>>58881114I don't remember a whole lot about my first Crystal save file, but I do know I picked Cyndaquil. Then I rolled credits, restarted the game and picked Chikorita and that's the save file that stuck until the save battery ran out a decade later. I traded and battled with some kids I knew who had a link cable, I even got a GS box-cloned event Mew and a Gamesharked Celebi. I would have been around 8 years old around Crystal's release, and that was the newest game at the time when my family finally caved to my whining and got me a Game Boy (Advance). I have far earlier memories of seeing friends play Red/Blue on their Game Boy Colors, though. The envy within me was suffocating.
I also have memories of some weird-ass bootleg PC Pokemon game that for the most part seemed to work like an RPG like the official games and had random battles against wild Pidgey and shit, but most of the graphics assets were ripped from actual promotional art rather than being low-res pixel art, and you were definitely playing as Ash with Pikachu as your Pokemon. I only remember seeing this once at a friend's place, but I've never heard of it since and I'm left wondering if it was just a childhood dream I eventually mistook for an actual memory.
