When I first got Yellow, I was new to video gamea altogether, and I didn't know to save the game. I remember I was riding the Greyhound from D.C. to Atlantic City, and in that four ride, I got all the way to the outside of Vermillion, where those two trainers are. I was battling that Raticate when I got off the bus, and I must have been walking roughly, because the game froze. I was pissed. Eventually I learned how to save.
When I did learn to save, I leveled up my Pidgeot because I liked it so much! I got it up to the 80's, but then I realized I was neglecting my other Pok?s. So I was turning my Pok?Life around, trying to raise my other Pok?mon well, espcially my Pikachu. Then my ister kicked my game, and it erased. Again, I was pissed. BUT, the game I started after that was the most succesful I've ever been with a Pok?mon game. I got all 151 Pok?mon (with some help from the GameShark), and I leveled them well, and got my pikachu and Charizard up to lvl. 100. I was happy, but soon it got boring, and I erased it accidentally on purpose...