When I was a kid in the late 90s, collecting Pokémon cards was a fun hobby. I'd buy packs, hoping to get the rarest "shinies, ...

It's not the same hobby as it was in 1999.

Somewhere in my basement, there’s a blue Trapper Keeper filled with approximately 400 (give or take 1,000) Pokémon cards, two crumpled pack wrappers and a perfectly preserved Fruit Roll-Up from 2007.

I was a little kid when the Pokemon was first created. It was a huge hit pretty much right away, and has demonstrated incredible staying power, growing to the most profitable media franchise in ...

A Pokemon card shop in Japan has started cutting open booster packs at checkout in an attempt to stop scalpers reselling ...

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Playdates have become BYOB (bring your own binder) card-trading sessions in which my son and his friends demonstrate the ...

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Each day, players of Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket log on, choose a pack of digital cards, and open it. The basic premise has led fans to collectively spend millions of real-life dollars in the ...