In both scenarios, players seek to earn all of the badges and take down everyone in their path, but if you are part of Team Rocket, everything would start making a lot more sense. Those who chose to join Team Rocket would find that the mechanics would play out near-identically, but the biggest change wouldn’t be to your journey, but to its context. If you chose the latter option, the rest of the story would play out exactly as we know it, with players successfully taking on every Gym Leader, eliminating the Elite Four, and – for the more obsessive – gathering every Pokémon in Kanto. You would reign triumphant on Nugget Bridge after besting every trainer, and then you would be given a choice: join Team Rocket, or fight them. Somehow, despite being older I haven’t become any wiser, because over the last few months the same thought has emerged time and again, and it’s only fair that I attempt to answer myself so I’ll finally shut up: what if you could join Team Rocket?Īll it would take is a binary moral choice. Though my younger self eventually moved on, present me apparently hasn’t, as I discovered when, after a bout of idle thinking, I became fixated upon that memory. However, players aren’t given a choice as to how they wish to answer, so matter whether you want to join Team Rocket or not, you can’t.īack when I was younger I relished the opportunity to join Jesse, James and Meowth in an unsuccessful attempt at catching that elusive Pikachu week after week, so when the dialogue immediately moved to the grunt’s anger at his rejected offer, I immediately turned my Game Boy Colour off and on again so I could accept his offer, only to discover that no matter what I did, I couldn’t be part of the baddies. At the end of the bridge stands a member of Team Rocket, who offers the player a chance to join them on their quest for world domination, because either the company have a very lax hiring policy or child labour laws don’t exist in Kanto. In order to reach him, players must first traverse Route 24, often nicknamed the “Nugget Bridge”, as players have to defeat five trainers in order to win a nugget worth five-thousand dollars. Early on in your quest to catch ‘em all, you must take a visit to a man named Bill, who – once his Pokémon body-swapping is reversed – will allow you to store all of the creatures you’re not currently training, and enlisting his help is the only sane way players will be able to achieve their hoarding goals. I could probably fill up a mediocre book with all of my childhood Poké-memories and stories – as could anyone my age – but the story that I find myself fixating on in recent times is the story that never happened. Though many titles come and go, I still can’t shift the nostalgia, from deleting my save file with Bulbasaur four days in and starting anew with the far better Squirtle (don’t let anyone tell you different, kids) to the infinite item delivering Missingo glitch and actual days of my life trying to catch the elusive Mewtwo, having thrown my Master Ball at a Zapdos before discovering the aforementioned exploit. I fondly remember the day when dad arrived home with a launch copy of Pokémon Blue that he’d somehow managed to acquire in the mad sales rush, as well as the years of memories that followed with that single cartridge.
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