there's an even more simple explanation to all of this. The whole house isn't shown. Just because you enter from a door and come out of another doesn't necessarily mean they're directly connected. The game simply skips the unnecessary rooms and lets you enter the relevant ones (the ones with people on them). All the extra NPCs in pallet town might as well all have their own rooms in Oak's lab but we don't see those rooms because they're empty and therefore irrelevant.
I think that the rooms you can visit are the rooms you're ALLOWED to visit. You can be in your room all you want. You're allowed to visit your friend's room. There are some rooms you are given explicit permission to be in. However, the reverse is also true. How often do you visit your parents' room? Or your friend's parents' room? How often would you let random strangers into your bedroom? The most you would allow a stranger to visit is the room connected to the front door. Then there are public places. You can visit them all you want but no apartment complex would let you walk into private rooms. Lobbies? Sure, but nothing private. You can also visit some abandoned buildings, depending on their accessibility. The only places you break into are the villain's bases. Those teams are trying to destroy/concur the world, so breaking and entering in order to stop them is the lesser of two evils. And may even be morally permissable. With that said, the rooms you can visit are the rooms you're ALLOWED to visit. Whether it's through permission, common courtesy or some other reason.
Wait, remember the poster on the wall at the Celedon game corner joint? I think there was a switch behind it. And it may reveal a staircase. Maybe that's how alot of things work in the pkmn game world. So what if mom really does have a room downstairs in the basement? Idk. But team rocket and silph co. are probably the only ones who have access to that type of "technology".... And ppl accuse the rival of being related to team rocket... And It is possible that Giovanni is actually really a good guy at heart. He coulda had team rocket install all kinds of crazy shit for ppl's homes. Ya never know
Why would you go into other people's bedrooms? Don't you know it's a holy sanctum for them? It's just indecent to walk into other people's privacy, it's bad enough the player already walk into random houses. Also the early Pokemon games were based on Japan where (at least in anime) it's common to use a futon.
ProtoMario Their rooms could be places off to the side and you're not able to see them because you aren't allowed to enter and the player can't see a door from his/her perspective. And again in some anime characters just take out a futon and sleep i the living room.
Eddie Walls Futons are normally tugged away when they aren't in use. And who is to say that there isn't any rooms to the right and left of the players view and are just not allowed to enter those rooms.
The NPCs keep folding beds/sleeping bags/whatever under their tables, on their shelves. The doorless houses have doors facing away from the camera and make up living spaces and facilities
+FirestarJ Perhaps there's even a secret entry to Gary's room in his closet, which would explain why you can't get to Gary's room despite his house clearly being a 2 storey building, infact maybe all of them have a secret residence, or perhaps they live on a cruise ship, or have an agreement with the government for when it should give them a place to stay or whatnot. Or maybe they outright live in the wild, kinda like all adventurers
I always thought in the Pokemon world they have bags which are works like pokeballs but you can put anything in them not just pokemons this is why you can put multiple items, bicycle, fishing rod and other stuff to your small bag easily so at day time they just put their beds into those (Pokebags) to have more space in the house. This is also explain why Brock can have so many cooking tools with him in the anime.
Red's Mom has a room, it was not coded into the game because they knew they didn't want you, the MC, entering an adult's room at the age of 10. Just think what you might find in her sock drawer. lol. Then again, you could also be frozen in time in a pocket dimension. Sorta like the time-stop field from the Artemis Fowl series but natural and global.
I just had the idea where you walk up the stairs it doesn't show the full stair case. There could be a branch off where it takes you to a different room. But maybe red or silver or whoever your playing as doesn't see the need or isn't allowed there.
Well Proto, this is one of those theories where you have to have in mind Japan to get a reasonable answer. When I was a kid I too wondered where does the mom sleeps, but as I grew up, the explanation I came to was that you mom sleeps on a futon in the kitchen/living room (moves the table aside and lays the futon). This fits with the fact that there are living settlements in Japan that are basically a bedroom with a kitchenette and nothing more (searching "Housing in Japan" on wikipedia gives you more insight into this topic). EDITED: Because of typos
it could be that there was not enough room on the cartridges to put extra rooms/buildings in the game. Also, there is also the thought of privacy for people (or as much as people can get in rpgs), so they make their rooms inaccessible for that reason. And there is possible developer oversight that could have happened... And for Prof. Oak's Aides, they could be bunking at the lab
I am not sure how it is in Japan, but in other parts of Asia, offices will often have a few beds for employees to stay over, or some may even live there. Perhaps the beds in Silph Co. was based on this.
In regards to beds, I'd like to point out the decorations module on the player's PC, which can be used to remove the bed (somehow.) This may be what everyone else does with their beds in order to save room. As regards to missing rooms, I draw your attention to the 2nd Gen games (Go/Si/Cr.) Recall the town with the shiny Gyrados (at silver lake I think) and the house you and Lance storm. You end up finding a secret entrance to where the Magikarp-evolving radio signal is being sent from by Team Rocket, whom you promptly (or not so promptly) dispatch of. Team Rocket hid an entire lair under a shop: Is it not plausible that others can make hidden rooms in their houses or other buildings i.e. labs? Parents and adults hide things from children all the time. If children today had Pokemon in their control, adults would have to go to much greater lengths to hide things, such as entire rooms. Why? The Pokemon world is full of curious people/children who enjoy venturing into any random home or unlocked building they wish (and may be armed with dangerous and powerful Pokemon.) I for one enjoy having some measure of privacy and security, and I imagine adults in the Pokemon world feel the same way. But hey, that's just a theory. A Pokemon theory!
maybe if you support the "pokemon is a recalling of a persons life" theory, that would explain how it all works, because the player only remebers their room, the houses they went to, and the beds they slept in, thatd also explain why towns are so small and routs are so short, compaired to the anime.
The Copycat in Saffron City has a bed in her room too. And I'm pretty sure all of the dorm rooms on the SS Anne also had beds in them. And a few in Cinnabar Mansion
Well, for the houses that are two stories, they probably have a hidden staircase to get upstairs. The player probably doesn't see it because they don't look up.
Very simple explanation: there's a whole lot more that is not shown in the actual game. Like in blues house, it's two floors yet the game only shows one room-obviously there are more rooms such as blue and the lady that also lives there. In the anime oaks lab is pretty large but in the game it only shows the main room- obviously it's a lot larger than that.
Note that the Gen 1 and Gen 3 games do not have a day/night cycle (save for the Hoenn remakes) so it's assumed that Red completed his adventure in one continuous day. But when it comes to games that visually show the passing of time I noticed that no one sleeps. Not even NPCs. I guess sleep is just not a requirement for humans in that world, but rather a pastime. I used to assume that the playable character's mother sleeps on the table.
It's a game, theory couldn't be bothered to add beds, is the cold hard truth. So let's see what Proto's fun theory explanation for this is? Also, to all those mentioning sleeping on the floor or using futons, (ugh I'm also going to have to reference the anime), in the anime they have actual beds, even in Pokemon Centers. Considering the anime was initially made for a Japanese audience and uses Japanese conventions, it's still uses beds fairly often. Heck, thinking about it, a lot of anime do beds instead of Futons. Maybe they are being optimistic in anime and the characters are somehow able to afford the space/money for actual beds. Living in Japan is expensive so I'd understand if someone was sleeping on the floor.
+ProtoMario I got a question, what happen to all your viewers? They've just disappeared! I've been watching all your pokemon theory for a long time, when u still have around 200k views on your theorys.
Yes that's a good idea because everyone says Gary cheated with because he had 10 badges but in Kanto there is only 8 gym but in the anime Ash is went to a place where if he would pass some test he would get a badge which is enough to go to the Pokemon league so that one badge is equal to 8 gym badge maybe Gary had some badge which he get from different places not from gyms.
+mognár csaba That episode set in Dark City where two gyms are in competition to become city's officiall gym but is shotwdown by the League due to not playing dirty on eachother implies there's more gyms in Kanto than have been shown, but that you only need to beat 8 of them to meet the minimum quota of badges to compete in the tournament. Kinda like having a school test; you don't need to answer all questions (atleast not correctly) to pass.
I was questioning that when I started playing pokemon also..... I was so confused. I remember watching the show and the movies and there were only a few beds in a house or they slept on the ground. I like your theory on this subject but I think that for game reasons, adding a bunch of rooms and beds would just take up too much space, especially in the old versions of the game so they just left them out. Great video BTW
to be honest, I'm thinking they might've had more beds, but maybe space limitations? that or they just didn't think of it or were just screwing with your minds for 5 generations just to goof around and find out what you concluded
Japanese style futons. It's apparently common in Japan, specifically in individuals who live in small apartments but not exclusively, for people to sleep on Japanese-style futons in the main living area, then roll them up during the day so people can use that area for other purposes. If we assume that Kanto&Johto=Japan, then it would make sense to not see beds in some areas, as they are rolled up and put out of the way somewhere.
@protomario i always figured the houses had other rooms but you cant get to them cause you dont need to. like what would b the point if every house you went to had 3 or 4 doors and when you walk in the room its just a bed and an empty trash can...
What if reality in the pokemon universe is subjective to the memories of the protagonist, a ten year old kid. Everything exists the way he sees or remembers it. He wouldn't be concerned with living arrangements for the others. Example, What if the beds at Silph Co. aren't real, but symbolize a place rest.
I think the the area that you see is the the only area you can enter, it would be time consuming to code useless areas of the game so you don't go in your rivals room however it's still there. Also for the rest of the people in palet town there houses could be we're the border trees are however it would be useless to code empty houses
I thought about this long ago then I remembered "Shit Kanto exists in real life, in fucking Japan" which means they have futons. The beds in Silph Co is a nurse room, which is why there's a nurse there.
Maybe the players mom does have a room upstairs, but we just don't see it. I mean when I want to go get some glass of water from the kitchen that's downstairs, then I just go downstairs. I don't go snoop around my mom's room first. So chances are that your mom does actually have a room upstairs, but the player never goes in there because there's no need to. And this would also explain why you can't go to Gary's room in his house. You're not allowed in there so the player character just ignores the stairs. Or maybe it's one of those stairs that are hidden in the roof and you have to pull a rope to bring them down. One of the two. And this could go with many other buildings as well. Like maybe there are bedrooms and toilets and what not in Oak's lab, but the player never enters them. And the same goes for the houses of regular NPC's. But those are just my thoughts.
Well you see in japan people mostly sleep on futons a roll up cot or mattress that shows maturity. Japanese people only take them out when they are prepared to go to sleep, they keep em in they're closets
Maybe people tell you "sure you can enter my home, but you can't go into my bedroom or insert other room" which would also explain the buildings without doors they're people with doors in the back who don't want some random kid to enter their home
Isn't it weired, that taking a "quick nap" fully heals your pokemon? Pokemon don't heal over time in their balls, even if you stand perfectly still for a long time, but if the trainer sleeps they even revive?! My theory is, the pokemons health has some kind of connection to their trainers mental health, but5 I don't know how that would be possible... Would you care to think about this topic and give us a bit of insight about this, Protomario? (maybe it'll even be worth a video...?)
Mom probably has what's called a "Murphy bed". It's a bed that folds down from the wall. She pulls it down every night, then tucks it back up in the morning.
As you said that both the player and the rival's house are two story, yet the second story of the rival's house is unseen, it could be possible that there was a hallway in the corner of the first story or something that simply couldn't be seen from the perspective of the player (from above). Maybe there was a staircase in that hallway that leads upstairs to the bedrooms or perhaps to more rooms on the ground floor. Also, perhaps in the player's house, maybe they actually live in an attic bedroom, and the stairs down go to both the second and ground floor and the player simply has no reason to stop on the second story to see their mother's room
I have a question that's been bugging me. Why would you need to go on a Pokemon Journey a pokedex that is Prestored with information about the Pokemon? I thought the point was to go out and find about NEW information about it. Why would you need to go fill up the dex if there was already someone who did that?
Dude, I need you to finish this lack of extra houses thing. For all the theories about your mom's bed, I've never heard anybody even point out that the other NPC's don't have beds, let alone houses!! Very good job, sir!
In Japan, people's houses are usually very small. For example, in some cases, an entire apartment for a FAMILY of FOUR can be as little as 20 ft^2. They usually have fold-out beds that they sleep on, along with their kitchen, cabinets, closets, etc. all being fold-out things. Maybe that's where they sleep. Maybe Red's mom has a fold-out bed downstairs on the left or right wall? Maybe Blue, his sister, and Oak have a fold-out staircase, leading to a room which they share? I think other NPC's might have their own apartments in each town, but underground. Just my thoughts.
well maybe it's all just a memory, and you can't remember every little detail. You just remember some important stuff, and some random stuff that just stuck with you.
some theories:1: Red's mom sleeps on the bed and there is a pull out cot. Same with Blue's house and oak's lab.2: During the "great pokemon war", there was a demand for metal and wood. as a result there wasn't much left to build certain things.3: Red's house is three floors. When you go up the stairs the skip the second floor where his mom's room is.4: Oak is scientist. maybe behind the bookshelves are hidden doors with stairs5: Its a game!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's take common Japanese practice. Very rarely do people in Japan have beds as us westerners would consider. Most often the commoners of Japan use cots or futon, and I say commoners as Japan has a very big class system. As for the beds in Silph. CO. that's another weird aspect of Japanese culture. Sleeping in the office is encouraged to them, the Japanese people, is a sign that whomever is sleeping has worked so hard that they are no longer able to stay awake. Those beds are reserved for the companies hardest workers.
I'm guessing that in Red/Blue, the building where Prof. Oak's lab is located is a complex of multiple rooms. The game only sends you to Oak's lab because that's the only room that's necessary to enter.
Video game logic, you are only permitted into certain locations. As shown in both the Anime and the manga of Pokemon, there are other beds, but you can't get into the rooms that have them. Why, more rooms take up more memory of the cartridge. Also the same logic can be applied to the town's sizes, space limitation.
Simple: Your mother sleeps on the floor! It's not as undignified as say, getting thrown around by air cannons, or having to deal with superpowered animals every day. But, if she has a Snorlax, she can definitely curl up to its big, fluffy body, or keep herself warm on a bed of Darumaka poop.
Going back to the other people in pallet town, I understand the people outside, but Oaks aides could live somewhere else, and they travel to Oaks lab to work for the day. After the day, they go home to their respective towns or cities.
+ColonelGenius . There doesn't seem to be any "somewhere else" nearby though, at least not anything that can be classified as their own home. But perhaps you're right if they have a Pokémon that can use fly
Professor Oaks aids live in Professor Oak's laboratory as you can see it's a way bigger building and the other ones so it has to be a two-story building. But I see what you're saying I see your point
the upper floor of gary's house might use a ladder system that allows for it to blend in with the ceiling and as the games are isometric view it means they are out of vief for the player/visitor
4:10 I thought of an idea - In the game the only time pokemon sleep is when they are affected by a status condition - perhaps sleep in the games is OPTIONAL - you CAN sleep, but as long as you have enough potions/eithers to keep your pokemon healthy you can go on for fourty hours unend without feeling fatigue. Sleep is only there to full restore your team because rest removes ALL status conditions - which would also explain why when you do sleep you are in there for a phisical 10 seconds or so then gone - if you only need to sleep 10 seconds a week then a whole town only really needs one bed
And why is it that if the pokemon game does keep time when you wake up it is almost always the same conditions as when you fell alseep? - if you were actually asleep and passing time shouldn't it be morning when you wake up?
All the bedrooms are in hidden rooms or behind the hidden book cases, either that or "Red" the main Character in the Pokemon games, AKA Ash, is asleep and the games are all just apart of his dream.
Maybe it's because they sleep on the floor? A lot of people in Japanese culture do. And also professor Oaks aids are constantly traveling. Those three aids(lol) could easily just be visiting for supplies or giving an update to professor Oak.
To me, there are a number of explanations. 1. There are just rooms that are unimportant and inaccessible to the player. 2. Many people in Japan sleep on these floor mattresses that can be rolled up
good point, we never see enough beds or houses to cover everybody in the pokemon games, we never see any bathrooms, we never see any showers....maybe pokemon people are just gross, like maybe most of them sleep in caves and just use the bathroom wherever they want, ya know bathe in rivers if they bathe at all.
I feel like the can live without sleep but they can't frequently do this at one point they do need sleep and they can probably get rest at the day care center while you healing your pokemon
mom sleeps in a futon on the first floor, there is a staircase hidden behind a bookshelf in the rivals room leading to the bedroom, the aides and Prof. Oak sleep in the lab and the two people outside...homeless problem?
The aids might live in different towns and travel to pallet for work, but yes that doesn't explain your house or blue's house, and where are the stairs in Blue's house, its a 2 story yet there are no stairs to the top floor
Pokemon G/S was my first game. I was about 6. I used to get really freaked out at night time because there were people outside. They NEVER went inside and they had no houses for them. I just assumed they were homeless tbh. But the beds thing is a completely different story.
Four ideas. They either live on cruise ships(some people actually really do that IRL), or they have a secret entry to their place of residence, which would explain why you can't get to the second storey in Gary's house. Another idea is that perhaps whenever they need something, they call the government to take care of them, perhaps they even already have an agreed arrangement with the government that they always follow rather than calling them every time over the same thing. It could also be that many of them are just plain homeless, kinda like all Pokémon adventurers, perhaps some people just choose to live on the wild and just walk around all the time
The answer is simple those details(everyone's beds/living quarters) are irrelevant to your character and the story so is no reason to waste data/resources in the game on then
Unnecessary houses/beds for NPC's are unnecessary.
I concur
That ruins the fun of theories.
there's an even more simple explanation to all of this. The whole house isn't shown. Just because you enter from a door and come out of another doesn't necessarily mean they're directly connected. The game simply skips the unnecessary rooms and lets you enter the relevant ones (the ones with people on them). All the extra NPCs in pallet town might as well all have their own rooms in Oak's lab but we don't see those rooms because they're empty and therefore irrelevant.
next episode: where are the bathrooms?
+Nathan 2.0 "kids come on, we're traveling across the world to go to the bathroom"
+geebeepman He already made a theory about whether people in the Pokemon Universe need to use a bathroom.
+geebeepman Trubbish and Garbodor
@@holynovaentertainment5007 well, they don't eat or drink anything most of the time. . .
I think that the rooms you can visit are the rooms you're ALLOWED to visit. You can be in your room all you want. You're allowed to visit your friend's room. There are some rooms you are given explicit permission to be in. However, the reverse is also true. How often do you visit your parents' room? Or your friend's parents' room? How often would you let random strangers into your bedroom? The most you would allow a stranger to visit is the room connected to the front door. Then there are public places. You can visit them all you want but no apartment complex would let you walk into private rooms. Lobbies? Sure, but nothing private. You can also visit some abandoned buildings, depending on their accessibility. The only places you break into are the villain's bases. Those teams are trying to destroy/concur the world, so breaking and entering in order to stop them is the lesser of two evils. And may even be morally permissable. With that said, the rooms you can visit are the rooms you're ALLOWED to visit. Whether it's through permission, common courtesy or some other reason.
They just haven't found enough Mareep wool yet to make beds....
Wait, remember the poster on the wall at the Celedon game corner joint? I think there was a switch behind it. And it may reveal a staircase. Maybe that's how alot of things work in the pkmn game world. So what if mom really does have a room downstairs in the basement? Idk. But team rocket and silph co. are probably the only ones who have access to that type of "technology".... And ppl accuse the rival of being related to team rocket... And It is possible that Giovanni is actually really a good guy at heart. He coulda had team rocket install all kinds of crazy shit for ppl's homes. Ya never know
+Toxiking Kanto That's a good idea, but that would imply everyone can afford that.
+ProtoMario They can get pokemon to make it for them.
Sozin Uhm... I think that is more mechanical.
I would call it carpentry more then mechanical.
+ProtoMario They all sleep in the bed of the main character because it's just like that
Well... In Lilycove city there are 6 houses for... 65 people xD
Why would you go into other people's bedrooms? Don't you know it's a holy sanctum for them? It's just indecent to walk into other people's privacy, it's bad enough the player already walk into random houses. Also the early Pokemon games were based on Japan where (at least in anime) it's common to use a futon.
+Jutland Angel There is NO other room, it doesn't exist.
ProtoMario Their rooms could be places off to the side and you're not able to see them because you aren't allowed to enter and the player can't see a door from his/her perspective. And again in some anime characters just take out a futon and sleep i the living room.
Eddie Walls Futons are normally tugged away when they aren't in use. And who is to say that there isn't any rooms to the right and left of the players view and are just not allowed to enter those rooms.
The NPCs keep folding beds/sleeping bags/whatever under their tables, on their shelves. The doorless houses have doors facing away from the camera and make up living spaces and facilities
well they could use futons and they're just put away and your just that one kid in Japan that has a bed
+Alex Delgado there are no baths either
+Nihil Dwo . Cause they go to an onsen instead, kinda like that Blaine episode
+Alex Delgado Or those tatami mat bed's they have in Japan. Just fold up and put in the closet..
+FirestarJ
Perhaps there's even a secret entry to Gary's room in his closet, which would explain why you can't get to Gary's room despite his house clearly being a 2 storey building, infact maybe all of them have a secret residence, or perhaps they live on a cruise ship, or have an agreement with the government for when it should give them a place to stay or whatnot. Or maybe they outright live in the wild, kinda like all adventurers
+Nihil Dwo there is a river just south of town that they could bathe in
I always thought in the Pokemon world they have bags which are works like pokeballs but you can put anything in them not just pokemons this is why you can put multiple items, bicycle, fishing rod and other stuff to your small bag easily so at day time they just put their beds into those (Pokebags) to have more space in the house. This is also explain why Brock can have so many cooking tools with him in the anime.
+mognár csaba . Perhaps their bag has something that works like a capsule from DBZ, and thus they can even store their own mini-house in their bag
like minecraft xD
Red's Mom has a room, it was not coded into the game because they knew they didn't want you, the MC, entering an adult's room at the age of 10. Just think what you might find in her sock drawer. lol.
Then again, you could also be frozen in time in a pocket dimension. Sorta like the time-stop field from the Artemis Fowl series but natural and global.
I just had the idea where you walk up the stairs it doesn't show the full stair case. There could be a branch off where it takes you to a different room. But maybe red or silver or whoever your playing as doesn't see the need or isn't allowed there.
The locked rooms theory of it.
The bedrooms would be behind locked doors. The cities were also "minimized" to the essentials.
Well Proto, this is one of those theories where you have to have in mind Japan to get a reasonable answer. When I was a kid I too wondered where does the mom sleeps, but as I grew up, the explanation I came to was that you mom sleeps on a futon in the kitchen/living room (moves the table aside and lays the futon). This fits with the fact that there are living settlements in Japan that are basically a bedroom with a kitchenette and nothing more (searching "Housing in Japan" on wikipedia gives you more insight into this topic).
EDITED: Because of typos
have you allready researched my suggested theory? :D btw nice spontanious theory!
it could be that there was not enough room on the cartridges to put extra rooms/buildings in the game. Also, there is also the thought of privacy for people (or as much as people can get in rpgs), so they make their rooms inaccessible for that reason. And there is possible developer oversight that could have happened...
And for Prof. Oak's Aides, they could be bunking at the lab
A better question is where are the bathrooms?
+ReredruM They just didn't have enough memory to include useless rooms. lol
+ReredruM he made a theory on this already i think
+Nathan 2.0 It took six generations but we now have toilets in pokemon👍🏻
My theory is that in everyone's house, there are hidden doors in the bookshelves/on the wall, and thats where they sleep!
I am not sure how it is in Japan, but in other parts of Asia, offices will often have a few beds for employees to stay over, or some may even live there. Perhaps the beds in Silph Co. was based on this.
In regards to beds, I'd like to point out the decorations module on the player's PC, which can be used to remove the bed (somehow.) This may be what everyone else does with their beds in order to save room.
As regards to missing rooms, I draw your attention to the 2nd Gen games (Go/Si/Cr.) Recall the town with the shiny Gyrados (at silver lake I think) and the house you and Lance storm. You end up finding a secret entrance to where the Magikarp-evolving radio signal is being sent from by Team Rocket, whom you promptly (or not so promptly) dispatch of. Team Rocket hid an entire lair under a shop: Is it not plausible that others can make hidden rooms in their houses or other buildings i.e. labs? Parents and adults hide things from children all the time. If children today had Pokemon in their control, adults would have to go to much greater lengths to hide things, such as entire rooms. Why? The Pokemon world is full of curious people/children who enjoy venturing into any random home or unlocked building they wish (and may be armed with dangerous and powerful Pokemon.) I for one enjoy having some measure of privacy and security, and I imagine adults in the Pokemon world feel the same way.
But hey, that's just a theory. A Pokemon theory!
maybe if you support the "pokemon is a recalling of a persons life" theory, that would explain how it all works, because the player only remebers their room, the houses they went to, and the beds they slept in, thatd also explain why towns are so small and routs are so short, compaired to the anime.
The Copycat in Saffron City has a bed in her room too. And I'm pretty sure all of the dorm rooms on the SS Anne also had beds in them. And a few in Cinnabar Mansion
Well, for the houses that are two stories, they probably have a hidden staircase to get upstairs. The player probably doesn't see it because they don't look up.
The title of the video, "Where Are The BEDS" May just be the best video title I've ever heard.
Very simple explanation: there's a whole lot more that is not shown in the actual game. Like in blues house, it's two floors yet the game only shows one room-obviously there are more rooms such as blue and the lady that also lives there. In the anime oaks lab is pretty large but in the game it only shows the main room- obviously it's a lot larger than that.
Note that the Gen 1 and Gen 3 games do not have a day/night cycle (save for the Hoenn remakes) so it's assumed that Red completed his adventure in one continuous day. But when it comes to games that visually show the passing of time I noticed that no one sleeps. Not even NPCs. I guess sleep is just not a requirement for humans in that world, but rather a pastime.
I used to assume that the playable character's mother sleeps on the table.
It's a game, theory couldn't be bothered to add beds, is the cold hard truth. So let's see what Proto's fun theory explanation for this is?
Also, to all those mentioning sleeping on the floor or using futons, (ugh I'm also going to have to reference the anime), in the anime they have actual beds, even in Pokemon Centers. Considering the anime was initially made for a Japanese audience and uses Japanese conventions, it's still uses beds fairly often. Heck, thinking about it, a lot of anime do beds instead of Futons. Maybe they are being optimistic in anime and the characters are somehow able to afford the space/money for actual beds. Living in Japan is expensive so I'd understand if someone was sleeping on the floor.
+mahius19 RIGHT! what the fuck!
+ProtoMario I got a question, what happen to all your viewers? They've just disappeared! I've been watching all your pokemon theory for a long time, when u still have around 200k views on your theorys.
Eric Derp I have several explanations but honestly it's just people.
ProtoMario kk thx
+mahius19 I think they should make more beds in newer games like x n y ORAS
I'm a big fan, Proto. I've been watching your channel since 1984.
i get so excited when i see these smaller theories that seem trivial x33 i like questioning EVERYTHING lol
There's other beds, they're just not going to put in so much detail otherwise they won't have enough room for everything else. It's implied
You should make a theory about Gary's badges
Yes that's a good idea because everyone says Gary cheated with because he had 10 badges but in Kanto there is only 8 gym but in the anime Ash is went to a place where if he would pass some test he would get a badge which is enough to go to the Pokemon league so that one badge is equal to 8 gym badge maybe Gary had some badge which he get from different places not from gyms.
+mognár csaba you know the episode where Ash used Arbok, Weezing and Meowt and James had a pikachu, aivysaur and charizard.
+mognár csaba That episode set in Dark City where two gyms are in competition to become city's officiall gym but is shotwdown by the League due to not playing dirty on eachother implies there's more gyms in Kanto than have been shown, but that you only need to beat 8 of them to meet the minimum quota of badges to compete in the tournament. Kinda like having a school test; you don't need to answer all questions (atleast not correctly) to pass.
+Nintendo Video Gamer no you speak about the episode where scyther and electobuzz fight with each other
+עומרי הלוי there already is a theory for that
I was questioning that when I started playing pokemon also..... I was so confused. I remember watching the show and the movies and there were only a few beds in a house or they slept on the ground. I like your theory on this subject but I think that for game reasons, adding a bunch of rooms and beds would just take up too much space, especially in the old versions of the game so they just left them out. Great video BTW
Heck yeah! A new Pokemon theory :) great video man never thought about the beds being absent in the games.
There is clearly a secret stairway in most homes that hide the upstairs. People's beds are too precious to risk being seen and stolen! XD
when you have pokemon such as drowzee and hypno out there.. it's great not to have to sleep
to be honest, I'm thinking they might've had more beds, but maybe space limitations? that or they just didn't think of it or were just screwing with your minds for 5 generations just to goof around and find out what you concluded
Japanese style futons. It's apparently common in Japan, specifically in individuals who live in small apartments but not exclusively, for people to sleep on Japanese-style futons in the main living area, then roll them up during the day so people can use that area for other purposes. If we assume that Kanto&Johto=Japan, then it would make sense to not see beds in some areas, as they are rolled up and put out of the way somewhere.
@protomario i always figured the houses had other rooms but you cant get to them cause you dont need to. like what would b the point if every house you went to had 3 or 4 doors and when you walk in the room its just a bed and an empty trash can...
Has anyone ever thought about that maybe just maybe you cant just walk into someones house and go looking around in their bedrooms
What if reality in the pokemon universe is subjective to the memories of the protagonist, a ten year old kid. Everything exists the way he sees or remembers it. He wouldn't be concerned with living arrangements for the others. Example, What if the beds at Silph Co. aren't real, but symbolize a place rest.
I think the the area that you see is the the only area you can enter, it would be time consuming to code useless areas of the game so you don't go in your rivals room however it's still there. Also for the rest of the people in palet town there houses could be we're the border trees are however it would be useless to code empty houses
Well, if the Pokemon war was a real thing, everyone could be poor, or on the losing side of the war, so they can't afford a bed, so they bought cots.
I thought about this long ago then I remembered "Shit Kanto exists in real life, in fucking Japan" which means they have futons. The beds in Silph Co is a nurse room, which is why there's a nurse there.
Maybe the players mom does have a room upstairs, but we just don't see it. I mean when I want to go get some glass of water from the kitchen that's downstairs, then I just go downstairs. I don't go snoop around my mom's room first. So chances are that your mom does actually have a room upstairs, but the player never goes in there because there's no need to.
And this would also explain why you can't go to Gary's room in his house. You're not allowed in there so the player character just ignores the stairs. Or maybe it's one of those stairs that are hidden in the roof and you have to pull a rope to bring them down. One of the two.
And this could go with many other buildings as well. Like maybe there are bedrooms and toilets and what not in Oak's lab, but the player never enters them. And the same goes for the houses of regular NPC's.
But those are just my thoughts.
I think they just didn't put in toilets and beds bc the player character doesn't take damage so they'd be unnecessary
The house is rectangular outside but square Inside . . . too bad we can only see the wall on the back. I'm sure there's door on the side.
Well you see in japan people mostly sleep on futons a roll up cot or mattress that shows maturity. Japanese people only take them out when they are prepared to go to sleep, they keep em in they're closets
everyone sleeps in the same bed at the same time
Would it be a bit of a stretch to think the beds are in the walls and can be pulled down?
Maybe people tell you "sure you can enter my home, but you can't go into my bedroom or insert other room" which would also explain the buildings without doors they're people with doors in the back who don't want some random kid to enter their home
XSanctusMalumX but we usually enter them anyway
Maybe the aides live in a different city? As for the random people and blue, idk
Isn't it weired, that taking a "quick nap" fully heals your pokemon? Pokemon don't heal over time in their balls, even if you stand perfectly still for a long time, but if the trainer sleeps they even revive?!
My theory is, the pokemons health has some kind of connection to their trainers mental health, but5 I don't know how that would be possible...
Would you care to think about this topic and give us a bit of insight about this, Protomario? (maybe it'll even be worth a video...?)
I just assume there is a staircase on the left/right side of the walls... out of view. :P
Why is it as soon as I read the title the first thing that popped in my head was "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!"
Team Plasma and Flare has beds in their hideouts.
Proto you should do a video about Tobias!
+Tiago Resende yeah
Mom probably has what's called a "Murphy bed". It's a bed that folds down from the wall. She pulls it down every night, then tucks it back up in the morning.
As you said that both the player and the rival's house are two story, yet the second story of the rival's house is unseen, it could be possible that there was a hallway in the corner of the first story or something that simply couldn't be seen from the perspective of the player (from above). Maybe there was a staircase in that hallway that leads upstairs to the bedrooms or perhaps to more rooms on the ground floor. Also, perhaps in the player's house, maybe they actually live in an attic bedroom, and the stairs down go to both the second and ground floor and the player simply has no reason to stop on the second story to see their mother's room
Breaking news: Pokemon confirmed to be a video game, says a you tuber by the name of ProtoMario. Lol :)
I have a question that's been bugging me. Why would you need to go on a Pokemon Journey a pokedex that is Prestored with information about the Pokemon? I thought the point was to go out and find about NEW information about it. Why would you need to go fill up the dex if there was already someone who did that?
Dude, I need you to finish this lack of extra houses thing. For all the theories about your mom's bed, I've never heard anybody even point out that the other NPC's don't have beds, let alone houses!! Very good job, sir!
3 buildings don't make one town how does pallet town work
In Japan, people's houses are usually very small. For example, in some cases, an entire apartment for a FAMILY of FOUR can be as little as 20 ft^2. They usually have fold-out beds that they sleep on, along with their kitchen, cabinets, closets, etc. all being fold-out things. Maybe that's where they sleep. Maybe Red's mom has a fold-out bed downstairs on the left or right wall? Maybe Blue, his sister, and Oak have a fold-out staircase, leading to a room which they share? I think other NPC's might have their own apartments in each town, but underground. Just my thoughts.
You know they could live in Viridian City?
BUT PROTO THEY HAVE MORE THEN 2 HOUSES AND A LAB IN THE ANIME BUT PROTO THE ANIME HAS BEDS BUT PROTO PALLET TOWN IS BIGGER IN THE ANIME
well maybe it's all just a memory, and you can't remember every little detail. You just remember some important stuff, and some random stuff that just stuck with you.
some theories:1: Red's mom sleeps on the bed and there is a pull out cot. Same with Blue's house and oak's lab.2: During the "great pokemon war", there was a demand for metal and wood. as a result there wasn't much left to build certain things.3: Red's house is three floors. When you go up the stairs the skip the second floor where his mom's room is.4: Oak is scientist. maybe behind the bookshelves are hidden doors with stairs5: Its a game!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's take common Japanese practice. Very rarely do people in Japan have beds as us westerners would consider. Most often the commoners of Japan use cots or futon, and I say commoners as Japan has a very big class system.
As for the beds in Silph. CO. that's another weird aspect of Japanese culture. Sleeping in the office is encouraged to them, the Japanese people, is a sign that whomever is sleeping has worked so hard that they are no longer able to stay awake. Those beds are reserved for the companies hardest workers.
They just have an infinite sleepover and Red's mom (disturbingly) sleeps with Red. Oak's aides likely live in another city or town.
I'm guessing that in Red/Blue, the building where Prof. Oak's lab is located is a complex of multiple rooms. The game only sends you to Oak's lab because that's the only room that's necessary to enter.
3:45 was so cute! Just look at Pikachu and Togepi !
Video game logic, you are only permitted into certain locations. As shown in both the Anime and the manga of Pokemon, there are other beds, but you can't get into the rooms that have them. Why, more rooms take up more memory of the cartridge. Also the same logic can be applied to the town's sizes, space limitation.
In Japan there's this practice were people don't sleep in beds, but on these soft mats that they put away in the mourning.
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Simple: Your mother sleeps on the floor! It's not as undignified as say, getting thrown around by air cannons, or having to deal with superpowered animals every day. But, if she has a Snorlax, she can definitely curl up to its big, fluffy body, or keep herself warm on a bed of Darumaka poop.
Since they're NPC's, they don't need sleep.
Going back to the other people in pallet town, I understand the people outside, but Oaks aides could live somewhere else, and they travel to Oaks lab to work for the day. After the day, they go home to their respective towns or cities.
+ColonelGenius . There doesn't seem to be any "somewhere else" nearby though, at least not anything that can be classified as their own home. But perhaps you're right if they have a Pokémon that can use fly
Professor Oaks aids live in Professor Oak's laboratory as you can see it's a way bigger building and the other ones so it has to be a two-story building. But I see what you're saying I see your point
the upper floor of gary's house might use a ladder system that allows for it to blend in with the ceiling and as the games are isometric view it means they are out of vief for the player/visitor
Tents..... lots of tents.... everyone has a tent in that... magical backpack that you can put a bike in...
4:10 I thought of an idea - In the game the only time pokemon sleep is when they are affected by a status condition - perhaps sleep in the games is OPTIONAL - you CAN sleep, but as long as you have enough potions/eithers to keep your pokemon healthy you can go on for fourty hours unend without feeling fatigue.
Sleep is only there to full restore your team because rest removes ALL status conditions - which would also explain why when you do sleep you are in there for a phisical 10 seconds or so then gone - if you only need to sleep 10 seconds a week then a whole town only really needs one bed
And why is it that if the pokemon game does keep time when you wake up it is almost always the same conditions as when you fell alseep? - if you were actually asleep and passing time shouldn't it be morning when you wake up?
They either have secret rooms of cute, fluffy puppies and they sleep on the puppies or they just don't sleep!
It's that simple XD
All the bedrooms are in hidden rooms or behind the hidden book cases, either that or "Red" the main Character in the Pokemon games, AKA Ash, is asleep and the games are all just apart of his dream.
Maybe it's because they sleep on the floor? A lot of people in Japanese culture do. And also professor Oaks aids are constantly traveling. Those three aids(lol) could easily just be visiting for supplies or giving an update to professor Oak.
You dont need no bed
To me, there are a number of explanations. 1. There are just rooms that are unimportant and inaccessible to the player. 2. Many people in Japan sleep on these floor mattresses that can be rolled up
good point, we never see enough beds or houses to cover everybody in the pokemon games, we never see any bathrooms, we never see any showers....maybe pokemon people are just gross, like maybe most of them sleep in caves and just use the bathroom wherever they want, ya know bathe in rivers if they bathe at all.
I feel like the can live without sleep but they can't frequently do this at one point they do need sleep and they can probably get rest at the day care center while you healing your pokemon
mom sleeps in a futon on the first floor, there is a staircase hidden behind a bookshelf in the rivals room leading to the bedroom, the aides and Prof. Oak sleep in the lab and the two people outside...homeless problem?
I heard a theory that its just your characters memory and what they remember of their adventure many years later. That's why the routs are so short.
Professor Oak doesn't need sleep. He's a time lord.
The aids might live in different towns and travel to pallet for work, but yes that doesn't explain your house or blue's house, and where are the stairs in Blue's house, its a 2 story yet there are no stairs to the top floor
its like the old questions..."why doesn't Jack Bauer eat, sleep or use the bathroom?"
Pokemon G/S was my first game. I was about 6. I used to get really freaked out at night time because there were people outside. They NEVER went inside and they had no houses for them. I just assumed they were homeless tbh.
But the beds thing is a completely different story.
Four ideas. They either live on cruise ships(some people actually really do that IRL), or they have a secret entry to their place of residence, which would explain why you can't get to the second storey in Gary's house. Another idea is that perhaps whenever they need something, they call the government to take care of them, perhaps they even already have an agreed arrangement with the government that they always follow rather than calling them every time over the same thing. It could also be that many of them are just plain homeless, kinda like all Pokémon adventurers, perhaps some people just choose to live on the wild and just walk around all the time
they either pull the futon out of their closet or their couches turn into beds
well maybe there's like a closet where they pull out a mat and sleep on it at night, it happens alot in anime...
The answer is simple those details(everyone's beds/living quarters) are irrelevant to your character and the story so is no reason to waste data/resources in the game on then
Hidden rooms