This is embarrassing, especially after all the patience everyone had, but I just realized the patrons name layer isn't visible. That means the one thing I needed to not get wrong I did. My sincerest apologies! I'd like to blame it on me being burnt out from the technical issues, but the truth is I just didn't catch it and I messed up. I looked into why and it seems I accidently situated it under the Groudon animation layer. I will be better moving forward. I am again, truly sorry. I'll be issuing a 1-month refund to you all. Additionally, even if you choose to discontinue prior, you'll still be credited in the next 2 videos. -Aaron the Editor Thanks to our wonderful patrons: Michael Swers, Naldo the Nidoking, lmkdude, Fangirlforlife23, Devin Kianos, and friedelschlintz.
phone cards were basically prepaid cards you could use at telephone booths back in the 90s and 2000s in Japan. They were often branded with various franchises and were extremely collectible, and Pokemon had a ton. Obviously this is before mobile phones took over but they would have been cool trinkets back then.
phone cards were also available in the EU for telephone booths. Instead of coins you used these pre loaded cards to use the telephones. They also made some special telephone cards though tht THAT special compared to japan
This channel is god tier in all aspects Content, narration, script, video editing. It gives me the same happiness and bliss that the TCG gave me when I played it during my childhood/teenage years, saving money for a single booster pack and having to work around with whatever amalgamation of cards you'd get. I got a double rainbow energy on the Ex-emerald bosster once, and to this day it's my favorite card. I freaked out and almost passed out when I pulled it lol. You have no idea how much a channel like this mean to me. I played the TCG from the Ruby & Sapphire era up to half of Black and White expansion (around BW2). I quit the game due to money (3rd world country moment) and time restraints (getting my first job and university). I got back around Sun and Moon but dropped again soon after, since I didn't like how the meta game eas developing. Games are EXTREMELY fast now, with turn 1 settup that can instantly win. And wtf are these numbers? 350hp pokemon with 240 dmg attack for 3 energies? Lmao sry but no, too "exaggerated", overdone, if that makes sense. To me, gen 4 (from diamond and pearl up ot platinum arceus and hgss) will always be the gold era for pokemon TCG. Gen 3 close behind. Gen 1 and 2 on the TCG was also really, really nice, I played it a lot on the Game boy game and with my cousin once we managed to get our hands into some base and neo set cards. I miss playing the TCG so bad, but there's no one around to play old formats, only the actual, recent standard format which I really dont like. Thanks for these videos, you have no idea how incredible they are, seeing people really passionate about the TCG talking about it and it history in a very clear and well written-spoken-edited way. Good work everyone on the channel, I hope you guys keep it up, I'd love to one day see the videos about gen 3 and gen 4 om the TCG. GG!
We're glad we could spark that nostalgia! We're also big fans of the RS and DP eras and will definitely be making videos on them in the future, so stay tuned for that! The modern formats definitely got out of hand and aren't quite there yet, but they are making good steps towards improvements in gameplay pace. It could be in a great place again after another rotation or two. Thanks so much for tuning in and sharing your story!
This may just be coincidence, but one of the Junior finals players you mentioned, Satoshi Kato, shares the name of someone who went on to have good success playing the Yugioh Card Game competitively. He won a major event in 2010, and I believe attended the world championship in 2009.
Hm... Could be! They have a very similar cheekbone structure and hair part. I think it would make sense age-wise, too. Assuming you're right, nice catch!
I'm glad someone started doing videos like this, PTCG has an interesting history that most popular can't be bothered to wiki dive for lol. Keep up the cool work!
While i dont mind the long wait between episodes, the absolute love and the research ( and likely translation of all the documents) you do for the history of the early years of the TCG is amazing! its a labor of love! Also i might have a clue/idea what those "phonecards" at 14:30 are , they are likely prepaid/subscription cards to public payphones! im not from Japan, but they had a cardsystem in the EU for payphones during the late 90s early 2000's here, before mobile phones became cheaper and more accessable
I can't believe someone else actually had the same thought as I did while editing.😂 I promise it's not Josh, but the pose is very close (or I'm lying. Who knows what to believe?). - Aaron the Editor
I just wanted to comment to say thank you for what you do. These videos add a new depth to my love of Pokemon and the TCG specifically. I have found that I have a deeper appreciation both for the current trials and tribulations of the game as well as for the cards I collected as a kid without ever really getting involved with how the game itself worked. Anytime someone in my life shows even mild interest in the TCG I send them your way and time and time again I hear glowing praise for how well these videos present the history of a game that was ever present for folks of a certain age, whether they participated or not. Thanks and I hope you're doing well.
Wow yet another incredible video!! :D It's SO COOL that we were able to watch actual footage from this tournament. It's so hilarious and baffling that they banned Computer Search and gave everybody a Computer Error to add as a 61st card in their decks. I'd love that for a smaller event but this event feels way too important for a silly deck gimmick! I also really love that a Charizard deck won a Blastoise-themed tournament haha Thanks so much for all of your hard work on the Pokemon TCG History Origins series! It was amazing to learn so much more about the early Pokemon TCG scene in Japan. Looking forward to whatever videos you have cooking up next!!
The Zard Breeder-to-KO moment to Uno Reverse into the winning position and then clutch the win in the finals was too awesome! Sad my boy Venusaur got stilted.
Is there any access to the musical tracks from the videos? I know there's credit in the description, but that has no direct access to the actual Pokemon tracks played during the videos and I love the renditions of these themes! Please respond if you see this! :D
A phone card is used in Japan with the purpose to make calls on phone booths. The phone card has money on it which determines the length of calls you can make.
It's probably down here somewhere, and tou could just google it, but a phone card was basically a card that had minutes on it you could use at a pay phone. Basically the pay phine version if a track phone. You would buy them for people going on trip you wanted to hear from, so ot was like allocating time to spend with them on the phone because they are far away.
This series was AMAZING! I loved seeing the metagame for each tournament and the way they managed some truly broken cards. Would love to see more, especially of the three Neo sets, one of my favorite periods of the early game.
Phone cards used to be common back before mobile phones were everywhere. You could use them on pretty much any prepaid phone line (primarily phone booths) by dialing the 800 number and letting the phone card provider connect you without needing to deposit physical cash into the machine. In the US, Coke and 7/11 ran promotions with collectible phone cards back in the 90s and I know in Japan they tended to have even more promotions.
No worries, it's just the finale of the era preceding worldwide release of the game. We'll be making plenty more content, so thanks for watching and stay tuned!
31:58 "He incorrectly discards the fire energy which leaves him more susceptible to energy removal on the double colorless" - Reminder that Charizard discards 2 Energy _cards_ so he'd only have 1 Fire energy still attached if he discarded the DCE and a Fire energy to match costs. If anybody is suspicious of this, you can see at 32:42 the judge ensures that both DCE go to the discard pile on his final attack.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! I don't often hit subscribe but I did today. Makes me miss playing at Toys R Us on Saturday mornings!
These videos have been amazing, I was hoping they would keep going all the way up to the modern era in some capacity. If not then oh well it’s been a great time and thank you
The discarding of Fire Energy over DCE for Fire Spin actually had to happen if Charizard was to attack again in a reasonable timeframe! Fire Spin required the discard of 2 Energy CARDS, not energy in general like it would've been nowadays. So discarding DCE would still require a Fire to be discarded too. Awesome series! What a wild tournament from start to finish.
You're correct there. Nick had probably misremembering the exact wording on charizard, being that the most recent wording of it from Pokémon TCG Classic actually just reads energy. Thanks for the correction!
Those Mr. Mime plays by the Junior champion were nice. Such a shame we didn't get that card in the west (I know it has been printed in Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic this year, but still)
I know the lottery thing is kinda foreign to the West, but from my understanding it's a SUPER common thing to see in Japan. They've got lotteries for everything from anime figures to, you guessed it, Pokemon cards. It's certainly a strange practice for something like a TCG, but it's nothing unheard of over there.
That format with all of the last chance shenanigans going on must have been hell for the players. If a TO tried to suggest something like that in any modern era they would have gotten laughed out of the venue. And it somehow got worse when you described the next tournaments being curated card lists until the finals. Sure sealed and limited are fun, but switching it up for the finals sounds idiotic. Being able to see actual video for the finals of this mega battle is wild, so much tcg coverage is completely lost its great that this still exists.
I understand the game was still very young; but how did they not implement a mandatory sleeve policy almost immediately? Not only is it to the benefit of the card’s owner as the card’s condition will be preserved better that way but also unsleeved cards opens up the door to so many avenues of cheating; namely stacking. Maybe it’s because I come from a predominantly Yugioh and Magic playing background but I would think even the PTCG would realize the possible issues with this almost instantly and implement a rule regarding it.
You have to consider that this was near the start of card games in general, not just Pokémon so the standard to go off of would've been traditional playing cards. Sleeves weren't really a baseline standard the way they are now.
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This is embarrassing, especially after all the patience everyone had, but I just realized the patrons name layer isn't visible. That means the one thing I needed to not get wrong I did. My sincerest apologies! I'd like to blame it on me being burnt out from the technical issues, but the truth is I just didn't catch it and I messed up. I looked into why and it seems I accidently situated it under the Groudon animation layer. I will be better moving forward. I am again, truly sorry. I'll be issuing a 1-month refund to you all. Additionally, even if you choose to discontinue prior, you'll still be credited in the next 2 videos. -Aaron the Editor
Thanks to our wonderful patrons: Michael Swers, Naldo the Nidoking, lmkdude, Fangirlforlife23, Devin Kianos, and friedelschlintz.
Oh hey a video about me
Oh boy are you in for a surprise at the end
About time too!
phone cards were basically prepaid cards you could use at telephone booths back in the 90s and 2000s in Japan. They were often branded with various franchises and were extremely collectible, and Pokemon had a ton. Obviously this is before mobile phones took over but they would have been cool trinkets back then.
Thanks for letting us know!
phone cards were also available in the EU for telephone booths. Instead of coins you used these pre loaded cards to use the telephones. They also made some special telephone cards though tht THAT special compared to japan
This channel is god tier in all aspects
Content, narration, script, video editing.
It gives me the same happiness and bliss that the TCG gave me when I played it during my childhood/teenage years, saving money for a single booster pack and having to work around with whatever amalgamation of cards you'd get. I got a double rainbow energy on the Ex-emerald bosster once, and to this day it's my favorite card. I freaked out and almost passed out when I pulled it lol.
You have no idea how much a channel like this mean to me.
I played the TCG from the Ruby & Sapphire era up to half of Black and White expansion (around BW2). I quit the game due to money (3rd world country moment) and time restraints (getting my first job and university).
I got back around Sun and Moon but dropped again soon after, since I didn't like how the meta game eas developing. Games are EXTREMELY fast now, with turn 1 settup that can instantly win. And wtf are these numbers? 350hp pokemon with 240 dmg attack for 3 energies? Lmao sry but no, too "exaggerated", overdone, if that makes sense.
To me, gen 4 (from diamond and pearl up ot platinum arceus and hgss) will always be the gold era for pokemon TCG. Gen 3 close behind. Gen 1 and 2 on the TCG was also really, really nice, I played it a lot on the Game boy game and with my cousin once we managed to get our hands into some base and neo set cards. I miss playing the TCG so bad, but there's no one around to play old formats, only the actual, recent standard format which I really dont like.
Thanks for these videos, you have no idea how incredible they are, seeing people really passionate about the TCG talking about it and it history in a very clear and well written-spoken-edited way.
Good work everyone on the channel, I hope you guys keep it up, I'd love to one day see the videos about gen 3 and gen 4 om the TCG.
GG!
We're glad we could spark that nostalgia! We're also big fans of the RS and DP eras and will definitely be making videos on them in the future, so stay tuned for that! The modern formats definitely got out of hand and aren't quite there yet, but they are making good steps towards improvements in gameplay pace. It could be in a great place again after another rotation or two. Thanks so much for tuning in and sharing your story!
You're one of my favorite PTCG channels, this is gonna rock
This may just be coincidence, but one of the Junior finals players you mentioned, Satoshi Kato, shares the name of someone who went on to have good success playing the Yugioh Card Game competitively. He won a major event in 2010, and I believe attended the world championship in 2009.
Hm... Could be! They have a very similar cheekbone structure and hair part. I think it would make sense age-wise, too. Assuming you're right, nice catch!
I'm glad someone started doing videos like this, PTCG has an interesting history that most popular can't be bothered to wiki dive for lol. Keep up the cool work!
Also lol gotta love those late-90s Japanese TV show production values
Thanks for watching!
This was great! I love old IRL Pokémon battles!
While i dont mind the long wait between episodes, the absolute love and the research ( and likely translation of all the documents) you do for the history of the early years of the TCG is amazing! its a labor of love!
Also i might have a clue/idea what those "phonecards" at 14:30 are , they are likely prepaid/subscription cards to public payphones! im not from Japan, but they had a cardsystem in the EU for payphones during the late 90s early 2000's here, before mobile phones became cheaper and more accessable
Well, you can't fool me. 11:00 they're all JWittz. Man. That guy is a really good PTCG player, lemme tell ya.
I can't believe someone else actually had the same thought as I did while editing.😂 I promise it's not Josh, but the pose is very close (or I'm lying. Who knows what to believe?).
- Aaron the Editor
Man this was a wild tournament. So great we have video footage of it that didn't get lost to time!
We're happy we were able to get ahold of the footage for sure.
I just wanted to comment to say thank you for what you do. These videos add a new depth to my love of Pokemon and the TCG specifically. I have found that I have a deeper appreciation both for the current trials and tribulations of the game as well as for the cards I collected as a kid without ever really getting involved with how the game itself worked. Anytime someone in my life shows even mild interest in the TCG I send them your way and time and time again I hear glowing praise for how well these videos present the history of a game that was ever present for folks of a certain age, whether they participated or not. Thanks and I hope you're doing well.
This feels like the first goal reached for the channel as a series completion, and Aaron did a flawless job as always ❤️
Damn, huge respect for the shout out, thanks! I'm super glad to see the video's finally up, and to finally see the video!
We really appreciate you!
Absolutely fantastic video. You, Matoba, and Deltaseeker are (as far as I'm concerned) the three pillars of retro PTCG content on YT. Thank you!
Thank you for the kind words! There are a good number of passionate creators in the community, and we're happy to be among them.
An absolute banger, I always look forward to videos from this channel! Keep it up guys :D
You always leave such nice and encouraging comments, Rahul, and we really appreciate it! Thanks for always tuning in!
Wow yet another incredible video!! :D It's SO COOL that we were able to watch actual footage from this tournament. It's so hilarious and baffling that they banned Computer Search and gave everybody a Computer Error to add as a 61st card in their decks. I'd love that for a smaller event but this event feels way too important for a silly deck gimmick! I also really love that a Charizard deck won a Blastoise-themed tournament haha
Thanks so much for all of your hard work on the Pokemon TCG History Origins series! It was amazing to learn so much more about the early Pokemon TCG scene in Japan. Looking forward to whatever videos you have cooking up next!!
Thanks for taking the journey with us!. We're looking forward to providing you with even more content, so stay tuned for that!
20:19 I think that last card is Recycle if anyone's wondering.
this channel helps me stop fantasizing about collecting every single kind of pokemon card
Happy to help!
Oh boy time to spend 30 minutes of my life watching a video for a tournament years before I was born
Much appreciated!
I’m… im so sad this ends here. I’ve been loving these stories.
It's only the end of our 3-part mini series. Still plenty more to come for our main series!
This was great, thank you for the extensive exploration of an event so obscure to western players!
All these wacky alternative formats are fun to learn about, wish they'd make an official comeback.
Not likely, but maybe an unofficial comeback could be possible. 👀
The Zard Breeder-to-KO moment to Uno Reverse into the winning position and then clutch the win in the finals was too awesome! Sad my boy Venusaur got stilted.
This was amazing!! Please continue this coverage!!
More videos on the way! Thanks for watching!
As someone who "lost" (was stolen from) all of base set through neo cards, this is as close as I'll ever get to them again. Thanks for the memories.
No way I just finished rewatching this series yesterday and now this
We saw you watching and thought we'd put this out just for you. ❤️
Huge work, well done!🎉
Is there any access to the musical tracks from the videos? I know there's credit in the description, but that has no direct access to the actual Pokemon tracks played during the videos and I love the renditions of these themes! Please respond if you see this! :D
We plan to release the tracks as a free album, but haven't gotten around to it. I'll see if we can get that train moving soon and let you know.
A phone card is used in Japan with the purpose to make calls on phone booths. The phone card has money on it which determines the length of calls you can make.
It's probably down here somewhere, and tou could just google it, but a phone card was basically a card that had minutes on it you could use at a pay phone. Basically the pay phine version if a track phone. You would buy them for people going on trip you wanted to hear from, so ot was like allocating time to spend with them on the phone because they are far away.
Absolutely Love this! I am lucky to own the shirt pictured at 20 seconds! It's my favorite in my collection
This series was AMAZING! I loved seeing the metagame for each tournament and the way they managed some truly broken cards. Would love to see more, especially of the three Neo sets, one of my favorite periods of the early game.
Neo era is where we're currently at in our main history series.
Phone cards used to be common back before mobile phones were everywhere. You could use them on pretty much any prepaid phone line (primarily phone booths) by dialing the 800 number and letting the phone card provider connect you without needing to deposit physical cash into the machine. In the US, Coke and 7/11 ran promotions with collectible phone cards back in the 90s and I know in Japan they tended to have even more promotions.
Yes please keep up any type of content on the old school tcg stuff!
That's the plan!
Can't wait for this premiere!
These videos are so sick. They are adjacent to the "world record history" stuff we get for speedruns and I love it.
Thanks!
This was so interesting to watch.. can’t wait for the next vid. Keep it up !!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
I do hope you'll cover more of the game's history! I heard finale and my heart sank
No worries, it's just the finale of the era preceding worldwide release of the game. We'll be making plenty more content, so thanks for watching and stay tuned!
Can't wait to see where else this channel goes, I've loved every minute of the videos!
Us too! Thanks for watching!
I've been waiting!!!! Oh man this is so cool. The tourney footage is so amazing. HAND CAMS back then wow
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oak downloading viruses non-stop and messing up with everyone's deck is just the most hilarious excuse for card banning.
31:58 "He incorrectly discards the fire energy which leaves him more susceptible to energy removal on the double colorless" - Reminder that Charizard discards 2 Energy _cards_ so he'd only have 1 Fire energy still attached if he discarded the DCE and a Fire energy to match costs. If anybody is suspicious of this, you can see at 32:42 the judge ensures that both DCE go to the discard pile on his final attack.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! I don't often hit subscribe but I did today. Makes me miss playing at Toys R Us on Saturday mornings!
Glad you like them! Thanks for tuning in!
These side events sound fun as hell ngl
Totally agree!
thanks for making this!
Our pleasure!
Excellent as always! Would love to see more!
You got it! More to come! Thanks for watching!
you must continue, your videos are pure gold
Thanks, will do!
This channel is pure gold!!!
💛
Thank you Ruby Retro!!!
Our pleasure!
These videos have been amazing, I was hoping they would keep going all the way up to the modern era in some capacity. If not then oh well it’s been a great time and thank you
More to come!
Amazing content, thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Love the videos. Keep em coming!
Thanks! Will do!
Great as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
The discarding of Fire Energy over DCE for Fire Spin actually had to happen if Charizard was to attack again in a reasonable timeframe! Fire Spin required the discard of 2 Energy CARDS, not energy in general like it would've been nowadays. So discarding DCE would still require a Fire to be discarded too.
Awesome series! What a wild tournament from start to finish.
You're correct there. Nick had probably misremembering the exact wording on charizard, being that the most recent wording of it from Pokémon TCG Classic actually just reads energy. Thanks for the correction!
A day you post a new video is a good day! 🎉
Thanks!
Those Mr. Mime plays by the Junior champion were nice. Such a shame we didn't get that card in the west (I know it has been printed in Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic this year, but still)
Would be interesting to see an alternate version of history where it did.
Good video man
Appreciate it!
6:25 R.I.P. Christopher Rush
god damn i love this channel
🥰 Thanks!
I know the lottery thing is kinda foreign to the West, but from my understanding it's a SUPER common thing to see in Japan. They've got lotteries for everything from anime figures to, you guessed it, Pokemon cards. It's certainly a strange practice for something like a TCG, but it's nothing unheard of over there.
I’m still waiting for the venusaur mega battle
That format with all of the last chance shenanigans going on must have been hell for the players. If a TO tried to suggest something like that in any modern era they would have gotten laughed out of the venue. And it somehow got worse when you described the next tournaments being curated card lists until the finals. Sure sealed and limited are fun, but switching it up for the finals sounds idiotic.
Being able to see actual video for the finals of this mega battle is wild, so much tcg coverage is completely lost its great that this still exists.
They woke up and chose chaos.
Also, as a patron, you should check the pinned comment.
These videos are amazing
Love these videos 🎉
❤️
Do you happen to know where I can watch the full video from that day? I like the clips here but I'm having a hard time finding the video on here.
If you find us on patreon, you can join as a free member and watch it there. 🙂
Dang, those japanese players were really comfortable touching each others cards like that.
Common ruby retro W
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I wonder how much those trophies are worth these days
So cool
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I have that hungry snorlax
Sleeves were only mildly popular in 1998
I understand the game was still very young; but how did they not implement a mandatory sleeve policy almost immediately? Not only is it to the benefit of the card’s owner as the card’s condition will be preserved better that way but also unsleeved cards opens up the door to so many avenues of cheating; namely stacking. Maybe it’s because I come from a predominantly Yugioh and Magic playing background but I would think even the PTCG would realize the possible issues with this almost instantly and implement a rule regarding it.
You have to consider that this was near the start of card games in general, not just Pokémon so the standard to go off of would've been traditional playing cards. Sleeves weren't really a baseline standard the way they are now.
Was the Charizard deck anti meta?
In some ways, but it also played on the meta too, so not strictly anti-meta.
I cant beleive they've been using the same camera angles all this time to televise competitions. If it ain't broke, I guess.
Do you have that charizard list?
Sadly not. You can piece some together by watching the match, but the full list is lost to time.
Didn't realize there was so many wacky original formats originally hahaha
Japan went crazy with it
They played with 61 cards?
Correct.
No eSeries content? 🥺
Soon*
@@rubyretro thanks! You can in and spectated one of my series matches once, and I said I was looking forward to more videos! Thanks for all you do!
Bring back dugtrio team battle!
Goated
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I wanted to comment but i got a computer error!
404 - REPLY NOT FOUND
I dont see why charizard gets so much hate. He's a very deck. People just assume it's not.
man why did they hate computer search that much lol
Skill issue.
EVERYONE LIKE THIS VIDEO!!!!!!😊
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not gonna lie i would shoot for 2nd. I want that Wartortle trophy lol also no bulbasaur trophy is lame
why is bro calling them san every time 😢
otherwise a very cool video
Standard honorific in Japan when referring to someone by name.