Thinking back to 1999-2000, my biggest misconception was that I was properly taking care of the condition of my Pokemon cards.
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Actually, this is kind of half-true. Pinsir was originally supposed to evolve into Heracross in Gen 2, but the plan was scrapped for whatever reason.
One thing I remember hearing back in the day was that if you were playing Pokemon Red and you ran into Magmar (who was a Blue exclusive) in the Pokemon Mansion on Cinnabar, it would corrupt your game. Not sure if anyone else heard that, but that was a pretty big rumor in my school and had people scared to venture too far into the Mansion when playing Red lol.
Going off on this, before me and my friends discovered sleeves and binders, we thought the best way was to put your rares in between a stack of commons/uncommons and then rubberband them together.
Then we had one friend who kept his cards in a plastic bag and stored them in a dictionary. Big brain move.
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Sapusaur/Charcolt/Rainer was a persistent rumor that I wanted to believe in anyway.
I still hold up+B and release when the Pokeball opens in every single game. I donât believe in it, but somehow itâs a comforting thing to do.
That shadowless cards were fake/counterfeit. Did anyone else believe that? I remember reading on the internet during that time perioud that they were counterfeit so I believed it. Did not come across many shadowless cards except 2 of my friends had a handful of them like commons like diglett, thought they were fake. Everyone else I knew did not have them nor did I ever see them for sale that I can remember.
In my first Pokemon game, which was Crystal, I wanted an arcanine so bad. I had no clue that all it took was a fire stone. I asked my older cousins, who in my mind were Pokemon experts, and they said to just keep leveling it up. I had a level 50 something Growlithe before I gave up.
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Me and the kids at school used to only look at the damage of a Pokemon card to determine itâs worth. I remember when i pulled a Dark Charizard everyone was in disbelief at how awesome it was⊠well, that was until someone else got Blaineâs Arcainine later on in the year.
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This older kid at school told everyone that he had a printer that could print any Pokemon card you liked. We all went to his house to see it. It was a Sega Dreamcaster, but he said if it was left on for 3 hours straight, it would start printing Pokemon cards. We spent the whole day at his house. Coincidentally, whenever it got close t 3 hours, he would accidentally turn it off and we would have to start the waiting process all over again.
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Everyone would call shadowless cards second edition (i lived in the Bahamas at the time).
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Because the Bahamas was an island and ebay/internet buying wasnât a huge thing yet, stores could charge whatever they wanted. It would cost $20 - $25 USD per booster pack, and we all thought this was a normal priceâŠ
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I remember thinking that on a stage 1 Pokemon card, the image in the box showing the basic Pokemon from which it evolved had to match the art of the actual basic card art in order for the evolution to work.
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The more energy cost for an attack the better a card it was
To own cards, you can only pull them from packs or from the theme decks (little me didnât know the existence of online shopping until 2010, yikes, to which I bought yugioh on Jakarade, double yikes)
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I thought you could get Mew behind the S.S Anne lol
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I also thought the when you won a prize card, that you got to pick your opponents card and keep it. Probably the reason i never played the game against anybody but my brother a kid. Never read the rules as a kid lol.
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I will post it here before reading all the other comments so I dont get spoiled:
-Uncommond was worth two commons
-A rare card was worth 2 uncommonds (and I did trade some)
-A shining triple star would be worth 3 rare cards (even the shittiest rares)
-Pikablue was an alternative Pikachu from gen 2
-Dragonite evolved into Yoshi with a cheat
-If you put the GS ball in the forest shrine Celebi would appear (even tho it was later true, wasnt possible at all)
-Shining in pokemon gold/silver/crystal were the same as the ones in the anime, even pink/crystal alternative versions
-If you held down and A while a pokemon was inside the pokeball, it would increase the capture rate
-Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno was a normal size super rare card
-Mew was under the truck
-Mew could appear in glitch city
-Missingno lived in glitch city
-The grass that you canât reach in any town contains unknown and super rare pokemons
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Something I didnât know insteadâŠ
The pack artwork actually said something about the cards inside. Basically, I didnât know that sets existed. I thought it was all random.
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Dark raticate was the strongest card ever because of the question mark damage (i wasnât able to read english, i thought it was something like âas much as you wantâ).
Strangely enough everyone was like âwhoah so much Powerâ even if no one was able to play the game
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Spamming the a button in any Pokémon game increases your chances of catching the Pokémon.
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OuchâŠ
And I thought the same about some Japanese Jumbos at first. 
Greetz,
Quuador
spamming the a button has just become a habbit for me that i still do it when i replay my older games (not a fan of the newer ones).
The biggest thing me and my friends all believed was that in ruby and sapphire, if you gave rayquaza the soothe bell and got its friendship high enough, it could go above level 100.
That one of the older kids at my elementary school could actually create real life pokemon and was running a business selling them. Idk if I was dumb as bricks or just that gullible back then. Spoiler: I was very angry but more sad when I didnât get my Charmander the following week that I requested.
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That Charizard is the best pokemon. Turns out that remains true all these years later.
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