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micolithe.us
i think it's fair to say the pokemania has gotten a hold of you
February 18, 2026 at 11:17 PM
raulzeiro.bsky.social
Estou em pokemania e desde ontem já engoli 4 ginásios e botei o meu querido charbubu no lv 40
February 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
lyoncapitale.bsky.social
Vaulx-en-Velin : pour ses trente ans, la Pokémania s'invite à Mini World #actualite #culture
La franchise Pokémon fête ses trente ans près de Lyon
Le parc de miniatures accueille la deuxième édition de la Japan Mania. Un évènement marqué par l'omniprésence des pokémons, qui envahissent les mini-mondes. De quoi rapprocher toutes les générations.
www.lyoncapitale.fr
February 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
akicat.bsky.social
I feel the opposite, nobody should listen to people who started Pokémon with Gen 1 or Gen 2.

People too trapped in Pokemania of the late 90s and haven't moved on from the boring ass Charizard.
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
altergarden.bsky.social
i would also say rushed for them just going from pkmn's development history. interviews and other internal documents suggest that the decision to even start a new set of games was only made right after crystal's release because of the international success it had; it gets shorter and shorter...
In the early to mid 1990s, Game Freak was a tiny company that survived financially through means of developing smaller games on the side1 to support the development of Pokémon Red and Green versions, later released as Red and Blue internationally. By the time Red and Green had released in 1996 in Japan, Pokémon had been in rocky development for six years due to lack of funds, small number of employees, and the programming troubles of a fledgling game studio. No one was sure if Pokémon was going to become the wide-reaching success it ended up being, both in Japan and with the colloquially dubbed "Pokémania" in the late 90s overseas. Despite this, Game Freak started development on Gold and Silver directly following Red and Green's release, which was heavily accelerated and pushed to even greater heights with the financial and popularity returns of the previous installments, eventually getting released after three years of development in 1999. Tsunekazu Ishihara, once a producer of Red and Green and now CEO of The Pokémon Company, stated in an interview, "After we released Red and Green, we began working on these titles, thinking that the ultimate in (sic) Pokémon games could only ever be Gold and Silver... So for me, Gold and Silver represented the finish line... I didn’t intend to make any more Pokémon titles."2 By all accounts, Pokémon Red and Green were the games that got Game Freak's foot in the door, and Pokémon Gold and Silver were the company's ultimate vision of what Pokémon was and could be, once they had the funds and resources to produce games of their caliber. All of this is to say that Pokémon Red and Green/Blue and Pokémon Gold and Silver are the closest one can get to Game Freak's original vision. As a result, both generations of Pokémon games are very much a core J-RPG experience, inspired by the J-RPGs of the era that they were developed in. In fact, Pokémon almost wasn't localized to America because J-RPGs were known to flop in the west, and they only moved forward with localization due to its Japanese success.3 Consequently, as Pokémon became a worldwide phenomenon, over time, starting with Ruby and Sapphire on the Game Boy Advance, Pokémon's gameplay has slowly morphed away from that original experience into something more streamlined for anyone with even just a casual interest in video games. To many, this is a change in the right direction, but for fans of J-RPG styled gameplay, or even just those looking for a vast and in-depth singleplayer experience, the first and second generations of Pokémon games remain as one of the closest, if not the closest a person can get to that experience in a Pokémon game.
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
comicfiresymphon.bsky.social
When my cousins all dropped out of Pokemon shortly after Pokemania, they all gave me their copies of Silver, so I have four carts of that.
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Video Game Question of the Day: what games, if any, do you have multiple copies of? (not counting remakes of games)
February 14, 2026 at 7:01 AM
manaminekoart.bsky.social
Hot off the press! Just completed this fresh pic of MS Paint Pokemon, Gardevoir! A redraw of It'sDone2000's stuff, over on X. More Pokemon art to come! Stay tuned! #nintendo #gamefreak #creaturesinc #gardevoid #redraw #digitalart #mspaint #commissionsopen #commissions #pastel #fanart #pokemania
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
usanukirisu.bsky.social
Sincèrement ceux qui le retienne ne le retienne QUE car la 1 et 2g son l'enfance de beaucoup de gens et que c'était la pokemania et tout. Mais au bout du compte c'était uen tapisserie, une tâche dans un coin de tableau même. Arbork et Smogogo encore je comprend il sont là depuis le début. Et encore
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
raindingrandom.bsky.social
Age verification?

I was there for Pokémania.
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 AM
missyouonpurpose.bsky.social
pokemania was what i called hearing the music from pokemon blue as i lay in bed attempting to fall asleep

as an adult, i know this to be an instance of the "tetris effect"
February 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
truthordeal.bsky.social
Maybe not this in particular, but this combined with all of the other stressors that came about during Pokemania would be a lot for any otaku to handle. Even good-natured stuff like "let's sell Pokemon Blue rather than give a few copies away" would be a bit much.
February 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
keysmashing.bsky.social
In this article it uses the term to describe the entire merchandising and cross-promotional apparatus, which is really absurd.
Turtles and Power Rangers. What may be harder to survive is the relentlessness of Pokemania, a multimedia and interactive barrage like no other before it, with children mesmerized into cataloging a menagerie of multiplicative monsters, with trading cards linked to games linked to television shows linked to toys linked to websites linked to candy linked back to where you started–a pestilential Ponzi scheme (see foldout graphic). Smelling profits, America’s conglomerates have
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
de-deutschland.bsky.social
Kolpingsfamilie lädt zur 4. Pokemania

https://www.europesays.com/de/783401/

Plakat: Kolpingsfamilie Herne-Zentral Kolpingsfamilie Herne-Zentral lädt am 21. Februar 2026 zur 4. Pokemania ein. Anmeldungen werden jetzt entgegengenommen…#de #deutschland
Kolpingsfamilie lädt zur 4. Pokemania - Deutschland
Kolpingsfamilie Herne-Zentral lädt am 21. Februar 2026 zur 4. Pokemania ein.
www.europesays.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 AM
dewollag.bsky.social
I wasn't even alive for Pokemania but even I know the literal biggest most mainstream RPG that ever came from Japan was HATED by the hyper religious
February 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
r-pokemon.at.shendrick.net
Is it accurate to call Pokémania a fad? https://old.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/1qype10/is_it_accurate_to_call_pokémania_a_fad/

#Pokemon
February 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
mjhautismrants.bsky.social
*sigh* but in that, I think I know I'm lying and I DO know that mostly due to Pokemania being over, gen 3 was HIGHLY criticized.

...And I add that every gen has been like that since.

I think a comment is made: I really AM someone that's seen the development of that many gens.
February 7, 2026 at 1:15 PM
coneg.bsky.social
happy pikachu day!!

for the @pokeearthcollab.bsky.social collab this month, i decided to draw an iconic version of the electric mouse; that party hat doing the thunder jolt forward smash. i got into smash BECAUSE the first one launched during pokémania

and now i just like nintendo in general lmao
pikachu from the pokémon series, wearing the blue party hat with star patterns as seen throughout the super smash bros series. pikachu is doing his forward smash from that game, creating a nearby jolt of electricity from his cheeks, planting one foot on the ground and leaning forward with a menacing grin to make the attack 🎨
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
truthordeal.bsky.social
Kubo - The Man Who Made Pokemania: A portrait of one of the people most responsible for Pokémon becoming a global hit, and a look at the opposite end of early Pokémon's production. Probably my best researched video up until now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNKj...
Kubo: The Unauthorized Story of the Man Who Made Pokémania #anipoke #pokemon
YouTube video by Funyarinpa Foundation
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February 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
coneg.bsky.social
i’m in my early 30s; gen 1 was childhood pokémania, 2 was carrying some of that over, 3 was the fall off, and it took around platinum and hgss for us to be in high school and going “no pokémon’s cool again” lol
February 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
hugsdioro.bsky.social
Milênicos nunca se livram da Pokémania. Ela sempre volta
February 1, 2026 at 12:52 AM
eden.denpa.zone
claro que la gente que se crió con vocaloid y que ahora es productora y usa los voice synths con los que se criaron vivieron la pokemanía en su época y les ha acompañado hasta aquí, estaba destinado a ocurrir
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
coneg.bsky.social
i remember the days of pokémania fondly! fell out of it until the gen 2 remakes got everyone in high school deciding pokémon was Cool Again and it took over my brain fully that time lmao
January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
nerdmysteries.bsky.social
What's that, a lollipop, a jelly donut, no its SHOMN and its Tuesday! Which means a new episode, this week on the podcast Host Austin teaches us about the earliest years of 4Kids Entertainment, before Pokemania they made deals with everyone from Hulk Hogan to Liu Kang maximumfun.org/episodes/sec...
sanji from one piece is holding a lollipop in his mouth while wearing a suit and tie .
ALT: sanji from one piece is holding a lollipop in his mouth while wearing a suit and tie .
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January 27, 2026 at 2:51 PM
lovelyghostwriter.bsky.social
I missed pokemania by a few years and when I started to like it (gen 3) all the kids were getting into dbz and like inuyasha
January 27, 2026 at 11:09 AM