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Nostalgia in Pokémon Games

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I remember getting a Game Boy Colour and Red for Christmas, and playing it so much; by Christmas dinner, I had beaten Brock and was on Route 3, by the man who suggests saving. I remember thinking I couldn't save, because I didn't have a "Game Pak", whatever that is (:sweatdrop:), so I was worried, but I tried the save option and it worked fine.
 
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My first game was Yellow. I got for Christmas when I was like six. I had to get my dad to help me because I couldn't figure out how to get out of my house. After that I figured things out but never could beat the Elite Four. I remember I had this Pigetto that was like lv.77 or something that I had raised from like lv.3... I also remember that after about lv.35 or I just dumped Pikachu in a box and left it there.

Then in Crystal, I acidently named my rival '???' because that's what it said when you first meet him. Then the police person was asked what his name was so I was typed in '???' because that what I thought his name was...
 
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My first game ever was Sapphire.
Haha, I remember when I first turned on the game I was so excited. I watched through the whole intro sequence in awe. You know that Mudkip that uses a water attack in the intro? Well I thought that was Water Gun and when I finally saw that move in the game I was mad since it didn't have the same animation.
I figured out the controls with no problem, and played through the game until I was at Odale Town. Then I turned off the game without saving, since I didn't know you had to save before turning it off. When I turned it back on, I was sad that I had to start over, but since I wasn't that far in I wasn't too upset.
I didn't know how to catch wild Pokemon(Yeah, I know. I was pretty stupid on my first game). I only raised Torchic, my starter, until he was a Blaziken. When I finally learned the technique of throwing a Pokeball, I tried to catch a Trainer's Pokemon once.
You know the part of Cycling Road right next to the Trick House? Well I thought that you couldn't walk through that, so I vainly tried ways to get to the next city. I tried going on Cycling Road without a bike, talking to every single person in Slateport to see of they would give me a bike, etc. Finally after all these efforts, I just went back to the place that was keeping me from progressing. My thumb slipped on the D-pad, I walked forward one step, and to my amazement, I walked under the bridge! I felt really dumb after that.

Looking back at all my silly, ametuerish mistakes makes me laugh now.
 
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WARNING: Extremely long, read at your own peril of time wasting, unless of course you already think you're wasting your time.

I was very fortunate, I had someone else to make the stupid mistakes for me. I learned to play by watching my cousin, and played on his Pokemon Blue for a while, and gained some experience. I think I was born to play these games though, I beat the first 3 gym leaders on my cousins game within an hour and a half, and was disappointed when I learned you could only keep 1 save file on a game and that I had to lose all the work I had done. I was staying at my cousins house for a week, and so, since my aunt's house only had a wood heater to keep it warm, she needed wood to fuel it. I cut wood everyday for 4 days, and made about $15 to buy a used copy of Pokemon Yellow in quarters, nickles, and dimes. My cousin had just gotten a Gameboy Advanced that year, and he gave me his old Gameboy Color. I played that thing non-stop. I lost the game after several months of play, and freaked out the day after I couldn't find it. About three years after I lost it, I remembered that I had gone camping and had brought it with me, so I checked everywhere in our car and found it among 4 other games, by this time, I had a Gameboy SP, and had owned Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon FireRed as well, (both of which I can no longer find) and had great experience in game play, and was excited to go back to my roots. Then, after I had lost all three of these games, my dad had hired a new babysitter who played Pokemon. She had far outgrown Pokemon Silver, and let me have it, along with her old Gameboy Color (I had lost my old one) and I played that for a long time, probably around 2 years. Then came the year I freaked out. I had lost all my old handheld games, except for my Gameboy SP and 1 game (of which has a name I can't currently remember). I had gone to Arizona for Christmas, and my uncle and aunt there had gotten me a Nintendo DS with New Super Mario Bros. The first opportunity I could, I badgered my dad to get the new Pokemon game that had come out. I still hold my ground that I had asked for Diamond, and he got me Pearl, but I didn't mind. I eventually started to make money by -ahem- WORKING again, and I eventually branched out to buy the weirder games, like Mystery Dungeon, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and Pokemon Ranger, which was a bit disappointing. And that is the long drawn out history of me and my Pokemon Games.
 
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I got Pokemon Yellow when I was....5?

I hated the Pikachu. It sucked, and it couldn't evolve, and at the time, my favorite Pokemon was Raichu. I was so noobish, I caught every single wild Pokemon that appeared. Yes, every one. And I always--ALWAYS--gave it a goofy nickname. I still do. Anyway, when I got the Diploma, I was mad because I thought that I would get Mew or "PikaBlue"--remember that old myth?--or something. The next year, I got Gold. And for some reason, I adored the Chikorita, then HATED it with a burning passion when it evolved into Bayleef. But as I stomped the trainers, I came across my rival. I had a level 57 Arcanine, as that was my new favorite and I thought that, instead of catching the wild Pokemon, you had to defeat them or else you would lose. Boy, was I wrong. :P But at the rival battle before the Elite Four, he actually managed to defeat Arcanine with one last Kadabra. It murdered my HM slaves, until finally, I had Bayleef in the end up my party. Bayleef killed Kadabra, and it evolved into Meganium, and less than a second after it told me so, I decided that Meganium was one of my favorite Pokemon. xDDDD
 
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Dark Shaymin said:
I got Pokemon Yellow when I was....5?

I hated the Pikachu. It sucked, and it couldn't evolve, and at the time, my favorite Pokemon was Raichu. I was so noobish, I caught every single wild Pokemon that appeared. Yes, every one. And I always--ALWAYS--gave it a goofy nickname. I still do. Anyway, when I got the Diploma, I was mad because I thought that I would get Mew or "PikaBlue"--remember that old myth?--or something. The next year, I got Gold. And for some reason, I adored the Chikorita, then HATED it with a burning passion when it evolved into Bayleef. But as I stomped the trainers, I came across my rival. I had a level 57 Arcanine, as that was my new favorite and I thought that, instead of catching the wild Pokemon, you had to defeat them or else you would lose. Boy, was I wrong. :P But at the rival battle before the Elite Four, he actually managed to defeat Arcanine with one last Kadabra. It murdered my HM slaves, until finally, I had Bayleef in the end up my party. Bayleef killed Kadabra, and it evolved into Meganium, and less than a second after it told me so, I decided that Meganium was one of my favorite Pokemon. xDDDD
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Oh god I remember the Pikachu...thats when I started to hate it. Cause wasn't OP'ed thanx to how much it liked me :(. Cyndaquil for life.
 
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Ahhh... Memories...

My first game was silver... I didn't know how to scroll over to the bag compartment with the pokeballs in it so I couldn't find out how to catch anything.

I thought the red garydos was a glitch or something so I freaked out and turned my game off. About a week later I found out about shineys.:sad:
 
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YES, a lot of the time i go searching through youtube for missingno (i don't know why, it just amuses me) and when i see blue/red i get so nostalgic. not so much for the newer ones, though. i think it stops at crystal, since after that the graphics start to improve. but blue, red, and even yellow definitely bring back old memories. D:
 
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my first game was ruby. my cousin had sapphire, so i asked her pretty much everything having to do with pokemon. i didn't know how to get past the person in petalburg, so i just trained my torchic, and i had a lv. 20 something combusken by the time i figured it out. i only trained my combusken, which was named BLAZE and was a girl (fwee!) and my female hariyama named MU. sadly, i had to delete my game when i got trapped in new mauville. RIP BLAZE and MU. they were at 96 and 72, also. T_T
 
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