Gotta love random examples pulled disingenuously.

Red+Blue also almost surely had Gary’s Raticate die after battling you on the S.S. Anne, and he goes to the Pokemon Tower on Lavender Town to lay it to rest. It isn’t expressly said in the text, but the Ratata that he loved and had from the beginning is suddenly no longer in his party and he’s in the tower asking why you’re there if you don’t have any dead Pokemon.

A very console focused perspective.

80s/90s console games (and in some way even today) were much more vanilla and restricted in their perspective.

This was never an issue with computer games. 80s/90s PC games had a broad spectrum of presentation.

The original Leisure Suit Larry was released in 1987.

Everything must die

I swear I have found shorts guy in every game.

As long as we’re on the topic:

It translates to “the ends justifies the means.” Gamefreak, what the fuck?