I didn't know much about the new Pokémon, but first-gen is what had originally caught my interest. I also "knew" that being recent titles, they were a little more than I could afford. I knew it was a recreation of the first set of games, that they were given enhancements for the new system, had a descriptor in the name to differentiate them, and…well, that was pretty much it. The first-gen remakes had just come out a few months before, and although I didn't know much about them, what with living up on at the Centre and being obsessed with gaming to make up for all the years I hadn't had any, I had heard a bit.
Whatever the reason, one day I saw a deal I couldn't pass up. I had to budget pretty carefully, because I had three systems and only got so much money in my J.C. For some reason, though, I never got any Pokémon games, even though when I'd played a friend's copy (when the first generation was new), I'd loved it. I used to be pretty adventurous with my purchases, grabbing whatever looked cool at the time, and they were a goldmine for that. It was nice because it was a small shop, so they'd buy and sell pretty much anything as long as it worked, and you could find neat obscure titles sometimes. I kept going back to the shop for new games, and I loved everything I got. It's actually pretty good, but I didn't find out how rare it was until after I'd sold it for a new game. I got a Pokémon knockoff too, something called "Demi Kids" (I got the "Dark" version, pretty much solely because it was "dark"). A friend got me a GBA SP and the (at that time) new Final Fantasy Tactics. Bought a Dreamcast off of someone, an N64 from a local game shop. My parents were very anti-videogame, and I didn't get my first console until I went away to Job Corps.
Remember when the Pokémon craze first started? How everyone and their brother had Red or Blue versions? Everyone but me, anyway. What you think about this - whether you believe any of it or not - is entirely up to you.
Personally, I don't believe that anything I experienced was evil, or even supernatural at all.but then again, I also never got the answers to any of my questions about what happened, either. Some may call what I have to describe as "creepy", and some may not. Not all the details may be right, but they are as close to what happened in my first days of gaming as they possibly can be. I've tried to remember events as best I could. What follows is an account based on my experiences years ago. Haunted Gaming - My First Pikachu About this story: