In my mind, the game was as fully realized as the newly revealed Pokemon Let's Go titles. Pokemon Red (and Blue) was an 8-bit game, but the imagination of a child, even a dull child like me, can do a lot with 8 bits. It formed the foundation of my lifelong, sometimes concerning passion for gaming. But the time I spent with Pokemon Red is crystal clear. My earlier memories of gaming are often opaque and hard to place.
For my parents, it meant less time dealing with their menace children (which we absolutely were). It's for that reason, I think, that dad surprised my brother and me with an early Christmas present: a Gameboy Color with a copy of Pokemon Red, by far the most extravagant gift we'd ever gotten. It's an 18-hour journey from Sydney to Cape Town, a long flight made worse by the nonexistence of smartphones and the existence of two children, one of whom, me, was just 6 years old. My family and I were a day away from a trip to South Africa, where my parents were born.
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