Story Time

Started by Socratic August 1st, 2016 7:38 PM
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Socratic

Howdy

Male
Hoenn
Seen September 15th, 2022
Posted August 19th, 2016
462 posts
6.8 Years
Do you have any stories of your playthroughs of Pokemon? Epic tales of conquer? Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat, or vice versa?
Or just a funny story?

I have a few tales to share, but do you folks? Feel free to!

This one is sad ;(

And long :P
Spoiler:

SO, I'm about seven years old, playing on my Leaf Green. I'm just travelling along on my merry way through Kanto. I had only just started the new game up, and had just battled my Rival on Route 22, collected the Potion, etc. I went North next, of course, to Viridian Forest on my way to Pewter. I was still pretty new to Pokemon then, though it was my second time in Kanto, so I was just walking around, looking for hidden items in the grass when

BAM

A SHINY METAPOD APPEARED

I saw the twinkle. I saw its scarlet glow. I caught it due to its uniqueness. But alas; I did not know what a Shiny Pokemon was.

A little backstory; I may not have had any experience with Shinies, but I did have experience with NES glitches. Knowing that glitches often change the appearance of characters, I thought of this as a glitch; knowing also that glitches can disappear when you turn off the game made me never turn it off. EVER. I kept my GPA SP plugged in *constantly.* I also never saved; if I was never turning it off, I would never need to. Waste of time, I thought.

I was wrong.

In a few weeks the inevitable happened. I left the game unplugged for too long; the battery died. My scarlet Metapod was lost forever. But did I care at the time? No. Just another graphical error been and gone. I didn't find out the truth for years. However, there were no worries, no tears she'd on that day.

But I'm crying now :P

.

...

A few weeks later, the exact same thing happened with a Shroomish on my Sapphire.


So, how about you guys?
A gift from a friend:
Thank you Muncho!

smocks

fiat lux

Female
California
Seen March 25th, 2019
Posted March 10th, 2019
When I was young, I'd inherited my cousin's Crystal game right.
So he'd already had a save file on it so of course wanting ti to be my own journey on there instead, I'd restarted the game. When I was playing and it was time to save, when the confirmation of "Are you sure to overwrite last save state?" and I was freaking out cause I thought atm it would erase all of the gameplay I had done so I didn't save, but I knew if I'd turned it off all my gameplay would be gone.
So, I'd never turned that gameboy off, AT ALL.
I remember vividly I was about to challenge the Elite Four and I was called to lunch, when I'd put my gameboy down I'd accidentally touched the cartilage and it popped out (but I didn't notice.) When I'd came back from lunch and was ready to take on the Elite Four, it was frozen right and I'd started freaking out and I had no choice but to turn off the gameboy and start from the very beginning of my game.
Very traumatic and that's why I save my game all the time right before I do something lol.

Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
This is a more recent story but one that I still can't get over.

So I was playing through my copy of Omega Ruby a few days after launch and searching for an Electrike under the cycling road, my first encounter in that entire route was a shiny Electrike...

I was so amazed and annoyed at the same time, I've spent countless hours in past games searching for a specific shiny Pokemon and here one appears without me even wanting it. Needless to say that Electrike was eventually a shiny Mega Manectric and a vital part of my OR team.