And It Was Called ‘Yellow’

As a Nintendo 3DS Ambassador, I recently downloaded my 10 free GameBoy Advance games. The selection is beyond amazing, and way better than the 10 free NES games that came out back in September. But that’s a blog post for another day.

Getting these old games again (two of which I spent much of my youth playing: F-Zero Maximum Velocity and Metroid Fusion) rekindled a feeling of nostalgia that made me think farther back then I have in a long, long time. And this then happened:

It’s a screenshot from an emulated copy, not from my actual copy of the game itself. Sadly, my original copy of this game is well loved, and doesn’t work the way it should. And so I now am the proud owner of Pokemon: Yellow Version once again, except this time, I have the internet, and I can reminisce with the world.

Now, true to my Pokenerd self, I immediately started thinking about my ultimate party. Obviously my Pikachu would be the core of my team. How could it not? You only get one Pikachu. And he follows you around. Did someone say epic? No? EPIC!

But who else should join my team? Pidgeot? That was one of my staples back in the day. Because I’ll be playing Yellow Version, I’ll of course have Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise. But aside from the four starter Pokemon, what should I do? I distinctly remember blowing through this game way back when with just these four Pokemon. Should I even bother to use anything else?

But that’s all in the past. This is a new man playing this old game. This is a man used to Natures, and Effort Values, and thirty million different types of Poke Ball. This is a simple game, and I’m going to relive it with you all.

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