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Oh man, this game always takes me back. I was too old to be playing it when it originally came out, but I still loved playing this with my high school buddies and chatting about the latest episodes of the anime. Looking back now, the anime was kind of garbage barring the bumbling Team Rocket, but this game is still pretty fun to go through, which I learned last summer when I started up an old file last Summer during the Pokémon GO craze.
I've tried to play later installments, but none of them really grab me as much as the Gen 1 games did. I still remember choosing Charmander and getting to Brock and being like "well that sucked" and then reaching Misty and openly cursing about it. You always remember your first time, I guess.
I think this game holds a special place for me less because of its design as much as it's a game that takes me back to a period of my life that makes me smile a bit despite being a bit embarrassing in hindsight. Even then, I still like the core game and this entry still has my favorite collection of Mons in the series, as well as the only entry where I feel all three starters are genuinely awesome. Mewtwo is still one of my favorite super Pokémon, and I've liked the Psychic and Fire Types since this entry.
I think my only real shame has been the fact I've never acquired all 150 Pokémon, largely because it's hard to ind anyone anymore that has both a working copy of the game and the Game Boy to play it on. Of course, I own both Red and Blue, so perhaps I just need to find a Game Boy...
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