2nd Gen WTF moment thread

[Roaring Moon]

How do you play it on the original GameBoy? If you tried to play it, it would say "This game is meant to be played on GameBoy Color" or something.

While that's the case with Crystal, Gold and Silver are in fact able to be played on an original Game Boy.

 

[mamoswineftw]

Actually, I just remembered another moment where I was just FML - this is stupid: you know that Jr trainer at the end of Rock tunnel in RBY? She has an Oddish, something else and a Pidgey. That bloody bird vs my lvl 40 Charizard: i wanted to know what the move 'Rage' was like, i'd never used it before, so I went ahead and selected it. First time it got the Pidgey down to about 20% health left. The Pidgey used sand Attack. Next turn, Rage misses and the Pidgey uses Sand attack Again. This goes on until my accuracy is -6, adn then my charizard with >100HP proceeds to go down from Quick Attacks and Gusts. WTF

EDIT: One more that I just remembered, so bear with me.
I had gone through and absolutely destroyed every trainer on my Silver version, so I decided to start catching all the pokemon. I went through the Whirl Islands and everything, getting lost several times because I didn't have flash, and finally made my way over to Lugia. There, I saved in front of him, stocked full of pokeballs of every type (including all Kurt's types, this was after ~150 hours of playtime), and proceeded to try and catch him.

I spent 2 days playing (intermittently, we were on holiday and quite busy) and failing to catch the Lugia every single time. And I'll never forget when my 6 year old brother took my game whilst I was in the toilet, with one Ice Punch from my Feraligator managed to freeze the Lugia and get it down to a sliver of health, and then catch it with 2 pokeballs. Then he came and told me that the 'big bird was sick', and you know why - IT WAS A SHINY!!!!

I have only ever had 2 shinies in all the games I've played, and my brother has been the one to catch both of them.