Pearl wasone I couldn't afford to buy. I was living in New Zealand and games are expensive there, so, Mistie got it over here and sent it to me along with candy and some other care package stuff.
I played that thing pretty solidly for years. I didn't much like B&W or B&W 2, and even though I played both of those to completion? Pearl was the one I went back to every time.
I'd also pre-ordered and paid for it already and lost my temp job at Walmart like three days prior to release, so, uh.... I figured this was the atheist's equivalent of Divine Providence.