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Prologue: Press Start
Snap on the Game Boy Advance. Turn up the music. Skip through the intro.
It was a routine I’d become all too familiar with in the past six years; my right thumb had developed a knee-jerk response to click the A button as many times as needed until the Pokémon logo appeared and a silhouette of Kyogre set against navy appeared behind it. I pressed A again and three choices appeared.
Continue. A list of stats from my finished game was after that; name, PokéDex count, etc. I flipped passed it.
New game.
Options.
I highlighted new game and my thumb once again auto-pressed A. I quickly flipped through Birch’s “Intro to Pokémon” to get to the beginning of my character sheet for the game.
Male or female? Female.
Name? Lucy.
Let the games begin, I thought as my screen blanked out again.