Let’s all enjoy this 1999 Pokemon trading card

in 2023, Pokemon It is part of the fabric of our lives. It’s been all around us, for decades, and even if you’re not a fan, you’ll at least know the basic premise.

they Pokemon! Catch them all! They fight, faint, go in a little ball, there are some kids, some (Pokemon, not kids) look like dinosaurs, some look like animals. You will only know that much alive in the twenty-first centuryas you would have been exposed to the series, over and over again, everywhere from the cinema to the supermarket to the clothing section of a department store.

Which is why it’s so fun sometimes to look back on the times we were in he did not do Everything is known about him PokemonAnd there are few better examples to illustrate this period of human history better than this commercial (Uploaded by Dracula’s dinosaur, which he found on an old VHS device), manufactured for the US market in 1999 for Pokemon The launch of the trading card game on the market (first video The games, meanwhile, had just been released in the US in late 1998):

How the hell are we going to market this to American kids?You can hear suits being ordered across the ’90s conference room table, before someone raises their hand and says tentatively Like sports, they know sportsand everyone cheering and slapping each other and telling you Just bought yourself a raise, Thompson.

It’s not the worst idea! To its credit, the commercial age has advanced to the fullest Well, the truth helped him Pokemon He still has an incredibly active starring scene, and at no point is he embarrassed or afraid to embrace who he is. Okay, so maybe the “I got the game” part hasn’t aged well, but that’s it last he have.

Note that this video isn’t new to the internet, but this particular version caught our attention because it’s a a lot Better download quality The first version that you currently find in a YouTube search.