>>54078917>>54078918>>54078920"Dated mechanics" isn't a buzzword for anyone who has played games for any length of time. It's something you gain with age, the ability to compare games you played long ago to what you've played now. Stop projecting so hard simply because you don't have a foundation of experience to draw from.
You weren't sharing the one link cable among your 6-8 friends while you waited for your parents to get off work and pick you up from the after-school program.
You weren't anxiously waiting your turn for the one kid with the GameShark so you could hack in Surf on your Pikachu in Yellow.
You weren't screaming at your mom to get off the phone so you could go back to looking up bullshit cheat codes to try and get some super secret pokemon that didn't exist.
You weren't the one hogging the TV in the afternoons because you needed to see the next rerun of the cartoon. (Because, yes, you called it a cartoon. What the fuck was anime?)
You weren't left in the babysitter line at the malls, where everyone knew it was safe to leave their kids with less than $10 to pull some shiny cardboard from the 3 packs they could buy.
You weren't waiting around with a bunch of of other kids outside Babbage's debating whether Gold or Silver was the better choice, while making shit up like knowing Pikablu or some bullshit Eevee form was definitely in the game.
You weren't jealous of the friends with the early birthday who got the GBA and Ruby/Sapphire first, while you wait months for your birthday to roll around and hope your parents got the hint.
You weren't getting into arguments over who got to be on the N64 next to play Pokemon in GLORIOUS 3D.
Gen 1 and 2 were the central core of our (not yours) childhood. And I haven't touched them since the remakes came out, because they were coded together as a complete fucking mess, and you come to value basic QOL features like actual color and the game moving at faster than a snail's pace.
