Broken Trainers: How addicting this Pokémon thing is...

[Prima]

Everybody has their own unique introduction to the Pokémon Trading Card Game. This week's edition of <i>Broken Trainers</i> shows one poor fellow's first encounter with the Jovian gravitational pull of the Pokémon TCG.

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[Arcanine/Arbok Master]

ROFL. My parents saw me getting into it and started dealing cards on e-bay and playing.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Hm. I wonder who that's supposed to be... ;)

Interesting job, look forward to more.

[=Blaziken=]

Hahaha... For a while, my dad got interested in it and we made him a deck of his own... Funny how addictive Pokemon can get.

[skarmory777]

My mom hates the game, not like she doesn't want me to play it, but she hates to play it. I don't see how thatz possible, I mean theres to much pokemon occasionaly, but never in the middle of your first battle! But kool comic, looking forward to more

[vincent0906]

My dad has NO interest in this "childish", "Tarok like" card game :P

[PenguinMaster]

LOL. My mom doesn't dislike the game and has played a few times, but she says she has trouble reading the cards =/

[dld4a]

That's pretty much the way I got into it. Very nice comic.

[Metal Master]

Originally Posted by Comic

It's a game. We collect the cards but we don't really know how to play.

Exactly the way I started out. Actually, this teenager, troublemaker, when he was younger came over to my house and gave me like 32 cards. So I started collecting them. Very funny comic in deed.

[Thomas33]

I started because it was a fad, we just collected them, and NEVER did the idea of doing something with them cane to our minds, just started playing and got pretty good, my parents have a neutral status, whenever im grounded the first punishment is ''You are not going to league this month'', i wanted to teach them, but they are too busy and think it is very childish, i don't want to convince them anymore

[DarkmasterchrisEX]

My Parents wanna play but Alzheimers is kicking in and they cant remember what cards do what so they are leaving the game slowly he he

[HYPER EEVEE]

lol once a week thats too long to wait 4 the next one =/

[supertyranitar]

Originally Posted by =Blaziken=

Hahaha... For a while, my dad got interested in it and we made him a deck of his own... Funny how addictive Pokemon can get.

Man your telling me, But i got my dad into it by begging just ask him, then he got into it ROFL

[totoro]

I feel kind of sorry for those parents who classify the game as "childish". I've watched my kids grow up with this game. It's brought us together, and taught them about sportsmanship, strategy, and critical thinking. I guess all games are basically "childish" in a sense, but nobody uses that term to describe the NFL or NASCAR....
In my "real" job as a teacher I can say that the single biggest problem I see in school is with parents who have no interest in their kid's lives. This "childish" game can get parents and kids talking with one another....gee how awful.

[DarkTyranitar]

...My 2 sons were introduced to a league a couple of years ago, back when Wizards stores still existed. Shortly afterwards I started purchasing cards and creating decks for myself.

Now, my eldest son is more interested in Yugioh, (although he still plays Pokemon), my youngest son has just about stopped playing completely and he and my wife regular rag me about "How weird it is, me being a grown man and hanging out with kids, playing Pokemon with them).

Go figure!

- Tony

[PK_Falco]

Nice job on the comic. Can't wait to see more.

[lookinforwailordex]

lol i know who those people are lol nice job prima

[Rai]

Yep... The above comic is basicly how I got my dad to start playing Yu-gi-oh and PKMN (Pokemon first, but he's better at YGO O_O, must be the evolution complications)
The funny thing is, I also kinda got my sister into Pokemon once she started stealing some of my extra cards, and she still doesn't know how to play after 3 or more months of trying to make her understand that you must play energies to attack and must evovle to get stage 1 pkmn, etc.

[PhoenixSong]

Originally Posted by DarkTyranitar

"How weird it is, me being a grown man and hanging out with kids, playing Pokemon with them).

Go figure!

- Tony

I hear you, brother. I'm only 22, but the looks I get sometimes...

[Pokemaster1110]

Originally Posted by DarkmasterchrisEX

My Parents wanna play but Alzheimers is kicking in and they cant remember what cards do what so they are leaving the game slowly he he

Dude, are you laughing at your parents because of their Alzheimers?

[dragonspy900]

my parents don't play but i am trying to teach my mom but it is to confusing for her and good comic

[C@B@L]

Nice comic
My parents rags me about how I shud do something more meeningfull with my spare time and talks about how much miney I could have used on something else. But the classic one is that no other girl on 17 (almost 18) Would be interested in a thing like that.... I try to tell them, but I always fail.

[Shiloh Phoenix]

My mom tries to play, but she can't get the situational insta-strategies right yet. I built her a deck that can beat the crap out of pretty much everything in the metagame(I'm not gonna post it..) I've won every time I've used it. And she has beaten my dragtrode 4 times now. But she still likes it.