Pokemon Red was my favorite game. The first time I ever played it was on a car drive to Cedar Point in 2002. (Yeah, I was that late getting into the series). I was playing my friends game and he decided to give it to me as a birthday present because he never played the game again 4 years after its prime. I played Pokemon Red a lot in the summer of 2002. It made me mad when Fire Red and Leaf Green came out in 2004 and that all the pokemon you trained in the past went to waste because you couldn't carry them over. That's when I lost interest in the series. Why would I buy the same game twice and retrain the same pokemon I already trained before?