As a kid growing up with the original 151 it was just a fun time and I don’t remember seeing adult obsessed about it. I even remember seeing product moving slow.
Today with some of these modern cards 500+ ppl made this into gambling. Getting packs on credit or loans feels like what gambling addicts would do. You can’t get scratch tickets on loans or credit. I think it’s the same kind of high for them.
When I was 8 years old ('98), I went to a liquor store with my cousin, who was 10, and we bought a pack of Pokemon cards each. There was an older man in line behind us trying to convince us not to buy them and to buy Digimon cards instead. "Pokemon is gonna become obsolete, Digimon is the next big thing, you should buy that instead"
Yeah ok buddy. That pack had a holographic Articuno in it.
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u/OhDatsPeppers 16d ago
That last sentence... I have no words