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I just suffered through the first half of your playlist, with the dumb origins, and all the dork stuff just to have this be in the playlist as well?? Come on dog put this in the beginning of the playlist Very dumb decision. Bad taste in my mouth. Cant wait for your downfall

wen next video? <3

When's the next episode coming out?

Looking forward to seeing episode six. Keep up the good work liking the amazing video 25:44

Wild that they try and get Japan to make the game balanced and then they do a mistranslation and won't fix the game which makes a card insanely broken and an unfun format.

It's proof wotc was always a shit company. They reset the entire game just avoid admitting a fuckup translation

"while many of us would rather buy the singles we need" excuse me i have a gambling addiction

Trying to remove the 15 and up division is STUPID

For anyone who knows: I have a question about what was said at ~10:20 (talking about Recycle Energy) Would you get the Recycle Energy back if you discard it to pay a cost of a Trainer? (i.e. discarding 2 cards for Item Finder, Computer Search, etc.) I would think not because of the part that says "put into your discard pile FROM PLAY", but never actually played with this card myself and don't actually know

I live in Japan and here the retro format is still popular thanks to fans who regularly organize tournaments! Some cards can be very expensive so we are allowed to use proxy as long as we ask before entering a tournament. We have a discord with around 150 active players and it’s so cool to see the retro format getting recognition and love from the community!

Now I'm wishing my parents gave me Pokemon TCG booster stocking stuffers growing up. Oh, well, can't complain, I got an N64 in '96.

Algorithm boost for the quality vid, per always

Shit we would shop lift mad boosters from target and walmarts to set up Our decks and mop up the local tournaments when a new format dropped. Early bird gets the worm

I freaking adore Base Set to Neo. My favorite time with the game. Helped that none of the people I played with had many of the stupid hand destruction cards or Slowking, made the game so much fun. Thanks for nothing, WotC!

The Zard Breeder-to-KO moment to Uno Reverse into the winning position and then clutch the win in the finals was too awesome! Sad my boy Venusaur got stilted.

This series got me wanting to crack open all of my unbindered old bulk and build decks lol

This was great, thank you for the extensive exploration of an event so obscure to western players!

I LOVE THIS thank you from the bottem of my heart

Holon Phantom, Shuckle TCG ! Yes ! In a Rubyretro video! This is awesome dude. You are really uniting the retro community and I’m here for it ! Followed you from the first video to the last. Let’s go part 6!

16:58 thats my deck, i created it.

Neo was such a fresh addition to Pokemon TCG. I was so excited for it as a kid. My friends and I would play our decks that even included Japanese cards, like my Typhlosion, with a printed paper to read as we battled each other. If only the accursed hand lock cards of the Gym series weren't available. Base Set through Fossil and Neo through Ruby/Sapphire and perhaps Diamond/Pearl era was the best time for me playing the game.

When you have a quality TCG hamstrung by crappy hand destruction cards and the solution is simple--stop designing them--but Creatures quandruples down on stupid. So glad Neo saved the game!

The music is such a joyful bop, accentuating the soothing voiceover explanation of a TCG era lost to time. My friends and I loved Nightly Garbage Run and Here Comes Team Rocket! I don't know if it was a "house rule," but we never dealt with the headache of Rocket Sneak Attack playing amongst friends. Maybe we simply didn't have many copies, or we thought the concept of destroying an opponent's hand was lame. Too bad so many of the Rocket evolved mons were rubbish.

I am late to the party, found this while binging on Pokemon TCG content this week. I'm in the process of designing my own TCG and also hitting the nostalgia trip for the GOOD ol' days of Pokemon TCG Base Set through Diamond & Pearl before things truly went off the rails in Black & White and particularly Sun & Moon. I recall reading an interview with the world rank #4 in some magazine describing his Haymaker deck. Were I to return to the original format now, I think I'd run three or four Kangas and Scoop Up them after drawing the Computer Searches needed to draw whatever was needed. I still have all of my old cards, many of them in decks. Looking forward to watching the rest of the series!

Recently got into the TCG - this is SOOO amazingly done. Thank you for catching me up!

Tom squeaked by and yet he also won the second ECSTS? Just glad we were in different age groups during the qualifier or i wouldn't have been able to watch him win the first time.

17:02 they really thought that pushing away older players from Pokémon would get them to play magic was such a really bad idea and kind of scummy Not realizing that these games appeal, the different people in different ways regardless of their age

One copy of Gambler was meant to counter a very specific gambit! Namely, assuming you have more cards in your deck than the opponent and there is nothing your opponent can do, because they ran into Mr. Mime or some damage-nullifying combo or they ran out or energies, or knocking out enemy's pokemon would make some armed board-clearer enter the Active slot, you might decide to simply begin your turn and end it immediately. Why? Because you believe that your opponent shall be first to deck out and having even 10+ cards in their hand won't help them - oddly enough, launching extra Bills, prof. Oaks would only bring them closer to the edge. And now - player with more cards in their deck could be lured into the trap, where they're willing to end their turns immediately, because they are afraid to break the status quo by Pokemon fighting and they are sure the opponent will deck out earlier. That's when Gambler is used to suddenly turn the tables - it is not about large hand refill although this could be cool if you're short on cards - it is about increasing deck count by shuffling stuff back. In fact, many CPU opponents in Pokemon Trading Card Game for GameBoy run exactly one copy of Gambler exactly for this occasion - to lure the player into thinking they can win by deck out or prevent the deck out when there is such risk.

Love these videos! Feels like the audio mixing is better this time. Great stuff!

0:48 Organized play existed before Team Rocket. Wizards gave out stacks of Mew promo cards to organized play groups and cute gym badges for earning enough points each season. 2 for wins, 1 for losses. Wizards had DCI tournaments and a reporting system for Pokemon just like Magic. Not that a high DCI rating got you anything. I guess is the weakness of making content about an era you mostly source from the early internet but great video otherwise!

this is awesome to learn about and the presentation is just incredible, can't wait to watch the rest in the series!

Sneak Attack - The game

I'm surprised you didn't mention the ban that Phil Mondiello received shortly after this event!

I had never seen that commercial before!

i love it! great content! 🤩

I was 17 back in 1999 and was already fully into MTG but I did play with my little brother before I went to college and used to drive him to pokemon league. I had good success and won a couple tournaments I played with him using a variant on the rain dance deck. I stopped playing due to both going to college and also I felt bad about winning against a bunch of children my brother's age. There was a completely different level of intellectual maturity there ... I was taking AP calculus and economics; I understood MTG concepts like mana curve, clock, resource costs, etc. and there were little kids I was just stomping the crap out of who didn't get how powerful certain trainer cards really were, didn't have playsets of cards, didn't know what to do with energy, etc... and were trying to make some deck work focused on Ninetails, Machamp, Charizard, or whoever their favorite pokemon was.

Really well made video, the music got a bit tiring after a while though

Just getting into Pokémon, god I’m so glad wizards doesn’t run the game lol

Dang, those japanese players were really comfortable touching each others cards like that.

Used to watch Bruce's CZcams channel backbin 2013, what a crazy coincidence! Proud of you @pikaB!🎉

Loved the series

I just wanted to comment to say thank you for what you do. These videos add a new depth to my love of Pokemon and the TCG specifically. I have found that I have a deeper appreciation both for the current trials and tribulations of the game as well as for the cards I collected as a kid without ever really getting involved with how the game itself worked. Anytime someone in my life shows even mild interest in the TCG I send them your way and time and time again I hear glowing praise for how well these videos present the history of a game that was ever present for folks of a certain age, whether they participated or not. Thanks and I hope you're doing well.