Basically, Pokemon Blue and Red are what defined “cool” in my plasticine brain, and that will always be my foundation. I remember as the boosters released in waves post base set: jungle, fossil, rocket, gym… I collected the figures and basically whatever I could get my hands on that was even barely related. I remember doing chores for change so I could go to The Family Book Store and buy pokemon card packs for four dollars with my own money. The game boy pocket would turn out to be a flash in the pan due to the success of pokemon causing nintendo to go all in on rehashing the game boy hardware for a whole third generation with the GBC. That’s right it says *GAME BOY pocket*!!! those of you who were born in the later half of the 90’s, much later than I was, can *read it and weep* I only recently found photos of the display I remembered so clearly: The earliest Pokemon promotion at KFC is one of my earliest childhood memories. I remember allllll the fast food promotions for tamagotchi, pokemon, etc. Wonderswan! intend to put more time into other early console games like the tamagotchi games for Playstation, N64, and I think Saturn too! Later as an adult I explored the japan-only tamagotchi GB sequels, and this summer I’ve been playing the Digital Monster Ver. I had the Tamagotchi game for game boy and played it a tonnnn. I remember going to Eckerd pharmacy and getting Tamagotchi, and the first Digimon vpet. A blue Game Boy Pocket, what felt like a month with no games, then Pokemon Blue, was my first game. To kick things off though, I was born in the earliest of 90’s, so I never stood a chance against the monsters craze. Instead I’ll share anecdotes and this awesome blog I recently discovered, which has the greatest english chronicling of the story and context of Digimon, weaving in the context from Tamagotchi and Pokemon: The only difference here is that I’m not putting together a comprehensive list to kick things off. It makes sense because Mother was very much the spiritual predecessor to Pokemon and by extension, all the similar games the following generations. This can be a sort of spiritual sister thread to the thread about Mother-adjacents. I have a lot to share and say about what the zoomers have taken to calling “mongames”, which seems appropriate enough.
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