/vr/ - Retro Games

The Pokemon Stadium Transfer Pak features are absurdly cool for the time. Rich kids in the early 2000s probably LOVED this shit. I was too poor for a setup like this, we never owned a Gameboy and only ever played Stadium because one of the neighborhood kids owned it. But I'm doing a playthrough now of Red and Stadium together through the magic of emulation and I'm stunned at just how fucking cool this is. Not just the ability to play Pokemon on your TV (even cooler back then considering how shitty the original Gameboy screens were), but the ability to see all of your Pokemon at once without having to painfully switch boxes, you can store extra Pokemon and items within Stadium, a sweet Pokedex that shows you where to catch Pokemon on a really cool 3D map of Kanto...

I just can't help but imagine having this as a kid. It was truly the ultimate Pokemon experience of the day and I had no idea what I was missing out on.