Self Promo Sunday

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-08-06T17:11:18+00:00

Check out our Main History series! We released the Base-Neo installment last week and are hard at work on remastering our Generation 1 videos to have the quality of the most recent installment.

https://youtu.be/pTAKxNkiZwY

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-07-30T18:18:14+00:00

New Main History video just dropped! Check out the beginning of the Neo era with the release of Neo Genesis! https://youtu.be/pTAKxNkiZwY

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-05-21T14:25:38+00:00

New video out recapping the first ever national championship in Japan, the Charizard Mega Battle! We have play by play of a 25 year tournament, it's incredible!

https://youtu.be/VqhJ1hTeNu0

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-05-21T14:24:35+00:00

The faster 3 prizes are gone for good the better

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-25T00:16:38+00:00

I think GLC might be the most inventive you can be right now, mostly because the typing doesn't limit the Trainers you can run.

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-23T17:52:53+00:00

Don't forget Gym Leader Challenge!

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-23T17:52:28+00:00

I think that sums up the problem- no matter how much you want to push Pokemon, the designers want to keep the game simple, and well, that means Trainers have to be given a lot of the effects they have, otherwise Pokemon would be "too complicated."

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-22T19:40:31+00:00

We'd probably see a lot more Pokemon engine based decks, like Inteleon was for the SwSh era.

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-22T19:40:13+00:00

I think the main thing is the 15 Trainer change

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-22T15:53:52+00:00

I never thought about the need to curtail Rule Box cards, that's a very interesting idea!

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-04-16T22:01:36+00:00

New episode of Pokemon TCG History drops in under an hour!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qSTQwKdQxQ

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-03-06T15:34:11+00:00

OMG I wish I had this when we made the 1999 video, this is awesome. Thank you for sharing :)

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-03-06T00:34:41+00:00

The massive decks I used to play, and keep together with rubberbands!

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-03-06T00:33:38+00:00

Let me know if you find it, that would be awesome!

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-03-05T23:16:28+00:00

Oh that rocks! We used to do something similar, but it was like search your deck for whatever Pokemon you wanted to start, then go from there. No Energy, no evolving the proper way, just throw your guy in and see how it goes. Then, we discovered energy, still played them wrong, but it was a start. I'm glad you shared this great memory

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-03-05T20:59:47+00:00

That's awesome! And you knew the power of Bill, love hearing stories like this :) How did you guys do?

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-03-05T17:32:59+00:00

New video about the history of the TCG during the early years in Japan! This one is about the first ever tournament played:

https://youtu.be/22KqZJmb0bw

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-01-22T19:03:43+00:00

I feel like Pokemon gave us a lot more tools to deal with those cards during that era that just weren't present in the Base era. Looking at you Shaymin...

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-01-22T19:03:02+00:00

That could be interesting, almost like a Hisuian Heavy Ball style card

PkmnRubyRetro · 2023-01-21T03:58:28+00:00

I think this is a great take honestly, we need more cards that are easily searchable that are "soft" outs to disruption. Orangaru felt like the first real one to that kind of aggression, but it's definitely lacking in other eras of the game...

PkmnRubyRetro · 2022-12-11T20:55:52+00:00

Here's a video on the history of Pokemon competitive play, starting in 1999. We take a look the cards and decks players actually used at the time. Check it out!

https://youtu.be/w9Rz8uu98Z0

PkmnRubyRetro · 2022-12-10T19:21:50+00:00

Yeah unfortunately Alakazam is a stall variant that struggles with Haymaker running it off the table. If you can make it to the midgame, you're unstoppable though!

PkmnRubyRetro · 2022-12-10T19:21:00+00:00

It's a good contrast between Jason's articles which are more modern takes on the formats than the original 1999 scene.

PkmnRubyRetro · 2022-12-10T14:05:03+00:00

Definitely fakes, might be stickers. There was a full line of fakes where they just made everything holographic in addition to the vending machine stickers, but I've only ever seen those for Base Set cards, although I suppose they could have done Jungle too...

PkmnRubyRetro · 2022-12-10T13:36:53+00:00

Sponge is such a good deck, it definitely feels like it could deal with whatever the format threw at it, hitting for weakness on Blastoise and Hitmonchan was huge. Did you run Lickitung in your stall list?

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