• RickyRigatoniOP
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    You could do it with one copy probably. But this was pre-internet so harder to know about the glitches and such.

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      I think many people figured out the Missingno shoreline kept some form of “last encounter table” in it, so I wouldn’t be surprised some people may have tried to go there right after Mewtwo to chance themselves at more.

      Unfortunately we do have that info nowadays, and we know that doesn’t work.

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        Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.

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          Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.

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            That’s a whopping 6% of the american population in 99.

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                why are you taking this so seriously go outside and touch some grass boy

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                In 99 we only had crappy dialup and I didn’t really know how to browse the web, even if I sort of understood the basics (and I would have been six, admittedly). My dad would look up cheat codes at work for games I was playing and download the Web page onto a floppy drive to bring home to me. It was wild times.

                That to say, the infrastructure was all there, but it’s hardly guaranteed as a kid that you’re browsing the web and know where to find all the best glitches.