I remember those link cables.
My next door neighbors, my only friends from ages 3-10, played pokemon obsessively. We stopped playing other games once Diamond and those came out.
When we were younger, we would play pokemon cards ALL DAY, and not just the card game! We would pretend the pokemon came out of the cards like that one other anime (I don't remember).
We would play pokemorphs (I was ALWAYS the Alakazam) all day, ride to the gas station to get "revives" (Now and Laters) and "potions" (This sour spray stuff), and I still remember when my level 60 something Fraligator struck fear into their hearts...
Ah, those days were the best. Beating the E4 was awesome in my neighboorhood...
Oh, and the rumors going around about if you pressed those "gold" plate things you get from Burger King on the batteries of your gameboy would transfer that pokemon onto it...
Pressing B and down at the same time when the pokemon flashed after being hit would give it a critical hit... I still do that.
You know when GB games were put in the GBA, you could make it widescreen? Well in our neighborhood, we believed that you would do better when it was in the original GB screen size.
When I got Diamond, I would sit in our bathroom, as that was the closest to my neighbor's house, it was across another house's back yard. I couldn't connect to her game's underground, but I couldn't leave the house... so I just opened up the bathroom window, and saw her doing the same at the other house, and we CONNECTED THE GAME. I was standing in an uncomfortable position the entire time, so my back was sore for a bit after an hour of "capture the flag" underground.
If you released your pokemon into the wild, you could find them in grass and stuff... so I thought... I released my Fraligator into the wild, but couldn't find it. Good thing I didn't save the game.
Those chameleons we saw when we took trips to see relatives in California were pronounced Charmelion for me, my family had no idea what I was talking about.
I was at the dentist one day, and was playing Ruby when I was 7 or something. I saw some other kid playing Sapphire, and I wanted to trade with him to get all the exclusives, so I ran into my car to get a link cable (yeah, I kept those things in my backpack) and to my disappointment, he was gone. I was so sad...
EVs? I still don't understand those... I just loaded up all my pokemon on those Carbos and those things. That's what everyone did.
All the fun was over when my friend got a Action Replay, killing EVERYONE with her lvl 100 legendaries...
The only level 100 pokemon I even touched was my friend's legitimate 100 Swampart she got on Ruby that she traded to me for a day so I could beat something...
My next door neighbors, my only friends from ages 3-10, played pokemon obsessively. We stopped playing other games once Diamond and those came out.
When we were younger, we would play pokemon cards ALL DAY, and not just the card game! We would pretend the pokemon came out of the cards like that one other anime (I don't remember).
We would play pokemorphs (I was ALWAYS the Alakazam) all day, ride to the gas station to get "revives" (Now and Laters) and "potions" (This sour spray stuff), and I still remember when my level 60 something Fraligator struck fear into their hearts...
Ah, those days were the best. Beating the E4 was awesome in my neighboorhood...
Oh, and the rumors going around about if you pressed those "gold" plate things you get from Burger King on the batteries of your gameboy would transfer that pokemon onto it...
Pressing B and down at the same time when the pokemon flashed after being hit would give it a critical hit... I still do that.
You know when GB games were put in the GBA, you could make it widescreen? Well in our neighborhood, we believed that you would do better when it was in the original GB screen size.
When I got Diamond, I would sit in our bathroom, as that was the closest to my neighbor's house, it was across another house's back yard. I couldn't connect to her game's underground, but I couldn't leave the house... so I just opened up the bathroom window, and saw her doing the same at the other house, and we CONNECTED THE GAME. I was standing in an uncomfortable position the entire time, so my back was sore for a bit after an hour of "capture the flag" underground.
If you released your pokemon into the wild, you could find them in grass and stuff... so I thought... I released my Fraligator into the wild, but couldn't find it. Good thing I didn't save the game.
Those chameleons we saw when we took trips to see relatives in California were pronounced Charmelion for me, my family had no idea what I was talking about.
I was at the dentist one day, and was playing Ruby when I was 7 or something. I saw some other kid playing Sapphire, and I wanted to trade with him to get all the exclusives, so I ran into my car to get a link cable (yeah, I kept those things in my backpack) and to my disappointment, he was gone. I was so sad...
EVs? I still don't understand those... I just loaded up all my pokemon on those Carbos and those things. That's what everyone did.
All the fun was over when my friend got a Action Replay, killing EVERYONE with her lvl 100 legendaries...
The only level 100 pokemon I even touched was my friend's legitimate 100 Swampart she got on Ruby that she traded to me for a day so I could beat something...
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