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Yehhh! Board games! The good part of having a twin to play with! I collected the same things Sajmon shows. I had quite a bit of mostly Kanto/Johto Pokemon merchandise, from the
little figurines to the
marbles to the
Scholastic Book Fair books to the Burger king
golden cards to the... pajamas! Some posters, stickers, pencils, binders, first three collections of the trading cards, videos of various episode arcs, and of course, the video games: Red, Blue, Yellow, Stadium 1 and 2, Puzzle League, Gold, Silver, Crystal, even Hey You Pikachu, pah! My parents said they had to pull out the credit cards, which they rarely use nowadays. ////ouch
I used to take some of the Pokemon figurines to school, where I was in 3rd grade. I was playing with them in class and my teacher took them from me. ;o;;;; I had to get mom & dad up at the school to get my Pokemon toys back. Oh, don't get me wrong, this teacher loved me to death and genuinely said she wish all her students were as sweet as I am.
Though, most of my fondest memories would within the video games. My twin brother and I would trade and battle so friggin' much. We'd even trade in the car, at school, in a lobby or wherever mom would be forcing us to tag along with as she ran her errands. One time during a battle, we kept pulling in and out the link cable to see what would happen, haha. I think we accidentally cloned a Pokemon once that way, too! /trade mod in the making
I remember getting stuck in my first play of Blue version. I couldn't get HM Strength in the Safari. I legitimately trained my team up to 70; keep in mind that Koga's Pokemon aren't even at level 40. Eventually, my older neighbor offered to help so I lent my game and got it back the next day with the HM, hurrah. My childhood friend later challenged me to a battle and whipped me using a Mew, hah! I'm sad he moved away!