What years was pokemon a fad in Ireland?

zyxwvu

I'm just wondering because it was a big thing when I was between the ages of about 8 and 11.. just wondering if anyone remembers well enough to place a rough time-line to it? My guess is that it was mostly 1999 and the first half of 2000.. anybody? Just want to know so I can wrangle out my past memories into a mental time-line, strange as that may sound..

Niles

That sounds about right, I remember it being big when I was in sixth class (the 1999/2000 school year). The amount of batteries I wasted on that game...

4zn76tysfajdxp

I would agree to that. I was also in sixth class when it broke in Ireland.

Superbus

I was in Senior Infants then which would be about right; I just remember being totally engrossed with every aspect of the Pokémon (the accent makes all the difference) world without understanding any of it.

zyxwvu

Grand so, it seems I was in 4th class when it was big.. and maybe the end of 3rd class too. I can remember playing pokemon red on the gameboy colour around christmas in either 2000 or 2001.. must have been 2000.. either way it seems it was on it's way out by then.. must have been playing it for a second time or something!

krudler

it was definitely 2000, I worked in Smyths that christmas part time, remember it well. those fcuking Pokedex things were the bane of our lives, parents were offering us 200 quid if we could get them one, we had a delivery of the toys and cards one morning and people had been queueing up since 6am waiting for it, crazy stuff.

amacachi

Hold on, people stopped liking Pokemon?

DVD-Lots

Still going strong! My young fella is mad into it, have to buy him a few booster packs today actually. He has a few DS games and about 12/13 movies on the PC that he watches regularly and his cousin is just as crazy about it. :rolleyes:

nitromaster

Anime/Cartoon begun on Network Two at the beginning of September 1999.
The original games were released in Europe October 1, 1999 (day after my birthday i got blue...)

The sequels Gold/Silver hit America/Australia in Oct 2000 with them being released here in April of 2001. (but some imported sooner :pac:)

Pretty much the basic outline.

Niles

I remember buying the yellow version in June 2000 on a school trip that took in the Square shopping centre (such places were a rare treat for culchies back then), I think it was only out a week or two at the time, that game was testament to the power of marketing - I already had the blue version and yellow was basically the same thing just with Pikachu following you around and a different selection of version exclusive Pokémon. Is it sad that I can remember all this?!

I'd started college... so yeah, around 2000! Only gave up on Pokemon about two years ago! Got a nice collection of Starleys from the Pokeballs you could (maybe still can) buy in Game four years ago?

ITS_A_BADGER

sigh ah those were the days i would play pokemans blue for hours, i think your right it was around the late 90s i went into secondary school in 2001 and totally forgot it

darkdubh

Was it Pokemon or another show that had one episode that induced epileptic fits in kids all over Japan when it was shown due to strobe effects?

Niles

darkdubh wrote: »

Was it Pokemon or another show that had one episode that induced epileptic fits in kids all over Japan when it was shown due to strobe effects?

Yep, that was Pokémon alright (It's parodied in the Simpsons episode where they go to Japan).

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon

SChique00

Pokemon FTW! I was about 4 when it was really big, and one of my only childhood memories I have is of owning a Pikachu pen with a little model of Pikachu stuck on the end. I bit him off the pen - yes folks, I like to bite things

zyxwvu

nitromaster wrote: »

Anime/Cartoon begun on Network Two at the beginning of September 1999.
The original games were released in Europe October 1, 1999 (day after my birthday i got blue...)

The sequels Gold/Silver hit America/Australia in Oct 2000 with them being released here in April of 2001. (but some imported sooner :pac:)

Pretty much the basic outline.

I think it was October 1998 that red and blue were released in Europe.. according to Wikipedia anyway, and my memory of playing one of them during the summer of 1999. So I'd assume the cartoons were on Network 2 on September 1998 too, no?

As someone else said, I also remember somebody on a school trip to Dublin in June 2000 getting pokemon yellow (people were jealous so it must have been just released). Even at that age I knew it wasn't worth getting it!

Niles

I remember it being on the Den in the latter half of 1999 at any rate. I remember my American cousins were big into it in the summer of 1999 but I hadn't a clue what they were on about at the time - we soon found it was being shown on Sky 1 but didn't really pay much attention to it. We were told there was a card game and I thought it was some derivative of poker! (pokémon, poker???). Certainly if it was out here before the latter half of 1999 it wasn't really a "fad" until then.

Am I the only one here then, who played Yellow, Blue, Red religiously, caught 'em all, read the guides, bookmarked the Pokedex, and spent hours in the back of the classroom trading and battling with a guy in my class... cept it was happening in college instead of primary school? The only person I'm still mates with from college, too, and we're both still nerds.

I have a feeling that GBA battling down the back of the room kinda isolated us from our peers (by about ten years!) That and shouting "Budgese sent out Mew! What will you do?" across the canteen is just embarrassing.

Princess Peach

Was for sure 2000, I was in 6th class and then got embarrassed when I went into 1st year and still loved Pokemon

nitromaster

zyxwvu wrote: »

I think it was October 1998 that red and blue were released in Europe.. according to Wikipedia anyway, and my memory of playing one of them during the summer of 1999. So I'd assume the cartoons were on Network 2 on September 1998 too, no?

As someone else said, I also remember somebody on a school trip to Dublin in June 2000 getting pokemon yellow (people were jealous so it must have been just released). Even at that age I knew it wasn't worth getting it!

Think wiki was wrong (referenced gamespot)....bulbpedia (a pokemon encyclopaedia) lists them as october 1st 1999 and references the nintendo uk site here: http://www.pokemon.com/uk/games/videogame-pokemontm-red-version-and-pokemontm-blue-version/ which says oct 1st 1999, so i'd hope nintendo are right