Pokémon has been through a ton of iterations over the three decades that players have been enjoying it, and whichever ones you were a fan of in particular, it really does feel like the time when older games are coming back to the fore. It was probably a trend that started back in Covid, when recreational options were limited, but since then, there are as many people playing classic releases as there are new games in the series.
That was then furthered by the limitless possibilities of emulation on the PC, before things really started getting exciting with the process of recompilation and decompilation. If you don't know the difference, both essentially get old games from other platforms running natively on the PC, but with decompilation this is essentially done by hand by converting old code into human-readable formats, whereas recompilation does this automatically via programs that don't necessarily make the code readable.
Now, one of the more iconic games of the N64 generation has been given the same treatment, and it's playable right now if you want to give it a go.
If you were around and playing games during the N64 era, then you'll know that...
