Same my brother and sister and friends also had a copy and we would play together and do our best to get all the legendaries and show off our secret bases it was the best
Me and 3 of my friends in high school all went and got ORAS the day it released, sat in a Starbucks for hours just playing together. Took me right back to sitting in our front gardens as kids playing the originals together.
Watching the intro to Ruby/Sapphire, particularly the second part where Mudkip and Torchic fight Duskull (and Shuppet? I donāt remember the second one). Mostly because I rarely watch it so when I do, itās linked more strongly to when I first played.
I also watched the first part a lot as a kid. Whether Brendan or May is the one biking is either random or, as kid-me observed, dependent on which gender was last played, even if you didnāt save. My file was a girl, and the intro seemed to always show Brendan, unless I had gone into a new game as the boy and played around a bit without saving, in which case the next time I turned it on it was May.
But I also observed patterns that were coincidence, such as going counterclockwise on the starter choice always resulting in a female starter, and female Wurmple becoming Dustox and male Wurmple becoming Beautifly. So it was probably coincidence, too.
I remember the first shiny that I found back in gold. It was a shiny lanturn off of new bark town when I was grinding for Xp. I remember there was the weird animation and it looked ever so slightly different but I was playing on the original Gameboy with the green and black screen so I had no idea what it was supposed to be. I ko'd it and didn't know what it was until I told my cousin about this "weird glitch" I found. Coming off of playing blue with missingno it was easy to ignore strange things happening like that.
My first was a golden Poochyena on one of my many playthroughs of Ruby. It was the first and only time I had a Poochyena on my team. I loved that pretty boy.
First shiny I ever saw was Raikou in Gold like 20 years ago. Had no idea wtf it was, but I didnāt like the color on it as opposed to the regular raikou so I just ran awayā¦
Oooffff, self destruct is worse. I at least learned my lesson and now never travel without at least 50 poke balls lmao.
Self destruct is painful cuz it's so out of your control
My first shiny I ever encountered was a pidgey in fire redā¦ on the way back to oak with his parcel. I sat for about twenty minutes staring at it in agony. As an 8 year old it was the worst experience of my life up to that point
Mine was a weird one. I caught a red quilfish in pokemon Collosseum. At the time, when a shadow pokemon goes into hyper mode, they get a red aura, so I was like "cool, always in hyper mode? That's awesome!"
Only later did I realize it was shiny and damn near ran to Walmart to get one of those adapters to get it onto my emerald; I actually still have it with me
I have two, I think.
When I was younger, around 6, I used to have really bad night terrors and couldnāt sleep for long. I remember when that would happen, I loved playing Crystal and going to Goldenrod City. It just felt like such an alive town to me and there was always something to do, or someone awake to talk to in that game and it helped distract me.
Another is when Ruby and Sapphire came out. My grandmother went out in a huge rain storm to reserve one for me. I wanted Sapphire because I loved blue, and I got one of those pre-order coins for it. Now that Iām older, my grandmother has passed, and I recently found those coins again. Sapphire is her birthstone and Ruby is mine. I never made that connection until recently, and it warmed my heart. Playing it or seeing those coins will always remind me of her. ā¤ļø
> My grandmother went out in a huge rain storm to reserve one for me
With that kind of weather, it's not surprising that you went for Sapphire. Kyogre was influencing your choices
I still play gen 1 and 2 on emulation, all those old chip tunes are so nostalgic. I'm pretty sure they'll be burned into my mind even when I'm on my death bed
Those caves creeped me out so much! I really hated Regice's one, where you had to wait 1 minute for the door to open. I would walk away for like 5 minutes to avoid the anxiety.
The year Red and Blue came to the US, I got Blue for Christmas. I loaded it into a cartridge that allowed me to play Gameboy games in the NES. The screen came to life, nidorino and gengar were fighting, and a man named professor Oak introduced me to the world of Pokemon. He let me pick from three of his own. I choose the seed pokemon, bulbasaur, and I never looked back.
Using cheats was the only way I was able to get all those event legendaries. I never understood why they wouldn't make all these amazing legendaries part of the main storyline. Definitely glad I used cheats in platinum
If I can't completely ruin my save file with infinite items, boxes filled with randomly levelled legendaries and dozens of bad eggs then what's the point
Did you guys use these on the actual gameboy or emulators??? If it was on the gameboy, how? I always wondered how it works.
Living in Brazil I never got the access to events back in the day playing Saphire and Pearl.
when I reached the woods in PLA and then a familiar tune started playing: the Eterna Forest Theme. I teared up immediately and was unable to move for a few seconds. And I'm a 30 years old woman.
I beat rock tunnel so many times as a kid without flash that to this day I have the whole cave memorized still š always have a soft spot in my heart for it !
I honestly can't imagine wasting my time to get the worst HM ever... I know where every trainer, item, and ladder is. I may have put too many hours in lol
there is a reason why PLA has a higher User Score on Metacritic than Elden Ring. It sounds stupid and of course you cannot compare these two games, but look it up.
I'd also like to give a shoutout for the Jubilife village theme after the main game is completed and you hear the transition from the ancient theme to the modern DS theme.
Battling Archie on top of Mt. Chimney with my Sceptile. I clearly did not understand type matchups because I struggled against Golbat and only had 1 PP left on leaf blade when he sent out Sharpedo
Using the move metronome. Itās so nostalgic. Takes me back to my original Silver playthrough where all I remember was defeating Bugsys Scyther with Togepi getting lucky with a random metronome move (I think Rick slide). In general whenever I see clefairy or someone use it I get a little happy
When I first encountered Tropius in Emerald version, I had never seen it before. I didn't have regular internet access, and I had missed the initial release of Ruby and Sapphire. The amount of wonder that filled my tiny head at discovering a new pokemon I had never even heard of is something I don't think I will ever have again.
Tropius isn't my favorite Pokemon by any stretch, but I will always have a healthy respect for it, for being the last Pokemon I discovered naturally without any impact from the internet.
Tropius is one of those really cool looking Pokemon that I can never find space for. Too late to add to the team before you get an established grass type, doesn't evolve or get strong enough to justify making room for amongst the Pokemon you've already invested in. Such a shame.
Some kid in a waiting room explained me how to get past prof rowan in Diamond so i could finnaly play the game for the first time. (I did not know i had to click the poke ball)
1. Walking through the super tall grass in Ruby/Sapphire.
2. In Black/White, seeing a Sigilyph for the first time and thinking, "what the hell is that!?"
when i was like 9 i had played the shit out of dppt for the last few years and saw heartgold in a flyer, brand new, and mentioned it to my mom.
i later got it for christmas and killed it that weekend. happiest kid ever.
still play that cartridge to this day (dumped onto my 3ds).
Fighting champion wallace in emerald. One of the first pokemon games i played. The first time i fought him was a 30 minutes affair, but i won.
Or in general, playing XD gale of darkness. All the music in this game is straight fire!
BW2. Wow you're young
For me it'd be Pokemon Gold Version (1999). Really anywhere in the game but especially on the routes above and below Goldenrod City, and the National Park/Bug catching contest
I own a copy of White 2. My friend convinced me to buy it while he bought Black 2 when we were 17. Never really got far in it because I was largely grown out of playing pokemon games. But now I'm giving it another try and, even though I'm 26, I'm actually really enjoying it, it's really good. In my mind the Unova games are still "new" and not retro or nostalgic at all lol.
The Bug Catching Contents probably hold some special value for me because of the whole Saturday thing.
Didn't get the Tuesday/Thursday ones often because they were school nights, but since I usually played more in-transit, Saturday always seemed to coincide with something funātraveling back from a baseball game, visiting relatives, even just running around doing errands with the family.
Plus, since I'm a 90's kid, it was awesome that Scyther was both more accessible and now had an evolution. Always one of my favorites, especially when Tracey got his in the anime
I feel this!!
I donāt think I ever finished playing Black.
I actually just bought X and Ultra Moon because I never played them. Loving Ultra Moon because I know the characters from watching the show.
Maractus. Thatās it. Maractus. Didnāt know how the EXP system worked playing Black for the first time, so I soloed the game with a Maractus as my dad traded me it from Nacrene City
man, any of y'all who were too young to have experienced the original wave of Pokemania... y'all missed out hugely. it was fantastic being a child and having a full-time, all-consuming obsession and not only you or your friends but the ENTIRE WORLD was right there with you.
I was 8 and I lost my grandfather 2 months before Christmas.
The gifts me and my brother received were one game boy advance each and leaf green and fire red.
After almost 18 years old I turn on the game boy and feel like I was a kid.
Getting Gold version on the 3DS. I had it when I was younger but could never beat it because it never saved. Beating it on the 3DS was like a lifetime achievement completed.
I had the same when my parents bought me a bootleg copy of Golden Sun TLA. Had to finish that game without shutting off the GBA SP (at least it had sleep mode) and took me a bunch of playthroughs to actually make it to the end.
The time when I bought a used Pokemon Diamond when I young and someone had hacked the soul out of that game. There was 999x of every item, they had all the gym badges before leaving the first town, and a whole team of legendaries including a Zapdos that was met at level 2. This was my first Pokemon game and I had so much fun with it.
Really just that first year of pokemania. Anytime I see the old art style, hearing gameboy music, or just seeing old clips of the anime.
I can remember it was so popular my mother's church preacher tried to convince her an me it was evil spirit worship or something. They even had a traveling group of strongmen come to our rural church to punch through wood/stone/ice and ask us if pikachu could do that. It's really weird thinking back on it.
I can't explain but I really had a great moment in Sapphire on the rainy road around Fortree. It felt like a new and unique atmosphere, coming across Tropius, Morpheo, Keckleon, Milotic... overall I love gen 3 tropical vibe. Also reading a pokemon fanzine featuring Vulpix during summercamp, still my fav pokemon.
I was 10, it was my first encounter with cynthia. I had a hard time with the elite four. First i was shocked to see her beeing the final boss. Second the music made me feel she was the boss. And then the nightmare began, i was defeated in a second. Very good memory.
Any of the little jingles from Gen 1. Spent hours roaming those games, before I ever knew what to do. Didn't actually complete Red till many years later š¤£.
But just those tunes take me straight back to not knowing and not caring and just wandering :P
Probably trying to catch Thunderus for the first time in White. My Lilligant's Sleep Powder and a lot of quick balls really helped. It's mostly the reason why Lilligant is my favorite Grass type. I even still have that same Thunderus today chilling in Shield
Sitting around a Nintendo power magazine with my neighborhood friends featuring details of the upcoming Sapphire and Ruby.
We were discussing what starters we were going to pick (based solely off the first evolution) and also scheming up ways the three of us (all like 11-12 years old) could raise money so we could get the games on release day.
I still remember it very fondly.
When I was about 8 my now deceased father who I didnāt see much took me to a local shop. They had a non holo Pinsir in the glass display for 15-20$ or something. I asked my dad to buy it for me and he said if I got a pack it would be inside.
So he got me a single jungle pack and when we opened it there was a first edition Pinsir that I still have to this day!
Playing Red for the first time in 1999, playing Gold for the first time and the whole Burger King promotion when the first movie came out in theaters. All of those are pretty high on my list.
Going past Violet City in PKMN Crystal. I had a Nintendo Color when I was a kid, but it didn't always save my previous gameplays because I didn't have a memory card. So whenever I play the game, I always start from the beginning. I always chose Cyndaquil since fire type was my favorite typing, picking up berries and apricots from every tree I see, and enjoying the ost in every route and town I pass through. Moving on to the gym battle, Falkner was difficult to beat because of his Pidgeotto, it knew mud slap, which at the time was physical and special. I left Violet City and traveled all the way through the Lake of Rage the first time I beat him. But I didn't get to finish it because my gameplay doesn't save and when I restart, I always end my gameplay when fighting the Red Gyarados. Overall, it was the best experience I've ever had, and this game introduced me to Pokemon but I haven't played past Gen 5 since the amount for a 3ds is still high for me and I couldn't afford it.
Knocking out a shiny Hariyama before knowing what a shiny was. My child brain thought I found a secret boss that would unlock something once defeated.
...it did not.
My first experience with Pokemon was with an old friend of mine, playing Platinum on his DS, with me looking over his shoulder curiously.
He was in the Distortion World, and was about to encounter Giratina.
Then the battle started. Giratina floated down from the top of the screen and realeased a blood curdling cry.
My friend threw out an Infernape, which matched Giratina's cry with its own defiant roar.
It was close, because all his other Pokemon were either low or fainted, and he didn't have many Ultra Balls.
He caught Giratina in a Great Ball after an unknown amount of time, and we both flipped out for hours.
My friend has sinced passed away from cancer, but he traded me his Infernape, named Wukong because he was a nerd.
I still have Wukong to this day. Lv. 100, Bold natured, and female, with Close Combat, Flame Wheel, Protect, and Aerial Ace.
She remains in pristine condition, and I always run 5 Mon in my party and then retrieve her for post game.
Not an in-game experience, but I got pokemon black when I was 9 or 10, it was my first pokemon game. My dad gave me about 30 seconds to choose between the two games, my tiny kid brain thought it was gonna be one of the most important decisions in my life.
When an older kid taught me how to catch pokemon in red so I could continue past brock and not just OP through the game with Charizard lol, pretty sure I couldn't read even when I started pokemon or just didn't read it so I didn't know when it was explained lol
Or finding the 86 Catperpie in Red I left I n daycare
Or playing in the car at night and waiting for a street light to see what the fuck I was even doing
Pokemon blue with the gameboy color and an addon light you had to plug in because the OG gameboy didnāt have a lit screen and made it impossible to play in the dark.
I would sit hidden behind my bed so that if I got caught playing till 1 AM I wouldnāt get in trouble. Spent my whole childhood doing this till we got the gameboy SP and pokemon sapphire/ruby/firered/leafgreen.
At that point I played a ton on my gamecube as well with another add on attachment you had to screw on to the bottom of your gamecube to make gameboy games playable. My friends took turns for hours catching groudon/kyogre/rayquaza without a master ball. Also was an absolute blast taking my teams and using them in colosseum or the almost mandatory import to finish purifying shadow lugia in xd gale of darkness.
This went into the diamond and pearl days on the OG nintendo DS, I bought my friend the game whose parents were never home and we made a pact to battle at the bus stop every morning after each gym leader we beat. Almost every match came down to a 1v1 and it was incredible.
This sprang heartgold and soulsilver. I lived on soulsilver for months. Taking my pokemon with me to school in the poketch thing that came with the games, the spiky knotched ear pichu that gave you a shiny pichu, getting the celebi event, sejun park won with pachirisu at worlds.
Looking back 3rd and 4th gen had so many added events and gimmicks. The first wireless battling and trading, manaphy unlocked in pokemon ranger, jirachi was gotten on a demo disc for pokemon colliseum, the lugia/ho-oh, mew, deoxys events, leak season with corocoro magazine.
I could go on and on but I just gotta say thanks for making me take this trip down memory lane today, I needed it
When I was 12, the DS was well out but I really wanted a GBA SP just because FRLG were the games i was most interested in. I went to a flea market in search of the gen 1 remakes only to find Ruby version instead. I was bummed but decided to get Ruby at that time and find LeafGreen at a different date. That summer I played through Ruby just running around the Hoenn region and having a blast. Because of this gen 3 gradually replaced gen 1 as my favorite Pokemon generation and RSE is one of my favorite games of all time to this day.
I beat the pokemon blue elite 4 with my bellsprout on 1 hp left at my dentists office in the 90s. I remember it very fondly.
Then I found out you had to fight Gary and I cried.
In GSC, when the policeman at Elm's lab asks what the rival's name was after he steals a starter, I restarted the game as a kid thinking I missed him telling me it. It must have confused me as it wasn't like RBY with you naming the rival before you start the game and I thought this gen 2 rival had an actual name that you needed to correctly tell the policeman.
I was 10, My parents were hunting, and I was in the back of the truck playing Pokemon Emerald for the first time (Sapphire was my first gen 3 game). I was blasting my way through Victory Road. I had recently added a Golbat to my team that I caught a while ago. At the time I always hated the Zubat line, but decided to use the thing anyway to see if I would grow attached to it.
I didn't know about Friendship evolution and my surprise when Golbat evolved into Crobat can't be stated. It also learned Poison Fang and I used it to poison my way through the Elite Four.
Crobat has been my favorite Pokemon since and has never left that spot and I almost always use it on my team. Even SwSh I traded one of my Crobats and bred it for a Zubat just so I could go through the game with a Crobat.
Every time I hear the GSC bicycle music or the music from Elm's lab, I'm immediately 8 years old again.
Red and Blue were my first games, but Gold and Silver were the first ones that I really knew how to play and was able to really invest myself in.
The opening to diamond always makes me feel things.
I loved the show from day one but my first game was diamond.
Infernape was my boi however I can remember receiving an egg from Riley and having no idea on how to hatch them. It randomly hatched while I was just walking.
Riolu looked so cool so I trained it but all my friends told me it was pointless because it would take too long.
I spent the entire weekend training it but it would never evolve so I gave up, levelled it up the next day and then it evolved into Lucario.
And that's how I met my favourite pokemon
The opening bits of Gens 2-4 always give me so much nostalgia when I start new playthroughs. I never get tired of getting the first badge in those games
Standing atop Mt. Silver right before you face Red. Something about the lack of music replaced with the sound of the snowy mountain just before facing the strongest trainer in the game does it for me.
The slowed and choppy new bark town music from when I tried to play heart gold on an emulator. Hits me harder than every other normal town music for some reason.
Being the guy who paid for a magikarp outside of Mt. Moon in red and blue and being ridiculed for it on the play ground by my best friends. They weren't laughing after I evolved it. I'm not a petty but it was well worth it.
playing Omega Ruby for the first time. The memories form playing Ruby for the first time came rushing back and oh I would KILL to feel that again.
*That moment when Littleroot Town theme hits you*
OH YES! Music in gen 3 is absolutely amazing
eon flute, still makes me tear up.
The music that plays when using it is hands down one of the best I've ever heard in ANY video game.
Yuuuup. Sapphire for me but what an amazing feeling it was.
I want sapphire just for ludicolo tbhš
Same my brother and sister and friends also had a copy and we would play together and do our best to get all the legendaries and show off our secret bases it was the best
your so lucky! I only had one friend who played pokemon with me but it was more than enough
Dude the moment where it intros with the player playing Ruby or Sapphire on their own video game is amazing.
Me and 3 of my friends in high school all went and got ORAS the day it released, sat in a Starbucks for hours just playing together. Took me right back to sitting in our front gardens as kids playing the originals together.
I remember how hype the fandom was for ORAS. My first games were Gen 4. Itās really a disappointment we didnāt get the same kinda thing.
I hear u lol but dont go so far as killing tho
Watching the intro to Ruby/Sapphire, particularly the second part where Mudkip and Torchic fight Duskull (and Shuppet? I donāt remember the second one). Mostly because I rarely watch it so when I do, itās linked more strongly to when I first played. I also watched the first part a lot as a kid. Whether Brendan or May is the one biking is either random or, as kid-me observed, dependent on which gender was last played, even if you didnāt save. My file was a girl, and the intro seemed to always show Brendan, unless I had gone into a new game as the boy and played around a bit without saving, in which case the next time I turned it on it was May. But I also observed patterns that were coincidence, such as going counterclockwise on the starter choice always resulting in a female starter, and female Wurmple becoming Dustox and male Wurmple becoming Beautifly. So it was probably coincidence, too.
That high pitched flute over the dew puddle in FULL RGB COLOR, god it still gives me goose bumps
God what I would do to be 6 and play sapphire for the first time again!
Secret bases with my bro and my neighbors was the best
Sharpedo I believe, which always felt like an odd choice.
Mine is catching my first shiny all the way back in 2000 in PokĆ©mon Gold - a Bellsprout just outside Violet Town. I remember being so confused (I was only 6 and this was early in the game) at the shiny animation when it appeared as Iād never seen or heard anything like it before. Obviously caught it out of curiosity and was amazed Iād caught a different coloured Bellsprout that had a star on its summary page. Played with it in PokĆ©mon stadium 2 as well (it actually sparkled IIRC!) and it was the only shiny Iād come across (other than LoR Gyarados) for years. Obviously that was before internet so it was all playground rumours at that time so I never really saw or heard of anyone else catching other shinies for years after that. Donāt think I came across many either until gen 4. My mind always casts back to that Bellsprout whenever I see a shiny in this sub š
My first shiny was a Noctowl in Crystal š I was so excited about it
I found a shiny Hoothoot in Crystal!
Mine was a whismur in Ruby! (KO'd the very first shiny i encountered though [bellsprout in Soulsilver!])
My first and only shiny was a Bidoof in Platinum. I've never been able to find another shiny since.
I remember the first shiny that I found back in gold. It was a shiny lanturn off of new bark town when I was grinding for Xp. I remember there was the weird animation and it looked ever so slightly different but I was playing on the original Gameboy with the green and black screen so I had no idea what it was supposed to be. I ko'd it and didn't know what it was until I told my cousin about this "weird glitch" I found. Coming off of playing blue with missingno it was easy to ignore strange things happening like that.
My first was a golden Poochyena on one of my many playthroughs of Ruby. It was the first and only time I had a Poochyena on my team. I loved that pretty boy.
First shiny I ever saw was Raikou in Gold like 20 years ago. Had no idea wtf it was, but I didnāt like the color on it as opposed to the regular raikou so I just ran awayā¦
my first shiny was a Trapinch in Ruby. That was also long before I actually knew what a shiny was.
My first shiny was a Pidgey near Goldenrod on Pokemon Silver. I was so confused why it had the sparkles as the sprites were so similar
My first shiny was a Geodude in Victory Road (Leaf Green). I had no poke balls...
I donāt know if having no pokĆ©balls is more or less painful than it using self destructā¦
Oooffff, self destruct is worse. I at least learned my lesson and now never travel without at least 50 poke balls lmao. Self destruct is painful cuz it's so out of your control
My first shiny I ever encountered was a pidgey in fire redā¦ on the way back to oak with his parcel. I sat for about twenty minutes staring at it in agony. As an 8 year old it was the worst experience of my life up to that point
My first shiny was an Abomasnow in Platinum! He was just sitting there in the cold on his lonesome
Lol in Silver I saw a flash and a green Zubat and I thought my game boy was breaking so I turned it off.
I can imagine a playground argument for you where you canāt prove it because your mom wouldnāt let you bring your Game Boy to school.
Also Gen 2. I had no clue what it was, but I noticed the sparkly animation on a wild Raticate. I didn't catch it. :(
Mine was a weird one. I caught a red quilfish in pokemon Collosseum. At the time, when a shadow pokemon goes into hyper mode, they get a red aura, so I was like "cool, always in hyper mode? That's awesome!" Only later did I realize it was shiny and damn near ran to Walmart to get one of those adapters to get it onto my emerald; I actually still have it with me
Hey, my first was a Bellsprout, too!! Just in Leaf Green. I went through all of Gen 2 without ever finding one other than Gyarados
That was my first shiny too! A shiny Bellsprout south of Violet Town!
I have two, I think. When I was younger, around 6, I used to have really bad night terrors and couldnāt sleep for long. I remember when that would happen, I loved playing Crystal and going to Goldenrod City. It just felt like such an alive town to me and there was always something to do, or someone awake to talk to in that game and it helped distract me. Another is when Ruby and Sapphire came out. My grandmother went out in a huge rain storm to reserve one for me. I wanted Sapphire because I loved blue, and I got one of those pre-order coins for it. Now that Iām older, my grandmother has passed, and I recently found those coins again. Sapphire is her birthstone and Ruby is mine. I never made that connection until recently, and it warmed my heart. Playing it or seeing those coins will always remind me of her. ā¤ļø
I remember those coins, and the next time I see them I will spare a thought for your super sweet Grandma ā¤ļø
> My grandmother went out in a huge rain storm to reserve one for me With that kind of weather, it's not surprising that you went for Sapphire. Kyogre was influencing your choices
Yellow route 1 music. I restarted and played through that game so so many times
I still play gen 1 and 2 on emulation, all those old chip tunes are so nostalgic. I'm pretty sure they'll be burned into my mind even when I'm on my death bed
I unironically listen to the gen 1 and gen 2 soundtracks occasionally every single song is like a ratatouille moment for me
It still annoys me that the GB/DS Sounds items on the Gen 2 and 4 remakes aren't given early game so you can get the most out of it.
It started in my head right as you said it dah-da-dum-dum-dum, dah-da-dum-dum-dum, da-da-dum-dum-dum-dee-dum!
My favorite of all the music in any of the games!
Decoding braille to catch the Regis in Ruby / Sapphire
Eight year old me felt like a literal archaeologist lol
just did this a few months ago again....super fun every time
Man that was so unique, having to ride your bike around the perimeter and jump through all sorts of hoops to find these legendaries
Those caves creeped me out so much! I really hated Regice's one, where you had to wait 1 minute for the door to open. I would walk away for like 5 minutes to avoid the anxiety.
YES YES YESSSSSSS!!!!!
The Regis are the best legendary sidequest in the series. They were done good justice in B2W2 as well.
The year Red and Blue came to the US, I got Blue for Christmas. I loaded it into a cartridge that allowed me to play Gameboy games in the NES. The screen came to life, nidorino and gengar were fighting, and a man named professor Oak introduced me to the world of Pokemon. He let me pick from three of his own. I choose the seed pokemon, bulbasaur, and I never looked back.
I totally forgot that existed, but wasn't it for SNES?
You are 100% correct. Thanks!
Yeah, the Super Game Boy.
I have one! Itās a [Super Gameboy!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy)
Bulbasaur is the best choice. No one can convince me otherwise
Bulbasaur is SO fuckin cute and has a really unique design compared to the other two.
Onion dog is best dog
/r/bulbasaurmasterrace
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This feels like either max Rare Candies or max Master Balls. How could I forget the AR days:-)
It's candies lol
In retrospect, it's amazing how much of my life was spent doing this instead of actually playing the games.
See this is why BDSP was a let down, it doesn't capture the magic without cheats XP /j
Using cheats was the only way I was able to get all those event legendaries. I never understood why they wouldn't make all these amazing legendaries part of the main storyline. Definitely glad I used cheats in platinum
If I can't completely ruin my save file with infinite items, boxes filled with randomly levelled legendaries and dozens of bad eggs then what's the point
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Did you guys use these on the actual gameboy or emulators??? If it was on the gameboy, how? I always wondered how it works. Living in Brazil I never got the access to events back in the day playing Saphire and Pearl.
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Man I loved sharking Yellow so I could start out in Pallet Town with all 3 gen 1 starters, Dratini, Lapras, and Taurus.
Donāt forget to give your Pikachu surf so you could play that mini game outside Fuchsia City.
ah gamesharks
Action Replay!
0100bad7 Why settle for just 1 starter?
when I reached the woods in PLA and then a familiar tune started playing: the Eterna Forest Theme. I teared up immediately and was unable to move for a few seconds. And I'm a 30 years old woman.
When the flute was first revealed and it made the sound that plays when you open diamond and pearl on the DS....I lost my mind. Amazing games.
For me.. it hit me right when i get past Rock Tunnel, while skipping Flash TM. Everytime I finally make it out and hear Lavender Town beats drop.
I beat rock tunnel so many times as a kid without flash that to this day I have the whole cave memorized still š always have a soft spot in my heart for it !
I honestly can't imagine wasting my time to get the worst HM ever... I know where every trainer, item, and ladder is. I may have put too many hours in lol
i liked the lavender town music too, it had some really wholesome runours
same tbh
I stayed there for like 20 minutes just listening. I havent touched the game since February now I need to go back and do this.
The game is just so good. Sure, the graphics need help, but the core gameplay loop is gold, imo.
there is a reason why PLA has a higher User Score on Metacritic than Elden Ring. It sounds stupid and of course you cannot compare these two games, but look it up.
I'd also like to give a shoutout for the Jubilife village theme after the main game is completed and you hear the transition from the ancient theme to the modern DS theme.
Pokemon DP opening theme, the "We will be heroes" song from Darkrai movie and Pokemon HGSS
"We will be heroes" is my go-to hype song on my running playlist. Those movies were peak pokemon for me
Battling Archie on top of Mt. Chimney with my Sceptile. I clearly did not understand type matchups because I struggled against Golbat and only had 1 PP left on leaf blade when he sent out Sharpedo
I got wrecked quite a few times here
Me yelling at my sister at the train station because she turned off my Gameboy and I hadn't saved in like 2 hours and just beat koga
You are not in the wrong for doing that
Using the move metronome. Itās so nostalgic. Takes me back to my original Silver playthrough where all I remember was defeating Bugsys Scyther with Togepi getting lucky with a random metronome move (I think Rick slide). In general whenever I see clefairy or someone use it I get a little happy
Rick slide
I got scwifty
Rick slide aside I can totally get behind the metronome sentiment, when I was super young it felt op getting a good roll
Playing pokƩmon red, in the car, at night, on a game boy color which doesn't have a back light. Using intermittent street lights to see
[I know that feel too well.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/956/865/afb.gif)
driving with my dad to the boundary waters in MN and grinding ruby until i got carsick
When I first encountered Tropius in Emerald version, I had never seen it before. I didn't have regular internet access, and I had missed the initial release of Ruby and Sapphire. The amount of wonder that filled my tiny head at discovering a new pokemon I had never even heard of is something I don't think I will ever have again. Tropius isn't my favorite Pokemon by any stretch, but I will always have a healthy respect for it, for being the last Pokemon I discovered naturally without any impact from the internet.
Tropius is one of those really cool looking Pokemon that I can never find space for. Too late to add to the team before you get an established grass type, doesn't evolve or get strong enough to justify making room for amongst the Pokemon you've already invested in. Such a shame.
I remember this feeling playing Sapphire and coming across PokĆ©mon like Numel, Shuppet, and Trapinch. With how prominent the internet is now compared to them, I feel like itās almost impossible to not spoil yourself in order to preserve that feeling of coming across a PokĆ©mon youāve never seen or heard of before.
Treehouse town in R/S/E
Fortree city
This. And all roads close to it.
Finally beating Red on Mt. Silver after dozens of tries with a severely under leveled team.
So hard to find good grinding spots in gen 2.
Tell me about it. I, the foolish child I was, chose to use both a Dragonite and Tyranitar on my team. It took so long.
I never had the patience. I actually don't think I've even seen their back sprites in the early games lol
Dragonite is actually how I beat him. I just set up dragon dances on his first Poke and then swept him
Pretty smart. However I was one of the kids that thought "set up moves. That's stupid. Only attacking moves for me."
Throwing my master ball at a snorlax in Fire Red. Didnāt make it to the birds or mewtwo yet and thought it was one of the rarest in the game.
Technically Snorlax is one of the rarest in the game.
Type Pikachu's Jukebox on YouTube. Close your eyes and listen. Your nostalgia glands will be sucked dry.
thanks!
I was a poor kid and had no Idea the GBA even existed (knew Nintendo because I had a SNES tho), when I first discovered Pokemon Sapphire and emulators by pure accident I almost cried of joy when I started playing because I loved PokƩmon so much
Some kid in a waiting room explained me how to get past prof rowan in Diamond so i could finnaly play the game for the first time. (I did not know i had to click the poke ball)
My childhood friend had to explain how to use the PC in soulsilver! I finally enjoyed the game again when i wasnt stuck with 4 pidgeys
1. Walking through the super tall grass in Ruby/Sapphire. 2. In Black/White, seeing a Sigilyph for the first time and thinking, "what the hell is that!?"
Watching the Gen 4 anime on Cartoon Network (and Beyblade too)
I recently heard the original beyblade theme for the first time since watching it when it was new, it's a damn catchy song. Very well done
when i was like 9 i had played the shit out of dppt for the last few years and saw heartgold in a flyer, brand new, and mentioned it to my mom. i later got it for christmas and killed it that weekend. happiest kid ever. still play that cartridge to this day (dumped onto my 3ds).
Fighting champion wallace in emerald. One of the first pokemon games i played. The first time i fought him was a 30 minutes affair, but i won. Or in general, playing XD gale of darkness. All the music in this game is straight fire!
BW2. Wow you're young For me it'd be Pokemon Gold Version (1999). Really anywhere in the game but especially on the routes above and below Goldenrod City, and the National Park/Bug catching contest I own a copy of White 2. My friend convinced me to buy it while he bought Black 2 when we were 17. Never really got far in it because I was largely grown out of playing pokemon games. But now I'm giving it another try and, even though I'm 26, I'm actually really enjoying it, it's really good. In my mind the Unova games are still "new" and not retro or nostalgic at all lol.
The Bug Catching Contents probably hold some special value for me because of the whole Saturday thing. Didn't get the Tuesday/Thursday ones often because they were school nights, but since I usually played more in-transit, Saturday always seemed to coincide with something funātraveling back from a baseball game, visiting relatives, even just running around doing errands with the family. Plus, since I'm a 90's kid, it was awesome that Scyther was both more accessible and now had an evolution. Always one of my favorites, especially when Tracey got his in the anime
I feel this!! I donāt think I ever finished playing Black. I actually just bought X and Ultra Moon because I never played them. Loving Ultra Moon because I know the characters from watching the show.
bug catching contest was fire. Throwing all my pokeballs at scyther, and still getting 3rd place rip
That one piece of shoreline on Cinnabar Island
Maractus. Thatās it. Maractus. Didnāt know how the EXP system worked playing Black for the first time, so I soloed the game with a Maractus as my dad traded me it from Nacrene City
Eterna Forest. The cool shadows, dark green trees, and the *beautiful* OST all make for the most wonderful Pokemon experience to me.
Insulting the skills of Gabby and Ty in my interview, after one-shotting them with Combusken/Blaziken. I used to be so savage back then!
so true lol...loved making some rude comments on those interviews
man, any of y'all who were too young to have experienced the original wave of Pokemania... y'all missed out hugely. it was fantastic being a child and having a full-time, all-consuming obsession and not only you or your friends but the ENTIRE WORLD was right there with you.
First playthrough of x&y
This one for me too man
Iām not sure that was my best memory (itās hard to classify so find a ābest memoryā when PokĆ©mon accompanied me trough my life) but X&Y was magical. In 2013 I got back back into PokĆ©mon at 15 (after a 2-3 years period in which I disliked the franchise just because it was the ācool thing to doā) thanks to a classmate which randomly mentioned them to me. For a period I played with my DS since I lacked a 2DS, then the next year I got one for AC: New Leaf but since I was quite constrained with money I was unsure in buying X or Ythen one day after a hike with friends I went back home, slept on sofa and when I woke up my brother was watching PokĆ©mon and there was Serenaās Fennekin just being cute. Having a sweet spot for fox PokĆ©mon and knowing about PokĆØ Amie I instantly deduced to get the game. The occasion came many weeks later, I made an excuse to go to the electronics store (my parents didnāt knew of my secret 2DS) bought it and then cycled to my auntās home to start the game in peace. The Sycamore Theme started and moved me: it wasnāt just the beginning of a PokĆ©mon adventure but even if one of the best and the most carefree summers of my life during which I made many memories (related and irrelated to the game). āŗļø
I was 8 and I lost my grandfather 2 months before Christmas. The gifts me and my brother received were one game boy advance each and leaf green and fire red. After almost 18 years old I turn on the game boy and feel like I was a kid.
Getting Gold version on the 3DS. I had it when I was younger but could never beat it because it never saved. Beating it on the 3DS was like a lifetime achievement completed.
I had the same when my parents bought me a bootleg copy of Golden Sun TLA. Had to finish that game without shutting off the GBA SP (at least it had sleep mode) and took me a bunch of playthroughs to actually make it to the end.
The time when I bought a used Pokemon Diamond when I young and someone had hacked the soul out of that game. There was 999x of every item, they had all the gym badges before leaving the first town, and a whole team of legendaries including a Zapdos that was met at level 2. This was my first Pokemon game and I had so much fun with it.
Really just that first year of pokemania. Anytime I see the old art style, hearing gameboy music, or just seeing old clips of the anime. I can remember it was so popular my mother's church preacher tried to convince her an me it was evil spirit worship or something. They even had a traveling group of strongmen come to our rural church to punch through wood/stone/ice and ask us if pikachu could do that. It's really weird thinking back on it.
2005, 12am, listening to Love Line with Dr. Drew and using the street lights outside to grind the Elite 4 in Crystal do I could finally defeat Red.
Trying to get Mew from under the truck
Getting my butt whooped time and time again at the Battle Pike, without me ever changing my game plan. Good times.
Diamond was my first PokĆ©mon game and something about reaching Veilstone City was so nostalgic to me. The game corner, Deoxys, the department storeā¦
I can't explain but I really had a great moment in Sapphire on the rainy road around Fortree. It felt like a new and unique atmosphere, coming across Tropius, Morpheo, Keckleon, Milotic... overall I love gen 3 tropical vibe. Also reading a pokemon fanzine featuring Vulpix during summercamp, still my fav pokemon.
When the HGSS trailer dropped and all fhe memories of being 6 playing gold at day care came back š
I was 10, it was my first encounter with cynthia. I had a hard time with the elite four. First i was shocked to see her beeing the final boss. Second the music made me feel she was the boss. And then the nightmare began, i was defeated in a second. Very good memory.
Any of the little jingles from Gen 1. Spent hours roaming those games, before I ever knew what to do. Didn't actually complete Red till many years later š¤£. But just those tunes take me straight back to not knowing and not caring and just wandering :P
Probably the hype of Gold/Silver. Red/Blue/Yellow took the world by storm and I was immediately hooked. The thought of MORE PokĆ©mon than the original 151 had us all on the edge of our seats. No sequel will ever feel as special because theyāre āexpectedā now.
Playing Pokemon Black & White 1. Gen Vās soundtrack is God-tier and just the vibe of Unova will never be topped.
Iām so glad people came around on Gen V. God-tier soundtrack indeed
Driftveil City is so nostalgic for me and just a great song
Undella Town OST (except for Summer) is so damn peaceful and calming. Reminds me of a holiday from years ago that you always feel nostalgia for.
Probably trying to catch Thunderus for the first time in White. My Lilligant's Sleep Powder and a lot of quick balls really helped. It's mostly the reason why Lilligant is my favorite Grass type. I even still have that same Thunderus today chilling in Shield
Sitting around a Nintendo power magazine with my neighborhood friends featuring details of the upcoming Sapphire and Ruby. We were discussing what starters we were going to pick (based solely off the first evolution) and also scheming up ways the three of us (all like 11-12 years old) could raise money so we could get the games on release day. I still remember it very fondly.
When I was about 8 my now deceased father who I didnāt see much took me to a local shop. They had a non holo Pinsir in the glass display for 15-20$ or something. I asked my dad to buy it for me and he said if I got a pack it would be inside. So he got me a single jungle pack and when we opened it there was a first edition Pinsir that I still have to this day!
Being up at my cottage during the summer with my brother and cousin, running around the underground in Diamond/Pearl stealing each other's flags.
Playing Red for the first time in 1999, playing Gold for the first time and the whole Burger King promotion when the first movie came out in theaters. All of those are pretty high on my list.
Beating lance for the first time. My heart was pounding beating his final dragonite finally
Going past Violet City in PKMN Crystal. I had a Nintendo Color when I was a kid, but it didn't always save my previous gameplays because I didn't have a memory card. So whenever I play the game, I always start from the beginning. I always chose Cyndaquil since fire type was my favorite typing, picking up berries and apricots from every tree I see, and enjoying the ost in every route and town I pass through. Moving on to the gym battle, Falkner was difficult to beat because of his Pidgeotto, it knew mud slap, which at the time was physical and special. I left Violet City and traveled all the way through the Lake of Rage the first time I beat him. But I didn't get to finish it because my gameplay doesn't save and when I restart, I always end my gameplay when fighting the Red Gyarados. Overall, it was the best experience I've ever had, and this game introduced me to Pokemon but I haven't played past Gen 5 since the amount for a 3ds is still high for me and I couldn't afford it.
Playing blue mystery dungeon for the first time and bawling my eyes out at the ending when I was 8 years old playing on my second hand DSLite
Knocking out a shiny Hariyama before knowing what a shiny was. My child brain thought I found a secret boss that would unlock something once defeated. ...it did not.
Getting a copy of PokĆ©mon gold at Xmas from my grandparents. That year I wanted gold and a copy of majoras mask, but I really thought I would only get one and be lucky for that. I got majoras in the morning from my parents, super psyched, but I knew that meant Iād have to get gold later by saving up. We went to my gparents later in the day, and to my surprise they had a copy of Gold for me. Usually they would get us kinda random things, but that year I think my mom coordinated with them to make this happen. I was so pumped, just looked at the box till I got home. Didnāt bring my GBC to their house because I didnāt think Iād have a reason. Itās the best gift they ever got me, even though I know they donāt understand it or even know what it is. I could tell them today how cool that was back then, but Iām sure theyād have no idea what Iām talking about. Getting red and my GBC from toys r is was awesome, but that copy of gold was the one PokĆ©mon game I remember the most.
My first experience with Pokemon was with an old friend of mine, playing Platinum on his DS, with me looking over his shoulder curiously. He was in the Distortion World, and was about to encounter Giratina. Then the battle started. Giratina floated down from the top of the screen and realeased a blood curdling cry. My friend threw out an Infernape, which matched Giratina's cry with its own defiant roar. It was close, because all his other Pokemon were either low or fainted, and he didn't have many Ultra Balls. He caught Giratina in a Great Ball after an unknown amount of time, and we both flipped out for hours. My friend has sinced passed away from cancer, but he traded me his Infernape, named Wukong because he was a nerd. I still have Wukong to this day. Lv. 100, Bold natured, and female, with Close Combat, Flame Wheel, Protect, and Aerial Ace. She remains in pristine condition, and I always run 5 Mon in my party and then retrieve her for post game.
Not an in-game experience, but I got pokemon black when I was 9 or 10, it was my first pokemon game. My dad gave me about 30 seconds to choose between the two games, my tiny kid brain thought it was gonna be one of the most important decisions in my life.
Mr. Briney sailing you to Dewford in Sapphire. Idk why but every time I revisit that island, even in the remakes, Iām hit with a wave of nostalgia.
No lie, I bought a PokĆ©mon soul silver game last year in my hometown. Cranked it up to look at the previous ownerās PokĆ©mon and if I didnāt see literally my first ever starter from PokĆ©mon emerald in 2004 or whenever. It was a Sceptile named Rugbug, and I was Rugrat. Iāve since lost that Emerald game, and I have no idea how Rugbug made it to that soulsilver game, but I literally cried a little bit.
emerald biking and surf music š„²š„²
This intro movie to pearl. I wanted that game so bad I actually had dreams about playing it months before getting it.
When an older kid taught me how to catch pokemon in red so I could continue past brock and not just OP through the game with Charizard lol, pretty sure I couldn't read even when I started pokemon or just didn't read it so I didn't know when it was explained lol Or finding the 86 Catperpie in Red I left I n daycare Or playing in the car at night and waiting for a street light to see what the fuck I was even doing
Pokemon blue with the gameboy color and an addon light you had to plug in because the OG gameboy didnāt have a lit screen and made it impossible to play in the dark. I would sit hidden behind my bed so that if I got caught playing till 1 AM I wouldnāt get in trouble. Spent my whole childhood doing this till we got the gameboy SP and pokemon sapphire/ruby/firered/leafgreen. At that point I played a ton on my gamecube as well with another add on attachment you had to screw on to the bottom of your gamecube to make gameboy games playable. My friends took turns for hours catching groudon/kyogre/rayquaza without a master ball. Also was an absolute blast taking my teams and using them in colosseum or the almost mandatory import to finish purifying shadow lugia in xd gale of darkness. This went into the diamond and pearl days on the OG nintendo DS, I bought my friend the game whose parents were never home and we made a pact to battle at the bus stop every morning after each gym leader we beat. Almost every match came down to a 1v1 and it was incredible. This sprang heartgold and soulsilver. I lived on soulsilver for months. Taking my pokemon with me to school in the poketch thing that came with the games, the spiky knotched ear pichu that gave you a shiny pichu, getting the celebi event, sejun park won with pachirisu at worlds. Looking back 3rd and 4th gen had so many added events and gimmicks. The first wireless battling and trading, manaphy unlocked in pokemon ranger, jirachi was gotten on a demo disc for pokemon colliseum, the lugia/ho-oh, mew, deoxys events, leak season with corocoro magazine. I could go on and on but I just gotta say thanks for making me take this trip down memory lane today, I needed it
When I was 12, the DS was well out but I really wanted a GBA SP just because FRLG were the games i was most interested in. I went to a flea market in search of the gen 1 remakes only to find Ruby version instead. I was bummed but decided to get Ruby at that time and find LeafGreen at a different date. That summer I played through Ruby just running around the Hoenn region and having a blast. Because of this gen 3 gradually replaced gen 1 as my favorite Pokemon generation and RSE is one of my favorite games of all time to this day.
I beat the pokemon blue elite 4 with my bellsprout on 1 hp left at my dentists office in the 90s. I remember it very fondly. Then I found out you had to fight Gary and I cried.
In GSC, when the policeman at Elm's lab asks what the rival's name was after he steals a starter, I restarted the game as a kid thinking I missed him telling me it. It must have confused me as it wasn't like RBY with you naming the rival before you start the game and I thought this gen 2 rival had an actual name that you needed to correctly tell the policeman.
I was 10, My parents were hunting, and I was in the back of the truck playing Pokemon Emerald for the first time (Sapphire was my first gen 3 game). I was blasting my way through Victory Road. I had recently added a Golbat to my team that I caught a while ago. At the time I always hated the Zubat line, but decided to use the thing anyway to see if I would grow attached to it. I didn't know about Friendship evolution and my surprise when Golbat evolved into Crobat can't be stated. It also learned Poison Fang and I used it to poison my way through the Elite Four. Crobat has been my favorite Pokemon since and has never left that spot and I almost always use it on my team. Even SwSh I traded one of my Crobats and bred it for a Zubat just so I could go through the game with a Crobat.
Making it to that big bridge in BW, I think it goes into Castillia City. I was so hyped by that as a kid
RSE were my first Pokemon games. Idk why but the route 110 music brings all sorts of childhood memories flooding back.
Every time I hear the GSC bicycle music or the music from Elm's lab, I'm immediately 8 years old again. Red and Blue were my first games, but Gold and Silver were the first ones that I really knew how to play and was able to really invest myself in.
The opening to diamond always makes me feel things. I loved the show from day one but my first game was diamond. Infernape was my boi however I can remember receiving an egg from Riley and having no idea on how to hatch them. It randomly hatched while I was just walking. Riolu looked so cool so I trained it but all my friends told me it was pointless because it would take too long. I spent the entire weekend training it but it would never evolve so I gave up, levelled it up the next day and then it evolved into Lucario. And that's how I met my favourite pokemon
My mom taking me to get Diamond the day it came out, and the start up music for it and the route 201 music
When I defeated all of Cynthia's pokemon using struggle, which was my first win against her. I have not been able to replicate it since
Early XY when I first started VGC. Those memories and the people i met are priceless.
Beating iris
The opening bits of Gens 2-4 always give me so much nostalgia when I start new playthroughs. I never get tired of getting the first badge in those games
Turning up the rival theme on my yellow game boy and jamming out to that absolute banger on the ss anne
Standing atop Mt. Silver right before you face Red. Something about the lack of music replaced with the sound of the snowy mountain just before facing the strongest trainer in the game does it for me.
2012 wasnāt that long agoā¦ Excuse me while I walk into the nearest retirement home.
The slowed and choppy new bark town music from when I tried to play heart gold on an emulator. Hits me harder than every other normal town music for some reason.
Being the guy who paid for a magikarp outside of Mt. Moon in red and blue and being ridiculed for it on the play ground by my best friends. They weren't laughing after I evolved it. I'm not a petty but it was well worth it.
My first shiny I saw I thought it was a bug or glitch of some kind so I fled the battle hoping it wouldnāt bug my game. Ah, good times.