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You had to live through Gen 2 to really appreciate it. These games came out at the height of Pokémon’s popularity (1998-2000, with Silver and Gold releasing in 1999). No one was bored with Gen 1 Pokémon, so the extra Pokémon were just a plus. Lugia and Ho-oh are GOATed designs, with Lugia’s popularity being bolstered by Pokémon 2000 the movie. The game delivered what people wanted; more Pokémon. No one knew the gameplay could get better - they just knew they liked the game and wanted more of what they got in Red/Blue. And the biggest cherry on top is what is easily the best post-game in the series. I’ll never forget my jaw dropping as a kid when I got to go back to Kanto. And then the battle with Red was epic af. These games were the quintessential 90s Pokémon experience. If you didn’t live through it, you wouldn’t be massively blinded by the power of insane nostalgia like some of us are lol
Yup. That’s a perspective I’ll never understand because I played the games out of order. There was still a lot for me to discover on my own but it could never be the same experience as anyone who played gen 2 when it released.
@@HiJello64 Yea everyone were hyped for it. It added levels and let us relive the old gyms and gave us new features. I dont know anyone who was around who didnt love this game. It was a worthwhile sequel in our eyes. Pokemon was huge...the show was getting a bit whack in that we realize how crappy Ash was so an expanded game was worth it.
Generation 2 was my favorite generation of Pokemon and part of that is I got to live through that era of the Poke Crazy. I remember everyone in elemetry school had GSC and on holidays and few free days that we got in school everyone would be playing the games. Gamefreak gave us exactly what we wanted when these games came out and that was just more of the pokemon we knew and loved. The honeymoon faze of RBY had yet to die off and this was just another enjection of the pokemon crack that we wanted.
Bro :) The games were so Successfully that they made few months later a Manga and Anime OF THE GAME LOL and real quick. if i only knew 20 years ago that the Pokemon Cards about to be worth in the future the price of my house right now
Nobody was fed up with the 151 pokemon at the time. I also vividly remember finding my first Hoothoot in the starting area. Which was insane. The whole situation with the Sudowoodo and all the new gameplay mechanics made it feel everything except a bootleg game. It was a perfect sequel to red and blue
This game….I’m dead serious when I say, I spent soooo many hours on it! 😢I miss the days where I was comfortable playing a hand held for 8+ hours and not be bored.
I've watched a lot of Pokemon play throughs, retrospectives, solo run challenges, etc. but not many have sounded like they've had as much fun as you did man. Subbing for more!
I easily logged 900+ hours into each Gold, Silver, and many many more hours into Crystal. While you had some very valid negative points towards the gen2 games, they're still my favorite between Gen 1 and 2. Great video!
Although I was born in 2005, Pokémon Gen 1 and 2 mean so damn much to me. I recall I was playing Pokémon Yellow as a child while at least one of my parents was playing Skyrim, and even though I could directly compare the vastly different graphics between the games, Yellow still felt immersive. Perhaps classic Pokémon is just so timeless...
12:50 There is another way to get a metal coat before the Elite Four...just west of Ecruteak, you can encounter wild Magnemite, and each Magnemite has a small chance of holding a metal coat. If you have the move Thief, you can use that to find out if the Magnemite has one and take it without wasting any balls on it. Thus, early Scizor.
Okay so I grew up on Pokemon real big. When I was five and in kindergarten I saw someone playing Pokemon blue and I asked my dad for it and he got it for me. I had it for a few days and knew nothing about the game and all I did was caught five Pokemon filled my team and thought I won. Well I showed my dad my Pokemon and they were named things like jack ass, stubborn, shit and stuff like that. Edgy kid lol. But my dad took the game away and I didn't get another for a long time. I eventually got sapphire skipping gold and silver because sapphire had just came out and I played a bit still not understanding it well but things happened and I had to move in with my grandmom and I lost my Gameboy. Well at my new school a kid gave me his and with it Pokemon crystal. I was blee away with how pretty the cart was and played it to death. It was truly my Pokemon learning experience I learned a lot from it for a long time it was my favorite but eventually sapphire took the spot back over. But I will never forget all the great times in the second gen. Some of the best music in older videos games and some of the best sprites from Pokemon still
As a fellow gen1er I must say you are right for the most part but gen2 is still my favorite gen. I played gold and crystal so much.. even though yellow was my first own version (I watched someone play red before that) and has a special place in my heart.. gen2 was such a mind-blowing experience for me, especially the one step into Kanto again, this feeling can't be replicated ever again.
7:59 I'm so glad to hear you say you pick up Mary because Mary is a beast especially when he gets out to Ampharos Beacon Light fighting electric and I think one other either way it's badass 7:597:59
When i first encountered Entei, i put him to sleep, and he ran. The next two times i ever found him again, he was still asleep. I assume he's still roaming about, forever stuck sleep walking.
Even though we might not see eye to eye on a lot of things about Gen II… we are in agreement about the “shiny obsession”. Yeah, it’s slightly different colours. Whoopdiedoo.
Some of the recent ROM hacks for the Gen II games are insane. If you haven't seen Crystal Clear or Crystal Legacy, I definitely recommend them. They iron out a lot of the issues you've highlighted here, or even just built an entirely new game around the base. I, myself, am working on a ROM hack for Crystal (with Gold and Silver coming later), but it's just a translation into a language the games didn't release in.
I’m quite a bit older than you and I’m still playing pokemon. Gen 2 is my personal favorite along with Gen 9 (blasphemy, I know). Lol. Gen 1 will always hold a special place in my heart but it’s not aged extremely well. But I’ve not played any of the card games since Gen 1. I used to play in trading card tournaments in the late 90’s until around 00 or 01 then I stopped. My cousin’s son collects the new cards and I have no clue how any of them work. Looks quite different
Gen 9’s not bad. I mainly collected cards for collecting but I had a friend who wanted me to make a deck to duel against his modern (2014) meta deck and the difference was night and day. I only won once because he had the most unlucky draws possible.
I was expecting to end off this video and subscribe to a multi-million subscriber youtuber. The quality of this video is off the charts! Severely underrated
8:05 odd egg, elekid and pichu all of them have hp grass 49, elemental punch access, while they ARE rng, all the odd egg pokemon bar tyrogue and magby do it's job 36:05 even better, the en versions have the odd egg built in while the JP versions do not have it at all.
Brilliant review and matches how I felt about this gen. I think there are a lot of parallels between gens 2 and 4 - they can get credited for some essential new mechanics and features but in reality the next gen took those mechanics and used them in a better way. Still fun games to play though and up there with my favourites
I got Pokemon Red and Blue Dave release the batteries are still working Pokemon Yellow that are you still working and I just finally had to replace my Silver version about 30 years ago the gold 2 1/2 months ago but then I just picked up these rechargeable ones anyone's that plug into the wall I have no problem with battery
Amazing video!! One thing that i would check is your way how you end your sentences.. it sounds really strange, just end your sentence without stretching every word whenever you finish your sentence.. it has something a bit arrogant.. not a hate comment!! Just something that comes accross as a watcher / listener
Sudowoodo… my god. When I got my first Gold game I didn’t knew English very well, I swear to god I caught a Raikiou in the first try with a normal pokeball, just to loose it because I couldn’t figure out how to get sudowoodo out of the freaking way, so I did the normal thing and reset the game 😢. Good times
Check out my other Pokemon Retrospectives:
Pokemon Sapphire: ruclips.net/video/965ytEtFh70/видео.html
Pokemon Red: ruclips.net/video/WxEn2d_3m0I/видео.html
You had to live through Gen 2 to really appreciate it. These games came out at the height of Pokémon’s popularity (1998-2000, with Silver and Gold releasing in 1999). No one was bored with Gen 1 Pokémon, so the extra Pokémon were just a plus. Lugia and Ho-oh are GOATed designs, with Lugia’s popularity being bolstered by Pokémon 2000 the movie.
The game delivered what people wanted; more Pokémon. No one knew the gameplay could get better - they just knew they liked the game and wanted more of what they got in Red/Blue. And the biggest cherry on top is what is easily the best post-game in the series. I’ll never forget my jaw dropping as a kid when I got to go back to Kanto. And then the battle with Red was epic af.
These games were the quintessential 90s Pokémon experience. If you didn’t live through it, you wouldn’t be massively blinded by the power of insane nostalgia like some of us are lol
Yup. That’s a perspective I’ll never understand because I played the games out of order. There was still a lot for me to discover on my own but it could never be the same experience as anyone who played gen 2 when it released.
@@HiJello64 Yea everyone were hyped for it. It added levels and let us relive the old gyms and gave us new features. I dont know anyone who was around who didnt love this game. It was a worthwhile sequel in our eyes. Pokemon was huge...the show was getting a bit whack in that we realize how crappy Ash was so an expanded game was worth it.
Generation 2 was my favorite generation of Pokemon and part of that is I got to live through that era of the Poke Crazy. I remember everyone in elemetry school had GSC and on holidays and few free days that we got in school everyone would be playing the games. Gamefreak gave us exactly what we wanted when these games came out and that was just more of the pokemon we knew and loved. The honeymoon faze of RBY had yet to die off and this was just another enjection of the pokemon crack that we wanted.
Bro :)
The games were so Successfully that they made few months later a Manga and Anime OF THE GAME LOL and
real quick. if i only knew 20 years ago that the Pokemon Cards about to be worth in the future the price of my house right now
Nobody was fed up with the 151 pokemon at the time. I also vividly remember finding my first Hoothoot in the starting area. Which was insane. The whole situation with the Sudowoodo and all the new gameplay mechanics made it feel everything except a bootleg game. It was a perfect sequel to red and blue
This game….I’m dead serious when I say, I spent soooo many hours on it! 😢I miss the days where I was comfortable playing a hand held for 8+ hours and not be bored.
Fr 😢
“I didn’t even know which country Greece was in”
American tax dollars at work.
This honestly made me strongly consider turning off the video😂
@@JuliaN-ti9zvI’m doing that right now. Fml.
Nice, this will be a great video to listen while working out !
It's criminal this man doesn't have more subs.
I completely agree about the shiny craze, the only reason such an obscure mechanic blew up online is that it was easy content for influencers to do
17:51 Opponents are not affected by status effects and other traps in gold/silver. It’s a known bug.
I've watched a lot of Pokemon play throughs, retrospectives, solo run challenges, etc. but not many have sounded like they've had as much fun as you did man. Subbing for more!
I easily logged 900+ hours into each Gold, Silver, and many many more hours into Crystal. While you had some very valid negative points towards the gen2 games, they're still my favorite between Gen 1 and 2. Great video!
metal coat is not post game, you can steal it from wild magnemite on route 38 as soon as you reach Ekruteak
Nice catch. I thought that was only in Crystal for some reason.
Recently did this in my run funny enough for scizor.
Thank you I don’t know why people think this
Although I was born in 2005, Pokémon Gen 1 and 2 mean so damn much to me. I recall I was playing Pokémon Yellow as a child while at least one of my parents was playing Skyrim, and even though I could directly compare the vastly different graphics between the games, Yellow still felt immersive. Perhaps classic Pokémon is just so timeless...
I really enjoyed your Pokémon Retrospectives!
my favorite game, have such strong memories and emotions towards this game.
12:50 There is another way to get a metal coat before the Elite Four...just west of Ecruteak, you can encounter wild Magnemite, and each Magnemite has a small chance of holding a metal coat. If you have the move Thief, you can use that to find out if the Magnemite has one and take it without wasting any balls on it. Thus, early Scizor.
Okay so I grew up on Pokemon real big. When I was five and in kindergarten I saw someone playing Pokemon blue and I asked my dad for it and he got it for me. I had it for a few days and knew nothing about the game and all I did was caught five Pokemon filled my team and thought I won. Well I showed my dad my Pokemon and they were named things like jack ass, stubborn, shit and stuff like that. Edgy kid lol. But my dad took the game away and I didn't get another for a long time. I eventually got sapphire skipping gold and silver because sapphire had just came out and I played a bit still not understanding it well but things happened and I had to move in with my grandmom and I lost my Gameboy. Well at my new school a kid gave me his and with it Pokemon crystal. I was blee away with how pretty the cart was and played it to death. It was truly my Pokemon learning experience I learned a lot from it for a long time it was my favorite but eventually sapphire took the spot back over. But I will never forget all the great times in the second gen. Some of the best music in older videos games and some of the best sprites from Pokemon still
“All that for a radioactive Espeon? My god” 😂
As a fellow gen1er I must say you are right for the most part but gen2 is still my favorite gen. I played gold and crystal so much.. even though yellow was my first own version (I watched someone play red before that) and has a special place in my heart.. gen2 was such a mind-blowing experience for me, especially the one step into Kanto again, this feeling can't be replicated ever again.
"for the first time in the games a gym leader is unaccessible"
Giovanni: am I a joke to you???
7:59 I'm so glad to hear you say you pick up Mary because Mary is a beast especially when he gets out to Ampharos Beacon Light fighting electric and I think one other either way it's badass 7:59 7:59
love these videos
When i first encountered Entei, i put him to sleep, and he ran. The next two times i ever found him again, he was still asleep.
I assume he's still roaming about, forever stuck sleep walking.
Even though we might not see eye to eye on a lot of things about Gen II… we are in agreement about the “shiny obsession”. Yeah, it’s slightly different colours. Whoopdiedoo.
My favorite generation. 🤷🏻♂️
Some of the recent ROM hacks for the Gen II games are insane. If you haven't seen Crystal Clear or Crystal Legacy, I definitely recommend them. They iron out a lot of the issues you've highlighted here, or even just built an entirely new game around the base. I, myself, am working on a ROM hack for Crystal (with Gold and Silver coming later), but it's just a translation into a language the games didn't release in.
I’m quite a bit older than you and I’m still playing pokemon. Gen 2 is my personal favorite along with Gen 9 (blasphemy, I know). Lol. Gen 1 will always hold a special place in my heart but it’s not aged extremely well. But I’ve not played any of the card games since Gen 1. I used to play in trading card tournaments in the late 90’s until around 00 or 01 then I stopped. My cousin’s son collects the new cards and I have no clue how any of them work. Looks quite different
Gen 9’s not bad.
I mainly collected cards for collecting but I had a friend who wanted me to make a deck to duel against his modern (2014) meta deck and the difference was night and day. I only won once because he had the most unlucky draws possible.
I was expecting to end off this video and subscribe to a multi-million subscriber youtuber. The quality of this video is off the charts! Severely underrated
i grew up with pokemon red blue yellow born in 1991
8:05 odd egg, elekid and pichu all of them have hp grass 49, elemental punch access, while they ARE rng, all the odd egg pokemon bar tyrogue and magby do it's job
36:05 even better, the en versions have the odd egg built in while the JP versions do not have it at all.
Gold and Silver were peak solely because of Elemental Punchout league
I missed out on Johto (HG SS), after finishing Diamond and Platinum, so I went back to Fire Red and Emerald.
Gen 2 games were my favorite growing up but I get how you missed that Gen because they were still doing hella re runs of the OG Kanto series
bro ur gonna blow up ur channels gonna get like 100k subs no doubt
Pretty sure onix has low chance to be holding metal coat upon capture
”Been there Done that” perfect explanaiton of johto but my favourite game ever but very much the same throughout
Brilliant review and matches how I felt about this gen. I think there are a lot of parallels between gens 2 and 4 - they can get credited for some essential new mechanics and features but in reality the next gen took those mechanics and used them in a better way. Still fun games to play though and up there with my favourites
The thing is that gen 2 is so connected to gen 1. The 100 new Pokémon were just new Pokémon
I got Pokemon Red and Blue Dave release the batteries are still working Pokemon Yellow that are you still working and I just finally had to replace my Silver version about 30 years ago the gold 2 1/2 months ago but then I just picked up these rechargeable ones anyone's that plug into the wall I have no problem with battery
I would have prefered 2x size jhoto instead of going back to Kanto.
Gen 2 never hit as hard and gen 1 to me. I had blue and yellow and got silver for my bday and I don’t think I ever went past goldenrod city.
Please charge your SP
Can you stop with the upspeak?
Bro I wish I could.
I can't say anything i didn't know anything about Black and White until B2 and W2 was released. Still not a big fan of that gen
Amazing video!! One thing that i would check is your way how you end your sentences.. it sounds really strange, just end your sentence without stretching every word whenever you finish your sentence.. it has something a bit arrogant.. not a hate comment!! Just something that comes accross as a watcher / listener
A starter with a HM move? Ampharos with 2 HM moves and a Scizor with no bug stab and cut 😅 horrible !!! lol
Have you seen Scizor’s movepool?
Hard dislike after watching just first 2 minutes.
Sudowoodo… my god. When I got my first Gold game I didn’t knew English very well, I swear to god I caught a Raikiou in the first try with a normal pokeball, just to loose it because I couldn’t figure out how to get sudowoodo out of the freaking way, so I did the normal thing and reset the game 😢. Good times
Illegal immigration 😂😂😂