Pokemon GO [Free] has only been out for a few days, but we've already seen numerous highly creative attempts at cheating the system and becoming a Pokemon master, through the traditional technique of living a sedentary lifestyle from the comfort of your sofa. We've seen record players and ceiling fans being utilised to hatch eggs, and even drones equipped with smartphones to be able to catch Pokemon regardless of where the critters are contained. While some may call it lazy, and others will attest to the ingenuity of such methods, one thing that is certain is that cheating is a time-honored tradition in all Pokemon games and definitely not unique to Pokemon GO. Thanks to the detective work/legendary laziness of Reddit user Neo-Ninja, here is a short yet inspired timeline of cheating in Pokemon games (not including glitches or hacking devices such as GameShark or Action Replay because I've faced enough shiny level 100 Arceuses online and it's all your fault). Holding Down the D-Pad on the Game Boy Advance
While technically this method dates back to Pokemon Gold and Silver, and also features heavily in every successive entry in the main franchise, it peaked back in the golden era of Ruby and Sapphire back on the Game Boy Advance as competitive battling began to blossom. Hatching eggs has always been an arduous task - some of the rarer Pokemon such as Bagon took over 10,000 in game steps to hatch, and for many going up and down Cycling Road for hours was not a good use of time...