KGBT 4 Archives - "Pokemon" Mania (October 9, 1999) 

After The Phantom Menace, the nation was sweeping with Pokemon.

The video ended before we found out if the guy got something good in his pack. lol Anyway. Wow. What a blast from the past! So neat to see those cards getting made and the Beckett collectors guide! :)

Those packs are going for thousands of dollars now and especially those booster boxes are going for 10s of thousands of dollars now , unbelievable.

"A kid's game, with an adult's price tag." Sounds like the current amiibo situation here in the USA....

Oh man seeing that green pack with the wigglytuff being sold at 1:14 was so nostalgic, I think I remember opening that same one

"The winners supposed to keep the other player's cards" That is NOT how the freaking game works. No wonder the Islamic governments banned the game for "gambling"...

People back then: 7 dollars for a box way to much money People now:bruh there lucky

I was born in 1997, but I remember watching pokemon as a kid. Nowadays kids don't go crazy over pokemon like they used to. Instead they go crazy over frozen

Ah, those were the days

back then we were crazy about pokemon :)

Ah yes, the 3 most popular pokemon, pikachu, mankee, and snorlax

Uummm.. ... those base set booster boxes are going for like $5000 now.

@1:30 the official first pokemon pack opening on youtube video

Damn back when Valle Vista Mall was a thing in the 90s and 00s I would run up to KB toys just to get pokemon cards best childhood of my life.

love this video!! please keep it up. love pokemon

Lol the shop owner saying your meant to win the other kids cards.

I still have the 1,000 that i had to trade a stuffed togepi, and a stuffed mew to get

"It's a Japanese term short for 'Pocket Bonster'"

Wow Pokemon Is My Favorite

There was a Yo Yo craze in 2000-01 tho dw bruh

Life points is yugioh..

$20 in 1999 money?! Adjusted for inflation in 2021, that’s like what, $1.6mil?

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It's not like that anymore :(

@raigekiman I'm on, its just that it don't show it, I changed the settings, I might turn that off cause friends can't see me that way.

@raigekiman I still like it, man I long for the good old days

I can't watch a Pokemon-related news report without hearing either the PNF news music from Channel or the ONBS news music from Colosseum/XD. Also, 1:16 did you that Ty made Pokemon Beanie Babies years later?

cool vid

@checkerknights3 of course we cant how do we know when your there?

they have actual pokemon centers in seattle. true story

he got hypno cards!

@raigekiman yeah its something I do with most accounts though, I'll change it tonight when I'm playing

Nowadays the booster boxes form this generation are worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars if they happen to be in great condition. so crazy

oh yea he forgot to do the card trick on that last opening

I'm a fan of Pokemon I play Pokemon Go I've been playing Pokemon Go since 2022

This is what killed baseball card collecting.

Shadowless Venusaur

@checkerknights3 speaking games why arent you online to play DOA Dimensions?

You I wish i could have the whole first edition booster box and sell it for more

Pokemon is cool

people don’t die either, they only lose energy and faint….. forever.

Funny comments hearing from these 90's kids about the 90's being the "good old days" too young to have known the 1970's, the real good old days!!

@checkerknights3 ok np

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