Pokémon: Hoenn Collection November 19th

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Oct 152014
 

pokePokémon: Hoenn Collection

$15.99

Start your journey to the Hoenn region with the Pokémon TCG: Hoenn Collection! Check out the awesome new power of Primal Reversion with an oversize foil card. The Pokémon Treecko, Torchic, and Mudkip all appear on special foil cards – you don’t have to pick just one to be your first partner! Show off your Hoenn pride with a collector’s pin starring the whole trio, and expand your collection with 3 Pokémon TCG booster packs. Your Hoenn region adventure starts now!

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Pokémon TCG: XY: Phantom Forces Elite Trainer Box This November

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Oct 132014
 

phantomPokémon TCG: XY: Phantom Forces Elite Trainer Box

$39.99

 

Gather your courage and peer into the haunted void with the Pokémon TCG: XY: Phantom Forces expansion! Mega Manectric-EX makes a shocking appearance to light the way, while the ghostly grin of Mega Gengar-EX frightens challengers near and far. Take along Aegislash-EX to give you an edge, push the limits of Mega Evolution with new Spirit Link cards, and call on all of your Trainer knowledge to escape the eerie forces at work!

 

In each XY: Phantom Forces Elite Trainer Box, you will find:

-8 Pokémon TCG: XY: Phantom Forces booster packs

-65 card sleeves featuring Mega Gengar

-45 Pokémon TCG Energy cards

-A player’s guide to the XY: Phantom Forces expansion

-6 damage-counter dice

-1 competition-legal coin-flip die

-2 acrylic condition markers

-A collector’s box to hold everything, with 4 dividers to keep it organized!

Dark Explorers for Pokemon Coming April 9th

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Mar 292012
 

Dark Explorers

 

What’s out there in the darkness, waiting to be discovered Play the Pokémon Trading Card Game: Black and White – Dark Explorers expansion and find them all! In addition to more Pokémon-EX like Tornadus-EX, Raikou-EX, and Groudon-EX, the shadows are filled with other exceptional surprises, like Darkrai-EX and a host of Trainer cards that will knock your opponent’s lights out! When you play Black & White – Dark Explorers, you’ll not only explore the darkness, you’ll rule it!

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Introduction

It all started on a rainy Saturday morning. I was spending the weekend visiting my cousin Lance. We were supposed to ride four-wheelers, but the bone-chilling downpour dashed those plans. So, we did what most adolescent males did in 1988. We turned on that 8-bit wonder, the Nintendo Entertainment System. After some Ninja Gaiden and Contra, we slid in Final Fantasy. The music entranced me, the graphics befuddled me, the gameplay bonded to me. The game touched me mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. It was a whirlwind weekend romance that I would never experience again. A few years later, I received a Super Nintendo for Christmas, and by Easter had finally saved enough money to purchase Final Fantasy II. I ate, slept, and breathed that game; until Final Fantasy III came out.

Those games, and others like them (oh ChronoTrigger, how I miss thee), engaged me unlike any other. Undoubtedly, it is the level of story-telling which goes into those games which makes them the best. And as great as they were (and still are), and as much as I loved them (and still do), I always felt like something was missing – as though the experience could be so much more personal and interactive in a way that would really allow me to be a part of the game, and not just an almost passive observer. I didn’t know it at the time, but video game RPG’s had become my gateway drug to a deeper addiction.

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