Personally I don't consider people to be true pokemon trainers

Grats. Your opinion doesn't matter on this "issue" but you're entilted to it.

>>31593288
actually..... I feel the same

I liked how more feral the pokemon looked in gen1

>>31593288
Personally I don't consider people that only played red and blue as kids as "real pokemon fans"

File: 140842379.png (3KB, 170x254px) Image search: [Google]

3KB, 170x254px

>>31593288
that's a no true scotsman logical fallacy but it also doesn't affect me so i guess i don't care

>>31593288
That's dumb. I didn't even play it on release day. A few days later maybe.

OP image made me nostalgia so hard I almost passed out. The years bro.

I'm replaying Silver at the moment since this is a Gen 1-2 discussion. Thoughts on my party so far?
Electabuzz
Lugia
Dragonair
Gloom
Houndoom
Weezing

Haven't fought any of the gyms yet in Kanto but I'm just pissing about going to locations so I can fly there without a problem.

Release day? That's a pretty tough marker to have met...

Did anyone ever use Raticate or bother catching a Ratata for that matter? Always ones I avoided since they looked shit and unappealing.

>>31593575
>>31593471

You didn't start your adventure when the developers and the game company decided you should have started your adventure. You should have bought it on release day and become a true pokemon trainer.

>>31593288
I was born around release date, I can never be a true Pokemon fan?

>>31593672
I'm using one right now on my virtual console blue actually, because I too realised that I never did in all those years.

Thank goodness human beings are entitled to have stupid opinions no op?

>>31593288
Excuse for not living in a country that released things on the spot back then and being poor as a child.


But by your logic here >>31593675 you aren't a true fan either since you didn't play either Red or Green back in 1996.

>>31593672
Only once back in the day.

Was pleasantly surprised by the utility it had in its tm learnset

That's nice.

>>31593672
I guess the only pokemon that I didn't used in gen I is Jynx.

>>31593288
Well sorry that my parents couldn't fucking afford a Gameboy or thought it was an unnecessary waste idk probably just poor tho and that I was able to finally to play until they got me a GBA

>>31593288
same.

>>31593288
Why such an arbitrary metric, OP?

File: 1440890246911.jpg (28KB, 623x527px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 623x527px

>>31593288
>>31594326
>Every trainer has to be born before the games were released to be a true trainer!
Reminder that 18-20 year olds today weren't even born when the games were released in Japan. Let that sink in.

I wasn't even alive on release day

>>31593288
>pokemon blue
october 15 1996

>or red
february 27 1996

>>31593446
This. They all looked like they were going to kick your ass. I miss it so much.

>>31593288
You mean Pokemon Red or Green right? Otherwise you never started at the beginning

>>31593288
Genwunner fags of all people think they have the right to determine who is or isn't a true Pokemon trainer

>>31593288
True, you shouldn't talk about other gens if you didn't play them when they were the hottest shit.

File: 1460018660716.png (313KB, 550x366px) Image search: [Google]

313KB, 550x366px

>>31593288
Many people here were born after 1996.
>tfw people born in 1996 are between 20 and 21 y/o this year

>>31593288
>Not playing the Japan version on its release day
Sorry bub, you're not a true Pokemon trainer either.

>>31593288
>he didn't import Red and Green on release day

>>31593456
This is more valid of an opinion.
The brand has expanded so much since the 90s and constantly dragging along generation 1 nostalgia is hurting the franchise.

If you're only a fan of the original and unwilling to explore the franchise beyond that, then are you really a fan of the whole franchise?