Old-school Pokemon cards are a bigger deal now than ever

Old-school Pokemon cards are a bigger deal now than ever Old-school Pokemon cards are a bigger deal now than ever

TOKYO — Aiden Codotto felt luckier than a kid in a candy store.

A 9-year-old Pokemon fan from Australia, Aiden was in the Card Kingdom shop in Tokyo’s central Akihabara neighborhood surrounded by display cases filled with tens of thousands of Pokemon cards and armed with a promise from his father, who was keeping watch nearby.