So I was cleaning out the game cabinet at home with my mom - thing’s been a mess for years - when SUDDENLY

A WILD POKEMON MASTER TRAINER APPEARS!

Hello, my childhood!  It has certainly been a while.  How’ve the nineties been while I was gone?


And here is the glorious Kanto region, just northwest of scenic Giant Ash’s Head.  For too long the CG Hexagonal Indigo Plateau Citadel Thing has wreaked havoc on the region around it, sending out Pokemon Anime Stock Poses to run the land ravage.  Now, with the country surrounded, you, dear Player, are our only hope.

Okay, that’s not what the game’s actually about.  Honestly, it’s about something far more exciting - pogs!  You put the various colored pogs - the game calls them chips, but come on, this is the nineties - each with a Pokemon on them, in to a slot of their respective color, and race your friends around the Kanto region trying to capture strong Pokemon to reach the minimum point total so that you can challenge the Elite Four…um, I mean, a “Rival Trainer."  And then you win.  Truly an epic for our time.

But seriously, I loved this game as a kid.  Before exploiting glitches in the original games, before Mew was a thing, there was Pokemon Master Trainer.

When I pulled the game box out and opened it, the pogs and cards and such were all mixed up inside the larger part of the box, so I spent a little time cleaning it up before taking photos.  There still might be a few pieces missing?  I honestly don’t remember.


But wow, nostalgia!  I always wanted to be empty-eyed beige Ash Ketchum when I grew up.


You okay, Ash?  You’re looking a little…blue!  *rimshot*  …But in all seriousness, Mr. Ketchum, I just noticed that your pupils are different sizes.


Well, whatever.  Either way, this was an amazing find.  Smell ya’ later, nineties!