In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone.

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In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

But all the computers are connected via a network. Like I donโ€™t have to go all the way back to Pallet Town from Lavendar Town to retrive the Weedle I tossed in there.
I somehow never thought about that. How does that work? Do they use a giant network of pneumatic tubes?

They get turned into red light when going into pokeball. They get stored as red light. No need for tubes to store ball.

Since the masterball exists that must mean you keep the masterball on you always and just pull the pokemon out with any connected PC.