• Coelacanth
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    93 months ago

    I remember that! Those were the days. The Missingno glitch made it sound so plausible. That and the various supposed guides on how to unlock Pikachu with Surf in Gold/Silver.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      103 months ago

      I ended up doing the teleportation glitch to get a mew as an adult so I could finally get some closure

      • Coelacanth
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        93 months ago

        We actually had a kid with a Mew on his cartridge all the way back then in one of the parallel classes. I think he got it legit off of one of the giveaways/events.

        Needless to say he and his link cable was quite the popular 8/9-year old in the school yard. And he put that bargaining power to use.

        • Cadeillac
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          53 months ago

          Same here, although his could have been GameSharked for all I know. Didn’t matter, that sweet, sweet 151 was finally mine, until my little brother started his own save while I was at school. Damn near unforgivable

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            I had a Game Genie and still remember the code to this day hahaha. I actually brought my Blue cart to an event and got a legitimate Mew as well!

        • @TheTetrapod
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          3 months ago

          Just to battle against? Because gen 1 didn’t have breeding, so he couldn’t give out Mews, right?

          Edit: oh right, legendaries can’t breed anyway.

    • RandomStickman
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      33 months ago

      I can’t find it anymore but I swear there’s a method involving the bug catching contest where you could end up teaching any moves to any pokemon and I ended up with an onix with surf.