#15 - Pokémon - Blue Version is epic game. It started, together with it's Red companion, a world-wide phenomenon. Everybody got onboard. Everybody in my generation at least. Personally though I was at the late end of the spectrum, only the first generation of Pokémon has interested me, as I 'grew out of it' only a couple years in. Nothing real needs to be said about this unreal game, and what it accomplished in the handheld sphere. It's addicting, addicting like chocolate. So addicting, that I could not stop playing this, ever. I was even playing this while answering the door for a couple of friends! Playing outside? Pokémon, that's where it's at! Nothing could stop me from playing this game, not even when the cartridge and my GameBoy nearly got destroyed...
During those years, my dog was still a young pup. It's still alive today, miraculously enough, but as most may know young dogs tend to destroy things they get their teeth on. My GameBoy was one of the sacrifices. The screen shattered, the body crippled, the sound cracked. Being indestructible as Nintendo hardware is though, the thing still worked fine of course. However, the screen was severely damaged. It would only actually display pixels when it felt like it and half the time when it did, there were dead pixels.
The cartridge inside during the attack was, what else, Pokémon Blue. One of my dog's teeth apparently drilled through the blue shell, leaving a gaping hole. I was devastated. Extra devastated, because another game was completely destroyed in the process, held in the GameBoy's pouches' extra pocket. That game is still to come on this list, so I'll mention it when we get there. Anyway, the hole in my Pokémon cartridge was almost through and through, damage was visible on it's chips. As if a miracle though, the game still worked. I got a family-friend to repair my GameBoy's screen (this man worked at Nintendo Benelux (part of NoE, serves Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) at the time) so I could resume my endless playtimes of Pokémon Blue without the fear of the screen fading away.
To end this anecdote, this Pokémon cartridge, with it's giant hole in the upper-right corner, is still in my possession. Tucked away in it's protective box as if it were still in supreme condition and needs to be secured against harm. This cartridge, I gather it's battery probably passed away recently, is now a symbol to my undying will to complete a game, as Pokémon Blue was the first game ever, for which I've had this unstoppable drive.
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