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I've told this story once before in a thread about our favorite pokemon, but here it is again.
>Early grade school
>Red/Blue come out in North America
>Hear about the ability to make a squad of kaiju monsters and fight your friends, and love it.
>Get Blue version and pick Squirtle because Ninja Turtles.
>Play virtually non-stop after school and homework
>Squirtle turns to Wartortle, then eventually to Blastoise
>Eventually have the first level 100s at school
>Gain a reputation after being the first to catch Mewtwo
>Keep getting challenged to link cable battles at recess
>Go on an undefeated streak for the rest of the school year
>Feels good knowing I'm actually good at something other than school work.
>Gold and Silver come out
>Pokemon isn't cool at this point
>Get made fun of a bit
>Barely play my copy of Silver
>On top of everything else, discover my save file in Blue is corrupted and was wiped
>In my mind, Blastoise and my other pokemon were "dead"
>Stop playing pokemon entirely
Fast forward many years later...
>Diamond and Pearl come out
>New Nintendo DS technology allows for wifi battles and trading
>Sounds pretty cool, so I decide to pick up a copy in a fit of nostalgia
>Consider the starters
>Oh look, another turtle! A grass one. That's cool.
>Discover he evolves into pic related, a badass mountain turtle tank thing that sounds like a revving engine.
>Think this is the coolest pokemon ever, and takes me back to the Blastoise years
>Think aloud that it would be cool if there was a fire turtle to go with the grass and water ones
>Discover Torkoal exists
>TheMagicIsBack.jpg
>Today
>Have a bunch of Torterras in storage for battles
>One is a physical attacker, one is a wall that sets up spikes, another is a max IV shiny
>And then there is another one
>This one's moveset isn't optimal, no max IVs, and isn't even level 100
>But it still gets use every now and then
>Because it is the same Torterra that brought me through Pearl version and brought me back.
