{"id":90059,"date":"2026-09-23T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90059"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:37:58","slug":"30-years-later-collecting-pokemon-cards-hits-a-little-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90059","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Later, Collecting Pokemon Cards Hits A Little Different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me sound like an old for a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember in the late &#8217;90s and early &#8217;00s, collecting Pokemon cards was a casual hobby. You&#8217;d go to your local brick-and-mortar store with the money you made from mowing the lawn or whatever, drop maybe $10 on a couple of packs, rip them open, then go to your middle school to trade cards with your friends. No one knew how to actually play the game; the cards just looked cool, and everyone wanted something. Me? I wanted a holographic Charizard, and I would&#8217;ve traded literally anything to get my hands on such a rarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was so low-key back in the day. Saying that grosses me out, as I sound like a Boomer or Gen Xer, but it&#8217;s true: Collecting Pokemon cards wasn&#8217;t that serious, and we didn&#8217;t put much stock in the cards, stuffing them in bags or pockets and watching them turn up in washing machines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now? Things are totally different. You can&#8217;t just collect Pokemon cards as a hobbyist anymore. You&#8217;ve got to fight with scalpers looking to make a quick buck off nostalgia, as well as the kids who are either getting into the TCG for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me sound like an old for a second. I remember in the late &#8217;90s and early &#8217;00s, collecting Pokemon cards was a casual hobby. You&#8217;d go to your local brick-and-mortar store with the money you made from mowing the lawn or whatever, drop maybe $10 on a couple of packs, rip them open, then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":90061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90062,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90059\/revisions\/90062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}