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is pokémon still popular where you live???

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Heavenly Spoon

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Hi everyone, I live in Belgium, if you say you like pokémon in my school, everybody laughs at you. I was wondering if you guys where hiding your love for pokémon or if you can be open. the only place I can talk about pokémon is here and on the league
 
Most of my friends know I play pokémon. So does my girlfriend, but she found out after we were together for like 3 weeks lol
But I don't care what people think about me playing pokémon, I just tell them I like it and if they don't they have to shut up because they dont know what they're talking about :)
Anyways, i think pokemon ins't as popular as it used to be (duh) but has still enough popularity to survive :)
 
Yeah, the only other people I know who like Pokemon besides me are both person girls. Ugh. And I live in Massachusetts, by the way. 5 years ago, Pokemon were the talk of the town, until they were banned from my school when some kids got in a fight between a Nidoking and Lapras trade. Ouch.
 
I don't get why they ban them, what's wrong with them. years ago, we played beyblade, which could shoot out eyes, they didn't ban them, but cards?, what's wrong with cards.
 
I live in new jersey and pokemon is still pretty popular here, but most people are into yugioh or other card games.
 
Like I said, kids would get in fights over bad trades. I remember I once traded a Muk for a Diglett, and cried my eyes out afterwards. However, I wasn't one of the violent ones. Did they ban them at your school? If so, when? I remember they got banned at mine right after the release of the first Team Rocket, and after that I gradually stopped liking Pokemon altogether. I only got back into them last year when I picked up Pokemon Silver at an old garage sale. After that, I've been struggling to catch up with all the latest games and cards. I'm getting Sapphire tomorrow, oh the joy!
 
I have to hide from everybody else in the school. Only one person out of like 2000 kids besides me knows I play. I only talk about it here and at the weekly little tournament and competitive tournaments. too bad, i wish i was still popular. And I personally think Sapphire is cooler than Emerald, not sure why, I just like Sapphire better than Emerald.

Arcanine out.
 
I have nobody to talk about it at school, but my best friend likes it

glad to know I'm not the only one who lives in an anti-pokémon world :(
 
I have to hide about myself playing pokemon to. Everybody in 7th grade makes fun of it. Except this one kid that brings his cards to school but doesn't go to my school anymore. I think I was in kindergarden when they banded Pokemon. i just got a starter deck for my birthday in April. And on the bus I traded a machamp for an abra and a koffing. Everybody was playing it a t school but then my principal band it from our school because he got complaints for parents about their kids getting ripped off. So whenever I have a sleepover I have to hide my stuff.
 
Same here, but then my picture get in a magazine if I get 1st in tourney and if someone says something, I just say "big deal!".

Not hiding it, though, just not telling every1 I play!
 
It's popular where I live. More people are interested in the Gameboy games and show than the card game.
 
i dont hide it but i quit pokemon cards cuz nobody plays em but im juts sticking to the anime and games plus i suck a the tcg.
 
I play the TCG with several other players (6 total, including myself) in Sacramento, CA. 3 of us (including myself) used to be a part of a league at a Toy's 'R' Us, where there were many other players. They eventually moved us from a nice spot in the store with ropes surrounding tables to a small, cramped storage room. After that, they did away with us. We eventually moved to a collector's store, where we stayed for several years.

Soon afterwards, our attendence dropped to as low as 5-6 people (just us alone), so we ditched the league points system and badge book in favor of free play. After a while, we started hosting official tournaments. We even got a City Championship. However, the mall with the collector's store is being demolished in favor of a Wal*Mart supercenter, and we now have no league, since the collector's store moved out of town. We are still willing to schedule tournaments there, just no league.

We are now meeting at random locations (Del Taco, Starbucks, etc) since we don't have a league and have been largely unsucessful at getting a league since most collector's stores are occupied by Yu-Gi-Oh! people. People ocasionally ask what we are doing. Most of the time when we tell them, we end up getting harassed. I could care less, since they have no life (I doubt many of them ever even tried Pokémon...). We recently got kicked out of Del Taco, so we are now meeting at one of our member's houses.

Overall, our situation has turned quite pitiful. But we still play the TCG, and we still compete in tournaments and greatly enjoy ourselves.
 
Yes it is. It is nintendo's biggest selling product. As of right now it is tied with the nintendo DS and is 2nd to mario. It is number 1 on the charts for gamecube and gameboy advance.:) Iwatch the show collect the cards for fun and play my fire red version. Oh only trade rares for rares and uncommons for uncommons and commons for commons other wise you will feel realy bad after trading a card for one that is downgraded from the one you have and you will wish you still had that card when you want to trade for a rare. For example you could have traded your machamp for a gyrados and a poliwrath or you could have traded it for a venusaur. I did that once and I got a hypno instead of a promo and I had a promo mewtwo and I finally got it back 2 years ago. I say you got ripped off but that is the way I trade and if they are good cards then it was not but koffing and the other one you got are both commons. That is just how I see it thats all I don't mean to make anyone feel bad.:)
 
In my place it's not popular as it used to be... but it have enough popularity to continue surviving.

At school, I guess quite a lot of people know that I like Pokemon, after I played the TCG 2 years ago in school. Not sure about now, though.
 
Every body knows pokémon, and used to like it. My ex-best friend was singing a pokémon song in class today, just to make fun of it, this is why I don't tell. I have 1 friend who I like it, but he hates it.
 
Wow that is weird. One of my friends droped out of it completely after he found out I had 1,674 cards and tha was in 2003.:)
 
Ouchies. People don't really where I live, they're just like, "Pokemon... cool 5 years ago.... OK." So I just keep it to myself.What a non-post. I'll go kill myself now..
 
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