>>27509294When I was a kid playing Red, my dex had 14X of the 150. (I don't know if it was 144 or 147.) But in this collection I even had Mew from that giveaway at the Toys'R'Us. To this day I don't know how I lost that save file.
I also had a fairly decent collection in Red (I had many save files), but I discovered the MissingNo trick, and despite a thousand warnings about what it does to your save file, I went and did it. I still remember screaming in the passenger seat of my mom's car when I saw a Lv 50 Alakazam on that water bank. We were on the way to soccer practice and I had my gameboy in my pocket and I fell on it - I always blamed the fall for losing the info.
On a separate occasion ALSO in Red, I was in Fuschia City, so fairly deep into the game, but I was at a party and I was an Eric Cartman-tier level shit so I started a new game so that if any of the other kids wanted to see what I was playing, I could just turn my gameboy off instantly while playing the new game. (I loved Pokemon so much and hated the party I went to that I wanted to just keep playing.) However, I saved in the new game, overwriting the old file.
Then add about five or so corrupt save files from the MissingNo trick (I seriously don't know what's my issue) and we have the bulk of my childhood.
