Well I have been playing Pokémon for as long as I can remember. I was a Pokémon Boy. I grew up with a GBC with Pokémon Red. I had with me and my brother together about all the Pokémon games. I loved them, back then when we first got the two games it was a battle to be the strongest, we played to-become the champion, we loved the games.
Pokémon D/P came out recently and it was a great-ness again. We played to become the champion, shared secrets to become the champion.
Now a few weeks after the game came out I pulled out my old GBC. I slotted in one of the best games of all time; Pokémon Crystal for the Game Boy Color.
I thought all would change, I thought I would love D/P how I loved the GBC range of games. But it never happened. I looked at my Pokémon to find the following;
Politoed – Lv. 100
Suicune – Lv. 84
Entei – Lv. 47
Persian – Lv. 65
Sunkern – Lv. 14
Noctowl – lv. 23
Looking at the dimly lit screen of the GBC I then noticed something these stats are better than my D/P Pok̩mon. Granted I have D/P Pok̩mon more even around lv. 50 Рlv. 60. But in this game I had a l.v 100. I probably got it up to lv. 80 and then used the Rare Candy cheat, but granted I worked harder than I do on D/P I was shocked.
Politoed is one of the best Pokémon IMO, it’s my favourite Pokémon and well. I’m kind of depressed I can’t send it to D/P.
Now I look at the differences, I fly around a bit. I noticed the Pokémon is a proper sprite when you fly than in D/P and past games such as R/S they were just a blob.
I decided to go to one of the best areas in the game, The MooMoo Ranch. This ranch had some great times, it was my training area. I great one at that, I decided to enter the grass. Switching Politoed to the top persition I was shocked as I used a K.O. Unlike D/P where the health slowly shoots down, the K.O was sudden and impacted a shock on me. The Pokémon was K.O’d instantly. Not in 10 seconds, but 1 swift second.
Running around the MooMoo Ranch I absorbed the music, it was pure and creative. An army like sound, preparing you for what’s to come. I sat down for a bit listing to the music.
I get my Pokémon to fly me to the edge of Johto. I used surf on the edge of the map, re-discovering the adventure of going to the original region, my Pokémon once again was nicely spirited masterpiece. During my adventure I came across a Tentacrule, I attack with Politoed instant K.O and continue on my adventure.
I was now at a location with once again quite good music, Tohjo Falls, the link between Kanto and Johto. I fly to a town. I sit for awhile looking at while another region, the bits which were taken out. The game would have been much better with them in.
I then opened up the Poke Gear, remembering a feature which should have stayed. That is the phone. I ring my mum up to find I have lots of cash saved, I get prompted if I should keep saving. I say Yes of course. I then randomly call everyone else on the phone list.
Another feature in the Poke Gear was the radio. Another great feature which is truly missed. The channels play some awesome music and depending on what you are on tells you things you can do or see. Much better than the TV’s of Pokémon D/P because, you can use it anywhere, any time.
As soon as I left the radio I got another surprise of a great feature Nintendo should have kept in. That is I got a phone call. Telling me about Goldenrod Dept. Store’s bargain sale. If Nintendo kept this feature they could have beamed special features over Wi-Fi. Oh well Nintendo your loss.
I turn off my GBC color. Memories flood back.
Nintendo’s greatest hand-held was in my hands again. The DS is coming close, but the future seems bleak again.
What would be nice is if some Indi service or Nintendo releases the GBC again, with a back light screen and a hard-disk. The hard-disk would be used to play games we can’t anymore because the battery died etc. It would also be used to download more games. In fact let’s make it a phone. I would love to see a phone using the GBC’s old ideas. Nintendo bring back the past, not the future because it has what we all loved.