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Greentext time. Mine's nearly done, but I've hit a wall
>be me, halfway through first year of British college
>a friend wants some Pokemon, I can't quite remember how it happened or what he wanted, but I'm sure that he was about halfway through Red at the time
>I say sure, confident that I'll have what he needs
>check my old carts
>I want to say that none of them had any saves on them, but that makes so little sense that I can only assume that one of them would've had a save in some useless place like the 3rd gym
>regardless, none of my carts were in any useful position
>get an idea
>come in to college the next day with all three gen 1 carts
>feeling generous, offer to lend them to him
>another friend overhears, we agree to grab all three and catch 'em all
>apparently none of us knew that you didn't really need Yellow for that
>original guy keeps his Red, other guy takes my Blue, I keep Yellow
>other guy drops out soon after, don't even think that there was a save on the (Blue) cart when I got it back
>Red guy carries on, he helps me get a few trade evolutions early on but by the last time that we traded I was barely past the second gym and could do little more than give him the starters
>gen 1 being gen 1, we couldn't even breed shit. Which really makes you wonder what you should do with one time only Pokemon that evolve
>for example, I got his unevolved dome fossil pokemon (which he wanted back immediately), but what was I supposed to do with the three starters? Arrange to meet him before I evolved them for a second time?
>anyway, I don't think that I beat the game until the end of the year after, meaning the summer before I left for university. I got quite annoyed by how easy the game was, but the early Alakazam couldn't have helped. The biggest challenge was probably holding on to my sanity during the bullshit that is the Safari Zone. What was it? 1% encounters that fucking flee?
wow, didn't expect to cont
