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lalalei2001
12-02-2006, 08:34 AM
Apologies if this is off-topic. :)
I had a bunch of cool Pokemon cards when I was younger...a holographic Charizard, a non-holo Articuno, a Gengar, and a Mew, among other cool things. Then I gave them all to a friend. :o
Another thing I remember about them when I was younger is that I was terrified of the Rocket Pokemon, like 'Dark Charizard' or 'Dark Hypno'. They scared me because I knew that Pokemon shouldn't be evil and stuff.
Plus some of the images were scary, like the Dark Charizard, if I recall correctly, was setting everything on fire.
Anyone else have memories of Pokemon cards?
Gingold
12-02-2006, 11:14 AM
I feel very, very old.
Gladiaria_Alata
12-02-2006, 11:18 AM
I feel very, very old.
*tilts head* How so?
I still have mine somewhere.....:o
Agent Helix
12-02-2006, 12:27 PM
I feel old, too.
Jack Zodiac
12-02-2006, 12:35 PM
*tilts head* How so?
'Cause he was probably way too old to buy Pokémon cards when they were popular. Now, if this thread would've been "Transformers Comic Memories" it'd be a different story. :p
kmeyers
12-02-2006, 12:35 PM
I remember Garbage Pail kid cards.
http://www.endlessworld.com/images2/garbagepailkids9set.jpg
StoneGold
12-02-2006, 12:36 PM
'Cause he was probably way too old to buy Pokémon cards when they were popular. Now, if this thread would've been "Transformers Comic Memories" it'd be a different story. :p
Honus Wagner cigarette cards?
Jack Zodiac
12-02-2006, 12:39 PM
I remember Garbage Pail kid cards.
http://www.endlessworld.com/images2/garbagepailkids9set.jpg
I had 'em all over my lunchbox in grade school...
Gladiaria_Alata
12-02-2006, 12:43 PM
I remember Garbage Pail kid cards.
http://www.endlessworld.com/images2/garbagepailkids9set.jpg
:eek: WTF?!?? o.O
Novaya Havoc
12-02-2006, 12:53 PM
The Garbage Pail Kids were TERRIFYING to me. :(
Anyway, my sis had Pokemon cards. I still have a little thing for Jigglypuff.
Charles RB
12-02-2006, 12:59 PM
Another thing I remember about them when I was younger is that I was terrified of the Rocket Pokemon
The Team Rocket cards were godly, weren't they?
Novaya Havoc
12-02-2006, 01:03 PM
Jessie was just faaaabulous!
http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/houen/304/0285.JPG
Hiromi
12-02-2006, 01:55 PM
#1 thing I wish I hadnt blown my money on when I was younger.
Dan Apodaca
12-03-2006, 01:30 AM
Kids today are getting old too fast
they can't wait to grow up, so they can get some ass
They get nostalgic 'bout the last ten years
before the last ten years have passed.
From the song "Bastard".
SUPERECWFAN1
12-03-2006, 03:02 AM
I was working for some old guy and he paid me years ago with cash and handed me a card. Seems his kids didn't care and it was in a special box to view it. The old guy told me his grand kids didn't care it and when I finished his yard he handed me it.
I kept it in my truck the longest time and would look at it. The card was gold and it was a Pokemon. I didn't care for it and forgot about it. Til one day my young cousins were in my truck and asked if they could keep the card so I let em take it.
Fast forward a few months and I'm down south passing thru and stop into a comic and card shop. I'm looking around and inside a case is an exact card that I had gave away. It was gold and in a case. I told the shop owner and he looked at me: " You still have it ? I'll give you $ 50.00 for it. " as I tried to explain I had gave it away he upped it to $ 60.00 .
So thats how I blew $ 60 bucks because I thought the card was a piece of crap.
Fish Sauce
12-03-2006, 03:45 AM
#1 thing I wish I hadnt blown my money on when I was younger.
Ditto. I still have them somewhere, in storage most likely.
I have a holographic Jolteon which I still remember getting, cause it was the only holo rare card I ever got in a booster pack. Stupid things.
Stellar
12-03-2006, 06:05 AM
Garbage Pail Kids?
.........
What. The. F****???
Gladiaria_Alata
12-03-2006, 06:11 AM
Garbage Pail Kids?
.........
What. The. F****???
*shivers* they scare me:(
Stellar
12-03-2006, 06:18 AM
Who's bloody idea was it to put deformed, possibly mutated kids on LUNCHBOXES???
Gingold
12-03-2006, 06:22 AM
Who's bloody idea was it to put deformed, possibly mutated kids on LUNCHBOXES???
They were stickers. You could put 'em wherever you wanted.
Valmore
12-03-2006, 06:22 AM
Who's bloody idea was it to put deformed, possibly mutated kids on LUNCHBOXES???
Art Spiegelman came up with the idea for the cards themselves.
Putting them on lunchboxes was the brainchild of children who bought them in the 1980s.
Stellar
12-03-2006, 06:36 AM
Ah, I just checked it on Wiki. It was a parody of Cabbage Patch Kids.
Sweet jesus....
Valmore
12-03-2006, 06:50 AM
Ah, I just checked it on Wiki. It was a parody of Cabbage Patch Kids.
Sweet jesus....
Where were you in the 1980s?
Stellar
12-03-2006, 07:05 AM
Not buying Garbage Pail Kids stickers, apparantly.
Valmore
12-03-2006, 07:10 AM
Not buying Garbage Pail Kids stickers, apparantly.
Well you are only 23. And you don't appear to be in the U.S. Unless your bio is wrong. :D
Anyhow, Garbage Pail Kids were popular in the mid 1980s in the U.S., mostly because they looked like deranged Cabbage Patch Kids.
I wasn't allowed to have any.
Gingold
12-03-2006, 07:14 AM
My mom came home from work one day to find that I had covered the entire refrigerator with Garbage Pail Kids stickers. She was not impressed.
Stellar
12-03-2006, 07:19 AM
Well you are only 23. And you don't appear to be in the U.S. Unless your bio is wrong. :D
Anyhow, Garbage Pail Kids were popular in the mid 1980s in the U.S., mostly because they looked like deranged Cabbage Patch Kids.
I wasn't allowed to have any.
That all explains it.
And I bet Gingold's mom cracked open a can of whoop ass after that fridge stunt.
JeffreyWKramer
12-03-2006, 07:22 AM
My son got into Pokemon in a fairly big way for a time. No idea what he did with the cards. All I know is, I was glad when he moved on to better games, because POKEMON sucked.
I still have my M:TG cards. I have piles of spudge cards - crappy commons and extra land cards - that I use as bookmarks.
Stellar
12-03-2006, 07:24 AM
I never got the deal with the cards. I mean, the cartoon was aight, but the card thing seemd kind of boring.
Gingold
12-03-2006, 07:25 AM
And I bet Gingold's mom cracked open a can of whoop ass after that fridge stunt.
My hippie liberal parents didn't do the whoop ass thing. I think I got put on compost pile duty for a few weeks.
JeffreyWKramer
12-03-2006, 07:26 AM
I never got the deal with the cards. I mean, the cartoon was aight, but the card thing seemd kind of boring.
The cards could be used to play a game. It was meant to serve as sort of the juvenile version of MAGIC: THE GATHERING, in addition to feeding on collector frenzy.
The problem is, it was a really shitty game.
Gingold
12-03-2006, 07:27 AM
It was meant to serve as sort of the juvenile version of MAGIC: THE GATHERING,
Paging the redundancy department (of the bureau of redundancy)!
JeffreyWKramer
12-03-2006, 07:34 AM
Paging the redundancy department (of the bureau of redundancy)!
MAGIC isn't a particularly juvenile game at all. It's a lot more complex than the likes of POKEMON.
I eventually became completely disenchanted with the game because of the marketing aspects of it, but as a piece of basic game design, it's pretty good.
In comparison, POKEMON featured simple rules and was designed for kids. Nothing wrong with that. It's good to have kid games. The problem is, POKEMAN was a sucky game.
Gingold
12-03-2006, 07:38 AM
MAGIC isn't a particularly juvenile game at all. It's a lot more complex than the likes of POKEMON.
I eventually became completely disenchanted with the game because of the marketing aspects of it, but as a piece of basic game design, it's pretty good.
In comparison, POKEMON featured simple rules and was designed for kids. Nothing wrong with that. It's good to have kid games. The problem is, POKEMAN was a sucky game.
Just funnin' ya, Jeff.
JeffreyWKramer
12-03-2006, 07:40 AM
Just funnin' ya, Jeff.
That's cool. A lot of people dismissed MAGIC as juvenile, just because kids got into it as well as adults. That was stupid. There are lots of legit reasons to dismiss MAGIC, but it being juvenile wasn't one of them.
It being a huge ol' money sink and an example of sacrificing a good game design to rampant greed... *those* are good reasons.
Stellar
12-03-2006, 07:40 AM
The problem is, POKEMAN was a sucky game.
Especially if your parents are homophobic. Woot!
JeffreyWKramer
12-03-2006, 07:41 AM
Especially if your parents are homophobic. Woot!
LOL! Good use of a typo!
SUPERECWFAN1
12-03-2006, 09:14 AM
Ah, I just checked it on Wiki. It was a parody of Cabbage Patch Kids.
Sweet jesus....
As a fan of the cards ( I have mine put up somewhere ; old nostalgia) they were awesome. Everyone on my block really persued getting the " Bloody Mary " card. I scored that bad boy in a trade of Garbage Pail Kid cards.
Cephus
12-03-2006, 10:59 AM
I remember Garbage Pail kid cards.
http://www.endlessworld.com/images2/garbagepailkids9set.jpg
Not only do I remember them, I still have a complete collection of the first 15 series and most of the ones that came after.
Stellar
12-03-2006, 12:54 PM
Cephus...you are a sick, sick person.
Valmore
12-03-2006, 02:21 PM
Way back in 2000, I worked in a games store for a few months. I had to learn various different collectible card games in order to run demos to anyone who wanted to learn about them.
That included Pokemon, so I had to have my own deck and know how to play.
On the other hand, I did also get to play Magic: the Gathering, Legend of the Five Rings, 7th Sea, MLB showdown, That WWF game and other games.
However, I've long since tossed my cards. That stuff is almost like a drug in how addictive it is. I was broke in college from Magic alone.
Charles RB
12-03-2006, 03:35 PM
In comparison, POKEMON featured simple rules and was designed for kids.
Are you talking the card game or the video game? Because the video game will draw blood, sweat and tears, especially on the levels where you can't take one bloody step forward without a random Wild Pokemon attacking you.
JeffreyWKramer
12-03-2006, 03:40 PM
Are you talking the card game or the video game? Because the video game will draw blood, sweat and tears, especially on the levels where you can't take one bloody step forward without a random Wild Pokemon attacking you.
The card game.
lalalei2001
12-03-2006, 08:51 PM
I found a cool website wih scans of old and new cards!
www.pokebeach.com
Speaking of old cards I remember when Marril was called Pikablu by some fans/
Serik
12-03-2006, 08:54 PM
Both the Pokemon video and card game were actually pretty cool. But the silly fad surrounding them and the TV show sort of ruined it for me.
SUPERECWFAN1
12-03-2006, 10:22 PM
Both the Pokemon video and card game were actually pretty cool. But the silly fad surrounding them and the TV show sort of ruined it for me.
Anyone remember when Norm McDonald ( awesome comedian) did that rip on his show about Pokemon ? Where he had everyone dress as creatures and all . It was pretty silly lookin back.
lalalei2001
12-04-2006, 03:04 PM
I'm not a big fan of the newer Pokemon, but this Absol card is freaking awesome.
http://pokebeach.com/sets/exteams/96.jpg
So I posted the image :)
Sparda
12-04-2006, 04:42 PM
(looks back on memories) god If i had a time machine, I would go back in time to stop myself from ever wasting the cash on these cards.
Are the really old school originals like Blastoise or Charazard holo still worth alot of cash?
Serik
12-04-2006, 05:01 PM
heheh at least you didn't waste your money on Overpower cards which are worth nothing right now...
Valmore
12-04-2006, 05:59 PM
heheh at least you didn't waste your money on Overpower cards which are worth nothing right now...
Overpower had decent art... sometimes... not really.
And the game mechanics were awesome... sometimes... sucked.
I wish I hadn't wasted my money on Overpower.
Cephus
12-05-2006, 01:07 AM
Cephus...you are a sick, sick person.
Said in a thread about a game that portrays children, without any parental supervision, capturing intelligent, sentient animals and having them kick the shit out of each other for fun.
Who is sick again?
Agent Helix
12-05-2006, 05:38 AM
I'll just be over here with JeffreyWKramer, tapping Llanowar Elves for precious mana so I can get my Force of Nature out by turn 5.
Charles RB
12-05-2006, 06:23 AM
Said in a thread about a game that portrays children, without any parental supervision, capturing intelligent, sentient animals and having them kick the shit out of each other for fun.
Who is sick again?
Yeah, it does get incredibly warped and nasty after a second's thought.
It also undermines the character's opposition to Team Rocket - "They're evil for trying to steal and abuse the creatures that we abduct and make fight each other for our personal profit!" It's like the mafia complaining that the yakuza are meanies.
lalalei2001
03-12-2007, 04:45 PM
I wish I hadn't given away all my cards :( I could've at least sold them to make money :(
Not only do I remember them, I still have a complete collection of the first 15 series and most of the ones that came after.I wish I had kept mine. I went on Ebay to see about buying a whole bunch of them, but then I thought it through and decided that was a bad idea.
My name was Fryin' Ryan, what was your's (assuming they did one for your name).
Here is a link (http://www.garbagepailkidsworld.com/) all of you Garbage Pail fans should love. They still make them!
zeroEDGE
03-13-2007, 08:55 AM
ahaha I saw this thread and started thinking about the cards I used to have, then I remember how big it was at school lol. I have no idea where mine are now.. what a waste of money -_-
I'll just be over here with JeffreyWKramer, tapping Llanowar Elves for precious mana so I can get my Force of Nature out by turn 5.
Turn 5? What is that? A control deck?
Stellar
03-13-2007, 09:09 AM
Catch 'm catch 'm catch 'm all.
Are the cards still popular?
Schornforce
03-13-2007, 12:54 PM
I had Overpower and Pokemon cards. I still have the Pokemon cards in a shoebox on my shelf. I didn't mind the game, personally. But then, I'm a freak in regards to Pokemon-- mostly due to the wackiness of Team Rocket.
I stopped collecting the cards because they're way too expensive and I know of no one else who plays the bloody game. I played the game twice-- once against my five year old (at the time) cousin and once against a friend who was humoring my insanity.
Overpower was indeed quite sucktacular though. I just was happy to have some of my favorite characters.
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