>bro just buy both if you want all the pokemon 🙂
I can't believe they got away with it
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>bro just buy both if you want all the pokemon :)
>bro just buy both if you want all the pokemon 🙂
I can't believe they got away with it
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Imagine how kino it would be if your parents bought you and your little bro red and blue and a link cable.
Someone had this childhood we just need to find them
My parents bought my sister and I different versions and a trade cable
I have a ton of cousins (mom had 10 siblings and most of them had children of their own). For the kids family events were basically Pokemon laundering during Gen 1 and Gen 2.
I can already tell those were good times. It was just me and my sister but whenever we went to our grandparents home in the week end we would play and trade become while watching cartoon network and eating grilled toasts and the pie she always made. I can still taste everything perfectly as if I went back to 22 years ago.
I did but my brother wasn't into it and we never traded or battled.
That was me and my twin brother. We did the same till XY when the series went to shit.
That's what happened in my house for the first 2 gens. I had blue and gold. My brother had red and silver
My mom had Blue and I had Red. I kicked her ass in link battles, but she kicked my ass in the card game. She also got Silver, while I had Gold. My sister had Sapphire, while I had Ruby. Unfortunately I always put more hours into the games so had the leg up on both of them.
>Imagine how kino it would be if your parents bought you and your little bro red and blue and a link cable.
This was the dream. But fricking NOBODY had a link cable.
And once I bought a cheap knockoff myself some years later, the Pokemon craze was already over.
Fricking gay shit
we already had a link cable because my mom and my older sister used to play tetris during road trips, but eventually we used it for Pokemon, too
literally me. I got blue and my lil bro got red. Great times
i got red my brother got blue
we had a purple transparent game link cable
I had nobody to play with (be it friends or family) so I got blue and a 2nd gameboy and would link them myself to get version exclusives/starters
Happened to me.
My brother sux and stopped playing the game after Brock and wouldn't battle me cause my guys were stronger. Money wasted
This happened to me, same with Gold and Silver.
Now I bought two chink handhelds to play Pokemon again with my brother.
I don't play video games too much now and I don't play online at all, but there's literally nothing else in the world that I enjoy more than playing video games with my brother.
This peasant had no friends with the other cartridge to trade with, and complains decades later
i went to a school where all they did was obsessively play sports. I was the only one who played video games.
I see that worked out well for you
I got 2 stem degrees
And how about friends or a wife?
i have a girlfriend and you don't
No I'm a loner incel.
>ERM YOU CAN'T BROWSE Ganker AND BE NORMAL SWEETY
i've probably had more sex with women in a single day than you ever have in your entire life
Being here makes you a failed normalgay.
statistically, no you weren't. You were just the only one who made it their entire personality
No I really was. I'm not America. I lived in a small rural area in EU and everyone only cared about football
Spaniard?
Good chance OP wasn't even a sperm in 1999.
I'm 35
In that case I'm sorry you had no friends.
Me too, '88-kun. You didn't pick up R/B/Y/G/S/C, the GBA games and a bunch of physical rom hacks for pennies 20 years ago?
>88kun
>35 years old
Wait. I'm 87 that means I'm already 36yo?
Holy frick
what the fuuucckkk
12 months in a year. I'm '88 l, 35yo and birthday in July, so that means you're some months older than me? Dunno, I'm drunk.
Same, it feels good to have actually been 10 years old at the apex of pokemania
Zoomers can literally never understand what that was like
Same dude. I miss it so much
Zoomies will never understand what 98-2000 pokemania was like. Every schoolyard had its own exclusive Pokemon culture/rites/myths but was still connected by the greater community. And all organically with no internet. Shit just spread telepathically.
I had friends but we were all chads with the Blue version.
>I had friends but we were all chads with the Blue version
Kino
>all your friends have the same version or refuse to trade
reeeee
>parents bought me the blue version when my best friend also had the blue version
GOD FRICKING DAMMIT MOM
But anon, now you can play with your friend :^)
Advertising works, especially on kids. They were shit. Advertising and aiming at conscripting children needs to be banned.
>I can't believe they got away with it
And they still do, 25 years later. People eat that slop up.
>my brother got red and I got blue
>he chose charmander, I chose squirtle
THE GOOD TIMES
Meanwhile this kid chose Bulbasaur.
that's really sad anon
He was 8 years old and already an uncle?
Do you not know what an uncle is? It has nothing to do with his age.
People have siblings born many years apart. It's not that uncommon. In elementary school two of my classmates in the same grade were uncle/nephew.
I have a friend who was an uncle the moment he was born. His oldest sibling was 20 and already had a kid before his parents accidentally conceived him.
>being younger than your nephew
i thought that only happened in fiction
It's sad that there are so many people that are utterly unqualified to have children, and yet parents like these lost their son. They obviously loved him a ton, look at that grave. A toy car, a wreath, a custom fricking bulbasaur (based son btw, no surprise), and his photo as well. That wouldn't be cheap. They even remembered to point out that he was an uncle, so the parents weren't even selfishly concerned only about their own connections to him. They were even humble enough to honor him with that favorite quote. Many other parents would avoid choose something else because that one is risqué, shamefully not representing their son the way he would have wanted.
The thing that riles me up with this is the space between the opening quote and the "H". It looks like they accidentally added an extra full space between them, and the kid deserved better than that sloppy work.
There's a space between the period and the quotation mark as well so this was an intentional decision. However, the font they used has a period that sits close to the right and the end quotation is closer to the left so it makes that gap between the H and the start quotation look a lot bigger than it really is. I do agree that they should have done a better job, but it's mostly due to the choice of font.
Back then the intent was social. You bought one version and then you found a friend with another version and then you traded and then you battled and then you continue to be friends. It's part of the reason why Pokemon succeeded so well aside from insane marketing and a partner anime to go with it. The problem is that we now live in the age of the internet. The Link cable is no longer necessary, you can connect with the entire planet at the push of a button. So there's no point in splitting your versions anymore because there's no reason to find a friend with the opposite version and you can't communicate with whoever you meet online.
This.
They should make a single version and randomize some kind of seed at the start of the game that determines how rare some Pokemons are gonna be in your game
That's a better idea than Gamefreak has had in many, many years
I think did you know gaming mentioned somewhere that was an idea they had before the 2 version concept.
Japan has an obsession with making gaming a social experience and even with the NES/SNES the intent was for multiplayer or social gaming. Continued on into N64 with 4 player splitscreen and all the games that supported it, Gamecube's carrying handle was so you could bring it to a friend's place easily. And of course Wii because a party accessory more or less. Even now the Switch was heavily advertised as a social experience. And Pokemon was designed very heavily with social settings in mind (one of the few Japanese social gaming schemes that actually succeeded and was prevelant in the US)
It's bizarre because Japanese gamers are usually the biggest autistic NEETs.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch#Extensions
"buy"?
The best thing is with 3 starters, someone has to reset their game to catchemall too
>tfw had red and blue and two gameboys and a link cable
That said I still did some trading at school to help out my friends with their collections. And by "trading" I mean abusing the disconnection glitch to dupe my mons onto their carts.
Zoomer larp or the guy that ate alone in the cafeteria. We traded with each other and that was intended.
>Some teenager gifts me his Pokemon Red while riding the school bus home
>Really happy about it
>Bring it to school next day
>Some kid from my class is trying to be a huge dick and force his way to have my game traded over a blue eyes card
>Deny him entirely
>He grabs my cartridge and says he's gonna take it regardless
>I grab it back and rip the sticker off
>He immediately becomes disappointed
Heh, I don't know why I pulled that shit but it never bothered me and later on I sold the cartridge. Played the living frick out of it tho.
Has anyone actually does the work to find out how many games you would need to buy to catch them all nowadays? I'll bet it's like 6-7
For zoomies who weren't around for it, this episode of South Park really nails the massive amount of hype and hysteria there was around Pokemon when it launched. It was insanely popular. Nothing since then has come close. I don't think anything ever will due to how atomized and fragmented society is now.
for me it's Shoe
There could be a popular thing but there simple isn't enough talent or uniqueness anymore.
Pokemon Go was like 75% of Pokemania's peak back in 2018 or so. For like a week.
It was arguably even stronger than Pokemania despite its incredibly short duration, it quite literally had people of all kinds by the balls on a global scale compared to Pokemania being an American phenomenon you only saw in young kids who weren't already raised on Playstation.
it was a really fun summer and we were blessed to have been a part of it
I wish I was more of a social butterfly. Shit looked fun going to random places but I also hate people in general so I missed the fad.
>pokemania
>american phenomena
no, it was huge in Japan, UK, France, Germany, Scandinavia, etc. as well. Keep in mind the rest of the world was a dilapidated shithole still in the late 90s. Gaming used to just be Japan/USA/Western Europe until the 2000s
A lot of Pokemon Go's frenzy was fueled by people who were kids during the Gen 1-2 days now being adults and rediscovering Pokemon.
>height of Pokemon Go popularity
>hook up with a Tinder Becky
>next morning wake up
>she's not in my house but some of her stuff is still here, like her shoes and shirt
>notice sliding door is open
>she's barefoot wearing one of my shirts (which was huge on her, down to her knees) and catching Pokemon in my backyard
>we hadn't talked about Pokemon or vidya games at all before, turned out she was really into the first 3 gens when they came out as well as the anime at that time and she was now obsessed with Pokemon Go
>show her X and Alpha Sapphire on my 3DS
>she enjoys watching me play for awhile then we fug again and she goes home
>ended up dating her on again/off again for a couple years
>she bought a 3DS and Omega Ruby
>we did some trading and battling, she was actually decent and put in a good amount of hours, I expected she would quit halfway through after satisfying her nostalgia
That wasn't a problem until Ruby and Sapphire.
>lol you want to complete your dex and have both legendaries? just trade one of your friends for their game mascot bro
>Trade it mascots.
>Trade them back.
>now we both have the dex entry
nothing personnel
You're supposed to buy only one and trade with your friends for exclusives. Goys who buy both is just a happy side effect.
Hardly anyone had a link cable and if you had one it didn't work half the time.
>he didnt get yellow.
NGMI
you have to trade wil blue AND red to complete the dex with yellow
We traded with our friends.
>Old gay
>He didn't have friends
Loser.
Catching them all is bullshit because you also need the 3rd Eevee evolution and the different evolutionary stages of each starter and version exclusive. It's not as simple as just linking up and swapping the missing pokemon; you need multiple saves from the same version.
you had to be really committed to catching them all back then, it was admirable. you had to be some rich kid with 2 gameboys or be a chad with enough friends to make the trades
Stadium made it easier but you still needed multiple versions and 2 transfer paks for trade evos.
>Billy Nomates with two gameboys, a link cable and all three versions of every Pokemon game
For this strategy, you would have also had to buy a second gameboy for the express purpose of trading. Nobody sensible would do that.
>only one Eevee in the entire game
>so have to find two other people who evolved theirs into the one you don't and hope they agree for a temporary trade to get it into the pokedex
>same with the starters
Wonder how many fights these games started where somebody ran off with somebody's starter without trading it back.
This is why you traded for an equally valuable Pokemon. You want my Blastoise for your Pokedex entry? Fine, send me Charizard or a legendary. No Pidgeys or Zubats.
Squirting is so hot ngl
I lost my Articuno to that shit.
>sister creates a balanced team with Blastoise
>I solo with an over-leveled Charizard
>wreck her in battle
lololol
>that black kid ishmael that traded me a charizard for a zapdos just cause he just wanted it early
ENTER
Yellow was a great game, especially if you pissed off Pikachu.
Yellow doesn't even have all the pokemon in it, you still have to trade.
https://www.serebii.net/yellow/missing.shtml
>if you even complete the pokedex nothing happens but oak saying "good job you little idiot"
>didn't have a gameboy printer.
First to sticker their winning team certificate on their GBC got first pick of the girls on the playground.
they still get away with it though
>he didn't have a sibling or friends
I'm enjoying the new irl pokemon slice of life drama.
https://twitter.com/poke_times/status/1713812151633138109
Me in the middle
>zoomers lose their minds at the concept of game design that promotes cooperation between friends
it's so over. No wonder games are so shit
you literally aren't supposed to do this, dumbass.
You don't need to buy both, you only need to coordinate a buy with a friend, so you would see which ones are lacking and capture two of those, sharing one.
Of course friends is an abstract concept around here, but we're talking about the late 90s.
>tfw was slowly gifted r,b and y like a year after gen 2 came out
pokehomosexual manchildren deserve to be scammed tbqh
It's called trading
I still remember the epiphany when I was messing around with the boxes in stadium and realised I could move pokemon from one game to the other
I kinda dig it
You are missing one
>Pokemon now has enough Pokemon that two versions could easily have completely different rosters between them.
>They will never actually do this.
You were never meant to buy both. You were supposed to go to school/wherever and find some moron willing to trade. No idea if Yamauchi knew the Link Cable would blow the frick up like it did, the games obviously existed only to sell the cable but I refuse to believe that Pokemania was that pre-ordained.
imagine not having friends as a seven year old when Pokemon came out in like 2nd grade
god your life sounds like it sucked
FireRed and LeafGreen were cool remakes