Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl: Our 7 Most Precious Pokemon Memories (Sponsored Content) 

I asked my Grandma for a pokemon game for Christmas when I was little, she got me Pearl. The problem was I had a gameboy and she didn't realize I couldn't play the one she got me, she bought me a different one later because she's the best. But one day, my parents got me a DSI for my birthday, imagine my surprise when on a whim I asked what had ever happened to that old game she bought me by mistake, and it turned out she had kept it in a shoebox in her closet for seven years after the fact. Still one of the best gifts I've ever received.

I love the sheer outrage in Andy's voice at Decidueye being compared to Hawkeye

Watching Ellen lose it over how cute Eevee is was an absolute gem

The fact that Andy sounds like he is still mad about Jane's tauros hilarious!

In this episode, we learn Ellen really needs to get a cat.

Yes, so excited to have another entry in this series! Love hearing these non-scripted takes from you guys. One of my most prominent Pokemon memories was convincing my cousin to use her master ball to catch a Donphan in her copy of Silver because I thought it was super rare for some reason. She still hasn't forgiven me all these years later, and I don't blame her one bit.

"I caught a Tauros and Andy was angry." Now which one does Jane remember with more fondness?

I was not expecting Mike in this video but his segment was amazingly wholesome

I love that after beating the game Andy becomes a ghost type gym leader. It’s seems very on brand.

Man I love Andy chiming in with his witty remarks on Luke in the euro tunnel along with Ellens laughter in the background.😂💜

Andy cutting in throughout Luke's bit is a wonderful window onto their pokemon rivalry. And it's okay Mike, I chose Chimchar too.

As Luke stares grimly at the camera relaying the intensity of his battle with Mewtwo, I realise that's how he got that scar

If this helps, Mike, Chimchar's final evolution form is a clear reference to the Monkey King in Journey to the West. He was a chaotic and ultra-destructive metaphor for the human mind, and literally became immortal 7 times over somehow. He wrecked all the armies of the heavens until the Buddah had to seal him under a mountain with all the collective power of the universe just so he would behave enough for the aforementioned journey to start..

I was thinking to myself as I watched that I couldn't recall any that specific experiences playing pokémon as a kid despite playing it so much. Then I remembered Whitney's Miltank 🙃

I enjoy how "innoventions" has bled into other videos from the Blades in the Dark videos. Pokemon is a series I think I will always have a place in my heart for. Got into them all the way back at Red and Blue, they're brilliant games to relax and unwind with.

I love listening to all of you wonderful people talking about your favorite memories and moments. More of this format please!

Ellen: dwells in memories and is happy, mentions watery eyes Andy, totally unphased: that's called crying, Ellen.

I've got a soft spot for the Mystery Dungeon spin offs, even the weak ones are enjoyable, and the endings always make me cry. Explorers is the best and the most emotional ending too. I can't think about it and not start welling up

Love the video but the fact that Ellen and Luke singing like jigglypuff didn't make the cut is an absolute travesty of justice.

I adore these types of videos and definitely want to see more of them, but I'm even more delighted to discover Andy has a Houndoom on his spooky squad because I feel like no one else ever mentions it and it's genuinely my favourite Pokemon ❤️

SOOOO HAPPY about these "Oxbox team memories in the studio" videos coming back!

Pokemon is burned into my psyche as well. I was fighting my rival for the final time in the original Blue version and my battery light turned red. I managed to get thru the credit sequence and as the screen said that my progress was saved, it died. Such tension, but great memories!

Because there was only one, I was convinced Rotom was a legendary until like gen 7 when they made the pokedex a Rotom. Catching that felt like a big achievement at the time

There's actually something called a Gen 1 miss that means anything with a 100% hit rate has a 1 in 256 chance to just go "lol no" which even affects the Master Ball. Fun fact.

Diamond was my first pokemon game. I distinctly remember being at the airport fighting the elite four in queue at the scanner things. The queue got shorter and I still hadn't finished the fight. It was intense. I have never battled harder. I was so close. They made me turn it off to have it scanned. I lost ALL my progress and had to fight them all again.

I was a late comer to video games, too, and for the longest time the old GameBoy was my only video game... thing. This really brought back some fond memories and nostalgia, and it's really lovely to hear Oxboxtra's perspective on the same sorta events I went through as a kid. Lotsa love, Oxboxtra.

One of my favourite memories about Pokemon was this: As a child, I had Pokemon Gold, and not very many other games. I played a lot of Pokemon over the years. How much Pokemon, exactly? I don't know, the gameplay clock only logs up to 999:99 in playtime. However, the memorable part only comes years later, playing it for nostalgia purposes while in university. It was there that I discovered, for the first time in my life, that there was a distinct "morning" time of day in Pokemon Gold. I'd been such an incorrigible nightowl all my life, that I'd never once in well over a thousand hours been up early enough to have experienced morning in Johto.

Great video guys :D My precious Pokemon memory was with Pokemon Gold, when I was in the middle school. After winning the League the first time and then defeating the Kanto Gym Leaders, I finally went to Mt. Silver. My team was around levels 40-50 and when I arrived at the end of the dungeon I found a trainer. I talked to him, thinking that he would be an easy challenge, then, after his dialogue was just three points and after the introducing battle screen, I realized he was Red! When I saw his Pikachu around level 70 I just thought "Ok, I'm f***ed!", and he easily wiped my team. Then I made some changes, took some grinding to make my Pokemon stronger and finally I had my revenge. That team still remains the one I have got more attached to. Thank you Feraligatr, Scizor, Tyranitar, Crobat, Espeon and Umbreon, together we defeated the undefeatable!

Honestly my favorite Sinnoh started will always be Turtwig, it wasn’t what I picked my first run, but became my favorite so quickly. I picked Piplup my first run because I wanted to be like Dawn in the anime

My favorite memory will always be the first day I got to play Pokemon X. That first day...I found a Flabebe. A shiny Flabebe. I didn't know it was a shiny for an hour or two. And the story involves a very specific shiny Pokemon, an evolution of that Flabebe. I felt...incredibly moved by this.

My greatest memory was finding my first ever shiny. I was only like 5 or 6 when I got Fr/Lg and I distinctly remember grinding up on victory road after getting wiped and finding a shiny sandslash. Now heres the thing, I was only like maybe 7 at the oldest at that time, didn't know what shinies were, and I missed the star effect when the battle started. So young me saw the red spines, figured it was weird, and caught it.....only to learn YEARS later that I found something absurdly rare (reminder this was back when the shiny odds were 1/8,192 and sandslash also only have a 5% spawn chance on victory road). So since then, I have always had a soft spot for sandslash and just like my very first ever starter I have brought it through every game to current gen alsoas a lover of Ice types I was extremely happy for alolan sandslash.

This oxboxtra format will forever be my favourite! It’s so funny to watch them just talk and sometimes have a go at each other 😂

If Ellen ever goes rogue, the others can incapacitate her by talking about petting an Eevee

I respected Andy for being a secret Goth before... but now that I know he loves Rowlet and has a spooky team I respect him even more. As a Ghost type trainer I approve.

"That means Charmander is old enough to drive." On a slight tangent, Charizard is only five feet and seven inches tall (1.7 m). So... watching a dragon-shaped, fire lizard drive a vehicle doesn't sound too crazy.

Honestly, with all the experiences I've had with pokemon over the years... Remembering the first time I ever got anything non-legendary to level 100... Finally getting a Spiritomb... Finally beating the league in Pokemon Gold back when I was 7 and had restarted several times because I didn't understand English yet and got stuck not knowing where to go... Sneaking out of school at a recess to go pick up the copy of Pokemon Black I had preordered, then beating the main story within 24 hours... So many memories, and yet the one thing I can remember feeling the most joy about is being 28, standing in the Obsidian Fieldlands in Legends: Arceus, and just having a tiny flock of wild Wurmple congregate around me with their dopey little squishy faces, talking at me. Why that, of all things, makes me turn into the same adorable mess Ellen becomes thinking of Eevee, I don't know, but I sure do love that dopey little wormy boy.

Luke: “Mewtwo is unbelievably strong” Footage: *fighting Mewtwo with a level 67 Pidgeotto Note: assuming the Pidgeotto wasn’t caught high leveled, that means they press B at least 30 times to stop it from evolving.

The “Missing No.” glitch and the trade glitches from the original gameboy games are some of my favorite memories. You better believe I had a dex full of lvl 99 Pokémon

My hands down favorite moment has to be from the FR/LG days. I managed to train up my Charmander into a Charizard of such stomp ass power (and a bit of luck) that I managed to solo each member of the Elite Four with it!

Don’t worry Ellen. I too am a grown adult that cried when I first pet Eevee.

I want to add a pokémon memory to this. In the end of Gold/Silver and crossing the waterfall to discover you can explore the Kanto region as well! One of the most exciting moments in video game history to me. Nowdays with the internet and the fact that many games have additions it's essentially impossible to get so genuinely starstruck by an in game reveal.

I did the exact same thing as Luke, used my first masterball on Articuno all those years ago.

I love how both Luke and Andy have a memory of going up against the One Pokemon At The End -- and then Luke's other memory is them snarking at each other over their starters in a different game. XD And yes, the ability to pet Eevee and have it go squee is the best.

25:07 I can completely understand this. I always loved the episode where Ash’s Bulbasaur is abducted by a wild Bulbasaur tribe. Then gets caught up in a evolution ritual where dozens of Bulbasaurs evolve into Ivysaur, and Ash’s wills it’s self not to evolve. I related so much to refusing to change yourself, because someone else wanted you to be different then you were.

I'm 43 and I've always had a thing for Eevee too and quite often when I'm by myself I like to cuddle to my Eevee Plushies and sometimes I get overcome by these intense feelings of what is known as cuteness aggression. Lol you should have seen me playing Let's Go Eevee, it was like being in my late Teens again.

I have a lot of pokemon memories. I was obsessed with it in middle school. Though I think my favorite pokemon memory was playing through gold and silver the first time. Honestly, I wish more of the games would be like it. Because not only did you get a whole new pokemon adventure, not only did you get a free shiny if you were good enough with the red gyrados, but you got to travel to Kanto and you got to fight the protagonist from the first game. Like it was amazing. I wish there was a Pokemon MMO where you could go to all the lands and catch all the pokemon in a huge pokemon world.

I've got too many presh mems with Pokemon to count, honestly, but Diamond has a special place in my heart for being the game I played with my best friends one summer, with us battling and trading regularly. Maybe the time I proved that Diamond was better by one-hit-KOing Palkia with Dialga's Roar of Time, lol (I don't even think it was a critical hit). Can't wait to get my pre-ordered copy of the remake soon!

The pokemon Go story...oh my goooood... So I lived in Florida and while the downtown bay area I lived at would get busy...this was...the most Id ever seen. So its at the peak of the hype, im sitting in my group among a CROWD of families, teens, kids, adults, GRANDPARENTS....all having fun, running around, excitedly talking about something I had loved since I was a child. I remember being a kid and going to a school where being a nerd, let alone a girl nerd, would get you beat up. So seeing basically my ten year old dreams come true...i nearly cried in the glow of how amazing that moment was.

love these lists where they all reminisce about gaming memories! Good to see this coming back! P.S. "presh mems" has firmly entered my vocabulary and is here to stay

hey Luke, don't feel bad I wasted my first ever master ball on a level 30 kecleon because it shat all over my ultra balls before 😅

This makes me kinda sad because I’ve never had a console, and therefore never played an actual mainline game. But my memories with Pokémon Duel will last forever.

Everything about the battle with Groudon in the original Ruby Version has left a huge impression on me. But the opening of Platinum Version, the music of gen 4, the story of gen 5, researching fairy types in gen 6, and everything about red rescue team and the explorer's games are all precious memories to me.

I can't remember what day I first saw Pokémon, but my first episode was the actual first episode and Pikachu and Ash's friendship has held my heart ever since.

It was such a nice nostalgia trip listening to all of these things. I've been a fan since the start in the US, and I can't think of a single thing as my greatest/best Pokemon memory, because there's just. So much. So many things that have and wouldn't've happened because I was a fan.

After getting my poor team crushed by Witney's Miltank for the 9th time I finally got a lucky paralysis and got the win

1) I'm in the same boat as Luke on the Mewtwo thing. I knew there was a Legendary in the game, I had no idea there was *more* than one. I too, wasted my Master ball on Articuno. 2) I've never been a huge fan of Eevee, but I understand Ellen's reaction, I was almost the same when Go! released and I could pet my Charmander. "A Trainer's Starter is always special." - Professor Samuel Oak

An early Pokémon memory I have is of a family holiday to France, my brother and I were playing Pokémon Diamond on the ferry to Dunkirk and arguing over who's team was better. Suddenly this huge German man came over with his kids, sat them at the table next to us and said "sharing the Pokémons" while gesturing between us and his kids. We had a great time trading and showing off our Pokémon!

I love how they all have very different impressions from the game! I think my favourite moment was in the lead up for Gold and Silver, it had been released in Japan, but it was a while before it was released in the west, and I remember getting mum to constantly check the 90s blog of this guy who had gotten a Japanese copy and was trying to work out what everything was and what it did. I think it was the first time I had like serious hype for something which hadn't been released yet, and it was one of the first times I realised that the early internet back in those days had all this information on it that you couldn't get else where, and then just playing the game to absolute death for months on end. Just great memories all around

This was a cool video, I liked it a lot. Pokemon is an important series to a lot of people, myself included. I remember in my last year of high school X and Y was the current gen, and a lot of the guys in the theatre and stage crew clubs were super into it. We all had gym teams for our preferred type, and that was when I really fell in love with ghost Pokemon. I'm still not sure which memories I appreciate more, the memories of when we went to Disneyland for their performing arts competition, or all the Pokemon we played on the busride there and back.

Yay! I missed these chair commentaries of days long past. Allows me to delve into my own nostalgia. Love you guys!

butterfree leaving was probably the one biggest event for me from my time watching tv in blue i had squirtle who i will always have a soft spot for (not his evos so much) but it was butterfree who really won my heart, an absolute powerhouse in the game, always coming through for me when everything was on the line. the one thing i could really count on in that super turbulent time of my life so watching that episode absolutely broke me, honestly iv never gotten to into any character because of that lol

I love these videos where they banter back and forth.

This whole video was an absolute pleasure. Love watching the Ox teams interact with each other. Great way to end a study night! Thank you!

You ever notice how the choice of starter Pokémon is the only time in the game you decide on a difficult level? The specifics vary by gen, but looking at gen 1, starter #1 gives you type advantage for 2 gyms and is neutral in gym 3, starter #2 gives you advantage for 1 gym, neutral on gym 2 and disadvantage in gym 3, where starter #3 is neutral to gym 1, at a disadvantage for gym 2, then back to neutral in gym 3. It’s a super subtle piece of game design and I absolutely love it.

Waking up at 8 am on a saturday to cry buckets watching the charmander episode... Ah, presh mems

Ellen talking about petting evee made me smile so much my face hurt. So adorable lol❤😂

My most precious memory comes from Pokemon Moon - I started with Popplio, and Primarina's exclusive z-move has the end of the animation end with the pokemon taking a bow. I dealt the final blow of the league challenge with Oceanic Operetta, and when I saw my primarina take a bow to end my league challenge I felt this sense of accomplishment I'd never felt before in anything. I put my system down and just sat there letting what I'd just seen sink in. I finally felt like a real champion.

So, my biggest Pokémon memory was back during Diamond and Pearl. I had Pearl, and I remember there being this character who gives you an egg that eventually hatches into Riolu. Obviously Riolu was a big deal back then, because everybody wanted Lucario, and it’s still a fan favorite even today. I wasn’t big on Lucario myself, but my friend was, so I wanted Lucario basically just to flex on him (even though he had it too - not sure what my thought process was). Anyway, I trained it up to evolve it, and when it eventually happened I was equal parts hype and confused. You see, my Riolu had originally been male when I hatched it. And I must have run into some sort of extremely weird glitch, because when it evolved into Lucario, it became female. To this day I still don’t understand that, but it’s probably the most memorable moment I have in Pokémon. Well, alongside the time that same friend convinced me to trade him a shiny Tentacruel because they supposedly weren’t a big deal. Curse you…

To me. My Pokémon memory is the first Pokémon movie. Where ash dies trying to stop mewtwo and mew from fighting and as a results gets turned into stone. The reaction from his best friend pikachu. His tears will never be erased form my mind. First movie I watched where I cried like a baby. Til this day I get choked up.

Bruuuh, brings me back so much! Probably one of the most precious memories that i have is hunting for a Feebas and grinding to evolve it into a Milotic in Pokemon Emerald! Good tiiiimes..

Karp-Diem; when your Magikarp evolves into a badass sweeper.

I had to go to the US for work in July 2016 during the initial Pokemon Go madness. It was a hugely stressfull trip for me, my first time flying anywhere, so it helped that some of my US colleagues were also playing and I spent a Sunday driving around New Jersey hunting pokemon. I didn't see any Tauros until I was sat in Newark airport waiting for the flight home and one showed up as nearby so obviously I had to head off towing my suitcase with my phone in the other hand to find it. Still got it too, all of CP189 but it's still the only foreign regional I've caught myself.

I remember when I first played Pokemon. It was Pokemon Blue and I choose Squirtle because it's evolution was on the cartridge. I thought Blastoise was the most powerful Pokemon because why else would they put it's picture on the game?

MewTwo is up to this day my favorite Legendary. Idc about its stats. Its about childhood nostalgia.

Favourite pokemon memory for me was the first time my quilava evolved inyo a typhlosion. I wasnt familar with the johto pokemon at the time so didnt know anything about them, and so having that experience of not knowing what pokemon will evolve or what they will evolve into was absolutely fantastic. It was mostly the name that blew my mind, typhlosion, it was awesome then, and its awesome now.

4:48 Luke: Explaining when he was in an intense battle Me: HEY! I live there at the top left!!!

“That’s called crying, Ellen” Cuteness is SUPER EFFECTIVE

Ellen as a 30 year old man I had a very similar reaction to petting Eevee in Let's Go. It's too precious for this world.

I feel you Ellen. I very feel you. On eevee and on Ash with Pikachu. I dunno how far you watched the series but in one of the last regions to date Ash actually mentions that he still has that thunderstone. (I kept it safe just in case Pikachu ever wants to evolve.) And it's presented in a way that made me tear up a lot remembering all their first journeys. I remember when Ash and Pikachu "split up" in the Pikachu Forest I also legit cried as a kid and still do despite knowing that it ends well. I really want Pokémon to be real.

I always love the episodes where everybody gathers around to reminisce and tell stories.

Oh SMTV. Ant and Dec doing the pokeraps is such a core memory. Along with Wonky Donky of course. 🤣

I have a couple precious memories. I think my most wholesome pokemon memory was from this year, when I played Pokemon X for the first time. Prior to getting it, the only thing I heard about this game was that it was too easy, the an even greater degree than other recent pokemon games. That wasn't a big thing for me because I'm not always the greatest at pokemon. Anyway, I had only ever heard bad things about this game, but I was absurdly happy about very little things in this game, and still am to this day. When the other kids wanted to give my character a nickname, I was joyful. I got super excited that I got to travel the region on roller skates. My favourite character is Shawna and everytime she shows up I get really happy, and I love the moments when I just get to do stuff with her. My other memory is much smaller. I got into this series with Pokemon Emerald emulators. My first actual game was Alpha Sapphire, which I got around the time that Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon came out. Alpha Sapphire made me really like May. When I was younger and playing Emerald, I always thought that May was being disingenuous when she offered help, I don't know why. When I got to actually see her face in detail, I realized that she was like my brother and I. She's just an awkward kid who wants to be your friend and help you. Sorry this was so long, I get excited when I talk about my gaming experiences.

For me, my most vivid memory is when I finally reached Lance in Crystal. It was my first handheld pokemon game, and I was playing it on my T.V. with the Pokemon Stadium 2 tower, so having that epic music start up out of my T.V. as my Feraligatr and his Gyarados were staring down each other in what I thought was the final battle was so intense as a kid. I've never had a more epic fight.

I cherish this video bc all of these memories tap into a memory of mine and it fills me with joy.

Thanks Mike, that was really insightful and lovely. Go Magikarp!

I am the youngest in my family so I did grow up failing to play blue and gold on the game boy but finally became fully immersed in when I got Pokemon dimoand in Australia. But I must been from the beginning because my first word was look and I pointed to a Pikachu. My mother was so happy that she bought it for me 😊

Mike's mission to make Mgakicarp evolve into something stronger, not even knowing if that's possible, is very, very sweet. He's a really good person

This is a bit of a long story but here is my Pokemon Presh Mem. So with most Pokemon, either they're legendary Pokemon that has a dedicated spite in the overworld and you can battle them by interacting with the sprite, or they're your starter and it's just a matter of choice, or you randomly encounter them in the wilds and you decide you like the look of them. However, in the original Pokemon Ruby there is a legendary Pokemon called Latios that becomes available after you beat the Elite Four, but unlike Groudon and Rayquaza who are in a fixed location in the overworld, Latios spawns in tall grass or whilst surfing on a Pokemon's back, BUT there's only one Latios in the game. Most people know that the in-game Pokedex has an entry that tells you where on the map that Pokemon spawns once you've seen it once in battle (unless it can only be acquired through trading or evolution), but what I don't often see people talk about is that when you see Latios after the 5% ish chance of it spawning, is that the Pokedex tells you which zone it's currently spawned in from then on, and you learn that Latios relocates when you walk through a level transition, so if you walk through a level transition there's a 1/20 or so chance of the Pokedex telling you it'll spawn in your area, at which point it's close to 100% that it will be the first thing to spawn when you actually enter the tall grass. Nothing in the game tells you to do this and this is one of the rare things that I discovered all on my own, so I stocked up on Ultra Balls and I kept on walking through the level transition until Latios spawned for me a second time, I didn't catch it that time but I did the same method again a few weeks later before I managed to tag him with a successful Ultra Ball, he has a high chance of fleeing but I didn't save my Master Ball. I'm gonna be charitable and say that catching 80% of the Pokemon in any given game basically doesn't require any effort because it's just a matter of grinding, so acquiring them doesn't feel special, but my Latios took genuine patience and effort on my part so owning the Pokemon actually feels special, I was devastated when I lost the cartridge that my unnamed Latios lived in.

I think my favourite memory of any Pokémon game was catching my Mimikyu in Sword. When I played Ultra Moon, I loved Mimikyu from the second I saw it, and I got one easily in the game. But when I played Sword, I realised I couldn't fight the Ghost Captain or whatever. I got kind of upset 'cause Ghost types are my absolute favourite, but because I pick which game off of the game-exclusive legendary, and I didn't like the Shield legendary too much, I didn't get it. But then I just made a team of mostly ghost types (save for Zacian and my Inteleon). But I didn't have Mimikyu. When I heard that, yes, Mimikyu IS in Sword and Shield, I worked towards catching one. I literally did twenty minutes worth of research to figure out the best way to catch one. I found one in the specific patch of grass in the Wild Area, and I used my weakest Pokémon (it was my Chandelure at the time) but the move was a crit, and the Mimikyu died in one hit. I reloaded my save like 5 times, but the Mimikyu didn't respawn. So I did yet more research and saw that there's a small chance to get a Mimikyu Dynamax raid in a specific den only if it has a rare beam. I spent about 3 hours reloading my game to get that rare beam and make it a Mimikyu. But then I finally got it. I've never taken that Mimikyu off my team, and it's my strongest Pokémon

Miss these types of shows from you guys, we need more of them

The way Jane pronounces Tauros makes my eye twitch lol. I breathed a sigh of relief when Andy said it the way I do, and confirmed I wasn't going crazy all these years lol

Most of my fond Pokemon memories involve other people. I remember nearly completing our Gen 2 Pokedex with my dad, and going through Yellow, LeafGreen and Gale of Darkness with my late cousin. More recently, though, I've had great fun with the newer games' Exp. Share system. With how generous experience is and how I tend to take my time clearing games, I'm able to raise up an A-Team, a B-Team, and half a C-Team in a normal playthrough. It's a bit like I'm training 15 pokemon at once instead of the usual 6.

Pokémon Diamond was my first Pokémon game ever, which I started when I was 10 years old and spent years playing. My fav memory from it was finally beating Cynthia because I had to spend WEEKS farming leppa berries for my Pokémon to regain enough PP/moves that could beat her Spiritomb

So i used to love Pikachu when I was younger as i had started that journey at age 10. But over time, it started to wane as i saw how popular it was becoming, so i decided to seek out a different Pokémon to like. Flash forward into my early 20s, this was during the time I was working at a mall and also was getting into drawing Pokémon as humans, which started out as what the trainers would look like dressed as the partner Pokémon. One day, I had finished working and waiting for my dad to come pick me up (i was learning to drive at the time), and decided to stop by the Hot Topic store. I was browsing around and the Rise of Darkrai DVD caught my eye. This is during the Gen4 era, but because I didn't have a GBA or a DS at the time, i wasn't able to play the Gen3 or 4 Pokémon games. I bought the movie and watched it when I got home. I immediately fell in love with Darkrai and for years tried to get him in any game i came across which was through events. But what was frustrating was that you couldn't rename event Pokémon in the early games ( trust me, i tried) and i wanted to name him Issac because

My best moment has to be my first run in X & Y on Route 14. Where i found a rather cute and goofy pokemon called Goomy. I had not done any research ahead so did not know about it. But thinking swamp area and a purple color scheme "has to be a poison/water type". One dragonbreath from it later and me being a dragon type fan had his mind blown and had to get this little guy. So in my army of dragons i sometimes will have a tiny ball of goo.

I feel Luke’s experience so hard. I used to live I Germany and remember challenging the Emerald E4 on a trip to Italy. Chargers weren’t dual voltage then so I had the SP backlight turned off trying to play in the streetlights as we drove past.

My favorite Pokemon memory.... I caught a Dewgong in Seafoam Islands in my original Blue version, that was pretty epic. Hmmm....the first couple months of Pokemon Go! were pretty epic as well. I think my favorite memories were from my Silver version where I had assembled my all-time best team. What still gets me is it was only four Pokemon, but they covered everything I could face at that time. I took that team through the Pokemon League and Red so many dozens of times....I think my Typhlosion at lvl81 was the highest I ever trained a Pokemon before modern games. I loved that team, they were like family to me.

Remembering these moments make it so much better. Pokemon will always find a way to bring a bit of joy.

That Eevee-petting moment is so cute , I want to get Let’s Go Eevee ! now as it’s also one of my favourites (though my actual favorite since Pokémon Red is Vaporeon 💙).

I have a good friend that was one of the tour guides to that cemetery around that time Jane, if your tour guide was a gothic pinup model, then you got the best guide!