One of our great stories was around the gameboy. My brother and I both had a gameboy color. It was 2000, I was 16 and he was 15. Mum had just abandoned us and run off with another man, so we were looking to rid ourselves of things she’d bought us.
We were in a games shop and we were looking to get rid of his jungle green Nintendo 64, with rainbow 6, diddy Kong racing and Mario 64. The guys eyes lit up when he saw it but tried to low ball us, so my brother turned him down.
Just as we were leaving the guy asked us if we liked Pokemon. Obviously we did. He said he had the new Pokemon Gold and Silver, that weren’t due to be released for another couple of weeks. If we wanted we could have a copy of each as a swap for the N64.
Since I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain, and I was the older brother, I managed to convince him to make the trade “Mum bought you that anyway, so getting rid of it means you won’t need to look at it anymore. Plus it will serve her right”
it worked, and we had so many hours of enjoyment from Gold and Silver. Still my favourite Pokemon series to date, with the added day and night cycle and just enough complexity to make it interesting.
25 years later and my brother brings it up every time a new gadget or console comes out, or any time he needs a favour!
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