Curt Schilling

pokemon features that were thoroughly broken. in 2000, pokemon gold and silver, players could visit the trainer house in viridian city, a basement where you could fight an npc named cal once per day for bonus experience. alongside it came mystery gift, a feature that exchanged trainer data through the game boy color's infrared port. your friend's team would replace cal, letting you battle them even when they were offline. but the game's memory handling was deeply flawed. unplugging the link at the wrong moment, or opening a corrupted unown entry, caused invalid data to be written into the opponent slots. instead of cal, you might face glitch trainers with bizarre names, teams stacked with level 100+ pokémon, fainted mons, or an outright crash on an eerie "waiting…" screen. eventually, players learned to exploit it. known as the glitch unown method, it let them manipulate mystery gift data to overwrite the trainer house opponent with a custom team, including one made of six blisseys since blissey yields the most experience in the entire game. a single battle could award over 72,000 experience points, enough to bring an entire team to level 100 in one day.