A Thursday in August in the year 2000, already 18 years ago I was with my mother at the airport of Madrid, waiting for a plane, to be able to go visit my relatives in the Basque Country. At the international airport there were many shops and one dedicated to technology, where I stayed almost 3 hours just looking at everything they had in the display cases.

There is where I found for the first time a device strange, I did not know, nor had I seen any commercial on tv.

Game Boy Color

My design

I liked the name it had, the color was a mix of transparent purple, for that time it seemed staggering to think that could play at any time, in any place, without needing a Tv. Just thinking about it was to feel that he had advanced 200 years in the future.

Therefore without tardarme a lot in thinking about it, you rogue to my mother to buy me that console, although my mom did not want to buy it, because she thought that I distraeria of study.

But at that time reviewing the boxes I found something that made me want more to get that console.

Pokemon Red Version

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At that time I considered myself the fan number one of that series, because I had clothes, shoes, toys, books, almost everything I had in my home was of Pokemon. You can imagine the idea of getting a game that is Pokemon, was the cherry on the cake for wanting to get the console LoL.

I plead to my mom, until I promised to behave better in school and get better grades. I will never forget the battles and the hours of fun that game.

This was the start of the game

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When I began to read that, saying the game, I felt as if in that moment I became a trainer Pokemon.

It's amazing how a few simple words could cause so much effect on my emotions. At that time, it was the best technology and the best graphics, the most advanced.

But the important thing was the story of the game, the adventures he had, all that was what he did so fun.

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The fights were very good, I never rendia because as shown in the picture, there were situations where all seemed lost. I kept on fighting without giving up, and on many occasions won although he had everything against.

My Pokemons favorites were "Charizard" and "Snorlax".

Charizard because I love dragons and the fire element and Snorlax because of its huge size and a lot of life allowed him to withstand a lot of damage, turns him into a Pokemon very strong.

Use the Pokemones

I remember when I had to travel to distant places, they could use Pokemones flying to be able to travel over them.

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Almost always that they were birds, but of large size and evolved. It was a great advantage, because it allowed one to travel fast and not to lose time.

Always you will be part of my story

If I could get another Game Boy Color that model, with those games, what I buy, and feel again those beautiful memories. In addition compared to the current machines are likely not anything expensive

I hope that you liked my story, it's something short, but it is full of many feelings and memories that formed an important part in my life.

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