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My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to Watch Out for Fireballs.

It is a games club podcast. And this week we are talking about the Pokemon Trading Card Game,

which is a collectible card game developed by Hudson Soft and Creatures and published by Nintendo

for the Game Boy Color in 2000. Yeah. Hudson Soft, the old, uh, 20s action star and all of his

various creatures. Um, yeah. Uh, this is a Gary pick. Uh, for this, this is me continuing to, uh,

say, we don't need a narrative in the show. Let's just, we could just talk about systems. Yeah.

Let's do it. Um, yeah. Uh, yeah. This is something I want to do for, for a good ever. Yeah.

And this game is near and dear to my heart. Uh, same. We have wandered straight into the

Cole Ross nostalgia zone. Excellent. Yeah. It's also the, the Gary Butterfield nostalgia zone.

We're sharing zones. Um, overlapping zone theory. And also, this will be like nostalgic for

a whole number of people roughly in our cadre, uh, just because, uh, I don't know, this, this,

this was everything for a while and still continues to be, uh, not so much the Game Boy Color,

a adaptation of the game, but it's impossible not to also talk about the trading card game because

it's the same game. Yeah. It went to hibernation for a little while and now it's bigger than

anything. Um, this is also my soft shoe way of like getting a trading card game. Yeah. Like,

I love, you know, duck builders, but I also, you know, that genre specifically, but I also love

collectible trading card games and video game adaptions of such. Yeah. And this is the,

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