How far would you go to give a down-on-their-luck Pokemon fan their old, sold copy of Diamond? Complete with hundreds of hours of unique memories, and a lamentation that they never would have sold their copy in the first place had financial strain pressed them into doing so?
While there's no way of verifying it, crossing an ocean from Europe to North America must surely be the record, right? Not just for Diamond, but presumably for any Pokemon game, ever made. If you're out there, and you've traveled even farther to give a stranger back their Pokemon game, let me know. I'll be hard-pressed to believe you, though, because YouTuber Purple Thunder has somewhat self-deprecating proof of his adventure.
"...It's my dream to return someone's lost game that I found years later," Purple Thunder says. The 298-hour save file on this rather busted-up copy of Pokemon Diamond. He found this particular piece on eBay, amazed that the cartridge had literal holes in it - turns out, that was the owner's dog fault - and once he scooped it up for barely over 65 bucks, Purple Thunder soon found that even the rails on this thing...
