I have gone back to my child hood and I started playing Pokemon Blue. Two thoughts came to mind that I was not really prepared for.

1. I am getting more patient, and understand delayed gratification better.

I remember playing this game back in the day sitting in the back of a car on some summer vacation. I distinctly recall HATING any cave or water crossing. It was soooo annoying to have a battle every few steps, impeding my goal of beating the game.

Now that I am older, with a fully formed frontal cortex, have an understand of patience and delayed gratification, I have been enjoying these areas a ton more. It has allows me to savor the experience and let my mind roam around the old memories. As well as provide me some massively OP Pokemon for the final battles.

2. I realized that the each Pokemon is a digital construct.

I had always assumed they were some form of a physical creature. Like a cat or a dog, but for this mythical world. But I came to realization that they can't they are just digital manifests of creatures. You might be thinking I am talking about them being digital to me Brock, not my character Badger. I am not. Pokemon are digital creatures to every one within the reality of the Pokemon World. The clue came from thinking more about Bill's PC. Where you can store Pokemon you have collected but don't want to bring with you. Then you can travel to a new town and recall that creature back into your stash.

There are two potentials that explain how Bill's PC would work. Either a pocket dimension, or they are a digital good that can pass through the network from one machine to another. The pocket dimension could work, but I don't know if the theories allow for multiple entry points to a specified dimension. Where every computer can point to a specific dimension. Not to mention that you'd be carrying 6 containers that had their own connection to their own dimensions. The logical answer is that its a digital world and each Pokemon is a digital relic that you can interact with.

Originally I beat the game resting on the backs of Sandslash with the Slash move and Gyrados. This run through I relied mostly on likes of Pinsir and dominated the first run through.