I was just an innocent child when my dad got me a bunch of PlayStation 1 games that included Pokémon. While I could've guessed it was a bootleg game as soon as I saw it, I knew back in the early 2000s there were Pokémon games for home consoles, despite having only played portable titles like Pokémon Red and Crystal. Maybe it was a real game like Pokémon Stadium? But it wasn't.
I remember that the PS1 disc stayed in my console just long enough to leave an eternal mark in my memory, that of a trash whack-a-mole Pokémon game so cursed its developers should be in jail not for copyright infringement, but for creative crime. I played it for such a short time that until today, over 20 years later, I was sure it was just a fever dream and that I had never played this monstrosity. Until I finally found Pokémon Crazy Hit 2.
