu-gi-oh was definitely easier to get into then pokemon. Pokemons rules just seemed more extra. All the coins tosses, tokens and energy cards put me off of playing the game in real life anyway. I did like the Gameboy color version.
With early Yu-gi-oh all you usually needed was your deck of cards and a pencil and paper for life points. A couple cards might ask for a coin flip or a dice roll but those weren't abundant. So back in the early days Yu-gi-oh was definitely simpler to learn.
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Playing this game on Switch Online is so great since you can cancel out the RNG and just reset the duel till you get good hand of cards.
Back when I was in elementary school I had some knowledge of the card game (but it took to long to set up and play) [also they banned them from schools for obvious reasons which I still think was dumb] ...
they just didnt want us having fun! lol
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Great vid i didn't know about your channel until i saw jacks vid but this was great :D
It was always so much fun looking at the sprite work art in the game and comparing it to my physical cards.
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I wish there was a Pokemon/Yugioh TCG video game that starts out with the original cards and then as you progress through the story, the formats change just like they did in real life. It happens slow enough that you're able to appreciate every format and the change to current format isn't so jarring.
The newest YGO game on Switch has that, you can play with character decks, build your own, or steamroll the story with new cards from recent years
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pokemon tcg aged like wine, getting boosters in the game was brilliant and the gameplay ai did cheat but it was also challenging and not too easy which is good.
Holy hell the Yu-Gi-Oh gbc/gba games were horrendous compared to Pokemon TCG on Game Boy Color.
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When you said "a game of Yu-Gi-Oh can be pulled off waiting for class to start" you unintentionally made me remember how badly Konami has wrecked the meta. Games sometimes take like 9-10 turns nowadays XD
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In the beginning, I definitely had a lot of trouble not overloading my deck with Pokémon, cause I wanted to play with all my favorites, not just the good cards.
Now I know I have to build a balanced deck, which is fun to play when you get all the combos going, but building them is kind of a drag.
Honestly, preferring Uno to other card games is entirely viable.
Uno can also transcend the language barrier which is great when any game let's you play with anybody regardless of their native language. Since you guys both speak the card game and that's enough to communication just on that.
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This was my first "official" Pokemon Game, because I didn't understand the idea of a tcg.
I still have it and it's one of favorite games, wish there was more.
You are simply bad at the game. I felt your judgement of the game was unfair. There are more things to talk about but you simply couldn't complete it. I'm passionate about card games, chess and Pokémon and I think the Pokémon TCG for gameboy is a masterpiece. You didn't talk about the rival and the rival music in this game. You didn't talk about the clubmaster music and the grandmaster music, those are among the best music themes in the gameboy or in any Pokémon game. You need someone to teach you how to approach this gameboy game and to teach you the strategies but I guess you just can't appreciate it completely.
Believe it or not, this was actually the first Game Boy game I ever purchased.
There's a lot of strategy to the Pokemon TCG GB game. I dont think Ive ever had a bad experience with the coin flips. Its learning how to work with and/or around it, and I think thats where the game shines (both in real life and digitally). And I think thats also why a lot of people don't like D&D, they have to let the dice decide and then look up all these tables to see what is available to help.
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In the PkM TCG they want you to grind up to get more packs and change out decks depending on the trainer/gym master. I hear ya though ... coin flips in this game can really draw things out. Draws can be miserable. I like the Dark Souls like brutality though this game sometimes provides. I know a game is good/challenging when I start sass mouthing/ threatening the NPCs. ha!
Wonder if there are meta decks in the Pokémon tcg compared to the Yugioh tcg/ocg where you won’t get a single turn in because your opponent locked your entire your field or board wiped everything to where you can’t play the game and discarded your entire hand.
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Fun fact: In Pokemon GBC 2, there was a primape card that did near double damage when confused, and the Computer has Imakuni! In his deck to cause that on purpose.
I've never understood why the video game adaptations of Yu-Gi-Oh! were so thoroughly bastardized (to the point of barely even being consistent with *each other)* but I did really enjoy Dark Duel Stories for what it was once I came to understand the mechanics. The weirdest change imo was how some of the monster elements were renamed (or removed entirely, changing monsters of that element to another element) and given type matchups like Pokémon. It was weird to get used to after playing the physical card game for a couple years, but it added an interesting layer of strategy to make up for the absence or simplification of certain card mechanics on the Gameboy, and it was a pretty fun game.
Let's not talk about the terrible English translation though 🤣
Man, I remember going to an event at the local mall when the TCG was new and they taught me how to play the game then, I lost the game but at least I was able to learn the basics. Also, to be honest the TCG game boy game is my favorite Gameboy game.
I negated the luck rng mechanics by using a game shark. 😆
However, I believe if you press the A button when you see pikachu’s face on the coin should always make it flip on “heads” instead of “tails”.
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there is always luck in tcgs. but not as much as you seem to think. otherwise there wouldnt be competitive scenes. learn how to actually build a deck before making a comment like that.
"These cards are worthless" More like people couldn't wait for their value to increase
Seriously, some of the holos go for a pretty penny nowadays
This was one of my favorite games in the Pokemon franchise, mainly because of how charming it is. The beginning can be a bit challenging I agree, the best strategy in the early game is to utilize cheap commons with easy consistent value like Staryu and Machop while you hunt rares. Also to get more energies, you can play the guy from the tutorial. The decks don't get shuffled so you can beat him the same way over and over.
People gave you away shadowless cards because they thought they were worthless... LMAO, now they are extremely valuable.
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"You play this once and you'll be humming the battle theme for the rest of your life"
TRUE.
This music piece alone keeps me coming back to the game every now and then. And there's some charm to the simplest gameplay from the beginnings of the TCG that you can't find in the modern formats. I love building a Venusaur deck on this game.
Just as a fun fact, that game shown at 8:25 is actually based on (or reskinned from?) another gameboy game called Cyraid
THE MUSIC!!! That clip just gave me a headache remembering all the hours i stared at the screen on full brightness eek
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yu gi oh "it was a lot less messy and required a lot less extra steps." boy did that age well. theres a reason why i don't play yugioh anymore.
I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh around the time GX came out. I do not understand Synchro Summon or XYZ summon
HEY TAMA! I felt the same way when I first played the tcg for gbc. I've found theres 2 ideal decks, and it's not what you'd think. 1st is Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Kangaskahn, double colorless, grass energy,and the card that let's you search your deck. The other is the same thing, but replace the eggs w the Abra line w psychic energy. If Alakazam comes out, his ability pulls the teeth out of anybody's deck. But the "computer search" trainer will guarantee that you get the card you're fishing for. Anywho, nerding out now, but those should never do you wrong.
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Edit: I'm remembering Scyther and Jynx no that I've thought about it. Each deck needs a heavy hitter that can come out quick
i disagree on one point, the starter decks are not that bad, you can play through the entire game with it without issue which is what speedrunners do.
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I did played the pokemon card game with a friend. However! We did not figured out how the game actually worked so we played it all wrong... Should have read the manual...
But I did buy the gbc game and then learned how to play that shit. But at that time no one was interested in the Pkmn card game anymore.
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I remember picking this up on the gameboy VC and really enjoying it. The artwork for the cards and trainers was really memorable, but I think I fell off because of how linear the good decks played. The coin flips accentuated the problems of randomness that card games have inherently, so it feels a lot less skill-based than MtG or something else. I really love the core system though and maybe modern Pokemon has addressed this issue, if so, I'd love to start collecting again.
We also made up our own rules to play the card game, and one time I got so excited that I "evolved" my pikachu that I accidentally broke my friends glasses
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Omg I'm so happy you reviewed Pokemon TCG, I love this game so much ❤ It's simple, straight to the point and the soundtrack is so catchy that I listen to it even to this day ^-^
About your complaint of the game randomness, I've to say that I kind of like it, I mean, of course it's very different from the mainline games that you have more control to make stratregies, but I think that it translates very well the phisical version of the game that is also very lucky based, even if you have good cards. But of course, I'm very biased to say this as it is one of my favorite Pokémon games XD
There's a sequel with a whole new island filled with gyms, it adds the Team Rocket set, Japan only promos, and even more GB exclusives. The possibilities for decks are so much wider, and there are deck-restrictive challenges which prevent you from just steamrolling the game with a single deck.
Highly, highly recommend playing it if you never have. It's also got some bangin tracks, a couple of which are favorites in the series.
@@turntsnaco824 Oohh Thank you for these informations! * - *
I did knew about the existence of a Pokemon TCG sequel, but not about some of these new cool stuff! XD
The only reason I've never played it yet It's just because It never got an oficial release outside Japan, but after seeing your comment I'm very interested in playing it, maybe I'll get a fan translation for playing it on a emulator ^-^
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When I was probably like 9, I found a Japanese copy of the game at a flea market before it came out in the US. I ended up getting it for Christmas like right after and was super excited because I had a pokemon game that I never heard of that hadn’t come out here (at that point). My biggest claim to fame is that I was so determined to play it that I managed to fumble my way through it and beat it in Japanese at 9 years old LOL. 20 years later and I still never knew what the story was about.
It's low-key one of the best video games of all time.
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I’d highly recommend checking out later formats or higher level play in general for a better TCG experience. In reality the game has few coin flips and practically no complete RNG mechanics. Problem is the Gameboy game and to an extent the TCGO campaign don’t do a great job at displaying this.
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Facing flying Pikachu in this game was brutal!
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