Bought these recklessly and was advised to come here , please help me check 
Welcome to the forum Seiba, sorry to hear your journey here is starting with more troublesome times. I don’t know much to give an opinion on this, but maybe @Dyl or @quuador has any insights?
These both look legit, but as always, it would be really hard for us to tell if its resealed just from photos
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I was told the bulbasar art is not lined up properly, the blastoise “trading card game” looks smudged, back energy logos smudged too. Is this common
Yeah nothing looks off to me. WOTC packs, especially unlimited base set, had tons of variations and honestly, poor mis-aligned print quality pretty frequently.
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Thanks for the tag, but I’m afraid booster packs are far from my expertise…
Maybe @TCAGaming can see it’s they’re real or fake, since he probably opened and dealt with thousands of Base Set booster packs.
Greetz,
Quuador
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No way to know for sure, but looking at it - I would say real. You may be able to tell a little better in person, but the crimp on the front bottom right/back bottom left of the Venusaur art looks to be less impressed. This is common with packs right out of the box. It is something you would think to be a bad thing, but typically a reseal has a nice crimp all the way across.
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I agree with and will defer to Rusty on this. Thanks for the tag @nikhil, but I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on vintage sealed product.
From a lay perspective, I would think that these are real. I don’t see any glaring evidence to suggest otherwise.
The one small difference that I can see on the Blastoise pack is that it has a very slight offset printing, which makes it look a little odd and messy. That is normal variance from Base Set, as far as I can remember. The energies on the back of the packs also look a little washed out, but that could be the lighting or unique to the specific print facility that printed and packaged these. There is just so much variance in Base Set.
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Hi @Seiba
The venusaur art and text alignment as others have said, can be off slightly. Consistency was not the priority at WotC when these were being shoved out the door. I was hoping Rusty’d respond 'cuz he’s the man on vintage packaging.
Were there any claims made about these by the seller? Shadowless, 1999 print, anything?
Things I know to consider when looking in person: for reseal, check that there’s no glue holding the layers of the foil together. These were heat/pressure sealed, so glue is really only something scammers use to reseal it. Of course, the standard things like wrong type face, spelling errors, etc, or funky colors are important to check as well.
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I’ve owned a few of these and from the pictures my instincts say that these are real. The colours, the foil material, the small airhole on the side and the slightly imperfect way that the foil edges and crimps sit are all signs that these are genuine. As for resealing, usually you can tell because the crimp marks become less impressed when opened and sort of merge together if glued back together.
That being said no one can be 100%… I do have concerns that one day people will find a way to reseal or manufacture exact replicas considering the money involved and that packs are probably easier to fake than actual cards
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Thanks all for your help 
i brought it to a card shop and it seems real, sent off to PSA to grade, ima decorate my cabinet
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Late to the party. One color layer appears offset and makes some parts look off. The fact that it has separated color layers and the imperfection continues onto the back is a good sign. The front artwork does look much closer to Australia print runs which have only what I can describe as a “dirty” appearance. The fidelity of the Nintendo seal is a little concerning. Hard to say, probably legit with just print issues. If you are grading them sealed, they will probably get 7/8 for the grades.