The BRUTAL Pokemon Board Game - Master Trainer
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What does it take to become a Pokémon master? A lot of patience, god-like RNG, and pogs. We're taking a look at the classic Pokémon Master Trainer board game!
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"You'll lose so many battles, it begins to make sense that every player is forced to play as Ash Ketchum."
Shots fired
M3G4 T3RR4 XD
ROTL LMAO
I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN I HEARD THAT
Ah yes. I just adore how he chose to poke fun at Ash’s constant Pokémon League losses. Will he ever break that streak?! (Hopefully not. If he does fulfill his “Pokémon Master” dream, he’ll most likely finally start aging again, and eventually cause a chain reaction that will make the whole Pokémon universe collapse, killing the franchise as a real-world side-effect of that chain of events. And who needs that? (And any of you Genwunners don’t count; it’s partially your fault that the franchise still exists anyway, with your love forcing them to continue making games. Also, in response to your claims that their design team is losing creativity: Voltorb! Muk! Magnemite! Ditto! Ring a bell?))
Sorry about that little rant, I guess I got a bit ahead of myself. 😁
LOL "You'll lose so many battles it makes sense that every player has to play as Ash Ketchum" Nice roast you snuck in there.
I lost it at that part, literally laughing for an entire minute.
Yeah, caught me off guard as well. :p
I don't quite get the joke, Ash hasn't lost many battles at all. Honestly he is one of the more competent trainers in all Pokemon canons.
Dracomut hahahahaha wut do you mean?
Exactly what I said, Ash is a strong trainer and has not lost a lot of battles so I do not understand the joke
"Ash, Ash Ketchum, Satoshi, Gary's Rival, This Kid, and the guy from the anime that looks like Red."
What is this? Kingdom Hearts where everyone is the same 5 people?
It's so confusing 😵 I had to replay the games when I was older to understand kingdom hearts.
Kingdom hearts is just the definition of complicated.
I love how they said, "You'll lose so many battles, it'll make sense that every player if forced to be Ash" 🤣
Xehanort, Terranort, Young Xehanort, Aquanort, Ansem, and Xemnas.
We always called the figures:
Orange: Ash Honey
Yellow: Ash Mustard
Pink: Ash Ketchup
Pale: Ash Mayonnaise
Blue: Ash Blueberry Jelly
Green: Ash Guacamole
PonyPlays2014 kind of reminds me of “Clue”.
Pink is supposed to be ash fry sauce
@@BabyMahdy no, Baby, ash mayonnaise is not an instrument
Shouldn't pink be Ash strawberry frosting
Pink is supposed to be Gum Ash
Players can play as:
Ash
Ash Ketchum
Satoshi
Gary's Rival
this kid
and the guy from the anime that looks kinda like Red...
That's so diverse.
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8-Bit Ramen wait a second WERE IS THE GUY GARY WANTS TO SMELL LATER
8-Bit Ramen The guy who keeps losing the Pokemon League
the Guy whos WATER-DARK TYPE POKEMON LOST TO A FIRE TYPE MOVE
Gary is here, @$# IS A LOSER!
I can't believe they didn't include "Guy on a poster in Mimikyu's tiny room." He's a classic!
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Who wants to see JWittz livestream this game just for the fun of it?
I do XD
TheMaz878 let's make this happen
Yesss~!
Pleaseeeeee
Yes please!
This is a major throwback, I was really young but somehow I remember that I played pretty much via these rules. The only difference was that we agreed that if you have an evolution line complete, it became yours and the other was not able to trade it anymore haha
A fair house rule.
We have a house rule that your starter pokemon evolution couldn’t be stolen, since it is very clear about whether it could or not
When I was a kid, we also made this rule 😂
“There’s a chip for every single first generation Pokémon. 150 colorful coins for you to collect!”
Mew: *Am I a joke to you?*
Mew is always excluded :,|
@Spencer Wells we know still even long after he was introduced he is still ignored
I always saw mew, celeby, jirachi, etc. As bridge pokemon. The link used to complement the transfer into a new gen or a half baked excuse to retcon why the pokemon have never been seen in one region or another.
Be original
The Game: *Yes.*
"You'll lose so many battles, it'll begin to make sense that every player is forced to play as Ash Ketchum"
brb dying
LOL!!!! Quote of the Year :)
timestamp?
10:45
Savannah Irwin TIME MACHINE DO IT AGAIN
simbos7
Hughghghg
this game is brutal I've played it, I don't even know why the minimum threshold is 20 power, after like 5 hours we decided to work together because we all wanted to go home and cry because this game violated us
you was playing it wrong...
My group has a drinking game based around the rules for this game. No one makes it to the league. Ever. Lol
Pls share the rules 😂
Share the Rules!
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I'm late but please share! Hahaha
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Got this as a Christmas present in the 90s. I was definitely that older brother that recognised the wear & tear mark on the back of the Mewtwo legendary card so that little brother would never know how I - miraculously - always knew which one he was. What a game. Definitely played it wrongly to begin with but got the hang of it in the end and as young kids, you need stuff with complexity that's gonna challenge you and teach you to lose.
Don't forget the fact that there are 6 players, but only 4 legendaries. 😂
Nate L I think how the trading is supposed to work is that each player NEEDS to pick one of THEIR OWN Pokémon and then the players trade with the selected Pokémon. A person an only select their own Pokémon, and will have to accept whatever the opponent offers. It's not thievery.
Frank A while it's true that they do swap Pokemon but do you really think it's a good deal of someone uses the trade card, and trades their margikarp for their mewtwo, that's a forced scam
Based on wording its a Teamrocket card.
The legendaries are generally a bad idea IMO, you are much better off trying to get a 2nd stage evolution with the +5 bonus. Dragonite, Alakazam, Machamp, Gengar, Victreebel, etc. These will be as powerful as the best starters with a 12 or 13 base attack. Then if you fight Gary you have a shot to beat him even if he gets a 5+8 bonus with a +4 and +5 attack bonus on yours. Legendaries by comparison are weak, and generally I would only use them if I'm behind and need to risk it for a quick victory (ie my opponents all have better options than I do).
Also, the Trade rule makes your starters immune to trading so getting it to stage 2 could help.
Ash, Ash Ketchum, Satashi, Gary’s rival, This Kid, and that guy from the anime who looks like Red.
Character diversity
Yes. That is correct.
They're all the same person
@@alexanderwillick4521 that's the joke
Alexander Willick *YOU JUST MADE A BIG MISTAKE. PREPARE FOR THE WOOSHERS*
In order to make this game shorter and not too broken my friends and I play with following rules:
- You can only trade pokemon of the same color (rule added later in the official Johto game)
- Time machine only affects your own rolls, not your opponents'.
- If you evolved a full family of Pokemon they cannot be traded.
- We removed half of the "Fight" event cards from the deck, because in the final phase of the game they're annoying to all players and nobody wants to lose their item cards.
Hope you enjoy them ;)
my family had a similar ruleset, but the only pokemon we trade-locked were legendaries and starters/starter lines, everything else was fair game. We also used paper and added our own, original pokemon into the game, like Ho-oh and the beasts, all with 10 power, Absol and salamence with 8 each, and the two "ocs" i remember, Kurvo (a bird with 12 power) and Celestien, a legendary eevee evolution with 20 base power (but u had to roll 3 same numbers in a row to catch it) (i was maybe 6 when RSE was out, so there were more than the original 151 for us.)
Game is definitely more fun and less of a Monopoly-scale event if you bend the rulebook.
For the time machine yeah the rules regarding that were clarified in later expansions that it can only be used during your own Pokemon Battles but you can still use it to make players reroll captures.
"As you get time machined into the shadow realm"
I see what you did there.
"You'll lose so many battles that it will begin to make sense why everyone is forced to play as ash"
One word... Savage
Don't think burn heals are gonna save ya from *that* ! XD
No wonder his name is Ash.
Clefairy makes more sense than Meowth considering the history.
I thought it was gonna be eevee instead of meowth
BJGvideos yea but eevee would be better than meowth
meowth should have been eevee
we always switch em for poliwag, bellsprout, and a nidoran if we play with 6.
I have a distinct memory of having an Ivysaur token from this game in my Lego box when I was a kid.
But I have never seen this board game. Where did I get that token?
You stole it from a friend and blocked it from your memory
Everyone has that unidentified Pokémon figure in their lego box
That's where I put that token
I had this game given to me as a birthday present (I think I was around 8 years old). Had an absolutely blast on the rare occasion I got to play it with my friends, although we never got to the Elite Four as we had more fun just battling each other and trading Pokemon.
Found the game again about 5 years ago and realised what a frustrating game it is! We calculated before the game that the only realistic way of 'winning' was to own a Pokemon with the double evolution bonus, and to have attack bonus cards.
This meant that for about 20 minutes, we were rocking back and forth one the blue and red paths to pick up the said pokemon and item cards. But then by the time both of us got to the Indigo Plateau, we were going around again and again desperate to just be able to face one of the Elite 4. The first person to have a go failed, but then due to unlucky rolling on the part of the other player (also in the Plateau) was able to return and have a second go, this time to win.
So for the loser, they spent most of the game searching for the Pokemon and items needed, only to be stuck in the purgatory of the Indigo Plateau.
The reason that this is one of the best board games ever is because they actually put indents into the board so that the pieces all stay in place. Not enough board games do this!
151 pokemon
That dis on Ash was absolutely perfect.
Robert Wilcox where
That One Rigelian Knight in the begining
Well clefairy was supposed to be the original mascot
isayah curtis definitely Gengar and nidorino
Jay Mess Rhydon before those two
Rhydon was the first pokemon gengar and nidorino are the first exemple of a battle they never was supposed to be the mascot
poor eevee
@jaymess8802 not mascots just concepts
This was actually the first board game I ever bought myself. I saved up 20 whole dollars way back in 1999, and I still have it to this day.
Ash, Ash Ketchum, Satashi, Gary's Rival or the guy in the anime that looks like red 😂😂😂
Supriorguy that is the joke
Jeffrey_city ikr that's was pretty funny.
Jeffrey_city Satoshi not Satashi.
Jeffrey_city You forgot about "This Kid"
that hurt me so much the way he pronounced it considering he's such a big fan
8:41
"You win, right?"
"Time Machine!"
"Wait, what?"
"TIME MACHINE!"
I got that reference
I wonder if JWittz will ever do a video on all the different takes on Master Trainer in the Tabletop Simulator workshop. There's a ton of custom expansions, full reworks, and wholly custom games based off Master Trainer. There have been people adding mega evolution, gym trainers, evil teams, there'd be so much to talk about.
Where can I find that
I found this game about a year ago for $45.
It was a great deal. It's even complete!
Good game, too. Long endgame, of course, but...
PKMN Trainer Mark dang I seen one in my grandmas shed was the one you got brand new?
@@flosohobobro1650
Of course not. But it has everything and is in good condition.
@@pkmntrainermark8881 I was just looking for one, personally I want both the first and second, they have different flavors and many people don't appreciate monopoly levels time spending so I want both because of that, different flavor and time required. The ones Ives seen for the original go for around 70 ish dollars with like 20 buck delivery fees. Do you think that's worth it for a game before my time.
@@dragonmaster3030
So $90 for the original? It's a pretty fun game that can go on a while, so if you play it at least a few times, I think it'll be worth it.
@@pkmntrainermark8881 it's been awhile since a board game ever really intrigued me like this one has, and on top of that it's a rare bit of history
I bought that game at a charity sale once in my early Pokemon days. I was too young to understand how it worked and no one to play it with so I just looked at the pictures all the time.
Idk why, but the _"so I just looked at the pictures all the time."_ part made it sound really sad :/
This guy should be a storyteller, sounds tragic and nostalgic, but equally evocative with childhood sentiment, an ephemeral time for infinite happiness and frolic.
exactly.
You can play board games by yourself just play more than one player yourself
I never played this game to be honest none of my friends had this. We all played the Pokemon games on GBC, GBA & Nds.
I don't know why that picture of James holding the guy at gunpoint made me laugh
the__wolf Yeah, it is definitelt hilarious but I am actually glad they banned that episode. Having Team Rocket hold a real gun and threatening someone's life is a bit too messed up although it is kind of funny when the warden threatened Ash lol
yeah, too messed up. even though there wasn't a cartoon without guns, machineguns, rocket launchers and other weaponry in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s
I played this recently with my sister. When we realized how broken the Elite 4 were, we had to conspire together so one of us was equipped with as many attack buffs and legendaries as possible so we could finally escape the Indigo Plateau.
This is one of those things from my childhood I forgot about, but when I instantly saw the video all the painful memories flooded back
...But to find a copy of this game, I'd need a... I'd need a ....
TIME MACHINE!
DairunCates underrated comment
I have a copy
What
TIME M A C H I N E
A drop in center I attend just found the game recently, all though we don't have the instructions
I won the game via an eBay auction on Saturday.
so you are the reason why this game is number one trending on ebay
It's TheJwittz effect xD
michael brousseau how much is it. I need it!
michael brousseau lol
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I remember this game very well, my cousin had this and we'd play it every time. His big brother would try to watch over us and make us follow the rules (with little success) but by the end of the game we'd just have a fight. Every single time.
YESS!! I loved this game so much!! I used to play all the time. We usually never ever finished the game, instead we just collected the Pokemon, which was fun in itself. Sometimes we went the whole way. I would totally play this game again if someone had it on hand.
I had no idea the time machine could be used on opponent's rolls!!!
10:43 JWittz: "You'll laugh everytime someone gets time machined *into the shadow realm"*.
I just love that Yu-Gi-Oh reference and glad that is still being used even after all these years. Never get tired of it! :D
Infinity Master Oh yeah. With the new movie and show, the Duel Links mobile game, and the Abridged Series, it's no wonder we still make references to it.
"It's really more of a Purple Realm ...."
~ TDG
Infinity Master I'll use my trap card, KUNAI WITH CHAIN!!!
Barrel Behind The Door.
CAN WE PLEASE SEE THIS GAME STREAM IT
Longest stream since MatPat streamed all of Fnaf SL in one day... that was 5 hours.
Vivi23 Blue23 this needs to be done lol
Great Video! I used to watch you a lot when I was younger but slowly fell out of the pokemon craze. I saw this video on my recommended and had a wave of nostalgia from not only the channel but the game too. Keep up the great work and I would love to see more videos like this in the future
I had to rewind the character descriptions to realize it was all just Ash.
Me too
Three house rules:
1. Replace Pikachu, Meowth and Clefairy with Pokemon that have 2 evolutions.
2. The pokeball card lets you choose which bonus (if you want) to use after the die roll.
3. Only add the bonus the Elite Four dice roll represents, not the dice itself.
That's similar what I was going to suggest. Add a couple of house rules and the game might be playable. In addition to those rules, also add a limit on how long you can be in the Indigo Platue, like if you pass the second Enter Final Battle twice, you will immediately enter the battle (even if you don't land on the spot)
Generally, I would say this game is as backstabby as Munchkin. When used to play it a lot with my friends in high school, and every time you went into the final battle for the last level, you had all the others ganking up on you.
I play the second house rule with my daughters. Also, I never realized you could Time Machine someone else's roll, so we inadvertently had a house rule that Time Machine can only reroll your own rolls (though that includes rerolling the Elite Four die if you are the one controlling the Elite Four member.
I'd like to suggest a fourth house rule:
You can only time machine your own dice rolls, not other players'.
OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa Here's a better idea for one, before the first turn, remove all time machines from the deck
Here's a better idea for a rule: you can't use a Time Machine card once somebody wins an Elite Four battle.
WAIT THERE WAS A 2nd AND 3rd GEN VERSION OF MASTER TRAINER?!?
I loved this board game. Shame it was lost too time OTL
2nd gen was worse and don't even touch 3rd gen. They just get more boring and simple as it goes on. The gen 1 board game is hands down the best, even if it is Satan in cardboard form.
And a Gen 4 Version called champion island. It's not exactly the same but it has a lot of the same concepts.
Would it be worth it to like. Take the chips and add them into the Kanto game though? Maybe also use figures that aren't ash if the later ones have any
I still have the board game, except I'm missing some of the pokemon pieces.
Hideo Freaking Kojima
I have everything, except the box is all messed up.
This video inspired me to create my own Pokémon board game and my friends and I have had a blast playing. Thank you JWittz!!
Master Trainer: Where Nuzlocke began.
And where friendships get assassinated.
Wait a minute, I've STILL been playing it wrong? I thought the die is rolled for Elite4 Card Trainer and they get the corresponding attack bonus without the dice roll on top. Which makes sense as Gary becomes the only near-invincible one. If they get the dice roll on top of that the game is absolutely bonkers. I'm gonna check the rulebook when I get home since Hasbro's servers hosting it are loading it very slowly.
Edit: holy crap yep. Still been playing wrong hahaha
Rudy Myer l
No, actually, you were playing it perfectly, getting the die roll on top is complete bonkers
so basically you've been playing with the mercy rule the entire time
@@raiyanchowdhury7898 same
We've always played it that way too!! Just makes sense?
We want a video of you playing this with people, the max number if possible.
So I watch this video from time to time, and I know part of the enjoyment JWittz gets is from the sheer chaos and brutality of it, but is it possible a few house rules could make the game much less agonizing? I have a few simple ones.
-Forced trades have to be between Pokemon of matching colors, if there's no match, you can't force a trade with the card. Manual trades can be whatever the players agree to.
-Trainers in the Indigo Plateau are immune to any and all cards played by opponents on them. Alternate take: Immune to any and all cards played by opponents *that aren't also in the Plateau.*
-Alternative to the previous rule: Time Machine can only be used on your own rolls.
I think those were all the broken things he talked about, and they seem easily fixed. Does that make the game more enjoyable, or is having your balls crushed in a vice part of the appeal? (I won't kinkshame.)
We had this game but I wasn’t around when we had the full version and you showing the cardboard pieces and cards woken up memories I didn’t realize I had
This is a reeeeaaaally cool game actually. I kinda need to play it now.
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I played this ALL THE TIME when I was a kid!
Hi there Skul.
Tim Legdeur hi there tim
SkulShurtugalTCG you didn't play it right though did you?
Dippypants Hello.
Alola, sir!
1:03 my god I forgot that I even owned one of these until I saw you remove the cover. I remember removing all of the chips from the holes in the board! This brings a tear to my eye. Thank you.
I lovedddd this game as a kid. I used to make my grandma play it with me alll the time, god bless her. My parents actually got it for me for Christmas last year too and it was probably one of the best gifts they could’ve given me
I think the best decision my friend ever made was turn anytime you lost or missed a Pokemon is that you took a shot. I had this game for years and I bought it at a garage sale. I dug it out a couple of years ago and that's exactly what my friends and I did.
Draken Silver did one of you die from alcohol poisoning?
no, but the hangovers were pretty bad.
theres a pokemon drinking game you can print out, its kinda fun, i just had it printed and laminated at office depot
Funny how you mentioned Monopoly, as most people actually play it wrong and use house rules that extend the game substantially. The main rule most don't seem to know is that if a player lands on a space and doesn't buy it, it goes up for auction starting at $0, meaning that you can buy properties without ever landing on them (and for a cheaper price). Also, when you go bankrupt from debt to a player, all of your assets go to that player, not the bank. There are others, but those are the main 2 I noticed.
My fondest memories of this game were me and my friends just playing with the pogs since we couldn't actually figure out the game as children. Great video man!
“It took 4 and 1/2 hours”
Axis and Allies players: pffft those are baby numbers
The Campaign for North Africa player *turns around* AMATURES
Shard S Europa Universalis: I am god
Diplomacy: AMATEURS!
Pssst I've played a 16 hour one shot D&D Campaign.
"Time machined into the shadow realm" is my new favourite phrase.
Breadgehog ahhh dragon ball and yugioh nice.
i had that game. i was destroyed during the great moving of 99... many good soldiers were lost that week...
master trainer, lego mans, teh card album... many, MANY stickers.... and dont even get me started on the blue eyes white dragon card found crushed after moving... poor soldiers. may the god of the 90's have them...
I never understood the appeal of Blue Eyes or Yugioh that matter, but I feel sorry for you. Ripperonis.
Yu-Gi-Oh made more sense to me than the Pokémon card game, and it was fun. I lost all the time when I was a kid, but it was interesting since I actually knew all the basic rules (I didn't understand any other card game at the time).
well the Yu-gi-oh anime was all about the card game so it was easier to get a grasp on how to play the card game compared to playing the pokemon card game. I recall only collecting pokemon cards for the shake of collecting.
Goodbye 90's you wont be missed lul
This for some reason will always be my favorite jwittz video I want to play this game so much
Had this game as a kid and absolutely loved it. Watching this video reminded me of how long and ridiculous it was. Love to get my hands on another copy to shatter friendships at game night.
"You put a gun up to their head and force them to trade with you"
Me:Magikarp for Mewtwo
Other:But why?
Me:JUST DO IT OR I'LL SHOOT
Other:ok...
And thus the 6 magikarp fisherman was complete
The trade doesn’t say pick your opponents Pokémon to trade they get to choose
"You'll lose so many battles, it'll begin to make sense that every single player is forced to play as Ash Ketchum." Lmao savage af, I'm dying.
Wonder which top comment you stole that from?
Lmao I posted this within the first few hours of the video being posted, I didn't steal anything. Why you gotta hate?
I clicked this thinking, “Aww yeah! I have this game!”
But then I realized, “wait... Mine’s the 2nd, Johto version...”
It's ok he has a second video about the johto game
Legend of awesome productions Oh! He does? Thanks for telling me. 😁
He also has 1 for Hooen!
at least it isn’t 3
This was literally my favorite board game as a kid. I think I still have it in my attic somewhere
"You'll lose so many battles, that it'll begin to make sense why everyone plays as Ash Ketchum."
8-year-old me is dying of laughter
I'm so sad, when my parents moved and cleaned out our board game collection, they donated this game. To get any copy costs $100+ nowadays
Kyubimask1234 Thrift store find.
Kyubimask1234 thrift stores never have full sets for stuff like this
Imagine this: You have a Dratini, Dragonair, and Dragonite. You've managed to get your hands on two whole +5 attack cards, and you have ungodly amounts of luck with your own rolls, to the point where you roll what you want. You're fighting Gary, and you pull out all the stops. With your 7 attack Dragonite, the +5 from the full line, the +10 from your cards, and rolling a six, you have an apocalyptic 28 power. Then Gary rolls a five. You lose.
You beat Gary 28-23.
@@danangell548215 base attack, plus the 8 he gets from rolling a 3 or a 5, then the value of the dice itself gets added, tying you at 28, which means you lose.
My brothers and I used to make up our own games/roleplay with all the pokemon pieces. The board game itself always took a backseat to our imaginations. Thanks for the nostalgia :)
I definitely want to see those second and third generation Master Trainer games! I would love to know if the series evolved into a less brutal or _more_ brutal game, and I'd love to see those other Pokémon board games as well.
2nd gen butchered it with the gym leaders mechanic and don't get me started with gen 3. They just get more simple, basic and boring as it goes on. This one is by far the best.
Definitely gives us more videos like this. Was very interesting.
He should do a video on the V-Trainer toys
Hey JWittz I want to thank you for uploading this video as I think it helped me sell all of the remaining pokemon pogs that I had.
I didn't think Time Machine worked on others, huh...
Same I don't think we played it that way. I don't remember it being too hard.
Agreed. This game was just way too easy, so we threw it away, because we would just use our cards only on ourselves. Which means whenever we lost a battlle to an Elite4 we would just Time Machine and win and there was nothing our opponents could do about it. We didn't know we could use it on opponents.
It doesn't. He's just dumb.
Actually the card can affect other players, it says you can re-roll a dice roll, it never says it has to be YOUR dice roll, just A dice roll, any dice roll.
@@Kelocyde You should only be able to play it on your turn and your own rolls. His interpretation is wrong.
This is probably harder than being an actual pokemon trainer lol
Forte I'm liking the profile picture ;D
haha thank you! XD
Forte vgc sounds easier than this insanity
Forte all hail rngesus.
Oh man PLEASE do more of these JWittz
Omg I always wanted to see what this board game was about! One of my cousins found the board on a trash pile but didn't had the chips, so we printed and crafted chips and made out our own rules and played a lot!
used to play this with 3 others nearly every day when i was a kid. it really never gets boring if you have the right group to play with. i remember games used to take us up to 6 hours, one time someone won in less than 2 hours haha.
I remember this game!!!!
same, used to play it with my friends almost daily
my second grade teacher had it for indoor recess
I actually still have this board game. Missing a few Pokepogs and maybe a rival card, but it's still there.
I have this and it isn't missing any pieces and is in overall pretty good condition. I loved playing it with my Dad when I was younger, but we threw in a bunch of home rules to make the game more managable.
Noah Rebert Yea, exactly the same 👍
I feel like this would be fun to watch a stream of with a group of friends honestly. (probably with some modified rules to help ease the pain)
i imagined gamegrumps playing the game.
Oh man now I want that to happen so badly
Your likes are Mew. You're welcome.
My friends and I have a few home rules we all agree on: left over starter chips get mixed into pink, and you can go forwards or backwards when it's your turn, as long as you make it to the first choose your direction city. We end up with longer games, but it usually ends up fun.
I gotta say, this might be my favourite board game.
I actually own this board game.
I'm looking at mine now, lol
frostieisme me too
wow really? that's awesome rofl
Same here.
frostieisme I have two copies.
frostieisme me two got at garage sale 8 years ago
If we had this in my old middle school game club it would destroy my friendships
Honestly, if your friends will break up with you over a game, even if it's Mario Kart or Smash Bros, you need new friends. XD
Ace in the Hole No one wants to play Brawl with me anymore because I play metaknight and they get mad time to get new friends XD
Yeah, they need to grow up. I don't wanna toot my own horn or nothin', but my brother was kicking my a** the other day in Sm4sh and I came back next time stronger than ever. I also discovered the true power of Aura that day, if you catch my drift. ; )
Nah if you use meta knight then i understand why they hate you
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We had this game in my second grade classroom. We were only allowed to play it during indoor recess if there was lightning or too much snow. I had completely forgotten about it. Thanks for the vid
love that you call out catan and monopoly at the beginning
I do possess this game..
It did ruin friendships
it was worse than a game of Mario Party
god so many fond memories
This and Monopoly.... Lol
This and Munchkin.
Gary wins master trainer without doing anything
Fools! You do not know the dark power that is Diplomacy!
Games that look innocent, mario party... Pokemon master trainer trilogy
Most games look fun on the outside but when you start... it’s very brutal. I know because I have Pokemon Monopoly: Kanto Edition
Surprised no one is mentioning Pokemon Diamond and Pearls 10th Anniversary in North America today. I mean I only know that because I was on Diamond a while ago and I noticed it was like a week of my 10th Anniversary of getting the game. I mean all my Game Boy files are gone at this point so my oldest save file is 10 year old. I also got the game about three months earlier than anyone else because the DS wasn't region locked. So that is fun.
wait the one where it involved a TV?
TheZebbga has it already been 10 years ☠️ omg
Yep , 10 years have passed. Weird isn't it. It doesn't seem that long.
TheZebbga i never played the sinnoh games yet i sort of grew up on them with cards and the anime
TheZebbga it feels like 5 years ago to me xD
Weirdly enough, as a kid I had the pieces, but not the board. What a blast from the past.
This game is a blast! My younger brother and I got this when it first came out and played it a bajillion times. I still have it, and the friends I bust it out on have a blast, too, even not being into Pokémon. It's legit.
I can remember having great fun with my nephews with this one. Changes made to the rules: no 7-hand max, catching for other players when you fail, defeating all of elite four in 1 go (but without the dice roll added, only the attack bonus added) and no trading or at least not on something you evolved.
Time machine only your own rolls, logically
Believe some of those rules were not clear and people would fill in the gaps with their own rules. Like the Time Machine didn't mention that you could interrupt another players turn to have them re roll, Instead most people I know had Time machine only affect others players if you use it during your own battles so only people within the battle could use time machine.
As for the + 4 + 5 cards the rulebook gave you an example how to use them but it never explicitely said that you couldn't use more then 2 during battles so you could place 3 or even 4 item cards with +3 or +4 +5
if you wanted.
And the Final Battle xD Most people wanted to beat the whole Elite four like in the Video games so yah that made it quite long but with the Multiple use of + 3 4 and 5 it was more about who had the most Plus cards would win xD
Harm Hoeks it feels like Magic: The Gathering a little. they had cards that were not very specific starting out and people would use them to their advantage. these cards in this pokemon game should definitely have been more specific on when you could use them. it would have settled a lot of fights in my house and i assume many others as well
Additionally, players were not allowed to capture/steal other people's evolution l.
I worked at Goodwill over the summer and someone actually donated a Pokemon Master Trainer game. Unfortunately, store policy says we aren't allowed to sell board games that are already open, so we had to throw it out. But I took a few of the Pokemon tokens home with me. Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, Chansey, Vulpix, Snorlax, Nidoran F, Nidoqueen, Dragonite, and Arcanine. I'm sad I couldn't get either of my favorite Gen 1 Pokemon, Vaporeon and Ninetales.
Cherry Chocolate wtf?! I see old games at goodwill all the time. I just bought perfection few months ago and it definitely wasn’t unopened. Had all the pieces but surely it wasn’t sealed.lol. This is why I work at value village. And yeah, it came into our store last year, but we aren’t stupid and put it in the showcase for what I believe was $100. It sold really fast so I couldn’t buy it. Have to wait at least two days before we can buy anything.i totally would have tho
Also, if you get in that predicament again, you can take it out of the trash and get away with it. Lose job, but no other penalties. My coworker got fired for taking something that was thrown away and it went to court and he won against the company coz he played it as dumpster diving.lol. It’s kind of a weird concept when your stealing trash.lol
Wow, your Goodwill sucks. My local one sells opened board games.
I kinda get why. If the board game is open there's a 98.67% chance that pieces are missing. Some games have a lot of pieces and it would take a long time to have an employee check to see if they're all there. If the game is missing pieces it could be unplayable and effectively trash. Now maybe somebody would want it to replace pieces from their own game but I still think it's not worth it to have incomplete board games taking up space on the shelves. Employees should be able to take home things that Goodwill throws away though.
@カプ・テテフ most Goodwills have rules like that. The theory at mine is that someone would pocket a piece from a game (so it couldn't be sold) and then take it home and get the game/item/whatever for next to nothing before any customers have a chance to buy it.
I LOVED this game as a kid. My brother and I played this over and over and over. I can still see it set up in the floor of our kitchen while we ate pizza and argued about who was better. This thing was great.
I remember trying to play this game very briefly at a daycare in the early 2000s. Completely forgot about it until this video.
we made this a drinking game. We all ended up on the floor.
Wait when did you drink?
Crollingin Meishkin whenever you lost probaly
I was pretty sure that time machines could only be used by actual battle participants. I don't recall the elite four getting the dice roll added to their score. My favorite part of this game is that we allowed the trading of dead Pokémon. It made things even more cruel.
OtakuDaiKun BLAZE?!
Yeah I remember it being the elite four got one of those three values added to their base attack, but not adding the dice roll they got as well.
I just read the rules and, yes, they get the roll and the value. I do, however, read time machine as only being able to be used by the participants in the battle.
OtakuDaiKun me and my friend made a really good Pokémon board game couple years ago that’s easy to fallow and challenging at the same time. The downside it’s not easy to get the license to put it out and we would get mostly a small % profit it took a year and a half to fit and work on it. Changing the theme for it harder to make work. I’m working on a different theme by myself. When my friend is marking the Johto region expansion. We just play the Pokémon game with are group of friends, family, & people at cards shops to see if they like it and for feedbacks. So far for 2 years of it everyone says it’s a bit confusing in the beginning but is super fun in the middle and end game. We haven’t gotten a really negative review for it yet. They only ask when will we add the Johto region. Game time last for 45min-2hours and is for 1-5 players. It’s fun and we both Really hope it becomes a game we see in stores one day
Pokemon the Board Game: More like Dark Souls.
(When our family played Monopoly, we had the free parking jackpot, and usually only played until either someone went bankrupt or we got too bored to continue, then counted up properties and cash to determine who won, if it wasn't obvious - like someone getting sent to Boardwalk with a hotel on it, GG)
I used to play this game all the time with my sister. Thanks for that trip down memory lane!
I had this game and it's probably simple nostalgia talking but it was super fun. I probably didn't actually play according to the rules or anything but oh my god I forgot this was a thing. Don't know where the game went probably sold in a garage sale or something but gosh did I enjoy this game.
This game is available for TableTop Simulator through Steam Workshop! Haven't played it to know if it's any good or not but I thought it would be cool to try and tell people about :D
Surfin' Shinji
Can you play against other people? :/
Surfin' Shinji whelp, im getting table top sim
It's way better in TTS. There's even fanmade addons that add more Pokemon from later generations and such. It's no less brutal though.
OH MY GOD!!! I couldn't finish this video b/c it filled up my happy meter and was that funny.
I remember wanting to buy this as a kid, but its great to see it in action from your perspective.