How the Pokemon TCG Survived It's Darkest Point in History

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[ProfessorMetri]

Huge Shoutout to The Pokemon Aaahhh! Discord and Website. Without help from contributing members, this Video would not be possible!

[MrRager]

I can confirm that as a 10 year old when Pokemon was popular in the US in the late 90’s and by 2003 as an 13 year old, No one in my school was playing Pokemon anymore, let alone collecting the cards. I did however came back to it when Fire Red & Leaf Green came out, but no cards. No one was interested in the cards anymore after Gen 2, or the show. Yu-Gi-Oh came along and got hot along with the cards. Then you had new episodes of Dragon Ball Z. We were growing up, no one knew Pokemon would stay relevant in the future.

[tielmaster]

I just have to disagree with the game part. Ruby and Sapphire almost immediately became the best selling GBA games and boosted sales of the console. In the end, they sold 16 million units.

[OpossumBud]

One of my least knowledgeable eras explained beautifully 👍🏽 mans put in the work

[WhimsicottTCG]

Hi. Celebi Collector here. Dark Celebi was likely put in ex Hidden Legends to use as the star of the Forest Guardian theme deck. It contrasts well with Jirachi, since its another Mythical low HP Pokemon.

[IvanJura]

Thank you for this! This was the generation when I briefly got into the tcg again but mostly just played emerald for months, still my favorite pokemon game!
The cards from this era are probably the most valuable I have, I still can't believe I actually pulled a dark tyranitar...

[renegaderonin]

Gen 3 was by far the coolest era of the TCG and I'm glad people are starting to realize it... Just wish they weren't so expensive my wallet is still starving after buying that gold star ray

[LatiasVro]

this might be the single most impressive video i've seen covering the ex era (and i'm a bit of an ex era snob so it's been tough to find super well done/accurate info over the era) - genuinely 10/10 on this. definitely excited to see the rest of the content you cover (:

[PURPLE_GJ]

This was the era I grew up in and I’ve never thought of it as “the dark ages”, if anything that is the golden era from RSE to DDP/HGSS. My favorite cards are the Delta cards and Gen 3 EX cards.

[michaelmellor]

Idk gen 5 was pretty beatdown in its time, I was an avid fan in my youth as black was MY pokemon game, not the first I had played but the first that was actually mine, but even as a kid I thought the hate gen 5 got was dumb. Gen 5 best gen ❤

[coreymackxs]

You're making history with this one. Thank you for putting in the work. From all of us.

[BirdKeeperToby]

Hey Big fan of the EX era and I think something you touched on in this video applies to way more sets.

Gen 3 is the BEST for set identity but it’s not just a few sets. It tells the whole story of Gen 3 as if playing the game. No other Gen does this as well as Gen 3 does.

Ruby Sappire - is the early Hoenn routes with mostly early route, petalburg/ dewford town type pokemon

Sandstorm - the desert and electric pokemon and matching the area of Mauville

Dragon - It’s Meateor falls (seen in the BG of many cards) and then Mt Chimney (seen in the BG of Charizard)

Magma Aqua - Magma Aqua interning us to the evil teams and their plots

-Hidden Legends later game where we have access to surf, rainy routes and the regi dungeons

Fire red leaf green- breaks the Hoenn story to tell Kantos story again

Rocket- shows us the team rocket post game in the sevii islands but also a glimpse at the GameCube games with shadow pokemon and many of the Johto pokemon missing from our collections.

Then - ex deoxys for the more mythical pokemon events as well as other post games stuff With Ray

Emerald - Emerald which sorts recaps everything

-Unseen forces (Random Johto themed set, maybe just filler)

Finally we have the Delta specis PEAK creativity

-power creepers and off one with the E4 and Battle frontier

[RocSandy]

This is by far the best video you have done! I already feel big-brained after watching 🗣💯

[iBenjamin]

it's so weird thinking of gen 3 as a low point for pokemon, when it's my favorite generation of games and anime. and I love those ex cards

[swordofstrife]

Interestingly enough a lot of competitive Pokemon tcg players look back on this era (specifically the 2006 era) as one of the best in the history of the tcg, as the standard card pool facilitated a lot of smart back and forth gameplay and decks could easily make comebacks if they were far behind

[Skyline]

Loved this! EX era is so special to me so it was a treat to learn all that info I never knew. Can’t wait for the delta species video!!

[ruthlessrolf]

I’m mastering this entire era of sets, and you did such an incredible job of giving the background on a fairly unknown era of the TCG! Thank you so much for all the work you put into this video! It really puts it all into perspective and has inspired me to create a video of my own!

[dgl]

Great video, showed up in my recommend and I was surprised this didnt have more views. I would love to see more TCG history videos like this!

[jarvis]

not the clip of ruxin wearing my merch LMAO

[DustyMon]

Love that you put in the research for this one. Great video dude