(S11) - PT 4 - Card Collecting

[dropbear]

Maybe I'm showing my age a little bit here, but Howard Miller was totally into collecting the original Pokemon cards. I'm talking back in the times when the only Pokemon around were the only ones that truly matter anyway: the original 151. As far as Miller is concerned, the list of Pokemon stops after Mew.

There was nothing quite like the excitement of getting a rare holo card. And back then, everyone had the binders with purpose-made sleeves that held three rows of three cards on each page. Flipping through and seeing blank spaces awakened some primal desire within kids back then that forced them to do whatever was necessary to get the cards they needed to complete their collection. Honestly, no toy or set of collections have come close to rivalling what the original Pokemon empire started back then. Back in the good old days.

Miller's nostalgia about it all actually makes him get out his GameBoy Colour from time to time to play Pokemon Blue. The game is simple. The graphics are basic. But goddamn if it isn't the purest sense of fun you can have playing a game, despite VR and everything else that's ever come out since.

I'm tearing up... I miss Pokemon.