Fixed your post slightly, mostly because that shiny Gyarados is the only shiny Pokémon most people are going to get naturally. And even then, there's also the people that could miss shiny Pokémon because some shinies look only slightly darker/lighter than the normal Pokémon.
Who says it wasn't super common? Pokémon Encyclopedia, Gameshark, Action Replay and Pokésav were pretty common then.
I also prefer the newer system, since I always found 1 in 8192 to be an extremely low chance.
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