Pokemon News Story on 60 Minutes Australia 2000 

Imagine the kid traded 3 gameboy games for a 1st edition base set charizard and then his mom took it away and lost it lol

I love how the news guy seems so disgusted by them making money off the kids parents. Like it’s so foreign and weird but now the kids are adults and love this stuff and are super nostalgic.

"Our goal is to be bigger than a Disney-esque franchise" Well, mission accomplished!

Man “The thing is that kids understand Pokémon, and adults don’t” Adults in 2020 “OMG NEW POKÉMON GAMES, NEW POKÉMON MOVIE, NEW POKÉMON CARDS, IMMA GONNA CATCH EM ALL!!!!!!”

"Squirtle, wurtle, blastoise" lol

I *love* videos about the Pokemon hype in the late 90s. Thank you for sharing.

"Kids get it and parents don't" -the first Ok Boomer.

It's crazy to see cards that are worth thousands of dollars just being tossed around

Seeing the full sheets of cards before they get cut is cool

I never understood how adults didn't get Pokemon. It was a fictional universe like so many others. It made perfect sense.

I was part of the Pokemania back in the 90s. I was five years old when I first saw the show. My older brother and his friends had the games and cards and watched the show religiously. I got a hot pink Gameboy Color for my sixth birthday. The first game I played was Pokemon Yellow. The first movie I saw in theaters was Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back. Every kid I knew was into Pokemon. It was the big thing in those days. Sometimes, I reminisce about those days and smile. Life was so simple then.

My dad (and MAD Magazine) said this is just another fad that will pass. 2021 Pokemon still going strong

You kids today have no idea just how big Pokemon was in the late 90's and early 00's

2019, Detective Pikachu on the horizon. Pokemon: Sword, and Pokemon: Shield just announced... POKEMON ISN'T A FAD MOM!

Imagine in 2000 being bold about being above Disney someday *AND BEING CORRECT*

i wonder what card that kid got in exchange for 3 gameboy games.

By 2000 Pokémon had become a world wide phenomenon lol

Gotta love the argument against rare cards. I guess every pack of basketball cards includes a Michael Jordan rookie.

@3:57 “It’s not going away , it’s going to get bigger”

It seems to me that Pokémon does not skip a generation.

Love the vintage Japan footage in this.

Can't wait for the 25th anniversary of Pokemon next month

Those kids better hope they still have their cards

Now in 2017, Pokémon is still huge.

Fun fact pokimon hit every part of the world especially from 1997 to 2004 that was golden era for pokemon

"Sixteen are designated rare because Nintendo makes them that way." Nintendo never changes. Finding those damn NES and SNES Classics was hell.

20 may 2022 im sorry im so late discovered this but thanks a lot for posting this is really precious!!!! I cry bitter tears cause things are just so weak weird empty i really cant describe enjoy TV anymore

I love how salty all the boomers are in this and the icing to it is that all of em claimed pokemon would never last, almost 30 years later here we are

The black cat when she said Mewtwo!

It's funny how they ask questions about pokemon cards being "manipulating" for certain rare versions; back in the 90's and the company just says "its how it is". Yet in 2020- 2022 (as I write this) the concern for lootboxes is being shrugged off by some companies as "surprise mechanics". But to give pokemon some credit back then, at least you have a physical card in your hand, in fact I still have some of mine; it's just interesting how history repeats itself sometimes and comparing them.

Here watching in 2022...God the memories and Nostalgia hits hard with this!🙌

"you intentionally make some cards scarce, your manipulating the market" oh you mean like how every other market at the time was manipulated with limited time products?

3 video games for one card. That one pokemon card is now worth $60,000

Pokemon will exist forever and ever.Bigger than Mickie mouse

You don't see this guy complaining about fashion clothes which is literally the same marketing strategy.

I was hooked when I was 8 or 9 in 1998 went through an awkward phase but never truely stopped loving it. And after the early teens I was an open advid fan again

I played pokemon blue when it first came out. I'm 36 now sitting on a park bench playing Pokemon.

I had that inflatable charmander chair! Got it for Christmas! Plus tons of other Pokémon stuff.

You’d never see kids play like this now

I wonder if adults being dismissive of Pokemon was a universal thing or if it was exclusive to the west.

adults may have thought we were being spoiled.

1:30 this guy really had no idea what he is talking about. Just look at those “kids” now. Sure on the outside we look like adults.

2000: Holographic Charizard 2022: V, VMAX, VSTAR, GX, EX, TAG TEAM, GOLD CARDS, RAINBOWS, LEGENDARIES

Another great nostalgia vid, thanks for this :) it brings back great memories

Love how that mom is mad at Pokemon for her kid being a fool 😂😂🤣

I feel bad for the kids whose parents didn't get them Pokemon Cards especially the 50,000-400, 000 Charizard

It's 2002 all over again.

I wish that Judge Judy episode where the kid ripped the other kids pokemon cards and his father had to pay was uploaded

8:25 Kid made a good trade. Pokemon cards are now worth more than GB carts

Wow, that news reporter really wanted to accuse the Pokemon reps as being criminalistic, especially when talking about rare tcg cards

Let me get this straight, Lego made a robot that paints, let me guess Lego Technic? Or something else?

First edition Charizard is easily more valuable than any three Nintendo games today, maybe kid was just investing genius

Love this so much!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Best upload yet, old today tonight/aca would be really nice if you have them.

I remember watching the show with my dad.

to be fair if the card he traded the game boy games for was a base set charizard then he was not duped. if my memory is correct that card even back in the day was selling in card stores from anyware between 70-100 dollars. meanwhile a brand new gameboy game might have been worth 50$ but a used one is not worth a fraction of that price. if he already beat the game boy games and got all the enjoyment he could out of them then he actually made a good trade financially speaking since he could sell the card for more than the games. but that is only if it was one of a very few cards. i think blastoise was going for 60 when i was a kid and im pretty sure about that because i remember begging my mom to buy one for me and her refusing because it was a 60$ card only for it to show up in one of my Christmas presents. so even blastoise would have been a good trade.

Lol, got recommended this since I'm looking back on old liken stuff now that the main series with Ash is gonna end. I forgot how common this "Pokemon is evil" stuff was and it's hilarious to watch.

Memories

Wow if they only new

incrivel como a primeira geração de Pokémon era uma febre, quando lançaram Pokémon Go foi uma nostalgia muito grande por causa dos 151 primeiros pokémon e da abertura clássica.

My aunt worked at toys r us when I was a kid me and my cousins grew up loving Pokemon and had a very good collection of cards , after the news saying pokemon is evil , my grandmother grabbed a trash bag and threw all my pokemon cards away, few years later she apologized and let me collect again , but never had the cards I used to have 😢

Mickey pissed himself when he heard that last part

It was clear to me at the start of this the narrator was very much against Pokemon. He talks about Pokémon “manipulating” the market with all the while he’s trying to “manipulate” his questions in such a way to try to trap people into negative answers.

What if Kirby and Pokemon switched places? TBC they both started on the Gameboy and both have an anime with great voice acting.

as an adult now i still dont understand the fuss about pokemon back in the day from the adults perspective. like i get that it was this new thing that came in and dominated your kids life so you became skeptical about it but as an adult when something like that happens to my kids thats a sign to me that i should learn about it so i can judge its dangers for myself. and really the only dangerous aspect about pokemon was the semi gambling that is involved with opening booster packs. and i would understand if the outrage was surrounding that but it was all about demons and violence which made no sense to me then and still makes no sense to me now.

The Pokemaniac n64 in the background! 9:45. I still have mine in its box!

Oh my gosh, the interviewer is so smug 😷 How is Pokémon bad for children exactly?

12:55 Pokemon plans on being the next Disney (Pikachu = Mickey Mouse)

I love how he tried making rare cards seem like market manipulation lmao

Adults not understanding Pokémon, not even thinking that adults created it and ran the companies involved with all the products. Plain ignorance lol. I’ll always love Pokémon. Wish I could go back to summer of 98 when it first hit the US. I miss those times dearly.

Wish I could get paid good money to wear a suit and read off a teleprompter while not knowing anything about what I'm talking about

imagine y2k, your kid starts speaking bulbasaur squirtile charmeleon plankton fire energy professor oak nigga you speaking chinese

i love aall the 90 footage

Squirtle, wurtle and Blastoise.

4:04 stock sound effect of audience cheering

I love Squirtle wirtle

This guy totally wishes that he bought the cards then - the "rare" cards are worth thousands of dollars

I Hate The Fact That The News Reporter Calls Pokemon A Language Because Most Pokemon Literally Say Their Own Name As A Form Of Communication With The Pokemon Themselves.

My brother loves Pokemon and he will not stop talking me and the rest of my family are not into Pokemon so I send him this just to teach him a lesson AND HE WENT RIGHT OFF LIKE NO JOKE

Where's Maxmoefoepokemon?

Well pokemons names are now a language

Hate it when they think that they’re manipulating, yes, a goal is profits, but they want their audience to be happy too. He was also all like, so they’ll buy more. The man said it’s called a trading card game, they’ll trade. The only time they’d really need/whatever is when they have no cards. Also, idk wth is wrong with those ppl who said it teaches violence.

The attitude of the adults reminds me of when SpongeBob came out. Adults were so uppity about this silly nonsense for kids that they couldn’t appreciate the show’s genuinely clever writing.

My dad use to get mad at my older brother for trading rare cards with kids in the 90s 😂so he took them away till he had better sense in trading 😅

Kids back then: $5 a pack is a ripoff 😅

"we do not bring Pokemon cards here" ah that good old British douchebaggery (Yes I understand that Australia is different in many ways but there are a great deal of near-identical similarities to England)

“pokémon will just be getting bigger and better” 2016: Pokémon Go blew up to bring the second Pokémania 2019: Pokémon Sword and Shield are the best selling pokémon games since Gold and Silver in 1999 2022: Pokémon legends Arceus , a new type of open world pokémon game is releasing in 3 weeks !! edit: and recently, Sword and Shield have become the second best selling pokémon games EVER, and Legends arceus has the second biggest switch launch week second just to Animal Crossing New Horizons!! what a crazy world.

OMG I saw MaxMoeFoe!!

I just want to know what the fuck that kid traded two gameboy games for so I can decide if it was a good deal

In Australia too? This was a worldwide phenomenon wasn't it?

Did that kid trade a Clefairy for a Rhydon at the beginning of the video?! 😂😂😂 Worst trade ever.

"Wurtle"

Not saying Pokemon "Satanic" or "banned" in 1999/2000 news!?

who stole pokemon cards from other people in school?

2000 when Pokemon "first came out"??? How far behind were you Aussies back then?

What card did old mate get for his 3 games?

Now in 2018 is still big will Never die hahaha

Pokémon school????????? What the fuck???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm just contemplating how cheap pokemon is now compared to just about every other game tempting me to buy it with extra microtransactions every month, early pre-launch sales or DLC addons that are just digital clothes and emotes. Also, how Pokemon completely steamrolled Digimon in marketing.

The only that comes kinda close to Pokemon in the last 20 years is probably Fortnite.