Are the original Pokemon games worth visiting for the first time? I know there is some nostalgic reasoning to play them, but should I try it as someone who hasn't ever played one?
Probably not unless you had nostalgia for it. It's pretty basic. I played it a lot as a child, but what mystified me was the artwork (back then) and the immersive portability. I do not think that's a selling point in this day and age
Well if fomo is making you want to play it, use an emulator because moving around is soooo slow ! :) But the music rocks and it's nice. Idk I didn't play many Pokemon games but as a kid I was obsessed with red blue and yellow. For some reason I didn't enjoy crystal that much and I liked emerald kind of, but then I stopped playing Pokemon games pretty much after that
Well at the time of it being around, handheld was novel. Before pokemon was tamagotchi for me. So pokemon was hugely expansive. It was just a different time
Then just imagine for kids back then pokemon to be like tamagotchi/digimon with a story and collection haha! That's basically what it was, and the artwork was so fascinating for what they had to work with back then. It felt so whimsical and alien with the designs back in those graphics.
Before yellow, red and blue just had this otherworldly look and feel to it. And the pokemon universe was brand new, so it felt so mysterious.