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    Even when it was just a TV show I remember Pokémon was such a big deal among kids. I was about 10-ish when I was gifted my first ever pokemon game: Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition, and I was over the moon. I remember my dad also recorded movies and pokemon episodes on a VHS from the TV so I could watch them whenever I wanted lol.

    Also, the Tazos! I'm not sure if they were a thing outside Latin America, but when I was in Elementary School, they were POPPIN, every one had their tazos collection and would challenge friends to play with them. I had like 100+ tazos until my baby sister gave them away to her kindergarden friends because she wanted to be popular



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulbasaur View Post
    Oh yes! My grandfather use to record shows for us so we could rewatch them lol
    I remember when I use to rewind the intro just so I could sing the Theme over and over again!
    Wish I kept those VHSs though.
    Haha yes, the theme song. I reckon I would still remember the lyrics today if I tried.

    Me and my mates back in the day used to ride our bikes up and down the streets near my house belting out the Pokemon theme song so often. It was a very inspirational theme song for sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trash Panda View Post
    Even when it was just a TV show I remember Pokémon was such a big deal among kids. I was about 10-ish when I was gifted my first ever pokemon game: Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition, and I was over the moon. I remember my dad also recorded movies and pokemon episodes on a VHS from the TV so I could watch them whenever I wanted lol.

    Also, the Tazos! I'm not sure if they were a thing outside Latin America, but when I was in Elementary School, they were POPPIN, every one had their tazos collection and would challenge friends to play with them. I had like 100+ tazos until my baby sister gave them away to her kindergarden friends because she wanted to be popular

    I'll be randomly playing a game with some friends and belt out the song. They hate it, but I love it LOL.

    It's so funny how one song can bring together so many people ya know?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Trash Panda View Post
    Also, the Tazos! I'm not sure if they were a thing outside Latin America, but when I was in Elementary School, they were POPPIN, every one had their tazos collection and would challenge friends to play with them. I had like 100+ tazos until my baby sister gave them away to her kindergarden friends because she wanted to be popular

    Oh man, I don't think we ever got these in Australia, but hot damn, if we had, I would have collected the crap out of them. I used to collect the original Looney Toons/Chester Cheetah/Space Jam etc Tazo's. I had the complete sets of all of those. I could imagine trying to collect all of the Pokemon ones like you were a trainer catching them all haha

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    Honestly I don't remember the early days of Pokemon, I think I might have been a bit late, but it's weird, I don't remember getting introduced to Pokemon, I just know at some point I got into the craze. I remember watching the show and then calling my friends during the commercials and getting upset when our broadcasts were a few seconds out of sync (remember this, I think I was destined to be the type into live episode discussions of new episodes on reddit in the like). I got super into collecting the cards and this must have been just before it really exploded because I remember at first having to go to more nice shops to find them before they were at places like toy stores.
    My very first gameboy experience was borrowing Pokemon Red from a friend who wasn't that into Pokemon and didn't care if restarted her game and oversaved it, but I also remember the huuuuuge thing of people letting each other try the game from the start and then ending without saving when time was up. Eventually I got an atomic purple gameboy color and yellow for my birthday.

    But I honestly don't really remember the order of these events at all. The only clue I have is who I played with and who moved where when, and looking at US release dates, but truly truly do not remember whether it was show/cards/games first for me.



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    The TV Show was how I learned about the best boy Buizel haha. I used to love the theme songs as well. If anyone still watches the show, has Ash won a tournament yet or??? Because I definitely remember he kept taking L after L each season



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    I'm also really curious how old everybody is in this thread. I was already pretty young when Pokemon started blowing up in the US, so I imagine for some of you everything was Already There by the time you were forming proper memories?

    [edit] Or even before you were born, omg. I know we got some people in their early 20s here.



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    Quote Originally Posted by kittyray View Post
    I'm also really curious how old everybody is in this thread. I was already pretty young when Pokemon started blowing up in the US, so I imagine for some of you everything was Already There by the time you were forming proper memories?

    [edit] Or even before you were born, omg. I know we got some people in their early 20s here.
    I was pretty young as well to the point where I can't remember my first interest in Pokemon but my mum can. I kept telling her about "Pikachu" lol. But I definitely watched the show in North America as far back as I can remember so maybe 4 ?



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    Quote Originally Posted by kittyray View Post
    I'm also really curious how old everybody is in this thread. I was already pretty young when Pokemon started blowing up in the US, so I imagine for some of you everything was Already There by the time you were forming proper memories?

    [edit] Or even before you were born, omg. I know we got some people in their early 20s here.
    I looked it up and Pokemon was created about a year after I was born, but it didn't blew up in my country until the early 2000's, that's when I was in Elementary School.

    I also remember the satanic panic that came along with Pokemon. I had a couple of school friends that weren't allowed to play/watch anything related to pokemon because it was the dEViL


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    my daughter is four and starting to really get into pokemon, & i always feel like
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    me & my brother would always watch pokemon after school. i think it was pokemon, then digimon, then dbz?? if i'm remembering right, idk it was so long ago.

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