Oh, when I was playing emerald, one of my pokemon had been poisoned, and the screen shook every few steps. Needless to say, I had no idea what was going on and I must have been sobbing for about half an hour, thinking my new game was broken, when it fainted and the shaking stopped.
I figured it out about a week or so.

I thought there was something wrong with my Emerald when it didnt show animations till I realized the Battle Field was set to off.

When i played Red I only leveled up Charizard, and somehow managed to beat the whole Elite 4 with it in Red (it was around LV 70, and the rest of my team was LV 45-ish Pokemon I caught in Victory Road.) In the same game, I killed Zapdos, Moltres and Mewtwo without saving, then used my Master Ball on Articuno. Oh, and I taught Charizard Cut.

It's a wonder I even made it through that game. DX

Something similar happened with me.
I chose Charizard and crossed the whole game without catching any Pokemon .....except Pikachu at level 2 ...

I didn't even know about things i just played for the sake of playing.

When I first played Pokemon I had no idea how to catch or save!!
Used a Blastoise and defeated Lt. Surge

Of course I started afresh every time!!!

lol

I always thought that why does Ash had this zzz kinda thing on his face xD