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2nd Gen 10,000 Reasons Why

There should be more posts here.

I love this thread.

1. Watching Mary (radio person) run around after not getting to interview you after beating Lance.
2. Wondering why they made it Pokémon Crystal instead of Pokémon Bronze. (you know, Gold, Silver, Bronze) It could have been Entei and not Suicune!
3. The Radio. It is the best change from RGBY. Period.
4. National Park's music. It was/is so easy to fall asleep to it.
5. Training on your rival every Wednesday at the Indigo Plateau.
6. The clock feature. Although the battery's lifetime is painfully short, watching day turn to night, different things happening on different days, the clock basically made GSC what they are.
7. Hunting and hunting and hunting for dragon scales to get a Kingdra.
8. Having a WTF moment when I realized Cerulean Cave wasn't there.
9. The "Team Rocket Grunt Spotted You" music.
10. Having a reason to get up early.
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Another one! This game is just really good! :)
1. The sprites
2. 100 new pokemon? Holy ****!
3.Out of pokeball animation
4. Your mom. No seriously, I like how she saves your money
5. Music. 'Nuff said
6. Morning, Day, Night
7.Cerelean cave: Finding out there was no Mewtwo. FFFFUUUUUUUUU-
8. Amphahros, Umbreon
9. 1st game I've ever owned. My bro had FireRed but I got Gold
10. Grinding was way easier than R/B/Y
 
1) Crystal introduced the animation sprites <33
2) Espeon and Umbreon were introduced.
3) The games are the longest Pokemon one's for hand held consoles.
4) The music ~
5) The sprites.
6) How your Mum saves your money Then spends it U.U
7) We all loved training on this game :]
8) My first Pokemon game I ever owned.
9) Lugia is the shiz.
10) How rumors were carried on ~
 
1. Johto Starters are the best.
2. Favorite starting town.
3. Greatest PokeMusic.
4. Introduced rebattling trainers.
5. Introduced shiny Pokemon.
6. Has best rival.
7. Travel to multiple regions.
8. Battle your persona from the previous game.
9. Best towns.
10. Best legendaries.
 
We needz moar posts!
1 It rules. 'nuff said.
2 Oooooh! Shiny!
3 It's in color!
4 Epic soundtrack.
5 Longest Pokémon game to date. (not including HGSS)
6 When you trade with RGBY, you're going back in time.
7 The magnet train mini-cutscene.
8 You can actually tell what Pokémon you're using solely from the backsprite now. *cough*Venusaur*cough*
9 The music was more epic than Rush (70's band)
10 It was better than RGBY. (hard to do)
 
1. First time using a team (and training it to level 100) rather than just using a single overpowered Blastoise

2. Other people I knew in real life actually played it--I have great memories of a bunch of us struggling as a group on New Year's Eve to get through Ice Path's mazes, which seemed really challenging at the time, and I spent hours coming up with an completing elaborate checklists of things to do in GSC with a friend of mine

3. My first completed Pokedex

4. Lots of new features without cutting out old features (clock, breeding, etc.)

5. An unprecedented 16 badges--the game made you think you were finished, then surprised you with more to do

6. Catchy music that I actually wanted to keep the volume turned up for

7. This was probably just a factor of my age and my insistence on using an unevolved Totodile for half the game before building a team, but it was the last game that I found challenging.

8. Game-ruining glitches were much harder to encounter (Missingno used to terrify me in Red)

9. It died first--while this doesn't seem like a particularly good reason, loss makes us appreciate things more than we ever realized while they were alive, and while I hated seeing Gold's battery go, it left a lasting impression on me and made me do a lot of reflecting on my childhood.

10. Introduced new material while creating a bridge to the previous generation, a novel idea at the time. And you could actually trade both ways, unlike with Pal Park in the newer games.
 
Wartortle Battalion said:
9 The music was more epic than Rush (70's band)
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No. Lol

In no particular order...
1)The music was beast.
2)The starters were great (Totodile ftw).
3)My first lvl 100 w/o rare candies (Feraligatr aka Hydro).
4)The rival battle after Azela gym destroyed me... And still does to this day.
5)The length was very enjoyable, and the Red fight made the whole experience feel like an epic journey.
6)Kanto was great.
7)Team Rocket stepped it up a bit :)
8)Last gen before the Pokemon became a bit too... digimon-like
9)Lugia
10)Shinies

I could definately go on... Saddest day when my Silver died :[ my first lvl 100 (and 15 clones of it) is gone forever. They are for sure the best games in the series.
 
1) "..."
2) Johto and Kanto in one? Oh yes I think so!
3) I like my Pikachu shineh.
4) Scizor and Houndoom in one team spells awesomeness.
5) Crack-type matchups. Water/Rock? We got it! Dark/Ice? We got it! Steel/Flying? We got it!
6) The music of Red/Lance and the Crystal Legendary Beasts.
7) The Legendary Beasts themselves!
8) Playing Crystal and feeling "What if I haven't discovered all there is to this game...?"
9) Battle Tower!
10) The most interesting new generation pokemon, like, evaar!
 
1. The starters were amazing. Cyndaquil was absolutely adorable when I first saw it. (eventhoughIchosetotodile)
2. The music.
3. They made a VAN based off of Lugia. That's just a win for me.
4. The three wandering legendaries people claim to be dogs >_> Entei and Raikou are not dogs gosh >8C
5. The ability to visit Kanto.
6. Kris is probably the only female design I've really liked thus far.
7. Red still thinks it's cool to stand on a mountain in a blizzard.
8. Sentret and Mareep~
9. I just love Enteiiii~
10. The Towers they added were amazing for some reason.
 
This thread rocks :)

1. Johto is the best region for starting out with a Fire type, imo. I remember that it was always so much more fun to go through when I had Cyndaquil.

2. The music was tops.

3. Going through Kanto always feel so weird, I loved it.

4. Ruins of Alph.

5. The fear and awe of going up against Red.

6. Gen 2 was why I fell in love with Team Rocket. (slowpoke tails!)

7. Hunting down the Legendary dogs.

8. The Battle Tower in Crystal.

9. The day and night system.

10. The map was a lot more fun than Kanto.
 
I love G/S/C because...

1. The plot is so fun to play through over and over... it's different every time.

2. It's fun chasing my legendary beasts around and feeling rewarded when I catch them, since it's the only way you can get them outside of HG/SS if I remember correctly.

3. I like the old, nostalgic quality of the sprites. They're better than Red and Blue, and would be as good as FireRed and LeafGreen if the Gameboy Color allowed for it.

4. Bug catching contests are really fun. They made up a lot of my time on Gold, Crystal and HeartGold before I started my Shiny Articuno hunt XD

5. The Pokemon had really creative designs and names.

6. I could defeat the Elite Four with only a newly-caught Suicune, but on the other hand, I could also get a challenge with a full team trained to the same level.

7. Skarmory. :D

8. The Dragon Cave and the Dragon-type gym were awesome challenges.

9. The Odd Egg has a 50% chance of being shiny (though mine never sparkled...)

10. The cartridges are sparkly, and it's fun to turn it on and watch the "retro" animation.
 
Oohooh. This looks fun.

1. Quilava and Ampharos are my top 2 favorite Pokemon.
2. Surprise! Kanto!
3. Lance/Red Theme <3
4. Olivine, Ecruteak, and Azalea, oh my!
5. Teaming up with Lance to take down Team Rocket
6. Shinies. Although I didn't get one other than that Red Gyarados. =[
7. Crystal Pokemon sprite animations were so much better than 3rd and 4th gen.
8. The towers + 3 beasts. Even the Sprout Tower. =3
9. Day/Night~
10. OHCRAPITSTHEDUDEFROMRED&BLUE!
 
1. I got it on release day, at a hard time in my life, and I always remember my Dad handing it to me :D
2. Lucky Channel, best radio station ever, I listened to that music on loop for hours.
3. Fighting 'yourself' from the previous gen was an awesome idea ( I know it wasn't you, but I always thought of it that way, in order to finish the game I had to beat myself from the previous game)
4. New Gyms, and old Gyms, I actually thought that was going to be a trend in all future games :(
5. The storyline was brilliant. And amazingly simplistic at the same time.
6. I spent well over 3 hours trying to get through to Blackthorn through that damn Ice Puzzle
7. It's one of the few games to ever make me scared to go somewhere in it, Tin Tower creeped me out.
8. Making sure every real day, to go on the game and get Apricorns.
9. Day & Night system, the original.
10. The 'side-quests' like the Bug catching contest, and catching the biggest Magikarp, small things like that.
 
1. It had Hoppip in it!
2. Best credits ever.
3. Best music ever.
4.You could go to two regions.
5. It has Team Rocket in it.
6. It was in colour.
7. Cutest Chansey sprites ever!
8. Goldenrod City.
9. Bug-Catching Contest.
10. Battling Red.
 
MysticFlames said:

7. Crystal Pokemon sprite animations were so much better than 3rd and 4th gen.
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I love you

err anyway
1. Team Rocket did evil things (slowpoke tail anyone?)
2. Your rival steals his pokemon
3. Your rival isn't in any way your friend
4. Espeon (one of my new favorites)
5. "Do you know what you just did? You've just taken your first step into Kanto"
6. Whirl Islands
7. Tin tower (both made you work for your legendarys)
8. You couldn't take the beasts until you saw them once
9. No natures make pokemon how they intended to be
10. It's fun and easy to grind
 
1. Traveling to Kanto
2. Best music I've ever heard.
3. Actual good credits.
4. Not one bad Pokemon.
5. Bug Catching Contest.
6. Red/Blue references like battling Red.
7. Day/Night
8. Awesome sprites and animations.
9. Never gets boring.
10. Time Machine.
 
  1. The only game with 16 Gyms
  2. The first game that I trained Pokémon to Level 100
  3. One of my Favourite Pokémon games of all time
  4. One of the best storylines
  5. Team Rocket.. great team!
  6. So many great memories, played it so much
  7. Introduced a whole bunch of new, great Pokémon!
  8. Introduced a fantastic Region (Johto) with lots of great towns
  9. Had a superb soundtrack
  10. Pokégear
 
1. Silver was the first hand-held pokémon game I ever had
2. DAY AND NIGHT feature and different days!! Hurray for realism!
3. The fact that you could go to TWO regions
4. The fact that you could go loads of times on the SS Anne to train up your team
5. The Johto region is actually probably my favourite (love Hoenn too though)
6. The phone!! And the radio!!
7. The AWESOME Eeveelutions in this game - when I got my first ever Umbreon - I was in love
8. The pokémon in general - Typhlosion, Houndoom, Suicune etc
9. Pokémon genders!! BREEDING TIME :D
10. The Bug-Catching contest!! And other side quests and storylines :)
 
it the only game where you can catch good pokemon early in the game ghastly,bellsprout, growlithe poliwhril.

 
1. Day & Night !
2. Espeon & Umbreon !
3. Johto & Kanto !
4. OST = WIN
5. Unique Sprites !
6. Many Legendaries !
7. Starters = WIN !
8. Awesome intro !
9. Color !
10. Breeding ! Eggs !
 
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