>>56414185Same, but it wasn't extreme hype. Just like everything else, we'd seen it a few times in ads and things like kids magazine articles and whatever. It was cool but it wasn't mind blowing
For those of us back then and not plugged into the early internet, we didn't know about Gen 2. Japan had had details and demos trickle since '97. The west had a tiny few things. We had Ho-Oh, Togepi, Marill, Donphan, and no real hint of anything more than 'one new Pokemon every now and then', no generations or eras of games. The Lugia movie was probably one of the first concrete feelings of knowing there would be a batch of new to come one day.
