Pokemon yellow formed my childhood in a way I could never expect

Like many at my age I grew up next to Pokemon. I got Pokemon yellow And Game Boy Advance for Christmas when I was very small, which is the only Christmas I remember. It was my Christmas miracle if we get a little cliché about it. I have no idea how my mother provided it at the time or how it happened. I don't want to get too involved in this aspect of my life, but I grew up seriously. Poverty persists no matter how much you distance yourself; I still know that I have some bad habits and hobbies that come from all the ways that poverty shaped my childhood. But in all difficulties, video games were my leaks and video games also formed my childhood and life. This does not mean that games should or can only be a leak, but I understand more than most others.

Pokemon yellow was my escape. I remember spending hours and hours playing. I remember that I used it to learn to read because I would do every skill in the kindergarten and first grade (ISH). I'm sure my understanding has ever evolved because I remember when I first faced Elite Four. I thought when I lost one of them that I had to start the whole game over … not just Elite Four. Finally, somewhere along the road, I beat the game. I have held this physical cassette ever since and it is important to note.

Pokemon yellow survived every time I traded in gamestop for new games and Pokemon yellow survived when I was forced to sell another Pokemon games. Pokemon yellow He survived the fire that destroyed my home in high school, survived several life movements, survived to go to college, survived marriage and three children, and survived 25 years of my life. I can't always keep it close, because it's easily one of the most valuable objects of my life.

Every time I think about this period, of course I think about the strengths of my single, affected mothers, when as a child provides me with the best of her abilities. I think of the fact that Pokemon yellow He was vital in my ability to read at higher levels from a young age. I am thinking about how it launched a lifelong love to Pokemon franchise, to the point that I played every main game, most spinoff games and have Pokemon Tattoo (total, my love and of course I want more). What I have less attributed over the years is all that followed: friends I did along the way, the passion I inspired for video games and the ways I got involved Pokemon in my life and my children.

I mean, just look at that guy.

Pokémon in a school bus

Easily and unfortunately, and unfortunately, this feature applies to my childhood and my adult life. Pokemon When I was young, he was very important. School bus is the best place to see development Pokemon games. At elementary school they played a handful of us Pokemon games close to each other. Of course, this was probably just before playing was considered colder (and I hope it is now considered cold in schools? Even Dunno). One of them I am still friends with, and of course one child would show up with a link cable. That was the best. Over time, this evolved from game boys and earlier games on Nintendo DS, 3DS and 2DS, at least in my time. In high school I would create another friend and over the years the series of Battle of Pokémon would begin because we were rivals. It was that I still name some of my game rivals after him.

Carefully look back at the era of my life. In most of the competitions, we only allowed each other legendary, which meant that he faced my Latios with Darkrai, and I faced his Darkrai and Yanmega. Today we do not test so often, even though we have discussed it several times and with all the main editions, because we are both adults with tons of duty. Yet there is nostalgia and my rival in high school and my childhood friend Pokemon are still in my life. I think it happened over the years of SVs essence everybody Pokemon a game that I have never thought about Pokemon yellow All of this allowed. If it wasn't for this unlikely Christmas miracle, maybe I never enjoyed video games just like me and I did them, and maybe I never used them to connect with others. I think I miss it in the adults of my life.

Pokemon Yellow was my first love

I think we stick to the cliché, but it's true: Pokemon yellow Was the first video game about my life. Looking back, I wonder why my young mind never wanted to become a game developer. I hit the gaming shout while I watched the title in English, which I think, develop reading skills through Pokemon yellow The love of literature is quite obvious. But it is curious. Where I come from, with limited access to the Internet I had, maybe I never wiped me to work in the field I loved. Maybe, at least for my life, I just wanted to keep the biggest hobby in the world for myself for leisure. I don't know.

But I know I love video games. I know the video games got me through the most difficult parts of my life. I had Pokemon yellow When I learned to navigate in a world that didn't want me. I had World Destruction League: Thunder Tanks When I faced hunger every day. I had Runescape When I was bullied as a child. I had Assassin's Creed You want to call my love for history. I had Dragon Age: Origins How I learned who I am. I had The god of war ragnarok When I lost my grandfather, the most influential man in my life.

From the age of 16, I had a job every day of my life and no matter how little I was paid, I would give some money from the check for the pre -order for the upcoming game. Gamesop guys expected me as a watch. I always wanted to play another game; Premium Game Pipeline, at the age of the Forever games as Robloxis the pipeline that I prefer. I love to constantly see the visions and worlds of others through my video games. Yes, yes, I work in the game media and partly it is necessary from us, but I did it before I worked here and I will do it afterwards. I'll do it as long as there is a premium game pipe. Play all I can do is my real test; Exploiting them is my cause. Okay, sorry. Sorry. Maybe that's why I'm fighting friends.

But I would love any game just like me Pokemon yellow Wasn't it all?

Pokemon in my end of the 20th and 30th years.

When I received I was lost, lonely boy Pokemon yellow, One asked to be too responsible, one who had to become a man much before I was ready. When I think about my childhood, it's often about its lack. Before I was in the fourth grade, I could write checks. Before I was preschool. But maybe in my childhood I really had – the one I still raise – is in video games. This is probably too romanticing the situation because I am now an adult and I played more than PokemonBut it's nice to see it through the line, this consistency, in my life, even if I had none.

Over time, obtaining games (Pokemon or otherwise) became easier (despite the current economy that made sure it was not without any challenge). Now I don't have to save $ 5 from each check, enter the gamestop and slowly put money for pre -orders. I managed to get tattoos of todil. Heck, I even checked Pokemon sword and shield On a switch that young would not believe me, if I told him. My wife and I still get to the and from Pokemon go Every few years. I have secured Pokemon was part of my children's life, playing Let's go, Pikachu! with my oldest when he was young. His favorite Pokémon is still, although he played all the new and some of the older ones, Bulbasaur. So you know he's a good boy. I have worked hard, since I was born to ensure that my children had no suffering I did, but I think in many ways I have ensured that they also have good parts.

And with Pokemon Legends: For and Pokemon Gen 10 (Probably) around the corner I do not see this love and influence in my life that is soon dying.

And I think it brings us to the conclusion why I even write it. I still think about my childhood and still come back Pokemon And video games were the only consistent factor I had. Consistency, when he's in poverty, is a beautiful thing. Pokemon yellowChristmas miracle, it all made it. It gave me escapes, it gave me ways to experience the emotions I fought (and still fight), and gave me consistency. I will play everyone Pokemon A game that comes out whenever I try to play as many games as I can in this life, and this consistency brings me excitement for my 30, 40 years and however long, I can live. And I don't know. Thanks to this I feel better about my childhood, about my life to this point.

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October 18, 1999

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