The Vintage Archive · 1995–2003
Six eras. Sixty-one sets. The shape of vintage Pokémon.
From the gum-pack inserts that pre-date the trading card game to the dot-code experiments that closed the WotC chapter, vintage Pokémon is a sequence of distinct eras, each with its own design language, market dynamics, and chase cards. This is the map.
1999–2000
Base Series
The first wave of Pokémon in the West
1998–2000
Gym Series
Team Rocket and the Kanto Gym Leaders
1999–2002
Neo Series
Generation 2 reaches the cards
2001–2003
e-Card Series
The final WotC chapter
1996–1997
JP Original Series
The first year. The original cards.
1995–1997
Pre-TCG
Before the game existed, the cards already did.
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