For 25 years, "Pokémon" continues to seduce, generation after generation.
The "oldest" fans are now in their thirties, while in all the playgrounds, kids from 6 to 12 continue to exchange cards and mount fights.
Each in their own way, they explain to us why Pokémon makes them crack.
Macéo, 8 years old, in CE2: "Sometimes, I also imagine that I have superpowers"
“I've been playing video games on my Nintendo console for about a year.
I like catching Pokémon, but especially organizing the fights.
It's in a world very different from ours, not like in reality, and that's good, ”says the young fan, living in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine).
Like many children, passion has gone beyond the screen frame.
“I have a Pikachu blanket, a Pokémon t-shirt and also a poster.
I would also like to have an Amphinobi plush… I sometimes watch cartoons on TV and I have seen the movies on Netflix.
It was well done!
But the game for Macéo goes first and foremost through cards.
“I have more than a thousand, that's for sure… In the playground, we play there often.
Sometimes I also imagine that I have superpowers like Pokémon.
I would like.
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Yannis, 15, in 3rd: "A game that requires a lot of thought"
Many teens also keep a passion for Pokémon intact.
Like Yannis, 15, living in Poissy (Yvelines) who discovered Pikachu and his gang "a little late", he believes.
He was… 7 years old.
“It was 2013 with the 6th generation of the game. I had heard of Pokémon before, but hadn't really paid attention to them.
When I started, it was a great time for me.
I was discovering the Pokémon universe but also quite simply the pleasure of video games, ”he recalls.
Until he was 12, he was only going to "play that!"
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“There were also cards at school.
But we weren't really playing.
It was more for the collection… On the other hand, I started to read all the manga in the series.
Today, he has broadened his horizon to other games.
“But we play games from time to time with friends, on more complex versions that exist online.
The news is getting easier and easier as Pokémon is a real strategy game that takes a lot of thinking.
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Rym, 29, student and visual artist: “Always in a corner of my heart”
It was born almost at the same time as the Pokémon.
Rym, 29, was part of the first generation to develop a passion for these “pocket monsters”.
“I was living in Algeria at the time and the madness was the same.
I discovered video games around 6-7 years old, at the same time as the cartoon on TF1.
There had been the Dorothée club generation, we were the Pokémon generation.
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Magazines, cards, plush, animated, Rym never misses a thing for years.
“It's a universe that is constantly evolving.
With novelties.
And it's more of a tactical game than a fighting game.
This Parisian (15th century) also participates in online competitions.
“I gave up a bit at the end of college.
But I still play Pokémon from time to time and I'm on the forums.
And then it's forever in a corner of my heart.
Besides, I always have soft toys on my bed and figurines on my shelves.
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