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Let’s be real for a second.

We didn't love Pokémon because it was fair. We loved it because it was ours . We exploited the glitches. We taught our friends the "cheats." We lied about Mew.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

But Gen 1 was the Wild West. It was messed up because the developers were figuring it out in real time. Psychic types were broken because nobody did the math. Focus Energy failed because code is hard. MissingNo existed because memory was limited.

Pokemon Messed Up [best] May 2026

Let’s be real for a second.

We didn't love Pokémon because it was fair. We loved it because it was ours . We exploited the glitches. We taught our friends the "cheats." We lied about Mew.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

But Gen 1 was the Wild West. It was messed up because the developers were figuring it out in real time. Psychic types were broken because nobody did the math. Focus Energy failed because code is hard. MissingNo existed because memory was limited.