2nd Gen 10,000 Reasons Why

1-I liked the leaders and E4, especially Will, Janine, Falkner, and Morty!
2-New Pokemon made with *takes out fire extuingsher* actual effort, (that means not spelling a normal animal's name wrong to make it a Pokemon
3-It felt like more of a journey than kanto since you weren't walking around in a Circle
4-Cool Music
5-Different Style of Rival
6-New Ideas of Pokemon, like Xatu and such
7-Free Shineh! And that egg that sometimes gave out a shineh
8-Cooler evos of crap pokemon
9-It was my first game
10-BAYLEEF!!!!!!!!

1) It had a very authentic and historic feel.
2) It was very temperate and mountain country-like with lots of conifers and wooden fences.
3) The music also seemed quite refreshing in comparison to the other games, sometimes with an oriental feel.
4) It was the first generation to include the day and night features and night-time really looked like night-time, unlike later generations where night-time doesn't really look dark enough.
5) Lugia... but that's just a personal favourite of mine.
6) The architecture... lovely oriental styles once again!
7) Free eggs... though in Gold and Silver you don't get the random one.
8) Shinies have top IVs.
9) I liked the greater depths of characters than in other games, in other games I find most characters to be too unoriginal.
10) Bellsprout tower. I don't even know what it was supposed to be based off, but it just reminded me of those Buddhist Monasteries with the characters in them (I think some even had prayer beads). Almost like a shrine of worship. I don't agree with such forms of worship but I do think it added character to the game. Same with that place with the unown and those two towers in the Ecruteak (I know it's spelled wrong) town. It just gave it a bit more realism for towns and locations to have some more depth and background actually integrated into the town's atmosphere. In later gens I find the towns to be lacking somewhat in historical value and traditions.

1.the games had exclusive legendaries
2.another 100 pokemon to catch!
3.Umbreon,one of my fave pokemons
4.8 new gyms to beat
5.travelling back to kanto
6.yoyr rival was proper evil
7.Entei kicks ass
8.raikou kicks ass
9.suicune kicks ass
10.the music kicks ass

Ok.....hard this one, but I have played Gen II...

1. Because after my friend had tried for years to get me into pokemon, I willingly had a go on Crystal.
2. Because, even though I owned a GBA, I thought those graphics were brilliant.
3. Because I didn't understand levels, and climbed Mount Silver with a Ledian.
4. I didn't know what I was doing.
5. Because my friend attacking me after I'd defeated Red within my first 5 minutes off playing, whilst he couldn't, was the most hilarious thing I'd ever seen until I started watching decent comedy on t.v.
6. Because the map lied - there isn't a route between Azalea Town and Ilex Forest.
7. Because I killed Raikou and Entei.
8. I also ran away from Suicune and Lugia.
9. Because this made me beg my mum to buy me Emerald when I was it (because it reminded me of Crystal, being a 3rd version).
10. Because I can hardly remember any of it.

This really belongs in Forum Games... I am sure of it.

1. Because grinding wasn't boring.
2. It's the first Pokemon main-series game to be completely in color
3. Because this was my first (and only) GB game.
4. Because I saw a shiny Ho-oh and accidentally killed it
5. Burned Tower left an imprint on me
6. Shinies had some of the best IVs
7. Silver was cruel
8. The only game to have 16 decent gyms
9. Victory Road... was good... ShinyGold made my ears bleed.
10. "... ... ... ... ... ..." PkMn TRAINER RED sent out PIKACHU!

Congratulations. Thank you all for keeping this thread alive. Counting the next reasons I post, we will reach 251 (sound familiar?). If we can reach 1000, (100 posts) I will post a very special link.

1. Because I actually felt at home in New Bark Town.

2. Because I felt like a rancher at Moo-Moo farm.

3. Because haircuts are awesome.

4. Because there was more than 1 restuarunt.

5. Because I felt sort of weird in a mystical way when I visited the lighthouse.

6. Because the routes had the perfect amount of grass and hills.

7. Because they saved the best of the game for the end (Larvitar, Red, Etc.,)

8. Because you could decorate your room for the first time.

9. Because the trees were the most realistic 8-bit trees ever!!

10. Because you always hoped you would find Celebi if you stayed in Ilex Forest long enough.

11. Because the game felt sort of real for the first time. Silver's anger, Whitney's bratiness, Karen's truthful words. The character's felt like people we could relate to in our real life.

Keep posting, keep listing. Soon we will have 10,000 reasons why.

With all regards,

-ChrisTom

Here goes:
1. Totodile.
2. Silver.
3. Revolutionary things introduced like breeding, night and day, and playing as a girl.
4. The thrill of beating Red.
5. A guaranteed shiny.
6. Shiny Ditto trick.
7. The 8-bit music.
8. The graphics that are better than the DPPt ones.
9. That the storyline kept you hooked, and you didn't want to stop playing. Ever.
10. No Natures.


Ten reasons really aren't enough, are they?

1. Because Eevee had two more pieces of my heart.

2. Because it never gets old to see Whitney cry.

3. Because Shuckle is still one of my favourite pokemon today.

4. Because trading isn't cool, unless you're hooked up by a game link cable.

5. Because if you're using silver version, there is a whole mountain dedicated to you.

6. Because nostalgia wins every single time.

7. Because starters that don't evolve at 16, were cooler than the legendaries.

8. Because lavender town isn't so creepy anymore now that there isn't a cemetery.

9. Because a battle with a trainer that sends out a level 81 Pikachu is cooler than Smoochum's kiss.

10. Because baby Pokemon are the cutest invention of life.


NOSTALGIA-NOSTALGIA-NOSTALGIA-NOSTALGIA-NOSTALGIA!!!

1. Because I loved and knew every single Pokemon in the games.

2. Because cloning was a way of giving your friends a Pokemon you had and they needed, not something horrible

3. Because there was SO MUCH to do. Two islands to go to, 16 Gym leaders, and Red.

4. Because I loved hunting through everything that was so new, and so pretty, and then finding him. Red. Waiting for the most epic battle ever.

5. Because I loved hunting and catching the Legendary Dogs.

6. Because I remember spending loads of time with my friends and my cousin pouring over guidebooks and gossiping about Pokemon, and then going and catching everything cool.

7. Because of all the new types that were there. I mean, a flying steel bird? Awesome.

8. Because finding Ho-oh...then realising how to Catch Lugia, was the best thing to happen to me.

9. Because you could make your own Pokeballs, which was just awesome.

10. Because it is one of the things that makes me... me. < I had to steal this...Pokemon started the entire nerd part of me up. I'd be totally different without it.

1. Because there were two amazing regions.

2. Because the new 100 Pokemon still seemed like Pokemon, unlike today's.

3. Because chasing the legendary dogs all across the region was very fun, but also annoying.

4. Because all of the cities had a realistic feel to them.

5. Because Ixel Forest was so mysterious, and it was nigh impossible to catch Celebi.

6. Because finding and catching Ho-oh and Lugia was an amazing experience.

7. Because so many new features were introduced. (Genders, breeding, shinies, etc.)

8. Because beating Whitney was so hard at first.

9. Because the music was so epic. Burned Tower was a personal favorite.

10. Because all three of the starter Pokemon were just awesome.

1. Because they're AWESOME.
2. Typhlosion.
3. Fighting Red felt like fighting myself from RBY.
4. Apricorns and the good Poke Ball models made from them.
5. The music! :D
6. Excellent story.
7. GS cloning Glitch(200 Master Balls FTW).
8. New Pokemon were cool.
9. Red Gyarados.
10. Good enough to cause me to continue playing them, even now. Did I mention they're awesome?

1. Special split into Sp. Att and Sp. Def
2. Ability to travel through two regions
3. Psychic pokemon no longer owning everything the way they owned Gen 1
4. Breeding
5. Ability to use cut, surf, etc just by pressing A instead of having to go to menu, pokemon, then the HM move
6. Ability to register a certain item so it could be used quickly by pressing select
7. Different stuff on different day/time
8. Legendary gerbil chase
9. Making Whitney cry
10. No annoying pikachu following around

1. Houndoom

2. The introduction of Dark-types (And Steel I suppose)

3. Finding out that you still had another 8 Gyms to beat once you thought the game was nearly over

4. The introduction of a day/night system

5. The daily/weekly events such as the bug-catching contest

6. Being able to rematch trainers

7. Pokémon animations (in Crystal)

8. Red Gyarados (And shinies in general, although getting another one wasn't easy)

9. The music, especially Route 29 and Lance's theme

10. The Battle Tower (Crystal only), adding endless challenge to the games

1. It still is the only generation to have 16 badges
2. The closest I got to catching all 251 pokemon (My game crashed at 245)
3. The fact that there was night and day
4. The ice path irked me beyond anything
5. Hunting down the three dogs
6. Th magnet train made my life
7. Crystal version with the moving sprites was amazing
8. Bug catching contest
9. Fell in love with dunsparce, the most under appreciated pokemon
10. Did I mention 16 badges?

1. The way I felt when I first stumbled upon the Ruins of Alph. It gave me such chills, especially when I turned on the radio. Nothing else in the games ever made me feel the same way.
2. "Foe's MILTANK used ROLLOUT!"
3. Silver was more than a flat rival character. He had a story and development, AND he was pretty to boot.
4. Lance was the coolest champion of them all.
5. I didn't even know about shiny Pokemon back then, so I was always under the impression that the Red Gyarados was a legendary in its own right. Something about that just made it awesome.
6. I know where I was every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Do you?
7. They were the first games where you could visit two regions if you don't count their remakes. I was so excited when I found out I could go back to Kanto.
8. Battling Red was indescribable. No one had told me you could fight him in the game, so when I stumbled upon him on Mt. Silver, it was pretty magical.
9. Me and Typhlosion were bros.
10. Best Pokemon designs and some of the best legendaries.
11. Running into my first legendary dog was an epic experience.
12. Had the best BGM in the entire series. Ice Path anyone?

1.Typhlosion
2.Reminds me of my childhood
3.The day and night cycle seemed revolutionary
4.2 regions made it seem incrediblly long and gave you more playtime which meant more fun
5.The trainer sprites looked awesome
6.Being able to walk into the daycare center and talk to the pokemon
7.Spending forever in the national park trying to catch a Scyther
8.The pokegear was fun to use
9.When you talk to your rival and he kicks you
10.All the new pokemon,the Eeveelutions,Pichu,etc...

1. New starters
2. 100 new Pokemon
3. A new region
4. New gym leaders
5. New moves

(I know the first five happen every generation now, but back then all these new ideas were actually new)

6. A new(ish) elite four
7. You could visit Kanto 3 years after you first did
8. It's the only game where I've had a team of Lv. 100s
9. The return of Team Rocket
10. Defeating Red made me feel invincible