Note on Magneton’s Microwave attack: microwave ovens, as in the appliance, function primarily through the use of a component called a - wait for it - magnetron.

Fun fact on the Master Ball: apparently Pokémon agrees with you as they changed the effect of Master Ball in the Black and White TCG series to search for any Pokémon, but it was classified as an ACE SPEC card, which you could only include one of in your deck. The effect of Master Ball from back in the day is the current effect of Great Ball.

That Vending Voltorb does in fact count for itself and it's actually kinda scary if it gets set up. It's also the card that got me wondering "what the heck was wrong with the pixelart" when I played TCG2 recently. Finding out about Vending Cards through this series clears up a lot. Gameplay-wise, many of these were absolute highlights for me, even if the artstyle isn't always my cup of tea.

Congratulations on 10k subs!! It’s been really cool watching this channel evolve.

I never understood why Onix wasn't stronger than he actually was. It's a massive snake made of pure rocks. This thing should have an attack stat that reflects this. Its weaknesses are fine, but I always felt like this stats, particularly his attack, didn't reflect his actual look. He looks like he should pack a serious punch, but he just... doesn't. Never made any sense to me.

Pretty darn sure that the Voltorb itself does count as a Voltorb in play for the attack, otherwise it would say "other Voltorb". So if you're using Game Boy Ditto to get more Voltorbs and your opponent does the same, you could theoretically do 140 damage with that attack (which would have to be to another Voltorb, of course, haha)

I like that the vending series cards feature the Pokémon in Kanto, not just abstract backgrounds and random locations (although Jungle Weepinbell with a real-life bird on its head is iconic).

Glad to be part of the 10k keep it up B)

According to someone on Reddit, the artist of that Hitmonlee card did an interview where they said that the thing it's stepping on is supposed to be a Fearow. Personally, I suspect that it probably wasn't supposed to be any specific Pokemon, since this was back when normal animals would sometimes appear on cards. I've always thought that cards like Jynx should apply weakness/resistance based on the types of its attack, not its own type. But doing it this way does give monotype decks more tools, so it probably works out better. That Omanyte looks like it has some very heavy eyeliner/eyeshadow to me, like it's a teenager going through an emo/goth phase. And that's just too silly not to love.

I actually really like the Dewgong art. He looks so happy just gazing at the hazy sky.

Very excited for this one. These cards are so cool. I remember convincing my dad to order me some of these off Ebay when I was a kid after seeing them in a book about collecting Pokémon cards. I still have the book and the cards!

I love your insight on the...weirder side of the pokemon community

YIPPIE Congrats on 10k I've loved this channel for as long as I've been subscribed

20:04 Hitmonchan is NOT kicking a puncing bag. He stepped on a hotdog and is trying to shake it off of his shoe.

Congratulations my friend! ❤

Congrats on 10k! I love these videos cause I get to see all these cards that I never knew about. I've collected my fair share of cards but never really played the game

Congrats on 10k! I love that Dewgong card. The coloring of the sunset (or sunrise?) is beautiful. Also that Shellder card is hilarious. It looks like it just Surfed right on up next to you and gave you a sassy wink. It's just oozing with character;

I needed this video today thank you

Pumpin out bangers, love your channel

congrats on 10k and happy to hear there's more GB2 content on the way. Also, can confirm that vending Voltorb counts itself/the active Voltorb while attacking

Congrats on 10k! With a series as unique as this, you deserve that many and more. Also, that Hitmonchan card is way more reminiscent of the 50hp Machop with Low Kick than the powerhouse that was the original Hitmonchan. Quite disappointing imo. Looking forward to the next episodes!

Great series! I have so much nostalgia for these cards and wish we had got them in the US. And Congrats on 10k!

i'm playing TCG2, so very fitting to see this video.

How my mood rises every time I see a new Paraspactre video

Congrats on 10k dude!

I actually find that Machoke very charming!! Regardless, I'm glad to be here to see you hit 10k, and I'm looking forward to see 10k more

Zapdos does have such a great artwork! I wish I could get an enlarged version of it to hang in my place. Lapras is pretty nice too. But omg I don’t know if I’ll survive part 4. Grimer looks interesting, but Koffing… my boi what have they done to you!? And congrats on the 10k! I’m glad your channel is growing. Keep up with the great content! I look especially forward to more skits/stories with Parasect. Those are beyond entertaining!

Congratulations on 10k! Your videos are always a treat! I have a weird sort of nostalgia for a lot of the cards shown here, despite never owning them, because they were featured in issues of Beckett Pokémon Collector and some other magazines, and they always had this air of mystery around them, to me anyway. Theses are also some of my favorite illustrations of Venomoth and Raichu

Love the content!

Love this new Series!

I've grown to really love this channel. I like the vibe man real chill. I like the nostalgia road and overall I like learning how to play the TCG!

I like that this Moltres doesn't require a heads flip to do damage. 50 damage is decent for 4 energies and no drawbacks. Vending Kabuto works well with the (fossil?) Aerodactyl's pokemon power that prevents evolution. Keep Aerodactyl in play so your opponent can't evolve anything, and use Kabuto's pokemon power to put it back in your hand when you want to evolve something. Works best if you have a spare Mysterious fossil on your bench though, because you can't put it on the old mysterious fossil on the same turn you removed it.

Congrats on 10K subscribers! I would watch more Metroid videos

Graveler's Earthquake can hurt your own Pokemon, which is normally bad, but if you have some Dodrio on your bench, it will actually power them up.

If we used a similar card like Voltorb in the modern TCG, the active Voltorb would count as a Pokémon in play. Lol, the classic Master Ball works just like a modern Quick Ball. Nowadays, the Master Ball card does let you search your deck for any Pokémon

Woohoo love this series

Loving this series!

BTW, itself it does count as a voltorb in place, so this attack does 30 or more, so with a full bench it will deal 60, pretty decent for 2 energies back then I guess.

12:43 Art is a really nice defensive option against sniping electrics, i.e. jungle Pikachu, and uniquely for a water has no weaknesses itself. There were a lot of odd design choices made for move effectivity like Gyarados being weak to grass. Allegedly the card game was first developed alongside the games so discrepancies like that might lend to some fundamental design changes made and not just errors

Nice

Paraspectre: hello my friends! Me: I'm a friend 🥰

this is probably a bad idea, but i'd love to see a playthrough with only the vending cards

Basedspectre. Yes I have already commented it before but you know. Based.

Aw, I'm bummed Electabuzz wasn't in the game. I remember it did something with special counters, which stuck out to me as a novelty- but was also probably something the game didn't wanna bother implementing for one 'mon.

Congrats on the 10k! Just a heads up, the translation for Ghastly on the wiki is wrong. The moves should be frighten and darkness instead the metal references lol

The Machoke card art looks like a Machop!

I love the arts of kofing and kabuto, kofing is so happy ☺️☺️ and kabuto reminds me of a metroid

That Omanyte has SEEN some things

10k!!! Next stop, the world!

Oh man, 10k already. They grow so fast...

might be cool to do a Magnemite magneton only run on gb2 sounds like you might have fun with it.

aurora veil is a move now :D^

I got irrationally angry at kicking Hitmonchan

I like how venomoth has fighting resistance because it’s a flying type. But poison and bug resist fighting in gen 1. (I think)

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Hopefully you get more followers, YT recommended me to you so I hope more follow. Your videos are great.

that raichu looks like a neopet lol

Actually had a video idea for the future. A ranking of all the Pokemon Shroomboi's! Scarlet/Violet introduced three more so there's eleven to go through

22:25 Do you know, is the pokemon power of omanyte cumulative, if you have more than one omanyte in play?

I like the part with the pokemon cards

Congratulations (But Fearow totally rules)

isn't it just typical, that Ditto got left out again. i guess those early gameboy colour pokemon games, just couldn't handle the ditto cards. also most of the cards in this set were very underwhelming. if i had to pick between these ones, and their base, jungle, fossil counterparts, i think i would be choosing the originals over these ones, for the most part. but the fossils are huge upgrade at least.

I'd love some Metroid content, personally.

Hey! Okay! Someone else that loves Sandshrew!

Guillotine in the TCG always bothered me. It should say something more like "You may choose to flip 3 coins instead of dealing damage when declaring this attack. If the result of all 3 are heads, the defending Pokemon is knocked out."

13:36 just like literally very other instance of Articuno being present in literally any of the games! :D Why does GF hate Articuno so much lmao? Also I will die mad that Galarian articuno isn't Ice/Psychic. Nobody asked for Weird Lugia!

I do not like fossils in these first sets and in gb2.... maybe Aerodactyl but just maybe.... Although.... in Pokémon Neo, the hack from GB1 my main was Omastar, it is ridiculously strong! But just Omastsr, the others, not so much....

With the comments on the coin flip, I assume you can't cheese the coin in GB2 like you can in the first Card Game Gameboy game

Do Digimon Digital Card Battle for the PS1

Onix still lookin janky

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Some pictures are allright but most are terrible

Algorithm

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18:19 dude I ain't gonna hold you I put some thought into this and by process of elimation it could only be either a doduo, a raticate, or a whole ass charizard like wtf is it