Shiny Pokemon Discussions

[Joushou]

Believe it or not my first shiny encounter (aside from the arbitrary red Gyarados) was when I hatched an egg in the original gold version. I didn't know what shiny Pokemon were and assumed the red Gyarados was just a different color for plot reasons. I think I traded my Pikachu over from Yellow and put him in the Day-Care with a Ditto to see if I could get a Pichu that would follow me or something along those lines. Being seven or eight years old you can guess my excitement when a glittering Pichu emerged from the egg. I never let it evolve and got it to level 100 thinking that it was the coolest thing in the world. I mean how awesome is it to send out a Pichu and have it sweep through everything in the game using Thundershock?