I was never a fan of Pokémon growing up but my grandparents knew I liked video games so they always suprised me with new games, I don’t think they understood to whole “console” concept so they would buy games for systems I did not even have. I never had any of the Gameboys.

My Grandparents also knew about Pokémon and how popular they were with kids my age so if they seen a Pokémon game they bought it and “suprised” me with it. Since I wasn’t into Pokémon and didn’t have any Gameboys, when they gave me Gameboy Pokémon games I had no reason to open them so…… sitting in a controller storage unit with the rest of my gaming collection are unopened copies of all of the Gameboy Pokémon games.

And it means nothing.

And it means nothing.

One more time for those in the back:

Owning the original cartridge over a bootleg of a 20+ year old game means JACK DIDDLY SQUAT

I have multiple Pokémon games that are bootlegs because I refuse to shell out 2-3 times the original price of these games. Best part is that they’re indistinguishable to the originals other than having fresher, shinier cases. Hell, even the hack-checks of Pokémon Home a check-sites don’t detect that they’re different.