>>23511196>>23511219The internet didn't suddenly appear in every house when it started happening.
Even with the internet you had to sort through loads of Kids all around the country spouting shit like
beat the E4 100 times in RSE and talk to steven at the space station and you can catch deoxys!
If you beat gary oak 20 times with a pikachu Professor oak will let you go to johto!
so not only did you have that, you still had kids on the playground giving the same bullshit advice
and when I read the first information about gen 4 and showed all my friends in the school library, we all spent the rest of the day discussing other evolutions we wanted to see and what Gen4 would bring
>tfw the only place you can get hyped about new pokemon games and share that hype is here on /vp/ 