>>39562103I’ve been playing since then and it blew up as big as anything else did in the late 90s. Red was a slow start for me because I’d never played a video game before but then once it became a social thing I was obsessed. I remember writing daily countdowns to the release of GS on a chalkboard in my room.
The weird thing now is I’ve gone through so many phases of growing out of the franchise and coming back to it that the originals are a very vague and faint nostalgia. Pokémon to me now means Platinum and BW as a teenager and SM in college and those memories are as strong as the first gen.
