I recently dusted my Nintendo 64 and my Pokemon Stadium 2

And I mean, what an amazing ecosystem they created with these games. I have the whole package: Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2, Transfer Pak, Game Boy Color, Pokemon Blue and Crystal, Link cables, you name it.

Back in the day (although still too old to be playing Pokemon, if I have had this stuff when I was a kid and it really was booming I would be a different man today) I used to play with a friend, and the amount of stuff you could do is just amazing, specially on the technical side. You would raise and train your own Pokemon on your Game Boy, trade/battle with my friend through the Link Cable. The game was time aware, so there was different things to do during night or day, or even by week day. You could exchange gifts by using the Game Boy Color's infrared port, the only Game Boy that had this as far as I know. And all of this without involving Pokemon Stadium...

Pokemon Stadium 2 allowed you to play the Game Boy there right in there, at a higher speed. You could store Pokemon in it, it had its own campaign, decorate your room in 3D, and, of course, battle with your own Pokemon in a beautiful 3D environment with commentator.

Anyway, just a bit of nostalgia. Sometimes I feel like starting a new game just to use all the gadgets. The experience of all of it being offline and having to assemble and connect all these systems really was something else.

Posted in: s/gameboy

🛰️ lufte

2023-10-06 · 7 months ago · 👍 sparcipx