Anyone Get Nostalgic Over the Difficulties of the First Two Generations?

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Like, I've bookmarked Bulbapedia to get through my recent games when I didn't have Internet when I had my first games.

Anyone remember when you had to actually interact with your friends to trade? :p
How about when all the "how-tos" were word of mouth? Like your friend heard how to catch the roaming legendaries and told you at school? And if your friends didn't play Pokemon you just had to figure it out yourself?

Oh, and what about those word-of-mouth rumors you couldn't run to the computer to debunk? Some of my favorites:
If you turn and talk to Pikachu after a trainer challenges you to a battle, the Pikachu will electrocute you and you'll die.
They made Crystal so that you can catch Celebi. All you have to do is go to Ilex Forest after you've caught the other 250 and walk around the shrine. (I walked around that stupid shrine for an hour)
If you catch all 150 Pokemon Professor Oak will give you Mew. That's what was in the custom Pokeball he ordered.
Celebi is in the basement of the new Pokemon grave site. You have to talk to Mr. Fuji after catching all 250.
You actually get [something other than a stupid certificate] if you catch all the Pokemon.
If you have a Jynx in your party you can catch a Missingno. with an afro (I knew that one was blatantly false but it made me laugh so it's one of my favorites).
You can call Giovanni to come fight you in Gold if you play the Team Rocket radio broadcast and let it scroll through the text 7 times. He'll be in the Ruins of Alph (Another one I actually wasted my time on).

Or no running shoes.
Having to fight Sabrina in Gen I.

Anyone else remember anything that they had to do that new Pokemon gamers will never experience (unless they get a GBC and an old cartridge)?
 
Young kids can still experience the frustration of not knowing what to do. It's not like EVERY child has a computer they can access at will. Even adults like me get stuck, and I can't just go to a computer whenever I like. D: It's difficult, sure, but for the wrong reasons.
 
I know. It's not just getting stuck. It's also gameplay features (which have dramatically improved; if you're using an emulator then you have computer access :p) and remembering impossible things you learned or heard of from friends who played it. Something that comes from many people not having computer access, not a minority. Or from the old gaming systems; having to blow on the ends of the link cables. Or not being able to trade with anybody if you didn't know other kids who played Pokemon (I actually still can't...my DS refuses to cooperate with its wi fi connection).
Or not being able to play in the dark because old-schools Gameboys weren't backlit xD I had a little light that plugged into the link cable slot. I used it on a field trip and the teacher confiscated it because she thought it was a laser light and I never got it back :'(
 
actually I dont remember the original game being difficult at all. The one thing that bugged me is that all the pokémon I liked had to be obtained via trade and I never traded with anyone :'( so no machamp or alakazam for me...

Nevertheless, Gen I had my favourite pokémon of all time: Nidoking ! The coolest pokémon of all, god I would've done anything back then to get it... until I realised you just needed to capture a stupid nidoran and evolve it.. :D
 
In some ways, the feel of that difficult age is already lost. If you get a current-generation kid to play a gameboy pokemon game, he'll still be able to turn to the internet like all the rest of us do now.

It's awesome that we don't have to link physically to interact with other Pokefans or event distributions, though.
 
Ah, I will always remeber my first team- Ivysaur, caterpie,caterpie,weedle,caterpie,butterfree. XD silly 4 year old me,with a blue version cartridge.
 
I got my first Pokémon game "Pokémon Blue" [sigh :)] and I was still a dummy!! I went thru the tunnel by the old Power Plant, Rock Tunnel, before I realised Flash existed. I did it next to a window hoping to get any little light..............
It didn't work, and I still refuse to go in there more than once a game!! There was also that time I locked myself into the Pokémon Mansion on Cinnbar Island & had to restart the game....... Still miss that Blastoise...................
I also remember fighting Lance by a window cus that's where everyone left me alone & I could pretend I couldn't hear, and then almost breaking my Game Boy Colour (Pikachu Edition wouldn't u no!!) when I threw it across the room when I saw Blue (although I didn't call him that, didn't no that was his canon name!!). Luckily he was easier than Lance!!! Suppose that's what I get for always going for the Water Type starter!!!!
 
The Johto games have the worst level curve, even HGSS. The highest level wild non-legendaries are in the 40s, and you expect us to spend days grinding all the way to the 80s on them to be evenly matched with Red?

I also remember getting stuck in the Ice Path's sliding floors in Silver for days. I've done better with ice floors in subsequent games, so maybe it was just my young stupidity and not game difficulty.
 
I remember I used to get sooooo stuck on those icy floor puzzles!! I had to find things to offer family members to do it for me!! Thank goodness I'm now more wisdomy!!!!
 
not nostalgic but i nearly went devil mode trying to pass that stupid sudowoodo in g/s/c
 
I don't remember the older games being all that hard, except for Whitney and her Miltank. That, and completing the Pokédex (which was hard if you didn't cheat... especially if you wanted a legitimate Celebi which could only be obtained from an event in New York City since the Celebi glitch wasn't yet discovered)

Also, remember all of those glitches? They were awesome and to this very day they still keep the game fun, even after most of the replay value has been lost. Especially since some of the glitches such as the Mew glitch and ZZAZZ glitch were discovered more recently (after Generation I lost popularity).

metalamor said:
Oh, and what about those word-of-mouth rumors you couldn't run to the computer to debunk?
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Not true. If you had Internet back then you'd know that the Internet is where all the rumors were coming from, lol. Everyone and his mom had their own fan pages and every fan page listed all sorts of "cheats" that supposedly allowed you to obtain Mew, Pikablu, Togepi, the "Pokégods", the Mist Stone, get to Bill's secret garden, the Charmander field, Squirtle lake, and Bulbasaur forest, etc.
Personally, all those rumors were one of the things I loved about Pokémon and they probably actually improved the experience.

AOFIGO009 said:
There was also that time I locked myself into the Pokémon Mansion on Cinnbar Island & had to restart the game.......
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How'd you manage to do that? Couldn't you just leave? Or make all your Pokémon faint?
 
The first two generations? B-But what about Gen III? :bawl: Thats old enough, right?

Well, I started with Gen III, and it was Emerald was pretty easy, mostly because of my extremely overleveled Blaziken. I mean, I think I had like, a level 20+ Combusken by the time I battled the Rustboro Gym Leader.

I had a really hard time with the Gym Leaders Tate and Liza though. Even though I had like, a level 60+ Blaziken then, sense it was a Double Battle, pretty much two Psychics from their Solrock and Lunatone took down my Blaziken. I think I accually lost that battle a couple of times.

Because the moves I thought my Blaziken, I couldn't even damage Elite Four Phobe's Pokemon. To be able to beat her, I went out and seeked out Rayquaza. I apperentally forgot where the Sky Tower was, and it took like, a whole year, until I talked to this fat guy in Lilycove City, and he said that he saw the Sky Tower on some route. I went to that route, got to the Sky Tower, only to find out you needed the Mach Bike to proceed. I flied back to Mavil City to exchange my bikes, and went back to the Sky Tower. Biking that thing was pretty darn hard. I got to the top, and started the battle with the Legendary Ozone Dragon Pokemon. I tried to weaken it by using a Double Kick move from my level 80+ Blaziken, and well, to my apparent surprise, didn't even bring it to half health. I belive Rayquaza used Outrage or something, and took a good chunk out of my Blaziken. I used my Master Ball, knowing that at that rate, my Blaziken wouldn't be able to take that massive damage, and I didn't carry any healing items on me. When I threw my Master Ball, I closed the lid of my GBA, afraid that Rayquaza might break out of the Master Ball some how. I opened my lid of my GBA, and saw the Pokedex entry of Rayquaza, and I knew I caught it.

The Champion, Wallace was really hard. When I was nearing the end of the battle, I had to keep using Revives on Blaziken and Rayquaza, for them to be able to try to use a move and KO one of Wallace's Pokemon. After a long time, I ended up defeating the Champion of the Hoenn region.

Sorry for rambling on, on something that might not be nostalgic worthy, but I just feel so happy when ever I talk or remember those memories. :sweatlol:
 
I remember spending hours and hours trying to hatch a shiny Tyrogue from odd egg.... not exactly nostalgic though.
 
Still don't no how I did it lol!! All the doors were closed & I cudnt figure out the puzzle for the floor pads!! Also cus I'd only just got into Pokémon (& I was awesome!! Can't u tell?!) I didn't no that fainting all Pokémon wud send u out the building!!!! Still get shivers going in there!!!
 
I don't really remember them being too hard. They only extremely difficult things I remember from the old games are the Gen I pokemon league and Whitney's miltank.
 
Well, my brother ha recently reminded me, that when we first played the blue version, we had overleveled Charmeleon yet in Viridian forest, because we didn´t know how to get to the Pewter city o_O
(And of course, I knew only very little english that time so I played it with dictionary :D)
 
I remember the Pokemon League (Lance specifically) smacking me around for a few good hours in POkemon Red as I waited for my mom in her office
 
The only thing I remember about R/B/Y being hard was Sabrina and the Elite Four. G/S/C, on the other hand, was a breeze.
 
As someone who picked up Blue only this summer, I really do feel nostalgic over it for some reason. I mean, I've played Gold and Silver (of the originals) I like the feeling I get playing it. I feel like I've played it before...and that it's actually something that's a part of my earlier youth. I know I'm going for getting Mew, Missingno. when the opportunity comes 'round :]
 
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