GB2 didn't come to America most likely due to some rights talk with Wizards of the Coast. This is pure speculation, but the Pokemon Company took over running the TCG in the West from Wizards of the Coast in 2003, so it's very possible that in 2001 they were looking forward at that not wanting to sign any new licensing deals.

As a Fungal Biologist, I approve.

For those challenges if think it would be fine if you use gameshark just to get your 4x Paras/Paresect + Grass Energy, to start the game already in the challenge rules.

Actually, I found your videos without being recommended to me by Mah-Dry-Bread. Love your style, personality and video structure, good show!

Fire club members: - Guy with glasses - Literally Red From Regular Pokemon Except He's Green - :[ - Normal guy

Waiting on the AI to do some weird self sabotage seems to be the key to all of this.

I found you through a random KZfaq recommendation rather than MDB, but it's cool to hear you're friends. MDB is awesome

I really enjoy these Pokemon TCG challenges. Super cool idea

Found your channel on my own and not through mah-dry bread thank you very much.

Single Pokemon challenges in GB2 are gonna be insane on GR Island with the deck building requirements. Colorless attacks (or deck out) are a must for any time your Energy type is restricted. Luckily, the Trainer options are even more insane. And I think you can get the Mr. Mime packs from refighting Isaac. If you ever want a save file with specific cards for a challenge, or any advice, let me know, I've spedran and TASed these games so I could be of help.

Parasect in the games: A joke Parasect in this game: GOD

I saw this channel name and couldn't not admire another fungal mon enthusiast

Also congrats on passing 1k!

Getting the attention you deserve king. Also, Speedball? Cages entrapping club leaders? No wonder this got banned.

So you’re channel is awesome. I’m so glad MDB recommended you. Right now I’m doing my own Pokémon TCG challenge. I’m trying to beat the game with only the Squirtle and Friends starter deck and it’s crazy hard. Took me 8 tries to get the rock medal. Hope you continue with this series. I’ll be watching!

Can't wait for part 2!

Im so glad that MDB directed me to you. I love your narration and I cant wait to see more!

Apart from the fact that you are giving one of my absolute FAVORITE Pokémon some well deserved love, you made replay Pokémon TGC for the first time in what must be almost 20 years. You are a Saint, my friend

Not sure if you were informed or found out later or even if you care, but the Vending Pokemon cards were a gimmik for Japanese audiances. As the name suggests, you would buy the booster packs from Vending Machines. Several cards are Japanese exclusive because of this.

Just had a look through your previous uploaded videos. Literally just 24 videos on every James bond game, 2 metroid, and then pokemon tcg videos. What an interesting mix of content haha

Please keep making these challenges - they're such a fun niche!

Mathew has evolved into Matthew!

Never expected to get a shoutout… Thanks for that! It’s nice to see that you’re starting to grow, the amount of work put into these videos is amazing. I know you’re probably done with the majority of the game, but you’ll need a deck with a certain 4 cards to beat the game. Good luck.

The narration's great, and I'm surprised you had an easy time of Part 1! Part 2 is... something, alright. I do hope you continue to do TCG runs, because I love the game to bits and I'd like to see other underappreciated Pokemon or decks get some love. Or suffer through a gimmick deck. I'm glad MDB sent me here, great work!

oooh, that new parasect really *is* powerful. Also-dang has it been *ages* since I last saw a Dark/Team Rocket card. I remember them being pretty hit or miss, with gamble attacks and low HP, but if things went well they could do a lot of damage-like that dark charmeleon having a 3 energy 70 damage attack based on a coin flip

You are killing it. MDB just brought more if us to your hidden talent. Keep doing you

that Kangaskhan looks hideous what even is that. it looks like he tried to turn into a Zygarde and melted

I started playing the first GBC TCG because you made it look so fun in your videos. Keep up the good work!

So glad you did the 2nd game, eagerly looking forward to the 2nd part. Keep it up

I thought I was watching older videos but learning this is a new thing I'm quite excited

Blowing up man, that’s awesome. Love the TCG runs. Hope you continue to grow and can attract a wider audience. Definitely doing some monotype runs would be cool to see or with minimal to zero use of trainer cards or weak type only.

YOOOOO HES PLAYING THE 2ND ONE! It never came out outside of japan tho but this is still rad.

I feel bad for the O.G. Parasect, but alas power creep washes all further down into the muck... Depressing phrasing aside, I am enjoying this massively. I hope to see more of there TVG challenges.

So Mathew got his revenge on you.

Funny thing is, by having to battle Ryan over and over, you may have basically battled Matthew's deck. What I mean is that there's something strange about the Rock Club deck distribution. So, in TCG 1 you have Matthew with the "generic Rock deck", Andrew with the "counter Rock's weakness deck" (using Fire and Psychic to beat Grass types which are weak to those 2), and Ryan with the "Fossil deck" In TCG 2, those themes seem to have switched a position: Matthew now uses Andrew's theme (though this time only using Fire), Andrew uses Ryan's theme, and Ryan uses Matthew's theme. It could just be a coincidence, but it seems to me the devs assigned the decks to the wrong club members.

Yesssss finally! Keep up the great work

This seems way better than the first game. It's got a whole story and stuff.

Man, these runs are a good time and have me wanting to revisit GB2. Thanks for sharin' the fun, lookin' forward to the conclusion :)

Your challenge runs inspired me! I'm doing a run with only Krabby & Kingler! The worst part was the grind to get them. Now I'm breezing through the Clubs. Even Lightning was no problem at all because of luck I assume, first try on every Lightning Member

Just discovered your channel and you deserve way more views and subscribers man, I hope you keep making more videos. Keep doing pokemon tcg challenges and I hope you continue making the Metroid videos cause they were awesome!

Excellent series. I had such good memories with the pokemon TCG. You earned a sub buddy.

MDB is good for the youtube algorithm!

I was waiting for this, thanks!

Your voice and commentary just makes me happy. You remind me of the character Kokujo from the Duel Masters cartoon which I KNOW is random and obscure but I promise it's a compliment.

Subscribed because of mah-dry and i gotta say you have some great content keep it up man

I played that translated rom too and it was very fun! Looking forward to watching this!

Really digging this series I never played only collected the tcg but damn this brings back fond memories of collecting

I still have that Dark Raichu card from my childhood! Smh it's no. 83 of 82 so I always thought it was super special awesome Great content, I'm really upset that we never got the sequel game in the west!

This is great, you deserve way more subs keep it up

I'd turn off the bilinear filter in your emulator. It can help with the blurry look and be a lot sharper/cleaner.

I just beat this game without any trainer cards. Wasn't expecting much, but it was the most fun I've ever had playing any pokemon game, no exaggeration. My main gripe with these rpgs with like 100 unlockable characters--usually the optimal playstyle is to just overlevel the hell out of 1 or 2 and then destroy everything, so youre missing out. But this game, this way of playing...youre so underpowered that you barely squeak by. so you need to tailor your deck to counter the opponent's deck every single battle. I was using niche low-tier stuff because i'd have requirements like "i need a grass type that's not weak to psychic and doesnt use grass energy to attack." Yes I used Paras and Parasect unironically for one battle. I got to do my best youngster joey impression running through a psychic stronghold trainer with a single rattata. Out of the original 151 I ended up using 85 of them. Clefable 1 energy metronome mvp. Base set snorlax runner up mvp. I'd get rares that i felt were crucial to have and i'd be lacking uncommons that i sorely missed. wish i had streamed it. might do it again without any grinding Edit: oh and I memed on the final boss with 1 pokemon, 59 energy. It was never best to try to take out a whole team 1v6 (remember, no potions), but for that one battle, after you acquire that one legendary card, the stars align so that the strategy goes undisrupted, and nothing else works consistently.

Fun fact: "Vending" in this context probably means the cards literally came from a Vending Machine IRL (instead of a pack, starter deck, promo, etc.). Japan's a weird place, yo.

you could have gotten the grass deck much earlier to get the paras, may have made it a bit easier

KZfaq randomly suggested this and now I am here.

I know that this is an old game ,but I believe that if Nintendo put this game on the Eshop, lots of people would buy it.

Found your channel randomly scrolling in my feed. no regret at all!

just found your channel and i love it, i heard tho that youtube algorithm doesnt like "part 1 and part 2" in the title

Found your channel thru recommended videos. Nice content

Love the content, keep it up.

Can't wait for part 2.. Hope the deck requirements woun't force to you break the rules! ;)

I had no idea you were buddies with The Big League MDB. I was fortunate enough to find you through the KZfaq algorithm.

A lover of Paras and Parasect? Another person of culture, I see

Thank you for the video.

the long awaited sequel

I found ur channel by chance. I LOVE the pokemon tcg content! I'd love to see a charizard only run

That Isaac battle was breathtaking

Nice to see a format where parasect can shine 😁

Rival: exists Poketuber: He simply isn't that important to me.

Also, no joke, I found your channel because I watch Pokemon TGC vids and yours was reccomended, I do watch MDB as well but I didn't see the episode where he mentioned your channel, strange world ey?

There is a CRITICAL lack of Pokémon TCG content on KZfaq, I hope to see more challenge runs!

One tip for gb2 is the fact that the ai is cowards. If you use the trainer card challenge, every enemy ai will decline the challenge (even club masters), making it essentially 4 extra copies of bill. Godspeed, you magnificent bastard.

Oh, hell yes! More buggo deck shenanigans.

This game was actually pretty good imo I completed 1 and 2 recently and made me wish I could go back to my schoolyard days when I actually had the cards I was playing with and the deck changing and experimenting made it more challenging to test your brain and get the job done good game btw lol

From Dream Theater to Rush. I don't regret my decision to subscribe.

Ooh. This is gonna be good!

All the early battles are super easy. You may have a tougher time when you reach GR island but even that is quite manageable.

i love your content keep the good work up!

Very interested in how you'll handle the second island's special rule battles.

i'm looking forward to more videos like this with different themed decks and such

I'm here for it ☺️

You’re in for a fun time on GR Island. I won’t spoil it because you might not have played it yet, but it’ll be wild. Also the vending sets were Japanese sets from vending machines that came in sheets and you had to separate yourself. Most never made it west, but they were some of the first times that a Pokémon got printed twice in the TCG.

I remember collecting the dark cards after the base sets. Good times.

All hail the parasect

I don't actually watch Mah Dry Bread, So that was surprising to me

Found your channel for the TCG video game content. Not really a 007 fan but like the parasect and pokemon content. Would love to see other neat challenge run content. Also wouldn't mind seeing your take on creative alternative pokemon content. Maybe nuzlocke content of some kind? Maybe doing a TCG nuzlocke sounds like it could be interesting. Eager to see what comes next!

Touched by a angel was a deep cut. Lol 🤟

Love the series! Maybe next you can beat Pokemon red/blue only using an army of paras/parasect?

It makes me so mad we didn't get this game, yeah someone patched it and we can play it and it's great. But look how many yugioh games we have. We can experience every era of yugioh through those games, but all the older formats of pokemon are lost to time.

Oh god. I'm just playing this game. I should hurry to finish it, I don't want any spoilers (I'm like 3/4 into the game, half the GR Island)

very neat

I hate how MDB mentioned you and now I can't stop watching you. Take your like and subscribe and the hell with it, I'll even comment for the YT Algorithm

Hey man! Great video! However it sounds like your microphone is placed right in front of your mouth, for less poppy 'p's I recommend angling the mic 30-45° away from your mouth.

Can't wait for part 2, and a Mathew rematch (?)

Nice video.

Woah this seems pretty fun

I think we didn't get this game because it's dark as hell even for early 2000s america

I love the fly by night reference

I just got through most of Pokemon TCG 2 and I will tell you that once you reach GR Island, good freaking luck with that challenge.

I still remember when I was playing this game and one of my opponents evolved... I believe it was an Oddish, into a Grass Energy. Poor decisions aren't the only things the AI is doing, they also occasionally break the rules, apparently.

Matthew is probably an accountant now after giving up on his dreams of being a Pokémon tcg master