Every player has experienced that fierce loyalty to one pocket monster or another. The same is true here

The Pokémon franchise has turned 30, which means that it’s been a long time since a childhood friend and I braved Pokémon Blue’s haunted Lavender Town together – solemnly handing the Game Boy back and forth in the first (and perhaps last) documented case of two only children sharing something.

For most of my 29 years, I couldn’t have cared less about birdwatching. But as it turns out, this hobby is uniquely suited to those of us who belong to the Pokémon generation.

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