>>55714584That doesn't really work anymore with Pokemon's "floating timeline". Kinda like how The Simpsons keeps having to change what decade Homer was a teenager in (currently, it was the 90s)
That's probably a factor in why they moved Pokemon away from the real world, because when your series takes place in the "real world", you have to keep updating and retconning it and charcter's backstories to keep up with the times
