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This is coming from someone who grew up playing Blue and Yellow religiously before dipping out in Gen 2. Obviously Gen 1 started the series and was amazing for it's time and is the reason I love the franchise, but going back to play those games now when you look past the nostalgia, they're terrible.
The Ghost/Psychic type glitch. One shotting everything with Tauros and hyper beam, the game randomly gltiching out during normal gameplay, the limited bag capacity, certain moves being completely broken and non functioning like focus energy, the list could go on!
I recently played through Red, Blue and Yellow again at the same time whereas last year I did the same playing FR and LG at the same time. Now I'm doing FG and LF again with LGP as well and I most say FRLG is the defacto way to go through Kanto. Gen 1 doesn't even compared to their remakes.
As a kid I dipped out at Gen 2 so I never played GSC but after playing HGSS and my experience with Gen 1 I won't even bother to do so now.