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.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJnJVW5dNU"]How to Play the Pokémon TCG - Part 1 - The Rules - YouTube[/ame]

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?