I just remember Repels. But even then, I don't remember much about Pokemon except later generations got to the point where battles weren't just "spam this move" and HMs got to a point where HM slaves weren't really a thing players did.
To be honest I'm not big on Pokemon--I've played Red/Blue and played the GBA games on emulator, and always got bored before beating them (sometimes within minutes or hours). Even Moemon is boring once the lol factor wears off.
But my experience was the games are stupid simplistic, especially by 1998 RPG standards (remember that even older Gameboy RPGs like Final Fantasy Legends had more complex mechanics... hell, even the original Dragon Warrior was a bit more nuanced). Even repel is kind of stupid because the whole point of Pokemon is you grind, grind, and grind some more, so something that stops you from grinding is actually counter-productive.
But the big problem in Gen 1 was that all fights were one on one and everyone got one move per turn. Which really defeats the purpose of, say, stat buffs, because you won't begin to benefit from them until after you've given the enemy a free hit (which if the enemy is stronger than you or has your weakness, that one hit could be all they need).
Not to sperg, I just never understood how Pokemon got so big. Even in 1998 it was the dumbest fuck thing.
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On another note, its weird how this page and the last one have been a lot of justifying some of Linkara's stupidity... well, not so much "justifying" as admitting that some of his behavior was based in something other than Linkara being an idiot.
I fully get it though. I'm not here to defend Linkara (I'd say "fuck that guy" but he'd probably enjoy that), but it does sometimes get tiring reading threads which just wail on people and 100% represent everything as being proof of a person being the biggest idiot ever, especially when you start finding points where, as Tropes would say, "the Strawman has a point."
