My Gold died last week, Silver a long ass time ago.
My Crystal still works fine, though. I probably should beat all the gyms, before it died, though. =(
Oh, and Laz I understand your complaints about Fire Red and Leaf Green. The problem isn't GameFreak/Nintendo, but rather this generation of videogamers. I'm sure most of us on this forum are children of the late 80's or the early 90's. Back then, we were used to playing games in black and white, beating it in one setting, etc etc abc 123, XTC. We have have respect for NES, SNES, Game Boy, Genesis, Master System, and other because we were raised on that crap. Most kids in this generation are well, faggots. Of course there are exceptions, but I'm sure the bulk of you are aware of what I am hinting at. I'm mostly just talking about them blabbing little kids you see at Gamestop, EB Games, Best Buy, or wherever bideo gaymz are sold.
For what I have seen, Anime, voice acting, disks and battery backup, have had a huge impact on this age group. I've seen this nonsense many times in real life, it's so annoying. When I was visiting one of my cousins last week in Penn. who claims she's a big fan of Sonic, I started asking her what her favorite game in the series was. She said Sonic Adventue, because "it was the frist one." What followed was lots and lots bitching about how the old Sonic games suck because
Reason 1. They got "Eggman's" name wrong. Quoth the Retro, MY FUL NMAE IZ DOCTOR IVO RRRRRRRRRROBOTNIK.
Reason 2. There charactersdon't have an anime look to them.
Reason 3. The music isn't hip-hop, it's all "boingy stuff".
Reason 4. THEY ARE GAY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SAVE. I MEAN IT. LITERALLY, THEY ARE GAY.
Reason 5. The smexy emo crybaby pussy Shadow isn't in them. ):
Reason 5 II. THEY DON'T EVEN EXSIST BECAUSE TOYS R US DOSEN'T SELL THEM.
There were some others that I talked to SuperYoshi about, but I think I mad my point. Also, most kids nowadays have short attention spans. My brothers' very retarded friend Mike was complaning about me playing Mega Man 5, because 'the grapphics were bad and the sound was annoyingm, and there was no Navi's"
The thing is, Nintendo/Gamefreak has to accomidate (SP?, sorry, this computer has no spell check, and I'm typing on an onscreen keyboard because the real one is broken) these ungrateful assholes, because they have to appeal a game to a whole new generation that is used to anime, cutness, color and so on. If they didn't not many people would buy the game, because they are too used to all the luxuries we have nowadays.
The thing is most of us know that a game doesn't need all those fancy pants features to be a good game. A good game just has a certain little thing to it that makes it imposible to put down. Most kids in the late 90's and 2000's just don't understand this crap at all.
Also, square waves for the win.
