You Had to Be There

This shit come out

Everyone at work goes nuclear and do coordinated walks to grab pokemons

Ask them why

It's pokemon, you must get them

Here anon, give me your phone I'll install it for you

I do remember, it was fucking scary to see such cult behavior everywhere

zoomers have no idea

Unironically that shit reminded me why most people really are just cattle

I had one of these and I’m a zoomer

And then everyone clapped

Yeah I remember me and my roommate actually leaving the apartment every evening that week, it was awesome. Then he trooned out and moved capitol hill (seattle). RIP

It's amazing how badly they fumbled this. They released a game with billions of downloads, hundreds of millions of which were actual dedicated users who were actively into it and they failed to develop the user experience past the bare minimum freemium experience.
The moment the game hit as hard as it did Nintendo and the Pokemon Company should have spared to expense into bringing the content up to the level of at least something like a Genshin Impact and it would have been ten times as profitable

these were popular well into the 2000s, it's also a zoomer thing

tamagotchi craze was during 90's

you had to be there

i was a contrarian and didn't play it but maybe i should have hopped on the fun

pokemon go (to the polls) was almost 10 years ago

You'll never be a millennial.

I can’t remember the 90s, but I had mine in like 2003

My old sister got one of these. I was ultra jealous but I didn't want to get called a girl for wanting one.

i was a contrarian and didn't play it and don't regret it

most people really are just cattle

Game comes out

Promotes walking around, talking to people, getting together

Oh yes they're cattle I'm so much smarter

I didn't play that shit, but it reads like you were 15 yo at the time.

I was too busy fetching pails of water

my zoomie brother still plays this despite never playing a proper Pokemon game

It was a terrible game and a cia spy project. It's garbage.

CIA ploy to get people taking pictures of russian and chinese POIs (embassies, research stations, etc). Tiktok put such low-level surveillance amateurism in it's place.

What about that time when every faggot in school had toy laser

crummy post

What about fortnite

everything is a cia spy project

3210

Absolutely based phone.

Also arbitrarily decide to troon out everyone’s characters at some point in the future

If it's on a smartphone yes

They really expected people to buy plane tickets and travel to rare pokemon hot spots

Those were cool as fuck though

i remember being at the peak of my "gubmint is watching everything and everything is propaganda" paranoia when this game came out. friends tried to get me onto it, but i already knew about the keyhole shit (not the exact specifics of how they utilized the game, but just the extreme distrust of a MIC company making a game). then people tried telling me what i already knew a few months ago. and those people will get got again.

I am also ten years old

My fucking town held a Pokemon fair downtown during the peak, it was absolutely surreal. Also pic related happened lmao

they were dangerous af, you could permanently damage yours or others eyesight

Team yellow reporting in
(we win)

use Android emulator + GPS spoofer to capture rare pokemones the second they appeared anywhere in the world

college aged adults were legitimately impressed by this

It was the same exact experience as bringing my ipod video with porn loaded onto it to elementary school. By the time Niantic started cracking down on it nobody gave a shit about the game anymore

everyone gets into pokemon GO

get into it with them

0 fucking pokemon near me

the pokemon that do pop up are shitty mons

the app itself is some chinese bootleg freemium shit

uninstall

crazy that there are people still playing

You almost had it right

Game comes out

Promotes walking around, talking to people, getting together

No one but nerds play it

Same game comes out by the same dev but pokémon

Promotes walking around, talking to people, getting together

omgeeee is that a pikachu, weeeeeeeee

Millions play it, get injured by their NPC behavior and cause billions in millions in damage for trespassing and other shit

Gets dropped because the cattle moved to the next shinny thing

so can a stick

Crazy how this was literally biggest thing in the world for a while and then poof. People dropped it like a hot potato. Just like that. Like wtf happened?

i played again briefly in the summer of last year
there were guys driving around taking over gyms with multiple phones, hackers spoofing locations with burner accounts, and the same 10 pokemon appearing over and over
glad niantic sold it, because its over

In my school it was cheap Aliexpress butane torchlighters, every kid was walking around with a bunch of tiny second degree burns on their hands and arms

play the game at night on a hike in the country

go to the lake 20 minutes in

fucking lake is littered with 200+ shiny raichus and ubers

pokemon is fun but the post-game is shit and i

was every kid smoking meth or some shit?

No mostly we just used them to burn each other

what third world country do you live in? genuine question
in my country carrying just a cigarette lighter on school premises could potentially get you expelled

Pokemon R/B

Pokemon Cards

Hockey Cards

Those weird metal sort-of-pogs but for hockey players

Digimon Cards

Tamogatchi

Digimon / other digital pet games

Marbles

POGs

Skateboarding

Hacky Sack

Ministicks

The S

Crazy Bones

I think that was most of them around the mid to late 90s

pokemon go is now considered nostalgic

its fucking 10 years old

holy shit

In my school we all started carrying around coins one year and flipping them constantly to determine random shit and acted like gamblers, drove the teachers mad

Damn you are so smart

Isn't it funny how NPCs cry about smarter CCTV when they go to a store for "invading" them, yet they all download apps etc that need permission for 100 different things and they just accept it. Lmao

Covid forced people to stay inside and they realized it was never actually that fun.

What does "ts" mean?

it can't be that old surely wtf

coddled generation
many such cases

TeamSpeak

They removed trackers, didn't have trades or battles and there wasn't much to do.

It was fun seeing the location of a pokemon and going there. I'm a third world country guy, can't be wiggling my phone around for no reason.

This game was the final straw for using a phone on a bicycle getting banned in my cunt.

I'd point one to my eyes a lot; nothing happened
Also used to look at the sun. Big deal.

Aliexpress

this is turbo zoomer shit tho

scariest goychow event I've witnessed, only covid maskers were the same

if they gave it normal pokemon battles i would have played it continuously. i'm not sure why mobile games are so allergic to having actual gameplay.

This, the whole news of people getting ran over, going missing in the woods, suffering multiple injuries over this shit was the best part
I agree with op, you really had to be there to witness this animal behavior kek.

Never played it but the time when the game was released was the last time I was truly happy

cafes and restaurants would advertise being near to Poke Stops or whatever they were called to try to get you into their store

parks were filled people walking around with their faces glued to their phones

my big brother basically forced me to go with him to a nearby Pokemon Gym at like 8PM and he’d constantly ask me about Pokemon lore since I was a bigger fan of the franchise than him

you’d constantly see people driving around with their eyes on their phone

news channels would constantly talk about Pokemon Go

the three faction leader OCs, whatever their names were, had brilliant designs and felt like unique characters despite barely having any dialogue

It really felt like the beginning of something big. They could’ve expanded upon it massively and turned into the next big step in gaming but then everyone just randomly stopped playing it and now all that’s left are a handful of hipsters.

you just made me realize I’ve been posting on Anon Babble for over 12 years and I still feel like a newfag

normalfag fads never last silly pokedrone, that's the point of a fad

Someone who was 8 years old when this game came out is now old enough to post here lmao.

the human characters

brilliant designs

The game didn't even look like a Pokemon game beyond the Pokemon themself. They could have at least tried to replicate the style but they couldn't help but do generic westernshit.

It’s hard to grasp kids born in 2010 are in highschool. Fuuuuuuuuuck

Not really. I started playing last week and it's quite enjoyable.

the generation that doesn't even remember the pandemic will be rather interesting

they didn't add enough to the game at first, sat on basically nothing and people got bored. ceo's should look at this why releasing a beta is terrible.

the game now is great with a billion things to do, but could've been bigger than anything if they released it sooner.

i still can't believe people seriously enjoyed or played this when it first came out. mobile games suck.

Make a shit game with no budget and no features

Downloaded infinite times and prints infinite money

Make the game less shit and invest ton of money into it

Everyone leave

There's only one thing to learn from this

Kojima invented Pokemon Go a decade before with Portable Ops' soldier recruiting thing
yet another case of la creatividad stolen valour

Kek new gen kids legit have nothing novel to be excited about, it’s actually as hilarious as much as it is sad. Enjoy trying to remember all the new 100,008 new Pokemon, kiddos!

Cool and optimistic

Pokemon Go feels like last year

Was actually nearly a decade ago

I remember some people panic about GO putting kids in danger etc. be it groomers or accidents or stuff.
Always thought it was strange but then I remembered how USA suburbs and stroads are. Also some people saying that it's a grooming app or smth.

Ever hear of Beanie Babies? Tomogachis? Nigger, fotm trends come and go all the time

I just looked up what day it came out. I downloaded the game immediately. I was 17 then, average age people lose their virginity. Instead of having sex I was playing Pogeyman. This is still true for me now.

Same, I was actually doing things and going places then.

If you're 27 and still thinking about the average age people first have sex, you're not going to have sex

What does that even mean?

I can't believe this was almost a decade ago

It means that sex and life happen differently for each person and that you shouldn't give a fuck or put any stock in the averages. You're just setting yourself up for failure if you do. I didn't have sex till I was 21 and, admittedly, that came after I stopped getting concerned about not having already had sex. Just focus on your shit, try to be charming and interested and life will work out

It actually doesn’t bother me that I’m a virgin. What bothers me is that this thing which is supposedly super common just hasn’t literally fallen into my lap even though I actually don’t give that much of a fuck. Literally.

no, had they waited a year they could've trickled in new features instead of a beta. It took about 2 years to get the real game going with raids, community days, and actual reason for the grind.

In 2016 when it release people were like cool I can catch pokemon to take down gyms, but no reason to keep playing besides collecting shit. Still they sold this game this year for 3.5 billion dollars, so it's not exactly a nobody game. I play since it released.

you could catch these in claw machines

I didn't give a shit about it because it was mobile game trash.

just hasn’t literally fallen into my lap

Things in life rarely do, including sex, unless you're rich and/or very handsome. You have to go out on a limb for things.

I remembered that my neighborhood had gangs of old people walking around playing this shit with each person having two phones

This shit was 10 year ago what

literally biggest thing in the world

couldn't find a pokemon unless you lived in a suburb

sweet

Who remembers these things?

I'm really glad I was out working in the middle of nowhere woods the summer that came out and had no phone signal or data to even consider downloading it. I don't feel I missed out on anything and avoided the early craze entirely.

it's gonna be like the generation that doesn't remember 9/11

Damn I'll never forget everyone running to the same place to catch a wartortle.
Then they ruined it by making spawns personal to each account.

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BAM

UNCLASSIFIED

REFS: A. NDSOD CHAP 3 AND 5 B. DCAAR PART III, SAFETY AND CONDUCT OF PERSONS

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ADVISORY IS TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF AN EMERGING TREND WHICH MAY PRESENT LOCAL SAFETY AND/OR SECURITY CONCERNS AT DND/CAF ESTABLISHMENTS

RECENT REPORTING REGARDING THE GROWING USE OF WEB-BASED AUGMENTED REALITY GAMING APPLICATIONS (SUCH AS POKEMON GO) HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE INHERENT DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ACTIVITY. THESE DANGERS ARE LARGELY RELATED TO GAME PLAY WHICH ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUALS TO ACCESS VARIOUS GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS IN SEARCH OF VIRTUAL ITEMS. DISTRACTED PLAYERS MAY COMPROMISE THEIR REAL-WORLD SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, THEREBY RISKING ACCIDENT OR INJURY. FURTHERMORE, SUCH APPLICATIONS MAY IDENTIFY LOCATIONS WHICH RESULT IN PLAYERS ATTEMPTING TO GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO LOCATIONS ON DND/CAF INSTALLATIONS

LOCAL COMMANDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONSIDER THE GROWING POPULARITY OF SUCH APPLICATIONS WHEN ESTABLISHING THEIR GENERAL SAFETY PROGRAM, PHYSICAL SECURITY PLANNING, AND IN THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES FOR THEIR INSTALLATIONS

IN ADDITION, ALL DND/CAF PERSONNEL SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN ELECTING TO USE SUCH APPLICATIONS AND MAINTAIN AWARENESS OF THEIR PERSONNEL SAFETY AND SECURITY AT ALL TIMES

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SIGNED BY BGEN MELOCHE, DSO

this shit

Flavor of the Month

8 years old in 2016

2025 - 2016 = 9

9+8 = 17

mods, underageb& this kiddy

I was there.
It sucked.

covid was over 4 years later you retard

I fucking loved these things as a kid. I always brought it to the grocery store so I could scan all the barcodes and get monsters.

It took 100 scans before you found a monster but when you did it was mesmerizing

I was only 20 when Pokemon Go was released.

Say it ain't so...

yeah so many nerds got a girlfriend because of this. it was a dream come true

not for me though. f u lucky bastards that finally got to hold hands

tfw pokéfag

couldn't join in on the hype because my phone at the time was shit and I was too much of a poor collegefag to upgrade

Some kid in school left his in the bathroom one day. Later, another kid ran out screaming that there was a ghost in there after he heard the beeping.

I still play every day and I didn't even start until 2020.

MH Now is better

Fuck, I had no idea. Was too busy with my studies, must have missed that.

Nevermind what I said, then.

Normies are cattle. They run off pure emotion and only follow trends.

I was there. It was more retarded than the card games.
I was never a pokefag and never will be. I can't get into this series for the life of me.
I am.

well I wasn't so go cry about it

was total reddit trash played exclusively by normies

go outside

don't think i will

It was fun the first few weeks then it became tedious slop once the novelty wore off

anon I'm 33

I never understood why anyone thought this game was fun.

When it took off it was just " toss a pokeball and catch the monster "

Fucking brain dead shit even when compared to actual pokemon which was designed for children

collectathon FOMO
it's Nu-Fun™

head to uni campus

people looking for Pokémon all over

random guy walks up to me

"Hunting for Pokémon is so fun! Don't you agree?"

Encountering a Pokémon NPC irl was surreal

I was there, I didn’t have a phone that could run it. All my friends were walking around town collecting Pokémon creatures while I just followed them like a fucking loser.