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>What year were you born in?
1992
>What was your first Gen/console?
Yellow, GBC
>What's your favourite Gen and why?
Gentoo
>Gastly right at the fucking start
>NPC traders giving away Onix and Machop
>Ghost got a HUGE buff, went from weakest type to most broken type
>Little immersion things that were a huge fucking deal back then (events happening on certain days, day/night cycle, improved sound technology)
>Best villains (a rival that's actually an asshole criminal instead of a rich kid bully, Team Rocket CUTTING POKEMON APART AND SELLING BODY PARTS AS DELICACIES)
>Dark type
For the last few reasons, gen 2 raised the stakes and made it edgier. They knew their audience, 10 year olds that were starting to feel too old for Pokemon and losing interest suddenly didn't feel too old for it anymore.
