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I thought water pokémon were exceptionally rare so I always picked the water starter.
I thought Nidoking was a sort of super pokémon due to being able to learn a fuckload of strong TMs that weren't his type.
I was concerned of the player character sleeping in the open so whenever I was saving for the last time in the day I always would either press on to get to the next city or go back to the previous one to get in the Pokémon Center and save so he'd be sheltered.
After a friend told me that pokémon could be stronger or weaker by nature (read: IV), whenever I was to add something to the team I'd always catch four or five of the pokémon, pick the strongest and release the rest.
I couldn't read english and had no internet when I played Red for the first time so opening the door in the Vermillion Gym took me ages.