/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9500079
As rough as RBY are to play I think they legitimately hold up better than most old jank RPGs purely because of all the exploits and glitches you can do to break the game. They're very glitchy games but all in a fun way. If you just want to play the games blind and go along for the ride you'd probably be better off playing FRLG, but if you're the type to go "okay that was a fun game, lets look up some glitches and dick around" then you want RBY.

I say this as a Hoennbab that never actually fully played a Gen 1 game until I was like 25 so I think I'm as disconnected from the nostalgia as you are.

>>9421449
Growing up I knew about the satanic panic surrounding pokemon but I never actually experienced it. Even the most religious family I knew growing up weren't bothered by the games which was weird. Their kid was fucking obsessed with pokemon cards and I was surprised he was even allowed to have them.

Not long after pokemania his parents would later go fucking rabid over Harry Potter books, so I knew they had it in them.