QotD: When pokemon cards first released how did you, and to what extent did you go to, gain knowledge about sets, cards, etc?

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All those cards and holo nidoqueen was the one that got away.

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Thatā€™s what I dunno what the heck I was counting when I was a kid cause Iā€™ve got it all together now and somehow the non holo Kangaskhan was what was missing so I bought it and then found one. I mustā€™ve been all hopped up on Surge and Gushers when I was sorting :rofl:

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I learned about new cards as other kids pulled them and showed them off at school. One of my friends would get a bunch of packs every weekend from Mexico for cheap and would have the coolest cards from his pulls.

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Pojo(.)com :grin:
Setlists, cards picks, random promo cardsā€¦ I still remember those low-res images of southern islands and black stars. Becket magazine was there too, but I usually went to the internet first. I spent far too much time on dial up waiting for those images to load. Plus was, caching was super helpful then, so once Netscape started caching resources, it got a lot faster.

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My american friend introduced me pokemon blue back in 1998

And then in early january when he got back from the US after a christmas trip showed me his pokemon cards. Ever since then I nagged my parents wanting one when none of our local hobby store had pokemon cards.

Then around march, miraculously the game store we frequently visited had an brushfire theme deck, thats how I got in to this hobby

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I was introduced to the tcg by a friend giving me a few cards, then bought an Overgrowth theme deck a few weeks later. Used the set list & booklet to absorb as much as I could about the game in the beginning.

Only thing I got really wrong for a long time was thinking that the set number corresponded to rarity (since everything was already ordered H, R, U, C), so to my logic, Alakazam was the rarest card in Base.

Took maybe ten years to click that they were actually just alphabetized the whole time.

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Only reason I did was because a buddy of mine in elementary school was Japanese and his dad would go home to Japan and bring back cards for him to give out on the playground. Blew our 9 year old minds seeing Japanese cards :joy:

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Idk i was like 4 lol. I didnā€™t even care much about PokĆ©mon until last year, so likeā€¦it took almost 3 decades later until I discovered exactly what it is.

My son knows more than I do. But the TV show is awesome.

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I thought this might be a related topic in which to drop this poll. I imagine with all the digital games now, maybe the responses would shift a littleā€¦? Who knows.

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