Canterbury's Pokémon card traders and collectors reveal a phenomenon still thriving 25 years later
| Updated: 09:53, 19 January 2021 A quarter of a century ago a Japanese cultural phenomenon exploded onto the scene with a series of video games, a TV show and a set of trading cards. Pokémon - little critters with various elemental powers that battle one another for victory - became the talk of playgrounds across Kent, as children swapped covetous cards and built up huge collections. Alex Bowness is a prominent Pokémon trader and seller in Canterbury For many the cards were put away in attics - or in some cases binned - when those inevitable teenage years loomed, but the cultural ...
Source: kentonline.co.uk