I use Real app for keeping up with game scores, standings, stats and everything else, it's a really good app, but the comments... EVERYONE is the most insufferable gambler ever, you only see people mad because a missed rebound ruined their parlays
Okay, then it's the same now, most people never had mythicals because there weren't events distributing them in their countries. Now there's just some dudes that are not in the game, it's a nothing issue.
Then why are you acting like everyone had the access to everything from the beginning? Aren't you just projecting your experience to the world at large?
Are you genuinely going to say that it's an unfair business practice to have a useless reward for freaks with no benefit at all besides the fact that you have it? Are you going to argue against steam achievements?
You are revealing a very privileged upbringing in a very specific part of the world while also claiming that to be the norm everything else and simultaneously saying that only people who grew up like you count for your opinion. This is really interesting to see.
Buddy, that means that you would need two Gameboys, both games and a link cable. Not everyone could do that, so most people didn't. I genuinely have no idea what point you're trying to make.
To clarify, in gen 1 you get a couple of kind of useful but optional items when you catch 30 different species, and that's all. Other games have optional quests about showing some npc a specific species for an ok reward that's not mandatory. Never a full dex.
Not at all, you get a dumb certificate you could print on your game boy printer, if you had one. You only get a line or two of dialogue, a jingle and a certificate. There are rewards for catching SOME amount of pokemon, like 60 different species at most. But nothing crucial.
It was never even the point, it was a product of peak US unregulated marketing targeting kids, and it seems that they didn't use it elsewhere for good reason
Not even a western thing, an English language only thing. The slogan for Spanish speaking countries translated literally means: "Catch them now!" As in, your favorites. This is the third or second biggest market for the series. It's just English speaking nonsense
It's not only not used in Japan, the Spanish speaking world, the third biggest market (or sometimes even the second) never used that slogan. They used (literally translated) "Catch them now!" As in, play the game. Not all, not most, them, as in the ones you like.
