>>56996023I was around during that time as well (36) however, I grew out of it by reading the manga and playing other JRPGs between G/S and R/S
If you didn't grow up during that period, you wouldn't have realized how shit the series was until much later.
Gen 1 titles
>snapshit
>pinballat the very most should have been a mini game instadium not a 29.99 title
>stadiumpretty alright, but we all hoped for more
>hey, you pikachushit
Gen2
>puzzle league again should have been
>Stadium 2 again alright, but hoped for more
Thank god blockbuster existed back then or I'd been really pissed spending allowance money on that trash.
I found better jrpgs by snooping around and happened upon Arc the Lad that was 20x better than any pokemon game to date. This was released the same year as r/g as a side hustle to the main game, (you can use party members captured monsters)
https://youtu.be/Tw4rSpaiMyw?t=82Compare that to a Zooming little shit who's first game was Platnium.... They wouldn't have realized how bad it actually was until S/M.
