Yeah i know what you mean, maybe its just because i grew up with these cards im not sure, the new ones seem almost fake, its what fakes used to look like when the 1st/2nd gen ones were out. I stumbled accross my pokemon cards in the loft yesterday (they must have been up there for about 5 years!) didnt realise how many holo's i still had, i got rid of most of my cards still got -
HOLOS -
Lt. Surge's Magenton
Dark Slowbro (Team Rocket)
Venusaur
Fearow
Hydra
Feraligatr
Koga's Beedrill
Dark Vileplume (Team Rocket)
Steelix
Wigglytuff (Jungle)
Hypno (Fossil)
Venomoth (Jungle)
Jolteon (Jungle)
Raichu
Pidgeot (Jungle)
Magneton (Fossil)
Kabutops (Fossil)
Dark Blastoise (Team Rocket)
Misty's Seadra (Prerelease)
Dark Weezing (Team Rocket)
Moltres (Fossil)
Nidoking
Clefairy
Haunter (Fossil)
Hitmonchan
Lapras (Fossil)
Raichu (Fossil)
Kangaskhan (Jungle)
Snorlax (Jungle)
Vaporeon (Jungle)
Muk (Fossil)
Machamp
Victreebell (Jungle)
Ninetales
Alakazam
Pinsir (Jungle)
Mewtwo
And the following few rare non holo's -
Dark Vaporeon (Team Rocket) , Dark Machamp (Team Rocket) Aerodactyl (Fossil) Dark Charizard (Team Rocket) , Moltres (Fossil) , Zapdos (Fossil) mew (Promo) , Haunter (Fossil) Pidgeotto
Got some others but i can't be bothered putting them all.