I really wish the Pokemon TCG video game series continued. I feel like the DS would have been the perfect system to display the cards in your hand and would allow wi-fi battles.

I think that Voltorb on the cover is supposed to be a team GR leader's mask. Especially since right under it is the GR from the logo. Great video btw!

Huh, yeah what you gathered makes sense why this game never came to the US.

Honestly, im interpretating Team Rocket giving you money after defeating them as simply Red stealing some cash from the bad guys.

I was in elementary school when the base set was released and the overwhelming majority didn't know how to play, just collected.

It's a shame that the Pokemon TCG never got a constant stream of video games like, say, Yu-Gi-Oh did. Those sorts of games are great time capsules to go back and experience what things were like at a specific point in time. And their frequent releases (until they eventually died off) means that there's a good stretch of Yu-Gi-Oh's history covered.

I would be so happy if TCG Online would come to Switch actually or a new TCG Storygame.

100% believe that Pokemon TCG 2 is just a LARP Event on the Island.

Switch Online could finally get it localized but I would love an SP edition where they give us a complete save with a complete library to run classic matches.

Loved this game as a wee lad

With the release of the GBA literally a week before TCG2 released, TCG2 was kind of perfectly positioned to be part of a special 2-in-1 edition. They would do those pretty consistently throughout the Game Boy Advance's lifespan.

Something that I would like to highlight about the Game is the Rival:

TCG2 is a phenomenal game. Sucks that it never had a proper release to North America.

I recently played this for the first time! Maybe it's because I'm not doing so hot right now, but I actually really appreciated the story - yeah, it's ridiculous on the surface, but I kinda like how when you go to GR island, all of your opponents are just regular passionate cardbattlers - not some amalgamation of evil for the sake of evil grunts. Even Villicci himself seems to only want to play and have people play. Sure, it's kinda forceful, because all villains with decent motivations are villains because they take it too far, but he also says something to the effect of "it would be a shame to have these powerful cards collecting dust". Which, not gonna lie, isn't a bad motivation in a world fueled by the cardgame. The fact that in the postgame, Team GR members and Legendary Card islanders intermingle and play and talk with eachother is also pretty wholesome - and fitting, since even the hooded members turned out to just be regular players. It's nice. Every portrait now reacting to their draws and situations is also pretty humanizing imo. You also instantly know if they drew that last energy they need to bonk you, which is fun.

I grew up during the pokemon boom. I still remember getting Red in its release year and still have all my old cards in a binder (including a charizard) and I didn't know how to play the card game until I decided to play the gbc game like 2 years ago. I finally understood why energy cards were so numerous.

this game is awesome i only played it for the first time last year, but being able to save like 30 decks means i can just follow any deckbuilding whim (dark machamp/dragonite deck, nidos, rhydon, big eggsplosion, only fat colorless) and not have to worry about it being worthy of staying as one of my four decks. lets me enjoy the card game in a way i could never afford as a kid (and don't care to afford now)

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First time to the channel! Excited to hear someone talk about this game, but more importantly...I realized that Paraspectre is, indeed, looking just over my shoulder and not straight ahead. I thought they may have been just me. :)

That game is really hard, but also very funny.

Another Paraspective! You love to see it