We timewalk back to the birth of Japanese Trading Card Games in the mid-1990s, looking at the development history of Japan's first TCG: the Pokémon Trading Card Game!
I can't begin to understand how your videos HASN'T been spread around like wildfire by the Pokemon Community. All of this information is EXTREMELY informative and paints a picture into the past of the CCG that I don't think Ive seen spread around like this before. I seriously hope more people notice this video and get you recognized because dude, you deserve it
Well thank you very much! I'm not very engaged in the Pokemon community, so it's partly my fault for not being more involved 😅 But if you want it to get more traction, you could always spread it around yourself. It's harder for video creators to spread their stuff around these days because of all the regulations against self-promotion on social media, so we do depend on our fans to share it instead.
I've discovered your History of the Japanese TCG videos after coming across it looking for Yugioh content. These are incredibly made and definitely deserve way more views!
Thank you for making this series, I have been telling my friends all about it. The videos are also making me think about how I can improve my own TCG videos in the future.
Great video - randomly showed up on my feed with MTG stuff. I knew MTG was influential being the first card game, but I had no idea it so directly influenced the creation of Pokemon. Awesome video! Looking forward to watching the series.
Holy crap, your videos are so well researched and informative, how the hell is your channel this small? You deserve millions of views for these amazing videos.
Oh goodness, that pokemon tcg gameboy song is hitting me right in the nostalgia. I'm still holding hope that one day it'll get a remake/spiritual sequel, with a single player focus.
I've been hoping for one too, but I doubt it would ever happen in this era of microtransactions...for what it's worth, one of the big guys at Tribute Games has been brainstorming an original game in the same style, though he isn't actually making it yet. Every time he tweets about it he's got my attention: twitter.com/adamjmarin/status/1366054545571385345
It is indeed a thing! Itoi was 8th in the world championship back in the 90s, and is still President of Japan's Monopoly Association. Hasbro approves competitive tournaments for Monopoly if they meet their criteria, and worlds is hosted roughly every 4-6 years at this point.
Not exactly a reference, but they are similar "mascot" type characters, using a real-world likeness to promote the games across a few different mediums. Other Japanese card games did this too, like at different times Digimon Hyper Colosseum used Super Digimonkey, Tailmon Betsu, and a gladiator-type character I'm forgetting the name of that was played by the TCG's designer.
