>>52399954>Especially glitch citythe only bugs discovered when gen 1 was the only pokemon gen were missingno and bills garden. shit like generating a mew through trainer fly glitch, CHIEF, pokedoll skip in pokemon tower, the bike text skip, brock gym skip, etc. were all discovered much much later.
people thought pokemon was glitchy because missingno existed, and it was less of a "oh this game is broken" and more of "i have summoned an evil entity through an oddly specific set of steps and i am genuinely worried i have permanently damaged my pokemon game (which turned out to be a rumor gamefreak put out).
there's a huge difference between an autistic speedrunner data mining to find a glitch for a route and launching my game day 1 to have it chug frames constantly.