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My memories from Crystal
Doing radio quizzes to get rare candies every day.
Giving mom money that she spent on crap like potions. Didn't know how to evolve a Weepinbel into Victreebel. Hunting Entei that kept using Roar on me. Hard training after beating Red for nothing. |
yea silver was the best. i had strong pokemon and was really good. but one thing i seem to remember is somehow seeing a snorunt in my silver. was that just me or has anyone else seen hoenn pokemon in GSC?
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RBY:
- Getting Red and Blue for Christmas in 2000, and favouring Blue way more playing it through Stadium because I didn't have a GameBoy. - Finding Pikachu in Viridian Forest for the first time with its adorable fat sprite. - Starting with Bulbasaur on my first Blue file, and soon after transferring my prize Charmander from Stadium (through beating Gym Leader Castle) which disobeyed me. I thought that this was probably normal of the Charmander line due to the behaviour of Ash's Charizard lol! Both Pokemon are on my current Blue file, my first ever Pokemon now being a Venusaur at Lv55, and my overused Charizard being one of only two of my Lv100s ever. Venusaur stayed as an Ivysaur for the longest time due to Charizard sweeping me through my first Blue file. - Accidentally catching a Krabby in Seafoam Islands with a Master Ball. - Missingno! - Thinking that one of the NPC's overworld sprites was a person with insect legs lol. - Calling my Blastoise on my second Blue file (my current one) "Shellshock" after the Shellshocker from Pokemon the First Movie (accursed ten character limit!), and inspired by my childhood friend who did the exact same thing. - All the happy times taking my Stadium, Red and Blue games over to the aforementioned friend's house, and discovering new things and fun ways to play the games. - Believing in many of the fake cheats/glitches posted in magazines and on the internet such as Bill's Garden, the Pokegods and the ability to get Togepi. G/S/C: - Finding my first Shiny - a Pidgey south of Ecruteak, and thinking that it and the Red Gyarados were the only shinies in the game... until I found a shiny Geodude in Rock Tunnel some months after. Both died along with my corrupted first Silver file. - Starting my first Silver file with Totodile. - My surprise at seeing Croconaw for the first time in Silver as I didn't know half of the Johto Pokemon. In hindsight, its Gold and Silver sprites were horrendous. - Abusing the hell out of my Silver using my Xploder and Xploder Lite cheat cartridges to catch unobtainable Pokemon and shinies. A route I feel ashamed about going down. :( - Taking my games into school either for games days (i.e. last days of term like Christmas and Summer where you could take in games and toys) or at home time to show off and trade with my friends. |
gsc -
-having a crush on Silver and being happy everytime he battled me -tried to do the missingno glitch in the kanto region -being extremely excited when Suicune shook 3 times in the pokeball so I thought I had it but it broke free =[ -walking around in ilex forest for hours hoping that celebi would appear -realizing that goldenrod gym was clefairy shaped -catching a scyther in the bug-catching contest, knowing I'd win - only to find a caterpie winning instead -being freaked out by the creepy herb lady in underground path -figuring out a way to catch the legendary dogs in less than an hour -going to kanto and finding out there were no legendary birds - made me sad -figuring out you could cut grass so I did on route 11 and it froze my game and made a weird glitchy noise which freaked me out -smashing my gameboy in frustration when I tried a billion times to catch ho-oh and the batteries flew out and I lost all progress and.. -was curious as to WHY TEAM ROCKET GRUNTS FEMALE SPRITE WAS CASSIDY, BUT THE MALE SPRITE WASN'T BUTCH! -catching my Lugia with ONE great ball, dealing NO damage to it - major wtf moment rby- -freaked out when I got missingno -scared as hell at rocket hideout's music and the spinny platform things -while doing the missingno glitch, lol'd at the old man on the roof of cinnabar gym -trying to teach my pikachu surf -was confused as to why the ship didn't leave when I was on it, and left after I got off -started a new game, but transferred a bunch of lvl 50s from my pokemon crystal so I'd have super powerful pokemon from the very start - disappointed in finding out they wouldn't obey me, so it actually took me longer to get through the game than it would with normal starter pokemon |
GSC
- Not knowing how to save - Picking Cyndaquil everytime because I couldn't figure out how to get the other pokemon - I thought the pink flowers were coins - Mispronouncing everything because I didn't learn how to read until a year after of getting the game. RBY - I didn't know how to switch around pokemon - Lost my bearings in Rock Tunnel - Was ko'ed by Dugtrios almost everytime I entered Diglett cave. .. you know all the good memories<3 |
R/B/Y
- Nicknamed my Squirtle "Tit" - Getting through Rock Tunnel without flash - Thinking there was secret patch of grass east of route 1 with all sorts of rare and powerful Pokemon, only later to find out it was just empty space - Constantly tried to find the elusive "Pikablu" and other "PokeGods" - Missingno and M' - Discovering the Mew glitch - Caught Mewtwo at full health with just a Pokeball - Battling my brother and losing every time because he used Rare Candies G/S/C - Naming my rival "???" - Getting tricked by friend that Vileplume evolved into Bellosom and also could decrease in levels - Same friend tricked me out of my second metal coat, so I couldn't get Steelix in that file - Almost fainted after evolving my Pupitar, Tyranitar has been one of my favorites ever since - Trading Mew to Silver and raising it to Level 100 - Completed my entire Pokedex sans Celebi, in my original Crystal file - Catching Heracross after headbutting trees for hours on end - Cloning Pokemon constantly to get multiple Masterballs - Losing to that bastard Nick at the Bug Catching Contest almost every time (I was so happy when I finally beat him by catching a Scyther) |
Yellow: Playing my friend JB's game, which at the time I had no idea what to do and wandered about Viridian City and Route 1 aimlessly.
Blue/Yellow: Getting my own games... oooh how exciting! I got them both for my 10th birthday and played like a madman. I remember being really excited and proud of myself when I beat the Elite Four in Blue for the first time. And then I caught Missingno and screwed it all up two "Play-throughs" later. Gold/Crystal: Catching Ho-oh and meeting Eusine, respectively, were some of my best memories of these games. Ironicly, the E4 isn't in here (nor is Kanto) because I haven't beaten them... yet. Still, good times, good times... |
Red/Blue/Yellow
Catching every last Pokemon there was. And then hearing that Gold and silver would come out soon...Made me so angry making me catch more of those little buggers. Making my Squirtle evolve into Blastoise and beating anyone who dared challenged him! Using my blue version to beat the Elite 4 in 4 hours! Finding out the Missingno cheat and abusing it to high heck. Catching a Missingno only to find out...He didn't kill my game like all my other friends. Gold/Silver/Crystal Almost catching them all...Stupid Celebi! Being so surprised finding I could go back to the first games area! Admiring that Theif of a rival! Always beating my Brothers Super Typhlosion with my Feraligatr! It would always bring my Feraligatr to about 30 HP with one attack, A Hydro Pump would then one hit his PKMN every time! Putting in over 300 hours into my Gold version. Finding out that for some reason certain stations would keep the legendary Dogs in one spot long enough for me to catch them all. Maybe it was just some extreme luck but I think it was the Radio station.. |
G/S/C:
-The first time I played through, I remember the battle with Lance. It was between his final Dragonite and my Feraligatr. I had no potions/revives left. Little did I know at the time, Dragonite are weak to Ice x4. I used Ice Punch in the hope that it would freeze him, but when it OHKO'd instead, I was very happy. :D -Laughing at the Grunt in Kanto with the bad English. -Discovering the 3 starter glitch. -Finding Red.. at the time my Pokemon were level 60.. it was a big shock when I saw his level 81 Pika. -Bug Catching Contest.. ah.. -Dark Cave's music. <3 R/B/Y: -Getting the game from a 13 year old when I was 6. -Never finding Flash and going through all the caves in the dark. -Mah Blastoise. |
I remember spending 2 hours trying to catch ho-oh with my one ultra ball i was so happy when he finally stayed in =)
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That was such a good game im trying to hunt my copy of crystal out to go on it but im still stuck on emerald til i get another ds.
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Yellow was my first game.
I used to think the guy blocking Cerulean Cave had one of those hats the british guard guys wear,,,til he moved and I was like OHHH IT'S THE CAVE ENTRANCE, DUH. Being pissed that I couldn't evolved Pikachu... HATING FIGHTING BROCK WITH JUST PIKACHU. I only used to raise my starter and no one else... Missingno. I screamed when I first found it bc my cousin convinced me it was a monster, told me how to get it, I tried, found it and was like AHHH OH MY GOD NONONONONONNONONONO. And wouldn't play the game for a while. Reading a guide for the B/R/Y games and seeing "And now, you're in Lavender Town! Here, you get...GREAT BALLS! (Stop laughing, you pervs, not THOSE balls)" and being unable to quit laughing. Anddd using my brother's master ball on a Ditto. Now Crystal. Oh my gaaah. Favorite Game ever. I was little then. Like 5 or 6 I think... so y'know, it was my second Pokemon game on my brand new see-through pink GBA that I got for being an all-A student. My first game ON that Game Boy. I got so attached to my Pokemon. Omg I loved my Feraligatr. I caught a Shiny Snubbull. My first ever shiny. Omg I had the Pokerus right after I started the game! I cried, I thought my Pokes would die, then I was like "Woah this is the coolest death disease EVER my Pokemon are leveling up...oh no they're dying quicker then!!!! But...they're leveling up. And maybe I'll get to bury them in the graveyard!!!!!" I was a weird child. Catching Suicune and being soooo proud. Catching Entei and Raikou. I put so much time into that game... I can't even tell you all my memories. It was GREAT. I released my Meganium once on a diff save file 'cause someone told me if my Pokemon loved me enough and I released it, it'd follow me. I cried... But my Feraligatr file, w the shiny Snubbull, was my favorite... I had my first Espeon on that file. And my Feraligatr. A Larvitar I named Strawberry bc the red on its tummy looked like a strawberry. I nicknamed my Snubbull Grape, my Feraligatr Blueberry, my Espeon purplecherry. XDD And I always felt so accomplished bc I wqas an excellent read-er and could understand Pokemon and the words so well I'd read it out loud to my older brother. So yeah. Fond, fond memories. But my younger sister stole and sold my Yellow at a yard sale last year. And my "best friend" stole Crystal bout 5 years ago, when I was in 5th grade...]= Lol and at like, 6 years ol I totally thought my Rival would be the cutest real life boy ever. And I named him Marcus. OH AND THE FACT THAT KRIS WAS A CHARACTER, I WAS SO HAPPY TO FINALLY BE A CUTE BLUE HAIRED LITTLE GIRL. |
RED:
getting my Charizard to lv 100 getting my Rhydon to lv 100 beating all of the gyms and the elite four before my older brother catching 149 pokemon and getting really angry that i killed mewtwo GOLD/CRYSTAL getting my Feraligatr to lv 100 getting my other Rhydon to lv 100 beating the game before my brother( again ) catching the red Gyarados because I thought it was special |
RBY: Accidentally deleted my cousin's Charizard while trying to duplicate it an illegal way >.< I spent the next week leveling up a charmander to compensate for my terrible mistake. Going to the movies to see the first pokemon movie. This involved only 1 talking pokemon and 2 hours of "pika pika". As a result, my parents never wanted to hear the word pokemon again XD.
G/S: Beating my cousin (long time pokemon rival) with my Typhlusion. Getting a gameshark which allowed me to create any pokemon with any moves at any level. I ran into a group of kids while in a restaurant and demolished them with my team of over powered pokemon. I ended up trading them some lvl 100 pokemon for their rares. Good times :) |
Yellow: It took me REALLY long to actually beat the game. Naming my Nidoqueen "Melons" , get the joke? I tried multiple times to evolve pikachu into raichu, until I got rid of my starter one, and replaced it with the Lv50 my older cousin had in her crystal. I then realized that pikachu is unevolvable in this game....
Gold: Getting Stuck in towns and constatly pumping up levels only to realize that the kanto gyms are at the same level during each battle. Trading like crazy in summer camp which then became a pokemon camp. Breeding like a million of starter pokemon once I realized the wonders of ditto breeding. |
Gold: Named my rival ???
When I beat the elite four the first time. It must have taken me at least 15 attempts. I was at day-camp and I ran around screaming because I was so happy. ^^; I fainted the Red Gyarados. I caught Raikou with my masterball. I caught a shiny hoothoot just outside of newbark town, so I thought I was just like Ash (my character in gold was named Ash). I defeated Red on the first try (and yet it took me forever to beat the elite four O__o). After being trapped in a cave for a month, I finally realized that flash would light it up. I was so happy that I got out of the cave. XD How shocked and excited I was when I found out I could go to Kanto. Wondering how I was supposed to get an Espeon. I always ended up getting Umbreon. XP Crystal: I can be a girl this time? -insert giant spazz moment here- Being disappointed that I couldn't catch a mareep. Finally caught the red gyarados. =D Never EVER got a shiny from the odd egg. I always got a non-shiny igglybuff. |
I actually wasn't all into gold and silver when it came out, I still had my yellow team of Dizzy the Pikachu, Melons the Nidoqueen, King the Fearow, Fatbutt the Snorlax, Mai the Marowak, and my useless tagalong, Jerry the Rattata. I owned with these guys until the gold and silver games along with stadium 2 came out. I wanted to see what the fuss was about with the games, so I entered a tournament using stadium 2 games at my school. Needless to say, I was murdered until I got Gold.
Once I went through the johto region and traded my yellow pokes to gold, I was back on top again, but once I heard that crystal was coming to America, I started training like a madman. A new kid in my class who had imported a Japanese Crystal along with the cell phone adapter, he became the talk of the school. I battled him and I discovered the terrors of the almighty Suicune at Lv100, and lost as well... We became great buddies and I still hang out with him everynow and then. I actually plan to dump the most recent updates of Brown onto a empty red cartcridge I got from a pawn shop. Soon I will bring my old team out of retirement and into the riijon region! |
Catching a Muk with a masterball in yellow because it used minimize and i thought it was going to be impossible to catch
I didnt even use it afterwards -_- |
Spring 2002:
Not knowing how to save and thinking I got stuck in Elm's lab I think there was no space between time and phone cards the first time I played it Trying to get to the lake behind Cherrygrove Talking to the strange tree near Violet I think the second Slowpoke in Slowpoke Well was blue Making Kurt craft me Poké Balls (almost) every day Chasing that Farfetch'd in Ilex Forest Thinking that the grass Pokémon related to the shrine was Bulbasaur Finally reaching Goldenrod at night and listening to the music Spending time in the National Park Catching Yanma near it Putting two Pokémon into the daycare and getting an egg Putting two Hoothoots there and wondering why they didn't produce an egg Beating the Sudowoodo Arriving at Ecruteak and battling the kimono girls Listening to the mysterious broadcast in Mahogany Solving the first puzzle in Ruins of Alph Summer 2002: Beating the red Gyarados Exploring the Rocket hideout Spending a lot of time at the lighthouse Getting a Shuckle in Cianwood Beating Chuck Norris Crying when Team Rocket took over the radio tower (my favourite place) Somehow getting to Route 45 from Dark Cave Surfing to Kanto and listening to Places & People Evolving my Golbat to a Crobat Wondering why Crobat's Curse was different from Gastly's Autumn 2002: Catching Ho-Oh Getting to Kanto and letting a relative of mine beat it and the Elite 4 Winter 2003: Catching Lugia 2004-2006 (I don't exactly remember): Catching a Lickitung Catching a Lapras (almost) every Friday Autumn 2007: Catching a Murkrow Realising that the Hoothoots were both male Getting them back at levels 42 and 43 Losing the save because of the dry battery 2002 was the best year in my whole life. |
I have to say, one of the most memorable parts in G/S/C was when Lance ran away to the Mahogany Hideout, and then I would use Fly and get to the shop in 10 seconds, hoping he wouldn't say "You are late!" or something like that... failing every single time XD I was so silly by then.
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Red and Blue:
Getting my Charmander and evolving it to a Charizard. Awesomest thing I have ever done. Catching Mewtwo :) It was a beast of a Pokemon, and it still is. For a challenge, I used Lv.1 pokemon against the Elite Four. What was I thinking? Yellow: Pikachu dude. Gold and Silver: Called Silver "Stupid" and yeah, my friends laughed at it when I was playing it. Killed the Red Gyarados. WHYYYY?????? Coming to Kanto. :) Beat Champion Lance but I dropped my Game Boy Color and I had to start again because I didnt save it. >.> Crystal: Playing the female for about an hour before I started again as a man. >.> |
R/B/Y: Continually saving over my brother's games and getting yelled at, glitching up my brother's game by running into MissingNo. and being glad it wasn't M, turning my brother's game off in fear when the level 225 Golbat I just caught went back to level 100, stealing my brothers game and saving over it with a pitiful file less than 1% beat, performing the mew glitch and failing to catch it, wondering whether it would be a good idea to stuff grass and dirt up my Blue version (which I had stolen from my brother) to see what would happen to it, stealing my brother's Red version and trading his Raichu (which I had evolved from Pikachu without telling him) to the man on Cinnabar Island, feeling excited when the man on Cinnabar Island told me the Raichu had evolved . . .
G/S/C: Continually saving over my brother's games when he was about to battle Red and getting yelled at, my brother finally giving up and giving his Gold version to me so I could stop destroying his game files, becoming obsessed with cloning pokemon in Gold version, being relieved when the first gym wasn't a rock type one, making plans to steal my brother's Crystal version and save over that, making plans to screw up my brother's Crystal version and keep it that way, my Gold version being the time-source when my family was stuck in a cabin with no electricity on vacation . . . The list could go on. ~Night |
Hello! First post, and here's my memories.
Crystal was my first game, and I got it bundled with a gameboy advance. -I was crying in excitement as I opened the present to find it being a GBA. I still remember that moment, and the exact moment I opened it. Amazing. -I played that game on a rocking chair, and still have fond memories when on it. -My starter was Totodile, and I loved that thing so much. LOVED IT. -I played it everywhere, including the car and stores. -I remember being in the school parking lot, and releasing my starter pokemon and freaked out and turned the game off right away. Good thing I didn't save. -A kid named Jordan was convincing people that rubbing that gold plate thing with pokemon on it you get from Burger King on your batteries would transfer that pokemon onto the game. -It took a couple years, but I finally realized that you could name the rival other things, not just ???. -This is painful, but in the school parking lot again, I wiped my save and started crying for days straight. -I beat the game again, but the internal battery died, so I can't play it anymore. I am sad. I guess emulators will have to do. FireRed I was a bit older, but still younger none-the-less. -I traded my Charzard for a Zapados and still want it back... Diamond -Sitting in my bathroom sticking my DS-chunky out the window struggling to get a connection with my friend a block away, and finally getting a connection and playing CTF underground. |
Heh, this should be fun...
The first time I played Red, I thought the game finished at Celadon. Like, you got there and had to start again. Then a friend told me I could play the Pokeflute and move Snorlax, and there was a whole other part of Kanto past it! I was amazed... The music in Lavender Tower making me sad :( I also remember dropping my GBC many, many times (once in a supermarket, and the game actually came out), but the damn thing still works. |
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In Gold...I remember I didn't know how to get to Mr Pokemons house and so I just leveld up my Typhlosion to level 48. The rest of the game was just my typhlosion soloing the game hahaha. I can still remember him using firewheel.... And then spending hours of frustration trying to get to Ho-Oh. Finally catching him and then making a clone army of Ho-Ohs. :) And then getting Lugia in those island/cave things. That was even worse than Ho-Oh. I remember once I went to a friends house and we both speculated on how to get to Lugia and discussed plans on how to catch him and what he would be like etc. It was so good having to learn everything yourself, not just using the interent to check. My friend and I both entered the island place of Lugia one day and we spent the whole day trying to find him. A few minutes before my mum came to pick me up I found Lugia and captured him. My friend was SOOOOO jealous of me. :) |
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