>>30591998>Was it as amazing everyone says it was?Fucking no.
>Be a Kid in the middle of Pokemon Mania>Very quickly, high level cliques take the stance that pokemon is for gayassfaggots since it's important as fuck to be contrarian >Have no real money supply to buy any pokemon merchandise of any nature>Have to save up months by doing odd jobs around the neighborhood just to pre-order Pokemon Silver>Never got a N64 and Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 because, even though I had the money saved up, because according to my parents, game consoles are the work of the devil, but you can still have a handheld console because we have no fucking clue how to be consistent.>Gen 3 comes out at the tail end of Pokemon mania>Can't transfer pokes from Silver to Sapphire>Decide to just stop at this pointIt was not amazing for poor fags, it was essentially 'here's all the shit you can't have' and completely wrecked any social standings I had at the time.
