Japan Wants You to Relive Your Childhood With This Pokemon Trading Card Game First Edition Re-release

It’s time to bust out those old Pokémon trading card game decks that you know you still have stashed away somewhere. A new batch of trainers is on the way. Japan is seeing a re-release of the game’s first edition set, which features all the original first edition art for the game’s original Pokémon.

You’ll be able to buy a starter pack which has 60 cards, a coin, and a manual teaching you how to play–just like your younger self did about 20 years ago. Except, in this case, there’s one minor thing getting in the way of you re-living your youth: the re-release isn’t happening outside of Japan. So unless you want to import a set, you might be plumb out of luck, buddy.

Though if you do import a starter pack… could you get me one, too? I’ll invite you to my birthday party.

Anyway, here’s what you all came here for:

My Pokémon cards bring all the trainers to the yard,
and they’re like, “You wanna trade cards?”
Damn right, I wanna trade cards.
I’ll trade my Pikachu but not my Charizard.

(via Polygon, image via Flickr/Kelly Teague)

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Jessica Lachenal is a writer who doesn’t talk about herself a lot, so she isn’t quite sure how biographical info panels should work. But here we go anyway. She's the Weekend Editor for The Mary Sue, a Contributing Writer for The Bold Italic (thebolditalic.com), and a Staff Writer for Spinning Platters (spinningplatters.com). She's also been featured in Model View Culture and Frontiers LA magazine, and on Autostraddle. She hopes this has been as awkward for you as it has been for her.

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