[X] My Assistant

[Gato]

Where did the time go? God, I remember the Dreamyard we had for the Gen 5 release. That was a huge deal! I remember my first Legendary Egg, my first Shiny, it seems like it was just yesterday...

Anyone else wanna feel old with me?

[Ikari Shinji]

I remember being eligible for the Darkrai distribution because I didn't have a legendary yet. It was so exciting to check my party and the message boards every day, hoping to be blessed by the random number generator. Getting that Darkrai was an ecstatic experience. I recall Arceus Thrasher's Opera guides, the frenzied fun of mass-clicking despite all of the technical hurdles that were inherent to the process before the site's administrators added the wonderful built-in system we have now. Shiny hunting here always felt more fun than it did in the games, especially when you were breeding them, and it was so bittersweet to see when you produced a shiny in your breeding pair's history that someone else got.

I think I may have been in middle school when that all went down, if not a bit older, and I've got a bachelor's now. Still, the meditative yet entertaining gameplay is something I retain in my memories as one of my favorite past-times.