Pokemon News Story on 60 Minutes Australia 2000

This is a news story on the popularity of Pokemon that was originally aired on the 12th March 2000. This was during the hype of Pokemon when it first came out.
I was one of those kids that obsessed in Pokemon back in the day (still do), and it got banned from my school (those were the good days).
I do not own this. Rights to Channel 9 and 60 Minutes.
I know that the quality is not the best, but it is the bet I can do with what I have.

[@CompanyLagoon]

"Our goal is to be bigger than a Disney-esque franchise" Well, mission accomplished!

[@christycapers4715]

Now Disney’s like “What competition? We OWN you.” 💫

[@jackson5116]

Yeah, like Pokemon's movie ever topped BILLIONS like Frozen's first movie.

[@mindtrapped9934]

@@jackson5116 and Disney’s Kingdom Hearts entire franchise has only sold as many copies as just the Pokemon Red and Blue games. Disney is about timeless storytelling, Pokemons about immersive video games

[@zacharygarland5031]

Yay! Pokémon> Disney Disney steals all their ideas. Pokémon is so original and deserves the love.

[@mercynotfakebutvhs]

T O Y S T O R Y

[@CasualDoomBlade]

I love how the news guy seems so disgusted by them making money off the kids parents. Like it’s so foreign and weird but now the kids are adults and love this stuff and are super nostalgic.

[@Poever]

How dare kids not have disposable income

[@coxxycabee]

My favourite remark was about the lego robot that paints when he was at the new toy fair, "It'd be great on the bedroom carpet".

[@dagreatzoink5559]

Man “The thing is that kids understand Pokémon, and adults don’t” Adults in 2020 “OMG NEW POKÉMON GAMES, NEW POKÉMON MOVIE, NEW POKÉMON CARDS, IMMA GONNA CATCH EM ALL!!!!!!”

[@present2060]

It's bcz adults in 2020 were kids in 1999

[@pissiole5654]

@@present2060 by god, i think you might be right about that.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

@@pissiole5654 well it's true.

[@aceattorney1989]

Yep, I sure am glad that I was a child when Pokémon first came out.

[@apprenticerocker9885]

I wonder if in future that may cause the downfall of Pokèmon. I'm an adult Pokèmon fan but looking back at my childhood I suspect that part of the fascination I felt for it derived for the fact that it felt like a "club" were parents were basically excluded. Not sure if kids are still going to enjoy it now that more and more fan are adult and actually they may be introduced to it by their own parents, it risk to become one of these "boring family thing" which kids quickly grows to dislike even just to affirm their indipendence.

[@samuelj2475]

I *love* videos about the Pokemon hype in the late 90s. Thank you for sharing.

[@harrymonk6]

Nostalgic af

[@modernkiwi6447]

Stuff like this reminds me that Pokémon was always an international juggernaut of a franchise. And this was where it all began

[@bandband4498]

I wasn't round' back then so this is a fascinating look back on the origins of the world's biggest franchise

[@shangerdanger]

Imagine the kid traded 3 gameboy games for a 1st edition base set charizard and then his mom took it away and lost it lol

[@Natendo]

"Squirtle, wurtle, blastoise" lol

[@maxim9461]

🤣

[@bodhopgod7120]

They should make a Pokémon called squirtlewurtle

[@chadrasmussen1154]

Lol

[@rokuwhitefox]

I never understood how adults didn't get Pokemon. It was a fictional universe like so many others. It made perfect sense.

[@bjthedjdutchdude1992]

My parents never liked Pokémon because of the fights.

[@edwardiii8409]

@@bjthedjdutchdude1992 quakers?

[@Pika999]

My parents don't get it at all...they say I'm speaking a different language when I talk about it. They tell me to stop speaking "Pokémon language" as they call it, and speak plain English instead like I should. I've tried many times to explain it to them but they just can't keep up with it 😅

[@doctor_burnsides915]

Parents back then didn’t have the internet that we have today, they didn’t have the information back then to understand it. It’s really too bad because if we had the amount of information today back then maybe we wouldn’t have had those stupid controversies about Pokémon in the 90s. Ah who am I kidding, the news still craps on kid franchises today even with a simple google search at their fingertips.

[@taegotkash]

Ikr literally all they had to do was watch the anime with their kids like from episode one or two and they would see what Pokémon is all about. It’s not a hard concept or bad because of the fights.

[@EeDeeEm]

"Kids get it and parents don't" -the first Ok Boomer.

[@blackholegaming1354]

It's crazy to see cards that are worth thousands of dollars just being tossed around

[@mrabcd3819]

yeahhhh

[@noobslayer135]

2019, Detective Pikachu on the horizon. Pokemon: Sword, and Pokemon: Shield just announced... POKEMON ISN'T A FAD MOM!

[@jackson5116]

It also got a rebirth in 2016 thanks to Pokemon Go and its 2 billion downloads.

[@khfan4life365]

I was part of the Pokemania back in the 90s. I was five years old when I first saw the show. My older brother and his friends had the games and cards and watched the show religiously. I got a hot pink Gameboy Color for my sixth birthday. The first game I played was Pokemon Yellow. The first movie I saw in theaters was Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back. Every kid I knew was into Pokemon. It was the big thing in those days. Sometimes, I reminisce about those days and smile. Life was so simple then.

[@jamesbarker6373]

My dad (and MAD Magazine) said this is just another fad that will pass. 2021 Pokemon still going strong

[@chadrasmussen1154]

Yup

[@moonboy5851]

FUD. 2022 still going strong

[@coyotefever105]

Cultural phenomenon to say the least

[@rpgdreamer8690]

What's your dad's reaction now?

[@jamesbarker6373]

@@rpgdreamer8690 He died like 20 years ago

[@MrLucasD123]

You kids today have no idea just how big Pokemon was in the late 90's and early 00's

[@shatteredscry]

Imagine in 2000 being bold about being above Disney someday *AND BEING CORRECT*

[@RavenLotz]

Seeing the full sheets of cards before they get cut is cool

[@herminquijano]

Hell yeah 😎

[@aceattorney1989]

It seems to me that Pokémon does not skip a generation.

[@RabidNemo]

True but I can tell you for his enjoyable and popular is Pokemon is now pokemania at the time was truly unbelievable. It was almost overnight at my school we all watched the anime and a couple kids had cards and then by the end of that month there wasn't a single person in my class who didn't have cards. Even some who weren't interested in trading like some of them because they were cute or cool looking

[@pokemontrainerelio3648]

Now in 2017, Pokémon is still huge.

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

not for long, 2018: Fortnite

[@witnessperry8684]

@@thegamingrailfan7905 lol cute while Pokémon already trancends into live action films

[@EmpireZzzz]

@@thegamingrailfan7905 nope

[@turbomario]

@@thegamingrailfan7905 Fortnite hasn't killed Pokemon, at my school Pokemon is still more popular

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

@@turbomario oh ok

[@JayP80Geno]

Gotta love the argument against rare cards. I guess every pack of basketball cards includes a Michael Jordan rookie.

[@rickyyacine4818]

Fun fact pokimon hit every part of the world especially from 1997 to 2004 that was golden era for pokemon

[@maxim9461]

@3:57 “It’s not going away , it’s going to get bigger”

[@shutup4583]

it got bigger but it didnt get better

[@austinbell5729]

i wonder what card that kid got in exchange for 3 gameboy games.

[@jdog34505]

By 2000 Pokémon had become a world wide phenomenon lol

[@theloudstarkirby4203]

Can't wait for the 25th anniversary of Pokemon next month

[@jayqueue6784]

Love the vintage Japan footage in this.

[@andrewchristopher7138]

3 video games for one card. That one pokemon card is now worth $60,000

[@fefeeffefeff8237]

nonsense

[@shutup4583]

i dont get why anybody would pay that much money for a damn piece of cardboard its so stupid

[@Giraffedoctor]

Its called being rich and liking to collect shit, maybe 60k is a heavy exaggeration but still.

[@username_redacted_1987]

@@fefeeffefeff8237 He's not wrong. Depending on the card, some go for literal hundreds to thousands of dollars.

[@blablablablablablamubsusk6982]

20 may 2022 im sorry im so late discovered this but thanks a lot for posting this is really precious!!!! I cry bitter tears cause things are just so weak weird empty i really cant describe enjoy TV anymore

[@sektal_]

Those kids better hope they still have their cards

[@PatriotJedi]

Here watching in 2022...God the memories and Nostalgia hits hard with this!🙌

[@AmandaWspoon]

I was hooked when I was 8 or 9 in 1998 went through an awkward phase but never truely stopped loving it. And after the early teens I was an open advid fan again

[@manipulatorxxx9620]

Pokemon will exist forever and ever.Bigger than Mickie mouse

[@shutup4583]

shut up manipulator

[@WakoDoodle]

It's funny how they ask questions about pokemon cards being "manipulating" for certain rare versions; back in the 90's and the company just says "its how it is". Yet in 2020- 2022 (as I write this) the concern for lootboxes is being shrugged off by some companies as "surprise mechanics". But to give pokemon some credit back then, at least you have a physical card in your hand, in fact I still have some of mine; it's just interesting how history repeats itself sometimes and comparing them.

[@Blue65Tank]

I love how salty all the boomers are in this and the icing to it is that all of em claimed pokemon would never last, almost 30 years later here we are

[@youcanthandlemyname7393]

"you intentionally make some cards scarce, your manipulating the market" oh you mean like how every other market at the time was manipulated with limited time products?

[@helterskeltor2670]

You’d never see kids play like this now

[@TheArsenalMan125]

kid on the swing hit me deep

[@shutup4583]

it makes me sad ngl

[@nickdelehanty]

The black cat when she said Mewtwo!

[@DeffoZappo]

I played pokemon blue when it first came out. I'm 36 now sitting on a park bench playing Pokemon.

[@kevinschaoticshuttle4544]

adults may have thought we were being spoiled.

[@blackholegaming1354]

You don't see this guy complaining about fashion clothes which is literally the same marketing strategy.

[@Krongle]

2000: Holographic Charizard 2022: V, VMAX, VSTAR, GX, EX, TAG TEAM, GOLD CARDS, RAINBOWS, LEGENDARIES

[@ga1actic_muffin]

As an adult now, I still understand Pokemon.

[@stripes9386]

I wonder if adults being dismissive of Pokemon was a universal thing or if it was exclusive to the west.

[@curiouscollectiblesAU]

1:30 this guy really had no idea what he is talking about. Just look at those “kids” now. Sure on the outside we look like adults.

[@Didz]

I just found two 60 minutes promos that features this segment on a VHS tape. Update: Promos were aired on Saturday 11th March 2000 on NWS9, I have captured them it in LP Stereo.

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

I had that inflatable charmander chair! Got it for Christmas! Plus tons of other Pokémon stuff.

[@slinkman8253]

Another great nostalgia vid, thanks for this :) it brings back great memories

[@TheArsenalMan125]

how aussie is that school assembly

[@slinkman8253]

@@TheArsenalMan125 holy shit i put that 3 years ago, haha yeah takes me back to my time at school

[@BoucheronsNo.1Fan]

Love how that mom is mad at Pokemon for her kid being a fool 😂😂🤣

[@Krongle]

I feel bad for the kids whose parents didn't get them Pokemon Cards especially the 50,000-400, 000 Charizard

[@christycapers4715]

Oh my gosh, the interviewer is so smug 😷 How is Pokémon bad for children exactly?

[@jamesbarker6373]

8:25 Kid made a good trade. Pokemon cards are now worth more than GB carts

[@TheArsenalMan125]

imagine if the conversation went down like "mum i traded my 3 gameboy games for a first edition charizard"

[@cordeliousjiccipowers6301]

It's 2002 all over again.

[@ladiesman2048]

First edition Charizard is easily more valuable than any three Nintendo games today, maybe kid was just investing genius

[@rcg38]

Wow, that news reporter really wanted to accuse the Pokemon reps as being criminalistic, especially when talking about rare tcg cards

[@edwardiii8409]

I wish that Judge Judy episode where the kid ripped the other kids pokemon cards and his father had to pay was uploaded

[@youcanthandlemyname7393]

to be fair if the card he traded the game boy games for was a base set charizard then he was not duped. if my memory is correct that card even back in the day was selling in card stores from anyware between 70-100 dollars. meanwhile a brand new gameboy game might have been worth 50$ but a used one is not worth a fraction of that price. if he already beat the game boy games and got all the enjoyment he could out of them then he actually made a good trade financially speaking since he could sell the card for more than the games. but that is only if it was one of a very few cards. i think blastoise was going for 60 when i was a kid and im pretty sure about that because i remember begging my mom to buy one for me and her refusing because it was a 60$ card only for it to show up in one of my Christmas presents. so even blastoise would have been a good trade.

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

Let me get this straight, Lego made a robot that paints, let me guess Lego Technic? Or something else?

[@gameboycolour3233]

Best upload yet, old today tonight/aca would be really nice if you have them.

[@GreenYoshi93]

Gameboy Colour Thanks! I don't have any other aca stories, this is the only one that my grandmother happened to randomly record (which can I'm thankful for as I'm a huge Pokemon fan from the start). It's a really good story showing how big Pokemon was.

[@youcanthandlemyname7393]

as an adult now i still dont understand the fuss about pokemon back in the day from the adults perspective. like i get that it was this new thing that came in and dominated your kids life so you became skeptical about it but as an adult when something like that happens to my kids thats a sign to me that i should learn about it so i can judge its dangers for myself. and really the only dangerous aspect about pokemon was the semi gambling that is involved with opening booster packs. and i would understand if the outrage was surrounding that but it was all about demons and violence which made no sense to me then and still makes no sense to me now.

[@chadrasmussen1154]

It's not about violence it's just these fantasy monsters that fight each other until they faint they literally faint they don't die and it's about competition and growing stronger as a person and going on an adventure

[@morewi]

I remember watching the show with my dad.

[@harryathanasiadis]

Wow if they only new

[@Dafastso]

imagine y2k, your kid starts speaking bulbasaur squirtile charmeleon plankton fire energy professor oak nigga you speaking chinese

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

What if Kirby and Pokemon switched places? TBC they both started on the Gameboy and both have an anime with great voice acting.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

And it worked,, it worked for 25 years 9X billion+

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 what worked???

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Pokemon is a different beast

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 oh ok so it's different than kirby I can understand that

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

@@thegamingrailfan7905 but I would like a Kirby medal RPG like yokai watch to I can catch characters with the power of friendship.

[@yammyking22]

Wish I could get paid good money to wear a suit and read off a teleprompter while not knowing anything about what I'm talking about

[@jangofett8210]

It was clear to me at the start of this the narrator was very much against Pokemon. He talks about Pokémon “manipulating” the market with all the while he’s trying to “manipulate” his questions in such a way to try to trap people into negative answers.

[@ashketchumnz9181]

Love this so much!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@mangaboss1411]

I love how he tried making rare cards seem like market manipulation lmao

[@blackholegaming1354]

I know right

[@senseironingaming6074]

My aunt worked at toys r us when I was a kid me and my cousins grew up loving Pokemon and had a very good collection of cards , after the news saying pokemon is evil , my grandmother grabbed a trash bag and threw all my pokemon cards away, few years later she apologized and let me collect again , but never had the cards I used to have 😢

[@elisahuberman3408]

Memories

[@jamesbarker6373]

12:55 Pokemon plans on being the next Disney (Pikachu = Mickey Mouse)

[@peytonreyes2293]

Mickey pissed himself when he heard that last part

[@FRAPPEFIZZYY]

“pokémon will just be getting bigger and better” 2016: Pokémon Go blew up to bring the second Pokémania 2019: Pokémon Sword and Shield are the best selling pokémon games since Gold and Silver in 1999 2022: Pokémon legends Arceus , a new type of open world pokémon game is releasing in 3 weeks !! edit: and recently, Sword and Shield have become the second best selling pokémon games EVER, and Legends arceus has the second biggest switch launch week second just to Animal Crossing New Horizons!! what a crazy world.

[@froddobaggins]

Where's Maxmoefoepokemon?

[@user-fz4jr5ix8i]

I doubt he was born during that time.

[@RabidNemo]

"we do not bring Pokemon cards here" ah that good old British douchebaggery (Yes I understand that Australia is different in many ways but there are a great deal of near-identical similarities to England)

[@aeroblu2002]

Lol, got recommended this since I'm looking back on old liken stuff now that the main series with Ash is gonna end. I forgot how common this "Pokemon is evil" stuff was and it's hilarious to watch.

[@jpsousajunior840]

incrivel como a primeira geração de Pokémon era uma febre, quando lançaram Pokémon Go foi uma nostalgia muito grande por causa dos 151 primeiros pokémon e da abertura clássica.

[@mslabo102s2]

Not saying Pokemon "Satanic" or "banned" in 1999/2000 news!?

[@raffialecramosxx3949]

田路マサタカ pokemon isnt satanic i belive in jesus and im a big pokemon fan. jesus always wins if its satanic it should be banned. Its based on bugs not loser demons that always lose erm i mean tryhard loser demons

[@raffialecramosxx3949]

Demons never win. Jesus wins. Like pokemon good guys always win.

[@jayqueue6784]

Well the school guy did say they were banned

[@blackholegaming1354]

This guy totally wishes that he bought the cards then - the "rare" cards are worth thousands of dollars

[@fernandosalazar3366]

Squirtle, wurtle and Blastoise.

[@expic3954]

The Pokemaniac n64 in the background! 9:45. I still have mine in its box!

[@cbgg1585]

Lmao, just a month or so ago in 2024, The Pokemon Company recorded a 1.9 billion dollar revenue over the last 12 months. No signs of this franchise ever slowing down over 25 years later since Pokemon started becoming global mainstream.

[@RolandKoller90]

Adults not understanding Pokémon, not even thinking that adults created it and ran the companies involved with all the products. Plain ignorance lol. I’ll always love Pokémon. Wish I could go back to summer of 98 when it first hit the US. I miss those times dearly.

[@stripes9386]

The attitude of the adults reminds me of when SpongeBob came out. Adults were so uppity about this silly nonsense for kids that they couldn’t appreciate the show’s genuinely clever writing.

[@bluepterosaur]

4:04 stock sound effect of audience cheering

[@aubreylindsey1206]

I Hate The Fact That The News Reporter Calls Pokemon A Language Because Most Pokemon Literally Say Their Own Name As A Form Of Communication With The Pokemon Themselves.

[@Digi-Navi]

I love Squirtle wirtle

[@cero2277]

I just want to know what the fuck that kid traded two gameboy games for so I can decide if it was a good deal

[@squidwardsbussy]

Well pokemons names are now a language

[@universalx1674]

Kids back then: $5 a pack is a ripoff 😅

[@sallyhally87]

What card did old mate get for his 3 games?

[@GreenYoshi93]

Brett Mulgrave hopefully not an energy card

[@tipsy634]

the rare and highly dangerous DOUBLE COLOURLESS...

[@microfighterz]

imagine if it was a Holo Charizard lol

[@aaroncollins4132]

1st edition Charizard... Good trade imo..

[@TheMNHShow]

It was a Grimer

[@meekermoo752]

My dad use to get mad at my older brother for trading rare cards with kids in the 90s 😂so he took them away till he had better sense in trading 😅

[@jayqueue6784]

2000 when Pokemon "first came out"??? How far behind were you Aussies back then?

[@ayjay579]

I love how Australia seems to think they’re the only country in the world just like we do here in America.

[@username_redacted_1987]

Did that kid trade a Clefairy for a Rhydon at the beginning of the video?! 😂😂😂 Worst trade ever.

[@burning_lizard]

More than likely a temporary trade tbh since that’s how Rhyhorn evolves

[@username_redacted_1987]

@@burning_lizard Um.....ok? Your comment makes no sense.

[@burning_lizard]

@@username_redacted_1987 Never mind I went back to the beginning and noticed that you were referring to the TCG. I just thought that there was an in game trade that I overlooked earlier on.

[@burialrecordings]

OMG I saw MaxMoeFoe!!

[@giganticmoon]

Hate it when they think that they’re manipulating, yes, a goal is profits, but they want their audience to be happy too. He was also all like, so they’ll buy more. The man said it’s called a trading card game, they’ll trade. The only time they’d really need/whatever is when they have no cards. Also, idk wth is wrong with those ppl who said it teaches violence.

[@flameknightdragon]

you notice that that back then they did not care that sports cards did the same things.

[@ricardotorres6919]

i love aall the 90 footage

[@jackson5116]

In Australia too? This was a worldwide phenomenon wasn't it?

[@johnrotten3268]

I collected pokemon cards as a kid but i can c why adults thiught it was stupid.... Its funny how these cards are worth a shit ton of money now... Wish i didnt toss mine in the mid 2000s.

[@flameknightdragon]

i find it funny that they called up stupid for collection and buying these but they themselves were buying sports cards

[@user-qi5th5qn7s]

Pokémon school????????? What the fuck???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheArsenalMan125]

who stole pokemon cards from other people in school?

[@ishmael802]

The only that comes kinda close to Pokemon in the last 20 years is probably Fortnite.

[@emanmodnar2]

I'm just contemplating how cheap pokemon is now compared to just about every other game tempting me to buy it with extra microtransactions every month, early pre-launch sales or DLC addons that are just digital clothes and emotes. Also, how Pokemon completely steamrolled Digimon in marketing.