How well does Pokémon Trading Card Game for Gameboy Color Hold Up? - Tama Hero

The Pokemon Trading Card Game is a huge part of the Pokémon franchise, and takes up a lot of our collective memory with how nostalgic it is. But Tama's main experience with it is actually on the GameBoy Color rather than with the Pokemon trading cards themselves. Today she takes a dive into the topic and shares her experience with it, as well as comparing the game to the popularity of Yugioh and dishing out some little known Pokemon trivia.

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[mnemot]

i dressed as Imakuni? for halloween once - figured if i was going to be standing alone in a corner all night long, at least i'll do it in character

[sae]

I remember everyone just trading the cards for favors and NO ONE knew how to play and also great video!

[KixMayne]

"Yugioh requires a lot less extra steps"
Oh, how that has changed exponentially.

[Calaveso]

Ahh, the neverending suffering of having good Pokémon music tracks on spin-offs and never being able to listen to them in the main series of games.

[MrDesertdan]

I just visited my grandma’s house a few months ago and found 3 binders full of cards she kept for me. It was great seeing all the cards I used to play with 10 or 20 years ago.

[SonofSethoitae]

It's worth noting that Dark Duel Stories was developed along side the rules for the TCG in Japan. IIRC, it represents an earlier version of the TCG rules; the dev team was working with an old version of the rules, while the TCG team changed things on their own, and by the time they found out it was too late for an overhaul.

[LangeManGlenn]

My buddy had the Pokémon TCG GB game, which we referred to as Pokémon Black before Black version was a thing, because of the cartridge colour. I gotta say, I was 5 at the time and we didn't speak English yet (we barely spoke our own language, haha) and this game reeeeally isn't fun if you can't read it.

[williamdunbar]

It’s similar to early yugioh in that there aren’t many ways to search out cards from the deck and do combos. The first couple sets of yugioh were mostly normal monsters with lackluster stat lines, equip spells for each attribute, and then your meta cards like dark hole, swords of revealing light, mirror force, etc

[alfkocli]

"When you're young, you don't really need a lot because your imagination does the rest"
Great quote... I really miss my childhood years. Nevertheless, I enjoy the new adventures in adulthood.

[benwebstr]

I used to watch her when I was extremely young (like 8 or something) but then I moved away from Pokemon. Today I randomly stumbled upon this channel, it it brought be so much joy to see that a bunch of my old favorite YouTubers haven't changed! I haven't felt nostalgia like this in a long time, so thank you for that!

[bryia]

It's a hard things for kids to get their mind around, even adults at times when it comes to these types of card games. The best cards generally aren't the pokemon but the trainers, having 4 bills and 4 professor oaks is a must. Getting to your power cards quickly is the most important part of any competitive card game, as you've seen without it the game come down to massive amounts of luck. That video game is one of the best games I have every played that could teach someone how to play by the card game rules. Most Yu-Gi-Oh games didn't play by the rules at all.

[AtenedoroGonzalez]

I replay the TCG game for the gameboy color every now and then. Definitely brings back nostalgic memories!

[turntsnaco]

For anyone who doesn't know:
There's a sequel, Pokemon Card GB2, with a whole new island filled with gyms, it adds the Team Rocket set, loads of Japan only promos, and even more GB exclusives. The possibilities for decks are so much greater, and there are deck-restrictive challenges which prevent you from just steamrolling the game with a single deck and keeps things interesting.

Highly, highly recommend playing it if you never have. It was never released in the US so it never had an official English release, but there've been a couple of patches/romhacks over the years with English translations for the Japanese ROM. You can track it all down if you are diligent enough, though I feel like it's become harder to recently.

[Darkflo]

I played a lot of this game growing up, and now that the second one with Gen 2 cards has been Fan Translated and is longer and harder, it's make me sad that we never got a follow up on modern hardware.

[TheSliferSlacker]

I actually want to say a quick thing about Yugioh here for a sec, in regards to what you were saying about Roleplaying. I always found this a barrier to the Pokemon TCG too, since I felt I was playing a game ABOUT Pokemon... rather than just, playing Pokemon? In Yugioh, the concept of a Duelist with their own personal optimized deck is baked right into the lore itself, making it really easy to see yourself in the series itself, dueling or hanging out with the characters via a shared interest (even easier in the spin-offs due to their settings in some cases). With the Pokemon card game, I never felt like I was simulating the fun of being a Trainer while ALSO enjoying the mechanics of the game, which for Yugioh, is inherent to the franchise because it's literally all ABOUT real people playing a fictional game (despite heightened elements ofc).

[Thatguy]

Pokemon cards were a gateway drug to Magic The Gathering.

[eliscore]

When I was a kid, the card with the coolest artwork "won" we didn't bother to learn actual rules

[Pownchao]

It was always so much fun looking at the sprite work art in the game and comparing it to my physical cards.

[MisaNotMisa]

"You play this once and you'll be humming the battle theme for the rest of your life"

TRUE.
This music piece alone keeps me coming back to the game every now and then. And there's some charm to the simplest gameplay from the beginnings of the TCG that you can't find in the modern formats. I love building a Venusaur deck on this game.

[Joker]

Fun fact: In Pokemon GBC 2, there was a primape card that did near double damage when confused, and the Computer has Imakuni! In his deck to cause that on purpose.