That whole thing with B35 & ENY had me rolling, good stuff.
I can agree to this, Game Freak alone has made the pocket hand held gaming world almost as competitive as the home system gaming world. It was also an innovation for other developers. Many other games that were made for the Game Boy & Nintendo DS systems had similar player vs player type entities for some of the games that would come out.
Pokemon cards did have a great deal of value, I scored a cool 350 after selling all of what I had (still have some of my favorites though...pre-Ruby & Sapphire....) I honestly think that Pokemon Cards had more to do with the theft department in schools and such, since back then, not a lot of kids cared about battling, it was about collecting the rarest in the packs.
Yu-Gi-Oh cards, well it was more simple to play for some and to others, it was the same. The cards also had their value that caused theft in many places. I didnt actually know that Yu-Gi-Oh cards actually had some sort of value until I sold all of what I had.....pocketed a cool 500 dollars.....
That damn glitch for the old games had people doing their shit so much, though having 99x Rare Candies and using them on the Pokemon was never that good to begin with.
Pokemon Silver & Crystal was my shit too. Everything about those games I loved, the music, the storyline, everything!
Trust me, I see that shit everyday when I go to the card stores in Chinatown, when one loses or gets f*cked over, they tend to start fights....I mean the game is fun but c'mon.......
Which brings up another thing that annoys me, people that take games too damn seriously, whether its video games, card games or whatever! ESPECIALLY when it comes to arcade fighting games, to be specific, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3 & Super Street Fighter 4.