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Full Pocket Monsters experience: a /vr/ guide
>know absolutely nothing about the franchise and first engage with it through newspapers articles about a cartoon show that caused epileptic attacks on children in Japan
>read video game magazine articles that talk about a social phenomenon in Japan, called "Pocket Monsters", see some small screenshots and design imagen and think it looks weird and foreign but cool
>Call up various local game stores and ask them if they sell this japanese Pocket Monsters Game, only for them to have no idea
>forget about it for a while and one day you casually watch the first episode of "Pokémon" on cable TV and then you keep watching all the first season, meanwhile:
>Get Red or Blue and play on a Game Boy, or a Super Game Boy. Better alternative: GB tower on Pokémon Stadium, and using Oak's Lab for item and pkmn management, much better than the menues on the GB games. But, for a first playthrough it's not mandatory.
>Once you beat the game and catch Mewtwo, watch Mewtwo Strikes Back kino
>Read the "electric tale of Pikachu" manga
>Get a friend or a way to get the Pokémon from the other version that you're missing. Play Stadium's gym leader castle to get starters, fossils, eeveees and hitmons.
>Also try to beat the different cups in the main Stadium game as a post-game challenge. Start training low level Pokémon and buff them/give TMs and customize them.
>Buy at least a pack of the TCG, even if you don't care playing it, it's good art on them.
>play Pokémon Pinball and the Game Boy TCGs if you want somen extra gen 1 experience on GB
>play Snap and Smash 64
>Start reading rumours about pikablu
>Get hype for "Pokémon 2"
>Download a japanese ROM of Pokémon Gold and play a bit of it on a poorly coded emulator
>Play the actual Gold or Silver cart on a GB Color or go full pokemaster and play on Stadium 2 using the GB Tower, then play the Stadium cups.
>know absolutely nothing about the franchise and first engage with it through newspapers articles about a cartoon show that caused epileptic attacks on children in Japan
>read video game magazine articles that talk about a social phenomenon in Japan, called "Pocket Monsters", see some small screenshots and design imagen and think it looks weird and foreign but cool
>Call up various local game stores and ask them if they sell this japanese Pocket Monsters Game, only for them to have no idea
>forget about it for a while and one day you casually watch the first episode of "Pokémon" on cable TV and then you keep watching all the first season, meanwhile:
>Get Red or Blue and play on a Game Boy, or a Super Game Boy. Better alternative: GB tower on Pokémon Stadium, and using Oak's Lab for item and pkmn management, much better than the menues on the GB games. But, for a first playthrough it's not mandatory.
>Once you beat the game and catch Mewtwo, watch Mewtwo Strikes Back kino
>Read the "electric tale of Pikachu" manga
>Get a friend or a way to get the Pokémon from the other version that you're missing. Play Stadium's gym leader castle to get starters, fossils, eeveees and hitmons.
>Also try to beat the different cups in the main Stadium game as a post-game challenge. Start training low level Pokémon and buff them/give TMs and customize them.
>Buy at least a pack of the TCG, even if you don't care playing it, it's good art on them.
>play Pokémon Pinball and the Game Boy TCGs if you want somen extra gen 1 experience on GB
>play Snap and Smash 64
>Start reading rumours about pikablu
>Get hype for "Pokémon 2"
>Download a japanese ROM of Pokémon Gold and play a bit of it on a poorly coded emulator
>Play the actual Gold or Silver cart on a GB Color or go full pokemaster and play on Stadium 2 using the GB Tower, then play the Stadium cups.
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