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Oh my god, please continue this series, talking about the new cards/pokémon that came in with each additional set, how it changed the format/what the meta was back then and when rotations hit/how it effected the game. I have SO much nostalgia for the first 3 sets so would love for you to carry this on! :D

I too was 10 when the pokemon TCG came to the states. I was already hooked on the show and games so I just had to get the cards. I played competitively (Rain Dance Blastoise) until I was 13 then Yu-Gi-Oh came and I switched to that for a few years. Then I gave all of it up when I turned 15 or 16 and pursued other activities. I continued to play the games on gameboy but stopped collecting and sold all my pokemon and yu-gi-oh collections, which I regret to this day. Then I started watching your videos on youtube a few years ago and it brought me back into the TCG. Now its something I get to share with my daughter and its almost like getting a second childhood because I get to teach her all of the generations that I grew up with.

The early days of the TCG were truly insane, just like this video!

I love this new type of video, TrickyGym, reminds me of early Jwittz

i would love more of this, maybe make this into a series?

i remember my very first electabuzz deck, man 1999 was so long ago

I love these videos covering the old cards/formats! I was in elementary school when the cards hit the U.S. and I remember collecting and spending so much time just admiring the artwork. Only a few kids actually knew how to play the TCG and always drew a crowd at recess. Really takes me back, thanks!

OMG more of these videos! I don't get to play much anymore, but videos like this let me re-live the times I spent playing ptcg at Galactic Greg's Comic book shop way back in the day. Love what you're doing with the old formats. With I could like this video twice.

Awesome video! I was 9 when pokemon was released and remember playing the game like it was yesterday. I'm 29 now and still love the game.

Takes me back to being a kid and playing cards in the mall before Wizards of the Coast opened up and took over thank you for this awesome look back in time

Just yesterday I searched “Pokémon tcg history” but didn’t find the type of video and quality I was looking for. Today this shows up in my sub box and it’s literally was i wanted to watch. Great quality and good trip down memory lane. Hope there’s more of this coming!

Love the video. Make more of these. I play base to neo format every week. I love old pokemon cards. Great channel

Thanks for uploading this, Tricky Gym! I was 9 when Pokemon came to North America, but I never learned how to play the game, and never looked back at how the original game played compared to today. It’s refreshing to see how powerful the trainer cards were. Keep up the great work!!

This is the type of content I love to see! Amazing video my dude. I have a tattoo of Scyther and Fossil Haunter which I won my first ever cup with in 2000! I absolutely adored those formats. I think I ran Gyarados/Dodrio/Lickitung as my first competing deck

I was around eleven when the cards came to brazil in 1999, they were too expensive for us but I was deadset on collecting them all, I remember the dragonite card being my wallpaper on the old family computer. Sadly, since it was expensive I only had one guy to play with and I was too young to ride alone the bus downtown to play with other kids. It started to get old for me so I stopped collecting them, gladly I still have them somewhere.

Man watching this video makes me want to play some base set. I'm 31 and that's what I grew up on. That was an awesome video man.

This was absolutely incredible and very well made. Please continue this with other sets.

Please do more of these history lecture style videos covering old formats and meta shifts. I absolutely love them.

9:06 -> 9:09 Dahm straight :D Haha amazing video Andrew, brings back a lot of memories from back in the days!

This is a great series, Andrew! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. I remember my days back in base format as well. So cool to bust out old cards and play a more simplified game. Love the channel, love the content!

Quality. Can't wait to see more of these, I know you talk about these base set decks but I have no idea about any of the formats moving forwards.

Hoping you continue this series! I didn’t play back then (only started playing casually during Sun and Moon era cards) so this was both intriguing and a very informative video :)

You are one of the few content creators with good knowledge of ancient formats, more history lessons please!

The Pokémon TCG online could upload all this collections, I miss so much to play old formats

Love this vid. Nostalgia is powerful

Awesome video!! Love the vintage format videos. 🙌

WOW! This is such a great video very informative!

Thank you for making me revive such good memories. When I started TCG I remember Mewtwo Sponge was dominating the format. :)

That golden time between the end of the 90's and beginning of the 00's. Best timing ever being around 8 yo in 99. Collecting cards, playing for them, saving money for boosters. I never played competitive back in the day, just chilled with my friends and now I can see how innocent we were lol. Never had seen an Item finder card till I got adult. But still, gust of wind, plus power and energy removal made me won so many matches I'm forever grateful for them.

I love this. Please do more of this!!

I remember I used to have a Hitmonchan. Buying the starter deck at Walgreens and getting that Machamp was incredible. I saw Chansey at my first card shop and she was like sixteen dollars, that blew my mind.

Amazing content. Please continue the series on all the past metas! Really fascinating.

While I could easily watch retro openings for hours on end, this kind of video is so refreshing (and massively nostalgic!). Pulling those epic holo cards was amazing, but it's so easy to forget about those of us who were old enough to get to grips with the TCG at the time. More please! It would also be cool to see if you have any more old decks lists of yours from the later Gen 1 and early 2 era TCGs. :D

i love playing the gen 1 format on TCG ONE! you can play base set only, base-jungle, and classic in quickplay mode however, but as a career player, i play gen 1 which is base set to gym. and i use Jason's blog for a lot of my decks, including my favourite "Tickling Machine Moltres!" that deck has won me so many games on the site, its untrue! and so unfair at the same time.

Killer vid! Brings back so many memories from that year and playing tournaments at toys r us every saturday. Too bad I gave up the game after that year, until around the time team up came out. I missed out on so much over the years. I'd love to see more vids like this showcasing the different formats over the years.

This will be a popular video Another great one!

I look forward to when this progresses far enough to encompass the Pokemon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy (or Virtual Console), minus those exclusive promos of course. Or you could surprise me and cover that as its own format. Keep up the good work!

Loving this format of video, I hope to see you do more of these from later sets and formats as well

I play old formats with custom rules. The more op broken trainers are treated like the modern supporter cards. Makes a lot more cards viable. Its still fun and you get to see many crazy builds

That was DOPE! Really enjoyed this Video!!!!

I was 7/8 when Pokemon came to the U.S. This video was epic! Thanks for this 😄

Love this video, it’s amazing how the meta used to work at the beginning and it’s funny that the stall always existed 😂

I remember reading about a world champ deck in a magazine, based around chansey and decking out the oppenent. I was 10 and it was the first time Id heard of a stall deck, or realized you could win without brute force

Love it man! Keep it up

Can’t wait for 2008-2010

Amazing video, I been looking for content like this ever since I started back playing a couple weeks ago last time I played was 2017. I used to collect and play some during base set too. I was so young though I don't remeber it much. Also me and my brother did not play very long cause we got into Magic and our town had a community for MTG but not Pokemon so we stopped playing Pokemon. Anyways I watched the 6k stream and been watching a lot of your youtube. Amazing content and great player! Keep it up!! (:

Great video, thank you for that breakdown. Just bought from base set cards going to attempt to play with a few buddies.

Great video! I love me some retro formats

Hey Trick, love the video. You're the reason I got back into pokemon. Keep up the awesome content and I'll do the same. Thanks for being awesome!

Would love if they did reprints to make theme decks you could buy for Haymaker, Rain Dance, Alakazam-Chansey stall and something like Buzzapdos

I loved this so much pls do more

This is great. Would love to see more videos like these in the future. Work on that audio tho. It's very echoey.

Man I loved base set. My favorite set has always been Fossil. I own a complete set of it, and opened it the most of any set. Also, 2:53 you’re a card flicker -.- degenerates...

I never played Pokémon but I’ll watch this and love it. Excuse me while I go play some goat format in Yugioh.

:-) please make additional videos going forward :-D I was ...14/15 when this game came to Germany and every kid had the cards. I've played the Gameboy Game and liked it but unfortunately never had anyone to play the card game with and everyone just collected the cards so i knew there was a game but didn't know how to play and my parents didn't get me a starterdeck (well i wouldn't had anyone to play with). My tcg experience just came when ygo hit the shores here in Germany and until 3 years ago i played it in higher ranked tournaments ... but at around 25 or so we started to play only locally. I've quit now and just play Final Fantasy tcg. With Pokemon TCG i learned the rules when i was able to buy some decks and played with friends just for fun. For "old" formats my friends and i now just print the old cards and play with them :)

I love this video this is awesome I hope you do more videos like this

Please do more battles with these old school decks!

i love the old formats wish you did more decks if someone like old formats check out drunkshuckle on youtube he does great content to

Great vid!!!

I wanna cry, i had like 45 cards and throw them in the bin when i was small (10 years old), as i felt it took too much of my time! It was less than my phone now! 🤐

Great vid

when i was 6 in 1996 i didnt know how to play i just collected the cards the best card that i pulled was charizard base set! 1st ed scream my pants offf! lol after fossil i kinda stop collecting again got into yugioh watching the tv series playing Red and blue and all the the pokemon games that came out until in 2017 i got back into to magic i play magic for a while since high school one day my friends were playing pokemon TCG i was like this seems interesting ! so i trade some of my magic stuff to play pokemon and oh boy i got hoooked like crazy! ever since then i i loved playing the card game and every card i pulled was like luck for me i had the magic touch pulling full arts secrets and half arts i wanna thanks one of my friends that got me into the game and the first deck i build was garbador gumshoos gx pokjemon is always lit!!

there is a format in mtg named dan dan, someone could create something similar using one shared haymaker deck

Great video

You should do the neo sets they were my favorite an my first time playing the game

Crazy that as sought after and popular he was for collectors, Charizard doesn’t even get a mention here. lol

Hoping for a legacy base set in pokemon tcgo :3

Busted video 👍🏾

Lol, Andrew doing his news anchor impression. Feels like watching the nightly news.

wish i could find someone to play retro tcg with. i still have all my cards.

The good days of saving plus powers for knock out.

Was Charizard too expensive for you to make a deck, or was it just not that great? I was expecting to see a deck with that 'mon since it's so popular.

Love the vid I do kinda wish you sounded less monotone, I’m so used to your style that I felt you were depressed in this vid 😅but I can get used to it ❤️

Will this be a new series ? It was great!

This guy looks like one of those Pokemon Red trainers who randomly wanna fight you.

I was twenty when they came out lol

Guys is there a place online where I can play this old set?

Okay but can I PLEASE have that pkaymat you were using in this video?

Hmm, sounds to me like you would only need to ban energy removal cards to make this format a whole lot more interesting?

Are you doing the other formats Plz!!! Do 2007 metanite for life!!!

Is it possible to play this Base Version online????

what's the lore on that playmat?

Can you otk in Pokemon?

I want to play

How do I play this sets online?

Where I find this game?

Does it drive you as crazy as it does me that Pokemon TCG collecting has never evolved beyond "This Pokemon is popular, so it's worth more!"? Farfetch'd, for example, holds less value than Magmar, despite Farfetch'd being a great competitive card and Magmar being practically unused; both uncommons. Same with Electabuzz vs Beedrill as rares, Beedrill is worth ~$100 more in PSA 9 despite being a terrible card and Electabuzz being one of the best cards in the set. Poketubers act disappointed to pull these cards when they should revel in their history as beasts of the competitive past.

i build a mewto/muk deck

arcaaanine

Broken Trainers: The Game

Decklists?

The format back then was so broken. Haymaker decks/Blastoise decks ran rampant. Not very fun if you didnt have the cards to make these decks.

Throw those glasses in the trash or light them on fire omg

ok

I love the content of this video but man I wish he didn’t speak with the inflections of a stereotypical news reporter.