Pokemon
 

Ok I have a 7 1/2 year old son who is into Pokemon. Can someone please explain this shit to me? I really don't get it. He likes it so I wanna play with him but makes no sense to me. I'm talking about the cards.

I never played the cards, but played the old red/blue gameboy games back in middle school. I randomly got Pearl at the recommendation of a friend in 2007 and found out there is a LOT more depth and strategy to building and battling a bench of pokemon. Sadly, I put over 400 hours into my game before calling it quits and coming back to the real world. I can't touch another game for fear of diving in like that again.

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lol I remember collecting them but I never knew how to actually play with them.

As far as I know, it's just a cute childish ripoff of Magic.

...which I don't know how to play. It's pretty much a strategic game of numbers.

They still make those?? Last time I had a deck was back in 2003 I think...

Lol last time I had a deck was back in 1999!... Back then there were only 150 Pokemons!... Now... god knows how many they are up to...

They just keep evolving and devolving into many other variants of themselves... XD

I started when they first came out... played till the 250 pokemon mark... I had the TCG GB game as well... lol

The anime was / is amusing. Still going would you beleive.

I still don't get it

Dat feel when I opened a first generation base booster pack and got a holographic venasaur.

Then I met this kid in school who mom worked for Wizard, and he had like 20 holo Charizard. He traded me one for a first edition Mr Mime holo

ahh the good old days...

LOL Oh yes... can't forget them holos and 1st Editions... Still remember the "limited edition" Entei you get from watching that movie in theatres...

lol my cousin has a drawer full of those. I think there was a mewtwo or mew also from the first movie

So we throw cards at each other?

Also, what is this dragon ball Z?

No lie, the entertainment those cards brought were priceless. Even tho they were like $7 a booster. And dont get me started on Yu-gi-oh cards.....

I bought them 2.99 + tax back when they were released

When I was a kid I collected the cards but never actually played the TCG...had no interest. I didn't know anyone still played it now.

Yugioh was the shit back in middle school. I played the gameboy games for the adventure aspect .
But Magic was the most strategic and mind numbing fun.

Buy a trainer kit if both of you need to really get a hang of the game. This is two half-decks layed out in order and tells you what to do on you turns. This will give you a good idea. Here is the most recent trainer kit:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-TRAI...item2a30d05b01

Otherwise you might be OK with getting two starter decks. Cheap to get both of you going and has a rule book that pretty much lays everything out along with a playmat to help you get set-up and run the game mechanics.

Examples of the two newest ones:
http://www.trollandtoad.com/p1029663.html
http://www.trollandtoad.com/p1029659.html

You can pick these up at Target or Wal Mart the cheapest usually.

I use to collect and play this game. I'm pretty sure between myself and my brothers we probably had over 2k cards (we would play some kids around the neighborhood for keeps).

It was fun

This hater kid got mad once and sprayed some of my cards with a garden hose LOL

This kid can probably help explain DBZ to you

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the game itself is just based off character actions and hit point/power levels that are on each card. the idea is that you put together you own deck with balanced cards. and you play your card versus your opponents card using the skills labeled on it. when I was young and these were popular the collecting aspect was more entertaining than playing. and at the time of first release I remember seeing in the comic book store a entire pieced together collection I believe 150 cards? and it was selling for $500!!! now I bet you could get it for $1.99 lol

They banned Pokemon cards at my elementary school cuz that's all we did all day and at recess. Then it became like drugs because we would smuggle them into school and trade them under the table. Ah, the good ole days.

Now its opposite, the largest group of players are over 18 and care more about playing. An average deck costs between 100-200. But the sets still cost a few hundred complete for some of the older stuff. I mean there are still ultra rates that cost a few hundred by them self. Lol

im a pikachu ur face @sklimo

Ive got that original set of 150 laying around somewhere. would that be a set that people are interested in? its always interesting how things usually come back around and are coveted again lol

LMFAOOOOOOOOO I learned two things from this video

1) kids today are messed up
2) I still have no idea what Dragon Ball Z is

If it's good condition, I can't imagine it would be difficult to sell

I have a 22 year old cousin whos still into watching pokemon and theres a new series called Pokemon the Origin coming out in October. Ash is no longer the main character in that show neither is Pikachu lol.

Dragon Ball Z in a nutshell... (That lasts up to 1 whole episode sometimes... Just screaming)

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WTF did I just watch for 10 minutes

Why post a loop when you can post this

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Dragon Ball Z is the shit

Best cartoon ever

Im buying the whole video set soon


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lmao the card game sucks, the best way to dive into pokemon is to play the gameboy games. play the original pokemon red with a emulator on your computer. That way you can have cheats and etc.

or go to nwanime.com and watch a few episodes.

If Pokemon is McDonald's, is dragon ball Z Burger King?

the best cartoon.... in the world

hahahahaha when i was a kid i tried to go super saiyan so many times only worked once:( lol

haha i remember this i was like FUCK YEAAA!!!

Dragon ball Z is like fucking Outback Steak house



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