Building a Game Boy Link Cable Breakout Board

The thing about Pokémon these days (on the 3DS) is that the entire experience can be done online. That makes it far more efficient for kids and adults to just sit at home and optimize the experience instead of being social in-person. Some folks still meet up to play, but the majority have no interest in actually meeting people to play/trade when they can just go online instead.

I guess it was a lack of wonder and discovery. I usually went back to the same pokemon I used in previous games.

I recovered some of that feeling with Black & White, because it didn't have any of the previous pokemon available to be captured. But, being a older and smarter guy I started googling stuff and min-maxing pretty early, which ended up ruining the game for me.

But I still search for that game that can make me feel like I did with Pokemon.

(And, just for the record, I consider Gold & Silver to be the best videogame sequel ever. They got everything right!)