How awesome was playing Pokémon for the first time in the 90s?
what the fuck do you fucking thinkeveryone started farting and gooning to Jynx
I was the first kid in my school to get it, the weekend it came out. Not because Pokemon was popular, it was still the early days. But because it was my birthday and I always liked weird Japanese things and the commercials gave me that vibe. Anyway I was totally addicted to it.
>>12371303None of my 90's babies were into pokemans so I didn't really play until the decade before the one you were born in.
Very awesome. Thanks to the hype buildup (one of my friends got that Nintendo promo tape in the mail, and I started watching the anime when it premiered in the US on UPN, prior to the release of the games), all the merchandise and other promo shit, it definitely felt like more than just another game.
>>12371303You'll NEVER know, zoomer faggot!
i had more fun playing snap than pokemon blue
>no one had Internet access at my school>friend tells me that you can get Pikablue by leaving a Pikachu in the daycare and leave your Gameboy turned on for 24 hours and then use a water stone on it>gameboy color battery life was only around 15 hours
My younger sister somehow came across Pokemon before it blew up and got the game for her birthday, she has no idea how or why. It was a complete unknown to me, I just remember putting it in the Super Gameboy thinking I'd have a quick look at what the hell this game she asked for was while she was busy with other birthday stuff and became completely hooked. A few weeks later was when Pokemon really started creeping into conversations at school.
I didn't have a PSX to have played FFVII yet so it was the coolest shit I had ever seen.The battle system has serious flaws. I enjoyed it and have huge nostalgia, I'd tolerate playing them again. But 3-4 years later I played a real RPG (ffix, an easy one) and realized how shit pokemons was. Even if you don't overlevel, it's easy to demolish opponents with just opposing elements.
>>12371303I was obsessed with the Pokemon games back in the 90s and early 2000s, but have difficulty playing any JRPG these days.
>>12371624Yep pokemon managed to bridge the sweet spot of simplicity, wonder, and strategy whereas other JRPGs just feel tedious to me.
>>12371654That's the wonder of story second gameplay first
>>12371382Not OP, but I was born in '94 & didn't play the games until '02, yet after that became obsessed. (First game was Crystal.)
I was the biggest Pokémon autist as a kid. I max'd out the clock (255:55) in both Blue and Yellow. You could ask me a number between 1 and 150 and I'd tell you the name, at what level he learns what moves, name of evolutions and their methods/levels, and in half the cases I could tell you weight and size but I stopped learning those once I realized they were inconsistent.I still remember that the maximum number of mons you can get in Blue on a single play without trading is 128, and iirc 129 in Red. Also I knew when kids and online rumours were full of shit because everyone always assumed the max lvl was 99 and not 100 (though one could quickly find that out with the missingo shit).I knew about the concepts of EVs/IVs just by playing the game, I just didn't know they were called that obviously.I basically reverse engineered the casino just by playing it, figured out the best methods to maximize coin wins at it; and the casino dissassembly that was made a few years ago only confirmed what I already knew (and told me the couple points I couldn't have known on my own like the fact that the machines you can't actually play are part of the RNG process; though I had my doubts something was up when I couldn't find the right machine).
>>12371303I played Tetris and Donkey Kong on a friend's Gameboy. The screen sucked so much ass I wasn't interested in getting one.
>>12371303I started with Yellow and it was fucking amazing. Like any good kid back then, I power leveled Pikachu to the moon to overcome all challengers.I'm replaying Red right now doing a RA run. Yes, I know /vr/ is autistically against RA, don't care.
>>12371303it was great. me and my siblings all had different versions (i had yellow). pretty much everyone had it and was into pokemon at the time so it gave the games validity.it was the first game of that type i had played where you could capture/train pets and save progress. that was really cool in itself just seeing what everyone had
>>12371704didn't everyone end up with the same team except version exclusives?
i got silver when i was 8, at first i was annoyed that i couldn't have a pokemon follow me like in yellow, but it was a godtier experience in the end 11/10
>>12371369Woah you played Pokemon in the 80s? How did you manage that?
>>12371706nta, but I think most people just settled on Mewtwo, Legendaries, Starter, and whatever was their favorite Pokemon.
>>12371303What's happening here
>>12371706No, they didn't. People mostly picked their favorites back then. Yeah most people had Mewtwo and their starter and a legendary bird, but then it was whatever.
>>12371820It's the power indicator.
>>12371786He's an old man and his children born in the 90s didn't play pogeymans so he didn't play until 2000s or 2010s depending on how young he's implying OP is
>>12371830Get glasses. It's clearly a sticker. But why?
>>12371835It's literally a red LED. Are you retarded? I spent the 90s playing on a dmg brick before getting a gbc for silver. I can promise you, it's just a red LED that turns on while you're playing. It didn't even warn you when the batteries need changing. The power just drops.
>>12371318Sorry anon, but your neighborhood doesn't count as everyone.
>>12371849>I spent the 90s playing on a dmg brickAnd probably fucked up your eyes doing it.Pic related is what the indicator LED hole looks like in operation. For some reason the one in the OP has a sticker cutout over it.
>>12371884>>12371835probably a zoomie with battery anxiety. with the red sticker it always stays red without fading and at some point it just shuts off when the battery is empty.
>>12371830>>12371849are you a bot
>>12371321>I was the first kid in my school to get it, the weekend it came out.I wish i had your memories.
Pokemon was magical during the first two generations.What did it for me was how it was kinda like the real world but it just had Pokemon in it (compared to how it is now which feels like everything revolves around pokemon instead of pokemon being integrated to real world stuff)Those early drafts and documents where Tajiri explains his vision for this world were kinda like the perfect game to me, everything felt too mysterious. You can tell latest pokemon games feel NOTHING like what's described in these documents now.
>>12371382Chill out, unc, i just want to know.
The part where you go back to Kanto in Gold/Silver made my head explode.
>>12371584Pokémon is the greatest RPG ever made, sonyfag.
>>12371671Jesus Christ...
>>12371303Played so much that I heard the game music in my ears while not playing like a tinnitus.
THe neighborhood kids started playing it and I was 16 at the time, I dug out my brick and was gifted a copy of RED fom one of my cousins who played it and didnt like it. The "big" sprites in the foreground are what did it for me.
>>12371303I honestly can't remember. I played red on an og brick. The manual was pcool.
>>12371820>>12371835>>12371884The entire image has blurring all over it you fucking retard. The light looks weird because of that. I honestly hate people like you who think they've found some conspiracy and can't explain it and endlessly argue with everyone but in actuality are just too fucking stupid to see the big picture (in this case literally).
>>12372371get glasses
>>12372371How is putting a sticker over a led a conspiracy? Are you dense?
>>12372382Because there is no sticker in the picture.
>>12372380>doesn't even notice all of the blurred, doubled and abberant edges of the gameboy and hand because of the image post-processing You're such a fucking idiot
>>12371303It was like heroinnothing else in life even mattered anymoreyou can't imagine, there is not nor will there ever be anything like it again.
I watched the show and got extremely hyped. I wanted a Gameboy just to play Pokémon, I asked my godmother for Blue. I didn't get it. Then I saw screenshots of the game and the battle system and I thought to myself "this looks boring as fuck, I don't want it anymore".And you know what? I was right. To this day the early game for RBY is dogshit. Just getting your early mons to a decent level before Brock is soul-draining. You really have to steamroll everything with your starter and only start catching Pokémon on route 4 or whatever (especially since Fearow shits on Pidgeotto any day of the week) Of course back then I didn't know any of the tricks, when I got Pokémon yellow at the age of 11 I completely forgot all about how disappointing it looked at the age of 8, I just wanted my Pokémon game. Even three years removed from the start of Pokemania it was still great.
>>12372395>I thought to myself "this looks boring as fuck, I don't want it anymore".>And you know what? I was right. lmao textbook sour grapes yeah bro it was such a shit game it launched the biggest vidya franchise everlmfao
>>12372387not him but there definitely is some red paper cutout put over the led. when the led is out it just looks black and when on it looks blown out in photos and there's no depth to it. in the op it definitely looks like a reflective material instead of emissive. my guess is that someone just had fun sticking shit on their gb. i'd say 80% of all gameboys have retarded useless stickers on them.t. autist
>>12372420Hahaha you're so dumb
>>12372404Read the rest of the post, jackass. I did end up getting it and I did end up loving it(even though it was at the age of 11). Fuck, I'm making a Pokémon fan game right now, but none of that changes the fact that RBY is slow-ass dogshit from the battle with rival up until Brock, and Viridian Forest being full of poison Weedles (except for yellow) doesn't help since you either waste all your money on antidotes or keep going back and forth to the Pokémon Center whenever you get poisoned. Even GSC had a better starting level curve, even if it did cost them the latter half of the game.
>I'm making a Pokémon fan game right nowlol
Lot of samefagging from /vp/ ITTPokemon was socially acceptable mass consumerism for kids at the time. It was "special" because of the anime like Ash, the Pokerap, Charizard etc., not so much the games. If normalfags today are talking about the games, it's about how easy and childish they were.
I remember being on vacation with a friend who had a birthday, and I played it briefly on his Gameboy getting him the 'cut' technique. Some time later my parents bought it for me, and I played through it, beat it. Very engaging and fun, I don't think I used a guide. I do remember playing against a friend at his house via a link cable, and beating him. The only time I even multiplayered a Gameboy game.
>>12372432the tcg too. poorfags were not asking their parents for game boys, they wanted the much cheaper card packs
>>12372429It's more likely than you think. right now I'm working on a watered-down version of Pokerole to teach my kid ttrpgs
>>12371786You were born in the 2090s?
>>12371886Gen 1 is unbeatable.
>>12372394>It was like heroin>nothing else in life even mattered anymoreWhat the fuck...
>>12372565imagine someone saying that about tiktok. not so implausible anymore? now consider we didn't have instant gratification back then, so simple things like watching TV or playing vidya felt catharthic.
>>12372576>not so implausible anymore?no still what the fuck. tiktok is garbage, pokemania was garbage. you come off as "my terrible brainrot was better because i was 7 at the time"
>>12372608okay, you're getting there. yes, it's the same brainrot but notice how nobody said it was better.
Why are millennials so jealous of zoomers and gen alpha getting a better Pokemon childhood than they ever will?
>>12372656lol? My childhood was when Pokemon was at its peak cultural phenomenon. Everything was brand new and exciting. We got the best gen of Pokemon designs, the original 150+1. Best Pokemon cartoon, we watched Ash's journey from the very start. Going to the bookstore on weekends to play Pokemon TCG mini-tournaments. I'll never forget drawing both a shiny Blastoise and Charizard on the same day and because I was an innocent kid I lost them at some point because guess what we didn't have some gay jacked up price aftermarket since everything was still fresh and fluid. Man you're a loser. My gen won. You eat our leftovers.
>>12372738>My gen won.>gen won>gen Ithe best there ever was, sequels were all downhill
>>12372738>You eat our leftovers.based snorlax poster
I think I was 5 when Pokemon came out. I remember the game commercials, but the anime is what sold me. I couldn’t even read yet when I got it, so I’d get as far as I could in one sitting, usually around Pewter city and then have to start over next time. Eventually I started experimenting with menu commands and memorized save and continue so I could keep playing. I distinctly remember screwing around with the PC and swapping out my wartortle for a fricken Paras that I was forced into using because I couldn’t figure out how to withdraw him again. I ended up only leveling Blastoise all the way through to win, and spent a ton of time grinding in Diglet’s cave to get a Blastoise to beat Surge with. Also bawled my eyes out when the S.S. Anne left port because I thought I did something wrong because I didn’t go with it like in the anime. I also never found flash so I would stumble blindly through rock tunnel for hours to get through. Anyway, I’m pretty sure Pokemon is what taught me to read, I was always way ahead in School.
>>12372394>when the silhouette of a rare Pokemon you've been hunting slides onto the screen>when the ball stops shaking when catching a legendary or a rare Pokemon (Kangaskhan)>discussing Pokemon rumors with your friends>crazy shit like MissingNo actually being real>new episode of Pokemon airs, speculate with friends about what will happen next>pretending like Pokemon are real when playing with your friends>pulling a cool holo from a booster pack>getting Japanese Pocket Monsters card boosters, decks, promos, and singles which had yet to release in English>getting hyped for Gen 2It truly was magical shit for an elementary/middle schooler, especially since it all felt so new. I'd imagine that the release of Pokemon Go was probably the closest thing to Gen 1 Pokemania that subsequent generations of kids experienced.
>>12371303My friend had red, I had blue. We would just sit outside on the porch and play it together. Good times.
>>12372738>FANFIClol. ain't that cute. come back when there's an entire park to visit and cities use pokemon as their mascot.
You know you've won when a loser has to dismiss your life as fanfic because it's that fucking good.
>>12373547America will never get these parks. Too many influencers and manchild scalpers in the states.
>>12373574>manchildthat's what half this thread is. can't trust amerifats with anything.
>>12373552>my life is teh pokemansThat doesn't prove your story true. It only proves you have no life.
>>12371303It was cool, but looking back it was not that great. Battling got old very fast when everyones team is Mewtwo + other steroid fueled legendaries. Trading wasnt much different because there were only 150 pokemon anyway.The most fun I had was stealing my friends legendaries and trading them for caterpies.
>>12372738>shiny Blastoise and CharizardWe called them holos. Larp detected.
>>12374367No we said holographic. Fuck off poser.
>>12371671>I still remember that the maximum number of mons you can get in Blue on a single play without trading is 128, and iirc 129 in Red.I couldn't think of a reason why the counts would be different and it was triggering my autism so:>151 pokemon>(-11)no exclusives>(-6) only one starter>(-4) no trade evolutions>(-2) one fossil>(-2) one eeveelution>(-1) one hitmon>(-1) no mewSo I get 124 in both versions with the only actual difference being the 11 version exclusives.
>>12374376yeah all the kids i knew growing up called them holographic
>>12371303>in the 90s?more like, late 1998 and 1999.
>>12371303it was the best thing ever
>>12372656this is what Americans got lol
>>12374823amerifat
>>12371986You will never understand though, because it wasn't an isolated gaming experience. Everything was just different then in a way that another person can't really be made to understand if they weren't there. It was an immersive game, yes but much of the experience has to be taken in context of what also was available at the time, or why people say games "age".That being said it was pretty good, was it the greatest, most life defining experience ever? Absolutely not.
>>12372831You aren't a homo, are you, dude?
>>12374874
>>12371303Normalfag kids would talk about the anime and show off their cards around 1998-1999. Product placement was everywhere and the hype peaked around the Mewtwo movie release. Some kids played RBY, but they never went past beating the E4 and often gave their games away without caring about Pokedex completion.But honestly, it was mostly just kids being assholes and stealing Game Boys, cartridges and cards from each other. Kids would "borrow" games and never give them back, or "loan" them to someone else. It got banned fast in some schools around here.>>12374874>You will never understandJudging by how you can't explain it aside from "it was super immersive guys" you never did either. Most experiences and nostalgia bullshit here still pertain to kids today in a slightly different context. Like a 10-year old that attended VGC or beat all the 40-year old manchild scalpers for a Prismatic Evolutions box? It's the same core memories.
you make this thread every week
>>12374979>it was mostly just kids being assholes and stealing Game Boys, cartridges and cards from each other. Kids would "borrow" games and never give them back, or "loan" them to someone else. It got banned fast in some schools around here.You must have been poor.
>>12371303It was fucking dogshit. Nobody actually liked the games at the time, they were just pretending to have fun because they liked the cartoon.
>>12375054You must be a zoomer. Every other Pokemon story online has been about bullies taking their shit and never living it down.
>>12373547But I can go there now, you can't go back in time.Millenials win again.
>>12375062retard just lying
>>12373547I wonder what kids think when they see droves of 40 year old single dudes crying over Pidgey on route 1.
>>12375104You weren't there zoomer stop larping. The games were always trash.
>>12372656>exclusively gen 1 pkmnI accept your concession.
>>12375105https://youtu.be/WSlLhuof19M?t=354
>>12375080Uh huh, tell us more about how you read "stories online" to learn about the distant history of 1998. Only the white trash (and probably other shades of the underclasses, I just didn't grow up around them) kids had issues with that.
>>12375124>i-it's just white tr-nah, sorry zoomiehttps://youtu.be/IpwS9kDkyPY?t=1083
>>12371303did uncs seriously play on that little ass blurry screen?
>>12375124Sorry that I have evidence and you're bullshitting out of your ass.
>>12375107retard just making shit up
There will never be another game like Pokémon.
>>12375163>let kids borrow my gameshark>never got it stolen and they always returned it>gave my friend's younger brother my copy of pokemon red because I had yellow too and neither of them had pokemon or ever played it
>>12372738
>>12375207>let kids borrow my gameshark>someone "forgot" to give it back to me>turns out he gave it to his younger brother and he lost it
>>12374979>Pokemon>Core memoriesKek. But I said I can't make you understand. Did you know kids back then played outside? It's true. Also games back then were like something you did when you couldn't go outside, this is why I'm saying what I'm saying because fundamentally you're viewing it wrong. But yeah, A lot of it is nostalgia too, you're also viewing it through other people's nostalgia for it and you should account for that. So anyways part of the reason it was so good is because everything actually was better then, which made this better and separating it from it's context in time alters it. Everyone loved Pokemon back then, it was fresh, cool, new gaming experience in a more relaxed, simpler time.
>>12375229>Did you know kids back then played outsidethey still do. now you're sounding like a 70 year old. don't forget your meds gramps.>Everyone loved Pokemon back thenyour group of 5 autistic kids is not everyone kek.
>>12375229>I can't make you understandI lived through it, zoomer. You can spam as many buzzwords as you want, nothing will change that it really wasn't as "magical" as all the samefagging you're doing.
>>12375246Well you asked about X subjective experience. So why not just play it yourself in 2026? Because like you said, it's not the same but me telling you what it's like isn't going to help either. Pokemon was a heckin big deal then, there was like Pokemania and everyone heckin loved Pokemon. This is before 9/11 and the 2008 financial crash. So take never played Pokemon before + best version + being kid + living in a time when nobody really had to worry about stuff + less technology. Back then watching a movie was a bigger deal, you had to watch it on a smaller CRT compared to today, you had to put in a VCR tape, there was no real pausing or rewinding because it was a hassle. It was an event. Your options were more limited, there was no streaming.>they still do. News to me, is it really true?
>>12375262yeah it was unless you were already in high school or something maybe
>>12375281it really wasn't. sorry but you lost.maybe you'll convince us when you make this thread again next week, champ.
>>12375312you're fucking retarded and delusional
>>12375267>caring about 9/11 as a kid>richfags caring about 2008kek. i thought you weren't poor?>News to me, is it really true?yes. go to a park somewhere that isn't a shithole, such as where you supposedly said you lived in, and you'll see kids playing outside and playing on their phones together. it's almost like retarded poorfags are the ones doomscrolling twitter and facebook all day in 2026.
>>12375329wow. big boy words. next week you can show your evidence of all the """""magical""""" stories you samefagged on /vp/
>>12375374just admit you were in high school or college at the time so you didn't care. that makes sense because minecraft/fortnite/roblox were all huge (less huge than pokemon) but I didn't give a fuck about it because it was for kids. but right now you just sound fucking crazy.
>>12375365You might think I'm someone else because I never said anything about richfags or poorfags. Gameboy was cheap though and so was Pokemon. It was released at EOL. But see this is my point though, zoomers can't conceive of the world as it was before.
>>12375410Meanwhile the late 90s Pokeshit zoomers will never comprehend what gaming was like in the late 80s and early 90s, and gen alpha can never conceive of a world before Covid. Generational bullshit does not get us anywhere and using nostalgia as an argument should always be dismissed.
>>12375416Well my entire point is that experience of X is first of all subjective therefore dependent on the time you lived in. People play it now for the first time and end up not, all this plays into your perspective. People saw Star Wars for the first time in 1977 and had mass pants shittings in theatres over it. He was after all asking what it was like to play it the first time when it was new, not the first time now.
uncs be like>YOOOO THIS GAMEPLAY IS SO FIRE
>>12372738>You eat our leftovers.Holy shit!
>>12374551You're right, it's 124, I remembered that wrong. I have no idea why I thought Red had one more too. I might be getting confused with Yellow or JPN Blue.
>>12372656>Pokemon CafeNever ever in America>>12372738Holy samefag, embarrassing
>>12371978>What did it for me was how it was kinda like the real world but it just had Pokemon in it (compared to how it is now which feels like everything revolves around pokemon instead of pokemon being integrated to real world stuff)this is probably the most succinct explanation I've seen as to why newer gens feel soulless. Playing the original Pokemon games made you wonder what it would be like to just have Pokemon in your life. Now the in-game worlds feel like non-stop commercials for the entire concept of Pokemon, not as animals or companions, but just the franchise itself.
>12371820>12371830>12371835>12371849>12371884>12371887>12371892>12372371>12372380>12372382>12372387>12372390>12372420>12372424All me btw.
>>12375525>it's another zoomer can't comprehend being content with anything episode
Full Pocket Monsters experience: a /vr/ guide>know absolutely nothing about the franchise and first engage with it through newspapers articles about a cartoon show that caused epileptic attacks on children in Japan>read video game magazine articles that talk about a social phenomenon in Japan, called "Pocket Monsters", see some small screenshots and design imagen and think it looks weird and foreign but cool>Call up various local game stores and ask them if they sell this japanese Pocket Monsters Game, only for them to have no idea>forget about it for a while and one day you casually watch the first episode of "Pokémon" on cable TV and then you keep watching all the first season, meanwhile:>Get Red or Blue and play on a Game Boy, or a Super Game Boy. Better alternative: GB tower on Pokémon Stadium, and using Oak's Lab for item and pkmn management, much better than the menues on the GB games. But, for a first playthrough it's not mandatory.>Once you beat the game and catch Mewtwo, watch Mewtwo Strikes Back kino>Read the "electric tale of Pikachu" manga>Get a friend or a way to get the Pokémon from the other version that you're missing. Play Stadium's gym leader castle to get starters, fossils, eeveees and hitmons.>Also try to beat the different cups in the main Stadium game as a post-game challenge. Start training low level Pokémon and buff them/give TMs and customize them.>Buy at least a pack of the TCG, even if you don't care playing it, it's good art on them.>play Pokémon Pinball and the Game Boy TCGs if you want somen extra gen 1 experience on GB>play Snap and Smash 64>Start reading rumours about pikablu>Get hype for "Pokémon 2">Download a japanese ROM of Pokémon Gold and play a bit of it on a poorly coded emulator>Play the actual Gold or Silver cart on a GB Color or go full pokemaster and play on Stadium 2 using the GB Tower, then play the Stadium cups.
>>12378573where's the part where you get disillusioned because gold is just more of the same shit with a few new pokemons in between, lose interest, grow up, remember the game when you hear that ruby/sapphire is announced, realize the new mons look like shit, and never think about them again?
>>12378573>Download a japanese ROM of Pokémon Gold and play a bit of it on a poorly coded emulatorThat should be>Download the 10% completed translation ROM of Gold almost a full year before its actual release in your country>can't get past the Unknown puzzle because the translation doesn't go that far>get disgusted and lose the hype because of that ROM>by the time the actual release comes already moved on to something else and Pokémon seems like "kid's stuff">don't come back to Pokémon until years later
>>12371558>he didn't have a wall adapter for his Game Boy
>>12371884>>12372420>having battery leds>having color
>>12379569why is your game boy glitching in real life
>>12379569Green is a color.Checkmate, atheists!
pretty fuckin awesome. early 90's boomer / genwunner, so I can try to paint a portrait of what it was like> pokemania was nuts and it's hard to compare to anything these days because modern trends are telegraphed HARD on the internet and are even more inorganic now then they were back then. combine that with the fact that i was fucking 8, so it's not like i was using the primitive internet we had back then. instead ot was more like, you walk into school one day, and suddenly everyone is raving about this "pokemon" thing you've never heard of. maybe some lucky kid was able to get online and read shit posted by fans translated from japanese or get his hands on an early TCG booster pack, he'd get the word out then all of a sudden you'd start to notice it everywhere. tune in on tv (was it cartoon network or kids WB? can't remember) and there it is, season 1 of the OG anime. you're a few weeks too late for the premiere, but reruns will catch you up well before the creepy sabrina arc> after giving your parents the puppy dog eyes you've suddenly got it all, red or blue on your GBC, booster packs, maybe a strategy guide, sticker books, figurines, pens and pins and gizmos and everything you can imagine, you're hooked> for some reason nobody at my school had a fuckin link cable so trading wasn't as much of a thing for me in the early era. must've been cool though. but we'd still smuggle in our gameboys, compare teams, scarf down lunch quickly to have TCG battles, have dumb fucking arguments about what was possible in the anime vs in the games. "mew under the truck" and such playground rumors were a real thing btw not historical revisionism. it was a sweet spot in time where the internet allowed rumors to proliferate, but it was still too decentralized to easily confirm or deny anything, and datamining and shit wasn't a thing yet
>>12371303There really wasn't anything like it
>>12372560Play PureRGB romhackIt's like a super refined version of gen 1
it was awesome as fuck. one of my neighbors and his friend had it and showed me it and I had a gameboy but no good game for it and my parents got it for me before a road trip and from then on it was POKEMANIA and amazing. we did the missingno shit, I had professor oak in a battle once. that kid who showed me the game had a GameShark and traded me a Mew. I got the diploma for 150 Pokemon by having mew and not vaporeon. it had a really fun revival in like 08-10 too this time getting to play on gameboy SP with the light and the then-recently discovered Mew glitchthe gen 2 games were really exciting in 2000 but quickly became gay kiddy stuff in about a year and by the time of gen 3 (which sucked anyway other than leaf green) Pokemon was gay baby shit
>>12380423oh also my grandma had got sent that toys R us VHS tape for Pokemon which she gave me. that helped fuel the poke mania too. great times. my dad bought me an unofficial book about catching all the shit mons
>>12379798bummer about the no link cable the first kid I ever saw playing it had one. and I eventually got one as well
>>12378573go back
>>12380536Give me a time machine
>>12381551NoMake your reality less shit instead of wallowing in this fake nostalgia faggotry
Pokezoomer retards will never understand how great video games were in the 80s.NESbabies will never understand the novelty of playing video games in an arcade in the 70s.Buyfags will never understand how cool it was to make your own video games in your dorm room in the 60s.
>>12371303It was awesome. I barely understood English and everything was done by trial and error. Me and my friends would sneak out during recess to play in the bushes on the school playground because Gameboys were not allowed on school grounds.
>>12371303I had already played many RPGs by the time this gained steam at my school, so it wasn't anything new or impressive for me. I still had fun with it though, especially when I found out about Missingno, that was fun to play around with. People always said it would delete your save, so it felt like playing with fire testing things out. I never lost my save file even using it in battle.
>>12381681>Gameboys were not allowed on school grounds.You should have persevered. I was the first to bring my GB to school and it was confiscated and my mother had to get it back. A few days later I brought it again and seeing as nothing was happening to me everybody else started bringing their own or buying one altogether, glorious time with all those kids playing GB during recess
>>12381621No one was making video games in college dorms in the 60s, you retard. Video games weren't even invented until the 70s and no one had home computers until the late 80s. The only computers in the 60s were those room sized punch card ones.
>>12371978I agree with you, anon.
>>12371303it was average. Nintendo Power ranked it correctly.
>>12371695no I recently discovered retro cheevo's when I got an anbernig 40xxv for Christmas and now I use it for everything just for fun. replayed silent hill 1 and ffx with it, and beat silent hill 2 and ff9 with all the cheevo's activated, its a fun addition. im not into the 100%ing shit though thats ridiculous. and its a bit annoying that booting up any game just to check it out for 10 minutes adds it to your cheevo list but ah well
>>12382212didnt mean to say all activated, meant to say beat them for the first time, but using cheevo's, it was a fun experience
>>12381621your history is ALL fucked up. in the 60s it was punch card military computers. my gf's dad who's like 83 or 84 now basically helped invent DARPANET when he was an Air Force contractor working on punch card computers in 1963. they were not making video games at all nothing even close until the one guy designing ping pong (not even pong but just ping pong) started that in 68 or 69 and it wasn't finished until the early 70s
>>12374823oh dude I remember we had those waffles. I remember them I swear not being that long ago either I feel like they remade those 10 years ago
>>12372738thats wild that happened to you because I remember going to the mall with my mom one day when base set was still the main thing (no jungle or fossil) and she got me 3 booster packs and the first was blastoise, the 2nd was a clef airy doll and the 3rd was charizard. which was insane AF. some girls older brother eventually stole my charizard when he "just wanted to look at the cards" but he died of fent like 10 years ago so he got his just comeuppance in due time
>>12382284We use to play you keep the other player's prizes...and that is how I lost my Charizard, but won a Gengar.
>>12371303it was like cwack cocaine
>>12381969>>12382219wrong + faggot + retard + L + kill yourself
>>12382407you're still wrong, wiki-troon pedia is not an acceptable source and there were no video games being made until the guy with the original ping pong game with an English knob released it in the early 70s
>>12382407>Spacewar!Mega soul.
>>12382407don't OXO and tennis for two predate spacewar?>>12382472take the L zoomie
>>12381608Based projector anon
>>12375163>plebbit screenshotI don't care about your gay little argument, but you need to go back
>>12382534your fake memories don't matter faggot
>>12382683your memories are fake because you obviously weren't alive yet or lived 100% isolated from society
>>12382491tennis for two is the first thing resembling a video game, but it was played on an oscilloscope, not the usual tv and console hooked up setup. i'd say you're right.
>>12372426What are you on? How are you this bad? RBY start is great. It hardly takes any time to get to Brock. You hardly need any antidotes, mate. Your starter should be able to steamroll the entire forest and there is a pathetic amount of grass you actually need to walk through to get to the first gym.
>>12379569Damn! I thought I was OG. But my fucking Gameboy had LEDs. I kneel
>>12371671That's a nice post autist-kun HOWEVER >I knew about the concepts of EVs/IVs just by playing the gameNeither of these concepts existed until Gen3, you're full of shit.
>>12385062stat experience absolutely existed in gen 1 and 2, it's just nobody called it EV before gen 3. but yeah, the way he phrases it makes you wonder if he is a FRLG larper.
>>12385062>>12385085I don't know if the exact term is EV and IV but the concepts are similar. Not all monsters are born equals, some will have different starting stats at the same level, and experience from battle helps grow better stats. This was easy to figure out if you weren't retarded because there are two NPCs in the game that outright say this; and also you can figure it out just by looking at stats simply by comparing two of the same mons of the same level you caught and then comparing a mon you trained yourself to a higher level with the same one caught at that level; but somehow few players paid attention to this so I guess "I'm full of shit" because I wasn't retarded and paid attention to the game I was playing.
>>12372830I went through elementary in a low class neighborhood and kids were assaulting each other over pokemon games and cards. And not even to steal them, this one native american kid in my class hit another classmate in the head with a brick because the kid scammed the native in a Pokemon trade.I used to do some proto speedrunning and would trade starters to these poor kids for shit like video games they'd steal from wal mart. My friend got in on it with me and convinced his parents to buy him both red and blue and we used his blue cartridge as a storage unit to hold all the starters we were grinding out. I'd borrow his game boy and would stay up all night just filling it up with starters and then the next day we'd meet up with these kids under a piss smelling overpass on the way to our school and trade our starters for shit like Rainbow Six and Deer Hunter and other 90s computer games they heisted from walmart the day before.It was a very odd time that kids will never experience ever again.
HEY POKEMON, HEY POKEMONMONSTER FRIENDS TO THE BOYS AND GIRLSHEY POKEMON, HEY POKEMONCHAMPIONS OF THE POCKETAL WORLDHEY POKEMON, HEY POKEMONTHE ULTIMATE FRIENDS TO THE BOYS AND GIRLSHEY POKEMON, HEY POKEMONCHAMPIONS OF THE POCKETAL WORLD
>>12371303The older I get the more I appreciate my parents setting hard limits on my Pokemania and on video games and TV in general. I resented their strict rules at the time, but now I realize that they saved me from becoming some kind of Chris Chan-type guy. Pokemon was the original consumerist brainrot and anyone over the age of 10 who actively engages with it for anything other than a brief nostalgia trip is an actual faggot and probably a child predator. The games are either baby's first RPG or literal shovelware designed to scam kids out of their birthday money. The card game is dumbed-down Magic: The Gathering with lame art. The TV show is bad even for a kid's cartoon meant to sell toys. The whole thing was basically like Furbies or Beanie Babies or baseball cards, but instead of just trying to sell you one set of pointless junk, the wily orientals figured out that they could trap you into an entire ecosystem of mindless consumerism.
>>12385129>>12385302The schools that banned Pokemon did the right thing.
>>12385085>makes you wonderNah. It's obvious.
>>12371303It's still awesome now anon.
>>12385302the "wily orientals" didn't invent that merch system though but they definitely perfected it. it started with bands and movies in the late 70s into the 80s. I think Star Wars really pioneered it but Kiss had some crazy merchandising stuff too, get the action figures, watch the TV special, arcade or pinball games, and then of course, go watch the movie again (or the concert/buy the records). there were Star Wars Topps trading cards like the original Pokemon cards (before the Wizards of the Coast card game launched)I want to say Aerosmith did a similar thing, and then in the 80s a lot of American brands were doing that. He-man, GI Joe, they had the actual action figures and then the cartoons, and other random toys and shit. COMIC BOOKS. I had a Power Rangers bed set and went to see the terrifying live show as a kid. Had the action figures, watched the TV show religiously, had the game boy game (it sucked). the Japs went all out and it became the biggest brand in the world with Pokemon. as long as they don't rearm themselves, let em go ham with it
>>12382194Is that real? That's fucking crazy
>>12371303It was cool, even in my shitty backwater school there was a brief moment of pokemania where all the boys were into the games and cards.Personally I tapped out at silver/gold. I don't really have any meaningful criticism since it was decades ago, but I guess it was just more of the same and I already had my fill.
>>12371303Didn't know shit, had no friends with gameboys, solo'd half of Johto with water starter, never figured out I was supposed to go back to the radio tower, never beat the game.
>>12387446very interesting anon. how would you feel if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning?
>>12385302unc u ok?
I had only played megadrive on this big crt TV in my room, and it had to go off at night. The Gameboy colour made the game experience completely new, I could go on this quest throughout a whole world that fit in the palm of your hand, and a combination of this and the mysteries and urban legends we all heard about the game, the physical representation of the cards that came later, I can't really explain but it was like a true augmented reality experience, like anon sad the world felt similar to ours. The fucking movie, the events. The TV show that looked so different to Western shows. It was an incredible time. The game continued outside the game, it came out of the room with you. Even today I think they're still flumoxxed as to how to replicate this kind of thing.It was ironic that it wasn't seen as some nerdy thing either, yet now if you play Pokémon there's probably a stigma like why haven't you grown up.
one thing that was cool about it is that everyone (at school) was into itIt was a cultural phenomenonThe game itself felt so mysterious. Like, you'd go into caves not having any idea of what you'd find
>>12387580Yep. The Flash mechanic also made it more rewarding to explore them
>meh
>>12372432>It was "special" because of ... the Pokerap>not so much the gamesYeah a corny novelty rap song that only American millennials know about was bigger than the games. Easily the most retarded post ITT.
>>12371303Gen 1 was amazing & 2 was glorious. We really enjoyed the simpler things in life back those days like naming my Diglett Nigglett then went and evolved into Nuggtrio.
>>12387638pokerap unironically has more influence with normalfags today than playing baby's first rpg
>>12387665ok
>>12387580>everyone (at school) was into itno they weren't>cultural phenomenonthe anime was, the games not really>The game itself felt so mysteriousthe environment was supposed to feel like real life, what does this even mean>you'd go into caves not having any idea of what you'd find???>>12387583>Flash mechanic>themyou mean for the single cave that allowed you to use it? the fuck are you talking aboutyou fags don't remember shit or are zoomer posers
>>12387667Back to prison with you, Casey.
I can't even remember how everyone heard about Pokemon before the game and anime came out. It just felt like we were all suddenly hyped for it out of nowhere.I remember getting ahold of a booklet that had info on Pokemon before the game or anime were out, including a comic that depicted the events of the first episode of the anime. Except Ash was named Alex. I always wondered if that was originally going to be his localized name or if whoever translated the booklet for Western markets were just making shit up.
>>12387641I also named Geodude DUDE.
>>12387675>no they weren't>>cultural phenomenon>the anime was, the games not reallyYou weren't there. Or maybe you were a 3rd Worlder. In the 1st World everyone had Red or Blue.
>Errmmm ACHUALLY Pokemon wasn't a pop cultural phenomenon, nobody played the games we just listened to the PokerapWhat is this fake retarded narrative being pushed in this thread?>baby's first RPGAh it's this guy trying something new.
>>12387693No they didn't, you weren't there. More people watched the anime or collected cards than played the games. Or more specifically, bullied them and stole them from each other. Actually even more realistically, it was banned altogether during school.>>12387698The anime had more influence. Sorry you weren't there.
>>12387704Sorry you grew up in a slum and having to eat pagpag and chased rats for entertainment.I grew up in a first world country where we had video games.
>>12387704i distinctly remember the card "black market" because my elementary school banned them and the other kids rioted lmao
>>12387684I think the anime cartoon TV show came out first in America didnt it or was it the games that came out later? All I remember is the 1998 KFC and later Burger King toys was the first time I discovered Pokemon introduced to me and it got me hyped as a kid.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akb6WXKslzohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1o7XmUJ0s4
>>12387714You're a retard.>>12387721I remember we'd trade the Lunchables cards instead. Collect all 36 for a N64 or some shit.
>>12387730The English dub of ep 1 of the anime came out like 3 weeks earlier than the games.
>>12387732those lunchable little cut out cards were hilarious. I remember having the game and seeing a couple episodes of the cartoon but then one my neighbors asked if I had any Pokemon cards and I said yeah! and went home and got my handful of cut out lunchable cards and she (was a tom boy) was like no THESE are Pokemon cards. and thats how I got introduced to the wizards of the coast real Pokemon TCG which then became bigger than the games for the time being.
>>12374874>You will never understand thoughkek you are a low IQ retard.
>>12371303>cool, I didn't know there was a Pokemon tetris. Where's pikachu?
super fun. one of a kind. i looked forwardd to its release. monsters , rpg, lite quests. i guess grinding to the unknown of who had what abilities. plus being it was well for me. at that stage. i would pour thru magazines for insights. my other fav at the time. for gb. that zelda game. sheesh. , plus the link cable. contact to others. i only used it before for tetris. was fun. but moved on as pc after had awesome games at the time. still i remember being an outcast at highschool rocking my pokemon when i could at school. or at least. felt weird. no one else was doing that. kind of nerdism ? heheheehe. thanks for listening to my story. game faqs i guess? ! bammmm !!!
Similar to pokemon go craze but bigger, longer and souler
>>12371303We spent all day every day gooning to Jynx. It was the first time I ever saw a black woman in the wild. Before that I had only seen them in cages.
>>12371303I played it when I was too old on a brand new ultra-cheap B&W gameboy bought exclusively to play what I had heard was a Japanese fad game some time in '99. I had played Tetris and the gameboy mario game in like 1990 and never touched a gameboy after that. It was kinda "refreshing" to play such an easy self-driven JRPG. I missed out on all the kindergarten rumors kind of mid-late millennial Pokemon life and I watched 2-3 episodes of the cartoon.
>>12371303it was coolmy parents did not appreciate having to buy AA batteries for three pokemon-playing kids though.
>>12392010what versions did you and your 2 siblings get? I assume you guys had the link cable had a lot of fun with it.I just finished a "rom hack" based on the American blue version (the standard one we had) but with different quality of life features like quick healing at poke center, B dash, trade Evo's evolve at level 37, a couple more effective dragon, bug and ghost type moves that dont just deal static damage + Mew under the truck. but it kind of sucked they changed some Pokemon like doduo to flying/ground. victrebell was grass/dragon voltorb was electric/fire. kind of too much changes in my opinion. and added some new areas that are pretty hacky. its the Pokemon pure RGB this was the green one made me appreciate the original janky games with the mew glitch in cerulean city. Now I just want to replay original red or yellow version.
>>12387730>>12387739>3 weeksIt's funny how the anime started airing in the US just a few weeks before the games came out, since as a kid, those three weeks felt like a lot more time than just three weeks.
>>12392150to me as a kid that time between my grandma getting the toys r US promo tape, first seeing my neighborhood friends playing the gameboy games, seeing the actual cartoon and getting my own copy of the game, to getting the first Pokemon cards all seemed like an eternity and it was all in less than a year. Pokemon yellow was 13 months after the original game launch and felt way longer than a year and Gold/Silver's launch autumn 2000 was like an entire eternity away. I actually remember not liking Pokemon for awhile in 2000 and then getting back into it hard core when gold/silver launched and then by summer 2001 it was gay baby stuff
Misty's thighs
>>12371303It was amazing. I played for around 11 hours straight on the first day I got it.
>>12392135RB, then the one who wasn't into pokemon at first got yellow. filled out our pokedexes trading with each other, went on to silver and gold and then lost interest in the series when the GBA came.come to think of it, the nicest thing that i feel is completely gone in modern handhelds is that the game boy is a very outdoors-friendly system. games are quick to pick up and put down, the screen is great in sunlight and overheating isn't an issue.a lot of memories of going out in the woods, to the beach, camping and such and playing game boy during off time after tiring ourselves out.also they're really sturdy. after getting a GBA, i got curious one day and threw my GBC over our house to the other side to see if it would survive. only damage was that the batteries had jumped out from the landing.
>>12392593yeah I tried to play a gameboy pocket I some how ended up with recently and it was impossible to see with my normal bed side lamp. although we definitely played at night it was mostly during the day with the sunlight. those worm light things really sucked and I still remember not really using it
>>12387456But it's not morning
>>12392556Chad
I remember playing the game and talking on the phone with my friend while he was also playing the game and we would just talk about what we were doing in the game, sharing thoughts and tips about the game. I remember sometimes we did this for hours, which at some point I just spaced out and wasn't paying attention to what he was saying anymore, like it would just be random white noise with random pokemon words, "bla bla bla so I kept training my hitmonlee bla bla bla and the I used the TM on golem bla bla bla"It was comfy and overall a soulful experience that I don't think could be replicated today, kids only talk while playing if it's multiplayer co-op, not while they play single player unless it's some streamer talking with "chat"
>>12395880>we as 1999 kiddies invented talking about what we're doing on the phone with each other>zoomzooms doing the same thing but on discord and streaming their gameplay with each other? t-they're totally missing out on the phone call guyslol
>>12395880The streamer experience is basically a hollow imitation of how kids would gather at somebody's house to take turns playing and watching a single player game while talking about whatever.
>>12395880You would've had a point if you were both physically together. Your boomer parents would've complained about their kids never going out of the house like they did back then. If anything, you started this trend.
>>12396090chat is this real?
>>12375525you're in a retro gaming thread hating on retro graphics? lol. lmao even.
>>12397074For most of neo-/vr/, retro starts in the year 2000. Anything prior is unplayable unc caveman stuff
I was really into pokemon. I cannot believe how much I played that game. I stil lfeel betrayed by the anime to this day for cutting the episode where Ash catches Tauros in the Safari Zone and for saying to use a ghost on sabrina. I went out of my way to get a ghost type and tried to train it. Lick didn't work on psychic types. I was so upset. Then on top of that, the poison type made my haunter weak to psychic. I know I didn't struggle against it cause my snorlax tanked everything. I remember my Venusaur and Snorlax were both level 60+ by the time I found mewtwo. I grinded them out to 100, no rare candy glitch. Then I found that, and oh boy did I have even more fun.
>>12397201>Lick didn't work on psychic types. I don't understand why they decided to fix this bug in later versions, instead of just rolling with it.
>>12387425It's particularly fucking crazy because Nintendo Power had already been hyping the game for months before its release. They sent out VHS tapes with previews for the game, the anime, and all the toys that were coming. They were basically dedicating a whole section of the magazine to Pokemon hype every month, so it's not like the game was an unplanned success and the review happened in a vacuum. They knew Nintendo was trying to make this the "next big thing", and they still came down on it impartially, almost like there was a memo they didn't get.But in retrospect, it's really fine. They were grading the game objectively, but the Pokemon phenomenon was and still is something that transcends the quality of the games themselves. I think the editors at NP were just smart enough to know that it was going to take off regardless of what number they wrote in the corner of that page, and they made a bold move to let their reviewers be honest.
>>12399404Probably what happened is the guy knew he was playing a game for kiddies, and he didn't wanna sound like he was too into it around the office
>>12399049and have psychic only be weak to bug? Are you nuts? It needed counters
>>12392496die immediately perv
>>12385302Makes me wonder if Pokemon is the reason I got so into video games
>>12379798Were the 90s the best time to be a kid?
>>12381828>I was the first to bring my GB to school and it was confiscated and my mother had to get it back. A few days later I brought it againThe fuck was your problem, dude?Just follow the rules.
>>12371303It was nice but I preferred the Digimon and Monster Rancher games. >>12371584Sort of had a similar experience I remember thinking wow this is cool because it is a JRPG but I wish I had a "real" one and then got IX and got completely hooked on it. Also Digimon World 2003 was the better option if you wanted "classic JRPG" and "monster raising"
>>12402070The very late 90's and 2000's were awesome. My first console was a PS1 also played things like WCIII and things like Tibia online. First game I ever played on a pc was THPS 2 (came preinstalled) and used the keyboard to play it and could never get past the second level lol I always felt sad for people that weren't allowed videogame consoles/not interested in videogames. Also had a lot of fun joining MMO guilds and always being the youngest member that spoke broken English.
>>12399404The gameplay isn't challenging and its fair to say as such. Curbing the hype I think was a good idea. It's a big deal, it's fun, but not hard.
>>12399816The scores along the right side with initials next to them are from other reviewers at the magazine. They ALL rated it about the same. What's actually happening here is that the NP reviewers were adults with adult taste trying to be impartial and despite it being an official Nintendo magazine no one was pressuring the reviewers into rating first party games higher than normal so they were permitted to simply be honest and this was the end result.
>>12402070No. Just look at those people now.
>>12402290Literally no one thinks millennials are a failed generation this is a forced narrative young salty zoomers are trying to push on this website rofl and lmao (these are terms invented by 90's children) faggot.
>>12402305boomers laugh at shitennials for being participation trophy babieszoomers laugh at shitennials for being cringe as fuck like paying millions for cardboardno one likes your baby bitch ass lmao
>>12402316>participation trophy babiesPeople used to say this but zoomers are the actual participation trophy generation. Boomers laugh at Zoomers for being literal 1984 wrongthink retards and christian antisemites.
>>12402862>christian antisemitesnot retro.
>>12402305Literally everyone knows millennials are a failed generation, even millennials. You've spent most of your lives imagining that you're great and all your shortcomings are the rest of the world fault. But by now even you realize you're losers with no future, even if your pathological narcissism prevents you from saying it out loud.
>>12385129>this one native american kid in my class hit another classmate in the head with a brick because the kid scammed the native in a Pokemon trade.What the fuck...
>>12371318Fpbp
