As for the old games, I sometimes play them every so often. I don't know why, but sometimes I get the urge to get out the old games out and play them for a few months. Sometimes it happens when I have a strange Pokemon related dream, and it usually happens during the summer. Not every summer, just every two or three, and the summer of 2009 was one such summer. This was the summer when I found out something new about my old games.
It all began one morning when I started playing Pokemon Silver, the only one of my generation two games that still worked, sadly. I played that gam for about three weeks, I believe. After awhile, I got bored and started playing my generation three games. Then I started to get bored again, but around that time, the digital age of television began, and everyone in the little Nebraska town started to get the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network was, and currently is, the only station that shows the Pokmon anime here in the U.S. The anime might have been from the fourth generation of the Pokemon game, but it kept the fire of interest in my third generation games burning.
I don't exactly remember when or why, but I started looking up information on the Pokemon franchise on Wikipedia. I think it was to look more detailed information about some of the third and fourth generation Pokemon, just out of curiosity. At first, it seemed like Wikipedia only covered each Pokemon with just a short paragraph or two. But soon I found out that five of that five of the first generation Pokemon had their own individual pages that contained information like their cultural impact and the history of their creation. Of course, Pikachu, the electric mascot of the Pokemon franchise, had its own page. Two of the other Pokemon that had their own articles were to of the most iconic legedary Pokemon in the fanchise, not to mention two of my favorites, Mewtwo and Mew.
As most of you reading know, Mewtwo and Mew were two of the Pokemon that helped skyrocket the popularity of the Pokemon franchise. So it was interesting reading about the conception of these characters on Wikipedia. It was in the conceptual history of Mew though, where I found out about one of the greatest secrets of the first generation Pokemon games. Shigeki Morimoto, a programmer for Game Freak, was the one who conceived of the character of Mew. Morimoto secretly programmed Mew into the first generation games as a hidden character that only Game Freak employees would know about, and thusbe able to obtain by using a special glitch that Morimoto programmed into the game.
One day, the president of Game Freak revealed Mew's existence of the world in order to increase the popularity of the games. This move surprised Morimoto. Of course, the president of Game Freak didn't reveal how to activate the glitch to unlock Mew. He just said that Mew was hidden in the games. The idea was for people to buy the games just to find this secret Pokemon. There were several rumors about Mew and how to capture it. Those rumors eventually became legends, and then the legends became myths. I bet you could fill a warehouse with the lists of different ways to find Mew within the generation one games, and all of them would be bogus.
