I loved the fact that when I was a little kid everyone came to me for video game advice. If anyone has seen "Grandma's Boy", you'll remember the part where the main character of the movie is sitting down at the kids table at the wedding and he's telling the kids how to beat the game the kid plays, that was like me just 30 years younger.
This was a rough time for gaming help - there were no online walkthroughs, the strategy guides you bought at $15 were a total rip-off because they would help you out through the E4 then just bail on you and not show you anything after that. My friends would ask me to get them a Mewtwo or how to find it and why I had stronger Pokemon; I'd teach them how to duplicate, etc, etc. The best was when my cousins were into video games, and not my little cousins I mean the one's who are now physically fit with hot ass gf's; they were gaming nerds at one time. I loved the fact that my one cousin I use to hang out with all the time when I was younger, he'd ask me to beat Gary because he couldn't. He had a pretty awful team, but he had a Slowbro and I honestly didn't know game mechanics until 4th gen - things such as: what type of moves were Physical/Special, DVs, Stat Exp, and all that other technical stuff the game doesn't teach you about. Luckily, as I said before, he had a Slowbro at a decent level (don't remember what level I got it at, but I know I raised to 60 something) and it did have Amnesia, Surf and Rest (and something else, can't remember, probably something it learns by level up) and that thing just wiped the floor with the E4.
When I beat the game he was all like "whoa, no way! Dude, how did you do it?! I've been trying for weeks!" and lol those were the days - technically, those were the RBY days. Ah, golden memories. And @ cantab, they will "slag it off" only because deep down they knew they grew up with it and still know all the Pokemon names they just don't admit it because Pokemon has turned into "remember Pokemon? Man, those were the days. I remember I had that Fire Pokemon... what was its name? Char... something." "Yeah I remember that!". Its kind of like how the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers turned out to be. Each generation grows up with something they love then grow up and say how foolish it was that they even played whatever it is they were into. Nowadays, kids don't appreciate what we had. You can play oldschool games like RBY on your phones nowadays, yet we had to hold those fucking 3-pound bricks they called a GameBoy. That son of a gun ate my AA batteries like there was no tomorrow. Where were wall chargers when we needed them? Lol.
~ Aether Nexus