I only played the Red and Blue version for Gameboy. That was years ago. Never touched the series after they started marketing for kids. I was in 7th or 8th grade when it dropped. The original stuff was pretty great!
Never touched the series after they started marketing for kids
It was always marketed at kids. The anime, which came out a full year before the video game (in the USA), was about a 10 year old boy. The video game was the same. Who do you think the audience was if not 10 year olds?
The games were released in 1996 in Japan and 1998 in the US. The anime aired in 1997 in Japan and 1999 in the US. So the games still came out before the show in the US.
My personal fave was Sun and Moon. It may have been more hand-holdy than I liked but it let me
do all my favorite things. There was a minigame for taking pictures of wild pokemon, and they let me grow berries. Just let me grow berries! Aaaagh!
Edit: Also look up Alolan Exeggutor. Love him. No notes.
The first time I entered battle and he was so tall his little battle sprite stuck up off the screen I was enthralled. I don’t like “regular” exeggutor now. They’re so dumpy looking.
I only played the Red and Blue version for Gameboy. That was years ago. Never touched the series after they started marketing for kids. I was in 7th or 8th grade when it dropped. The original stuff was pretty great!
It was always marketed at kids. The anime,
which came out a full year before the video game (in the USA),was about a 10 year old boy. The video game was the same. Who do you think the audience was if not 10 year olds?The games were released in 1996 in Japan and 1998 in the US. The anime aired in 1997 in Japan and 1999 in the US. So the games still came out before the show in the US.
I did Red and Blue but kept playing them.
My personal fave was Sun and Moon. It may have been more hand-holdy than I liked but it let me do all my favorite things. There was a minigame for taking pictures of wild pokemon, and they let me grow berries. Just let me grow berries! Aaaagh!
Edit: Also look up Alolan Exeggutor. Love him. No notes.
“It swings its long neck like a whip and smacks its opponents. This makes Exeggutor itself dizzy, too.” Amazing
The first time I entered battle and he was so tall his little battle sprite stuck up off the screen I was enthralled. I don’t like “regular” exeggutor now. They’re so dumpy looking.