It was the year 1996, I was a proud PC master race, for the past few years new genres, new technologies, new studios had flourished, Lucas Art 2D games, Doom were already getting old and we were at why I believe is the Golden Age of PC gaming, because this year I'd play Civilization II, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Diablo, C&C Red Alert, Tomb Raider. 16 bits had died, and the Playstation had been there already for a couple of years, bringing a vast amount of new 3D games, new licenses.
So at this time my little sister was glued to her game boy, I mean this crappy black&white 8 bits console that I thought died out of obsolescence years ago. And she showed me this game, I had never heard about, Pokemon. And for me it was grotesque, the graphics, the gameplay, the console, it was not even outdated, it seemed not even as good as it used to be, I mean it could not compare to zelda GB and its fantastic musics, big sprites.
And because she played crappy games once in a while, like "the Smurfs", I had absolutely no idea it would sell as much as every game I played this year combined. I thought it was just a game sold for cheap somewhere. What a surprise !
