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

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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

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

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

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I was so into yugioh, even though most of my cards were fake, instead of bothering my friend with constantly duels i would make tournaments with my stuff animals and switch to the other side of the bed each turn. I even pretended one of my cards was the Seal of Orichalchos and the loser plush would be trapped in their most powerful card.

Pokemon cards were a gateway drug to Magic The Gathering.

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

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 RU-vidrs haven't changed! I haven't felt nostalgia like this in a long time, so thank you for that!

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).

"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.

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

Listening to your voice and seeing you turn the cards back and forth to show off the shine is great ASMR :) It really helps my anxiety.

I’ve spent so much money on tcg and don’t even know how to play. I just like collecting them lol. I have all the e-reader tcg cards 💕

I really love it that you decided to cover this game. Played it a while back and as soon as you played the battle music I couldn't help but hum along. Very good video.

This was my first "official" Pokemon Game, because I didn't understand the idea of a tcg. I still have it and it's one of favorite games, wish there was more.

Just wanted to say thanks for making this content. I remembered watching your videos a few years ago and enjoying them then a few weeks ago the algorithm gave me your gen 4 video and now I cant stop watching them.You got a great variety of fun thoughtful topics. Keep up the great work and good luck at your job.

Watching you go through your collection is like a great big punch in the nostalgia for me. So many memories.

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.

Used to watch many of your older videos. Happy to see you back. Go at your own pace, we’ll watch whenever 👍🏻.

Oh my god. I just recently started playing this game since missing out on it in my childhood and getting into collecting Pokemon cards last year. I had no clue you made this video until today. Awesome nostalgia-filled retrospective. Keep pumping out the awesome content Tama! Round of applause.

Ayo this was my favorite channel for a long time back when I was big into Pokémon and I just wanted to say thank you for the entertainment from when I was littler... I watched them glitch videos all the time. I don’t know what it is but I make videos myself now and there’s probably some side of youtube I’ve learned through you over time that I applied in my channel because of you so thank you 🙏

I loved this game so much thanks for the vid Tama. Although starting with one pokemon and trying to find a team is way more luck based than knowing what's in your deck and drawing it.

I'm loving these new videos, they feel like you really enjoyed making it, keep it up :)

I absolutely love this game, though I do like the second Japan-only game a bit more. It's crazy reading the comments and seeing how many people actually don't know how to play the game! I mean, if you don't know how to play the Pokemon TCG, then good luck with Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG, those games are insanity in comparison to Pokemon. That aside, the music in this game, specifically all of the dueling themes, and ESPECIALLY the Club Leader Duel are some of the best out there, and if I may make a recommendation, look up Jonny Atma's cover of that song, that's how you give some representation to a very underrated track. EDIT: The fact that YOU did a Professor Oak's Challenge is awesome, glad to see it's become popularized!

THE MUSIC!!! That clip just gave me a headache remembering all the hours i stared at the screen on full brightness eek

Playing this game on Switch Online is so great since you can cancel out the RNG and just reset the duel till you get good hand of cards.

Omg yes!! I discovered you a few months ago when I started playing Pokémon Silver again and I was so sad it had been so long since your last video! So glad you’re still making them! Keep up the amazing work!

This is such a comprehensive video, and I love the digitized card art. Might try to find a copy of this game. Also the point on larger collections losing a personal flair is such a good point. I love seeing collections that are smaller just to see what’s there.

Great vid i didn't know about your channel until i saw jacks vid but this was great :D

Awesome review, I love your honesty. The way you transitioned through topics was so smooth. You got me very nostalgic so it’s story time. Before my mom bought me my first Pokémon game at age 9, I watched the tv show and my older siblings play the card game competitively for years. I inherited all their cards when I was around 8 and I regularly checked out an old school guidebook for Red/Blue/Yellow from the library (the one that featured Mew and Togepi as “new discoveries”) and I would read a little bit every day. It didn’t say anywhere it was for the video games and there was no trainer artwork. I studied it little by little every night and I set up a deck for each gym leader each week and eventually the elite four then later Mewtwo. I pretended to raise a team starting with base forms before earning their evolutions. I didn’t take it easy on myself when pretending to battle and “earned” my way to the top with my team lmao. I would even leave cards in places around the house and pretend to go hunting and battle to catch them! My way of playing was basically like yugioh since I didn’t have any of the accessories or understanding of how the card game actually worked so I used the energy cards as “shields”. I honestly had the time of my life and when my mom got me Leaf Green brand new it felt like a ticket to a world I dreamed of going to forever. This world had finally come to life and I took my sweet time exploring and training through Kanto (about a year to become champ and I had over 100 Pokémon). Finally getting my hands on Johto and Hoenn Pokémon at age 10 is another love story all together. I love Pokémon so much, thanks Tama best wishes at your new job!!!

1: your videos are good 2: congrats on being on RU-vid this long and thanks for helping jack!

Your description at the beginning of using your imagination for the cards (drawing, making your own game, etc) brought a tear to my eye. Pokemon was a gateway for me for creating and making my own things. Makes me happy someone else had the same feeling or sentiment about how we were young with these games lol.

yesss new tama video ❤️ just what i needed today

Great video, have fun and good luck with your new job Tama

Loved this video good job Tama!

I enjoyed this video, It’s bittersweet that your next one is not for a while. See you when you’re ready Tama

Great video as always, Tama! In the beginning, I definitely had a lot of trouble not overloading my deck with Pokémon, cause I wanted to play with all my favorites, not just the good cards. Now I know I have to build a balanced deck, which is fun to play when you get all the combos going, but building them is kind of a drag.

When I was probably like 9, I found a Japanese copy of the game at a flea market before it came out in the US. I ended up getting it for Christmas like right after and was super excited because I had a pokemon game that I never heard of that hadn’t come out here (at that point). My biggest claim to fame is that I was so determined to play it that I managed to fumble my way through it and beat it in Japanese at 9 years old LOL. 20 years later and I still never knew what the story was about.

You're right about the battle theme. I very briefly played this back when I was a kid and it's been stuck in my head ever since.

Great video. I'm pretty jealous how you have so many things from your childhood. I usually ended up losing or forgetting about things I had in my childhood. Good luck in your job and hope all goes well. Will be here waiting for ya.

This was one of my favorite games in the Pokemon franchise, mainly because of how charming it is. The beginning can be a bit challenging I agree, the best strategy in the early game is to utilize cheap commons with easy consistent value like Staryu and Machop while you hunt rares. Also to get more energies, you can play the guy from the tutorial. The decks don't get shuffled so you can beat him the same way over and over.

Your always so wholesome in videos, loving this one

I knew how to play the cards as a kid and did often. I love this game too. The grandmaster battle theme is still to this day my favorite piece of game music from any game.

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi moc šikovná. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

2:43 *Cries in Master Rule 5* 2:47 *Also cries in Madolche fan*

I loved this game!! Thanks for a great video Tama!

From Jack 😂❤️

that battle theme took me back in a way i didnt expect and almost made me cry and I barely played TCG GBC

Have a nice time away! This was a pleasant look into the TCG. I just got more into it recently, but now we're back in a stricter lockdown, and I can't test my newest deck XD.

I just started playing Pokemon TCG on GBC again about 3 days ago, I never played it as a kid and now I'm HOOKED! It taught me how to play the actual card game now and I hate that I've missed out for so long by just collecting. Great video! :)

That was so amazingly off track in the best way. So bizarre yet so interesting. I really wasn’t expecting a Japanese children’s show get brought up in this video but I’m glad it did.

It's really bizar but I have some very good memories of this short game, so it must have been worthwhile back then. Great video.

Even if you aren't a TCG fan, I really enjoyed hearing your perspective on the whole thing. I practically lived for TCG collecting at one point, and this video kind of brings me back to those days.

Congratulations on your new job and good luck!

I saw this video in my recommended as I was playing this game and looking on youtube for something to watch while I play :D what a coincidence

Great video tama keep up the great work

Thanks for helping jackkk

I just found your content yesterday and I got to say u make amazing content

WOW Tama, you have the best card collection I've seen a while!

did you record this sat on your second youtube 100k subscriber 2013 directors chair?

I actually really enjoyed this game growing up! Thanks for the review!

Congrats on the new gig 🎉

Coming back to this video after an hour of playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game on the 3DS virtual console. I have discovered I am not good at it, but 10-year-old me would have probably loved it and obsessed over it.

Just as a fun fact, that game shown at 8:25 is actually based on (or reskinned from?) another gameboy game called Cyraid

I remember being fascinated by the trading cards because I was so into the video games. I was so happy the day I pulled my favorite Pokemon back in the early generation 1 days -- Zapdos!

pokemon tcg aged like wine, getting boosters in the game was brilliant and the gameplay ai did cheat but it was also challenging and not too easy which is good.

I had gotten a VHS tape at a gas station as a kid explaining how to play the card game with a singalong and some live action bits. I never wanted to actually play the TCG because of it but it was the first major purchase I got to make with my own money for just something stupid and I'll never forget it.

I wish there was a Pokemon/Yugioh TCG video game that starts out with the original cards and then as you progress through the story, the formats change just like they did in real life. It happens slow enough that you're able to appreciate every format and the change to current format isn't so jarring.

This was a cool video to watch! I have to say though, that "HA" about 11 minutes in had me rolling with laughter for some reason XD

Thanks for covering this. My first ever Pokemon game so...so many feels. I love that you dived into the lore of Imakuni. He has a few card art credits as well.

I came here sfter watching the Didyouknow Gaming featuring you :) thanks for this nostalgia trip~

Tama, thanks for the fun content, hope you end up making more fun videos, you got this

I still go back and play this game all the time. One ofnky favorite games of all time.

Tama: *plays Pokémon TCG music* Ad: it’s just flawless isn’t it?

Back when I was in elementary school I had some knowledge of the card game (but it took to long to set up and play) [also they banned them from schools for obvious reasons which I still think was dumb] ...

That final evolution of Hatterene in the thumbnail sure looks great!

Good luck with the job, Tama!

Amazing video! 😍

Great video!

Your love for Pokemon is beyond awesome.

I adored that gameboy card game as a kid. No one else I knew played it though, so I'm glad to see it getting some love.

Seeing the title brought back memories of watching a poketuber do a playthrough of the game. It seemed so fun, coming from someone that’s never played the TCG and has played Yugioh. IMO, it sounds like the methods for getting more cards seemed pretty lacking but what can ya do, old game and all. And I just remembered the charizard starter deck I got when I was a child and it got lost years and years ago... dangit lolol

Thank You for sending Jack one of your chairs he really appreciates it

Oh, how I wish I still had my old cards! I'm slowly building up a collection but it's pretty wild how expensive it is now to complete a set.

Love the game and the video! Will you ever do a video on "Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR! "?

Darn you Tama. I had just gotten that theme out of my head and you put it back in. I did enjoy this game though. I'm 34 so I would've been...idk how old when I played it years ago when it came out. Song's been stuck in my head for years.

I found your perspective on the gameplay (the RNG and team building mechanics leading to a less role-play esque experience) really interesting, and appreciate that this game, especially at the beginning, can be pretty frustrating. I, however, absolutely love this game. To me, meticulously crafting a deck to counter a specific opponent, shut out any weaknesses or make use of an interesting card is the main meat of this game, whereas actually using the deck is more just an experiment to measure the success of the build. I find building the decks and coming up with new ideas incredibly fun, then seeing them in action deeply satisfying. When my decks lose because of something RNG or seemingly unfair, I view that as a weakness of the deck and go back to the drawing board to adjust it, closing the loopholes. As such, my absolute favourite part of the game is the multi-opponent machine in the postgame, which makes you use one deck against a random selection of the game's opponents. It's so satisfying to win in this mode and build up a streak that I keep coming back for more, even years later. That this game has (in my opinion) the best music of any game on the system, too, just makes it even better. Especially that club master theme. The Japan-only sequel to this game is far, far bigger, with far more cards and opponents and a much much bigger map, as well as special duels with opponents who literally enforce their own extra rules to cheat. In this game, the opponents are so unfairly strong at times that it forces you to use a wider variety of cards just to beat them, which means more deck building and more coming up with unique strategies. I can't get enough, and strongly recommend anyone to give it a go! There is an unofficial English patch available online.

Happy Halloween Toma Hero, I hope you stay safe and have fun this year.

Facing flying Pikachu in this game was brutal!

Good luck and have fun on the temp job you got