It's a tie between Y and Pearl.

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.

Back in the days of the DS and no region-locks.

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.

Y was awesome. It was the first new Poggle game which I had actively avoided spoilers for.

I knew almost NOTHING about it when I got it.

I'd seen the starters and that was it, so, everything was a surprise.

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.

"I don't have to stack cans of beans all day I can just play Pokémon!"

I did this for three weeks till my next temp job arrived in the form of Toys R Us.

It was a magical 3 weeks.

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