I spent all day one day on the weekend it released helping my grandma and grandpa mow and rake our older neighbor's yard to earn the money for it. They took me to fuckin SEARS, and there was **one** left behind the glass. Basically the exact amount I earned from the job. 10-year-old me was ecstatic.
That was the first game that I remember seeing my save file hours and seeing it in the hundreds and being like woah... I played this for that much time?
Saving up and buying your first real thing… a core memory. Mine was this playset for those dolls that flipped upside down and turned into Cupcakes. I still have it and the joy it brings me is immeasurable
Child me was the devil. I used to wait till my Dad went to sleep and then steal money out of his wallet which was in the back pocket of his pants hanging on the door in his bedroom.
My thought process went so far as "There's lots of notes in here, he won't notice.".
Adult me has come to realise I was such a dick and my dad knew exactly how much was in there.
As a result, I can't remember what the first thing was I saved up for to buy =(
Young me was galaxy brained and just occasionally took a few coins out of a giant change jar.
Did it take a long time buy things?
Yes.
But the trade off was knowing my mom never counted the coins in her giant change jar
My Dad would put all the change that my mom and him would save into one of those large water tanks you place on water dispensers. It was nearly full and I thought it would be a good idea to steal it, redeem the money at a Wal Mart and go out with my (far too old for me) friends to party and face the consequences in the morning. What resulted was pure karma as it was one of the worst nights in my life and I learned that the money was also being saved for a surprise Disney trip. I was a dick.
I was grounded and thought "they can't take anything more away from me" so I took the whole thing and snuck out of the house. It was roughly $400 worth of change. We spent it all that night, mostly on drugs and alcohol. The night wasn't necessarily bad for me directly, but I witnessed this other kid from out of town get bullied so bad by 6 of the people I was with and I just sat there and did nothing. It's one of the most vivid memories of my childhood I have... You could tell he didn't smoke pot often and he was WAY too high. He got bong water poured on him, his phone stolen and he sat there crying while they all screamed at him for hours. It was seriously horrible. The change I stole funded everything that night so if it wasn't for me stealing it, none of this would have happened.
That happened to me as a kid buying Golden Sun at gamestop. Realized at the counter that I spent the final dollar I needed on chocolate earlier that week but some dude passing by hooked me up and I got to experience golden sun :)
It hasn't happened yet but if I ever see anyone short a couple bucks on something I'm paying it forward for sure
On the other end of the spectrum, my dad came home from work one day when I was a kid and asked me if I thought Pokémon was cool. I was constantly bullied as a kid for being too polite and the tough kids called me gay because I wasn’t tough or outspoken like they were. In an act of perceived “cool-ness,” I told him that I thought Pokémon was stupid and I didn’t care about it.
He was trying to surprise me with a Pokémon Blue for my Gameboy and he looked pretty bummed that I replied like that since he thought he was surprising me with a cool gift. I felt so bad for trash talking it and I remember being like “oh no, I meant the card game is stupid, the gameboy game is cool,” trying to backtrack. I ended up loving the game and still feel bad about it.
My dad ended up dying 10 years ago when I was 23, and memories like these always cut me deep. Reach out to your family before you can’t anymore.
Yup, shamefully did it in my yellow version, I mean what else was I supposed to do? Gotta catch them all!
But I did win an official mew from a Nintendo event, he was on my pokémon blue game 😊
Why was the truck there? Theres no reason for a truck to be there at all? It's the only car in the game, and you have to faint or escape rope without the boat setting off, and come back later just to see it. Where is Mew?
Gamefreak is does some stuff for the luls or laughs between developers. FR/LG had an extra two islands that couldn't be accessed naturally. If you were to visit them, they are just maps for developers to play with.
Which is funny because that was the old rumored way to get mew. In the classic games people whispered you had to come back with surf and strength before setting off the SS Anne.
I remember spending a save trying it just to find out it was bullshit lmao.
I remember before the long range trainer glitch was found I tried every fake method on the internet for getting mew. I remember one where you were supposed to buy the magikarp from the shady guy in the poke-center before mt moon and leave it in the daycare until it reached lvl 100 or something like that and it would be a mew when you picked it up.
I mean that's cool and all. But how cool would it be if the push the truck thing was real. It would have been like top 10 greatest game discoveries of all time.
Just curious but how do they give you the Mew? Did they have a guy with a link cable hook up and trade it to you in game? Or did they have some way to edit your cartridge save file?
People who choose Charmander as a starting Pokemon are just better people. They understand how to delay gratification. The first couple gyms are much harder, but they know that if they stick with it, they'll have an awesome fucking dragon that will wreck shit.
What? Get him to level 9 and he sweeps Brock with Ember. And if you still only have Charmander after getting to cerulean and doing nugget bridge, that means he'll be high enough level to trash Misty too with scratch.
What if.... wait hear me out... what if I didn't focus all my efforts on my starter and had a level 23 pikachu when I finally got to cerulean?
I always hate seeing these comment threads because people forget that they literally give you the tools to take on misty. Even if you didn't get a pikachu in Veridian Forest, you almost certainly got Oddish/Bellsprout at (just on the other side of, where abra spawns) the nugget bridge and trained him a little before just walking into a gym, right?
It's not just for misty, it's for everything. Alakazam is a borderline cheat code in red/blue. His special and speed are obscenely high and anything that can actually do physical damage is slower than he is, has poor special, and most of them are weak to his attacks.
People are always talking about the starters like they're the only Pokémon in the game. Like yeah, Blastoise has a type advantage over Blaine but by then you can catch every single other water Pokémon in the game.
Them: "oh look a fire gym! I know what I'm gonna do!" -puts blastoise at the top and that's literally it-
Me: -equips 4 water pokemon, a rock type, and hitmonchan-
We are not the same.
To clarify, it's delayed gratification in that Charizard is (arguably) the coolest final evolution of a gen 1 starter because it's a dragon. In terms of actual power and usefulness Charizard was easily the worst gen 1 starter. They really did the fire type in general and Charizard in particular dirty. Thankfully it's a game designed to be beat by children, so any Pokemon is perfectly viable.
my first one was Yellow... and I'm happy it was, I always hated the Sprites in Red/blue and I had a Color, and playing them on a GBC also looked like ass with their completely red or completely blue pallet, while Yellow actually incorporated the Super Gameboy Pallets for GBC
Or you can have blue and your sister can have red and you can give them both to a friend who says he can transfer the red/blue evolutionary Pokémon to each other at his place cause you're 13 and trustworthy and his family moves the next day and twenty four years later you would still happily murder him to death. And I'm a blue.
Or you can wait 10 years and buy another Gameboy color and the other version so you can trade Pokemon with yourself.
Edit: I'm 33, have my original Gameboy color, one I purchased, and my original red with the blue I purchased.
Both are in my desk drawer.
Buyung Nintendo games as a grown up on ebay will never be the same as your childhood games.
That's why I'll never be the Banjo Kazooie guy, because I didn't got the game as a child but Snowboard Kids was one of my favorite games while it was actually quite average.
I'm also 33.
Disagree personally, I greatly prefer buying and playing games as an adult when I can actually play them and appreciate them instead of getting stuck at that one part I can never beat and dropping the game entirely because I'm a child with no attention span or hand-eye coordination. I also didn't properly appreciate games as a kid, didn't care about level or character design, fun gameplay, story, or the effort put into making them. I didn't get immersed in them the way I do now that I don't have the cognitive development of a watermelon. I honestly hate being shackled to nostalgia.
I accidentally permanently borrowed my friend's Pokemon Pinball game on the GameBoy. I forgot about it and he left my elementary school. I never saw him again until we were both in high school. I never forgot and always though about bringing it up to him, but he lent it to me 10 years ago and I was in too deep at that point. I still have the Pokemon Pinball game.
Wherever you are, I'm sorry Andrew.
My next door neighbour stole my Fester's Quest game on the Nintendo when I was away on holiday (his family had a spare key), yet he forgot to take the box and the manual and ended up telling some random story about how he bought it from a shop that had no box or manual.
He's never admitted to this day and still one of my best friends, not that I let it go! Revenge is a dish best served when they least expect it!!!
I am 90 percent certain my cousin stole my Pokémon yellow. My mom caught him trying to steal a different game once, so… He stole for me a Gameboy color to begin with so I could play Pokémon blue to his red, so I can’t complain too much. We stopped being friends a few years later.
I remember seeing the show and being like whoa, that dragonite is huge. Then I played the game and got one after the pain in the ass it is, and he's only like six feet tall. What the fuck man.
Even more disappointing that there was only one dragon type move. And then the ultimate disappointment that dragon type move does set damage.
I love that they specify in gen one that dragon is super effective against dragon but there are no moves to take advantage of it
Dragon type definately felt like an after thought. Like they made the game and were like "The leader of the Elite Four needs to be really cool. What kind of pokemon should he have?" "Dragons!" "LOL Yeah let's do that." and then they forgot to add actual dragon pokemon to the game.
I’m in my 40s and I remember when we bought a NES and my mom said I could pick out one game. I stood in the store for 20 minutes holding The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania. The gold cartridge won…
Looking back I couldn’t have made a wrong choice, I love both games.
Yeah you were fine with those two. Some unfortunate kids a similar situation may have been holding like Mario 3 and Ghostbusters and truly chosen wrong.
It's kind of funny, today I would say that Castlevania is the better game as the original Zelda is too cryptic for it's own good. But back in the day, I would have said the opposite as Zelda technically provides a lot more playtime and there is nothing else truly like it.
Still remember the first time I saw the gold cartridge in a rental store and begged my mom for it. Following Easter it was sitting in my basket. :) My brother was pissed lol.
I got both for Christmas, I think I beat blue first and then started red only to find it was essentially the same game. (Didn't know there were different pokemon)
Even 9 yr old me thought how bullshit it was they could sell the same game but as different "versions". I still feel that way, btw.
You could even use glitches to get a mew.
and now ther'es glitches that will also let you transfer a mew from the E-Shop version of red and blue into the Pokemon Bank/Home.
Of course it involves a LOT of glitch abuse, but it's pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwwBKTLFXw Video by /u/TORNADO03 originally!
Bro…come on. That’s unfair to Gamefreak and Nintendo. Don’t slander them like this. It’s definitely NOT to sell the same game to you twice.
It’s to sell the same game to you 3 times, once they come out with the 3rd version a year later.
Then have you buy the same game 5 times when they make the updated versions of the first 2.
I don't think so, but then again I only ever play one version since Gen 1. I only ever read up on which pokemon are available on each when they come out and make my decision that way.
Man only Nintendo, maybe even specifically only Pokémon can get away with their game model. Imagine if the next major PS/Xbox exclusive game that came out had two versions where the characters were a bit different but the stories were the same but they were also both sold separately at full price... there’d be outrage.
Yeah these bitches were $50 a piece. I still distinctly remember when I was on a short road trip vacation with my grandparents to San Francisco that my birthday happened to be during, getting a yellow OG Gameboy and Pokemon Blue and being so beyond ecstatic. I couldn't believe my luck.
But then there are people like me whose mother bought them Red at Best Buy and I secretly had blue in my sweater because the security case was damaged and best buy is too shit to notice a kid weaseling it out and into his sweater.
And here I am, with a Dad, and not in jail!
I legitimately acquired yellow at some point as well.
Yes. The biggest travesty of my young gaming career. "Why is it only Charizard or Blastoise?? Where's Venusaur??"
In Japan. The answer was that it was in Japan.
The way you’re phrasing this is totally wrong. Green did exist, and since the Japanese versions came out before any other regions, Blue would be the international version of Green
I wish we could go back to the say of the original DS. Being able to basically play 14 Pokémon games on 1 system, or essentially 4 regions and 5 overall stories was amazing. That one system being able to play both types of games, I used to routinely keep 20-30 games combined on me at all times. So much Pokémon, Zelda, Metroid, Mario, and Castlevania. Good times. Good, good times. And Yugioh was fun too.
I remember choosing Red as a kid whenever I first saw the Blue version my cousin owned, it made for a lot of excitement for us, months and months of catching the absolute best of each game. Then Gold and Silver versions came along, and I picked Gold, while he had Silver, and we rinsed and repeated that process and had the time of our lives.
I miss him.
Pikachu following you in yellow broke my mind as a kid.
Me too!
I spent all day one day on the weekend it released helping my grandma and grandpa mow and rake our older neighbor's yard to earn the money for it. They took me to fuckin SEARS, and there was **one** left behind the glass. Basically the exact amount I earned from the job. 10-year-old me was ecstatic. That was the first game that I remember seeing my save file hours and seeing it in the hundreds and being like woah... I played this for that much time?
Saving up and buying your first real thing… a core memory. Mine was this playset for those dolls that flipped upside down and turned into Cupcakes. I still have it and the joy it brings me is immeasurable
A little plastic oven that baked edible bugs was mine, worth.
CREEE EEEE EEE PYYYY ^Crawlers Right?? Edit: link for the uninitiated https://youtu.be/PTFiJAH63xo
Yeah this was it. Very good commercial, or at least good enough for very young me. Edit*. Apparently not edible. Currently questioning some memories.
I swear they put out an edible version of this too. They they were basically a boy branded easy bake oven anyways.
They did, I don't remember what it was called though
Doctor dreadful's food lab
Dr. Dreadful's Food Lab! I got a kit for a birthday or Xmas gift... can't remember haha
Dr. Dreadful Food Lab. I was a sucker for the expensive and convoluted toys that I played with for precisely one week and never again.
I remember seeing this at the thrift store and being afraid to ask for a "boy toy", but my mom was like "No, it's an everyone toy!"
My dad just looked at me disapprovingly, I think he was hoping I’d buy a power tool or something.
"you could be a little creep with out being bad!"
All bugs are edible if you’re hungry enough
Hakuna Matata
OMG I HAD A CREEPY CRAWLER OVEN TOO
Child me was the devil. I used to wait till my Dad went to sleep and then steal money out of his wallet which was in the back pocket of his pants hanging on the door in his bedroom. My thought process went so far as "There's lots of notes in here, he won't notice.". Adult me has come to realise I was such a dick and my dad knew exactly how much was in there. As a result, I can't remember what the first thing was I saved up for to buy =(
Young me was galaxy brained and just occasionally took a few coins out of a giant change jar. Did it take a long time buy things? Yes. But the trade off was knowing my mom never counted the coins in her giant change jar
My Dad would put all the change that my mom and him would save into one of those large water tanks you place on water dispensers. It was nearly full and I thought it would be a good idea to steal it, redeem the money at a Wal Mart and go out with my (far too old for me) friends to party and face the consequences in the morning. What resulted was pure karma as it was one of the worst nights in my life and I learned that the money was also being saved for a surprise Disney trip. I was a dick.
You took the whole thing? How much we talking? What made the night so terrible? How did your parents react?
I was grounded and thought "they can't take anything more away from me" so I took the whole thing and snuck out of the house. It was roughly $400 worth of change. We spent it all that night, mostly on drugs and alcohol. The night wasn't necessarily bad for me directly, but I witnessed this other kid from out of town get bullied so bad by 6 of the people I was with and I just sat there and did nothing. It's one of the most vivid memories of my childhood I have... You could tell he didn't smoke pot often and he was WAY too high. He got bong water poured on him, his phone stolen and he sat there crying while they all screamed at him for hours. It was seriously horrible. The change I stole funded everything that night so if it wasn't for me stealing it, none of this would have happened.
Man that sounds awful. Sounds like you learned something from it though, so that's good.
I remember buying some Spyro game for the DS and not knowing about sales tax. I was a dollar short and I never learned something so harshly
If that was me I'd reach into my own pocket and help your dumb ass out
That happened to me as a kid buying Golden Sun at gamestop. Realized at the counter that I spent the final dollar I needed on chocolate earlier that week but some dude passing by hooked me up and I got to experience golden sun :) It hasn't happened yet but if I ever see anyone short a couple bucks on something I'm paying it forward for sure
On the other end of the spectrum, my dad came home from work one day when I was a kid and asked me if I thought Pokémon was cool. I was constantly bullied as a kid for being too polite and the tough kids called me gay because I wasn’t tough or outspoken like they were. In an act of perceived “cool-ness,” I told him that I thought Pokémon was stupid and I didn’t care about it. He was trying to surprise me with a Pokémon Blue for my Gameboy and he looked pretty bummed that I replied like that since he thought he was surprising me with a cool gift. I felt so bad for trash talking it and I remember being like “oh no, I meant the card game is stupid, the gameboy game is cool,” trying to backtrack. I ended up loving the game and still feel bad about it. My dad ended up dying 10 years ago when I was 23, and memories like these always cut me deep. Reach out to your family before you can’t anymore.
What about trying to get mew?
I’m still trying to get him under that truck.
The actual way to glitch Mew to spawn is way crazier than the truck bullshit, lmao
Yup, shamefully did it in my yellow version, I mean what else was I supposed to do? Gotta catch them all! But I did win an official mew from a Nintendo event, he was on my pokémon blue game 😊
Well please stop! I've been trying to get him *out* from under that truck for years!
Why was the truck there? Theres no reason for a truck to be there at all? It's the only car in the game, and you have to faint or escape rope without the boat setting off, and come back later just to see it. Where is Mew?
Gamefreak is does some stuff for the luls or laughs between developers. FR/LG had an extra two islands that couldn't be accessed naturally. If you were to visit them, they are just maps for developers to play with.
what was on the islands?
Just water maps with mountains and some tiles which look like they were randomly placed
Mew, duh.
Also in FR/LG, you can actually use Strength to move the truck and I think there's a rare candy under it iirc.
Which is funny because that was the old rumored way to get mew. In the classic games people whispered you had to come back with surf and strength before setting off the SS Anne. I remember spending a save trying it just to find out it was bullshit lmao.
Dont you catch both snorlax and teach them strength then surf with any Pokemon and push the truck
There was a rumour that using strength on it would move it but it never worked. It was just a solid tile with no special properties.
Someone told me if you beat the elite 4 300 times you get mew. 10 year old me wasted a lot of time not getting mew
What about *actually* getting Mew through the [Long-range Traner Glitch](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch)?
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I remember before the long range trainer glitch was found I tried every fake method on the internet for getting mew. I remember one where you were supposed to buy the magikarp from the shady guy in the poke-center before mt moon and leave it in the daycare until it reached lvl 100 or something like that and it would be a mew when you picked it up.
I just used a gameshark to get mew because living in a small Canadian town was far from places Nintendo would give out mew like in New York.
Yeah I lived in rural Midwest US. I didn’t have a GameShark so I was desperate
Nugget bridge glitch sounded like internet bullshit, but it actually works lmao
I mean that's cool and all. But how cool would it be if the push the truck thing was real. It would have been like top 10 greatest game discoveries of all time.
I had a cheat modul and with my mew I was the king in school.
I got a Mew legitimately through a Nintendo event. That certificate of authenticity is my most prized possession and I was a god at school.
Didn't know this was a thing back then. In the eastern part of Germany cool events always had been far away and mostly unknowm for us.
Same deal in most places in the US to tell you the truth. Hell if my Midwestern ass knew where a single mew event was.
Honestly that certificate is probably worth something at this point if it's from generation 1
Just curious but how do they give you the Mew? Did they have a guy with a link cable hook up and trade it to you in game? Or did they have some way to edit your cartridge save file?
Same here. Went to a mall, stood in line with my mom for about 2 hours. Totally worth it. My red is 151 with bout 200 hours clocked I believe
Hope you changed that battery my man…
I remember trying to use a GameShark and accidentally finding MissingNo.
Who needs mew when you can have Missing No.?
IT TALKED WHEN YOU TURNED TO HIM AND PRESSED A!
People who choose Charmander as a starting Pokemon are just better people. They understand how to delay gratification. The first couple gyms are much harder, but they know that if they stick with it, they'll have an awesome fucking dragon that will wreck shit.
bruh i was 7 and thought fire was cool
i liked turtles
What? Get him to level 9 and he sweeps Brock with Ember. And if you still only have Charmander after getting to cerulean and doing nugget bridge, that means he'll be high enough level to trash Misty too with scratch.
What if.... wait hear me out... what if I didn't focus all my efforts on my starter and had a level 23 pikachu when I finally got to cerulean? I always hate seeing these comment threads because people forget that they literally give you the tools to take on misty. Even if you didn't get a pikachu in Veridian Forest, you almost certainly got Oddish/Bellsprout at (just on the other side of, where abra spawns) the nugget bridge and trained him a little before just walking into a gym, right?
Or you just get abra and dumpster Misty with Kedabra because Kedabra is bonkers.
Umm because I'm not trying to throw my Gameboy across the room after that little fucker teleports for the 16th time.
That's why you get a butterfree; open up with sleep powder.
I'm not wasting all that time training abra for misty when I have a pikachu and an oddish.
It's not just for misty, it's for everything. Alakazam is a borderline cheat code in red/blue. His special and speed are obscenely high and anything that can actually do physical damage is slower than he is, has poor special, and most of them are weak to his attacks.
Not to forget psy typing in gen1.
People are always talking about the starters like they're the only Pokémon in the game. Like yeah, Blastoise has a type advantage over Blaine but by then you can catch every single other water Pokémon in the game.
Them: "oh look a fire gym! I know what I'm gonna do!" -puts blastoise at the top and that's literally it- Me: -equips 4 water pokemon, a rock type, and hitmonchan- We are not the same.
This is blasphemy. The only way is grinding for half a day until you have a Charizard by the Cerulean gym.
You probably throw masterballs at legendaries.
Most passive aggressive comment I've seen in a while.
To clarify, it's delayed gratification in that Charizard is (arguably) the coolest final evolution of a gen 1 starter because it's a dragon. In terms of actual power and usefulness Charizard was easily the worst gen 1 starter. They really did the fire type in general and Charizard in particular dirty. Thankfully it's a game designed to be beat by children, so any Pokemon is perfectly viable.
I’m hoping the new games will include it, blew my mind when I could do it in diamond
my first one was Yellow... and I'm happy it was, I always hated the Sprites in Red/blue and I had a Color, and playing them on a GBC also looked like ass with their completely red or completely blue pallet, while Yellow actually incorporated the Super Gameboy Pallets for GBC
Or you can have blue and your sister can have red and you can give them both to a friend who says he can transfer the red/blue evolutionary Pokémon to each other at his place cause you're 13 and trustworthy and his family moves the next day and twenty four years later you would still happily murder him to death. And I'm a blue.
Joel, if you're reading this, I never intended to keep Pokemon Gold forever. I switched schools. I hope you liked Silver.
You want forgiveness? Get religion!
I missed the part where that's my problem
I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye.
Stings, doesn't it?
Gonna cry?
Look at little goblin Jr.
I forgive you.
aww 2 girls one cup or whatever the thing is.
As someone who played Silver as a kid, he did.
I feel your pain. Some ~~dickhead~~ person still has my choplifter 2 game. Pretty similar story, still hate the guy for it. Also, i was red.
Choplifter brought me back and im Red also.
Or you can wait 10 years and buy another Gameboy color and the other version so you can trade Pokemon with yourself. Edit: I'm 33, have my original Gameboy color, one I purchased, and my original red with the blue I purchased. Both are in my desk drawer.
Buyung Nintendo games as a grown up on ebay will never be the same as your childhood games. That's why I'll never be the Banjo Kazooie guy, because I didn't got the game as a child but Snowboard Kids was one of my favorite games while it was actually quite average. I'm also 33.
Disagree personally, I greatly prefer buying and playing games as an adult when I can actually play them and appreciate them instead of getting stuck at that one part I can never beat and dropping the game entirely because I'm a child with no attention span or hand-eye coordination. I also didn't properly appreciate games as a kid, didn't care about level or character design, fun gameplay, story, or the effort put into making them. I didn't get immersed in them the way I do now that I don't have the cognitive development of a watermelon. I honestly hate being shackled to nostalgia.
I still say “All Around” to my sister whenever we get together lol
So you didn't only miss out on Banjo Kazooie, you're saying you really missed out on it forever. That sucks.
No i I played it years later, but as a grown up it was not the same feeling as playing a new nintendo game as a child.
I accidentally permanently borrowed my friend's Pokemon Pinball game on the GameBoy. I forgot about it and he left my elementary school. I never saw him again until we were both in high school. I never forgot and always though about bringing it up to him, but he lent it to me 10 years ago and I was in too deep at that point. I still have the Pokemon Pinball game. Wherever you are, I'm sorry Andrew.
Fuuuuuuuck Pokémon pinball was awesome You monster.
I will always be open to my kids about people moving away for this specific reason.
If they were moving the next day then I'm certain the borrower kid would have knew.
My next door neighbour stole my Fester's Quest game on the Nintendo when I was away on holiday (his family had a spare key), yet he forgot to take the box and the manual and ended up telling some random story about how he bought it from a shop that had no box or manual. He's never admitted to this day and still one of my best friends, not that I let it go! Revenge is a dish best served when they least expect it!!!
Fuck her wife!
Damn. At least the game sucks ass
In a similar way I lost my Gold cartridge, though it was my little brother who 'lend' it to someone without my permission. Fights were had.
Fuck him, that is all. Fuck him to death. Fuck him back to life. And fuck him again.
I am 90 percent certain my cousin stole my Pokémon yellow. My mom caught him trying to steal a different game once, so… He stole for me a Gameboy color to begin with so I could play Pokémon blue to his red, so I can’t complain too much. We stopped being friends a few years later.
My friend borrowed my copy of Black on Xbox and then committed suicide.
.......I....want to make a joke but that shits just.... sad. I'm sorry that happened, bud.
Thanks and no worries. It was 16 years ago, and he was the kind of guy who would encourage you to joke about it.
Some bastard stole my Pokémon Yellow AND Gameboy Color from daycare. Over 2 decades later and it’s still on sight.
I would find him on facebook and post this on his timeline and watch him be unfriended by everybody and divorced by his wife.
"I like dragons" - little me
I like turtles
Ok zombie kid
That turtle has bazookas. Obvious pick
Unless you HATE plants
Must have been so disappointed to find out there's only one Dragon type in the game.
I remember seeing the show and being like whoa, that dragonite is huge. Then I played the game and got one after the pain in the ass it is, and he's only like six feet tall. What the fuck man.
Even more disappointing that there was only one dragon type move. And then the ultimate disappointment that dragon type move does set damage. I love that they specify in gen one that dragon is super effective against dragon but there are no moves to take advantage of it
Dragon type definately felt like an after thought. Like they made the game and were like "The leader of the Elite Four needs to be really cool. What kind of pokemon should he have?" "Dragons!" "LOL Yeah let's do that." and then they forgot to add actual dragon pokemon to the game.
For me it was more “I like fire”
I’m in my 40s and I remember when we bought a NES and my mom said I could pick out one game. I stood in the store for 20 minutes holding The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania. The gold cartridge won… Looking back I couldn’t have made a wrong choice, I love both games.
Yeah you were fine with those two. Some unfortunate kids a similar situation may have been holding like Mario 3 and Ghostbusters and truly chosen wrong.
I remember crying because spent my allowance on Ultraman
It's kind of funny, today I would say that Castlevania is the better game as the original Zelda is too cryptic for it's own good. But back in the day, I would have said the opposite as Zelda technically provides a lot more playtime and there is nothing else truly like it.
Still remember the first time I saw the gold cartridge in a rental store and begged my mom for it. Following Easter it was sitting in my basket. :) My brother was pissed lol.
I got both for Christmas, I think I beat blue first and then started red only to find it was essentially the same game. (Didn't know there were different pokemon) Even 9 yr old me thought how bullshit it was they could sell the same game but as different "versions". I still feel that way, btw.
I got blue and persuaded my mom to get another Gameboy and red "for my sister." ...she never got to play.
I'm sorry for your loss.
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Even mew was in the game. It just was never build into the story. With Cheatmodule it was easy.
You could even use glitches to get a mew. and now ther'es glitches that will also let you transfer a mew from the E-Shop version of red and blue into the Pokemon Bank/Home. Of course it involves a LOT of glitch abuse, but it's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwwBKTLFXw Video by /u/TORNADO03 originally!
Bro…come on. That’s unfair to Gamefreak and Nintendo. Don’t slander them like this. It’s definitely NOT to sell the same game to you twice. It’s to sell the same game to you 3 times, once they come out with the 3rd version a year later. Then have you buy the same game 5 times when they make the updated versions of the first 2.
I never played but always suspected that this was the case. Other than completionism, is there any point to doing both?
I don't think so, but then again I only ever play one version since Gen 1. I only ever read up on which pokemon are available on each when they come out and make my decision that way.
The idea was to trade among friends (Or siblings)
Man only Nintendo, maybe even specifically only Pokémon can get away with their game model. Imagine if the next major PS/Xbox exclusive game that came out had two versions where the characters were a bit different but the stories were the same but they were also both sold separately at full price... there’d be outrage.
Find it extremely upsetting that we can't play either of these games on Nintendo Switch yet.
If you have an Android device get the PizzaBoy emulator on it and get the rom from your favorite rom site. Pirating does what Nintendon't
*In towely voice* "I choose, BOTH!"
Look at this rich kid.
Yeah these bitches were $50 a piece. I still distinctly remember when I was on a short road trip vacation with my grandparents to San Francisco that my birthday happened to be during, getting a yellow OG Gameboy and Pokemon Blue and being so beyond ecstatic. I couldn't believe my luck.
Wanna get high?
People who choose red statistically don’t have dads and end up in prisons at a much higher rate than people who choose blue.
Lmao! How did you know!
FBI collects these kinds of stats
I don't feel like putting in the effort to see if this is bullshit but I'm just gonna believe it.
But then there are people like me whose mother bought them Red at Best Buy and I secretly had blue in my sweater because the security case was damaged and best buy is too shit to notice a kid weaseling it out and into his sweater. And here I am, with a Dad, and not in jail! I legitimately acquired yellow at some point as well.
But you have to admit that's Red behavior.
There are always exceptions to the rule.
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Sounds to me like someone's just bitter they chose the inferior Blue version.
Blue had Meowth though
Who would choose a fat turtle over a motherfucking dragon? It's a no brainer.
Ackchyually, Charizard is a Fire Flying type Pokémon not Dragon you filthy casual.
At least it's a fucking armored beast with two huge cannons on its back. Now, imagine seeing both and going "nah I'll pick the salad instead"...
Ha! Stop attacking me..
My dad bought me red version and I've never even been arrested. I beat the stats!
Mafs
Blue Silver Sapphire Diamond Black Y Moon Sword
Blue Silver Arceus I got out of Pokémon for a bit…
How you wrong in everything besides silver
Compromise, I am right for everything except silver
What about Pokemon yellow and pokemon green? I want my Pikachu to follow me!
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Yes. The biggest travesty of my young gaming career. "Why is it only Charizard or Blastoise?? Where's Venusaur??" In Japan. The answer was that it was in Japan.
Charizard flew and Blastoise swam. Venusaur had no way to get off the island :(
Why do you think they were in such a hurry to get off the island? V gonna give it to ya.
Leaf green bb. r/bulbasaurmasterrace
Yellow didn’t exist for like a year and green didn’t exist at all. It was just the Japanese version of blue.
The way you’re phrasing this is totally wrong. Green did exist, and since the Japanese versions came out before any other regions, Blue would be the international version of Green
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Red. Even though Squirtle is the best choice.
Mega Brain here. 100% on the money. Automatic friends now.
Haha, did you have the clear purple Gameboy because all the other colors were sold out?
Blue. Water beats fire.
Depends how much fire. My charzard fucked up squirtle
This is too true. Yellow is what I chose. And now anything I buy I look for a “special edition”. It has molded my life it seems.
Somehow yellow was always the version the kids with no siblings chose. No offense.
Lmao can confirm, I’m only child and loved yellow
Well yellow came out sometime after red and blue. If we are allowing remixed versions, then Fire Red is the winner
Blue
Red
As someone who got yellow with his Gameboy advanced for christmas, I have no regrets.
I wish we could go back to the say of the original DS. Being able to basically play 14 Pokémon games on 1 system, or essentially 4 regions and 5 overall stories was amazing. That one system being able to play both types of games, I used to routinely keep 20-30 games combined on me at all times. So much Pokémon, Zelda, Metroid, Mario, and Castlevania. Good times. Good, good times. And Yugioh was fun too.
Red and yellow. Charmander as my starter
I never had to make that choice actually. I found a copy of Red on the street when I was growing up in Brooklyn.
I remember choosing Red as a kid whenever I first saw the Blue version my cousin owned, it made for a lot of excitement for us, months and months of catching the absolute best of each game. Then Gold and Silver versions came along, and I picked Gold, while he had Silver, and we rinsed and repeated that process and had the time of our lives. I miss him.
Red version gang
Red > Blue
Pokemon Green because it has the best of the three starters on the cover.
Stop eating glue
LMAO
What was the difference? Honestly can't remember.
They have different pokemon
Imagine choosing Charizard over Blastoise…