So it is a random rant...I know...
But the other day I decided to pick up my Gameboy Color and try and go back to the days when video games did not need to have color, and when capturing monsters that did not move during battle and looked nothing like they did on the anime was okay...
Obviously I am talking about Pokemon Red & Blue versions.
And it's not that it just now dawned on me or anything like that...actually, it's just that I never really cared how crappy the 1995 versions were. Honestly. In the old versions of Pokemon, Geodude looks like a highschool kid with no legs and really BAD acne...and Pidgey looks like a normal bird that you would find in your backyard. It's the small things like that which show us just how much something can change in time.
So I was playing through the game and for awhile I was absorbed in this blast from the past moment...but then I started to get angry at the game. The pixels sucked, the Pokemon looked retarded, I had to keep tilting the Gameboy Color screen just so that I could see what was going on. I could just sit there and mash the 'A' button and win every battle with my eyes closed...it was sad.
It was even more sad when I got on my original Gold version and saw that I had already gotten 8 badges AND and had beaten the Elite Four with just a lv.49 Typhlosion. My flying Pokemon was only lv.15----and that was pathetic, even for my standards. Then I was blown away by how much the game has improved in HeartGold Version...I mean, hell, Crystal version was the first time someone could even play as a female trainer! And even then in the older versions women Pokemon were weaker than the male counterparts.
Anyways...that's all I had to say. Sorry for taking up your time.
Chicks that play games hard-core seem to intimidate men...and they are rare to find. Why is that? Well...this is just discussing the trouble with being a gamer girl and talking about games in general.
