Poketour 1999 bag

Poketour 1999 was a pokemon event held by Nintendo Australia. It also seems to be the most historically significant pokemon event in Australia.

It was the only way to get a Mew loaded onto your gen 1 pokemon game without hacks (or glitches but that wasn’t known) and it was the only way worldwide to get a Pikachu pokemon card with a Poketour 1999 gold stamp.

I went to the one at Marion Harvey Norman. I got my free show bag at the door, which is where the pikachu card was, (I still have a couple but who knows if one is my original) and I got Mew loaded onto my Pokemon Red cartridge (which I still have).

This bag was given to me this week, it had a couple of name stickers in it still and some unrelated pokemon card boxes. I can’t remember all of the original contents but I think there would have also been pokemon snap sticker sheets in there, I definitely came home with a bunch of those and stuck them everywhere in the day. Nintendo was pushing the Pokemon Snap Station which was also at Harvey Norman. It was a kiosk where you could print off stickers of the photos you took on your own Pokemon snap cartridge. I never saw anyone’s custom sticker sheet though, only ever the free promotional ones from the poketour.