In which Brin learns to speak another dialect of Pokemon

[brin_bellway]

I was feeling like I might want to play some Pokemon, but the thought of dealing with the location and Internet-access logistics of Pokemon Go was stressful†.

And then I thought "Maybe it's time I played a core Pokemon game."

After a little bit of poking around, I installed a Game Boy Color emulator on my smartphone†† and...obtained (look, it's not like you can buy them from the manufacturer anymore anyway) a copy of Pokemon Crystal.

I've barely begun--only just made it to Cherrygrove, don't even have any Pokeballs yet--but I'm enjoying it so far. I was a little surprised at first that nobody seems to mind me barging into their homes and poking all their stuff to see what examine text pops up, but then I remembered that this is a common RPG conceit.

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†Especially now that Dad is the one holding the Person With a Data Plan title: his phone's mobile-hotspot function is broken, his model is the kind where you have to disassemble half the thing just to get the SIM card in and out, and he is often at work at times that I would want to play.

††I know you *can* get PC versions, even Linux, but I figured I'd go for a more Authentic Handheld Experience.

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

I'll admit, I spent a good chunk of my childhood thinking crystal was fake.

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Why did my childhood contain fake pokemon games? There were a bunch of them...

(never causing particular stress since I don't actually play games enough to realistically need more then 2-3 pokemon games over current lifetime, let alone being 10 and seeing many fake pokemon games)

Anyhow, have fun!

[brin_bellway]

By "fake", do you mean "this game exists in name only, you cannot actually play it anywhere", or "this game exists but is not official, and was most likely made by heavily altering the code of one of the official games"?

(postscript: or maybe "this game is unofficial and was created out of whole cloth, probably badly"?)

It looks like there's a bunch of the second kind, fan-made "hacks", out there. But they are clearly marked as such. I think the first kind has probably been cleared up by the passage of time and the improvement of communication networks.

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>>Anyhow, have fun!<<

Thank you!

[contrarianarchon]

No idea! I just know that they weren't "real" pokemon games. I was not very, like, finger-on-the-pulse as a child. Like, I'm bad at that now, but when I was a kid I was very out of it. I had no improvement of communication networks. I certainly thought they were the former, but I could not actually say they were not the latter - having identified them as fakes I ignored them.