I have an issue.

Over the course of my life, I have bought 8 pokemon games. Red, Yellow, Trading Card Game, Pinball, Silver, Crystal, Sapphire and Diamond. Yeah, I bet you didn't know I liked pokemon that much. I'm very mysterious like that.

There's a thing going 'round YouTube and my circle of friends where you find an old pokemon game and play through it using only one type of pokemon. I'd love to do it, but it seems that moving 3 or 4 times in the last 10 years has not faired well for my cherished games, and have gone missing.

I only searched for them for about an hour tonight, and I found Diamond (mainly because it was in my DS, but also because I'm awesome) and also the trading card game, which to me is by far the most useless one I could have found in this situation (possibly excluding pinball). Somewhere out there is my beloved Red with a CAUGHT Missingno AND A MEW! YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. My yellow, which I clocked hundreds of hours on, My Silver which I got with a special limited edition pokemon Game Boy Colour (not the cruddy one either, the Gold/Silver shiny one!), my Crystal which was probably the pokemon game I played most religiously, and Sapphire which was the mother of all impulsive buys.

So as you can see, there's a lot of history in these games! And they can't be found! Because they've either a) been lost or thrown out in the move or b) been sold in a garage sale (which is so not cool - they are MY games!). So I'm a bit annoyed at the moment.

I'm going to have a proper look through all the boxes in the garage tomorrow. Even though I have a feeling Red + Silver may have been sold for about $5 each in a garage sale, I don't ever remember getting rid of Yellow, I'm absolutely positive I still have Crystal somewhere, and Sapphire HAS to be around as it's not that terribly old.

If worse comes to worse, I'll restart my Diamond game. Or I'll go to Gametraders or Cash Converters and pick up a copy. But you all would know how I'd feel about that. You don't get the same nostalgia if you have to buy it again. I'd much rather play with my game cartridge. That way I can play my old file for 10 minutes, delete it, cry for a few hours and then start all over again.

Damn Pokemon could never save more than one file....>=(

Who wants to help me search?