I never really got into Red, and even though nobody in the area played, i put tons of hours into Gold. Even though I knew I had no chance to ever complete the Dex, I still evolved everything I could. Once the VC releases happened, I was finally able to complete gen 2's dex after almost 20 years. Even if it's just text that amounts to "Congratulations!" it was nice to do it after so many years of it just being a pipe dream.
My two favorite pokemon lines are from Johto, and they're both mainstays of any team of mine. It's always felt right having them on my teams, and they're by far my largest art folders. I'd say more but I dont know if i should flood the thread with that.
I'd also give my grandma the gameboy to get a ton of Coins from the game corner. She had a thing for handheld slot machines so I'd give it to her and come back an hour later with 9900+ coins. She got me an SP for my birthday and i was mostly happy i finally didn't need to hope there were batteries or light around anymore.
Gold was probably the first game I really got into without watching someone else play basically the entire thing before I got to play it.
>>41396371I hunted that chansey down, was too dumb to breed it beforehand.
>>41396377Feraligatr/Ho-oh/Espeon/Ampharos/Gyarados/something else. Even back then I never really bought into the starter solorun stuff, always felt more fun to use more mons.