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POV: it's 1998, and you're about to make an important decision (lemmy.world)
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[–] 11 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I still remember when a kid told me he figured out how to copy pokemon. You would trade using the link cable and pull the cable out in the middle of the transfer. But the crappy Ratata was the first to be sent over and then he pulled the cable and I lost my Hitmonlee.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    It's amazing how these tricks circulated pre-internet.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Defeat the Elite Four 100 times with a team of only Mewtwo and Magikarps, no visiting the Pokemon Center between runs. Then fly to Cinnabar Island and walk around the island 51 times, COUNTERCLOCKWISE, then fly to Pallet Town and talk to Professor Oak who will battle you. Win the batt and he'll give you Mew.

    It's funny a few months back when Pokopia was first released I was trying to lookup some information about how to find a certain Pokemon. I stumbled onto some terrible LLM generated page that started off "ok", but quickly went into full hallucination mode. It felt like the good ole days of Pokemon lies on the Internet. I just wish it has been a person lying.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    In 1998 we very much had newsgroups communities and local/regional BBS that had gaming discussions, hints, maps, puzzle solutions, etc. NNTP in particular could allow the quick regional and global spread (connecting to other BBS was long distance phone charges, but still possible if you knew about them).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I remember it being the person with the good pokemon switching off the console at the right time.

    Back in primary school I sacrificed my save file, pick a starter, clone it over and over again, repeat with the other starters till we had about 2 of each. Then cloned back the others to me.

    From then on we could evolve one of each and keep another spare for cloning to others.

    Someone somehow got a mew. So we cloned that to everyone too.

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