https://www.cnet.com/news/pokemon-lets-go-is-the-switch-game-ive-actually-prayed-for/

It was December 1998. My family and I were a day away from a trip to South Africa, where my parents were born. It's an 18-hour journey from Sydney to Cape Town, a long flight made worse by the nonexistence of smartphones and the existence of two children, one of whom, me, was just 6 years old.

It's for that reason, I think, that dad surprised my brother and me with an early Christmas present: a Gameboy Color with a copy of Pokemon Red, by far the most extravagant gift we'd ever gotten. For my parents, it meant less time dealing with their menace children (which we absolutely were). For me, it was a life-changer.