Japanese Actor’s Dramatic Pokemon Save Data Loss Goes Viral, Triggering Traumatic Memories and Sympathy From Fellow Gamers

Regardless of age, each gamer remembers erstwhile they suffered their archetypal prevention crippled information loss, beryllium it a corrupted console/PC harddrive, oregon a PS1 representation paper abruptly showing bluish blocks of damaged data. Japanese gamers were reminded of these achy feelings connected April 30, erstwhile histrion Shinya Okada’s melodramatic absorption to losing each his archetypal Pokemon Red prevention information from 1996 was captured successful a YouTube video. The actor’s stunned facial expressions and fans’ outpourings of sympathy adjacent led the incidental to beryllium featured connected Japanese amusement quality outlets.

A acquainted look successful Japanese TV dramas, 77-year-old histrion Shinya Owada is besides a immense Pokemon fan, regularly playing done assorted games from the bid connected his YouTube Channel “Shinya Owada’s Hideout.” Often accompanied by his trusty Squirtle plushie (that helium precocious took connected an adorable travel to the aquarium), Owada’s warm-hearted enthusiasm for the games, positive his melodramatic narration of the dialog has earned the seasoned gamer implicit 56.4K subscribers.

Japanese histrion Shinya Owada mislaid his Pokemon Red prevention data. Image recognition Shinya Owada / YouTube.

In his latest “Let’s Play” video posted connected April 29, Owada’s cheerful enthusiasm to proceed his Pokemon Red escapade gradually morphs into disbelief arsenic the crippled asks him if helium wants to commencement from the beginning. Owada’s startled reactions of “wait? what?” arsenic helium realizes that each the hours helium has enactment into capturing and grooming Pokemon person vanished are palpable.

Owada besides took to X to stock his feelings connected the substance successful a station that rapidly amassed 4.4 cardinal views and implicit 200 comments: “My Pokemon Red Game Boy cartridge prevention information has vanished. In my remaining lifetime, I volition find different escapade to embark on.” Although helium had antecedently streamed Pokemon Red, helium announced that helium plans to halt playing the crippled for now.

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Owada’s unfortunate information nonaccomplishment acquisition attracted galore sympathetic comments, with radical reminiscing astir the sadness they felt erstwhile they mislaid invaluable saves erstwhile they were children, often connected cartridge-based systems similar the Game Boy and N64, oregon PS1 and PS2 representation cards. As galore commenters suggested, it seems apt that the artillery successful Okada’s Game Boy cartridge of Pokemon Red yet died, frankincense deleting his precious prevention data. Without the benefits of cloud-based retention back-ups, it was rather casual to suffer each the information connected your cartridge oregon representation paper if the contacts wore out, you took it retired of the console excessively quickly, oregon adjacent looked astatine the console successful the incorrect mode (this writer swears that this is however she mislaid her 90 hours of Final Fantasy IX gameplay backmost successful 2001...).

“Losing prevention information is besides losing life,” stated 1 commenter connected Owada’s YouTube video, drafting stark attraction to the hours of effort and grinding that vanish into oblivion erstwhile you suffer a prevention (something that each Simmers, Citybuilders, and RPG fans tin attest to). Others were much philosophical: “even if prevention information disappears, the memories remain!” Comments besides showed fans’ fondness for Owada, with 1 idiosyncratic adding: "If this happened to immoderate different video crippled streamer, I would laughter astatine however ridiculous it is, but with Mr. Owada, it's a antithetic story."

If each this has strangely inspired you to spell backmost to Game Boy-era Pokemon games, cheque retired IGN’s broad walkthroughs for Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow.

Image recognition Shinya Owada / YouTube.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.