A short snippet on Pokemon

I found my old Gameboy Color a few months back and have been using it ever since because I’m too cheap to buy a new gaming system. Well… too cheap and also really don’t have time to play some of the crazy awesome games that are out there these days. With great awesomeness comes great heaps of time needed to see all of the awesomeness. I experience new games vicariously through the various videos,blogs and whatnot people post on the internet as well as through friends.

Doesn’t mean I never play anything though.

I own three games right now: Metroid II (Which I am determined to beat one day… if it doesn’t bore me to death), Pokemon Pinball (useless battery pack? psh, I don’t care it’s still fun anyways), and… the big whammy… my first GBC gme ever: Pokemon Red.

That game has had the crap played out of it over the years whenever my GBC has resurfaced. Oh yes, the Elite Four are my bitches. They see me and my Charizard and they know that all my skills bring the boys to the yard.

Now I’ve owned this same cartridge for over 10 years now and there’s some things I’ve never done:

-Finish the pokedex

-Caught them all

-Use any other starter Pokemon besides Charmander (Blastoise and Venusaur are for pussies)

-Have Snorlax sit on top of my Rival. (Oh but how I wish…)

I never will do any of those things either. Yet despite that I still like fighting Team Rocket, Giovanni (I love him, he’s so stupid), catching Mewtwo just to be pissed at how useless he is, catching Mew through doing a million ridiculous steps, and making the Elite Four cry.

Over the years I’ve managed to play a couple of the later versions of pokemon and yeah, they are cool; just as addicting as the original and the addition of actual color is nice. The stories are fine, they’re all pretty much the same both in basic plot and less than necessary existence. I for one usually go through the game just exploring as much as I can until I have to pay attention to the story long enough to unlock new areas.

There’s no point to this really. Just want to remind the internet that Pokemon Red is awesome and if you can still ignore that the whole game is based on capturing creatures and forcing them to fight for your own financial gain you should play it again. Or don’t.

Now if you excuse me and my Charizard are going to slash Giovanni a new asshole.

(Regular and much more interesting updates to continue soon. Once my midterm on Thursday is over I’ll finish a post on the worst book I ever read in my life (so far))

You show that punk turtle who the law in this region is, Charmander!