>>46453221It ALWAYS was, you drooling fucker, whole premise of the game was a kid leaving home and exploring his surroundings. EVERY game's started with a new trainer leaving home. Hell, Tajiri even said he'd created it specifically to allow kids to have an experience exploring greenspaces and catching creatures to fight against their friends' as he saw how much greenspace was shrinking in Japan as it modernised.
Don't fucking talk to me about who it was made for, part of the novelty of Pokemania was how a kid's game captured the world's imagination.
