The revolutionary link cable meant that battling and trading Pokemon with your mates quickly became a reality. Of course, as enthralling as the single player adventure was, Pokemon was also about playing with friends. The games had an incredibly strong sense of progression, and through this helped the player to feel as if they had really achieved something through a significant time investment. These straightforward, but complex enough, strategic elements provided a real depth of variety for players, meaning each had their own individual experience of the games.īefore long you would need to store Pokemon in your PC as you filled your PokeDex, taking on gym leaders specialising in certain Pokemon types and racking up the hours in your quest to become the world’s number one Pokemon trainer.
The trick was learning how the types fared against each other, and thus being able to change tact mid-battle if necessary.
Of course, a key pillar of the gameplay was each Pokemon having a simple set of stats, along with a “type”, and associated moveset. After choosing your starter Pokemon from Professor Oak and heading out of Pallet Town, the game started to open up to reveal a vibrant world populated with all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures. I think it’s fair to say that these games were revolutionary, and the perfect blend of adventure, story, battling and exploration allowed pretty much anyone to dive in and play. A few kids getting ripped off for their best cards probably helped that along too. So much so that the school quickly moved to ban it, followed shortly by Pokemon trading cards due to them being such a distraction. We were completely captivated by the imagination and possibilities in the big wide world of Kanto, on the small screen. I remember us all constantly playing them in primary school on every break, I had asked for Pokemon Red for my birthday that year. These games were the swansong for the original Game Boy, and turned out to be an absolute worldwide phenomenon.
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