>>36456804>summer of 00>pokemon has arrived in italy earlier that year and everyone is absolutely crazy about it>at church summer camp everyone is bringing gameboys and shit>learn about the truck>learn about glitch city>learn how to catch mewtwo in the aftergame>everything without the internetWe were so naive, but there was magic in the air, something I've never felt again. Those little 151 fuckers had the power to bring everyone together. Good times. Also at that same summer camp:
>evolve caterpie into butterfree after an hour of spamming tackle against rattatas and pidgeys on route 1>absolutely proud of me>bully kid steals my gameboy and throws it on the ground>game cartridge comes out>gameboy and cartridge are fine (those things were bulletproof), but i have to restart from the last save>obviously didn't save after evolving metapod>angrily grind all over again 