>>56160108> until the tail end of Gen 4You mean Gen 3. Several gen 2 mons were just straight up missing until Emerald, unless you shelled out for both of the GCN games. At least DP had the decency to give several Gen 2 mons a new lease on life via evolutions. I don’t know if you were around at the time, either, but Johto shilling and pandering was evident in DP from the start; everyone was making speculation on the remakes being announced from all the obvious hints they were dropping.
