Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
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Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
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Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#2Wow, I also spent years reading those guides before playing by first ever Pokémon game. I even started to write my own guide. As a child, it was very fun.
Now I'm wondering how many people share the same experience.
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#3Interesting idea! I’m curious if one could create an app (purely as an experiment) where source control contains a repository of markdown docs and the build step just calls an LLM in a specific order.
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#4Wow, I also spent years reading those guides before playing by first ever Pokémon game. I even started to write my own guide. As a child, it was very fun. Now I'm wondering how many people share the same experience.
My friend who I played Red and Blue with had one of those.
They were an incredible resource. Later I was almost more amazed by gameFAQs which has very detailed guides for almost any game. And at least back then it was all ASCII with no ads. A million times better than the blogspam game guides that Google returns these days
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#5Hah! I spent a lot of time as a child reading and studying that guide, while actually never playing the game until many years later.
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#6Wow, I also spent years reading those guides before playing by first ever Pokémon game. I even started to write my own guide. As a child, it was very fun. Now I'm wondering how many people share the same experience.
A bit younger, so the game isn’t the same, but I had the same experience with Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - I did ultimately get the game within a year or so
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#7Wow, I also spent years reading those guides before playing by first ever Pokémon game. I even started to write my own guide. As a child, it was very fun. Now I'm wondering how many people share the same experience.
My friend who I played Red and Blue with had one of those. They were an incredible resource. Later I was almost more amazed by gameFAQs which has very detailed guides for almost any game. And at least back then it was all ASCII with no ads. A million times better than the blogspam game guides that Google returns these days
gamefaqs often still has really really good mostly text guides for PC cRPGs (with the odd exception of BG3). Maybe all the old-timey text nerds only like RTWP (which is a position I have a lot of sympathy with).
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#8I sometimes used Gen 1 Pokémon as memory palaces. It’s surprising how well the layout of old games all sticks up there.
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#9Same but with Pokemon gold.
The guide was basically a bible for me at that age, and used it heavily to guide me through parts of the game I would get stuck at.
I seem to remember places like the ice skating scenes and victory road being far more challenging than they probably were in reality.
Re: Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow
#10I sometimes used Gen 1 Pokémon as memory palaces. It’s surprising how well the layout of old games all sticks up there.
Interestingly, the maps never stuck with me, but I also use pokemon a lot for memory techniques - namely for letter pairs.