I will be completely honest, I never really collected or cared for anything other than TCG cards for Pokémon, and also never played the games. I did had some stuffed animals and pogs/flippos as a kid, but I don’t have them anymore.
I do of course still have some Pikachu non-TCG cards, like the Gold Burger King cards, or the Golden Ana Airplane tickets (ignore the two TCG cards underneath, I was too lazy to remove them from the binder):
But I also kinda consider them cards actually…
If I have to choose something, I’d say this little Eeveelutions Rubik’s Cube:
It may be a cheap 2 USD thing from eBay, but it combines my two greatest collections: Pokémon TCG & twisty puzzles.
I recently found my old box of Pokemon cereal. Still brand new and like you’d find it in the store when it was released. But… I don’t think I have a strong attachment to it even after being with me for so many years.
In thinking about this a bit I suppose my favorite non-card items are the drawings and notes from the Pokemon Art Academy winners that I have. They really help to make the cards a more unique collectible!
My favorite is the marbles and accessories. I have around 50 marbles and 10 or more of the bags. Also have the marble shooter which for 1999 toy technology is really fascinating and high tech. Working on getting some of the marble holders and the huge pokeball one in the future.
Definitely the games, I played these a ton back in the day (feels weird saying that). Always fun trying to borrow one of the two trade link cords from someone in school, surprised kids didn’t charge for using it hahaha. I have Gold Version somewhere but I didn’t really play Gold or Silver. Surprised I didn’t go blind from staring at that tiny screen lol, nightmare trying to play at night. I have a 2DS I think it is to play Red and Blue version again and the fact that the screen lights up is an amazing upgrade. Blue version box was the only one I could find but hopefully have the other stashed away.
Still works but sometimes it gets a weird error at the start screen. Pretty sure this was equal to wearing Yeezys around.
Unless they are your personal childhood carts; clean them! Nothing stands out worse on a game collection than waterproof markers and rental stickers.
For the start-up screen error; what kind of error you getting? Quiet possible it’s just the cart being dirt and that’s fairly easy to clean with a cottontip (how you call those, q-tips?) and some rubbing alcohol. The markers can be easily removed using the same rubbing alcohol. Just google for ‘nes cart cleaning’ and you’ll find all the tips you need to keep the game going without problems.
@genosha Yea these are my games from when I was young. I remember everyone always trading games to trade Pokemon and that’s my name on the cartridge lol. Not really collecting them, just have them from playing them. I’ll give that a try to scrub off the marker cause it would look better and I’m not trading them with friends anymore haha.
The error was when turning on the Gameboy, the starting screen that shows GAMEBOY and Nintendo under it, the Nintendo part would just be a black bar and it wouldn’t go past that screen. Of course when I took the picture of it for this thread it started working right lol. The cartridge being dirty kinda makes sense that it is the problem cause I guess it is now happening randomly but I’ve tried each cartridge I have and still got the same problem. Maybe whatever dirt was in it fell out. Shall see. Thanks for the advice though!
@e2d2 Yea I still like seeing it hahaha. Would still use it to play while being on an airplane but it’s such a pain that the screen doesn’t light up. I actually just found one of those squiggly lights that plug into it lmao.
Sounds like either bend pins or dirty connectors. The dirt is easy to clean, bend pins not impossible but harder.
Still nice to see people playing their old carts. I only recently checked my old Red cart to see if the battery was still alive and realising my sister has wiped my save game a few years back xD
My sister is sometimes a wet candle in the dark. The original Pokemon is the only one she understands how to play. So I guess I gave her an ok years ago to wipe it. No big deal, I like playing Pokemon Red =)
@reinasierpe Hahah, this made it so you were like Ray Ban sunglasses after Men in Black cool. Mega Evolution Gameboy.
@genosha Yea I’ll have to look up a video to see if it’s too complicated, I don’t want to completely break it. Wow that’s terrible. I’d go crazy if I lost my Red save lol. Don’t think you could get all 151 nowadays if you didn’t have both Blue and Red, no one to trade
The Pokémon Trading Figure Game figures. I only have a couple of them (the Red starter pack plus Misty and Gyarados). The sculpts on them are really cool and high quality and it’s pretty much the only way I know of to get trainer figures that size. Plus they made a Scyther and I want it. Unfortunately I never played the game, but it looks like it’s not that great due to how much manual dexterity factors in.
The Tomy Moncolle figures come in a close second just because I got those as a kid and there are more Pokémon available than in the TFG. The reason the don’t make it is the sculpt quality isn’t never as high and varies a lot (I seriously can not stress how good the TFG figures look in hand for the price point) and there aren’t (m)any trainers. There are items though, which is neat.
