Hello - is there a full list of all cards featuring Gengar?

[quuador]

@rookiegastly

A very kind gentleman directed me to this forum; specifically he pointed me to this google drive link created by an amazing fellow named Quuador.

I’m glad my lists still prove useful, even if they’re fairly outdated. And welcome to the forum!

Unfortunately I lack a lot more time than before, and still have some other lists in the pipeline (not sure when I have time for those either tbh…), otherwise I would have updated the Gengar list. And considering I just bought a house which I will move into in November, I likely will have less free time in general soon…

But the links provided by @joponnes and @decoypalmette are a great place to get started.
You could also try to update the list yourself using the techniques I explained here:

@quuador

Here are the steps I do for each of these lists I make:

I basically do everything by hand. Here the method I use when I create these lists:

1. Go to the “Pokémon TCG” page on Bulbapedia (i.e. Bulbapedia TCG)
2. Open each individual link in the Card column and look at the Release Information and sets mentioned at the right side for all English and Japanese cards
3. Add the additional Japanese / English cards to the list that aren’t mentioned on Bulbapedia (MATCHPRINT cards; some sample prints; 1st edition differences; EX era codes; ©1999-2000 for the Base Set, Spanish Base Set, Fossil set; Teach Set cards; etc. etc.)
4. Look at the Error cards page on Bulbapedia and CTRL+F for the Pokémon, and add those as well.
5. Go to the World Championships Deck page on Bulbapedia, open each link, and CTRL+F for the Pokémon (these aren’t mentioned on the individual card’s pages for some reason)
6. Search for the Pokémon name plus “KTCG” for all Korean releases mentioned on Bulbapedia
7. See if some of the XY, SM, and SwSh era sets are released in Korean by searching for them on pokemoncard.co.kr/cards (with the Korean Pokémon name from Bulbapedia)
8. Search for the Pokémon name plus “ATCG” for all Chinese/Thai/Indonesian releases mentioned on Bulbapedia
9. Search for the Pokémon name plus “CTCG”/“TTCG”/“ITCG” for all Traditional Chinese/Thai/Indonesian exclusive releases respectively (i.e. promos and some Decks) mentioned on Bulbapedia
10. Check if any SwSh or later era Japanese sets are also released in Chinese/Thai/Indonesian, instead of having a loose custom set for those languages/decks, which should have been mentioned on the Japanese set’s Bulbapedia page.
11. Go to this list I created for all German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese cards
12. For Simplified Chinese, I search with the Chinese name from Bulbapedia in the individual set/deck pages on this Simplified Chinese Pokémon wiki.

A. For cameos I first Ctrl+F the Pokémon in this thread for all English ones
B. Then go through the Japanese exclusive ones I mentioned here, which I did for English as well before we had this thread
C. And sometimes I look through some cards in my own collection to see if I can find any cameos

Sounds like a lot of work. Well, it kinda is. Most lists of gen 1 or 2 Pokémon I make in 45-75 minutes.

As for non-TCG in general, Johannes is indeed correct that it’s the wild west with very limited amount of information available. Sometimes you find great sources like I did in this thread, and sometimes you only see a single vague picture of an already finished Mercari/YJ auction once, and then don’t see anything of that item again for years… That’s my experience with Seviper at least, which as a gen 3 Pokémon is very underappreciated in terms of available merchandise. With Gengar, a rather popular gen 1 Pokémon, it’s merchandise is probably easier to find overall, but there is also A LOT more of it to collect.

Greetz,
Quuador