>>53937908I love the weird sprites.
They really made familiar pokemon feel more like monsters.
I love how you weren't taken by the hand and told explicitly what to do.
I love beating my face against the wall that was Rock Tunnel without Flash the first go around.
I love hating my rival. He was a douche, and it felt good beating him.
I love the playground lore. Of all the ways to get Mew. And of Missingno. Later.
I love Missingno.
I love how each town was a new color when playing on the GBC. I don't know if the colors matched the town names, or how they'd pull that off, but if it had, that would have been even cooler.
I love the little kid that just randomly had wings, or a cape. I saw them as angel wings, I think. Knowing they aren't with FRLG was one of the reasons I don't much care for the remakes. A small one, but it's on the list.
I love finding ghosts in Lavender Tower and not knowing that they aren't pokemon. Of people saying they caught the ghost on the playground.
I love getting taken advantage of and trading my stupid Graveler for a Growlithe. I still consider it the other kid's loss.
I love how, as a console absolutely devoid of any real JRPGs, the Gameboy got these. And I got to play them as they came out.
I love having nostalgia for an era that 70% or more of this board have never experience and therefore cannot possibly have nostalgia for.
I love knowing these games now, like the back of my hand, so that I finished Pokemon Green, without knowing Japanese. (Real Cart, Real Hardware) The dungeons were harder, if I recall, though.
I love having all of the excitement of a Genwunner, but liking other games more. Almost ever new Pokemon game up until USUM made me excited to play some more.
And of course, I love that I can always go back to them. They never left. My batteries have been replaced, and I can play them any time any time I like. How they never seem to get old with the number of times I've played them, I don't know.
Nostalgia? Maybe.
