To this day i still play Fire Red, actually every Sunday a friend of mine who lives far away usually visits me this day and we like to play video games, so our last idea was to play side by side Pokemon Fire Red (Me) and Leaf Green (My Friend) with to see at the end who finishes first, who grows the best team (Including hilarious nicknames to our pokemans) and utterly decided who is a better trainer in a link battle. We are currently after the third gym, currently he is ahead of me, but overall i have the better balanced team.
Its pretty fun how you can find different ways to play this game, bring entertainment and overall have fun with friends.
(I´ll attach pictures of our progress tonight)