For those who were actually alive to experience Pokemon back in the late 90s:Do you remember the first time you got to trade? Which of the 4 trade-only evolutions was your favorite?Mine was Golem.Share stories, anecdotes.
My brother picked Charmander and I picked Squirtle so I kicked his ass in link battles.Gengar was my favorite trade evo.
>>12121074it really bothers me that Golem is hollow like that
>>12121074for whatever reason even though every kid on my block and elementary school had the game almost no one had a link cable. my cousin was one of the few who did and we would trade and battle during christmas time. I also remember him showing me the missingno dupe glitch also during christmas time, and it was so mind blowing its still a core memory for me. I associate pokemon a lot with those late 90s christmases. another christmas, the year the movie came out, my parents got us some bootleg copy of it before it had come out and me, my brother and cuz watched it and I still remember that well too. some other assorted memories:>EVERY kid having a binder of pokemon cards. seemed more popular than the games themselves at one point>our gym class got a bunch of big holographic shiny pokemon stickers to give as prizes for winning whatever activity we did. pretty brilliant and based move cause we got hype as FUCK over it. then decorate our notebooks/agendas in pokemon stickers as our spoils of war. I remember having an old notebook I filled to the brim with pokemon stickers and I cherished it deeply>gameboys or any electronics were always banned at school (do kids these days get to use their phones? who knows) but pokemon cards were legal until our school eventually had enough and banned those too. I still remember the PA announcement, was like our 9/11>buying the official pokedex books and learning how to draw by copying all the pokemon>everyone except the nerdy diehards being completely over it by the time gen 3 happened. peak pokemania had died down by gen 2 for sure but was still really big at my school. >all the parents teachers making fun of us for being into a fad that no one would remember in a few years, so much for that>pokemon stadium being really cool but also ridiculously difficult for a 1/2nd grader>watching the anime saturday mornings on the WB
>>12121105It was an awesome time to be a kid. When it came to waking up for school, all my Mom had to do was call my name and say Pokemon was on and I'd race downstairs to watch it. I had the music CD, bought the Viz comics, and played the games for hours at a time. I was 9 when my parents took my brother and I to see the movie. The whole theater was decked out for the event and all the kids standing in line got these cool holographic Mew cards. I'm sure I still have it somewhere at my parents' house.
I think I had to borrow the game to play on my B&W gameboy, I mostly played Red/Blue using some old emulator.I was definitely more invested in the cards and anime, I still remember trading some beatup charizard with a girl from my class. A shame I sold most of my cards years ago.
I remember middle school a kid a class higher than me who I hung out with sometimes had a mew and was showing it to everyone, pretty sure it was done with gameshark.that day during recess another kid snuck into the classroom and stole his mew. turned into big drama that day lmao, I think they even fought over it. good times.
>>12121807don't worry I didn't sage this thread I only forgot to clear my username.>>12121134>It was an awesome time to be a kid.truly peak times. wouldn't trade it for anything and I wanna go back.
>>12121074My friend traded me a pokemon that looked like a bull but it was too high level for me to control it.
ah yes
>>12121105>almost no one had a link cableThis was my experience as wells I don't think I've ever actually seen a link cable in real life.Everyone had gameboys. A few kids had the flashlight attachment. Nobody had the link cable.
>>12121832kwab
>>12121105>>12121858Every single friend of mine had a link cable and I had one as well. Even though we barely ever used them after I got Pokemon Stadium with some transfer paks. That's how we did things with our Gen I games and again once Stadium 2 came out with our Gen II games. I barely played Pokemon on a GameBoy unless I was planning on using a link cable as I just did everything on my Super Game Boy or N64 with the transfer paks. I even played my Gen III games using the Game Boy Player with my GameCube as soon as I could.
Oh and my favorite trade evolution is Gengar and then Alakazam.
>>12121074My absolute desperation to own Pokemon Blue was what finally got my parents to cave to get me a GBC instead of trying to convince me Tiger Electronics were just as good, the franchise basically ruled my life until Gen 2 came and the fever died down. Around that time you stopped being cool for having all the shit and started to get called nerdy, and the lore of the series was clearly going nowhere, by Gen 3 you knew they were just never going to play up the miystique of the earliest days and by Gen 4 it was just for a new Gen of kids and I was salty there was never a grander vision in place, realizing this was just another Japanese product not some mystical escape from reality that had any significance
i got sick one week and pokemon came out a little earlier, then my dad bought it for me and i had the most fun time ever, forgetting the dread and playing cozily in bed
I remember having a weird fixation on the three-frame animation the flowers had of moving around in a little triangle. There were so few animated overworld sprites that they stood out and stuck in my brain
>>12121074i remember going to china town markets on the weekends around 97 or 98 and buying packs of these shitty pokemon stickers, and then the fake poke cards when they came out. nfi what happened to them all, i must have had hundreds before i grew out of it and started playing runescape around 2001
>>12121845oh no people discussing games and not what pokemon they wanna bang, tragedy
>>12123182>Every single friend of mine had a link cable>N64 transfer paks>Super Game Boy>Game Boy PlayerRich kid. Experience discarded.
>>12121845You try this in every Pokemon thread and it never works.As long as the topic is retro Pokémon, it's allowed here, much to your dismay.
>>12121074>Do you remember the first time you got to trade?Yeah, it was with this kid at school who was a hopeless Poke-nerd and still is, last I talked to him. He organized a trading group and we called ourselves Team Rocket—you had to recite the motto from the anime in order to get in, lol. My first trade was a Mewtwo for a Zapdos, I think, because I honestly didn't care about Mewtwo and had stupidly KO'd Zapdos without realizing I'd only have the one chance to catch him.A short while later, the same kid taught me about the cloning trick, where you disconnect one of the Game Boys during the trade and it basically overwrites one of the Pokemon while duplicating the other. Would have been cool to know this trick before I traded my Mewtwo. Although my cartridge got stolen shortly after this anyway, so I had to catch everyone from scratch all over again.>Which of the 4 trade-only evolutions was your favorite?Hard to say. Gengar was probably the best, but I actually liked Haunter's design more so I often chose not to evolve. Alakazam is probably the winner here.>>12121134>When it came to waking up for school, all my Mom had to do was call my name and say Pokemon was on and I'd race downstairs to watch it.Oh wow, I completely forgot it used to air early in the mornings, too. I caught a handful of episodes like this, but I'd always have to head to the bus stop before the end of the episode. Then I'd just spend all day wondering how the episode ended until I could catch the second airing after school.I saw a kid on my bus who was near the beginning of the route, and his mom always brought him to the bus stop before the morning episode aired, so I'd always tease him by telling him the name, or making up some shit that totally didn't happen. The best time was with "Pikachu's Goodbye", because I tricked him into thinking Pikachu actually left. Good times.
>>12121074My and my brother got a link cable with gold and silver so I’m a little late to the party. Gen 1 was fun but most of my memories are with gold.I still remember our first battle. I was so sure I’d win after beating bugs since I chose totadile while he chose cyndaquil.Long story short he abused smokescreen on my Crocnaw that only had attacking moves.After that I changed my strategy and started using more strategy
>>12121134My local Fox affiliate thought Pokemon was a throw-away show, so they aired it at fucking 2:00PM. Nobody at school could watch it without taping it every day.
>>12121074Gengar was my fav trade only, but I liked haunter more
>>12121134>me waking up early as fuck to watch new episode >sailor moon was on first>fall asleep during>wake up right during the last minute of pokemon when the characters are talking about the way cool adventure they just went on
>>12121086It makes my child autism slightly better knowing he is still just rocks and not some lizard somehow.
>>12121858I got a bundle for Christmas from Sam's Club that had a red GBC, pokemon red, red/blue players guide and the link cable.
>>12121074>Do you remember the first time you got to trade? vaguely. traded one of my mons to a friend because he said he had a fast way of training them. never got it back.>Which of the 4 trade-only evolutions was your favorite?alakazam.
>>12123792>every Pokemon threadthe fact that there's enough pokemon threads in the catalog to say "every pokemon thread" is a fucking problem>>>/vp/
>>12125023counted em. there's three. you're a crybaby
