How much did people back in the day concern themselves with owning/playing both versions of paired games? Ones like Pokémon, MM Battle Network 3-6 and Oracle of Seasons/Ages.
>>11996139Well I bought both Seasons and Ages because they were actually different games.
>>11996139not much. it wasn't a thing back in the 90s
That kind of autism set in more as we moved into the phase of 'going back and playing games' once modern gaming started slowing down and going to shit. Of course there were people doing it back in the day, but they were a smaller group of people.
>>11996139I had Pokemon Red and didn't really care if I played Blue or not, or even Yellow tbf.
>>11996139Nobody really cared about that
>>11996157>commiefornia
>>11996139You picked your favorite color of the pair and played that one. Your friend got stuck with the other one because his birthday came later in the year and you both wanted to trade between games. If the games were significantly different, like the Oracles games, you borrowed the other version from each other to play through it. This was my experience, all others are irrelevant.
>>11996139Pokemon was mandatory for everyone. We all had a bag of barely usable batteries, a link cable and pokemon. We'd battle and trade a bunch. We all got each starter, which takes forever. Good times.
>>11996139Blue was my favorite color and blastoise my favorite starter, so I got pokemon blue, silver and sapphire. Also had crystal but that's unrelated. I would trade with and fight against friends at school who had red. Having red myself never entered my mind and somehow would have felt like changing sports teams or something, I was the guy playing the blue versions, period. Zelda though, was like the other anon said. I had both because they're completely different games.
