When you solid your thoughts again a few years, you would possibly recall a somewhat heartwarming story a few man who stumbled throughout an “deserted” copy of Nintendogs on a late-night prepare house and set out looking for the misplaced pups’ proprietor. It was a candy story informed in 5 elements by content material creator and Nintendo Life reader Ben Riou-Pollard (@ben.m0v), and now, two years later, he is solely gone and finished it once more.
Worry not, this is not one other story of canine abandonment, however it is one in all deserted Pokémon. You see, whereas hitting up a neighborhood automobile boot sale earlier this month, one other misplaced sport discovered its approach into Ben’s path: a battered previous copy of Pokémon Emerald. And so, naturally, we’re as soon as once more shopping for a ticket to a different emotional rollercoaster of a TikTok sequence.
After asking round to see if he might monitor down the GBA sport’s unique proprietor (to no avail, clearly), Ben determined to take the cart house, clear it up, and see if he might work out who it belonged to by testing the Coach identify and staff information.
This, too, was unsuccessful, with Ben’s DS failing to recognise the cart regardless of a rattling good scrubbing. So, what is the logical subsequent step? Throw the cart away? Return it to the automobile boot sale? Make a sequence of elaborate ‘Discovered’ posters as he beforehand did with Nintendogs?
After all not! The logical subsequent step is to fly out to Japan and get assist from the Pokémon Middle officers. Clearly.
And so, Ben did simply that. We do not wish to spoil the top of the three-part drama in writing, however it’s protected to say that all of it labored out… kinda. Components one and two can be found on Ben’s TikTok, and we’ve got hooked up the third and ultimate chapter beneath so you may try how the ‘therapeutic’ course of went.
Earlier than anybody rushes to the feedback with it, sure, we’re fairly positive this can be a faux cartridge, and sure, Ben is aware of this, too (as one look on the replies on any of the sequence’ vids makes clear). However so what? The journey to reunite it with its rightful proprietor is simply as honourable, and we might be mendacity if we stated that we did not watch the entire thing with an enormous previous grin on our faces — let’s admit it, we have all picked up a bootleg GBA cart or two in our lifetimes.
However that is not all of the Nintendo content material from Ben in current months. Whereas on the Pokémon-saving mission, he additionally stopped by the Kyoto Nintendo Retailer to select up a kind of swanky tote luggage with a devoted Sport Boy pocket. And sure, there is a TikTok for that buy too. Okay, now we’re actually envious.
Thanks, Ben, for the heads up about your newest misplaced sport journey!
