# ‘The kids were right’: 30 years of Pokémon, from school-wide bans to multimillion-dollar trading cards

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-kids-were-right-30-years-of-pokemon-from-school-wide-bans-to-multimillion-dollar-trading-cards/
- Published: 2026-08-16T15:00:29+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/17/pokemon-30th-anniversary-japan-australia
- Topics: Entertainment, Technology, TV

## Summary

Pokémon outlived the moral panic of its early days in Australia and its staying power has proved that simple joy can cross borders There’s a generation of Australians for whom Cheez TV was a religion. Every morning before school, I’d sit in my little white plastic chair about three feet from our big wooden television…

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