On a faithful day in early 2008, when I was rather bored with World of Warcraft, I was playing my Diamond. Then I had a random thought about a Pokémon game I used to play online way back when. Well I decided to open up Google and type in 'Pokémon MMO.' After scrolling through the first page of so called "MMOs" I almost gave up. I mean, they were all pretty much had 2 different layouts, neither of which were what I was looking for. So I moved on to the next page, telling myself 'if there's nothing on this one, then there won't be anything.' As the sites continued to follow the pattern of those on the first page, I was getting so close to giving up hope. That's when one of the links brought me to PWO. I looked it over, decided it might be worth a peek and downloaded the client after registering.
When I got in to the early, I guess it was Alpha, 0.17 Version of the game, I was not disappointed by what they had so far. It wasn't anything nearly as good as it is now today, but it was along the lines of what I wanted. I was hooked. I played a lot, using those Pokémon they gave you to start out with and to play around. We all were pretty much just looking for the bugs back then. We didn't care how buggy it was. It was a Multiplayer Online Pokémon game and that was all that mattered to us.
Unfortunately Real Life can be such a cruel mistress and I had to go depart. It was a sad time, but I had to go. When things settled down for me a few months later, I went to come back, only to find out Nintendo had forced the shut down. I lost all hope for a MOP game.
Time went on and I always remembered this place. I got busy with life again, but always made sure to come back and check, since the site was never taken down. Eventually I noticed that it was up and running again. I was joyous! Unfortunately, they had only small windows for Registration. I would come back when ever I could to try my luck and finally, this past weekend, I finally succeeded in Registering again. And even with all these crashes and all the down time, I'm still happy. I mean, it's going to level out sooner or later and now that I finally got a name here again after so many years, I'll wait for as long as I have to to play. <3[/endlifestory] Hehe