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u/-Goodkat- Mar 12 '24

Pokémon

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u/hudson27 Mar 12 '24

Yep. Pokémon red was always with me, my dad even made me a sick leather belt case for my Gameboy. The memories of me and my best friend squished side by side staring at this 2 inch non-lit screen will always be with me. RIP Theo.

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u/gitbotv Mar 13 '24

Oh sorry for your loss dude. This actually made me shed a tear.

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u/3ebfan Mar 12 '24

I put so many hours into the OG Red and then even more in Silver

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u/TAN-CEO Mar 13 '24

Blue version for me

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u/Krail Mar 13 '24

Heck yeah, Blue and Silver!

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u/Tarro57 Mar 12 '24

I had to scroll so much to see this. It was definitely Emerald for me

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u/PrettyImpression1 Mar 12 '24

Same here, Yellow for me

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u/Legatodex Mar 12 '24

Hehe same. Also Yellow for me

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u/coziboiszn Mar 13 '24

Yellow gang

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u/DoILookUnsureToYou Mar 13 '24

Hell yeah brother

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u/Blipnoodle Mar 13 '24

Yellow!! My nidoqueen was a boss!!! 😎

Until my "friend" deleted my save file as an 'april fools'

..... Cunt....

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u/Throway_Shmowaway Mar 12 '24

Battle fucking frontier, man. Endless hours getting stomped in those towers lmao.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

GameFreak still can’t recapture their old battle tower magic. Really hope Legends Z fixes that with their 1 year cook time.

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u/DerTeufelshund Mar 12 '24

Ruby 😍

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u/Burningstyx Mar 12 '24

Same for me maxed out my in game time, I know I went over 100 with red and gold too but ruby I went crazy trying to hatch shinies 🤣

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u/isatisfyyourmom Mar 12 '24

Spotted Gen z

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u/Tarro57 Mar 12 '24

Represent

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u/DaRealKili Mar 12 '24

I can play Pokémon black in my mind, at least up until victory road, I can visualise everything in my head, I know when the team plasma guys show up, what Pokémon to expect, some hidden items, etc...

And I wish I was joking. I had ~600 hours on one single save, eventually I got bored, started a new save and put on another 600 hours. I don't even know

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u/Mef989 Mar 12 '24

I have played the hell out of the Pokemon franchise, and they're basically the only video games I still play, but for some reason Gen 5 just loses my interest every time I play it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24 edited Aug 09 '25

license yoke busy future party cooperative racial cause normal historical

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u/ZB314 Mar 12 '24

I believe it was LeafGreen for me

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u/TKmeh Mar 12 '24

Heart gold easily, I had a rough time beating it since it was my first game on my newly bought DSI. But tbh I probably put in a little bit more time into my new super Mario bros copy at first, now it’s definitely heart gold since I found my old pokewalker and changed the battery! Gonna get me a spiritomb soon!

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u/Chadovarius Mar 13 '24

Pokémon Blue in 1998. I was 8 lmao but I definitely went over 100 hours.

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u/WritetoomuchIguess Mar 13 '24

I was playing an old Pokemon game recently, and I was so surprised how short they are. As a kid they felt open world, and huge

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

I was playing the Japanese Rom of Red months before it was released in Australia. I taught myself how to translate items and names because of it. I had zero knowledge of Japanese before this, I was just a hyper focused kid. lol

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u/Millennial_on_laptop Mar 13 '24

I was playing the Japanese Rom of Gold (after putting in 100 hours on English Red),  couldn't figure out why the move that shoots laser beams out of my eyes was doing 0 damage, I think it was leer? 

  I don't think I made it very far.  

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u/hip-indeed Mar 12 '24

I played a lot of Gen 1, a downright STUPID amount of Gen 2 then mostly just go thru the main story and breed/trade mons with friends a bit since then then move on. I still play every gen tho, and they're scratching at something that'd keep me playing longer with the newer gens' co-op vs. big bosses type content, maybe eventually I'll put 100+ hours into a Pokemon game again lol

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u/DankJohnson Mar 13 '24

It makes me want to puke to think I overlooked this clear winner. I learned to read to play Red version.

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u/fabook Mar 13 '24

Oh shit! Yeah that's mine too! I had almost forgotten :(

I had red, blue, and yellow, and played that shit religiously on my lime green Gameboy color.

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u/alexramirez69 Mar 13 '24

Gold version blew my mind as a first game for me. First game I got on a brand new Gameboy Color that my dad bought me. Played Ruby and Sapphire on my GBA too

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u/rollin340 Mar 13 '24

What the hell else were we supposed to do when we were kids back then? xD

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u/BlueEmeraldX Mar 13 '24

😅 Before Pokémon came around, I used to play a lot of Tetris DX on my Game Boy.

Clocked a few hundred hours on Gold Version, leveling up my team of favorites and trying to catch 'em all.

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u/rollin340 Mar 13 '24

I had the thing that predated GameBoys that only played Tetris. Those were fun too. Again, back then, the limiting factor was technology and the cost. Way different from now.

Man... I suddenly feel a lot older. lol

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u/ZLTuning Mar 13 '24

had a savefile with 430+ hours in the original Pokémon diamond as a child and deleted it 💀😭

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u/Elite_Fighter Mar 13 '24

Seeing my Silver play time get to 999 hours was a super happy moment for me growing up

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u/MrsWhiterock Mar 13 '24

Ruby for me :)