Guessed by @UnderwaterFunktown
I've always said I don't have a strong feeling of nostalgia for the games of my childhood like other people do, but in recent years, I realized something: I do feel a strong nostalgia for games of the past, when I was younger, when things were simple. Only the time period I tend to feel nostalgic for was when I was a young adult, the mid 2010s, maybe because that was the time in my life when I truly got to choose which games to play, which experiences to put myself through, and really allow myself to decide my own tastes and opinions - because when I was a kid, I kinda just followed along with whatever my older brother liked. I think that's normal for younger siblings, right?
Anyway, one game my brother played a big role in getting me to experience was Pokémon - the first two generations, specifically. He traded our SNES for a GBC, which bothered me because it meant I couldn't finish A Link to the Past, but it meant I got to play Pokémon. I started with Red, which was so fun and is still nostalgic, but admittedly a patchy start for the series. Then, my brother borrowed Silver from a friend of his, and... yeah, it was an experience I'll never forget. This game blew my child self away, and in many ways it still does. It's hard to believe how much content and polish this has for the hardware it came out in - no small thanks to the late Satoru Iwata for that - and it truly felt like a big evolution for this series.
More than anything though, Pokémon Gold & Silver are the outliars in that they are games I still feel deeply nostalgic for, despite being from my young childhood rather than my young adulthood.
