I still greatly remember the day after high school that my mum took me and my sister to get copies of Pokémon Red & Blue. I’d been reading about it for ages through coverage in N64 magazine that covered things popular in Japan, and things relating to Game Boy.
The constant exposure to these strange interesting “Pocket Monsters” from Nintendo and the fact it was so seemingly infectious wherever it was to touch down made me adamant I wanted to day 1 be part of the craze when it came to England.
Comparatively Pokémon came so late to Europe, and given how awesome some of the games I had for PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were at the time it seems crazy to think such a primitive looking game captured so many in a world before cellphones.
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