do you think pokémon would be as much of a cultural mainstay as it is today if the 1st-gen games weren't so full of poor programming and strange glitches that they spawned volumes of urban legends and horror stories

@typhlosion I don't think the urban legends were particularly based on anything real, just kids one-upping each other before the internet

iirc the ACE are other really cool glitches weren't widely known until at least after the 2nd gen?

I think the pokémon world hit a sweet spot in terms of being a fun world just to inhabit & that's what captured people's imagination

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@lioness @typhlosion Missingno. was definitely known when it was current though, and that spawned a bunch of urban legends
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