I miss Pokemon Crater. I met my best friend through Crater. I named my son after him. I flew across the country to be the best man at his wedding. We met in 06-07, now we're in our 30s 😂 still text almost every day.
Bro, Pokemon Crater was the shit back in 2007-2008 🔥 🔥 For anyone interested, the game still exists. It's called Pokemon Vortex now, been playing it since 2012
I have a Pokemon Crater story! Back around 2006/2007. I really wanted a Lugia, but I didn't have anything to trade for one. So I went to the list of Lugias for trade, found the trainer names, then went down the list one by one until I found someone who's password was the same as their name. So I found one and accepted my trade offer of an Oddish. My avatar was a Rocket Grunt btw.
Dude, I remember about 15 years ago, maybe a bit more, there was a website for runescape hacking, botting, gold sales, etc. called jaghax. I was able to find a free release of a password cracker and use it to steal a single account that must've had a password of like "abc123" lol
@@oniondesu9633 site dropped in 99, first emulator came out after that according to Google. Regardless.. i was like 7 and not capable of understanding how to download and use an emulator lmao
Yeah there were 100% emulators at this time, even if they weren't for Gameboy folks had already gone to court over this. It's worth putting in the effort to cage your claims so that folks aren't put off by them if they're wildly off base ^^;
This game as well as the Hoenn and Sinnoh games are proof that nostalgia is one hell of a drug. I also played this game as a kid and while it has definitely not aged well, it just goes to show how powerful our imagination was during childhood.
seriously! I remembered this game like it was essentially the world of Warcraft of Pokemon, then coming back to it so many years later it shell shocked me lol
@@nothingchannel6402 I'd disagree because there's many other things you can do with the games aside from nuzlockes and randomizers. Competitive Pokemon is a very deep field with a lot of room for depth. Regardless if its singles or doubles, there's something for everyone. Draft league is also a cool concept since it imposes limits on what you can and cannot build.
I went bonkers when I saw this on my front page... I was also obsessed with crater when I was 7 (and later, the various remakes :P) and was devastated when it shut down. AFAIK the creator Aaron got busy after graduating and just couldn't/didn't want to maintain it anymore. his original post is actually available on Bulbapedia along with some other info. I wonder where he is nowadays and if he realizes what an effect he had on all of our childhoods
God I haven't played this since I was a kid! I didn't stick with this for long, but when I did play it, I always had fun trying to search for the shadow, metallic, etc Pokemon. I thought they were so cool and wished I could catch them in my actual games. Ah, childhood. 😌
I always remembered playing a strange browser pokemon game and this has got to be it! I distinctly remember playing on the school PCs, and it became more popular than I expected for a short time because it wasn't blocked. I absolutely loved this and the Typhlosion I had! As well as the time spent hanging out with the one guy I was actually close to. Thank you for actually unlocking this memory after all the years! I had no idea where to start!
i knew this game by the name of ''pokemon indigo'' which was literally the same thing but a little bit more up to date sir, you have slapped a memory into my head that i completely forgot even existed
I used to play this game so freaking much. My team was Kingler, Kingdra, Seaking, Nidoking, Slowking, and Slaking. It took me a whole 3 days to get it! My name was KingLord.
I've never heard of Pokemon Crater, but honestly, I only clicked on this video 'cuz 1.I LOVE Pokemon. and 2. Any mention of a Pokemon game lost to time just makes me wanna learn more about said game. I personally grew up with fangames like Pokemon Showdown and Pokemon MMO 3D. I remember when I was battling a friend in Showdown once, my friend hardly knowing anything about Pokemon... and they SOMEHOW kept getting really OP teams that just bodied mine
@@mistercbody My first experience playing Pokémon games at all was on an emulator called Rew which was released in 1999. I "played" Pokémon Yellow on it before I could read. I put played in quotation marks because I only figured I was supposed to deliver the parcel to Oak to get beyond Viridian City once by accident and didn't really grasp the concept of saving the game yet.
There is no Shadow Pokemon in crater. Shadow variants are added in Pokemon Vortex which a new Pokemon crater. If people wants to experience a modern crater, they should try Vortex (Still running as of today)
This game and the old romhack series (not fangames but were more like stories told through basic hacks) were fond memories of my childhood... Traindor, ShadowTheQuilava, ShadowElliot, and Sakurastardreams were some of my first ever channels on RUclips almost 16 years ago. I had totally forgotten about most of this until I heard the name: "Pokemon Crater". That really stirred up some nostalgia.
all those early games really were such a big staple for me and it’s so cool to see that so many other people have a similar sentiment towards them even if they clearly don’t hold up comparative to the quality of today’s landscape
I remember starting with Pokémon Crater in like 06-07 then going to Indigo, which I think had a name change and stuck with that until 2012, when I started playing Pokémon Omega. Omega was probably the best MMO I had played, despite the game shutting down in 2014 because Nintendo needed the domain to promote Omega Ruby, after 10 years still have a collective group that chats with each other because the game made some true friendships back then. Plus they had added Gen 5 sprites so I could play as N.
This video unlocked a core memory for me. I was pretty late to Crater, finding out about it towards the end of gen 3, but I remember talking about it with the kids at school and thinking that this is what Diamond and Pearl would be like.
Wow, huge core memory unlocked. I wonder how many hours I dumped into this game, I remember I played it a ton as a kid obsessed with Pokémon. I remember being able to get missingno as just like a regular official Pokémon and it blew my little mind lol
I have such vague memories of playing this game. It’s honestly pretty crazy how much content and care was packed into these free web browser games back in the day.
3:53 great video. However, there certainly was emulators. I have vivid memories of me and my school friends getting an emulator and a sort of half baked, knock off, semi translated copy of pokemon gold long before the European release. We would all make copies of this floppy disc containing the emulator and the rom. We'd spend hours going to each others houses and playing the game from the start until like the 2nd or 3rd badge then losing our save due to not having enough storage space left on the floppy disc and being too young to realise it would have worked fine from the hard drive!
I wasn’t aware of that! That’s awesome though, the boys just coming together to play some Pokemon and being able to figure out how to install and play on emulator but still being at the age where it doesn’t make sense why you ran out of space on the disc lol
@@cptncutleg Of gold, silver, or crystal? Asking because I only know about Vietnamese Crystal being huge, I MUST know if I'm looking for some hong kong bootlegs here
Man, thank you for reviving these memories for me. You have my like, a new subscriber and my eternal thanks for the feelings this video made me feel. God bless you
I completely forgot about Crater until I saw that wild battle page again. All the memories came flooding back. I was obsessed with this game as a little kid! I only had Pearl at the time, so being able to explore this world and catch every Pokemon was amazing to me. I distinctly remember rushing home to play the game, waiting for the map to slowly load. I loved the different-color Pokemon the most. It got me into fusing and recoloring Pokemon sprites on MS paint. I made my own shadow mons by recoloring sprites with Darkrai colors. It was my first step into digital art. Thanks for the memories!
OK, so that's unrelated, but the Pokemon site I visited back in the days had a PokeGods page who told you how to get Pikablu and the like, with edited images and fake information. There was no way to know it was false for baby old me. Anyway, one of those fakemon was basically Lugia's shadow (you know when Pokemon enter the battle. I never said the edits were good. I was a kid). So yeah, that site basically predicted Shadow Lugia, and I learned not to trust everything in the Internet.
I remember playing pokemon crater in high school. I didn't get too much into it. The idea of collecting every type of every pokemon intrigued me, i just didnt really have anyone to play with. I think by the time i learned about Pokemon crater emulators were in their infancy. Though I did enjoy playing Pokemon World Online a few years ago, i ended up getting stuck between Koga's and Sabrina's gym and didnt want to grind anymore lol
OH MY GOD. YES. I REMEMBER THIS! Man. I'm a year shy from my 30s now and my god, this game was incredible back in the day! I also remember another Pokemon MMO, around 2005-2006, it looked incredible but I never knew how to play it back then. All I can vaguely remember is the background for the site/client being an orange-ish colour. You've unlocked some serious great memories I had playing this game. Thank you for this video 😭
next we need to wake up at 8am on a saturday morning to play hey you pikachu and watch the early morning weekend cartoons over a bowl of sugary cereal & we will unlock nirvana
Man this was a welcomed blast from the past. I came from a relatively low-income family so I didn't get to experience Emerald until close to Diamond/Pearl's release and it was Pokemon Crater that introduced me to Blaziken, which became one of my favourite Pokemon for a long time. I remember losing myself for hours on Crater. Good times!
Still remember crying as a kid when it shut down. I loved Pokemon Crater. Shoutout to the people who set up teams of lv100 blisseys and stuff to level grind against to quickly get your teams up to lv100. Unlike you I had totally forgotten about this and so it was a huge nostalgia trip. Thanks for the video it was a great watch.
Pokemon Crater was amazing. I remember playing it for so long and every webpage refresh would take forever to load. I don't think I ever got far. Always wanted special pokemon like shinies, melanistic(?)/dark?, metallic? I remember those vaguely. I forgot about the name of this game until this video. I always just remember it as "Pokemon on the internet" but never remembered. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
GOD, I remember Pokemon Crater, I loved that site but my mom was so convinced that it was causing viruses on the computer and wouldn't let me continue playing it.
I Really miss this game and site I remember getting my 1st ever Dark Pokemon and was excited, then meeting some new online friends at the time and chatting it on A.I.M, and or Microsoft Messenger on anything Pokemon, anime and just overall our hobbies. I still wonder how my online friends are doing to this day after the site's disappearance since then as we stopped talking sometime when we're about halfway into our Jr.High years, and one day I tried to go back to Crater it was gone. I'll treasure the moments I had back then and meeting cool Pokemon fans online due to that game and found out how to get certain Legendary Pokemons back then from them too. thanks for the throwback of this old flash game.
@@mistercbody it sure did and whoever made it sure needs a big thanks for it as it really gotten kids who never had a Link cable or had one but never had a group of friends to trade with to go to and just have fun.
Oh man this just unlocked an ancient memory for me. I remember playing this game when I was in school, it was also briefly available on the school computers before the IT Dept caught on lol. Me and my friends would meet up on the game after school and explore together. Good times. Ran better than SV does in multiplayer mode too lmao
Yeah, I remember playing this when I was in middle school. I was really stupid back then. I am convinced the site didn't have any moderators to deal with people hacking into accounts based on my experience.
Man, this unlocked a core memory. Me and my best friend (at the time) would play this at school, when we had free time after finishing our work. He was Firelord96, I was Grasslord96. My team ended up being Venusaur, Exeggutor, Celebi, Sceptile, Victreebel and Cradily. We would pretend to be gym leaders and would challenge any other kids in the class that might have been playing it at the time. They were great times. I was devastated when I tried to play it again a few years down the line to find it was shut down.
I used to play this all the time during primary school, I remember contacting the creators and asking about trading, tbh after that it went a bit down hill when they added custom Pokemon (eg dratini clones)
Shout out to a buddy name Hudson, haven't seen you since grade 8 but because of you I have such fond memories of this game.. Thank you for introducing this game to me back on my birthday. Hope life has treated you well!
I remember playing this game. I found it after I moved and didn’t get to play Pokemon with friends irl anymore. I had a lot of fun battling. Good times
I was 9 at this time… I literally lived on it back in the summer 2007… It was amazing to both me and my brother because we didn’t even knew that a new generation of pokemon was coming… (well I actually knew from watching pokemon AMVs) … so when we got to it my starter was Piplup. My team was also a Yanmega, Houndoom, Blaziken Typhlosion and Jigglypuff… 1 week before it’s shutdown they were generous… Legendary pokemon were appearing everywhere. I was so sad … I miss my Empoleon.
pokemon crater, neopets, runescape and adventure quest was the jam back then. An online game you can play online through your browser and yes, schools didn't block them yet. It was awesome!
Holy crap. I forgot about Crater entirely. That was genuinely one of my favourite ways to play Pokémon back when I was a kid. Man I feel older than I thought I could now. Lmao.
This was my fav game ever back when I was a kid. I remember gathering around mewtwo statues with hundreds of players cause there where a rumor about him having a chance to appear while doing that.
I don't know if I played Pokemon Crater ever before, but I do remember playing Pokemon Lake so much. It was very similar to this game. I am sad that it also got shut down.
I remember having a bunch of the same experiences using pokemon lake, other one of those point and click web browser pokemon mmo things. Super nostalgic
I played this game! I had so much rare pokemon and things. For whatever reason, I have a old backup of a web page saved of my old account without the picture sadly, on a old files hosting. Dunno if they are active anymore I didn't checked again, but I got a big memory wave when I found it again haha There was a MasterBall exploit when you was able to use one without having one, going to -1, and giving you unlimited master ball too!
I remember playing Pokemon Crater, as well as Pokemon Deluge (another Pokemon browser RPG) around 2006-2009. Other than my Gameboy Advance SP and a copy of Sapphire, I play a bunch of that site after school. You could also meet your friends online and battle them. I remember terms like "Rare Pokemon" refers to fossils, pokemon that were gifts or overworld encounters in the game, and Shinies. I also remember getting a level 5 Kabuto and evolve it with a single Rare Candy and thought that all fossil pokemon would evolve it in the real game as well. The disappointment in my face when I realized that Kabuto evolves into Kabutops at lvl 40. Then, I remember my first ever shiny in the game and I didn't even know that it shined. I just saw a weird colored Bellsprout and thought it was a glitch in the game. So I left it and never to be seen ever again. I regretted that decision when a friend of mine told me about Shiny Pokemon in their Gen 4 game. So much so that I found a Shiny Tentacool after beating Koga's gym in Leaf Green (no longer there since my save file got corrupted). The reason I stopped playing Pokemon Crater was that it's too boring to play and unstable (it keeps crashing and not loading the site). I remember that the site went down and we all moved to Pokenon Deluge. I also stopped playing the game since Pokemon Black and White came out and I played a ton on DesMuMe DS Emulator with the anti-piracy measures of course (Pokemon unable to level up).
man, such great memories. Yeah it’s safe to say that the site ran awfully slow / laggy, but the contents of the game itself are some things I’ll never forget
I remember playing this game with some of my friends in middle school. I just happened to think about it the other day. I think we only played for a few weeks before it got shut down or we lost interest, I can't remember exactly
This game was so fireeeeeeeeee. Me and my cousin spent an entire summer playing this. We would stay up days trading and battling to reach the top of the ladder.
Funny how I was trying to remember the name of this game just yesterday. I honestly didn't get into it, never been an mmo person really. I do remember finding a square that spawned shiny eevees and that was cool!
this brings a lot of memories. this is what kids play when they got bored with CS, dota, or vice city. consoles and PCs are crazy expensive, so kids resort to internet cafes, the place where kids sit next to each other while playing. i remember choosing the baker avatar because i dont see it very often.
No. I have been playing pokemon gen 1-3 over and over again since day 1...since release and was never bored once... Generally speaking i do pöay many "older" games and do play them over and over without getting bored...something fun can never be boring...at least for me.
If you want the nostalgia of Crater then you can always play Pokemon Vortex. It's heavily updated but based on the same feel as Crater! I've spent hours on both.
I miss Pokemon Crater. I met my best friend through Crater. I named my son after him. I flew across the country to be the best man at his wedding. We met in 06-07, now we're in our 30s 😂 still text almost every day.
If this is true, this is the greatest Pokemon story I’ve ever heard
What an awesome story!!! It was never just a game!
cant tell if this is just classic "yeah i knew that guy" joke, or if youre actually being serious
Nice, I saw crater around and tried it, but stuck with RS and Ff11
That's great man.
Bro, Pokemon Crater was the shit back in 2007-2008 🔥 🔥
For anyone interested, the game still exists. It's called Pokemon Vortex now, been playing it since 2012
“I wasn’t dumb, I was seven” is an absolute heater quote.
@@Manymannys95
And, a very reasonable life lesson
Absolutely not because "heater quote" is ridiculous. Stop it. Get some help.
@@salmonella7993 did someone hurt your feelings?
I have a Pokemon Crater story! Back around 2006/2007. I really wanted a Lugia, but I didn't have anything to trade for one. So I went to the list of Lugias for trade, found the trainer names, then went down the list one by one until I found someone who's password was the same as their name. So I found one and accepted my trade offer of an Oddish. My avatar was a Rocket Grunt btw.
@@Quadrenaro the rocket grunt avatar makes that story gold😭😭 you’re the only competent rocket grunt in history pulling off a heist that devious
Bro that was dirty lmao
Legendary move mate.
That is diabolical.
Dude, I remember about 15 years ago, maybe a bit more, there was a website for runescape hacking, botting, gold sales, etc. called jaghax. I was able to find a free release of a password cracker and use it to steal a single account that must've had a password of like "abc123" lol
there absolutely were emulators at this time
@@oniondesu9633 site dropped in 99, first emulator came out after that according to Google. Regardless.. i was like 7 and not capable of understanding how to download and use an emulator lmao
@@mistercbody The game didn't launch until 2004, the domain was registered in 1999
Yeah there were 100% emulators at this time, even if they weren't for Gameboy folks had already gone to court over this. It's worth putting in the effort to cage your claims so that folks aren't put off by them if they're wildly off base ^^;
If you look at archived pokemon fan sites from around 1999-2003, nearly every one of them mentions roms, lol.
@@mistercbodythe quickest Google search would turn up Virtual GameBoy, allegedly the first GB emulator, released publicly in 1995
This game as well as the Hoenn and Sinnoh games are proof that nostalgia is one hell of a drug. I also played this game as a kid and while it has definitely not aged well, it just goes to show how powerful our imagination was during childhood.
seriously! I remembered this game like it was essentially the world of Warcraft of Pokemon, then coming back to it so many years later it shell shocked me lol
You can only enjoy a play through so much, you gotta do stuff to make the game more fun and challenging like nuzlockes and randomizers
@@nothingchannel6402 I'd disagree because there's many other things you can do with the games aside from nuzlockes and randomizers. Competitive Pokemon is a very deep field with a lot of room for depth. Regardless if its singles or doubles, there's something for everyone. Draft league is also a cool concept since it imposes limits on what you can and cannot build.
I went bonkers when I saw this on my front page... I was also obsessed with crater when I was 7 (and later, the various remakes :P) and was devastated when it shut down. AFAIK the creator Aaron got busy after graduating and just couldn't/didn't want to maintain it anymore. his original post is actually available on Bulbapedia along with some other info. I wonder where he is nowadays and if he realizes what an effect he had on all of our childhoods
@@pokequeenrrpg i want to shake his hand!
Yeah I used to play a bit 🙏 I feel old lol
God I haven't played this since I was a kid! I didn't stick with this for long, but when I did play it, I always had fun trying to search for the shadow, metallic, etc Pokemon. I thought they were so cool and wished I could catch them in my actual games. Ah, childhood. 😌
it really was such an awesome concept
I always remembered playing a strange browser pokemon game and this has got to be it! I distinctly remember playing on the school PCs, and it became more popular than I expected for a short time because it wasn't blocked. I absolutely loved this and the Typhlosion I had! As well as the time spent hanging out with the one guy I was actually close to. Thank you for actually unlocking this memory after all the years! I had no idea where to start!
@@RJTaylorProductions let’s goooo! Glad this helped
i knew this game by the name of ''pokemon indigo'' which was literally the same thing but a little bit more up to date
sir, you have slapped a memory into my head that i completely forgot even existed
@@marcocloutier4387 cheers
VGB (Game Boy emulator) was released in 1995 or 1996.
oh wow, honestly had no idea tbh
Also by 2001 gba emulation became decent and widespread
I used to play this game so freaking much. My team was Kingler, Kingdra, Seaking, Nidoking, Slowking, and Slaking. It took me a whole 3 days to get it! My name was KingLord.
All hail kinglord
It was remade as pokemon vortex!!
BRO THANK YOU!!!!! Your a fucken legend
I've never heard of Pokemon Crater, but honestly, I only clicked on this video 'cuz 1.I LOVE Pokemon. and 2. Any mention of a Pokemon game lost to time just makes me wanna learn more about said game. I personally grew up with fangames like Pokemon Showdown and Pokemon MMO 3D. I remember when I was battling a friend in Showdown once, my friend hardly knowing anything about Pokemon... and they SOMEHOW kept getting really OP teams that just bodied mine
“there weren’t emulators back then” u unfortunately lost me there. as a kid in the 2000s i was most certainly playing both crater and emulators
@@victorreis8110 later 2000s sure, but earlier, not so much & i personally didn’t know how to use emulation until after my crater days tbh
@@mistercbody My first experience playing Pokémon games at all was on an emulator called Rew which was released in 1999. I "played" Pokémon Yellow on it before I could read. I put played in quotation marks because I only figured I was supposed to deliver the parcel to Oak to get beyond Viridian City once by accident and didn't really grasp the concept of saving the game yet.
Emulators have been around since the late 90s
There is no Shadow Pokemon in crater. Shadow variants are added in Pokemon Vortex which a new Pokemon crater. If people wants to experience a modern crater, they should try Vortex (Still running as of today)
This game and the old romhack series (not fangames but were more like stories told through basic hacks) were fond memories of my childhood... Traindor, ShadowTheQuilava, ShadowElliot, and Sakurastardreams were some of my first ever channels on RUclips almost 16 years ago. I had totally forgotten about most of this until I heard the name: "Pokemon Crater". That really stirred up some nostalgia.
all those early games really were such a big staple for me and it’s so cool to see that so many other people have a similar sentiment towards them even if they clearly don’t hold up comparative to the quality of today’s landscape
I remember starting with Pokémon Crater in like 06-07 then going to Indigo, which I think had a name change and stuck with that until 2012, when I started playing Pokémon Omega. Omega was probably the best MMO I had played, despite the game shutting down in 2014 because Nintendo needed the domain to promote Omega Ruby, after 10 years still have a collective group that chats with each other because the game made some true friendships back then. Plus they had added Gen 5 sprites so I could play as N.
pokemon can create lifelong bonds🤞
I remember playing a variant of this called Pokémon indigo. Great times as a kid in elementary school and even playing after school with friends.
Some of the best memories I have are thanks to games like these fr
We had gbc emulation before pokemon was a thing.
You mean gb no? The gbc came out in 98 while pokemon came out first in 96
@@jpdlpokedigi10 yes.
This video unlocked a core memory for me. I was pretty late to Crater, finding out about it towards the end of gen 3, but I remember talking about it with the kids at school and thinking that this is what Diamond and Pearl would be like.
Wow, huge core memory unlocked. I wonder how many hours I dumped into this game, I remember I played it a ton as a kid obsessed with Pokémon. I remember being able to get missingno as just like a regular official Pokémon and it blew my little mind lol
Yeah, I remember Pokémon Crater. I didn't play much of it, but I did play it.
I have such vague memories of playing this game. It’s honestly pretty crazy how much content and care was packed into these free web browser games back in the day.
3:53 great video. However, there certainly was emulators. I have vivid memories of me and my school friends getting an emulator and a sort of half baked, knock off, semi translated copy of pokemon gold long before the European release. We would all make copies of this floppy disc containing the emulator and the rom. We'd spend hours going to each others houses and playing the game from the start until like the 2nd or 3rd badge then losing our save due to not having enough storage space left on the floppy disc and being too young to realise it would have worked fine from the hard drive!
I wasn’t aware of that! That’s awesome though, the boys just coming together to play some Pokemon and being able to figure out how to install and play on emulator but still being at the age where it doesn’t make sense why you ran out of space on the disc lol
I don't remember installing emulators, you just dragged the executable to a folder your parents wouldn't see and dumped it there @mistercbody
@@mistercbodyyeah, we were probably about 8 years old. Simpler times back then 😂
I remember DelugeRPG which looks like it was basically a clone of this game
I’m realizing that there were a handful of similar games at the time that I didn’t know about
I played deluge before I saw crater
I played deluge too
Holy shit the nostalgia.. I just had a vivid memory of me playing this in my childhood karate class on the computer during free time
when u got a blue belt ceremony at 1 and crater at 1:15
I remember Pokémon Crater as well, was super fun back in the day
such a dope game for the time
I could play Pokemon gold and silver on an emulator in 1999
Same, I remember playing a partially translated version too
Man, fifth grade was amazing. Those old emulators were harsh. I remember learning from a friend and got to it. 😂😂
@@cptncutleg Of gold, silver, or crystal? Asking because I only know about Vietnamese Crystal being huge, I MUST know if I'm looking for some hong kong bootlegs here
@@neoqwerty it was a super early translation of Gold, probably lost to time now.
All the trainers were just numbered rather than named
This game was incredible broooo, was gutted when it went down
Man, thank you for reviving these memories for me. You have my like, a new subscriber and my eternal thanks for the feelings this video made me feel. God bless you
much love my brother & thank you so much
I completely forgot about Crater until I saw that wild battle page again. All the memories came flooding back. I was obsessed with this game as a little kid! I only had Pearl at the time, so being able to explore this world and catch every Pokemon was amazing to me. I distinctly remember rushing home to play the game, waiting for the map to slowly load. I loved the different-color Pokemon the most. It got me into fusing and recoloring Pokemon sprites on MS paint. I made my own shadow mons by recoloring sprites with Darkrai colors. It was my first step into digital art. Thanks for the memories!
that's so awesome how this game inspired you. I love hearing those stories, thanks for watching and thanks for sharing your memories!
OK, so that's unrelated, but the Pokemon site I visited back in the days had a PokeGods page who told you how to get Pikablu and the like, with edited images and fake information.
There was no way to know it was false for baby old me.
Anyway, one of those fakemon was basically Lugia's shadow (you know when Pokemon enter the battle. I never said the edits were good. I was a kid).
So yeah, that site basically predicted Shadow Lugia, and I learned not to trust everything in the Internet.
lol this is the exact way I felt when I realized all the fakemon from Crater weren’t legit
lugia mentioned :O hai
I remember playing pokemon crater in high school. I didn't get too much into it. The idea of collecting every type of every pokemon intrigued me, i just didnt really have anyone to play with. I think by the time i learned about Pokemon crater emulators were in their infancy. Though I did enjoy playing Pokemon World Online a few years ago, i ended up getting stuck between Koga's and Sabrina's gym and didnt want to grind anymore lol
OH MY GOD. YES. I REMEMBER THIS! Man. I'm a year shy from my 30s now and my god, this game was incredible back in the day! I also remember another Pokemon MMO, around 2005-2006, it looked incredible but I never knew how to play it back then. All I can vaguely remember is the background for the site/client being an orange-ish colour. You've unlocked some serious great memories I had playing this game. Thank you for this video
😭
The good ol days! This adult stuff is hard, man! Glad I could bring you back for a bit my friend, best wishes to ya🫡
Between you talking about one of my fav childhood games and the release of the new Dragon Ball game, I'm having an ultra nostalgic blast bro
next we need to wake up at 8am on a saturday morning to play hey you pikachu and watch the early morning weekend cartoons over a bowl of sugary cereal & we will unlock nirvana
Man this was a welcomed blast from the past. I came from a relatively low-income family so I didn't get to experience Emerald until close to Diamond/Pearl's release and it was Pokemon Crater that introduced me to Blaziken, which became one of my favourite Pokemon for a long time. I remember losing myself for hours on Crater. Good times!
Still remember crying as a kid when it shut down. I loved Pokemon Crater. Shoutout to the people who set up teams of lv100 blisseys and stuff to level grind against to quickly get your teams up to lv100.
Unlike you I had totally forgotten about this and so it was a huge nostalgia trip. Thanks for the video it was a great watch.
so glad you enjoyed and that i could remind you!
DAMN! What a throw back. I used to play this a lot when I went to the public library since I coudlnt afford my PC until much later.
Pokemon Crater was amazing. I remember playing it for so long and every webpage refresh would take forever to load. I don't think I ever got far. Always wanted special pokemon like shinies, melanistic(?)/dark?, metallic? I remember those vaguely. I forgot about the name of this game until this video. I always just remember it as "Pokemon on the internet" but never remembered. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
That's what i am here for
Duude I completely forgot about those blasted Zwinky ads 💀
old internet was insane😭
GOD, I remember Pokemon Crater, I loved that site but my mom was so convinced that it was causing viruses on the computer and wouldn't let me continue playing it.
C'MON MOM
I Really miss this game and site I remember getting my 1st ever Dark Pokemon and was excited, then meeting some new online friends at the time and chatting it on A.I.M, and or Microsoft Messenger on anything Pokemon, anime and just overall our hobbies. I still wonder how my online friends are doing to this day after the site's disappearance since then as we stopped talking sometime when we're about halfway into our Jr.High years, and one day I tried to go back to Crater it was gone. I'll treasure the moments I had back then and meeting cool Pokemon fans online due to that game and found out how to get certain Legendary Pokemons back then from them too. thanks for the throwback of this old flash game.
man, so many similar stories like this. one simple browser game really helped create such cool and unique friendships
@@mistercbody it sure did and whoever made it sure needs a big thanks for it as it really gotten kids who never had a Link cable or had one but never had a group of friends to trade with to go to and just have fun.
Oh man this just unlocked an ancient memory for me. I remember playing this game when I was in school, it was also briefly available on the school computers before the IT Dept caught on lol. Me and my friends would meet up on the game after school and explore together. Good times.
Ran better than SV does in multiplayer mode too lmao
This just unlocked a childhood memory
Yeah, I remember playing this when I was in middle school. I was really stupid back then. I am convinced the site didn't have any moderators to deal with people hacking into accounts based on my experience.
OH MY GOD, THE SPEED WITH WHICH I CLICKED THIS UPON SEEING THE THUMBNAIL
I hope the video didn’t disappoint, my friend
Man, this unlocked a core memory. Me and my best friend (at the time) would play this at school, when we had free time after finishing our work. He was Firelord96, I was Grasslord96. My team ended up being Venusaur, Exeggutor, Celebi, Sceptile, Victreebel and Cradily. We would pretend to be gym leaders and would challenge any other kids in the class that might have been playing it at the time. They were great times. I was devastated when I tried to play it again a few years down the line to find it was shut down.
I remember seeing pokemon crater at a friend's house as a kid and being in awe of it, I legit thought it was the coolest thing
So many good memories. I can remember an older friend that gave me an account full of lendaries and rare pokemom. Such good times...
what a COME UP!
The crazy different Pokémon were brilliant like the dark, light etc loved them
I used to play this all the time during primary school, I remember contacting the creators and asking about trading, tbh after that it went a bit down hill when they added custom Pokemon (eg dratini clones)
Wooowww you unlocked a memory in my brain. I forgot this existed. Thanks
@@peace606 glad I could jog your memory my friend
Omg I completely forgot about pokemon crater. I played that so much when I was younger. Huge nostalgia trip
High school days! I used to play this game secretly on our ICT subject in class
oh my god, I haven’t watched the video yet but just reading the title HIT ME. I completely forgot about this!!!!
What a throwback. I had a great time playing Crater for years. Shoutout to those trainers that we could battle with a code to grind exp.
@@sir_richmond20 a true staple of the early 2000s
Subscribed because of this video by the way dude, great content!
thank you!
Memory unlocked. I loved playing this game back in the day
it absolutely slapped man
it was so easy to level up. once you catch a pokemon, just find a nearby trainer with a weak pokemon type and keep battling
This unlocked a core childhood memory.
cheers mate
Shout out to a buddy name Hudson, haven't seen you since grade 8 but because of you I have such fond memories of this game.. Thank you for introducing this game to me back on my birthday. Hope life has treated you well!
cheers to Hudson, we all need a friend like that. Wishing you and him the absolute best
I remember playing this game. I found it after I moved and didn’t get to play Pokemon with friends irl anymore.
I had a lot of fun battling. Good times
such a top tier game for the time
I was 9 at this time… I literally lived on it back in the summer 2007…
It was amazing to both me and my brother because we didn’t even knew that a new generation of pokemon was coming… (well I actually knew from watching pokemon AMVs) … so when we got to it my starter was Piplup.
My team was also a Yanmega, Houndoom, Blaziken Typhlosion and Jigglypuff…
1 week before it’s shutdown they were generous… Legendary pokemon were appearing everywhere.
I was so sad … I miss my Empoleon.
I didnt know I knew this game untill you showed me the battle site. I know I have played it. Thank you for the throwback to pokemon crater.
Let’s go!! Glad I could help you remember my friend
pokemon crater, neopets, runescape and adventure quest was the jam back then.
An online game you can play online through your browser and yes, schools didn't block them yet. It was awesome!
I was also a ride or die for webkinz no lie🤷♂️
I remember playing on this site with a brother as a kid! I even remember finding a Metallic Magnemite at one point. Good times. 😌
Holy crap. I forgot about Crater entirely. That was genuinely one of my favourite ways to play Pokémon back when I was a kid. Man I feel older than I thought I could now. Lmao.
whenever i remember this game, and seeing that pokemon fire red and leaf green just turned 20 i am reminded that i've reached unc status
This was my fav game ever back when I was a kid. I remember gathering around mewtwo statues with hundreds of players cause there where a rumor about him having a chance to appear while doing that.
all those old pokemon rumors and urban legends need to be studied
I don't know if I played Pokemon Crater ever before, but I do remember playing Pokemon Lake so much. It was very similar to this game. I am sad that it also got shut down.
I remember having a bunch of the same experiences using pokemon lake, other one of those point and click web browser pokemon mmo things. Super nostalgic
I don’t think I ever played that one but I’m sure at its core it was very similar to crater
Pokemon crater was my JAM back in the day! My ghostly mesprit was my favorite mon!
I played this so much on my DS Browser cartridge (though really slowly) and I felt like such a badass.
that is badass tbh
Fpr those wondering; the game he starts showing at 9:30 and for the rest of the video, os PokeMMO, and it's the golden standard for Pokemon MMO's
This video suddenly aged very well
in the last 9 days???
I remember playing this on my lunch break in the library in middle school
a carton of milk and some crater, who had it better than us?
crater and tppc were definitely large parts of my childhood..
I remember playing this for hours when I was a kid
I played this game! I had so much rare pokemon and things. For whatever reason, I have a old backup of a web page saved of my old account without the picture sadly, on a old files hosting. Dunno if they are active anymore I didn't checked again, but I got a big memory wave when I found it again haha
There was a MasterBall exploit when you was able to use one without having one, going to -1, and giving you unlimited master ball too!
My brother and I would take 1 hour turns playing this when it was available
I remember playing Pokemon Crater, as well as Pokemon Deluge (another Pokemon browser RPG) around 2006-2009. Other than my Gameboy Advance SP and a copy of Sapphire, I play a bunch of that site after school. You could also meet your friends online and battle them. I remember terms like "Rare Pokemon" refers to fossils, pokemon that were gifts or overworld encounters in the game, and Shinies. I also remember getting a level 5 Kabuto and evolve it with a single Rare Candy and thought that all fossil pokemon would evolve it in the real game as well. The disappointment in my face when I realized that Kabuto evolves into Kabutops at lvl 40. Then, I remember my first ever shiny in the game and I didn't even know that it shined. I just saw a weird colored Bellsprout and thought it was a glitch in the game. So I left it and never to be seen ever again. I regretted that decision when a friend of mine told me about Shiny Pokemon in their Gen 4 game. So much so that I found a Shiny Tentacool after beating Koga's gym in Leaf Green (no longer there since my save file got corrupted).
The reason I stopped playing Pokemon Crater was that it's too boring to play and unstable (it keeps crashing and not loading the site). I remember that the site went down and we all moved to Pokenon Deluge. I also stopped playing the game since Pokemon Black and White came out and I played a ton on DesMuMe DS Emulator with the anti-piracy measures of course (Pokemon unable to level up).
man, such great memories. Yeah it’s safe to say that the site ran awfully slow / laggy, but the contents of the game itself are some things I’ll never forget
I remember playing this game with some of my friends in middle school. I just happened to think about it the other day. I think we only played for a few weeks before it got shut down or we lost interest, I can't remember exactly
Forgot about this. Played it for a bit in 2006. Before I knew about emulators
I played something similar in the late 00s early 10s called Pokémon Lake!
This game was so fireeeeeeeeee. Me and my cousin spent an entire summer playing this. We would stay up days trading and battling to reach the top of the ladder.
even more memories are smacking me in the face reading all of these comments, what a good era
I played both this and one called Pokemon Creed hardcore when I was a kid. Absolutely loved those games
there was something intangible about their greatness imo
Believe it or not Pokémon creed is still around 😅
Wow, I haven't thought about this game in YEARS!!
I was unfortunately one of those people that never knew about pokemon Crater.
Funny how I was trying to remember the name of this game just yesterday. I honestly didn't get into it, never been an mmo person really. I do remember finding a square that spawned shiny eevees and that was cool!
this brings a lot of memories. this is what kids play when they got bored with CS, dota, or vice city. consoles and PCs are crazy expensive, so kids resort to internet cafes, the place where kids sit next to each other while playing. i remember choosing the baker avatar because i dont see it very often.
@@meowlink7673 the character selection was 🤌🤌 because it really felt like the options were limitless
I loved pokemon crater! Used to play it on the classroom computer all the time
I remember before going to see "Yu-Gi-Oh the movie the prymaid of light" in theaters finding and catching a wild mew
I used to play this when I was a kid. Played it on my old XP and it took like 3-5 mins just to move 1 tile 😭
No.
I have been playing pokemon gen 1-3 over and over again since day 1...since release and was never bored once...
Generally speaking i do pöay many "older" games and do play them over and over without getting bored...something fun can never be boring...at least for me.
Thank you for reminding me about this- I remembered this a couple years ago but couldn't remember the name.
If you want the nostalgia of Crater then you can always play Pokemon Vortex. It's heavily updated but based on the same feel as Crater! I've spent hours on both.
No such thing as emulators made me chuckle
I remember playing this in the the computer from my school back in 2012 I think, I never knew the name of this Pokémon game, it's so nostalgic
now you know, my friend
I totally forgot about it.. this was indeed insane!
I played Pokemon Crater at my local library I wanna say....... 2008 or so? This was when I was still in elementary and now I'm near 27... Damn...
it's like you blink and then are 20 years older