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>Got Pokemon Red version from my Dad when my parents got a divorce. I was like 9 or 10. Neither of them really understood video games, so I had a Gameboy for about a year before that and no games.
>I spent days straight playing Red when I was at my Dad's house, because I wasn't allowed to take it to my Mom's.
>Mom and Mom's new boyfriend would shit talk my Dad nonstop and talk about how terrible he was for letting me play video games.
>It was a huge part of my social stuff and was a huge escape for me from a reality where I was having some serious issues (Mom's new BF was pretty abusive and I didn't take the divorce well).
>I used to talk to my Pokemon and imagine what it would be like to be a real Pokemon trainer, on my own where no one could hurt me and I'ld be able to travel alone with my magic fairy dog-babies.
>Bulbasaur was my absolute bro and I would tell him to wait for me when I had to leave and go back to my Mom's.
>Got grounded once for like 6 months for bringing just red version over to my Mom's house, not even my Gameboy, to show the girl I liked who lived in the apartment next door my Mew.
>They took my Red version and everything and anything else I had that was Pokemon related and packed it up into a box in their room.
>It took my Dad threatening legal action for them having "Stole his property" for him to get it back.
>Eventually they lobbied the court for more custody and I had to stop taking the game to school and my social life started dying.
For a bit of my childhood Red version was basically how I dealt with life.
