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When I was a kid, I tried EVER freaking way to "allegedly" get this fucker. I tried beating the elite four repeatedly. I traded a pokemon that knew cut so that I could skip the SS Anna and surf behind it and check the truck, I looked up and down the mansion on cinnabar Island. Everything.
I never got to go to a Nintendo event to get one legit, and I didn't hear about the glitch to actually get him until recently. My desire to get a Mew elevated him in my mind to my favorite legendary ever.