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I was standing outside of Oyajima Naraouke Duty Free Shop in Osaka, it was raining that day with quite a few ahead of me. Mostly Japanese. My father is a Marine and brought me to live with him during the summer since he and my mother divorced but I decided to stay with him a good portion of my life. Even went to school until transferred to an actual Japanese curriculum.
Anyway, back to the story. I was surprised to see a lot of other girls with their moms and dads, I was a little older than most. 11. They looked to be 5-8 but they are shorter so they could of been older.
Anyway. I was waiting under the umbrella until 08:00/8a.m JST. The shop finally opened and was one of the few stores that opened that early close to base.
I was one of the first 100 or so in our district and ward to acquire Pokemon Green and Red. Followed by Blue which was sold out of Nintendo Japan (in Yokohama and Tokyo) respectively.
Fast forwarding (I was in line for Blue's release at Tokyo Nintendo Co) I moved back to the United States where I heard news of the International Pokemon Release (and anime) and was hopeful. My Father had been stationed in New York: Fort Drum.
At that time before it was Pokemon Int. In New York it was just a store called Nintendo Corp (before being Nintendo World) and was hosting the reveal for special pokemon Gameboys with themed packages if you purchased Red and Blue together. Naturally, I did.
We didn't have 'pre-order' back then. However, once again my Father found himself holding my hand along with others that took up half a city block waiting for their store to open. When it did, I was the 60th or so kid to have Red/Blue Pikachu Gameboy w/ pikachu cables and another gameboy to trad between myself.
At that time I also bought a Gameshark. :)
That's my story. The same followed suit with Yellow and ever since then I always paid and was at the store of whatever city I was in bright and early to pick up both games.
