I feel that we’ve had a GREAT year so far and with Pokémon X & Pokémon Y coming later this year things can only get better! It’s my great pleasure to announce our new giveaway which is TCG-themed with a great prize for one lucky winner: a set of 3 Pokémon TCG EX Power Tins! These three tins are the Spring 2013 releases and include a Black Kyurem tin, a White Kyurem tin, and a Keldeo tin. Each one contains the signature EX card of the Pokémon featured on the tin as well as a special Meloetta card. In addition there are 4 Black & White series boosters packed in which means the lucky winner will be opening 12 booster packs! Each tin also features an extra code to unlock more cards in the Online Pokémon Trading Card Game. Ready to find out how you can win!?
HOW TO ENTER: Please comment once on THIS POST telling us what your very first Pokémon TCG memory is! Don’t have one? What would you like your very first card to be? The entry time is 1 week and lasts from TODAY (May 10th) to May 17th at 12am CST. Good luck!
Unfortunately due to shipping concerns I must limit the contest to the 48 continental US states… sorry(*BUT READ BELOW). Also in the case that something happens and we cannot deliver a prize there is no value which will be awarded to the winner ($0). Don’t foresee anything happening, but I just want to make the terms clear. Visitors under the age of 13 must get parental approval for any method of entry into the contest (comment, retweet, Facebook comment, or forum post).
Did you just read that disclaimer…? Because there are actually ways to get BONUS entries! Follow us and retweet this tweet on Twitter, “Like” us on Facebook and like our status here, AND post in our forum (which you can log into via Twitter account) in this thread for up to 3 extra chances to win! Cool, huh?
*For those of you outside the US there are still runner up prizes that you’re eligible for! 3 extra winners will be chosen and they will each get a downloadable Pokémon from our staff member Dan and if they’re members of our forum Mt. Moon Community they’ll get special VIP status!
Hope you’re excited about this as I am! As always, love everyone who keeps checking back for the latest Pokémon news and articles! Wouldn’t be worth it without YOU!
<3 PJ
Ever since I was about 5 years old, I have collected pokemon cards. Yet, in the last few years, I haven’t collected anything. I would love to start my collection off again right with these packs. Also, as a graduating high school senior, I am broke as a joke! Free stuff is awesome!
My earliest Pokemon TCG memory is from when I was a kid, and my younger sister and I got a whole bunch of new Pokemon cards. We each chose one as our “starter” (I chose Pikachu), and then we spread the rest of the cards all over the floor and went on an “adventure” to go out and “battle and catch” as many Pokemon as we could, and then we would use the Pokemon we “caught” to battle each other in a way similar to playing the card game “War”. It was so much fun. I want to do that again some day! XD
I did that too!
Well let’s see, I remember get a lot of pokemon stuff when I was really young, but the earliest memory I have from the tcg is that every at my school played it and I ended up having my best cards given away by my sister 🙁
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When I was younger, my family was always too poor to get me Pokemon cards in English, so instead they got me the sticker fake Japanese cards. I remember I was so happy when I got my first card: A Zubat! I named it “Zubby”, and took it with wherever I went.
Unfortunately, a classmate of mine saw the card, and peeled off the sticker… That was the last I saw of Zubby. 🙁
My first TCG memory was seeing all of the news stories about Pokémon Cards being banned in schools. I knew nothing about it at the time, being a huge fan of the video games and anime. I had just started high school when the craze for the cards had begun. Now, in my adult life, I collect them with my close friend Jessie and trade with her whenever we buy new ones.
My favorite memory of the TCG game was back when I was 6 years old. My brother and I would collect cards and battle each other almost constantly. It wasn’t just TCG or the Pokemon franchise, we played Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic The Gathering. We would play chess occasionally too. We would sign up for local tournaments, especially at Toys R Us. We even came up with our own cards for the different trading card games with our friends. My favorite one I made was an elephant bird (The things in the mind of a 6 year old) which had big tusks that could pierce through steel. We always had lots of fun with it, and I still have my cards to this day. Hard to believe it has been over a decade since all this took place. Time sure flies, doesn’t it? Hopefully X and Y will get here quickly.
My very first TCG memory was when my parents bought me the original series cards back in the late 90s! I was a crazy card collecting fanatic then and I still am today!
So I have a lot of memories of Pokemon as a child, I only born a year before the pokemon boom in Japan so I was just the right age to grow up with it when it got to North America. Anyway, I’d say my favourite memory, maybe not my earliest memory, is of kids at school calling each other out for having fake Pokemon cards.
So my brother first subscribed to Nintendo Power and holy crap in the first issue we get, there are two cards glued inside the issue, a Poliwhirl and a Charmeleon. There’s a Pokemon CARD game? That’s so freaking cool
My first memory was seeing all the kids at school having Pokémon cards. My first personal memory of significance would be when my mom and I went to the store and saw a whole bin full of starter decks that were on sale. I almost got one of the Team Rocket decks, but in the end I decided on getting the Jungle deck. It was at that moment that my collection started, basically. While I never got all that into the battling aspect of the card game, the collecting aspect of it was always pretty fun! Actually, the same goes for the video games. Guess that’s why I hardly ever get Lv. 100 Pokémon, but oh well.
Back when Base Set first came out, the first pack of Pokemon TCG I ever bought I pulled the Base Set Holo Chansey (shadowless). I loved Chansey so much, I thought I could never part with it. But a friend at school was desperate for Chansey and offered me a 1st edition Zapdos (and some assorted uncommons and commons I wanted as a new collector) in exchange for it. I love Zapdos too, so I couldn’t resist trading especially for a first edition, though I was sad to see Chansey go. But then, to my surprise, the next day I bought my second Pokemon booster pack, and pulled another Chansey! I was shocked to my core- never have I experienced such randomly good chance! 🙂 Chansey really is a good luck charm!
i remember getting my first booster box or boxes when i was a little kid the fossil ones and i was soo happy ahh good times
When pokemon cards were a big things, I wasn’t allowed to get any. Didn’t stop me from getting them though. In fact, the ice cream truck after school would sell them at an inflated $7 a pack and I would buy a bunch of them with whatever savings I had and hide them from my parents. Oh dumb youth.
My very first TCG memory is when my friend at the time had another friend who always brought imported Japanese cards. In fact, it’s what got me into Pokemon. I had seen a lot of them before it ever caught on in the US, and I still have some of the cards he let me have, like my shiny Japanese Raichu and Snorlax!
In the height of the 90s Pokemon craze, I was hooked. My older brother and I would take our scooters and take the long journey across town to our holy place: Coins, Cards, and Comics.
It was a small little store with superheros painted on the windows. Inside, the counter was so high I couldn’t see over the top. By the counter there was a long display case with all of the rarest pokemon cards, and I often stood there, entranced, gazing at the Charizard and the holographic cards. I would buy the sourest blue raspberry candies I could find and the newest pack of Pokemon cards and we would scoot back home.
I remember the journey to Coins, Cards, and Comics, but I never remember coming back. I was busy imagining opening up that card pack back home and finding my favorite pokemon waiting there for me. I poured over my cards, spending hours making decks and taking special care of the first editions and holographic cards in a big red album with a Pikachu on the front. I played the card game with my brother on the living room floor.
I really treasure those days of Pokemon and spending time with my brother. We’ve grown distant as we’ve grown up. Maybe I should pull out a few booster packs and we could play pokemon again.
I’m 20, and I remember once when I was little I was at a flea market or something with my mom, and there was a big ol’ box full of TCG booster packs, mostly Jungle and Fossil, for cheap, and I asked her how many I could get and then began grabbing whichever packs felt lucky. I didn’t even have any friends who played. I just wanted to start collecting.
I am 22 years old, and my favorite Pokemon Training Card Game memory was opening up by first booster pack way back in elementary school – this was like in 2000. The pack was one of the original Base Set packs (with Blastoise on the cover – seen here: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Base_Set_Blastoise.jpg), and inside was my first holographic card – a holographic base set Venusaur card. I was SO excited, since I had then bought into the craze that was the collection of Pokemon trading cards, which I still do today – both in stores and in the current Pokemon Trading Card Game Online. Unfortunately, I was naive enough at the time to trade that precious holo Venusaur for an uncommon Charmeleon card from a friend – I got duped! – with him telling me that this base set Charmeleon card did more damage than Venusaur. Just thinking about that Venusaur card makes me want to unearth my binder-full of all 151 original Pokemon cards that I have in the basement.
I cant wait till x and y come out cux those leaks and new pokemon are just getting me more excited and the most annoying thing so far about x and y is sylveons type!!
I’m 21 now, soon to be 22, and I’m not sure how old I was but I remember two distinct memories with the TCG, can’t remember which was first. One was opening my first starter deck, the one with the holographic first edition Machamp and remembering how cool I thought it was. Also I remember I was on touring the KOMO 4 (Seattle) news station during Christmas time and I sat on Santa’s lap and Santa gave me a box of booster packs with a Koffing on the front.
The first memory that I can remember of having a TCG card was when my sister, my mother, and I all went to a local meijer store. My sister was all into pokemon and collecting the cards and everything so of course, I was too. I didn’t have any cards though so I desperately wanted some. Near the front of the store there was a big display that had a bunch of booster packs so I begged my mom to let me get one. She let my sister and I each get one so I looked at them all and decided to go with the pack that had a zapdos on the front. After we had paid for them my sister and I ripped off the packaging and started shuffling through our cards. My sister just got a bunch of boring common ones but when I looked through mine I saw that I got a holographic zapdos and a mewtwo. My sister was so jealous and mad that she kept trying to tell me they were bad ones so that she could have them. I wouldn’t budge though so I kept onto it because it was all pretty and special and rare. Unfortunately, my sister eventually grew out of pokemon and didn’t like it anymore. This came as a big blow to me because if something wasn’t cool to my sister, it wasn’t cool to me. So I ripped up all of my cards and threw them into the trash. Even my zapdos and mewtwo. It breaks my heart just to type that. I wish I could go back and have them all back. But a few years ago I started collecting again and even learned how to actually play the game. I haven’t had a new pack in quite some time but I just love the feeling of opening a new pack and the feeling of excitement of looking through them just like when I got my first pack.
I was never really into TCG much but I have one distinct memory of playing the game. There was one Christmas where me and a bunch of my friends got cards (our families meet up for Christmas) and we opened them and had a bunch of fun playing with them. We didn’t have the slightest clue of how to play so we just made up rules as we went and it ended up being really fun.
When I was in elementary school (I am 19 now) I used to stay at my grandmother’s house with my cousins nearly every weekend during the summer. The first time I was introduced to Pokemon TCG, my cousins were showing off their brand new 1st Edition cards. I was incredibly jealous and asked my grandmother to take us to Toys ‘R Us to get me my own set- and she did. We spent the next few summers battling and trading and sharing cards every time we were together. I still have a bunch of them, though they are in nowhere near good condition.
I was never to heavily involved in the TCG, but I do vaguely remember playing a few matches against other kids when I was little at a local Toys R Us (before it disappeared ;-;). I certainly wasn’t the best at it, with no real strategy involved, but it was still fun looking through the cards I had, getting decks and booster packs, and also the ones other kids had. Just kind of a fun, youthful experience.
Hmm, I remember back in elementary school my older cousin gave me binders and binders of pokemon cards. Naturally I loved the cute little pokemon like Pikachu and Jigglypuff, etc but I had nothing against the Muk and Koffings. It was those evil energy cards that looked so dang useless that ticked me off. I remember having a HUGE dislike towards them because I didn’t know what they were for and it was piling up in the binders LOL. At a tennis summer camp, me and this girl had tons of pokemon cards so we traded around and regrettably I gave her my holographic Blastoise for a Politoed, AND all the energy cards that I had because I didn’t want them (I regret it so much).
Since I didn’t really know how to play the game I just scattered them onto the floor and played kingdom with them, like splitting them into factions, having little forbidden romances or playing school, and talking for them, LOL. To be honest I still kind of to that today, but hey its entertainment.
Bah, I forgot to mention that my mom didn’t really like me and my brother buying cards because she thought it was a waste of money but we bought it with our pocket money. We were pretty young back then and I would always take the cute pokemon cards from our packs and I would give him (reluctantly) some of my cards to fair it off.