/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5590201
I was 19. Yes I did play it. It was all right.

crack It was Pokémon Red & Blue Version.They called Red & Blue, “the most entertaining game of the 90s.” sip Aah, there was no place like Kanto, in the whole gaming industry, like Kanto when I was a youngster. No place in other games like it, and it was so fabulous. Now it's pandered to the zoomers, you see. burp And, uh, I still remember in my mind how things used to be, and uh, you know, I miss it very bad. siiiiip Aah, but people from all over the world played it. From all over the world, it was the most entertaining -- they called it the most entertaining game of the 90s, back in those days. cough Anyways, uh, I... uh... you know... I even got -- when I was very small, I even got lost at Mt. Moon, but I looked up how to get out. On the, on the official game manual. gulp Aah, and my friends used to play together, we played overnight. They don't do that anymore. Things changed, you see. siiiiiiiiiiip Aah, they don't make games like they used to anymore.

>>5590209

I feel like it was a generational thing. The game was crack, but crack for kids specifically. To make my point, I feel like if I was 19 when it came out I would have been indifferent towards it as well. But for kids the game was something else.

I was 12. I lived in a small city, so I didn't really know anything about when new games came out. The first time I saw a gameboy was in 2000.

>>5590217
Nah, I wasn't indifferent to it. I was just downplaying my enthusiasm. I really enjoyed it. I didn't become a megafan or anything for obvious reasons, but it was a very solid RPG. One of the best for the Game Boy.

>>5590221
>>5590221
I wonder what gringos think when they see this (no one cares)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5eaPtrIx8

>>5590201
14 to 15.

I was a Gen 1 Pokemon kid. I played the shit out of Red, Blue, and Yellow. The highlight of my day in K5/1st grade was coming home and watching the Pokemon cartoon. I used to beg my parents to buy me Pokemon cards all the time from drug stores and flea market stands.

I fell out with it around 2000 when Gold and Silver came out and Brock left and got replaced by Tracy. It pissed me off when they added all the new Pokemon and I fell out with it

Some of my friends still play the ones that come out now.

>>5590201
I was 5 in 1998, but Gold version was my first Pokémon. Also I never got to play Pokémon stadium because we just had a Super Nintendo till the 6th gen era (which I fucking loved)

With all due respect, I don't give a shit about you guy's childhood memories.

I live in South America, I think Pokemon arrived here in early 1999. Although bootleg toys have been here for a while. Also I remember the newspaper in 1996 (or 97?) when the Porygon episode happened in Japan.
Also in 97 I remember reading about "Pocket Monsters" in a vidya magazine, they explained how the game was and it had pictures of Japanese kids on the streets with their gameboys and the link cable. I remember calling up game stores asking for the game (I wanted it in Japanese, I didn't care), but they had no idea about Pocket Monsters.
In 1999 I remember the anime airing, I remember watching the first episode, and sort of getting into it, but mostly because I knew that it was based on a game and I was already interested in the game. Some time later I finally bought Red.
Good times, I played it with other 2 friends. I remember the day we agreed to meet to trade pokemon, we must have spent like 2 hours doing everything, transferring all pokemon to one of the carts, then 2 of us started over to get another starter, then repeat, so we all could have all 3 starters. As well as the evolution-only pokemons (Gengar, etc), and the pokemon we didn't have from the other version. Me and another friend had Red, and the other guy had Blue.
Some time later, I sold my Red cart (I also had Yellow). Then afterwards, I ended up inheriting my other friend's Blue cart with box, which I still have.

>>5590225
Good song, hot babes, to be desu. It probably would have made feel a little uncomfortable at 8/9 and my mom for sure not know about this (though she probably wouldn't do more than laugh and make fun of pardospics).

I think I was 10-12 ish, I didn't play it the exact year it came out. I can confirm it was crack; I played it a ridiculous amount of times, to the point where when G/S came out I never even finished Silver, I was totally burned out. Pokémania ended and I didn't touch another pokémon game for at least a decade.

>>5590201
Got it for my birthday when it came out. I was 6. Knew literally nothing about the game, but was attracted to weird Japanese stuff at the time, so blind bought it/requested it as a birthday gift. I only got a Game Boy that Christmas so the secondary goal was to build up my library a little.
Played it nonstop that day. I have a vivid memory of being called to dinner, and walking from my room to the kitchen glued to the screen as it was getting dark outside. I was at Viridian Forest at the time. Brought it to school later that week. Some of my friends were familiar with the show. I showed them the game, I was at Mt. Moon. Told them about the basic mechanics of catching pokemon, etc. Other kids started getting the game, the card game swept in, etc etc the rest is history.
I was not only the first kid in my school to get all 150, but when rumors of Mew first began, I begged my parents to buy me a gameshark. With some fumbling, I figured out to to spawn Mew, so I technically was also the first to get all 151. Fuck you, Joe.
I also remember asking my mom to send in a mailer for catching Mew or something before the gameshark news. Never heard anything from it.

>>5590252
Serious question, why would you open the thread?

>>5590201
I was 18 so i was too old for it. I played it on my mates gameboy for an afternoon at the time. I remember thinking it was pretty cool but not enough to make me want to actually play the whole thing. And i'm a JRPG fan too.

>>5590201
I was 13. I pre-ordered it from electronics boutiques website and stayed home from school the day it came out. It came nice and early in the morning and everything like 10 am. Played it to absolute death.

I was at an interesting agree where I was old enough to be really knowledgeable and found out about it ahead of time on the internet but still young enough to be into it.

>>5590201
I was around 9 years old at the time and I remember watching the Anime for the first time and hearing my sister said that there's a game about said Anime. I asked my parents for the game and they gave me Red and my Sis Blue.

>>5590235
Why did it make you mad? I was really excited to have new Pokemon when I was a kid. I had been waiting for that ever since Misty got Togepi in the anime, I remember most elementary school kids feeling similarly.

>>5590235
Pretty much the same story here. Was absolutely obsessed with first gen Pokemon. Had Red, Blue,and Yellow and traded between all of them to have a complete Pokedex in my Yellow version. Still have my Green Game Boy Color with Yellow as well. Pokemon was like digital crack to me. When 2nd gen released I was already kinda getting over the whole thing but I played Crystal a good bit. That was the last Pokemon I played until X came out for the 3DS. Played for 4 hours before realizing that spark I had as a child for pokemon is never coming back. Promptly sold it along with my 3DS. Never even touched Pokemon GO because I thought it looked retarded.

>>5590212
Memes are bad for you.

>>5590201
29. No, my kids weren't into pokemon. eventually, years later when I spawned one that was.

>>5590201
I was minus 2 years old

>>5590834
Interesting data.

I was born in 1998 but I was a fan of Pokémon early on because my older cousins played/watched the show while I was around. To this day, I'm one of the biggest Pokémon fans around. I was 4 years old when I got Crystal. I don't even know if I could really read yet but it didn't matter I loved everything about it. My earliest memories are of the Pokémon tv show and of Crystal. I feel weird because even though I never got to experience full Pokémania I still have fond memories of random pieces of the aftermath of it.
I love the RPG genre to this day, but nothing really hits the spot like Pokémon. It's unique in a way that other games never seem to be able to replicate. I played Earthbound and I'd describe it partially as a Pokémon game but with no Pokémon creatures, I really enjoyed it.
When I was 13 I ordered Pokémon Blue off of Ebay even though I had already played a ton of FireRed and LeafGreen. It's easy to see how those games sparked Pokémania. They are the definition of what I think of when people talk about SOUL in a game.
I liked X and Y a lot, Sun and Moon changed a lot and though they had some good ideas the negatives overwhelmed the postives to me. If Sword and Shield can bring back the feeling of the OG games I'll probably cry.
Sorry for the rambling, this thread made me really happy, people on /vp/ are so caught up in gen wars and opinions that there's no discussion like this that I've seen there in a long time.

6 or 7

>>5590715
I spent a shitton of time collecting stuff for the 151 Pokemon that did exist. Toys, cards, trading. My older brother even went to one of those conventions to get Mew. It was like a badge of honor to get so far in. All that work. Then they rolled out all the new ones and it felt like starting all over again with a bunch of Poochies. I felt ripped off.
>>5590725
I never played Pokemon GO but I found it amusing because it was making a bunch of anti-social spergs go outside and socialize. It brought the world together for like a week in 2016.

>>5590201
I was 3 in '98, but my older brother got blue. Gold was my first pokemon game and I played blue when my brother got bored with it.
Even after Crystal, Ruby and Sapphire came out people were still playing the gen 1 games. I suppose FRLG made them obsolete until the nostalgia phase kicked in.

>>5590917
You can't use frlg on Stadium so they aren't really obsolete

>>5590924
You can't use RBY on colosseum.
I guess I don't know how many of my classmates played the console spinoffs.

>>5590252
With zero respect, no one gives a fuck about your opinion

>>5590225
I think we need to build a wall to keep spics out.

>>5590957
Was colosseum as good as the stadium games? Can it be considered stadium 3?

>>5590201
I was 10. It was fun for a year but then in middle school kids would beat you up and make fun of you for liking pokemon because it was for kids, so to avoid that I only played it in private at home in my room.

But for that one year of 5th grade it was the funnest and coolest thing ever. All the kids were crazy about it.

>>5591052
I liked it a lot, as well as the sequel. I wouldn't call them Stadium 3 because they're not pick-up-and-play party games.

i was 7, it taught me a ton of words


paralysis
parcel
effective
repel
many obscure color shades
leer

those games were rad as shit

>>5591076

Kek this

Crack indeed. I first got to play through the game around 2002, I was 12. I had played my friends game in 99 and loved it. In 02 my cousin let me start a new game on his cart . I was on that shit 24/7 . Adult relatives would always bitch about how much i played it. I would have to go in the woods just to play in peace. I couldn't even take a shit without them thinking I was playing the game. Thank god I don't talk to those people anymore. I remember not being able to capture zapados

>>5591063
>but then in middle school kids would beat you up and make fun of you for liking pokemon because it was for kids

>How old where you when Pokemon Red and Blue came out in 1998?
7

>Do you remember it vividly?
Yep. I was sucked into Pokemania like every kid in my school was.

>Did you pick it up?
Yep, I got it for Christmas I think.

>>5590201
5
experienced it later with the yellow edition
was quite interesting

>>5591063
>>5591612
They did that to my older brother, too, being 12 in 1998

>>5590201
I wasn't even conceived until January of 2001 lmao

My parents met on AOL in '96

>>5590201
I was 18 in 1998 and didn’t give a shit about pokemon
Still don’t

Pokemon Red was probably the first RPG I played and I don't remember my first playthrough all that well, but I do remember being stumped for a while about giving the guard somehing to drink. I also remember getting lost in Rock Tunnel and doing it completely blind because I didn't use Flash. I also got lost in the Seafoam Islands, Silph Co., and Victory Road, but because I'd spent so much time in them I memorized the path to Articuno and Moltres, Giovanni, and the exit to the Pokemon League respectively.

>>5590201
>>5590209
>>5590217
I was 24 when it came out but it had been out probably close to a year by the time I tried it. I thought it was just some sort of tamagotchi thing and had no interest, but a friend's younger brother was playing and he said it was actually an RPG. I ended up getting it to try and becoming super hooked, even getting my friends into it and we all played for many years.

>>5590201
I couldn't find anyone who sold it day 1 locally. My friend was just as into as I was so we got his mom to car pool us to the toys r us a couple towns over.

Blue Day 1 buy, represent.

I was 5, and my cousin was "too cool" for his gameboy and both blue and yellow version. Thanks bruv. Still play through till this day.

>>5591748
Wow. What chat room? I’m imagining it was some unironic medieval roleplay room. Your parents probably had cybersex and sent each other postage stamp sized nudes via email.

6, although i didn't get it until about Christmas 1999. My fondest memories come from silver.

>>5590201
I was 9 years old when it was released and I was the only kid in my grade that didn't have any Pokemon merchandise.
Not having Pokemon, Tomagachties, Yo-yos, and gel pens made me an outcast throughout my 3rd and 4th grades of school.
I never want to live those days again.

dumping some old comics I saved from /v/ like 10 years ago

>>5590209
>>5591771
>>5591764

does /vr/ have the largest percentage of legit boomers on this site?

pre-wojak memes are nostalgic

>>5591873
Not him but I feel attacked.

>>5591896
Those aren't boomers, dumbshit.

Think we got in christmas so I'd have been 10 says away from being 5. Because it was one save and one gameboy, I was more attached to the toys, cards, journals, folders, etc. But then our dipshit neighbor traded us his red for my bro's burger king cards, and I remember beating my copy through sheer force. Go into a town, talk to everybody, use only charizard. I did this multiple times, and I the fat npcs and the zubat caves are what I remember the most. That and ENDLESSLY fucking with the contrast on the red gameboy.

Soul Silver is the best imo but I have the largest soft spot for Pokemon Yellow. To me, that was all I ever wanted. To correct Ash's journey and make him the strongest. Ever since then, all I wanted was a console yellow remake with Ash. Imagine my rage when finally they do it and it's that horrid Pokemon Go garbage

>>5591748
>larping as a zoomer

>>5590201
I was 18, for me it was a cringy concept, basically tamogochis on coke... tried out some games to see what the fuss was all about; inferior and basic to similar games I had played on consoles, the whole console rpg thing... till today, any faggot talking to me about pokemon gets a reg flag from me.

>>5591063
>but then in middle school kids would beat you up and make fun of you for liking pokemon because it was for kids
We live in a society

KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>5592020
Cringe.

>>5591926
It was wild.

>>5592036
>AOL pleb

>>5592045
>Yahoo pedophile

>>5592064
lol no pleb

>>5592036
Right? No rules, complete anonymity, unspoken agreement that everyone is completely full of shit. 90s Internet was the wild west.

I was 25. I remember working for an electronics retailer and getting dozens of calls weekly for it. Picked it up for shits and giggles and loved it.

>>5590201
I was 12 and got both games but I was never able to get all 150 Pokemon.

>>5590201
I was 15, I liked it.

>>5590225
>song about Pokemon
>bitches pole dancing with thongs and wet t-shirts
Fucking Brazil

>>5591068
>pick-up-and-play party games.
Even though Stadium is pick-up-and-play and that's great (plus the minigames), I'd treat them more as a supplementary post-game/game enhancer to the GB titles, since you can have a much better item/pkmn management on stadium (especially useful for TMs, since you can check which TM is which and which pokemon can learn it or not, on GB it's a nightmare), plus the fact Stadium gives you starters and rare pokemons. Recently I played through Blue again and Stadium was a god-send. And of course, the Stadium cups are an excellent challenging post-game.
How does Colosseum compare? It's more like a regular RPG?

>>5590201
I was seven and yes i rented it from Blockbuster. I thought it was good but wondered why it was in black and white (I had a Gameboy color and didn't know these were made for original Gameboy.)

>>5590201
16, never played any Pokemon games. By the time it was popular here in the States I felt like it was just kid stuff. Haven't seen anything since to convince me otherwise.

>>5590884
>half of the 100 introduced either breed to or evolve from kanto pokemon
>made you mad

I'm currently playing it for the first time as i wanted something relaxing to play while listening to podcasts.
i enjoy it, its simple but relatively mindless fun but still interesting enough to keep you playing, though it would probably be boring to me if i wasnt listening to something in the backgound.

i can only imagine that it would probably have been really cool to be able to exchange pokemon with people back then. today its annoying that i out effort into some pokemon only to learn that there is no way to evolve them

My next door neighbour bought me Silver and he got gold after we smashed yellow for one year straight he was 16 I was 12 fuck me that’s going back. Parents got me
Yellow in 2000 amazing time

I was 21 but I didn't pick them up. I had gotten my crew into Tamagotchi and I figured that was about enough of that type of thing, ironic Japanesey kids stuff. Then I did end up picking up Yellow when it came out though.

>>5594509
>my crew
Oh gramps. You and your fics.

>people in their mid 20s are the babies of /vr/

crazy thinking how everyone on other boards are actual zoomers, i thought there would be a lot of them here.

>>5590201
I was 8. I got Red for Christmas and my cousin got Blue. I didn't really understand the game at first because I didn't have much RPG experience, but I ended up really getting obsessed with it and ended up completing the Pokedex multiple times.

My favorite memories were of trading and battling with my friends, especially once we got Pokmeon Stadium.

>>5593013
>How does Colosseum compare? It's more like a regular RPG?
Yes, they're both RPGs like the portable games except they're shorter and handle wild pokemon differently. Colosseum has a lot of gen 2 pokemon in it while Gale of Darkness has more gen 3. They focus on double battles, and shadow pokemon are an interesting wrinkle in the usual pokemon template.

You can trade and battle between them and the gba games. (although you need to finish the story before you can trade, which kinda sucks) But that's about it, it's not an extension of the handheld games like stadium was, which is why I do not consider it Stadium 3. Emerald's battle frontier is the closest thing to Stadium 3 imo.

Fuck, I was 5 when this came out.

14. Only Pokémon I ever played.to me there are only 151 Pokémon. Don't known how many there are now. It's weird. Is there Pokémon for GBC? What was it like? I mean first game after the classic. people must have expected a lot from it.

>>5594327
Yes anon, I was pretty mad about it when I was 7. I stopped caring about Pokemon and doubled down on Toonami iirc

>>5595538
Gen 2 felt like a proper sequel to gen 1. It adds 100 new pokemon, so in total it's 251. It was a longer game too, and you could revisit Kanto as a post-game content.
Gen 3 is when it felt like a reboot rather than Pokemon 3.

>>5595615
Gen 2 also continued with Team Rocket being the antagonists. Every new gen since then had a new evil team you had to stop.

The core gameplay continued to get better with each generation though, although you can argue about some newer features like Mega-Evolution and Z-moves