Did you catch all 150 pokemon when you were a kid?

[laughytaffy]

I mean legitimately, no cheating and actually traded for the version exclusives. No cloning master balls or using missingno or anything.

And if you had 151 well YOU DUN CHEATED so that doesn't count...

I never got them all legitimately.

[shiranui]

No, I pretty much had no friends that played Pokémon so I only got something like 138.

If I had gotten Mew from an official Nintendo event (the way it was supposed to be done... but good luck getting to one of those events in Finland as a kid, it wasn't like there was one in every town), would that have counted?

[Square]

You couldn't get all 150 could you?

[Yami Daimao]

Nope. I was never into catching all of them for the sake of collecting, just caught the ones that I liked or might have needed in the future.

[laughytaffy]

Oh nuts I forgot about Nintendo events...ignore the YOU DUN CHEATED part there.

[Alex Shelley]

Not in the first game, no.

But in my Silver game, I had all but 8.

f***in' Pineco was one of those 8.

[forgottensinpwf]

Feb 19, 2011 16:40:17 GMT -5 Square said:

You couldn't get all 150 could you?

Unless you had 2 gameboys, and a copy of both Red and Blue, no.

[The Ichi]

All I needed was my Charizard.

[Klutch]

I never caught one, but then again I never played.

[Bobeddy]

Got to 137, then one day I let my friend play it for a bit, and when he gave it back he was after saving over my game.

Twelve years have passed since that day, and I can still feel how much my heart sank when I realised what he'd done. ;D

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Nope

Didn't get anywhere near tbh. There were too many which you could only get by trading and some which were awkward to get (Like the starter Pokemon)

I didn't even get all the ones you could get without trading since it was wayyyyy too much bother to level up Pokemon I never used just to get their evolved form in the Pokedex. Especially one's which didn't evolve until like level 40+

Now when I play I don't bother catching the crap because I know I'll never complete my pokedex. I just catch ones which I find my come in handy and which I'll want in my team.

[El Hijo De Slapnuts]

I'm lazy,so I topped out in the 60s

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

All but one, and it's the most random ass one to miss. God damn Hitmonlee.

[Hawk Hart]

Hell yeah I did!

[Next Level was WRONG]

ALL ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY-f***ING-ONE!



Had a copy of both Red and Blue. And my friends sister got a Mew from one of the conventions.



My God I wasted my childhood.

[Cry Me a Wiggle]

I was such a completionist, I made sure to also get MissingNo.

[rrm15]

Nah. I can't remember how far I got...maybe up to the 100's somewhere.

I have a sudden urge to go buy a Gameboy color and Pokemon red. This is probably going to happen in the near future.

[Bo Rida]

Yes I did but I still want that f***ing Mew, I keep considering using another cartridge to catch it using that glitch but I'm not sure I can be bothered or if it's legit.

Being the older brother I let my younger sibling do a lot of the work (I had blue and he had red), I made him restart his game so we could get the three Eevee evolutions and we shared the levelling up as it was easier with traded pokemon.

It's a shame it's near impossible to catch 'em all in every generation since (without cheating of a huge amount of effort) as I think it undermines the whole point of the series.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

What happens when you get all 150 anyway?

Is it actually worth it or do you just get a small, shoddy congratulations message from Professor Oak?

[shiranui]

Feb 19, 2011 18:09:02 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

do you just get a small, shoddy congratulations message from Professor Oak?

From what I understand, yes.