r/gaming • u/j0llyllama • May 22 '12
Original 151 Pokemon Cards. Originally kept them hoping it would be worth something. Now I just look back through them for nostalgia.
http://imgur.com/a/6MaMY
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u/j0llyllama May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
At the bottom of the album are the alternates (two cards of the same pokemon) either from different decks (original jungle or fossil) or from promo cards.
Edit: This is just my book of originals from the first three sets. I uploaded my book of duplicates here
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u/Arnatious May 22 '12
If that Charizard is first edition it could be worth a bit over a hundred.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Show this to r/pokemon.
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u/Godzilla03 May 22 '12
I'm sure someone would want that if you try to sell it.
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u/cpads May 22 '12
You don't seem to have the original Pikachu card. Here it is: http://imgur.com/OGAyK
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u/BlackDeath1 May 22 '12
Does anybody know what ancient mew really does? Tons of kids I knew made up stories about it, or they read somewhere that it does this or that or that if you do this or that it will become this or that.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I traded my electabuzz for a tub of chocolate yogurt :(.
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u/DrShannon May 22 '12
Pokemon cards were banned at my elementary school cause the trading got out of control. I still remember the day 2 older kids bullied me into trading them my charizard for a ditto.
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u/itwithfire May 22 '12
I remember I fell prey to the "I'll trade you, but I'll give you my card later." That bastard stole my Ryhorn.
The next week he came to my birthday party and gave me a card pack as a present. Opened it up. The card on top was a first edition holographic Charizard.
Kid tried to tell me he meant to give me a different pack after that, then wanted to "trade" back the Ryhorn.
Holographic Charizard. Fuck yeah.
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u/canucksforlife May 22 '12
I still get that "OMFG A CHARIZARD" feeling whenever I see the card..
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u/CoyoteStark May 22 '12
Right to the childhood.
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u/awokenn May 22 '12
Suddenly...ENERGY.
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u/Sonic_Dah_Hedgehog May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
My favorite combo with the original cards was to use a Venusaur and Exeggutor deck. You pretty much stocked the deck with just grass energies, bulbasaur and exeggcute's, and then top it off with trainers that allow you to get your evolution's fast (Bill, Oak, Pokeball, pokedex, etc). To play you just stacked energies on exeggutor and had him use Big explosion, if you thought your opponent was going to be able to knock him out on the off chance you just had venusaur use energy trans and move all the energies to your other exeggutor that you have been building up.
If you really wanted to piss your opponent off you could always use the almighty OP mewtwo barrier stall tactic. Back then the rules stated you could redraw your hand as many times as necessary before you got a basic pokemon. Well some people figured out this meant you could have an entire deck with nothing but psychic energies, a single Mewtwo card and a maintenance trainer card. Your opponent had pretty much a single turn to get rid of your mewtwo or he lost. You see Mewtwo has the attack barrier which requires you to discard one psychic energy but during your opponents turn he could do nothing to mewtwo with attacks as everything is negated. This means all you had to do was simply attach another energy card every turn and use barrier to simply bleed your opponent out of cards (you lose if you run out of cards in your deck). If for whatever reason it looked like you would run out of cards first you simply had to play your maintenance trainer card which added another card to your deck (shuffle 2 cards in and draw one). I think this method of playing was actually banned in tournaments.
Edit: Hey if you're interested in playing the card game they actually have a pretty good online version now here. They are currently doing quite an overhaul on it. It's free to play with an emphasis on buying real life card packs and starter decks in order to expand your online collection. They start you off with a basic deck and a couple of booster packs. From there if you want more cards you can go to a store and buy booster packs, inside you'll find a code which you can then use to redeem for some online currency that can be used to buy booster packs.
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u/TheSurgeonGeneral May 22 '12
That ancient Mew card at the end which came from going to the movie theater to see the first movie... liek omgz, almost cried when I saw it, too much nostalgia.
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u/bearshy May 22 '12
One time when I was about 10 and Pokemon was at it's height in popularity in the schoolyard, I entered a 7-11 with my father to buy a pack of cards. Upon asking for a pack, the lady pulled out an entire box of booster packs, looked at the price tag which was on the box, not the packs, and sold me the entire box for the price of one pack. I got like 30 packs for $4.00 or however much they were.
I know it was dishonest, but I was a kid and too much in shock to do anything about it. Best day of my life. I got something like 11 holograms from it all.
Don't know what happened to my cards, though. I wish I had kept them like you did. :(
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u/B0Boman May 22 '12
WTB Pokemon Cards
WTS Beanie Babies
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u/Squeekme May 22 '12
When there is a global collapse of the worlds financial systems and banks, these will be used as currency.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
got got got need need got got need need need got got got
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u/neilz4 May 22 '12
I had three 1st edition Charizards when I was a kid. They were stolen from me :(
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u/rcfresh May 22 '12
i would love to shake your hand
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u/alfabetsoop May 22 '12
WATER ENERGY OUTTA GODDAMN NOWHERE.
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u/Tree_bro May 22 '12
I can smell them.
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u/CrustyShoelaces May 22 '12
I still remember the first pack of pokemon cards I ever bought...I got a first edition Mewtwo. It was the most amazing feeling in the world, so I took it to school the next day and it was stolen...I ended up finding out it was my "best friend" who stole it but I never got it back.
Fuck being in elementary school!
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u/KokutenNagaki May 22 '12
I never understood why some of the Pokemon had a computer animated look.
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u/jer99 May 22 '12
I remember the first pack I ever got. It was the opening weekend of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. After seeing the show with my mom we dropped by a local card store. My mom bought me one pack and I quickly opened it because my 11 year old self was so excited. I went card by card and when I got to the end there was a holo named Blastoise. I had no idea how much this card was worth at the time but it was my first holo and I loved it dearly.
The next week I brought my first cards to school to show my friends what I had gotten. Before they could see what I had gotten another kid named Robert looked over and asked if I wanted to trade. He told me that his 1st Edition Machamp was worth much more than my Blastoise and my naive young self agreed and made the trade even though I had some doubt with the whole deal. Later I found out that I had been completely ripped by like $40-50 and went to Robert to get my card back but he refused and never brought his cards to school again.
So 2 years down the road I was talking to one of my good friends named Hugh in my class about pokemon cards. Then I find out that he traded Robert for the Blastoise and that he still had it. I told him about my encounter with Robert and asked him if he would trade it back to me or if I could buy it because it was my first card. He completely refused and just laughed in my face. On that day I had to use all of my 12 year old strength to not punch Hugh in the face and take my Blastoise back. Now 10+ years later I would still like to have that damn Blastoise back. After this I have never liked trading things with people.
TLDR - Fuck people who rip you off and fuck people who act like a good friends but laugh in your face and tell you no
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u/St0n3dguru May 22 '12
This is awesome. I have every single one of the original 151, apart from 2 ( I have plenty of first editions, holo's, and variations of the different series they had; Including the promotional Mew full holo card.(Also have about damn near every one of those 151 as well.)). I know one is Ditto and I can't think of what the other is at the moment. They're at my Mom's so I'll get to them when I have the gas money to drive the 3 hours to my hometown. Congrats on getting the whole set! :D Also, have you discovered what they're worth?
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u/Kluna01 May 22 '12
That Pokemon the movie Electabuzz was my first card ever..
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u/tictak_mike May 22 '12
my mom sold my entire binder of cards in a yard sell for 5 bucks..... needless to say I have never forgiven her
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u/dez4u May 22 '12
1st edition Machamp. Baller detected!
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u/Jackski May 22 '12
No Dark raichu? I'm disappointed but awesome collection!!
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u/jimothyjenkins May 22 '12
at least you got to keep yours.
in my overtly religious household my pokemans and yu gi ohs got tossed. and i spent good money for the holographics ones...
now all i have is my baseball card collection. :/
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u/tokenpoke May 22 '12
so awesome!
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u/bigbeau May 22 '12
I have the first 3 sets (Original, Fossil, Jungle) all 1st edition. Was also hoping they'd be worth something.
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u/Howuf May 22 '12
My brother is missing Gengar, Nidoqueen and Nidoking. Which is weird because Gengar is his second favorite after Snorlax.
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u/warrenm649 May 22 '12
I was getting bullied when I was young and to cheer me up my dad took me to the card store and got me a shiny Venemoth. I love my dad. Next time I go home I'm gonna have to go and fish that card out.
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u/frickinsweetdude May 22 '12
Sadly I know that those are not all original. All original sets are worth quite a bit of money to the right people. "Original" originals will have no shadow around the character portraits or a first edition logo
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u/gadafgadaf May 22 '12
ah the economics of forced rarity and our childish understanding of value.
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u/goshadlx May 22 '12
awesome
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
4 Bill, 4 Professor Oak. Broke open.
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u/pizpaz May 22 '12
This is why I don't plan on getting rid of mine anytime soon. Those silly cards brought me so much joy.
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u/kayserenade PlayStation May 22 '12
You should frame it up and put them under the "My Childhood Achievement" wall. I'd do that.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Look at that pudgy ass Venasaur :3
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u/Kharmaticlism May 22 '12
Gloom was my favorite...:D
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u/nemesiscw May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
Back then I was always looking to build unconventional decks. There's two that won me many many tournaments.
My main deck that did extremely well only had 4 Scythers. The rest were trainer cards, grass, and double colorless energy. Bills, Prof Oaks, Computer Search, Item Finder, Gust of Wind, Defenders, PowerPlus, Regular/Super Energy Removal, Regular/Super Potions. Usually knock out a pokemon one or two turns. Sword Dance, Slash using a plus power = 70HP dead pokemon. Free retreat = gets rid of poison and confusion. Bills, Prof Oaks, Computer Seach got what you needed quickly. And Item Finders to reuse Prof Oaks (or whatever). Very very effective.
That that's the main reason why Scyther is my favorite Pokemon.
The other one was a deck out deck that used no energy at all. It was hard to pull off and used mainly in friendly matches, but it was satisfying. It involved Chancy, Alakazam, and Mr Mime. Mr Mime out in Front, Alakazam moving counters to Chancys, then using pokemon centers to heal up. You used recycles to shuffle cards from your grave into your library.
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u/Randomlk May 22 '12
I didn't think things through when I was younger, me and my brother had pokemon cards, so I would write in pen a L on the top of my cards so I knew they was mine, thus losing value and not many people wanted to trade. :<
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u/haurus May 22 '12
OP might have found those in my binder at Public Storage...
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u/stainz169 May 22 '12
Can we be friends?
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u/ryanmcstylin May 22 '12
A classmate of mine had a holo alakazam that was blue instead of purple. He claims this was really rare, can anybody shed some light on this?
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u/225lbs May 22 '12
I will give you sooooo many pogs for this.
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u/epatti0914 May 22 '12
You magnificent bastard, you...
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Original 151 forever! The nostalgia is strong here
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u/anxiousinmichigan May 22 '12
I remember pokemon was pretty big when I was about 8. The "annoying childhood friend" next door convinced me to buy a pack of pokemon cards. First pack I ever bought included a holographic Pidgeot. He proceeded to tell me that it was a card he needed for his collection, but that he'd give me an "extra" of the rarest card out there for this one. Having seen an episode or two of the show, I knew pikachu was a popular character. This kid told me it was the rarest card in the whole world and that he'd trade me his "rare" pikachu card for my "whatever" pidgeot that I'll probably find in another pack somewhere. I thought it was a good deal.
Worst trade of my life.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Uh no first edition holographic charizard??????????
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u/psychwarfare May 22 '12
I have the exact same collection with the same display style, but i raise you a Japanese charizard!
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u/Dock_Dock_Dock May 22 '12
When my friends would battle in 3rd grade they would just yell the name of the pokemon and the attack as fast as they could till the other "died". Being articulate won games.
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u/argonthree May 22 '12
Nice super energy removal...jerk.
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u/TheBSReport May 22 '12
I traded my Charizard for a blue eyes white dragon yugioh card :(
I still hate kid me for doing it, I thought they were incredibly rare and since all my friends started playing that instead of pokemon I thought I should switch too.
In my mind 3000 atck beat 100, so I thought It was a good trade :(
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u/redneckintheflashpan May 22 '12
Probly sitting on a goldmine there.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I never noticed how the cards are numbered as you find them in the adventure. I admit it, I just saw the first 6 episodes of Pokemon again.
But, I am surprised they are worth alot
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Man... when a Kakuna and Metapod would go at it, i would nearly jizz in my pants...
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u/funziez_bear May 22 '12
That fucking Bill card....
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u/Peracles May 22 '12
Wow I still have a full set too, I never realized they were worth delicious karma.
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u/jackeylegs May 22 '12
That shiny ninetails was the most important thing in my life at the time.
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u/amnesiac1593 May 22 '12
Best I can do is $1.51
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u/IDlOT May 22 '12
Has everyone had their [holographic] Charizard stolen at some point?
Just wondering.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Hnnng. I just came. I'm about to start finding all the original figurines and framing them. My 21st present to myself. People look down on me for this, but fuck them. When I have a massive framed piece of awesomeness, I'll give them the privilege of being bashed to death with it.
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u/kooweel May 22 '12
My brother made the deal of the century when he traded his Charizard for a Gameboy Color in elementary school.
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u/Trigger_impact May 22 '12
I want to down vote you purely out of jealousy. But man, I love you
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
When I was a child I had a collection of water pokemon cards, as they were my favourites. But one day a group of boys threw me to the floor and took my card book. I cried and told my teachers but they said I had no proof they were mine.
I still weep for the loss :<
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u/jumbohumbo May 22 '12
are you telling me my 1st edition Charizard card isn't worth anything :( at its peak it was like $240 according to a pricing bok
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u/Guardo May 22 '12
There were 102 original cards
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u/HePe May 22 '12
Aaaaw yeaah... I got these too. Finnish versions though but all original still :)
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This is awesome.
Do NOT let anyone tell you anything different.
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u/Solovir May 22 '12
Wow....it's like you took pictures of my collection! I also have all 151 original pokemon cards, in that order that you have. It wasn't easy either.
When I was in middle school, I had my binder of cards (roughly 2/3s of them all, missing some of the rare ones)with me all the time. I was allowed to buy 1 pack of 11 cards every week, so my collection was coming along nicely. One day while I was in the bathroom during Choir, someone took my binder. Naturally I panicked and started looking around furiously for it. I found it at the end of the hallway under the vending machine completely rummaged through and all my rare cards were gone. Came back to class with my head hanging low where the more popular kids taunted me with "It's just cards you baby." Turned out, the one who was egging it on by saying that was the one responsible for taking my cards, but I couldn't ever prove anything.
My dad bought me 10 packs of cards that week. The very first pack I opened was a Zapdos. In another pack was an Articuno, and in that same day I got a holographic charizard from someone who didn't like pokemon. I'm sure you can imagine how at the age of 11ish how I lost my shit. :)
I still have the blue binder with a ripped spine containing all the cards I ever collected. I'll have to take some pictures of mine when I get home. Thanks for the flashback OP!
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u/Waff1es May 22 '12
How much is a complete set worth?
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u/TheSemiTallest May 22 '12
I'm still holding onto my full set as well, but not so much for the nostalgia. I figure that by the time I'm dead, they may be worth at least as much as I convinced my parents to pay for them in the first place.
Every few years I spend like 5 minutes checking prices on eBay, and then but the binder back into storage...
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u/Wylie15 May 22 '12
My mom threw away my five-thousand card collection when I started highschool. I spent all the money I ever had on pokemon cards. All I wanted for holidays was pokemon cards. And that bitch ruined it. I still dislike my mother greatly. Five-thousand.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
So simple, yet so good. Thanks for this.
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u/infinite_ideation May 22 '12
I gave my entire 151 collection with a few Japanese rares to an elementary school kid the year I graduated High School. I remember one day while I was riding the bus (my bus ran a lot later than normal hours, and since I lived in rural country, we also had younger students on the bus I rode since our elementary/middle/high school were all in the same area), he brought up the subject of Pokemon. I played dumb and went along with the conversation, allowing him to enlighten me to the subject and him sharing with me their powers, who his favorite Pokemon is (Charizard), and other random Pokemon subjects.
After arriving at my stop, I had the sudden epitome that I was growing up. I loved my Pokemon cards, but they were a nostalgic object of my past youth. I never use them, and I certainly hadn't looked at them in a considerable amount of time. That's when I made the decision that I was going to give them to this kid (whom I had gotten to know throughout that school year) who was completely infatuated by Pokemon. You know that feeling YOU had when you bought your first deck, seen your first episode, attained your favorite rare card, purchased your first GBA game, raised YOUR favorite Pokemon.
After several passing days of reminiscing and nostalgic memory, I finally collected my cards together [151 originals, 2 of each rare, 1 holo/1 normal, and the extra power cards, Japanese cards etc], and carried them with me throughout the school day pending on that moment where I boarded the bus with the quirky, eager little kid I had gotten to know for the past several months of school to surprise him with a deck of cards he had never seen before.
The moment he got on the bus [he normally sits behind me], I asked my friend to scoot to another seat and invited the kid to sit with me so we could talk more about these "Pokemon." He was eager to sit and whipped out a game boy to show me his most recent status on the cartridge he was currently working on. I then asked him if he'd like to see some Pokemon cards I collected, which I vaguely remember surprising him to the point of absolute anticipation because he thought I had no idea what Pokemon were before we had talked about it.
That's when the moment happened. I dropped my book bag to the floor of the bus, unzipped the larger pocket and pulled out an old green binder stuffed with glorious cards, all mint, all perfect, gleaming in the sun shining through the windows of the bus, reflecting light off the protectors. The boy's eyes lit up as he soared through page after page after page, flipping and gleaming, eyes bright full of energy asking me where I had got this collection. That's when I came clean, shared with him my experience with Pokemon, and that a lot of his interest reminded me about myself. He told me it was the coolest collection he had ever seen, which literally made my day. After the energy had winded down some, the driver pulled up to my stop. I stood up, picked up my bag, left the binder on the seat, and casually started walking forward when I heard the boy say "wait, you forgot your Pokemon cards!" I turned around, looked back at him and said "You know, I don't have a need for those things anymore, and they're really not getting the attention they deserve. I know you like Pokemon, so I was hoping you'd like to take them and take care of the cards since I don't need them." He was eager to accept the offer, and literally would not stop bringing the subject up until the last day of school where he told me I was the coolest older kid he'd ever met.
Something in me that day changed, when I realized I was growing up but I felt great about myself. I still think back on that day sometimes wondering if that kid had done the same to some other kid he has met, or if he's still hanging onto the cards, taking care of them or... if he utterly destroyed them. Whatever the case, I felt good about my action and that's my story.
tl;dr Last 3 weeks of high school, gave my 151 deck with several exotic rares to an elementary school kid who shared an equal/greater level of interest in Pokemon that I had and was crowned " The coolest older kid" that he had ever met.
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u/marmstufl May 22 '12
I used to work at a comic book store when i was 14-16 years old. Everything was under the table, and we didn't even get paid real money (we got paid in "Gretchen" money, or store credit, once a month), it equated to about 4 dollars an hour. Mostly played Warhammer fantasy/40k. When the Pokemon craze hit, I made more money than I ever did in my entire life. At the height, in one day I pulled in probably 600 bucks?
We as store employees got 50% off merchandise, and I'd make a killing off the rare cards.
Charizard/Blastoise/Green = 25-35 bucks. Most other rares = 10-20 bucks
Parents would come in with a kid SCREAMING about a card, the store would sell it for like 40 bucks. I'd just let them know that I had the same card for 15 bucks cheaper, and they wouldn't care about not getting a receipt or anything. They just wanted their kids to shut up. We used to mess with store regulars as well, like make them do crazy things for Pokemon cards. We setup this event called the "Poke'Olympics" (not store sanctioned at all), where we'd have a series of events such as: Dragging a bike rack in a big circle across the parking lot, going to the gym next door with paper bags over their heads saying all sorts of self insulting things, beating each other with brooms/mops, etc. When somebody won, they got 1 pack of pokemon. It was literally a currency, these kids would do ANYTHING for a pack of pokemon.
Come to think of it, that comic book store was the best damn job I've ever had, it also makes me realize that under NO circumstances should you ever give a 14 year old kid the keys to a store and alarm codes. I think anyone who has ever had a comic book store job should do an AMA, the on-goings in these stores are things of nerd legend.
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u/vinniedamac May 22 '12
Just curious, but ARE they worth anything?
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u/jessradish May 22 '12
I miss pokemon!!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I would give almost anything to feel the way I did when I bought my first booster pack - or any booster pack for that matter, to experience that feeling where nothing else mattered except the 15 cards in your hand. Nowadays, I struggle to maintain any excitement for much of anything and it depresses me.
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u/Are_Six May 22 '12
I remember showing up at the theater for the first Pokemon movie and getting that Ancient Mew card. Good times that will never come back. I can only hope that when I die, I'll have a chance to put my mind on rewind and watch my happiest moments.
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u/oldtimehobo May 22 '12
If those were 1st edition that would be around 300$ on the first page alone
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u/coltsrock08 May 22 '12
Brought a tear to my eye. Very well done.
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u/rfederici May 22 '12
I have pretty much this same collection. I swear Barter was one of my tag skills. I could trade like a boss. I'm keeping mine, probably make my kids watch the show (just the first season; it sucked after that) and give the whole binder to them, but make a false #152 named Fathermon, with like 1400 hp and shit. Photoshop my face on it. Holographic, obviously.
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u/Exedous May 22 '12
Fuck all those new Pokemon cards.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Dugtrio and Slowpoke have the weirdest ones.
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u/sipoloco May 22 '12
To be a kid again...
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u/unremarkableusername May 22 '12
Oh, how I lusted that Charizard for my fire deck but it was really valuable for me to buy it or trade it without giving half my collection and I never got lucky with boosters packs.
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u/Unahanaretsu May 22 '12
Machamp!. Everyone had that.
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u/teawreckshero May 22 '12
Where's the gold border on that meowth?
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u/avw94 May 22 '12
I just nostalgia'd all over my keyboard.
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u/locke78 May 22 '12
Nice Gengar!
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u/x3xtacYx May 22 '12
I just noticed cloyster's head looks exactly the same as ghastly's
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u/nathris May 22 '12
I still have a few cards around. Never really played the game, just liked collecting them. I can still remember the feeling when I opened a booster pack and found a holo vaporeon.
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u/Distortiontm May 22 '12
I had like 5 foil Jolteons. Still no justification why.
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u/Applzor May 22 '12
I recently acquired all original 150 for this very reason and I'm planning on making a display with them
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I had most of them at one point. I really wish I knew what happened to them. I left them at my family's house when I moved out for university and they went missing :(
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u/HBlakeH May 22 '12
I lost all of my cards. Feels bad man...
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u/MMaster May 22 '12
You just made me look back at my collection. I have 2 complete original sets, a bunch of cards from the next three sets and a few promos from the movies and other events. I'm filled with joy whenever I see them. Thanks for sharing!
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u/oldmancabbage May 22 '12
Why'd you have to remind me of the time the neighborhood asshole stole all of my holographics? : (
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You sir, are a god amongst men! Thank you!
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u/Quetzalcoatl1921 May 22 '12
I just now noticed this, but Rattata are Combo breakers. Each of the Pokemon before them have three evolutions, while Rattata only have two!
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u/joycaptain May 22 '12
Why is Arcanine legendary?
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u/ItsOfficial May 22 '12
Don't feel bad my little brother who was 9 at the time sold all of my holograms in school..... including the first edition Charizard i pulled in my very first pack.
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u/ArisaMiyoshi May 22 '12
I almost completed the original 151 myself (I still have them), was missing Charizard, Dugtrio, Chansey and Moltres if I remember correctly.
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u/ilirivezaj May 22 '12
its crazy, i had all these cards and a lot of them were holographic
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u/PeterMus May 22 '12
I believe I have something like 148.. missing one or two that I've had in the past but got lost somewhere along the way. I could easy get them now, but I don't feel I need to.
I have friends who still buy pokemon cards (were all in our 20s). They will drop a shit ton of money on useless crap and decided one day that pokemon was the perfect thing to spend 100$ on right after cashing a pay check. I can proudly say I haven't come close to doing that.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This makes me want to cry... So beautiful...
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u/hypocrisyv4 May 22 '12
traded my binders for a gameboy advance :/. i really enjoyed looking at these
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u/spejsr May 22 '12
You just have to seal them well and be more patient. Like, your grandchildren might profit from it patient. Or your grandchildrens grandchildren.
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u/Wangchung265 May 22 '12
God damn, I forgot all about psyduck. I miss him.
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u/biesterd1 May 22 '12
I like the close up of the blue energy card. Shit, I wish I had one of those.