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I <3 Zubat, apparently.
Posted February 21st, 2012 at 2:49 PM by Mr Cat Dog
Despite what I said in [URL="http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=7056226&postcount=21"]this thread[/URL], it turns out that I'm, like, soooooo totally in love with Zubat! Or, at least I used to be. Apparently.
Rummaging around my bedroom in a vague attempt to clean up the place, I stumbled upon my old Game Boy collection, and GBA SP. Among the rubble that includes [I]Tazmanian Devil Munching Madness[/I] and what I can only assume is a ROM cartridge with such classic, original games as [I]Maya &Friend[/I] and [I]Mines Weeper[/I] (yes, you read that right), is my old Pokemon cartridges. In all honesty, I thought there was a high chance that these would have been thrown out, so I was very surprised to find them alive and well. Then, I did what any self-respecting member of PC would do in this situation and inserted them into the GBA to find out how [s]awesome[/s] crap I was as a trainer all those years ago. (With 'all those years' being between 5-10 years.)
First up: [I]Pokemon Blue[/I]. Unfortunately, I must have restarted the game and gotten bored with it mid-way through. I was in Mt. Moon, and my team consisted of a Lv17 Ivysaur (bleh!), Lv16 Pidgey, Lv17 Pikachu... and Lv9 Zubat. Huh! That was a bit of a shocker. After walking through the mountain and fighting a Rocket (who's sprites look really creepy in a kind of sadomasochistic way), I got bored and replaced [I]Blue[/I] with [I]Yellow[/I].
Serendipitoudly, the same thing happened in [I]Yellow[/I]. I was in Mt. Moon again (a different part, this time) and my team consisted of a Lv15 Pikachu, Lv 14 Pidgey, Lv16 Nidorina... and Lv8 Zubat. Again, this struck me as odd. I really like Crobat, but that's more on a conceptual level; I don't think I'd ever use one in a team, though I can certainly see their appeal. However, Crobat hadn't even been 'discovered' at this point in the PokéUniverse, so I don't know what I'd been snorting at this point.
Unfortunately, my [I]Gold[/I] file had been corrupted, so there was literally nothing to show for that (which was probably the most disappointing discovery of this expedition), but my [I]Sapphire[/I] was going strong, and it appeared that I hadn't blindly started a new save file. Success! And I was at Ever Grande City upon starting it up; I must have had a kick-ass team, right? Well... see for yourself:
Lv43 Lanturn, Lv45 Dustox, Lv45 Kyogre, Lv52 Blaziken
THAT'S IT! Just 4 critters! So, in a state of panic, I go to the PC to check what I've boxed, as I seriously couldn't have made it through the game with just those four, and what do I find?
A PC BOX FULL OF 20 ZUBATS ALL AT LV30!
And then my heart sank. It was obvious that between the ages of 11-15, I must reeeeeeeeeeally have loved Zubat for some ungodly reason. It's times like this that I feel I don't deserve to call myself a 'Pokemon fan'. Sigh...
Rummaging around my bedroom in a vague attempt to clean up the place, I stumbled upon my old Game Boy collection, and GBA SP. Among the rubble that includes [I]Tazmanian Devil Munching Madness[/I] and what I can only assume is a ROM cartridge with such classic, original games as [I]Maya &Friend[/I] and [I]Mines Weeper[/I] (yes, you read that right), is my old Pokemon cartridges. In all honesty, I thought there was a high chance that these would have been thrown out, so I was very surprised to find them alive and well. Then, I did what any self-respecting member of PC would do in this situation and inserted them into the GBA to find out how [s]awesome[/s] crap I was as a trainer all those years ago. (With 'all those years' being between 5-10 years.)
First up: [I]Pokemon Blue[/I]. Unfortunately, I must have restarted the game and gotten bored with it mid-way through. I was in Mt. Moon, and my team consisted of a Lv17 Ivysaur (bleh!), Lv16 Pidgey, Lv17 Pikachu... and Lv9 Zubat. Huh! That was a bit of a shocker. After walking through the mountain and fighting a Rocket (who's sprites look really creepy in a kind of sadomasochistic way), I got bored and replaced [I]Blue[/I] with [I]Yellow[/I].
Serendipitoudly, the same thing happened in [I]Yellow[/I]. I was in Mt. Moon again (a different part, this time) and my team consisted of a Lv15 Pikachu, Lv 14 Pidgey, Lv16 Nidorina... and Lv8 Zubat. Again, this struck me as odd. I really like Crobat, but that's more on a conceptual level; I don't think I'd ever use one in a team, though I can certainly see their appeal. However, Crobat hadn't even been 'discovered' at this point in the PokéUniverse, so I don't know what I'd been snorting at this point.
Unfortunately, my [I]Gold[/I] file had been corrupted, so there was literally nothing to show for that (which was probably the most disappointing discovery of this expedition), but my [I]Sapphire[/I] was going strong, and it appeared that I hadn't blindly started a new save file. Success! And I was at Ever Grande City upon starting it up; I must have had a kick-ass team, right? Well... see for yourself:
Lv43 Lanturn, Lv45 Dustox, Lv45 Kyogre, Lv52 Blaziken
THAT'S IT! Just 4 critters! So, in a state of panic, I go to the PC to check what I've boxed, as I seriously couldn't have made it through the game with just those four, and what do I find?
A PC BOX FULL OF 20 ZUBATS ALL AT LV30!
And then my heart sank. It was obvious that between the ages of 11-15, I must reeeeeeeeeeally have loved Zubat for some ungodly reason. It's times like this that I feel I don't deserve to call myself a 'Pokemon fan'. Sigh...
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Posted February 21st, 2012 at 6:25 PM by Logiedan
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^ I am so tempted to do this lol. I still have all of my old ones XDPosted February 22nd, 2012 at 4:45 AM by Overlord Drakow
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Posted February 22nd, 2012 at 4:59 AM by Shining Raichu
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Posted February 22nd, 2012 at 3:26 PM by Kura
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Posted February 23rd, 2012 at 9:13 AM by Oryx



