http://www.techradar.com/news/pokemon-silver-is-the-gold-standard-of-pokemon-games

Anyone who knows me even slightly will be unsurprised that the game I’ve been revisiting over the past couple of weeks is Pokémon Silver. As soon as Nintendo re-released Gold and Silver on its virtual store on September 22 I had my 3DS in hand, ready to jump back into Johto. 

Usually the first game you play in a series has a certain magic – no matter how good the games that came before or after it are, you feel you owe it a debt of favoritism.