By Walt Hickey Gotta Catch Em All A Pokémon card has sold for $195,000 at auction, information that I think necessitates the invention of a time machine so I can alert every adult in my life in 2000 that these are, indeed, investment vehicles and not merely the passing obsession of a completionist child. The card is “Pikachu Illustrator” and it’s a 1998 hologram promotional card of which only 39 were produced, and allocated to the winners of an illustration contest. Only 10 copies are confirmed to still exist, which sounds about right, as “74 percent” is a pretty reasonable fraction of Pokémon card collections doomed to disposal, yard sales, and fraternal larceny.
"............ as the eternal appeal of drinking heavily and knocking things over has been re-discovered by a new generation."
LOL.