it started in the fourth grade, everyone was buying it, the tv show was awesome (ash's voice was very...raspy, it's less so now)
I had no cards, I was starting to get into it.
someone gave me an onix to start.
for my birthday and Xmas later I had gotten a hold of those pokemon decks, All great cards in there (blackout was my favorite, Zap sucked).




Kenny I stole a diglet and four energy cards from you.
*Edit* I had gotten ahold of blastoise and charizard through booster pack collection (greatest day[s] ever) and I traded an Alakazam for Venasaur.
I had them in my binder full of cards, ordered correctly by listing number.
one day me and Daniel were playing super smash brothers on the N64 and I accidentally hit a bottle of Gatorade off the table and onto my cards.
I freaked, and was devastated! I quickly cleaned up what I could I took out the rare cards I had acquired and let them out to dry.
Luckily all three of the starters were fine, (yeah bitches my charizard is resistant to water) unfortunately Machamp was not, the card was ruined, wrinkled the foil was peeling from the card
win and lose.
My sister worked at Zany brainy, they started a pokemon TCG League there.
It was fucking awesome. and not cuz my sister was the gym leader, I legitimately was a great "trainer" if you will.
you had this little "guide book" that had a squares on it, you get like 1 stamp for trading, 1 stamp for helping people and like 5 stamps for winning a match (1 for playing a match, so six total if you win)
when you reached every 20 or 25, you get a special card. and at 50 or 75 I don't remember, you get a Gym badge
So long story short.
I got all the gym badges, I got a bunch of pre-release cards and I sold all my cards last year. D:
and now I wish i had them back....good memories.
end story.
I had 4 hitmonchans
Legos:
I loved legos as a kid, my dad lied to me and said that he brought these legos from vietnam for me haha.
we'd always do a kind of role playing a city situation, we'd live in either a city or small town, me and Daniel would have sweet cars. we'd also be super heroes. who were good at karate, tae-kwan-do, or whatever.
every once and a while our cousin Christina would come over and we'd have her play too. she always owned a restaurant and cooked for us.. haha.
every time Daniel plays, he always has a girlfriend, and he'd always have them "making out in bed".

ok it wasn't that ridiculous but you get the gist.
he wasn't even 7 yet.
LOL
End story
I still play pokemon cards to this day. Hitmonchan was one of my favorite cards too.
ReplyDeleteAs far as legos go, I have a Ferrari set in my closet waiting to be built.
Oh, the nostalgia...
"Kenny I stole a diglet and four energy cards from you". God damn it Andrew. Oh well. It wouldn't matter anyways. I'm pretty sure my mom threw out all my Pokemon cards. To this day, I am still looking for them. Mystery unsolved.
ReplyDeletepokemons and legos both great toys
ReplyDeletedude blackout WAS awesome and zap DID suck!
and yo machamp is not a rare card
i mean its a star and its holo but it comes in every starter pack
sooo not too big a loss imo
DUDE.
ReplyDeleteI was totally grossed out by girls back then.
Zany Brainy!
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking about that place this morning
and I couldn't remember the name!
Man, pokemon was pretty much my life when I was like 9
I still have all of my cards.
I loved Squirtle! He was so cool. :) I never played Pokemon cards, though, but I did collect them for a very short while. And I remember Michelle's days at Zainy Brainy! That place was sooo cool!
ReplyDeleteYay, I've been mentioned in one of Andrew's stories! Alright! :D hehe. I remember you and Daniel getting so mad at me when I would choose to hang out with Michelle over you guys. One time you were so angry with me, you slid a note under Michelle's bedroom door (or maybe posted it to the door, itself? -- I can't quite recall) to me and then wouldn't talk with me for like the whole day. And it was all over my choosing girl-talk over Legos and Saturday morning cartoons (it was a very tough decision to come to, btw - always was).
:-P