Why does GameFreak hate Missingno. so much? I get that it's a bug in the game, but has one bug in a game ever been so beloved before the days of speedrunning? Also, how often does an actual character assemble itself out of random game data? Simply the fact that the game broke in such a fascinating way is extraordinary, and the fact that players actually like it should be a sign to embrace it

Instead, they fix the bug in emultations, never mention it again, and all quote-unquote "references" like porygon z or meltan bear no similarities to it whatsoever