Whether you’re a lifelong fan of Pokémon or looking to start your first Pokéjourney with Sword & Shield, you probably wouldn’t mind a shiny new Nintendo Switch to play on.
And what luck! Nintendo would like to give a shiny new Nintendo Switch Lite to one of you.
All you need do is reply to the tweet below with your answer to the question: “Where did you begin your first Pokémon adventure?”
Maybe that was playing Pokémon Red and Blue on your first ever handheld? Or Gold and Silver? Or Sun and Moon?
Maybe it was watching the Pokémon cartoon on Saturday mornings before being told to go play outside?
Or maybe – no judging here – it was screaming into your N64 microphone to Hey You! Pikachu?
Let Nintendo know via Twitter – just remember to use the hashtag #GameBoy30. (Yes, Game Boy was 30 years old this year. No, don’t mind us as we crumble into dust.)
WIN a Switch Like Pokémon Edition with Pokémon Sword & Shield! Just reply to this tweet using the hashtag #GameBoy30 with your answer to the question “Where did you begin your first Pokémon adventure?” for a chance to win.
We’ll keep collecting replies until Sunday 3rd November. pic.twitter.com/BgvPBWAbtC
— Eurogamer (@eurogamer) October 28, 2019
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To get you in the mood, here are five possibilities we’ve thought of…
Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow
The beginning is usually a pretty good place to start. Pokémon Red and Blue (or Red and Green, in Japan) are the original Game Boy classics that started everything for Pokémon – with “enhanced” edition Yellow swiftly following – and they mark the entry point, by virtue of that, for a huge amount of fans.If you want a sense of real canon to your entry into the series, this is the way to do it.
The games absolutely hold up, thanks to the fascinating old sprites and brilliantly evocative pixel art, that leaves your imagination to fill in the blanks. More than that, though, Red, Blue and Yellow’s superlative gameplay is still the core of every mainline Pokémon game to date, from the turn-based battling, to the wild encounters, to the tricky environmental puzzles. It’s fantastic.