The pixel art from this game is so nostalgic and gorgeous to me, that I've been painstakingly physically cross stitching them for the past two years. It's a long process, but they look incredible all put together and it just warms my heart looking at them

I always thought the Pokémon TCG GB game art was fantastic as a kid. Replaying the game as an adult, the amount of care and detail that went into recreating the original cards is ridiculous! It manages to be both faithful to the original art yet super readable on the GB/GBC. In my opinion, adding an outline to the Pokémon does a lot of the work and is the smartest decision they made. Thank you very much for going deep into this topic. Turns out, they went even further than I thought! This was a great video on a great game :'D

A little known fact: Pokémon Gold and Silver actually are compatible with the Super Game Boy. It works more like Pokémon Red and Blue did, with areas being given the same color palette rather than the more colorful Game Boy Color graphics. Also, at night, everything turns a dark shade of cyan/teal, which looks really unique. It's a really interesting and unique way to play, and I definitely recommend it to everyone. Edit: A lot of people are talking about how they want to see this for themselves, but they don't have a Super Game Boy to try it with. Most Game Boy emulators are able to emulate the Super Game Boy pallette, so you might want to try that.

Both of the tcg games are easily in the top 10 gameboy games ever, the level of quality and hard work put into them is insane.

The things people pulled off on the Game Boy are still impressive to this day.

Pokemon Card GB is a game that always needs more appreciation, it's just a wonderfully designed game. Thanks for your great work on the video!

The pixel art versions of cards have become of my favorite features of the game. It's really impressive how they made so much work with such limitations. It makes me sad we'll never have another game like the pokemon tcg games

I _really_ like this video. Retro art that actually used hardware limitations is always more interesting to me than just regular pixel art. Would love to see another video about this kind of thing.

Dude that wasn't all over the place at all, that was an incredible video. You're such a great explainer, and you made such great explanatory graphics through the whole thing. This must've been a ton of work, and I learned a bunch of cool stuff!

The art and music of this game are insane and it's disappointing to see so little talk about them. I could literally notice which cards were illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita even though I hadn't seen the original card before. They recreated the different styles of illustrators and 3D renders with impressive accuracy.

Thanks for showing off how special and intricate the artwork in the game is - and for explaining it in an entertaining way that everyone can understand. Most of us probably never would have realized how much effort went into these graphics without this video!

I've been making my own GBC game from scratch and boy, I can imagine how difficult that yugioh art must have been to put together. I have so much more appreciation for these games now!

Sick break down of the pixel art in these games! Pokemon TCG was probably the first game that really had me admiring pixel art, so it's cool to see what goes into it

The artists doing these conversions are very talented.

I've come back to this video like 5 or 6 times since my first watch, really inspirational for me artistically not just seeing the art for the game, but the process behind it, thank you!

It was so well done that I never noticed there were only ever 4 colors on the cards.

Been really enjoying your videos this week; keep up the good work!

Nice to see some love for the TCG RPG.

this was such an awesome video. i do a lot of pixel art myself, and being a fan of the TCG game for the gameboy made this all the more interesting. the way that the developers had such limited possibilities with making the artwork but still managed to pull it off amazingly is really fascinating to me. stuff like this is what keeps me motivated with making pixel art. thank you for making this, it's not only really informative but also super interesting as well to see this process be taken apart into all of it's steps!

Another fun feature of Card GB on the SGB is it uses the SGB border to track the medals you’ve earned. Every time you earn a new medal, the background is updated with that medal’s artwork. The amount of detail and care that went into Card GB makes it quite the underrated gem

The end caught me so off guard, I'm so used to the classic youtuber "like, comment, subscribe" outros or an ending card that just doing nothing made me stop and replay that to make sure something didn't go wrong.

When I got this game on emulator a few months back I was stunned by how cool the art looked

this is badass dude, being able to analyze how they transform the card into pixel art and explain it so cohesively, great job truly

Really glad I was recommended this video. I love the artwork in the TCG game and this made me appreciate it even more. Thanks for getting right to the content and not wasting any time with an intro or outro.

What an excellent video. I appreciated you exploring the more technical aspects and limitations as well as the creative decisions. Can’t wait to see more!

I'm amazed that KZfaq managed to recommend such a cool video to me. Thanks for making this! It was a very fun and interesting watch!

You are back! Let's goooooo 🥳 glad to see you are making these TCG bangers. As someone who really is invested on this topic, these videos are really a treat! Thank you for making this video! And please note that I don't ever expect you to hurry with the videos. They are timeless classics for me, and I'm just happy to see them whenever they arrive :)

I just wanna say, the voltorb at 8:24 looks great

Great job. I couldn't begin to think how this process is done. The editing of this video, showing us all the examples must have taken a while. Thank you for the video, this was very neat.

That was an awesome video 😃. I never really thought or knew about those limitations. Makes me appreciate retro graphics so much more.

I never thought about how insane this was. I think I didn't understand tech enough at that age

Thank you for sharing this! Beautifully edited and such an informative video! It’s so easy to overlook and take for granted the effort it took to work around the limitations in older tech.

Very good analysis of both the artistic and technical sides. Good presentation too. This video deserves more attention than it has currently.

As someone who loves pixel art, Pokémon, and GBC/GBA history, this was a very great video. I've always loved the TCG video games and I think they're so underrated. I would love to see you continuing to do the types of direct sprite analysis you do in this.

This was pretty interesting, I love understanding how GB games were done, they did some amazing things with the technology they had available.

It was so magical to see all those elusive vending sheet card sprites in GB2

I would like to see a video on the 3d renders in the pokemon cards, they've always been real eye catchers when next to the traditional hand drawn or sculpted card images, and the video could include interesting stuff like the first one made, how they are made and overall any interesting history (or any controversies if they exist)

This was so cleanly edited and informative! Thank you 😊

as both a gameboy dev hobbyist and a huge pokemon fan, i think this video was really well done! the explanation of how gb graphics work was really good. im glad you talked about gb2's art as well. i wasn't sure actually if they used the yugioh technique of sprites or just more bg palettes, so it's good to know now!

Played this game a as a kid but only just realised how accurate the Diglet card looks.

i love this game so much, both for the gameplay and the beautiful graphics. im happy to see it get the recognition it deserves!

This game was my childhood. And my teenage years. And adulthood. We need more TCG video games from Pokemon.

Mystery Voltorb is a standout artwork from these games for me. It's so striking both in its limited color palette of GB1 and the more accurate color palette of GB2.

The editing of this video is insane! Loved this video from start to end!

You got it. Forgot I was listening till it ended and snapped me back. Very “listenable”

This video is so awesome. Beautiful how the card pics and the dither effects are displayed.

Pokemon Trading Card Game is a hidden gem. The soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous too

At 9:40, I thought of Dark Golbat and how it has a similar issue as Charmeleon, where colors of the Pokemon actually 'bleed out' into the background. Dark Golbat is a worse offender though, because it's purple and blue are very apparent unlike the Charmeleon's small zone of red pixels. Although I don't know a single player that would use Dark Golbat. It's such a bad card, and I don't think the AI uses it either.

Thanks for this video! I love hearing about how these early systems really put restraints on developers and the resulting elegant blend of technology and art that results from those restraints.

this is an incredible video. I've never seen such a concise and well explained video on 8 bit color graphics.

This video is so nice yet so detailed. You deserve and I'm sure you will get more subs, I love finding channels like yours!

I forgot this game even existed but I spent hours on it as a kid. It was great.

This is incredible. As someone who works on a game engine in 2023, i feel INCREDIBLY privileged!!

This is the best video I’ve seen on KZfaq in a very long time

Really hope to see more from you, you make some really great stuff.

I feel like this guy sounds like he’s just inches away from going “number 15, Burger King foot lettuce”

And the soundtrack was absolute 🔥. The grand Master battle theme was so damn good

Wow, I played both the different GB games of Yugioh and both games of TGC pokémon so I found the whole video very interesting. Now I understand why I felt there was something off/different with the second game of Pokémon in regards to the art of the cards. Also, I cannot believe that was the reason behind the attacking cards being face down in Yugioh the whole time! For a limitation of the game, it was an extremely clever way to overcome it. I would have never notice, it looks very like an artistic choice mostly.

Anyway this was kind of all over the place but I hope it was interesting *cut to black* that sudden cut off made me laugh for whatever reason haha, good stuff

just binged like, every video you've made. i love pokemon tcg, especially the gameboy games! keep up the great work

Pokemon TCG on Gameboy is one of my favorite games of all time, I just recently got a boxed copy of the Japanese exclusive sequel but I've owned the first since I was 5 or so

I played both gbc tcg games several times and always wondered what made these game so good (despite the lackluster card effects). It turns out it was the amazing pixel art and the banger music, great video and an awesome lesson for a pixel artist

Extra cool to see the pixel version of vending series cards

The Pokemon TCG had no right being brilliant as it was. I rebought it on the 3DS eShop and had just as much fun as I did when it first came out. And to think the soundtrack is somehow even more accomplished than the mainline games were is incredible in its own right. The final boss theme is like 4 minutes long and absolutely insane to hear coming out of the Game Boy sound processor. This video gave me even more of an appreciation than I already had- I knew the pixel art was supremely faithful, having indulged in the Pokemon card craze when it first kicked off, but to understand how it was made and unique it all is is just something else. Amazing study, and brilliant editing as well, well done. Love the abrupt ending too- that needs to be a regular thing, lol.

In the future, can you cover different pokemon card art and how they changed over the years? Would love to see you discuss/explain Yuka Morii cards

such a good video, covering something from my childhood really well satisfying to watch

Awesome video! Love seeing coverage for old GBC card game video games, especially to analyze for the one I'm making too. This is great!

Very interesting! The music in the background is very nostalgic to me...

Found this channel and omg so many amazing gems. Great videos. Love the indepth dives into old games

modern video game devs could really learn something from this game. graphical limiations and low resolution don't necessarily mean "bad graphics"

I feel smarter learning this than math class

the music on this game is some of the best the system has to offer

During the dithering section, you can turn the youtube video quality down to 144p, which shows off dithering really well. Those sharp patterns blur together and you can really appreciate the blending!

I loved this video! I never played the games as a kid, but I did emulate both of them out of curiosity a few years ago and had a blast. It was a joy to watch you analyse and appreciate the amazing art that went into it. I wish they would make more single-player TCG campaigns.

This is already one of my favorite channels ever. Please keep doing more videos, I'm loving all of them

I've always loved the art in Pokemon, both in game and on the cards

Your channel is wildly underrated. Keep up the awesome work!

just wanted to say i just found your channel and i love it!! im so very into the esoteric details of the TCG, and was the pokemon card master at my old job. i have a really cool "art of the pokemon trading card game" book that interviews quite a few of the artists, and i really love it. if you ever need a mascot or something, hit me up! excited to see where this channel goes :)

*Hears Shiren the Wanderer 2 music "Ahh, a man of culture as well."

Omg Dithering was/is used soooo much for Flipnotes and I never knew the name of that effect lol

Your videos are extremely underappreciated, I much prefer this kind of TCG content over the stuff that everybody else churns out. Thank you!

This was so interesting! I had skipped the Pokémon TCG Gameboy game for a silly reason, "They're just cards in this one? If they're not 'real' Pokémon they won't have a story." Now I'll try to play it, I like looking at the pictures.

I want to take a moment to publicly recognize your sheer talent in the editing of this video. It appears as though you recreated many sprites and cards just to provide an example of what you are talking about. Your timing is also quite perfect and on beat to what you are saying and I followed along through the whole video without issue. I did find the video ended a little abrupt, but man, you only have 7k subs? You deserve more just based on your editing and graphical skills alone.

Thanks for producing this very interesting video. Pokémon TCH was part of my childhood and it’s so nice to look back and discover further details about it

This was amazingly narrated and demonstrated

I am soooo glad this video hit the algorithm and was recommended to most of us here! This video and your tutorial video are extremely well-made and immensely helpful that it was the kick of motivation I needed to get over my mental block of not wanting to try to make my own TCG romhack. As someone else who doesn't consider themselves an artist, it was honestly not too hard to pick up to get something done that looks pretty decent that I'm content with, even with it not being perfect or anything. (Thanks for liking/RT'ing my first attempt as well 💚) Now, if I can somehow use my programming skills to get over the last mental block of figuring out how to make decent AI use the new "re-balanced" cards I'm planning on designing, then the gates are fully open to making my dream a reality. Hoping I can report back soon enough once I'm done or close, and best of luck with your own TCG/Mystery Dungeon game you're working on that I'm super curious about too! 👀

Wow I love this video! To think about the work l they went thought to translate the original cards with such limitations and to see they work so well... This makes me feel even more passionated about pixelart and 8/16 bits sprites 😍

If you normally wear glasses and are watching this at night with one eye open like me the dithering honestly looks perfectly smooth unless you focus carefully lol.

for me it's crazy how good they're those images, AMAZING!

The video I never knew I needed to see. That was awesome!

Beautiful presentation and description of the processes.

This was my first video by I watched by you, I loved it! Glad to meet you!

pokemon spinoff games are always so f**** excellent. I was obsessed with this game and the sequel

Just binged all your vids. Hope you make more.

that yugioh dss segmant blew my mind, very good job on making this video

This is one of my favourite gameboy games. Just a fantastic translation of the TCG into a video game.

this is one of my favorite games, thanks for making this video!! it's awesome :D

I feel like Gameboy Color games made as much use of the limited palette as possible. Another great example is Shadowgate and Deja Vu. Even though they're basically ports of their NES counterparts, the color just feels more vivid. I do love when yellow is used in place of whites as shown here.

I'm so hyped that this is coming to virtual console

Neat video :) I wonder why Pokemon IP decision makers never invested in another TCG game. Why miss out on the opportunity to market the cards? I guess it's a moot point now with the online game.