2nd Gen 10,000 Reasons Why

[dragon0fangz]

1. searching for raikou
2. Pokemon Stadium 2
3. Red and post-Johto
4. Surprisingly good playability for an older game.
5. 16 Gym Leaders. (All games should have 16)
6. Some of the pokemon.
7. the night mode. creepy.
8. Ho-oh and Lugia
9. The Johto region
10. All the caves and non-route areas.

 

[Balalaika]

1) Kanto gym battle remix.
2) QUILAVA, QUILAVA, QUILAVA.
3) Day & night.
4) The game doesn't end with the Elite 4.
5) The sprites are cool.
6) Team Rocket still existed.
7) Pokemon could breed, yey, egg moves.
8) The volcano on Cinnabar erupted, the abandoned power plant became in use, times changed.
9) The game actually felt Japanese.
10) The rival's team didn't have a water, grass and fire type, or a flying type.

 

[Heart's Soul]

640) Music was uber-nostalgic
641) Best selling GB game ever (next to Tetris)
642) The rival was evil (the only one so far)
643) Someone destroyed a graveyard to build a radio tower.
644) Mr. Fuji is back!
645) Someone hid an electrical device in a pool... and it still works!
646) The funny foreign Rocket guy.
647) Battle Tower
648) Eugene was an awesome trainer!
649) There were 251 Pokemon back then, not 649.

 

[monkeyandhead]

650) Being able to catch an Aipom soooo earllyyy.
651) The daycare Egg had a big chance of being shiny, and I got a Shiny Elekid.
652) Best gameplay storyline of all games.
653) Game goes quickly, but not too quickly.
654) Being able to bring in Pokemon from previous generations.
655) The Eevee we get for free rocks.
656) The guy that is outside the cave near Lavender town says 'Hahahahahahahahaha' when he spots you.
657) 16 gyms.
658) Lapras, FTW?
659) Large diversity of Pokemon in all routes, not just the two same Pokemon in the first three routes (like B&W).

 

[avolonsaber]

Silver FOREVER

1. Totodile and its evolution family are my favorite Pokemon.
2. I think the Legendaries are better.
3. The story is better.
4. The new Pokemon are great.
5. Some old Pokemon return.
6. The region has daytime and nighttime .
7. You can re-battle trainers.
8. You can re-battle them because they'll call you for a rematch on your nifty, new, watch thingy.
9. Kanto is just a little bit to the East and it includes the original leaders, Team Rocket, and new quests. Seriously, its like playing a semi-cut-down Red Version.
10. You get to see where Ash(Red)ended up, and even loose to him a few times(I never beat him on the first try, lol).

I tried putting them in order from greatest to least; 1 to 10, but I couldn't order them right. So these are just ten great reasons, lol.

9.) the nostalgia you feel when you get to kanto... "three years ago..." and stuff like that. and the fact that you battled yourself in the end (red).

Oh man, I forgot to include that one in my list. The nostalgia was a big one for me.

 

[LightOfTruth]

700: Part of Kanto charm was the lack of things to do. Bit annoying when you want a train though
701: Pokegear Radio Old Man station was something that you cannot do on HG/SS without a GB Player

 

[WinterSong]

1) Silver. Duh.
2) National Park Theme
3) Catching Staryu at night.
4) Your rival is a criminal. o_O
5) Making babies was okay as a kid.
6) Found out that Ditto was a pimp.
7) My mom wasting my money for items.
8) Realizing I had a HUGE amount of savings from my mommeh.
9) Exploring two regions.
10) "..."

 

[U.Flame]

1: There's something about the old style music that brings nostalgia.
2: It's my only game where I personally found a real, legitimate shiny. That 1 in 8000-something chance.
3: Quilava, one of my 5 favorite Pokemon is available.
4: Mew was the cutest in the 2nd gen.
5: Thanks to glitches in the 1st and 2nd gen, Mew and Celebi are obtainable without cheating.
6: Your rival is the exact opposite of a wimp.
7: Your room is the most decoratable of all generations.
8: It's the last generation where they actually TRIED to make a good Pokemon game.
9: Two regions and 16 badges are available.
10: It's the generation that introduced shinies!

Oh, and Balalaika's number 2 reason: HECK YEAH!

 

[vinylscratchp0n3]

Ten more!
1 Ampharos.
2 The music.
3 Connecting to a game set before the one you're playing.
4 Finally beating Red.
5 I absolutely loved the music.
6 It was when people cared more about gameplay than graphics.
7 When there were 251, not 649.
8 My first Pokémon game ever.
9 When I got them I did not expect glittery cartridges, just plain like RGBY.
10 Did I mention the music?

 

[Germaniac]

1. Because it was simple and awesome

2. Because the Pokemon are more awesome than later generations

3. Because the bike music

4. Because the story

5. Because it include 2 regions

6. Because it was my first game

7. Because Goldenrod city is my fav place

8. Because Unown animation

9. Because it make me liked computer, really

10. Because I beat everyone with my starter

 

[Shadow Ball]

1. The Rival is epic.
2. Espeon and Umbreon.
3. The new Pokemon were awesome without being weird looking.
4. Morty. <3
5. Best Map ever.
6. It introduced breeding.
7. Your mom saves tons of money for you because you always forget to check.
8. Suicune!
9. You get to go back to Kanto. :3
10. You get to finally beat Red.

 

[Erufuun]

1. Because it was the first present I opened on Christmas.

2. Because I thought if you talked to someone long enough, you would get their number.

3. Because the rival seemed evil. (I just love how he kicks your butt away from the lab.)

4. Because you could skip the tutorial on how to catch a Pokemon.

5.Because the three useful elemental punches were able to be bought.

6. Because the Kimono girls were so fun to battle. (Not to mention the Surf HM.)

7. Because the Whirl islands were so fun to explore.

8. Because I helped my friends who were stuck in Ice Cave. (Seriously, that sliding ice puzzle was hard back in the day.)

9. Because Red was mysteriously awesome.

10. Because Typholsion kicked EVERYONE'S butt. (Thunderpunch, Flamethrower, Earth Quake, and Fire Punch, that's all I needed.)

Ooooh, nostalgia~

 

[miltankRancher]

The Metal Generation brought back nostalgic memories to me...

1. Because Gold is the first Pokemon game I ever played.

2. Because I saw my favorite Pokemon, Crobat.

3. Because Hoothoot in the Bell Tower is hard to beat when you used Chikorita.

4. Because Whitney's and Clair's gym is two of the three gyms that scared the hell out of me. Difficulty level set too high, along with Norman.

5. Because I love Bug-catching every thursday! or staurday! I forgot what day is it.

6. Because you can only have a limited number of friends. Shows only how we need to value them.

7. Because Morty's maze is too wicked good.

8. Because Falkner has a Pidgeotto set to level 9.

9. Because it taught me that not all eggs will hatch to Togepis. Sometimes Geodudes. Especially when you breed Geodudes with Onix you got from a trade.

10. Because it's the golden, silver, and crystalline years of my life. :)

 

[Kelp]

1. Shiny Pokemon, nuff said.
2. RADIOOOO
3. Kurt's awshum pokeballs.
4. Not having the 99999999 pokedollars to buy the slowpoketail. xD
5. Easy Elite 4.
6. Lv. +80 Pikachu in Red's Team.
7. Night + Day
8. Bug Catching Contest
9. SUNKERN <3333
10. Train to Goldenrod/Saffron

 

[AliceBlaze]

1. Best legendaries.
2. Lance is the champion and he uses dragon types, one of my favourite types.
3. You can visit two regions in one game.
4. Best starters.
5. Best anime saga. (I know that has nothing to do with the G/S/C games, I just really like Johto)
6. The creepy Unown radio music.
7. Espeon and Umbreon.
8. Day and night feature.
9. My favourite rival (Blue/Gary) is a gym leader.
10. One word: QUILAVA

 

[butterbiscuit]

Gold is still my favorite to this day.

1. Pretty much started me on video games.
2. Fabulous 8-bit music. Can't beat it.
3. Red. When I first saw him, I was like, "Oh, hello, sir! Why are you up here?" *champion music starts* "WHAT THE HECK?!" (It took me many, many times to beat him)
4. Pokemon was simple back then, no GTS, no cloning, no RNG'ing.
5. Two regions? I'm in.
6. Pkmn Trainer Red was defeated! "..."
7. Silver was a criminal. Gives you a reason to pound him! D:<
8. "Looks like you can peel this poster back!" YES. "...Nothing happened!" XD
9. Night and day!
10. New types!

 

[matt steel]

1. Quagsire was introduced into the world
2. Becoming a Herbal Vet (Healing miltank with berrys)
3. Stressing out over attract/rollout combo.
4. Making a Gym Leader cry.
5. Having a Rival who actually did something worth hating them for...
6. First game with a "post elite-4" (Mewtwo doesnt really count)
7. Trains xD
8. Beating the character who you used in the originals.
9. Steel type shows up and makes us all confused on how to take them out.
10. The first game to make ditto a ****.

 

[agumon]

1) Gold was the first video game I remember playing

2) I bought the game on vacation and played it constantly and everyone thought I was the stuff.

3) Chikorita being the only grass starter I've ever liked.

4) Ho-Oh, Lugia, Entei, Suciune (Sp?) and riakou are the best legendaries

5) Beating the elite four and realizing the game wasn't over yet...

6) Smashing Red.. :))

7) Saving Miltank so I could battle in the gym made me feel like I was in the T.V. show.

8) Something about it just made it more special then the other games their was a feel of accomplishment when I finally beat Red.

9) The Rival! He was so cool. Way better than being a relative of the Prof.

10) Pokegear, Yeah I was a fan of Pokegear :)

 

[PatJamma]

Ok let's do this!

1. Crystal was the first game that I personally owned
2. Cydaquil is my favorite starter
3. The ******* of a rival made it all that more satisfying when you beat him
4. The Togepi you get from the egg (one of my favorite pokemon)
5. Not knowing how to get around the strange "tree"
6. Goldenrod's catchy tune
7. Whitney is the hardest gym leader besides Claire
8. The game corner's table game was badass
9. Team Rocket's theme
10. Chuck is named after Chuck Norris
11. Not having a pokemon that could fly on cianwood city
12. Only needing one pokemon and a Krabby HM slave
13. Not knowing how to go to Kanto
14. Thinking that in order to get to Kanto you needed a lvl 100 pokemon
15. Taking a boat to Kanto
16. Catching a Snorlax with Leftovers
17. Teaching Zap Cannon via TM to that Snorlax
18. Moves like Zap Cannon and Fire Blast hit a lot more often
19. Taking a Train back to Johto
20. Defeating Red with one pokemon

Sorry I posted 20... 10 just wasn't enough for me *sniff* it brings back so many memories.

 

[♠Dawn Rayne♠]

1. The Radio :) (Ohhh radio, tell me everything you know!)
2. Gary F'N Oak/Blue finally got the recognition he deserves (Gym Leader Status)
3. The return of Kanto
4. The debut of the time feature
5. Bug catching contests
6. Team rocket blasting off agggain!
7. Shiny pokemon ftw
8. Ruins of Alph and Unknown quest
9. Mystery Gift
10. I liked how the rival became all soft at the end lol