>>11769971
I won't deny that but like I said here >>11767523 a good amount of it for me is because of how visually and tonally unique 1 and 2 are compared to the rest of the series.
I don't spend all day every day playing Pokemon, after re-starting the whole game roughly every six months since I was little, I completed the original pokedex when I was in high school and pretty much knocked all the Pokemon gaming in my system out after that.
Usually whenever I see anything pertaining to Pokemon now it's either hentai of the later games or old artwork and promotional material for the first couple of generations. Like I said then, I really love the old art
and so it has a lot more permanence in my head than anything else that followed.