True Pokemon Fans Will Remember (All 3)

True pokemon fan: not bitching over new pokemon like they're some kind of disease. Seriously, they're not bad, you're just over nostalgic.

>be 7 years old
>dad works 3 jobs, barely get to see him
>mom works a job herself, just trying to help make ends meet
>poor as shit
>best friends at school always talking about pokemon, feel left out
>beg my mom for gameboy color and a pokemon game
>she just says "we'll see," knowing i'll probably never get it
>birthday comes around
>so excited, unwrap my two presents
>gameboy color and pokemon red
>holyshit.jpg
>give my parents hugest hug ever, thank them both
>play for hours everyday, so thrilled to be on a quest to become a pokemon master
>mom takes me to go buy clothes one day
>take my pokemon, as a true trainer never leaves his pokemon behind
>set gameboy down in a dressing room
>mom gets a call from her boss, we need to leave now in a hurry
>in the car, reach for my pokemon to continue playing
>ohshit.jpg
>tell my mom i forgot them
>she turns the vehicle around to go to the store
>can't find it in the dressing room, or lost and found
>devestated
>mfw i realize i'm not a true trainer, as i left my pokemon behind

>be 7 years old
>parents wouldnt buy gameboy or pokemon for me
>at kohls one day with mom
>got all my clothes picked out
>go into dressing room to try them on
>find gameboy color with pokemon red inside of it
>holyshit.jpg
>i put it in my pocket shitting myself with joy
>checking out about to leave
>kid about my age and his mom walk into store
>they go to customer service
>the cashier shows them the lost and found
>kid is devastated
>debating in my mind whether i should return to him
>decide to keep it
>become a pokemon master
>MFW i ruined his childhood to make my childhood

>Be 9 years old
>Playing Pokemon Yellow
>Fighting Brock
>Lose to him several times
>Train for endless hours in Viridian Forest
>Challenge Brock again
>Still get my ass kicked
>Decide to catch a Caterpie
>Evolve it into Butterfree and have it learn Confusion
>Battle Brock again
>Using Butterfree instead and use Confusion every turn
>Beat Brock easily
>MFW I realized that I could've done that this whole time

Anyone else remember trading/battling with a link cable?

Story Time.
>Be 6
>Dad didn't want to buy me Pokemon cards so I asked Mom
>Mom buys me first pack of Pokemon cards ever
>Charizard
>"Oh that's pretty cool" (Don't know much about Pokemon at the time, friend introduced me to it a few weeks ago.)
>Don't realize I just pulled the rarest and most valuable card in my first ever pack
>First pack breaks the dam, Dad ends up buying me 7 more packs that week
>Venusaur + Blastoise pulls
>I was the luckiest motherfucking 6 year old in the world
>Armed with my 88 cards I want to go trade with some big kids at the playground
>Big kids (10 years old or so) happily accept me into the trading circle
>They start to teach me about Pokemon, what's rare and what's not
>Find out that star cards are common and circle cards are rare
>Luckiest AND STUPIDEST motherfucking 6 year old in the world
>Over the next 10 minutes I get bled for my Venusaur, Blastoise, Pinsir and Clefairy (Other 3 rares were trainers)
>I'm convinced I just made the best trades in the world, and it's just my first week
>Big kid brings out la creme de la creme. A fucking Meowth
>Convinces me it's the rarest and most valuable card in the game because the cat is sitting on a pile of gold
>Says he'll trade me for my Charizard
>Happily accept
>Go home happy as a pig in shit, playing with my new cards
>Find out a couple days later about the true rarity of cards
>MFW those kids were the biggest assholes I have ever encountered, and I'm the stupidest fucking kid in the whole world.
>Still don't have a Venusaur

I still name my rivals after people I hate. Fuck you Michael, I still haven't lost to you on this playthrough of soul silver.

And this fucking place.

Where over half the buildings don't have entrances

>Be 7
>Have stuffed Pikachu that yells, "Pika Pika!" when squeezed
>Put in closet 10 years ago
>Be 17 now, sleeping in my house alone, completely forgotten about that stuffed Pikachu
>Hear loud "Pika Pika!" after either something hit it in my closet or the battery did something weird
>Shit pantaloons
>scope it out
>Epic nostalgia

Anybody remember those marbles and of course Pikachu's Jukebox

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True Pokemon fans should also remember to love every generation.

Because the games just keep getting better.

Enlarge for nostalgiafags/genwunners getting owned.

wut

Beating Brock in Yellow was quite easy, catch a Nidoran and evovle that he/she learn double kick, mt moon, right after moon stone acquired NIDOKING/NIDOQUEEN IN YOUR ENEMIES ASSES
MFW

Man when i left my emerald version with a near complete pokedex and like 20 lvl 100s in my pocket then my mother washed my pants i cried for like 3days straight, worst day of my life.

I don't understand anything, I played Yu-gi-oh as a kid.
Shit was awesome.
But I know the feel of the new ones not being as great as the old ones.
What the fuck is an XYZ, seriously, holy shit, why did you bastards change it, I miss Summoned Skull.

Mfw I dodge one trainer but then there was one hiding off screen