Very poorly, except for Generation 1. Has not played any Pokemon game before Generation 6 outside of its generation. Has not stepped foot in those regions for around 10+ years. Hammered in most of Generation 1 due to all the binding threads: the anime (On the Road to Viridian City, anyone?), trading card game, spinoffs, figurines, and general cultural hype. Dropped to largely mainline games and spinoffs midway through Generation 2.
Remembers some towns, despite that. Watched other people play sometimes as well. Jogged some memories.
- Generation 1: Pallet Town, Viridian City, Pewter City, Cerulean City, Vermillion City, Celadon City, Saffron City, Fuchsia City, and Cinnabar Island. Spaced on the town with the graveyard tower outside of Rock Tunnel. (Guessed Violet City. Checked. Came close.)
- Generation 2: Goldenrod City (the hub of everything interesting).
- Generation 3: Lilycove City (buy everything there), Pacifidlog Town (learned about Lombre evolving via stone there), and New Mauville (a central location)
- Generation 4: Floraroma Town. (Helped others with items in a Hunger Games-inspired Nuzlocke. Backtracked there for a lot of stuff with...Surf?) Also Jubilife City for the Loto-ID.
- Generation 5: Nothing. Remembers some places (Relic Castle, the stadium, the ferris wheel, Chargestone Cave, the airbase gym, the mine gym), but not town names. Could technically count Black City/White Forest. Blanks on the major city. Had several roads and a port. Shrugs.
Trod through Generation 6-8 more. Completed all of those...at least three times? Remains fuzzy anyways.
- Generation 6: Geosenge Town (Flare base), Lumiose City (major hub town), Snowbelle City (snow), and Anistar City (Psychic gym + star clock). Adds Terminus Cave (Zygarde), Reflection Cave (beware the Hawlucha trainer), Parfum Palace (fireworks and Furfrou), Pokemon Village, and Lost Hotel for other locations.
- Generation 7: Hau'oli City, Koni Koni City, Malie City, and Po Town. Sort of Aether Paradise too? Could not name the battle royale city, Heahea City (saw it here), the sea port city on Poni Island, or the beginning town. Never kept Mount Hokulani (remembered) and Mount Lanakila straight.
- Generation 8: Wedgehurst (because of the DLC notification), Motostoke, Hammerlocke, Ballonea (barebones Fairy city), Circhester (big, frosty, and Hero's Bath), Stow-on-Side (daily deals), and Spikemuth (the hallway city). Could not have named Hulbury, Wyndon, or the first gym city without having seen some of them days ago.