Serious important debate: Which Generation 1 Pokemon is the cutest / most adorable?

[DefaultGen | 5,414]

Cubone is too metal to be cute

[Reed Rothchild | 9,550]

44 minutes ago, T-Pac said:

Also - I'm shocked at how many of you aren't Pokemon fans. I thought we were all retro-game nerds, here!

If you're 38 or older, you were (probably) too old when it first hit.  

[BlackVega | 583]

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Cubone, the Lonely Pokémon. A Ground type. Cubone wears a skull as a helmet, concealing its face as it sheds tears for its long-lost mother. It cries loudly to express its loneliness. It also always carries a long, thick bone.

 

[T-Pac | 7,565]

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

Frickin' excuse me?

 

You make little Cubone sad.

Aw c'mon - you can't just post adorable-ised fan-art! I'm going by the original Pokemon renditions (although by that metric, the original pre-streamlined Pikachu design isn't quite the same level of cute, either).

And I did say that I like Cubone much more than Pikachu - just trying to respond to the prompt honestly, here.

[T-Pac]

49 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

If you're 38 or older, you were (probably) too old when it first hit.  

That could explain it. If more of you were Millennials / Gen-Z, I'm sure Pokemon would be a ubiquitous facet of your childhood, too.

[T-Pac]

[spacepup | 2,405]

I never really played or got much into Pokemon, but I can respect their cuteness, hence the reason for this thread and to do something fun, silly, and happy.

Cubone is pretty adorable.

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,014]

[RH | 4,924]

4 hours ago, T-Pac said:

As an insufferable nonconformist, it hurts my soul to admit this, but ...

... I think the cutest Gen 1 Pokemon might just be Pikachu.

 

(Granted, my favorite Gen 1 Pokemon are Magnemite and Cubone, but I wouldn't say they're the cutest.)

Also - I'm shocked at how many of you aren't Pokemon fans. I thought we were all retro-game nerds, here!

[T-Pac]

 

4 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

If you're 38 or older, you were (probably) too old when it first hit.  

 

3 hours ago, T-Pac said:

That could explain it. If more of you were Millennials / Gen-Z, I'm sure Pokemon would be a ubiquitous facet of your childhood, too.

[T-Pac]

Yeah, these games really are weird how hard the line of being “to old” to enjoy them most of us are when they came out.  I also don’t think it was because I was a jaded teenager who had to be too-cool-for-school to like a kids game.  I was into TCGs but no one got into Pokémon and when the game came out, as an RPG it just felt basic.
 

I wish that weren’t the case.  I think I was just old enough, with enough RPG experience to see the game as bland and uninspiring.  But for a young generation, many who had probably never even experienced a JRPG, I could see why it might be super-fun.

[FireHazard51 | 2,047]

 

[Murray | 2,449]