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Silver was my first Pokémon game. I didn't choose it. Someone at my school offered to trade it for some Pac-Man game I got with my GBA in fourth grade. I like Lugia better though so it worked out
Before I got my GBA I thought video games were stoopid because I was secretly jealous of everyone who had them, even though I had been obsessed with Pokémon since first grade
I picked Chikorita and put over 200 hours into it (which was a lot when I was little) but unfortunately the battery died around seventh or eighth grade. I cried a lot.
It must have taken me at least 50 tries to get past Will and fifty more to beat Lance.
I beat Red on my first try though, even though most of my team was in the fifties and sixties!
I guess I had gotten better by then.
That was the only Pokémon game where I thought of my Pokémon as my friends after the initial playthrough. Nowadays I think of them as my friends until I beat the Elite Four, then I just box them and forget about them.
I convinced myself there was a secret way to get Celebi and no one had found it yet. So I spent a long time walking around Ilex Forest and trying to get into the lake on top of the Cinnabar volcano.
I liked doing everything that changed day to day, like collecting berries and rematching trainers and taking the S.S. Aqua.
I didn't know the days for Mt. Moon so I would go there every night. It was like my base.
It was only game where I raised Pokémon that weren't for competitive battling. So I would spend a few days levelling up a Furret just because I liked Furret and wanted to take one with me. I had like 20 favorites that I would swap in and out of my team. But I never boxed my starter once. That's why Meganium is my favorite today and why I always get a Meganium in every game and carry him around with me and pretend he's the original Meganium
I'm going to back up my save file before I transfer my Pokémon from this version to USUM. I want to be able to play with them in Silver forever.
