hello yes I have read your comments about how psychic type weaknesses are based around common phobias, thank you very much I definitely missed that, please don't spam me with that thank you for watching
Did you know that the reason Psychic is weak to Bug is because I love you and think your videos are really well done and I appreciate your work It's true my dad works for Game Freak.
I should point out that Psychic is also weak to Ghost, which you neglected to mention. But since the only Ghost-types in the game, the Gastly line, share the same Poison-type Psychic weakness as Beedrill, I don't think it's that big a detail to miss.
we shouldnt spam you with facts but you spam us with a video made by a person who wasnt even an idea by his parents when the game was released? well played, little boy.
unfortunate that there will probably never be anything quite like that ever again. With the internet existing, kids all talking together to understand the game doesnt really work as well. information explaining every detail of the game is already out pretty early, so theres less of an air of mystery around them most of the time I dont think the internet being around now is a completely bad thing, a lot of places had kids that just didnt like pokemon or some kids just didnt have friends that got the games and they werent able to get certain pokemon because of it. the internet adds convenience because now you can trade and get pokemon from all over the world pretty easily, just ask anywhere online and someone can probably help you out. and sometimes getting a pokemon without knowing the method is a pain because it has such a low appearance rate or evolves in a weird way. so the platform did help with some issues but i still think it hurt the original design partially relying on people not knowing a ton about the game and having to discuss it with people to beat it
That it was. I cherish the memories I made of summers where I would leave the house at dawn with my brothers, pikachu edition gameboy, and binder of Pokemon cards to trade/battle with neighbor kids until sunset. Its crazy how much the Pokemon franchise has been part of my life in the background now that I think about it.
I remember interpreting “if you lose against the elite four, you have to start over” as new game start over. After a ridiculous amount of grinding while watching my Saturday morning cartoons, 6 year old me lost and was briefly mortified.
This video only has made me realize how much the commercials for the show talk about how Ash has to catch them all, despite the fact that he absolutely NEVER tries to do that.
Ok, Psychic was actually immune to Ghost in Gen 1. It was only made a weakness in Gen 2 because they needed to nerf Psychic types a bit, hence the addition of Dark as well.
For the longest time as a kid, I thought the guy guarding cerulean cave was one of those British soldiers wearing one of those tall hats. But then he moved and I realized it was just the cave opening lined up perfectly with his head line.
Big D fun fact.. Pokémon actually had almost all second generation ready but decided to save it for the next region/generation. Example, togepi came out in season 1 when it’s a 2nd generation Pokémon 🤯
"Hey, you can catch a Nidoran and have it learn Double Kick to beat Brock. That's not true." >Nidoran learns Double Kick at level 43 in R/B, 12 in Yellow "Oh."
I loved how even without the internet, stories like Pikablu and "Mew underneath the truck" still spread across the country like wildfire. That's kind of crazy and amazing if you think about it.
The internet existed. It was much different back then but that's how I found out about Pikablue. Never saw rumors about how to get it, just pictures and the name. Of course I barely knew how to use the internet when I was that young. I just knew the computer could find pokemon and power ranger pictures.
the internet was around back then; just not to the extent that it is now. It wouldn't have spread across the globe the way it did without the internet.
As for "stories made up by children", my sister wouldn't let me play Pokémon blue at some point because when the player misses the cruise the game tells you there won't be another one for a year, and my sister was waiting for it to arrive again. Eventually I got ourselves out of that, and continued the game, but I still think fondly of my sister waiting for the cruise. Only inexperienced kids would take that seriously, oh how I miss those times.
I remember crying when the SS Anne left. 🤣 I really wanted to stay on it and visit other regions and battle new trainers and Pokemon. I didn't know it would be gone forever ...
You do know if you get poison and died on the boat you can re-enter the boat so you can complete everything on the boat die by poison and keep the boat there without it ever sailing away
The kids at school told me if I got to 10,000 hours played in Yellow version the SS Anne would come back and take me to Orange Islands where I’d be able to catch a Pikablu.
Pokemon Red/Blue was one of the few RPGs that I restarted numerous times after clearing them. I at some point got ALL the Pokemon and restarted anyway. No RPG has ever got me hooked like this.
I got the gameboy, pokemon game all in one magnificent pack. I was so excited I tried opening the hard plastic with my teeth. I've been dead inside since...
No joke, when I fought Agatha of the Elite Four, she kept using Dream Eater on my Pokémon when they weren't even asleep. It made her battle incredibly easy.
You can defeat Lance's Dragonite with a Lv. 2 Weedle because it will use nothing but Barrier. You can just use Poison Sting over and over until it gets poisoned.
@drygnfyre Apparently the programming on that game must have been extremely stupid lol (using dream eater alot especially when the opponent is not even asleep is definitely friggen stupid)
"You're a kid and you went to school with other kids with Gameboys." Unless you were me as a kid who went to a private school that banned Pokemon because Pokemon was the devil. ;___;
Our school did a compromise because we were way too distracted by Pokemon. Banned during the semester. Allowed during end of semester/off time. Those off time moments were some of the most memorable moments of my childhood. Caught up on trading, fighting, using Gameshark/glitches, crazy rumors like Bill's garden......good times.
Or lived in a poor country, like me here in Argentina never playing Pokémon socially until 3 years ago, with the 3ds's internet connectivity. My first Nintendo console and it has no support in Argentina, I have my country set to Canada for online and the eShop to work.
Where I came from, you don't go to school with anything that you're not comfortable having confiscated indefinitely. And that was public school. If the teacher was nice, you'd get it back at the end of the year or if your parents came to get it. If not, it went in the trash without notification.
I remember my first time playing Red version, I managed to somehow catch a Pikachu in the wild but because my friend had Yellow Version we couldn't figure out why my Pikachu couldn't follow me oh, so I went into the settings for Pikachu and selected the release option thinking that he would follow me around, never caught another Pikachu after that, too rare. Sad moment.
Man, I was a child in the 90s, and let me tell you when the first film came out, the theatre gave out special Mew cards, burger king had all of the toys, Pokemon was literally like Beatlemania of the late 90s. It was utterly EVERYWHERE. Every teacher talked about it, every kid had a gameboy, everyone on the playground traded cards and linked up. This shit wasn't just any game, it was like a revolution. It sounds ridiculous now with smartphones and whatnot, but back then, having a gameboy color in your hand was the norm. So nostalgic.
P.S. and yes every adult HAD to say it like "PokeMANNNNN, cHiNpOkeMaaaaahn! LOL, I'm a huge anime/manga fan, and I suppose from watching the anime as a kid I learned the correct pronunciation. What other series has spawned an anime from being a video game first? It's almost always from a manga, this just shows how immensely popular this thing was.)
Man, those were the days in the late 90's (Im from 89). And my and my friends wouldn't shut up about Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and Digimon 😊 We'd play the Gameboy games, watch the shows/movies, and play cards or pogs.
I still have one or two of the Burger King toyas and the actual paper tray insert with a pictures of all the toys on it. I used to have more of them + the cards with scenes form the movie until two years ago. My ex threw me out and gave away my entire Pokemon collection from when I was 7 years old in 1999 to my 20s. I never had any friends to play with when I was younger and because my parents din't have much money I often lagged a gen behind and once I could buy my own games/consoles, they'd shut down online capability from the game I had. Now I mostly play Pokemon Showdown even though I suck at competitive play because there's always thousands of people to play with any time anywhere and I enjoy teambuilding.
Hell yeah I remember being 6 and remembering all of this, I even remember going to Walmart when Yellow came out too, and an employee told me “You know you can catch a Mankey to beat Brock in this game” crazy how that stuck with me all these years later lol
The greatest memories of my childhood were all Pokémon red related. The day I got it and a gameboy colour, Fighting and trading at school, reading the manual back to front nearly every day. What a good time.
It’s a massive cliche to say things like this, but kids these days truly will never understand what it was like to get a copy of Pokémon Red or Blue back in the day. To actually be able to put yourself in the shoes of a trainer, regardless of the botched sprites and glitchy gameplay on an unlit LCD screen, was absolute magic. I still can’t believe how far we’ve come in so little time.
@@maximumbeans9310 Ya like i was 7 when i got my gameboy color and pokemon blue and liek you said it was magic... i had a original nes with duck hunt and super mario.. going from that to pokemon was crazy, it was like your own little world, i was obsessed ive never cared about a game even close too that much after
i love the drivers casual "whatever". like, "yeah whatever i just gonna brutally genocide your entire race by crushing them in a hydraulic press whatever"
The whole segment about the early game and Brock in Red/Blue I was thinking, "Doesn't Nidoran learn Double Kick pretty early and then go on to evolve into one of the strongest and most versatile Pokemon?" Then I found they learn it at level 43, and only in Yellow did they change their learnsets to get it at level 12. I also understand they probably did this for consistency, but it's pretty obnoxious they didn't fix the obvious "Psychic is immune to Ghost instead of weak to it" error, even though it wouldn't really matter anyway since the only damaging Ghost move is Lick with base 30 power, and the only Ghost types in Gen 1 who could get STAB are high special, low attack while Ghost was based off Attack, and to top it all off the final stage was a trade evolution. Man what a fucking mess.
Yeah, I think Nidoran should've been mentioned along with Mankey for Yellow for that reason alone. Slight correction: Lick's base power was 20 back then, only adding to the hopeless situation.
They literally couldnt fix the "Psychic is immune to Ghost instead of weak to it" error, because you can battle as Red/Blue VS Yellow and you would abviously run into an inconsistency there.
Wow, I did not know this. I am so used to playing the yellow version that I never considered that was why the early game was so hard in RB, even though Blue was my first game.
@@KingKlonoa He's just talking about competitive. Both Rhydon and Golem are used as checks for Zapdos who would otherwise be extremely potent in the highest tier format that the Mews are banned, although Rhydon is still more popular and Golem really only serves the niche of exploding and being a fairly negligible amount faster. As for casual play, let's just say the fact Golem was a trade evolution didn't help its popularity.
@@EvilApple567 They are also used to check Tauros, the best Pokemon in the competitive of gen 1, with the exception of Mew and Mewtwo, due to his great Attack, Special and Speed, access to the best moves in game Body Slam, Earthquake, Rock Slide, Blizzard and Hyper Beam and the way that critical hit work in gen 1
literally no trainer in the game uses a golem, I think is what he meant wait, no, he did mean competitive. tbf you needed to trade for golem and rhydon was the same thing just easier to obtain
I’ll never forget- I was about 5 years old and my mom would always drag me along to go to garage/yard sales and I would be upset the whole time and wait in the car. She would come to the car if she found something she thought I would like and ask if I wanted it. One day we went to a sale and she came up to me with Pokémon yellow in her hand. We had a game boy at home that belonged to my dad but I would use it to play Tetris. When she showed me Pokémon yellow I said no, I don’t want it. She said it’s only 25 cents, are you sure you don’t want it? I said no, I don’t want it I want to go home. She ended up getting the game for me anyways, and I’ll forever be grateful to her for that. It became my favorite game of all time, I always played it on the bus on the way to 1st grade.
"Simply brute forcing Onix with a Pikachu isnt going to get you anywhere" 8 yr old me, an intellectual: levels up pikachu to level 21 when it learns slam and slam the shit outta Onix cuz he doesnt know type weaknesses yet
After watching his explanation of why you're screwed when picking Charmander, it suddenly makes so much sense why I had issues with an overleveled Charmelion that won't obey early on.
Personally the majority of trading I did with Red and Blue were with my brothers. My mom owned the original Gameboy when it came out and when we started discovering how fun the pokemon series was, she didn't like it. She was a big Tetris fan and she wasn't able to get the console away from us. Soon she relented and got two Gameboy pockets for us to share. And we all got one cartridge each to pick. My mom got back to her Tetris and we succumbed to the pokemon addiction :)
Man, I was the only one in my class who got Red. All the other uncultured nerds got Blue. Also the school culture was the real deal. We spent hours figuring out the MissingNO trick and trying to find Mew in that truck. The lack of internet made the whole game mysterious and fascinating.
Lol Missingno was an epidemic at my school. I went to a small catholic school and legit everyone from grade 2 to 8 were talking about it. Gameboys were everywhere, what a time
Valientlink right? We're kinda lucky to have had that experience. We were pretty much the last generation to not have the internet easily available. Today you can just youtube search for all easter eggs and to figure out what's possible or just a rumor. Back then some asshole told me I could play as Luigi in Mario 64 by doing a drop kick hundreds of times in front of a mirror, and I had no way to prove him wrong, so I tried.
I vividly remember asking an older student in my secondary school back in the day about the missingno trick, I spent the rest of the school day going over it in my head. As soon as I went home I tried it and it worked. I used that trick to spam 99x rare candies and 99x master balls. It actually made my experience with Pokemon yellow easier, as I had the link cable and two gameboys.
Yes! I’m 99.9% sure the developers never intended for this subtext, but nonetheless, kingK found it, and it’s brilliant. A highlight of the video for sure.
@@denimchicken104 The developers certainly intended to illustrate the philosophical implications of the rivalry between Red and Blue, since they later conveyed it in the anime with Ash and Gary. A lot of Japanese fantasy stories revolve around ideas of appreciating the journey, and taking the long scenic route to the final destination, personal mastery. The foil to the hardworking well-rounded character is the archetype that Blue (or Azula in ATLA) represents; the prodigy that was so focused on becoming the best that they actually ended up becoming uni-dimensional characters in the end. These notions appear often in Japanese storytelling as a way to encourage wonder, imagination, patience and discipline. *Remember, Gary drove a car to each city to get his badges; Ash walked and met friends along the way.*
So here’s how Enemy Trainer AI works in R, B, and Y with some simple bullet points: - Enemy Pokemon always use super effective attacks, even when switching (Like if you are switching from Beedrill to Pidgiot your opponents golem goes from using earthquake to using rock slide, and they always choose super effective moves when possible, even if the move doesn’t deal damage, like in Beedrill v.s Lorelei’s Dewgong, it will keep using rest because it is psychic. -Your opponet isn’t limited by PP, they have infinite moves uses. - Your opponet can use any status healing item, at any point in battle, even when say, Giovanni’s dug trio is underground.
I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than that. Some trainers have "Good AI" where they always use Super effective moves like you said, but most of the trainers have Bad AI which just uses random moves.
Junior Mudkip Nope. It’s not. There is almost no difference. All that changes with weaker trainers is that the game runs a RNG calculator to determine if they WONT use a SuperEffective attack. All the end game trainers ignore this calculation designed to pretend like it has a difficulty curve. The only real change is the Pokémon themselves. I do love this game’s glitch Pokémon. They make Gen 1 worth revisiting for me.
I miss those days. I remember spending up to 12 hours after school, sometimes longer on the weekends, at like 7 years old exploring Ocarina of Time to find everything. I used to come up with my own storylines to keep me entertained. Got everything except for 2 gold skulltulas and a single heartpiece. Hundreds of hours, countless memories. Nowadays, you get stuck, Google. Oh that's where that's at.
It's not "born in the wrong generation"ing at all. Hearing all the random bullshit and not knowing everything there is to know on Day 1 was what made being on the ground for the Pokemon boom so fun.
Dakota Jones ohh man, same thing with Ocarina. My best friend would come over with his cartridge and we’d play one dungeon at a time, swap the cart and the controller, and the other would play. Shit really hit the fan when we read online (in the extremely rudimentary early internet) that you could find the triforce. We’d have sleepovers trying all the methods to obtain it lol. Incredible, incredible time to be alive. It’s reasons like this that us “boomers” miss the shit out of the 90s. The modern internet ruined a lot of great things the 90s created.
Classic! I remember doing that to get infinite rare candies. Had my team at level 50 then boosted them to 100 haha. Then I took that team to school and faced off someone who had Pokémon at 100 who actually trained them that much and I got swept hahaha.
Noble Am I misremembering or did the rare candies level them up worse than doing it properly? I seem to remember grinding making the stats better than rare candying it.
Bruh, the sense of achievement I got as an 8 year old finally getting through Rocket HQ/Silph Co and Victory Road was immense. The more I listen to you discuss the battle mechanics the more I realise just how much Red and Blue shaped my play style to the point I really, really struggle to adapt to modern competitive play. I'm still completely obsessed with type coverage over everything else.
I still remember playing this with my neighbor. He had blue and picked squirtle. I had red and chose charmander. Still remember those link cable battles....
Most people started playing gen 1 but I played gen 3 Pokémon Sapphire, playing the game reminded me a lot of my home town and since I live close to the beaches. This game made me feel all sorts of things happiness, anger, excitement, and appreciation for something of a small game like this. This game is what made up my years from 10-14. If I could do it all over again I would.
Brock's pokemon have such weak specials that even an ember from a Charmander will put a big dent into them. He'll waste a turn healing them from a burn if you get lucky enough to inflict one. Charmander will mop up in Viridian forest too, while Bulbasaur will struggle. Picking a fire type starter isn't as much of a handicap as you may think in gen1 if you ask me Edit: 151 likes. Nice.
I replayed Pokemon Red repeatedly. Brock was never really an issue. I didn't have any concern for Charmander/Charmeleon until I fought that gym trainer with the water types.
well considering i beat my first playthrough as a 9 year old with a single lvl 100 Venusaur, i think its safe to say nothing you do is really a handicap unless youre extremely bad at the game.
@@arja2317 no Mankey in Blue, but you could level up a male or female Nidoran to the point it'll learn Low Kick, which would do some considerable damage to Brock.
Man, I always get jealous when I hear about how kids would actually socialize with Pokémon, cause where I lived when I was little, nobody would do such a thing. I don't even know if anyone I knew at the time owned a Pokémon game. The closest to Pokemania here were trading with those trading cards that nobody knew how to play with, and the more recent Pokémon GO craze.
this almost made me cry. i'm not a 90s kid, i'm barely even a late 2000s kid. but these games have always been so, so special to me. i never really grew up with the original red/blue. my oldest half brother has an older millennial brother though, who gave him a gameboy which had pokemon red on it. i had never seen him play it before though. i was introduced to pokemon red/blue through the anime, pokemon origins in 2014, but then i kinda got out of the series. then the mid 2010s hit. in elementary school (about 2nd grade), my friend got me waaaay back into the series once again. we would bring our pokemon toys to school and show them off to each other at the end of the day, and me and my other friend would pretend to be pokemon and play outside (usually she'd be meowth and i'd be pikachu, trying to stop team rocket from capturing me). despite loving the original pokemon anime, i still really loved pokemon origins. it felt much more mature to me, but not too mature. so it inspired me to create my own pokemon series. i would play on the playground by myself, pretending to be a boy Pikachu (even though i'm a girl lol). i had an older brother Raichu, and an adopted little brother Pichu. me and my brothers would catch and train my own wild pokemon (no, i did not get that idea from the SFM series of Charmander training the other starter pokemon. i didn't know that existed at the time.). the story was my parents and whole village were caged by a giant overpowered Mewtwo (i got the cage idea from a literal fence being placed around a patch of grass at the school playground - i pretended that area was my village) and my parents were killed by Mewtwo eventually crushing the cage. but in that moment, i was able to save my brother Raichu, and we embarked on our own pokemon training journey together to make our parents proud. this little game/story thing i played also led to the creation of my idea that since Mewtwo was so powerful, it could fuse with other pokemon such as magmar. and thus, my very first pokemon "OC"/fusion, MewtwoMar was born! (i still think that's a cool name to this day) i would go home and make comics of this series, which i still have today. i'm actually remaking it, and i want to get it published when i'm older if possible. but past all of that, long story short, my one friend who i'd play with a lot left to go to another school. and the friend who got me back into the series...he all of a sudden grew apart from me and didn't like me anymore. i don't know why he started acting like this, but it really hurt. i didn't like him anymore either. but that didn't stop me from my pokemon obsession. i then got my own 3ds xl in Christmas of 2017, and i got my first few games - pokemon ultra moon, animal crossing new leaf, and pokemon x. i still love all those games to this day, and i'm getting a new pokemon 3ds game too. ok onto the games - when pokemon let's go eevee and pikachu came out, my best friend and i loved talking about which games we would get (i still have let's go eevee almost 6 years later lol). pokemon cards were a huge deal when i was a kid too - seriously those things would be traded all over the place and taken out at the most inappropriate times. basically if you had pokemon cards, you were one of the cool kids. this all died out at the end of elementary school in 5th grade, when covid hit. i'm almost 16 years old, going into sophomore year, getting ready to become an adult, drive a car, get a job...oh to go back to those good childhood days. everyone's glued to their phones, no one wants to hang out, everyone gets bullied for having different interests by the god awful normie "popular girls" and "jock boys" (obviously not saying all are bad but still) everyone believes every stupid stereotype about hated groups on the internet (ESPECIALLY with furries and anime fans like me...can't be either of those nowadays without getting shunned in the sandpit by those retards). making friends isn't impossible, i mean i made a really great one at the end of the year and we both love the same stuff, but it's still so hard in today's age. i really think the 2010s were the last great years to be a kid imo. i miss childhood, but childhood things like kingdom hearts, the world ends with you (nobody knows that game anymore...), sonic, and pokemon will always be there for me.
"These games are glitchy" These games are miracles of programming and the fact they run at all is a miracle. They pushed the Gameboys hardware to its limit.
Yeah, they sure did push the Gameboys hardware.... for most of the wrong reasons. It wasn't until Gen 2 that they fully and properly utilized all of that hardware could handle, only thanks to the miracle works of Satoru Iwata who came in to fix their crap the best he could. Gen 1 is a demo of how Game Freak is when it comes to developing their games on the handhelds. And the only things that showed another case of their, at times, incompetence, is during Sun and Moon. When dataminers found out they placed character models like Lillie in most if not every gosh dang room in the game for some reason.
@@byronlyons3548 keep in mind that gen 1 was developed for the OG Gameboy, while gen 2 was developed with the Gameboy Color in perspective. And yes, one can play gold and silver on the OG Gameboy, but with setbacks. Now, Crystal is a full on Gameboy Color game that wasn't hold back in order to be playable on the OG. So, one still has to take into account that the improvements of gen 2 came due to improvements in hardware.
True. I never noticed any of these glitches until I already played through the game like 5 times, and the glitches I noticed had to be told to me by outside sources, not me stumbling upon the glitch myself.
42:58 The sprites were made before the artwork, and the earliest sprites were made by Sugimori a mere 5 years prior, with a radically different art style.
"A tough, yet uncompromising, vision" In all of the videos I have watched on the channel, this is by far my favorite quote and the best one sentence summary for the ideology of the first two generations of Pokemon.
This almost brought me to tears, I remember when red and blue first hit shelves, going to school everyday talking to friends about it. Spending hours walking in a patch of grass someone said they found a Pokémon I wanted in. The 1st gen was the hardest. People fail to remember that when they came out we had no idea about strategy and type advantage then. I use to order my Pokémon by level said them out in order from lowest lvl to highest. So many memories…
I think a lot of people forget about the lack of strategizing in that time. And it was a good thing! It made Pokemon have a mystique about it, because you really were out there like Ash loving and battling with your favorite Pokemon even if they weren't the most efficient. With way less access to the internet, and less Pokemon resources on said internet, it was totally different. Plus we were all little kids, so the designs and things outside of raw numbers and strategy are what spoke to us. Really part of the magic in my opinion.
I still remember the days when I would get walked to school by my mom with my face glued to the gameboy every morning. Then spending the entire day at school thinking about and talking about pokemon. Weekends had this routine where I would watch the anime in the morning and play Red while outside with friends. The pokemania craze was so magical and always puts a smile on my face to recall.
Heya, finally got around to watching this, and it was just as excellent as I expected! You articulated what it was like to be a Gen I kid, when that was all Pokémon had ever been, and saw that even though it wasn't your childhood, the same aspects that made ME love it growing up were would eventually make YOU love it. That timeless appeal is core to the series. If I have to nitpick anything about your imagining of the time period, though, it'd probably be this, and it's something I've seen other early-20s RUclipsrs get wrong, too: It's sometimes underestimated just how widespread internet use was by the late 90's. It wasn't ubiquitous yet, but it was well on its way. At least a quarter of the kids in my fifth grade class (the year Red & Blue were released) had dial-up, and that was the same year my elementary school opened a computer lab. Even before that, we'd had computers in every classroom going back to first grade. I mean, you can see it the Pikablu image: There's a URL. The truck outside the SS Anne, the so-called "Poké Gods..." those were the sorts of mysteries kids at school were obsessed with, and they were propagated via the internet. The game's actual secrets and mysteries were much easier to decipher by just going online, or by having a friend with a modem or a strategy guide. And growing up, that was one of the reasons I was fascinated with the NES generations' experience. Before Nintendo Power, they really DIDN'T have anything like that, meaning Zelda really could be deciphered via a local community of your friends. But that wasn't so much the case by the time I was a kid. But y'know, I'm sure it was different depending on where you grew up, and my perspective here is DEFINITELY gonna be colored by the fact that my mom worked with computers since before I was born. I think we got Prodigy in, like, 1993! But yeah, this was an excellent video! Going gen-by-gen on this series is no easy feat, but charting the evolution of the series is gonna be fascinating, and I'm looking forward to the rest of 'em!
A lot of older games I owned had a hotline you could call in the game book to get hints pre-internet. So it wasn't like before gaming magazines we had nothing. Just angry parents and a large phone bill lol. I like that the different generations are like a snapshot of what the world and technology was like when they came out. Gen 1 technology is there but not widespread. Gone are the days when I lived in a city that just had big open fields or forests dotted within them and on the outskirts. Now everything is so busy and developed. Gen 1 is so nostalgic for me not just because of the games themselves but for remembering that world.
@Carter I mean that sounds like it could have been the name. It is very Nintendo-y sounding. Other game systems had it as well. I know this trend continued well into the Playstation era. Also a Millennial is anyone born from 1981 to 1996 so really I would be too. The NES came out in North America in 1985. So depending on when you were born, whether or not you have siblings, how old they are, how old your parents are, and if they had younger siblings then this makes perfect sense. Like when I was born one of my Uncles was like 13. Also the Internet exists.
@Carter @Carter jeez 2009? Well you sure got a lot of life ahead of you. I do tend to wonder if that is a small part of why older games tended not to have tutorials in them. I remember when games stopped having booklets really. Any way it is a shame a lot of kids won't get to experience that kind of thing, at least not to the same level. I still hold down and B when catching a Pokemon because I had heard that helped as a kid and there was no real way to verify it. I mean even though the internet did exist it was still very much in its infancy. Big cheat code repositories and forums weren't really there yet. I mean the game was primarily for children so even if some kids had interest it isn't like they're gonna start a message board or they're gonna have message boards. Man your first Pokemon game must have been like X and Y then. Diamond and Pearl were before you were born. Platinum is the same age as you. Black and White and the two sequels came out in 2011 and 2012. I can't imagine how these games must be from your perspective. Video games are such an amazing part of our culture. How decades apart we can have so similar and yet such different experiences.
11 months later, Josh made me go look for my RBY strategy guide that had the entire game's encounter table in it. I think for someone my age who definitely had the internet when Gen 1 was released, I was a bit too young to understand how to use it lol.
Ooooh, that has to hurt. As a child dumped into, what was to me at the time, a foreign country with a language barrier I had JUST learned to overcome, the social aspect of the Gen 1 and 2 games meant a LOT to that part of my childhood. So much that if I woke back up in the body of child me the day after my parents bought Yellow, I'd do it all over again.
Me too! I was always way more into it than other people I was friends with and I only got to complete my Pokedex once Gen 4 rolled around with the GTS and a friend who was into it like me
no one at my school ever really played those kinds of games... I grew up with Gen 5 and I didn't know a single other kid with the game. Luckily, when I got older, I did have a friend who liked pokemon, and our battles in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire were very intense.
19:40 Golem actually is quite useful in gen 1 though. Sure, he could never stand up to Alakazam, but he is cruical to hard walling physical attacking, and electric/ ghost pokemon of that generation. Like Tauros, Snorlax, Zapdos, Jolteon, and Gengar. Unlike Onix, Golem has its amazing physical attack stat to go with its amazing physical defense. As well as access to a good move pool. Like Rockslide, Earthquake, Hyper Beam, Double Edge, Body Slam, Counter, Submission, etc. But most importantly, it also had access to Explosion. Which it could use in a pinch if things got rough. So Golem actually was very very good in gen 1, he was just very situational. He had to pick his battles wisely.
Upon returning to RBY with the 3DS digital releases, i appreciated how it felt more like a game that could stand on its own whereas more recent entries feel more like streamlined entries in a series with all the difficulty ironed out.
Same lol, but it was quicker to then switch out pidgey for charmander since onix's special was low enough for ember to do decent damage despite resistance
When people talk about balance in these first games, I feel I wanna say that some pokemon like Dragonite were designed more to be bosses in the one player game, rather than for your own team. I feel there's a reason why Team Rocket grunts are very weak stat wise, and Psychics aren't meant to be balanced... they're meant to be the strongest (and are said to be the strongest a lot in the anime). Obviously that has changed now but I feel having some pokemon just be the best was intentional.
Melba Peach: But also Bugs have a simple brain structure. Psychics cant manipulate their emotions or predict what they do next because bugs minds are too basic.
I remember a class mate bragging about how you clone Pokemons in Red/Blue back in the days. He kept it a tight secret, but was willing to take your cartridge overnight and the next day in school your whole team was 6 Mewtos with which you wiped the floor of every other fellow trainer on the playground.
@@SuperChachi1993 I still don't know and never cared to find out. What I last heard was that you can do some trickery when you unplug the link cable while trading during the right moment, then both trainers end up with the same Pokemon. I'm sure nowadays there's a guide to that cloning somewhere.
yeah its called game genie. We used to do that shit all the time, that was technically the only way to get Mew before it was an event but it often resulted in your game file just randomly deleting. That day when i turned my gameboy on to see the only option available was "new game"... that was a dark, dark day
there was also a ditto cloning trick but i never knew of it at the time, nor do i know how it works but ive heard of it. I think ive heard of that link cable exploit too.
The Brock Hard Wall was VERY true to my experience as a kid. I only got Red after my younger brother got his Yellow version and my parents learned that there was only one save file, so we couldn't share the game as easily. What that meant is that I obviously picked Charmander since I wanted an awesome Charizard like the one on the cover (still my favorite Charizard artwork to this day) and Brock obviously kicked my teeth in while I watched my brother sort of cruise by Brock because Nidoran learned Double Kick on Lv12 but ONLY in Yellow. I'll never forget how envious I was at that moment. Another thing I distinctly remember is how I was dreaming of catching my very own team and have a partner as tight as Pikachu in the anime. I would often daydream about things like these relating the series I currently had on my mind, but Pokemon stuck - I still remember those. Funnily enough, I actually *did* find a mon that fit the description. I ended up adoring Farfetch'd - the one you can trade for in Vermilion City. I'd always trade for that little guy and take him all the way to the Elite 4. With Farfetch'd and Charizard, I had some glaring weaknesses (I'd rarely get past Loreley) but I remember loving those two a LOT. The not so fun memories were tons of corrupted save files. We'd always play Pokemon together with the kids from next door but we had to promise to do it outside (because playing outside > playing videogames, obviously, so it was a compromise). It turns out, those cartridges don't endure heat very well. They don't take permanent damage from lying in the sun, but apparently they do lose the save data on them. I lost SO many Farfetch'd to the sun. It was always very tragic. I must have restarted the game dozens of times. Nowadays, I actually still replay Red, though by now, it's the VC version. In some ways the wonkier things about Gen1 make it really fun to me. Farfetch'd actually is useful, being the earliest learner of STAB Slash and critting with it 90% of the time. The balance issues of sleep and wrap allow pokemon like Arbok or Parasect to really shine despite their awful stats (Arbok being able to paralyze with Glare is especially evil). In a way, the mucked up balance allows mechanics to outshine stats in many cases. Sometimes, I get really in the mood for stuff like this.
Hehe, too bad. Seen some interviews and they seem to really like to focus on the theme or story they are trying to tell, not word for word as I forget exactly, but that was basically what they said. They really love the plots and being artistic or what ever it sounds like in their eyes... Kinda dismissed the open world pokemon game idea as well as other things because they dont think it will work or fit in with pokemon/ what they are going for... Even though its practically made to be an open world game if they knew what they were doing...
Completely agree, I love how there was a mystery to legendaries and they were so rare, plus very few of them. But now, they put like 8 in 1 game and hold your hand in getting them. I watched a playthrough of sword and shield and the legendary was revealed on the first route.. Excuse me, wtf? That isn't what Pokemon is supposed to be. Then again, the company heads said they wanted to make the games easier and appeal to younger and younger kids with no attention span. If a kid doesn't want to get involved with your game then that's not your target audience dumb dumbs.
@@brandonw6139 there's way more than that, Galarian variants of the bird trio, two new regis, one weird deer/king thing, a fighting bear thing with split evolution. So no not just three, more like nine and those are the ones I remember there may be more.
2:28 it still kills me to learn that, that is Drake Bell in a Pokemon Commercial and i didn't know when i was younger lol. But i damn sure loved the Amanda Show 😭🤣
27:20 I’ve been saying that for years and I’d kill to see Game freak go for a more challenging route that includes “Themed” gyms instead of Mono-Type Gyms. I’d love to see a power plant gym that uses steel and electric, or a Theater themed gym that uses Pokémon associated with performance and illusions (which could cover a huge range of Pokémon types).
Here's an idea: Mono-egg group gyms! It could help inject some variety into the traditional gym challenge, whilst also giving some small insight into breeding mechanics (because who in their right mind would guess Mareep and Tyranitar can breed?)
Have you played pokemon Uranium? Thay does that exact thing for its gyms. A theater illusion gym and a Power plant steel and lightning gym. Another one is a beach gym with ground and water based pokemon (sand and surf) Its a really good game, I'd reccomend it.
@@christopherfloody5555 Uranium is an amazing fan game. I was on the 7th or 8th gym when I stopped playing. Need to go back and finish it. Rom hacks and fan games have kind of been my go to for Pokemon as of late. Pokemon Prism and Crystal clear have been amazing.
Looking forward to Sun and Moon! And of course, the contender for best pokemon generation, the second. Just a little thing, please talk about the music of these games. They were very iconic and deserve to be noticed. Great video!
It feels weird to me how back in the day the social/trading aspect of Pokemon was way more limited compared to now, but it was also more meaningful. I went to a Christian School my whole life so not only was Pokemon banned from school, only one other kid in the class played it b/c all the other kids parents thought it was .... Blasphemous? Idk it's because it had evolution in it. (Rolls eyes). So he and i only traded a handful of times cause not living close and not being allowed to bring it to school made it hard to actually play together. I remember we traded Haunters and I cherished the Gengar I got. But now...when it's so easy to trade at any time with possibly anyone all over the world, it makes Pokemon feel just like check boxes to me now. I have about 12 Gengar sitting in my boxes in Shield and I don't feel anything close to what I did for Spooky in Red.
I remember I always used to spend hours and hours training with my charmander, because I loved Charizard, so I evolved my charmander right at the beginning, which massively helped with Brock, not so much with misty, that mess is something we don't talk about any more
Psychic types are weak to “scary” typings like bug ghost and dark, since they would cause the medium to lose concentration. Ghost not having any effect on psychic types was a result of poor programming.
All I want now is the second gen version of this video. In my opinion (heavily affected by nostalgia) those are and always will be the greatest pokemon games, especially crystal
Gen 2 expanded the world and had the passage of time. Brilliant environment, two new types, breeding, challenging Kanto gyms, fighting Red - all amazing things.
Pokemon Blue was my first and favourite Pokemon game, unforgettable. It's interesting to hear your thesis about a "social game". My experience and I believe most others' was 99 percent solitary. There was some link cable trading at recess, but by and large all my fond memories of this game involve me hunched over a glowing Gameboy Colour screen, grinding Bug Catchers to dust, getting lost on the SS Anne and praying for my Wartortle to evolve. I replayed it some years ago and got maybe 3/4 of the way through. Still a blast. As someone who isn't particularly interested in or knowledgeable about Pokemon in his adulthood, the magic was still there.
Okay... let's go. Thank you very, very much for the contextualization of the time period Pokemon Red and Blue released in. Perhaps more than any other game release short of, Super Mario Bros 3, World of Warcraft, or Halo 3, the culture around Pokemon was its most defining trait. I do feel that it WAS advertised to adults in Japan - they do love their RPG's there and it singlehandedly revived interest in the Game Boy during its downward spiral there - but you absolutely nailed the grip and effect it had on kids, and sharing that information. It's those kinds of things I love about games, that social aspect where you share your experiences to either beat or better learn from the game. With that said, I miss the kind of games Pokemon Red and Blue were; single player experiences that became social experiments. Inter-trainer battling was absolutely not the focus of the original generation, and in fact was a consideration made late into development; the trading aspect was always what Sugimori wanted to promote. Stuff like stat overflow, the psychic type's dominance, etc. wasn't really that well-considered because, well, that doesn't really matter to the narrative of the single player experience. Of course Psychic is strong, the New Game Plus Superboss you can only keep by trading, Mewtwo, is that type! Of course Dragons are busted and have very few options against them, Dragonite's supposed to be your final boss who gets wrecked if you sought out Articuno. I know that Pokemon games starting as early as Stadium focused more strongly on getting your endgame team, and made clear superstars out of mons like Alakazam and Tauros and chumps out of Flareon and Kingler's poor stat distributions, but I don't feel that was the intent of Red and Blue. You can bring your Ponyta with you, sure! It's just another, unique option that can fight against an imperfect AI! I also do disagree with the assessment of Brock. Bulbasaur does not learn a damaging grass-type move until Level 13, and it's difficult to raise Bulbasaur against the bug types compared to Charmander, who just munches 'em up. Onix, meanwhile, is a massive, beefy boy with a terrible HP stat and a mediocre Attack stat that screams 'first boss', especially with the player learning not to press their advantage with Bide. In that way, I feel like Squirtle's the odd man out; Onix isn't really that hard, he just takes a while to take down unless you have Bubble and will kill you if you go in too hard while it's biding its time. The whittling down process of both Ember and Leech Seed are pretty comparable. And then Squirtle just shows up and wins. I also really like the difficulty curve of Kanto. I don't think it's hard in a traditional way - giving enemy teams good movesets with good coverage that you don't see coming until they've hit you with it once - but in order to compensate for the amount of possible teams, it puts a lot of checks your way. Can you avoid mashing the attack button? You can beat Brock. Do you have a Pokemon that knows Fly? The routes around Fuchsia City won't be nearly as punishing with the agonizing walk to get to the Pokemon Center that'll help poison seep right in. Do you have a faster Pokemon? Erika won't be as big of a problem. Do you have Pokemon that can take a lot of hits? You won't have to rush out of Silph Co all the time to heal. Pokemon Centers are always there for younger and newer players, making it super forgiving, but the fastest route and strongest battles of attrition are won because you've added members to your team that can overcome individual obstacles, culminating with your well-balanced rival fighting you. But I think what I love most about Gen 1 is its growth. Your selection is so limited in Gen 1, often just sticking to Normal, Flying, Bug, and Poison types for a majority of the routes pre-Celadon. When something like Geodude or Drowzee or Clefairy pops up, it's a huge deal because it's so much different from what you've encountered before. It's memorable because your pool was limited, and you're going from a kid catching rats in his backyard to catching weird rapey tapirs and evil acid-spitting plants and whatever the Hell Mr. Mime is. You go into Rock Tunnel and hey, there's the first boss, just hanging out, maybe you can catch him! And after Snorlax is moved out of the way, so much of the world opens up and you have so much flexibility it's insane, because you worked with your team to get to that point. And again, this is illustrated with your rival, in a really literal way. My favorite part of Gen 1 is seeing the rival sprite change every few battles, going from a cocky kid to a rather competent teen. It's the only game where you see actual age, where the journey is implied to take a significant deal of time, where having to work around the Game Boy battery means that you probably had to turn it off and sleep and go back to school or work, so you really did grow with your character and with your Pokemon. I think that little bit is just particularly special. Also side note, don't like Yellow nearly as much. I think Mankey is super overcentralizing along with the free starters, makes it so that most teams are gonna be Pika/Primeape/Charizard/Blastoise/Venusaur/FREE SPACE (probably Snorlax). Kinda ruins the slow progression by giving you what the TV show taught you were the coolest and strongest Pokemon all in a row. I know that's not everyone's experience, but I feel it's what was encouraged, and other changes (removing Weedle from Viridian Forest especially so you don't teach the kids about the slow creeping death of poison) really do rub my the wrong way. I don't wanna decry your opinion at all; it is more than valid, more than accurate, and Gen 1 is a mess of a game held up by glue sticks and dreams. But I love them to this day, even outside of the context of the world that I played them in (though that's a big part of it and hard to separate), because they taught me how to love traditional RPG's. I don't feel that later Pokemon games really do that, very focused on the battles after the game is done and then tossing the champion a 'gotcha' team while giving the player such a huge spread of Pokemon early on that progression doesn't really exist in the same way it did before. I don't get the joy of finding a Tentacool, deciding I like it, and then working really hard in order to get it up to snuff with the rest of my team and being pleasantly surprised when he becomes a hard-working member all his own anymore. I don't realize that aw man, this Growlithe is not only new and cool, but he fits the hole in my team perfectly to help take on Erika. And that's fine, collection and flexibility are wonderful things, but it's not the elements I learned to love from these games. The series grew out of what I liked about it, and that's okay, because I'm a degenerate genwunner who can always come back to these and yell at the children for saying that Golem is bad when he's literally one of the cornerstones of RBY OU interchangeably with Rhydon because he knows Explosion and is bulky enough to almost always get it off. I'll always have these games, and thank you for giving them a chance. I look forward to seeing what elements of Pokemon you end up most valuing as you go through the generations.
Yeah this is pretty much a lot of what I wanted to say. Internet is really the biggest hurt to these games. They really bank on the player not already knowing what to do and rather discovering what to do. Discovery is a huge part of why the games are amazing and I think was factored into the balance of the game. Sure Alakazam is wicked powerful, but you needed Abra and if you didn't already know about Alakazam why bother with Abra? Gyarados is incredible but who's going to expect that from a magikarp? Of course the anime gave out hints and knowledge, all the more to draw people in. Pokemon was also one of the starters to the major multimedia franchises of late 90's early 2000's which I don't think has really been nearly as potent in the last decade. Things like Bionicle, Spiderman, and Transformers that tried to poke into every area of interest a kid could have. It made Pokemon unavoidable.
The only thing I will disagree with here is: The Bugs in Viridian Forest don't have any Bug Type Moves, they only have Tackle and Poison Sting, both are neutral to Bulbasaur, and if you only use Bulbasaur you will get to level 13 pretty easy and Vine Whip brock to death.
@@SimisearOfficial Agreed, but MAN Bulbasaur is a drag to grind due to his low attack. It's less "hard" and more a time investment compared to the other two.
This channel is an absolute gem! Comprehensive long retrospectives on so many things I am interested in! I can only compliment you for all the effort that clearly goes into building this wonderful archive of videos! Subscribed and count me in to binge a lot of your content!
I am surprised that you didn't mention the fact that since the 1st gen had no breeding, unless you had a friend that was willing to reset their game twice for you, it was almost impossible to get the other starter's dex entries.
And that seemed like such a cool thing to have all three! Some kids would have a Charizard, Venasaur, and Blastoise and I'd always think man that's guys team is so stacked, better not fight him 😂😂 Back when your starter was always your ride or die.
43:45 "I'm sure there are those who swear by the originals even with the bugs, the quirks, the imbalances..." Hi! Welcome to the Internet. You must be new here.
Gold/Silver is still my favourite generation. It has a sane world size, a sane amount of Pokémon, no feature creep, and lots of charm. My first was Blue, but Gold/Silver improved on every single aspect of it.
I’m 27, and my brother, who is 30, remember playing these games. He got red version and I got blue, I was kinda salty because I wanted red version though lol
My favorite strategy that took me 20 years to learn was to buy the Magikarp from the man at Mt Moon. Keep him in first through the cave, golden nugget bridge, rival battle and Misty's gym, have him reach lv 20 through all of that then proceed to have a 1shot hyperbeam instant killer with no cooldown turns for the rest of the game. 😎👌
@NJShell2 Garados (german) learns hyperbeam at level 45, pretty late for a game like Pokemon, but even at level 30 is Garados before the 4th badge a beast!
As someone who lived through the pokemon craze, this really brings me back. I remember spending hours of my childhood trying to find the mew in the truck, debated whether or not mewthree exisited, we played the cards, games, talked non stop about the latest episodes.... man... those were the days...
hello yes I have read your comments about how psychic type weaknesses are based around common phobias, thank you very much I definitely missed that, please don't spam me with that thank you for watching
Did you know that the reason Psychic is weak to Bug is because I love you and think your videos are really well done and I appreciate your work
It's true my dad works for Game Freak.
As a psychic person I can confirm I am weak to bugs
I should point out that Psychic is also weak to Ghost, which you neglected to mention.
But since the only Ghost-types in the game, the Gastly line, share the same Poison-type Psychic weakness as Beedrill, I don't think it's that big a detail to miss.
we shouldnt spam you with facts but you spam us with a video made by a person who wasnt even an idea by his parents when the game was released?
well played, little boy.
Andrew Furth actually a coding error made psychics IMMUNE to ghosts in Gen 1
Man, Pokémon fever in the 90s was one hell of a time to be alive.
Right you are.
Too true..
when I opened my very 1st pack of cards and got a holo Raichu......pretty incredible can't even lie.
unfortunate that there will probably never be anything quite like that ever again. With the internet existing, kids all talking together to understand the game doesnt really work as well. information explaining every detail of the game is already out pretty early, so theres less of an air of mystery around them most of the time
I dont think the internet being around now is a completely bad thing, a lot of places had kids that just didnt like pokemon or some kids just didnt have friends that got the games and they werent able to get certain pokemon because of it. the internet adds convenience because now you can trade and get pokemon from all over the world pretty easily, just ask anywhere online and someone can probably help you out. and sometimes getting a pokemon without knowing the method is a pain because it has such a low appearance rate or evolves in a weird way. so the platform did help with some issues but i still think it hurt the original design partially relying on people not knowing a ton about the game and having to discuss it with people to beat it
That it was. I cherish the memories I made of summers where I would leave the house at dawn with my brothers, pikachu edition gameboy, and binder of Pokemon cards to trade/battle with neighbor kids until sunset. Its crazy how much the Pokemon franchise has been part of my life in the background now that I think about it.
To answer your question, Psychic is weak to Bug because Psychic's weaknesses are based on three of the biggest phobias: darkness, ghosts and bugs.
I kinda got that intuitively as a kid too like psychics have the power of the mind but bugs scare the shit outta everyone throwing psychics off.
Would adding Flying for heights be too reachy? Pun intended.
Can you explain to me why is poison weak to psychic??
@@KIKAN_THE_RATWatch The Princess Bride's "battle of wits" scene, and you'll understand why.
@@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853 If anything poison should be strong against psychic
I remember interpreting “if you lose against the elite four, you have to start over” as new game start over. After a ridiculous amount of grinding while watching my Saturday morning cartoons, 6 year old me lost and was briefly mortified.
OMG that was me tooo!
Issam Halabi you made it past Silph Co. , the thirsty guards and victory road at six?
JC Not
I got destroyed by Bruno...
Issam Halabi Bruno is the easiest elite 4
JC Not
Not the easiest when my Typhlosion who single handily defeated Will & Koga is out of moves, and my backup it Lv. 24 Togetic
This video only has made me realize how much the commercials for the show talk about how Ash has to catch them all, despite the fact that he absolutely NEVER tries to do that.
In the entire og series I think he caught Like 7 or 8 lol.
@@safersephiroth943 what about 30 tauros?
@@ДаниярЖахан-д6и that’s 30 of the same Pokémon, it’s equal to catching 30 Pidgey’s. He’s talking about the amount of different Pokémon.
Actually at first ash is catching them all but stop immedietly
And unfortunately he probably won't. Say bye to ash in the anime.
"Why is psychic weak to bug?"
Psychic Pokemon are weak to Bugs, Ghosts and the Dark (Dark Types), things people are irrationally afraid of.
Or in japan, Bugs, Ghosts, and Evil.
What about fire, or water (ppl who can’t swim), or maybe even the worst of them all..... GRASS! (AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!)
Huh kinda makes sense 🤔
Because insects usually are hive minded and not easy to manipulate
Ok, Psychic was actually immune to Ghost in Gen 1. It was only made a weakness in Gen 2 because they needed to nerf Psychic types a bit, hence the addition of Dark as well.
For the longest time as a kid, I thought the guy guarding cerulean cave was one of those British soldiers wearing one of those tall hats. But then he moved and I realized it was just the cave opening lined up perfectly with his head line.
Matt Johnson same
This
Bring back way too memories thinking exactly the same.
Wow he really does I forgotten all about that guy
I thought he had a afro
Putting Ho-Oh in the first episode tells you how confident they were that Pokemon would be huge
Big D fun fact.. Pokémon actually had almost all second generation ready but decided to save it for the next region/generation.
Example, togepi came out in season 1 when it’s a 2nd generation Pokémon 🤯
Never thought of this great observation
The games were already huge, by the time that first episode aired.
Fun fact, pokemon was going to end after gen 2, but due to its huge popularity they continued
Big D if only you knew the amount of times moves like these are pulled and it doesn’t pan out.
"Hey, you can catch a Nidoran and have it learn Double Kick to beat Brock. That's not true."
>Nidoran learns Double Kick at level 43 in R/B, 12 in Yellow
"Oh."
Yeah. You won't beat Brock with that. You'll completely ANNIHILATE HIM!
How did I do it then?
Use LEER for God's sake. His pokemon are only level 14. You can use leer 3 times and destroy him
His pokemon are defensive. Destroy his defense. Even if it's not effective you can still 1 shot
You can catch a Mankey
I loved how even without the internet, stories like Pikablu and "Mew underneath the truck" still spread across the country like wildfire. That's kind of crazy and amazing if you think about it.
@D JL I lived in Germany at the time and it made its way there too.
It came to Australia
The internet existed. It was much different back then but that's how I found out about Pikablue. Never saw rumors about how to get it, just pictures and the name. Of course I barely knew how to use the internet when I was that young. I just knew the computer could find pokemon and power ranger pictures.
Indeed. These spread with the help of the internet though.
the internet was around back then; just not to the extent that it is now. It wouldn't have spread across the globe the way it did without the internet.
As for "stories made up by children", my sister wouldn't let me play Pokémon blue at some point because when the player misses the cruise the game tells you there won't be another one for a year, and my sister was waiting for it to arrive again. Eventually I got ourselves out of that, and continued the game, but I still think fondly of my sister waiting for the cruise. Only inexperienced kids would take that seriously, oh how I miss those times.
I remember crying when the SS Anne left. 🤣 I really wanted to stay on it and visit other regions and battle new trainers and Pokemon. I didn't know it would be gone forever ...
Haha I see i'm not alone. I even bought the yellow version so I could visit it again without losing my save
You do know if you get poison and died on the boat you can re-enter the boat so you can complete everything on the boat die by poison and keep the boat there without it ever sailing away
@@TeamBostonB-City interesting I didn't know that
The kids at school told me if I got to 10,000 hours played in Yellow version the SS Anne would come back and take me to Orange Islands where I’d be able to catch a Pikablu.
Despite all its obvious flaws, there will never be a game that enthralled me the way the original Pokémon games did.
Pokemon Red/Blue was one of the few RPGs that I restarted numerous times after clearing them. I at some point got ALL the Pokemon and restarted anyway. No RPG has ever got me hooked like this.
I got the gameboy, pokemon game all in one magnificent pack. I was so excited I tried opening the hard plastic with my teeth. I've been dead inside since...
Would if there is a remaking of Pokémon red and blue that changed literally nothing
I had Blue in 99 then Yellow. Gold and Silver had me hooked as much as RBY.
Kept it simple. It ended after Sapphire/Ruby Era.
No joke, when I fought Agatha of the Elite Four, she kept using Dream Eater on my Pokémon when they weren't even asleep. It made her battle incredibly easy.
Yeah, that's one way to win at the ''Agatha Lottery'', as Jrose11 often calls it. 👻🎰
You can defeat Lance's Dragonite with a Lv. 2 Weedle because it will use nothing but Barrier. You can just use Poison Sting over and over until it gets poisoned.
@drygnfyre Apparently the programming on that game must have been extremely stupid lol (using dream eater alot especially when the opponent is not even asleep is definitely friggen stupid)
"You're a kid and you went to school with other kids with Gameboys."
Unless you were me as a kid who went to a private school that banned Pokemon because Pokemon was the devil. ;___;
Our school did a compromise because we were way too distracted by Pokemon. Banned during the semester. Allowed during end of semester/off time. Those off time moments were some of the most memorable moments of my childhood. Caught up on trading, fighting, using Gameshark/glitches, crazy rumors like Bill's garden......good times.
Lemme guess... American Catholic private school?
Or lived in a poor country, like me here in Argentina never playing Pokémon socially until 3 years ago, with the 3ds's internet connectivity. My first Nintendo console and it has no support in Argentina, I have my country set to Canada for online and the eShop to work.
Welcome to the club! Catholic elementary school?
Where I came from, you don't go to school with anything that you're not comfortable having confiscated indefinitely. And that was public school. If the teacher was nice, you'd get it back at the end of the year or if your parents came to get it. If not, it went in the trash without notification.
King K: The remakes would make my video 3x as long
Someone who watched the 3 hour God of War review: pathetic
As someone who watched a 7 hour long review of pokemon omega ruby i would have loved a longer video.
@@andrian7820 ditto but he's worken hard. 45 minutes is countless hours
came to speak on behalf of the 7hr long pokemon review as wel
That 7 hour review was a work of art
@@imahoare4742 Or insanity, though the two are often together (yes I watched the entire thing).
Drake Bell was in one of the og trailers for pokemon?? Damn that's some nostalgia right there lol
Guess you never thought that life would be so simple, eh? Turns out you found a way!
seto kaiba was the voice over at the end too
@@Dayo_tv Eric Stuart also voiced Brock!
@dayo
In context you really should've recognized him as Brock rather than Kaiba.
Gen Z alert
I remember my first time playing Red version, I managed to somehow catch a Pikachu in the wild but because my friend had Yellow Version we couldn't figure out why my Pikachu couldn't follow me oh, so I went into the settings for Pikachu and selected the release option thinking that he would follow me around, never caught another Pikachu after that, too rare. Sad moment.
pikachu is only a 5% spawn in viridian forest and the encounter rate is awful, catching one was such a pain in the ass
Why did you save? 🤦🏾♂️
@@NGRevenant yea its rough. Sometimes I find him right away, other times I look for half a day lol
In blue I caught three wild pikachus
That had to have been a sad moment I fail your pain brother pikachu was ultra rare tbh red was my favorite version
*Picks Charmander *
Brock: So you have chosen death.
But Mankey?
In FRLG he can learn metal claw
Wow, well done dude.
Genwunner Green mankey
@@joshuahall9678 mankey is only in yellow I believe
Man, I was a child in the 90s, and let me tell you when the first film came out, the theatre gave out special Mew cards, burger king had all of the toys, Pokemon was literally like Beatlemania of the late 90s. It was utterly EVERYWHERE. Every teacher talked about it, every kid had a gameboy, everyone on the playground traded cards and linked up. This shit wasn't just any game, it was like a revolution. It sounds ridiculous now with smartphones and whatnot, but back then, having a gameboy color in your hand was the norm. So nostalgic.
P.S. and yes every adult HAD to say it like "PokeMANNNNN, cHiNpOkeMaaaaahn! LOL, I'm a huge anime/manga fan, and I suppose from watching the anime as a kid I learned the correct pronunciation. What other series has spawned an anime from being a video game first? It's almost always from a manga, this just shows how immensely popular this thing was.)
Man, those were the days in the late 90's (Im from 89). And my and my friends wouldn't shut up about Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and Digimon 😊 We'd play the Gameboy games, watch the shows/movies, and play cards or pogs.
I still have one or two of the Burger King toyas and the actual paper tray insert with a pictures of all the toys on it. I used to have more of them + the cards with scenes form the movie until two years ago. My ex threw me out and gave away my entire Pokemon collection from when I was 7 years old in 1999 to my 20s. I never had any friends to play with when I was younger and because my parents din't have much money I often lagged a gen behind and once I could buy my own games/consoles, they'd shut down online capability from the game I had. Now I mostly play Pokemon Showdown even though I suck at competitive play because there's always thousands of people to play with any time anywhere and I enjoy teambuilding.
Hell yeah I remember being 6 and remembering all of this, I even remember going to Walmart when Yellow came out too, and an employee told me “You know you can catch a Mankey to beat Brock in this game” crazy how that stuck with me all these years later lol
I remember when x and y came out the hype came back I was in grade 5 and everyone was trading the cards and battling during lunch
The greatest memories of my childhood were all Pokémon red related. The day I got it and a gameboy colour, Fighting and trading at school, reading the manual back to front nearly every day. What a good time.
It’s a massive cliche to say things like this, but kids these days truly will never understand what it was like to get a copy of Pokémon Red or Blue back in the day. To actually be able to put yourself in the shoes of a trainer, regardless of the botched sprites and glitchy gameplay on an unlit LCD screen, was absolute magic. I still can’t believe how far we’ve come in so little time.
@@maximumbeans9310 Ya like i was 7 when i got my gameboy color and pokemon blue and liek you said it was magic... i had a original nes with duck hunt and super mario.. going from that to pokemon was crazy, it was like your own little world, i was obsessed ive never cared about a game even close too that much after
Gosh that Red/Blue ad brings back memories...
Azukar same i miss the early 2000s
i love the drivers casual "whatever". like, "yeah whatever i just gonna brutally genocide your entire race by crushing them in a hydraulic press whatever"
I knew that ads from nostalgia critic
@@Blueflag04 I know that ads from seeing it on TV lol
The whole segment about the early game and Brock in Red/Blue I was thinking, "Doesn't Nidoran learn Double Kick pretty early and then go on to evolve into one of the strongest and most versatile Pokemon?" Then I found they learn it at level 43, and only in Yellow did they change their learnsets to get it at level 12. I also understand they probably did this for consistency, but it's pretty obnoxious they didn't fix the obvious "Psychic is immune to Ghost instead of weak to it" error, even though it wouldn't really matter anyway since the only damaging Ghost move is Lick with base 30 power, and the only Ghost types in Gen 1 who could get STAB are high special, low attack while Ghost was based off Attack, and to top it all off the final stage was a trade evolution. Man what a fucking mess.
Yeah, I think Nidoran should've been mentioned along with Mankey for Yellow for that reason alone. Slight correction: Lick's base power was 20 back then, only adding to the hopeless situation.
Not to mention that the only ghosts are poison type, aka weak to psychic.
They literally couldnt fix the "Psychic is immune to Ghost instead of weak to it" error, because you can battle as Red/Blue VS Yellow and you would abviously run into an inconsistency there.
And then, gen 2 happened.
Wow, I did not know this. I am so used to playing the yellow version that I never considered that was why the early game was so hard in RB, even though Blue was my first game.
KingK: You don't see a lot of Golem
Golem: Is literally one of the strongest, most used Pokemon in Gen 1, being used interchangeably with Rhydon
I'll grant you Rhydon, but I almost never see Golem used for anything. Perhaps it's just because I didn't play these games at release.
@@KingKlonoa He's just talking about competitive. Both Rhydon and Golem are used as checks for Zapdos who would otherwise be extremely potent in the highest tier format that the Mews are banned, although Rhydon is still more popular and Golem really only serves the niche of exploding and being a fairly negligible amount faster. As for casual play, let's just say the fact Golem was a trade evolution didn't help its popularity.
@@EvilApple567 They are also used to check Tauros, the best Pokemon in the competitive of gen 1, with the exception of Mew and Mewtwo, due to his great Attack, Special and Speed, access to the best moves in game Body Slam, Earthquake, Rock Slide, Blizzard and Hyper Beam and the way that critical hit work in gen 1
One of the most used, yes. "Strongest" definetly not (apart from Explosion). It's just that the Normal resist and Zapdos check roles are too valuable.
literally no trainer in the game uses a golem, I think is what he meant
wait, no, he did mean competitive. tbf you needed to trade for golem and rhydon was the same thing just easier to obtain
I always put the Bug/Psychic match-up in my head as an image of someone meditating being constantly interrupted by a loud cricket haha
I’ll never forget- I was about 5 years old and my mom would always drag me along to go to garage/yard sales and I would be upset the whole time and wait in the car. She would come to the car if she found something she thought I would like and ask if I wanted it. One day we went to a sale and she came up to me with Pokémon yellow in her hand. We had a game boy at home that belonged to my dad but I would use it to play Tetris. When she showed me Pokémon yellow I said no, I don’t want it. She said it’s only 25 cents, are you sure you don’t want it? I said no, I don’t want it I want to go home. She ended up getting the game for me anyways, and I’ll forever be grateful to her for that. It became my favorite game of all time, I always played it on the bus on the way to 1st grade.
Aww. Smart move mom!
Aww stubborn baby.
Good mom you had.
Jeez you sound like a real pain in the nuts
That’s so sweet.
"Simply brute forcing Onix with a Pikachu isnt going to get you anywhere"
8 yr old me, an intellectual: levels up pikachu to level 21 when it learns slam and slam the shit outta Onix cuz he doesnt know type weaknesses yet
Gen III made things way more fun 😂
well done
Same but with charmander and ember I’ll beat him if I’m level twenty no matter what
After watching his explanation of why you're screwed when picking Charmander, it suddenly makes so much sense why I had issues with an overleveled Charmelion that won't obey early on.
I abused quick attack like a fucking mad man
A forty five minute video detailing the history and cultural relevance of Pokemon? By KingK? Don't mind if i doooooooooo.
And each generation to come!
You are not wrong
Is that a Gravity Falls reference ?
@@sadomi6657 If you mean me ive never watched it before.
Personally the majority of trading I did with Red and Blue were with my brothers. My mom owned the original Gameboy when it came out and when we started discovering how fun the pokemon series was, she didn't like it. She was a big Tetris fan and she wasn't able to get the console away from us. Soon she relented and got two Gameboy pockets for us to share. And we all got one cartridge each to pick. My mom got back to her Tetris and we succumbed to the pokemon addiction :)
Man, I was the only one in my class who got Red. All the other uncultured nerds got Blue.
Also the school culture was the real deal. We spent hours figuring out the MissingNO trick and trying to find Mew in that truck. The lack of internet made the whole game mysterious and fascinating.
Lol Missingno was an epidemic at my school. I went to a small catholic school and legit everyone from grade 2 to 8 were talking about it. Gameboys were everywhere, what a time
Valientlink right? We're kinda lucky to have had that experience. We were pretty much the last generation to not have the internet easily available. Today you can just youtube search for all easter eggs and to figure out what's possible or just a rumor. Back then some asshole told me I could play as Luigi in Mario 64 by doing a drop kick hundreds of times in front of a mirror, and I had no way to prove him wrong, so I tried.
You would have been to get so many good trades for version exclusives
I vividly remember asking an older student in my secondary school back in the day about the missingno trick, I spent the rest of the school day going over it in my head. As soon as I went home I tried it and it worked.
I used that trick to spam 99x rare candies and 99x master balls. It actually made my experience with Pokemon yellow easier, as I had the link cable and two gameboys.
🤪
From an uncultured nerd!
39:35 Ive never thought of the Rival this way. Brilliant thinking.
Yes! I’m 99.9% sure the developers never intended for this subtext, but nonetheless, kingK found it, and it’s brilliant. A highlight of the video for sure.
@@denimchicken104 The developers certainly intended to illustrate the philosophical implications of the rivalry between Red and Blue, since they later conveyed it in the anime with Ash and Gary. A lot of Japanese fantasy stories revolve around ideas of appreciating the journey, and taking the long scenic route to the final destination, personal mastery. The foil to the hardworking well-rounded character is the archetype that Blue (or Azula in ATLA) represents; the prodigy that was so focused on becoming the best that they actually ended up becoming uni-dimensional characters in the end.
These notions appear often in Japanese storytelling as a way to encourage wonder, imagination, patience and discipline.
*Remember, Gary drove a car to each city to get his badges; Ash walked and met friends along the way.*
So here’s how Enemy Trainer AI works in R, B, and Y with some simple bullet points:
- Enemy Pokemon always use super effective attacks, even when switching (Like if you are switching from Beedrill to Pidgiot your opponents golem goes from using earthquake to using rock slide, and they always choose super effective moves when possible, even if the move doesn’t deal damage, like in Beedrill v.s Lorelei’s Dewgong, it will keep using rest because it is psychic.
-Your opponet isn’t limited by PP, they have infinite moves uses.
- Your opponet can use any status healing item, at any point in battle, even when say, Giovanni’s dug trio is underground.
interesting, I actually never knew that!
\\ the best teeth in the fucking game // What here surprised you the most? Do you have other things in the game regarding glitches to ask about?
I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than that. Some trainers have "Good AI" where they always use Super effective moves like you said, but most of the trainers have Bad AI which just uses random moves.
Junior Mudkip Nope. It’s not. There is almost no difference. All that changes with weaker trainers is that the game runs a RNG calculator to determine if they WONT use a SuperEffective attack. All the end game trainers ignore this calculation designed to pretend like it has a difficulty curve. The only real change is the Pokémon themselves. I do love this game’s glitch Pokémon. They make Gen 1 worth revisiting for me.
But some trainers DO just use random moves. This list is limited to specific trainers like gamblers, jugglers, and FRICKING BRUNO OF THE ELITE FOUR.
90s playing pokemon at school during recess was lit
Hate to sound like that "Born in the wrong generation" kid, but I sure do wish I lived the days where everything in video games were like mysteries.
I miss those days. I remember spending up to 12 hours after school, sometimes longer on the weekends, at like 7 years old exploring Ocarina of Time to find everything. I used to come up with my own storylines to keep me entertained. Got everything except for 2 gold skulltulas and a single heartpiece. Hundreds of hours, countless memories. Nowadays, you get stuck, Google. Oh that's where that's at.
It's not "born in the wrong generation"ing at all. Hearing all the random bullshit and not knowing everything there is to know on Day 1 was what made being on the ground for the Pokemon boom so fun.
Dakota Jones ohh man, same thing with Ocarina. My best friend would come over with his cartridge and we’d play one dungeon at a time, swap the cart and the controller, and the other would play. Shit really hit the fan when we read online (in the extremely rudimentary early internet) that you could find the triforce. We’d have sleepovers trying all the methods to obtain it lol. Incredible, incredible time to be alive.
It’s reasons like this that us “boomers” miss the shit out of the 90s. The modern internet ruined a lot of great things the 90s created.
Trey the William It was fun but also a curse because so many untrue rumors were made haha.
@@GeddyRC If you were a 90s kid, you aren't a boomer though.
I think the reason Moltres is hidden in Victory Road is because it's like the Olympic flame.
Fearei Shatter I always thought that also. How weird that we think that with no context
The anime did something like that, but I kinda doubt the developers had it in mind at the time.
It probably should have been in the Cinnabar Mansion, if only to fill some of the empty space.
Liam Dell in leaf green it was on one island lol
@@liamdell6319 Probably too close to articuno.
Back in '98 the "swimming along the island cheat" was so legendary we felt like bill gates when doing it
My favorite part of it is still that you can get a limitless stock of master balls by asking an old man how to catch Pokemon.
Still the best way to catch Tauros and Kangaskhan in that game.
Hackermaaaaaaan
Classic! I remember doing that to get infinite rare candies. Had my team at level 50 then boosted them to 100 haha. Then I took that team to school and faced off someone who had Pokémon at 100 who actually trained them that much and I got swept hahaha.
Noble Am I misremembering or did the rare candies level them up worse than doing it properly? I seem to remember grinding making the stats better than rare candying it.
Bruh, the sense of achievement I got as an 8 year old finally getting through Rocket HQ/Silph Co and Victory Road was immense.
The more I listen to you discuss the battle mechanics the more I realise just how much Red and Blue shaped my play style to the point I really, really struggle to adapt to modern competitive play. I'm still completely obsessed with type coverage over everything else.
Ohhh Rock tunnel when your young and trying to get through it was an accomplishment whether hm flash was missed or obtained 😆 now that was a thrill
@@christian3514 When you could navigate by memory without Flash, you knew you’d possibly played the game a little too much.
@@maximumbeans9310I didn't knew a inch of English when I played it, and oh boy having knowing about flash would be useful.
@@maximumbeans9310 The Rock Tunnel shows the outline of the obstructions which makes it really easy to get through even without Flash
Every Gen? You mad man....I can't wait.
I still remember playing this with my neighbor. He had blue and picked squirtle. I had red and chose charmander. Still remember those link cable battles....
Gen 1, obviously the best gen with NO flaws whatsoever
Most people started playing gen 1 but I played gen 3 Pokémon Sapphire, playing the game reminded me a lot of my home town and since I live close to the beaches. This game made me feel all sorts of things happiness, anger, excitement, and appreciation for something of a small game like this. This game is what made up my years from 10-14. If I could do it all over again I would.
Well a lot of people started on gen 3. The Advance represented a brand new generation of gamers. I played first 3 but gen2 was my personal fav
Most is a majority. The majority of people who have played Pokémon have never played gen 1. “A lot” is what you were thinking of.
Brock's pokemon have such weak specials that even an ember from a Charmander will put a big dent into them. He'll waste a turn healing them from a burn if you get lucky enough to inflict one. Charmander will mop up in Viridian forest too, while Bulbasaur will struggle. Picking a fire type starter isn't as much of a handicap as you may think in gen1 if you ask me
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I replayed Pokemon Red repeatedly. Brock was never really an issue. I didn't have any concern for Charmander/Charmeleon until I fought that gym trainer with the water types.
@@HadesHatredEdge Yeah, Misty's Bubblebeam Starmie can absolutely wreck a Charmander/Charmeleon
well considering i beat my first playthrough as a 9 year old with a single lvl 100 Venusaur, i think its safe to say nothing you do is really a handicap unless youre extremely bad at the game.
In red you could get Mankey before the first gym too, it was on the path to the elite 4
@@arja2317 no Mankey in Blue, but you could level up a male or female Nidoran to the point it'll learn Low Kick, which would do some considerable damage to Brock.
“Pokemon you’ve never seen before”
Missing no.: allow me to introduce myself
Pleased to meat you, Hope you guessed my name. But whats puzzling you is my nature in the game.
I'm a glitch of wealth and taste
OMG RAEEEEE
iv been around for a long long save
Imagine going back in time to show someone what a Kyurem looks like.
Man, I always get jealous when I hear about how kids would actually socialize with Pokémon, cause where I lived when I was little, nobody would do such a thing. I don't even know if anyone I knew at the time owned a Pokémon game. The closest to Pokemania here were trading with those trading cards that nobody knew how to play with, and the more recent Pokémon GO craze.
My circles, no one could afford the extra crap for one game, and their parents weren't going to spring for yet another thing.
The 90s were crazy! I remember when my school banned the cards and gameboys that's how crazy it was
this almost made me cry.
i'm not a 90s kid, i'm barely even a late 2000s kid. but these games have always been so, so special to me.
i never really grew up with the original red/blue. my oldest half brother has an older millennial brother though, who gave him a gameboy which had pokemon red on it. i had never seen him play it before though. i was introduced to pokemon red/blue through the anime, pokemon origins in 2014, but then i kinda got out of the series. then the mid 2010s hit. in elementary school (about 2nd grade), my friend got me waaaay back into the series once again. we would bring our pokemon toys to school and show them off to each other at the end of the day, and me and my other friend would pretend to be pokemon and play outside (usually she'd be meowth and i'd be pikachu, trying to stop team rocket from capturing me). despite loving the original pokemon anime, i still really loved pokemon origins. it felt much more mature to me, but not too mature. so it inspired me to create my own pokemon series.
i would play on the playground by myself, pretending to be a boy Pikachu (even though i'm a girl lol). i had an older brother Raichu, and an adopted little brother Pichu. me and my brothers would catch and train my own wild pokemon (no, i did not get that idea from the SFM series of Charmander training the other starter pokemon. i didn't know that existed at the time.). the story was my parents and whole village were caged by a giant overpowered Mewtwo (i got the cage idea from a literal fence being placed around a patch of grass at the school playground - i pretended that area was my village) and my parents were killed by Mewtwo eventually crushing the cage. but in that moment, i was able to save my brother Raichu, and we embarked on our own pokemon training journey together to make our parents proud.
this little game/story thing i played also led to the creation of my idea that since Mewtwo was so powerful, it could fuse with other pokemon such as magmar. and thus, my very first pokemon "OC"/fusion, MewtwoMar was born! (i still think that's a cool name to this day)
i would go home and make comics of this series, which i still have today. i'm actually remaking it, and i want to get it published when i'm older if possible.
but past all of that, long story short, my one friend who i'd play with a lot left to go to another school. and the friend who got me back into the series...he all of a sudden grew apart from me and didn't like me anymore. i don't know why he started acting like this, but it really hurt. i didn't like him anymore either. but that didn't stop me from my pokemon obsession.
i then got my own 3ds xl in Christmas of 2017, and i got my first few games - pokemon ultra moon, animal crossing new leaf, and pokemon x. i still love all those games to this day, and i'm getting a new pokemon 3ds game too.
ok onto the games - when pokemon let's go eevee and pikachu came out, my best friend and i loved talking about which games we would get (i still have let's go eevee almost 6 years later lol). pokemon cards were a huge deal when i was a kid too - seriously those things would be traded all over the place and taken out at the most inappropriate times. basically if you had pokemon cards, you were one of the cool kids.
this all died out at the end of elementary school in 5th grade, when covid hit.
i'm almost 16 years old, going into sophomore year, getting ready to become an adult, drive a car, get a job...oh to go back to those good childhood days.
everyone's glued to their phones, no one wants to hang out, everyone gets bullied for having different interests by the god awful normie "popular girls" and "jock boys" (obviously not saying all are bad but still)
everyone believes every stupid stereotype about hated groups on the internet (ESPECIALLY with furries and anime fans like me...can't be either of those nowadays without getting shunned in the sandpit by those retards). making friends isn't impossible, i mean i made a really great one at the end of the year and we both love the same stuff, but it's still so hard in today's age. i really think the 2010s were the last great years to be a kid imo.
i miss childhood, but childhood things like kingdom hearts, the world ends with you (nobody knows that game anymore...), sonic, and pokemon will always be there for me.
I love his voice. Reminds me of how a narrator in Pokémon would give.
Nidoran ♂ & ♀ both learn double kick which is super effective, that is how I passed the first gym.
i just burnt them with my charmeleon
Only in yellow, in red/blue they learn that at level 50 or so
@@rooka4 lol, RITE?! xD
Not gunna lie, on my first play i think i had a charizard loll
The old pokemon commercials hit me in the feels lol
"These games are glitchy"
These games are miracles of programming and the fact they run at all is a miracle. They pushed the Gameboys hardware to its limit.
The glitches speedruns are some of wildest things I've ever seen. The cross stitched coding is kind boggling
Yeah, they sure did push the Gameboys hardware.... for most of the wrong reasons. It wasn't until Gen 2 that they fully and properly utilized all of that hardware could handle, only thanks to the miracle works of Satoru Iwata who came in to fix their crap the best he could. Gen 1 is a demo of how Game Freak is when it comes to developing their games on the handhelds. And the only things that showed another case of their, at times, incompetence, is during Sun and Moon. When dataminers found out they placed character models like Lillie in most if not every gosh dang room in the game for some reason.
I think the art and law is far more compelling than the code, links awakening looked much better IMHO 😛
@@byronlyons3548 keep in mind that gen 1 was developed for the OG Gameboy, while gen 2 was developed with the Gameboy Color in perspective.
And yes, one can play gold and silver on the OG Gameboy, but with setbacks.
Now, Crystal is a full on Gameboy Color game that wasn't hold back in order to be playable on the OG.
So, one still has to take into account that the improvements of gen 2 came due to improvements in hardware.
True. I never noticed any of these glitches until I already played through the game like 5 times, and the glitches I noticed had to be told to me by outside sources, not me stumbling upon the glitch myself.
Wow, I've been reading the commentaries and I'm amused how nobody comments on such good job this guy did on this video, it is really well done
When someone told me they found pickachu in the beginning forest I lost my shit lol as a kid and I told him not to tell anyone else lol
I got goosebumps when the anime theme song hit. I'm 29.
Jacob Chesley same now 24 😂
28 here I agree
34, still trying to travel across the land to search far and wide IRL
30
This uplifting feeling of nostalgia was great
30. Same here 🤣🤣
Oh man, the diamond and pearl retrospective might make me cry
I wonder if he’ll mention some quick thoughts on the remakes
Did it?
42:58 The sprites were made before the artwork, and the earliest sprites were made by Sugimori a mere 5 years prior, with a radically different art style.
"A tough, yet uncompromising, vision"
In all of the videos I have watched on the channel, this is by far my favorite quote and the best one sentence summary for the ideology of the first two generations of Pokemon.
No love for missingo? I remember being the recess Pokemon dealer. Cloning Pokemon under the slide. Good times. Pre 9-11 times
I too made money back in the Pokemon economy. Think I was selling cards until we got them banned from the Chicago public school system.
at least spell itright mr dealer, missigno
@@Rispta7th
"Pokemon. Not even once."
@@Rispta7th missingno*
@@MikeHunt-wl4ye pokemon is a gateway drug to magic the gathering smh
This almost brought me to tears, I remember when red and blue first hit shelves, going to school everyday talking to friends about it. Spending hours walking in a patch of grass someone said they found a Pokémon I wanted in. The 1st gen was the hardest. People fail to remember that when they came out we had no idea about strategy and type advantage then. I use to order my Pokémon by level said them out in order from lowest lvl to highest. So many memories…
I think a lot of people forget about the lack of strategizing in that time. And it was a good thing! It made Pokemon have a mystique about it, because you really were out there like Ash loving and battling with your favorite Pokemon even if they weren't the most efficient. With way less access to the internet, and less Pokemon resources on said internet, it was totally different. Plus we were all little kids, so the designs and things outside of raw numbers and strategy are what spoke to us. Really part of the magic in my opinion.
I still remember the days when I would get walked to school by my mom with my face glued to the gameboy every morning. Then spending the entire day at school thinking about and talking about pokemon. Weekends had this routine where I would watch the anime in the morning and play Red while outside with friends. The pokemania craze was so magical and always puts a smile on my face to recall.
I went through something similar in 4th grade back when X and Y came out
@@tylermannor4290 Same, but in 3rd
Heya, finally got around to watching this, and it was just as excellent as I expected! You articulated what it was like to be a Gen I kid, when that was all Pokémon had ever been, and saw that even though it wasn't your childhood, the same aspects that made ME love it growing up were would eventually make YOU love it. That timeless appeal is core to the series.
If I have to nitpick anything about your imagining of the time period, though, it'd probably be this, and it's something I've seen other early-20s RUclipsrs get wrong, too: It's sometimes underestimated just how widespread internet use was by the late 90's. It wasn't ubiquitous yet, but it was well on its way. At least a quarter of the kids in my fifth grade class (the year Red & Blue were released) had dial-up, and that was the same year my elementary school opened a computer lab. Even before that, we'd had computers in every classroom going back to first grade.
I mean, you can see it the Pikablu image: There's a URL. The truck outside the SS Anne, the so-called "Poké Gods..." those were the sorts of mysteries kids at school were obsessed with, and they were propagated via the internet. The game's actual secrets and mysteries were much easier to decipher by just going online, or by having a friend with a modem or a strategy guide. And growing up, that was one of the reasons I was fascinated with the NES generations' experience. Before Nintendo Power, they really DIDN'T have anything like that, meaning Zelda really could be deciphered via a local community of your friends. But that wasn't so much the case by the time I was a kid.
But y'know, I'm sure it was different depending on where you grew up, and my perspective here is DEFINITELY gonna be colored by the fact that my mom worked with computers since before I was born. I think we got Prodigy in, like, 1993! But yeah, this was an excellent video! Going gen-by-gen on this series is no easy feat, but charting the evolution of the series is gonna be fascinating, and I'm looking forward to the rest of 'em!
EYYYYY It’s geek critiqe
A lot of older games I owned had a hotline you could call in the game book to get hints pre-internet. So it wasn't like before gaming magazines we had nothing. Just angry parents and a large phone bill lol. I like that the different generations are like a snapshot of what the world and technology was like when they came out. Gen 1 technology is there but not widespread. Gone are the days when I lived in a city that just had big open fields or forests dotted within them and on the outskirts. Now everything is so busy and developed. Gen 1 is so nostalgic for me not just because of the games themselves but for remembering that world.
@Carter I mean that sounds like it could have been the name. It is very Nintendo-y sounding. Other game systems had it as well. I know this trend continued well into the Playstation era.
Also a Millennial is anyone born from 1981 to 1996 so really I would be too. The NES came out in North America in 1985. So depending on when you were born, whether or not you have siblings, how old they are, how old your parents are, and if they had younger siblings then this makes perfect sense. Like when I was born one of my Uncles was like 13. Also the Internet exists.
@Carter @Carter jeez 2009? Well you sure got a lot of life ahead of you. I do tend to wonder if that is a small part of why older games tended not to have tutorials in them. I remember when games stopped having booklets really. Any way it is a shame a lot of kids won't get to experience that kind of thing, at least not to the same level. I still hold down and B when catching a Pokemon because I had heard that helped as a kid and there was no real way to verify it. I mean even though the internet did exist it was still very much in its infancy. Big cheat code repositories and forums weren't really there yet. I mean the game was primarily for children so even if some kids had interest it isn't like they're gonna start a message board or they're gonna have message boards. Man your first Pokemon game must have been like X and Y then. Diamond and Pearl were before you were born. Platinum is the same age as you. Black and White and the two sequels came out in 2011 and 2012. I can't imagine how these games must be from your perspective. Video games are such an amazing part of our culture. How decades apart we can have so similar and yet such different experiences.
11 months later, Josh made me go look for my RBY strategy guide that had the entire game's encounter table in it. I think for someone my age who definitely had the internet when Gen 1 was released, I was a bit too young to understand how to use it lol.
sadly i never experienced that social aspect with red and blue... i was one of the only one playing it at my school
Oof
Ooooh, that has to hurt. As a child dumped into, what was to me at the time, a foreign country with a language barrier I had JUST learned to overcome, the social aspect of the Gen 1 and 2 games meant a LOT to that part of my childhood. So much that if I woke back up in the body of child me the day after my parents bought Yellow, I'd do it all over again.
Me too! I was always way more into it than other people I was friends with and I only got to complete my Pokedex once Gen 4 rolled around with the GTS and a friend who was into it like me
no one at my school ever really played those kinds of games... I grew up with Gen 5 and I didn't know a single other kid with the game. Luckily, when I got older, I did have a friend who liked pokemon, and our battles in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire were very intense.
Lol, me to. I am and was socially inept and that didn't help much either.
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Golem actually is quite useful in gen 1 though. Sure, he could never stand up to Alakazam, but he is cruical to hard walling physical attacking, and electric/ ghost pokemon of that generation. Like Tauros, Snorlax, Zapdos, Jolteon, and Gengar. Unlike Onix, Golem has its amazing physical attack stat to go with its amazing physical defense. As well as access to a good move pool. Like Rockslide, Earthquake, Hyper Beam, Double Edge, Body Slam, Counter, Submission, etc. But most importantly, it also had access to Explosion. Which it could use in a pinch if things got rough. So Golem actually was very very good in gen 1, he was just very situational. He had to pick his battles wisely.
This is amazing! The nostalgia as I watch this
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Opening scene brought back some good memories from Pokemon The First Movie VHS tape!
>You don't see a lot of Golem.
Golem and Rhydon were quite good for the gen 1 OU metagame
Upon returning to RBY with the 3DS digital releases, i appreciated how it felt more like a game that could stand on its own whereas more recent entries feel more like streamlined entries in a series with all the difficulty ironed out.
I can't wait to do a retrospection on all these retrospective videos in 6 years.
Four more years ro go!
To beat Brock after choosing Charmander I just caught a Pidgey and spammed Sand Attack and then used Gust for about 10 years.
Same lol, but it was quicker to then switch out pidgey for charmander since onix's special was low enough for ember to do decent damage despite resistance
Nidoran male learns double kick relatively early and it sweeps Brock for free
The first time I played it did the exact same thing 😂
I used Butterfree confusion
Why aint yall talking about Mankey?
When people talk about balance in these first games, I feel I wanna say that some pokemon like Dragonite were designed more to be bosses in the one player game, rather than for your own team. I feel there's a reason why Team Rocket grunts are very weak stat wise, and Psychics aren't meant to be balanced... they're meant to be the strongest (and are said to be the strongest a lot in the anime). Obviously that has changed now but I feel having some pokemon just be the best was intentional.
You are exactly right. The vast majority of people only play the single player game. so every Pokemon not having equal stats doesn't matter.
You dont fuck with mewtwo, or starmie for that matter.
Mewtwo just shreds everything just teach it ice beam🤣
15:10 i love the KingK version of the PokeRap
11:13 because Psychic represents the mind and its weaknesses are all common phobias. Bug, Dark and Ghost. There is logic there.
Melba Peach: But also Bugs have a simple brain structure. Psychics cant manipulate their emotions or predict what they do next because bugs minds are too basic.
I remember catching a mankey before brock's gym. Low kick really helped
“Pikachu Heroin Injection” is a technically accurate marketing term.
Mike now its Charizard heroin injection unfortunately.
I remember a class mate bragging about how you clone Pokemons in Red/Blue back in the days.
He kept it a tight secret, but was willing to take your cartridge overnight and the next day in school your whole team was 6 Mewtos with which you wiped the floor of every other fellow trainer on the playground.
R. C. Christian wtf? how did he do that?
@@SuperChachi1993 I still don't know and never cared to find out.
What I last heard was that you can do some trickery when you unplug the link cable while trading during the right moment, then both trainers end up with the same Pokemon.
I'm sure nowadays there's a guide to that cloning somewhere.
maybe he just used a game genie
yeah its called game genie. We used to do that shit all the time, that was technically the only way to get Mew before it was an event but it often resulted in your game file just randomly deleting. That day when i turned my gameboy on to see the only option available was "new game"... that was a dark, dark day
there was also a ditto cloning trick but i never knew of it at the time, nor do i know how it works but ive heard of it. I think ive heard of that link cable exploit too.
The Brock Hard Wall was VERY true to my experience as a kid. I only got Red after my younger brother got his Yellow version and my parents learned that there was only one save file, so we couldn't share the game as easily. What that meant is that I obviously picked Charmander since I wanted an awesome Charizard like the one on the cover (still my favorite Charizard artwork to this day) and Brock obviously kicked my teeth in while I watched my brother sort of cruise by Brock because Nidoran learned Double Kick on Lv12 but ONLY in Yellow. I'll never forget how envious I was at that moment. Another thing I distinctly remember is how I was dreaming of catching my very own team and have a partner as tight as Pikachu in the anime. I would often daydream about things like these relating the series I currently had on my mind, but Pokemon stuck - I still remember those. Funnily enough, I actually *did* find a mon that fit the description. I ended up adoring Farfetch'd - the one you can trade for in Vermilion City. I'd always trade for that little guy and take him all the way to the Elite 4. With Farfetch'd and Charizard, I had some glaring weaknesses (I'd rarely get past Loreley) but I remember loving those two a LOT.
The not so fun memories were tons of corrupted save files. We'd always play Pokemon together with the kids from next door but we had to promise to do it outside (because playing outside > playing videogames, obviously, so it was a compromise). It turns out, those cartridges don't endure heat very well. They don't take permanent damage from lying in the sun, but apparently they do lose the save data on them. I lost SO many Farfetch'd to the sun. It was always very tragic. I must have restarted the game dozens of times.
Nowadays, I actually still replay Red, though by now, it's the VC version. In some ways the wonkier things about Gen1 make it really fun to me. Farfetch'd actually is useful, being the earliest learner of STAB Slash and critting with it 90% of the time. The balance issues of sleep and wrap allow pokemon like Arbok or Parasect to really shine despite their awful stats (Arbok being able to paralyze with Glare is especially evil). In a way, the mucked up balance allows mechanics to outshine stats in many cases. Sometimes, I get really in the mood for stuff like this.
33:01 my guy sounds like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho when describing Raichu.
King of Carrotflowers woah...exactly🤣
Raichu was a little too... new wave for my taste...
I miss when legendaries where Legendaries instead of plot devices.
Hehe, too bad. Seen some interviews and they seem to really like to focus on the theme or story they are trying to tell, not word for word as I forget exactly, but that was basically what they said. They really love the plots and being artistic or what ever it sounds like in their eyes... Kinda dismissed the open world pokemon game idea as well as other things because they dont think it will work or fit in with pokemon/ what they are going for... Even though its practically made to be an open world game if they knew what they were doing...
Completely agree, I love how there was a mystery to legendaries and they were so rare, plus very few of them. But now, they put like 8 in 1 game and hold your hand in getting them. I watched a playthrough of sword and shield and the legendary was revealed on the first route.. Excuse me, wtf? That isn't what Pokemon is supposed to be. Then again, the company heads said they wanted to make the games easier and appeal to younger and younger kids with no attention span. If a kid doesn't want to get involved with your game then that's not your target audience dumb dumbs.
@@tomquinlan1415 theres literally 3 in sword and shield
@@brandonw6139 there's way more than that, Galarian variants of the bird trio, two new regis, one weird deer/king thing, a fighting bear thing with split evolution. So no not just three, more like nine and those are the ones I remember there may be more.
@@MegaGooback bruh that's dlc I'm talking about the base game there's literally 3 and technically 2 In one game
2:28 it still kills me to learn that, that is Drake Bell in a Pokemon Commercial and i didn't know when i was younger lol. But i damn sure loved the Amanda Show 😭🤣
I wasn't even a kid when these games came out, yet I still love them to this day.
I’m the kid that picked the Charmander the first time I played the game.
Same. After watching the show and the first movie there was no way not to want a Charizard the most.
Mr. Ian i’m the guy who picked based off version but charmander was my favorite
Im the guy who still picks Charmander
I just wouldnt fight Brock til I was at least level 16-17
Same here. My original strategy as a kid was to get a Pidgey and have it spam Sand Attack during the Brock fight.
"This is why you don't see Golem"
Not at all, Golem was one of the most used pokemon in gen 1 competitive play
Not anymore, its basically fallen off the map in serious use. Its rydon who is the only Rock type left; golem is really rare in mordern RBY.
I don't think gen 1 had the defense curl + rollout combo. Gen 2 however...
There is competitive Gen 1?
@@brotbrotsen1100 , yes, definitely!
@@user-ck7tg1dq9yRollout didn't exist in gen 1
27:20 I’ve been saying that for years and I’d kill to see Game freak go for a more challenging route that includes “Themed” gyms instead of Mono-Type Gyms. I’d love to see a power plant gym that uses steel and electric, or a Theater themed gym that uses Pokémon associated with performance and illusions (which could cover a huge range of Pokémon types).
Here's an idea: Mono-egg group gyms! It could help inject some variety into the traditional gym challenge, whilst also giving some small insight into breeding mechanics (because who in their right mind would guess Mareep and Tyranitar can breed?)
Or how about Gyms that focus on stats? One that boast high special attackers or pokemon with high speed?
That sounds like a great idea and would certainly help to revitalize the gym formula for the better.
Have you played pokemon Uranium? Thay does that exact thing for its gyms. A theater illusion gym and a Power plant steel and lightning gym.
Another one is a beach gym with ground and water based pokemon (sand and surf)
Its a really good game, I'd reccomend it.
@@christopherfloody5555 Uranium is an amazing fan game. I was on the 7th or 8th gym when I stopped playing. Need to go back and finish it. Rom hacks and fan games have kind of been my go to for Pokemon as of late. Pokemon Prism and Crystal clear have been amazing.
I'll forever feel so lucky to be around when all this started. It created so much magic in my childhood.
Looking forward to Sun and Moon! And of course, the contender for best pokemon generation, the second.
Just a little thing, please talk about the music of these games. They were very iconic and deserve to be noticed.
Great video!
It feels weird to me how back in the day the social/trading aspect of Pokemon was way more limited compared to now, but it was also more meaningful. I went to a Christian School my whole life so not only was Pokemon banned from school, only one other kid in the class played it b/c all the other kids parents thought it was .... Blasphemous? Idk it's because it had evolution in it. (Rolls eyes). So he and i only traded a handful of times cause not living close and not being allowed to bring it to school made it hard to actually play together. I remember we traded Haunters and I cherished the Gengar I got. But now...when it's so easy to trade at any time with possibly anyone all over the world, it makes Pokemon feel just like check boxes to me now. I have about 12 Gengar sitting in my boxes in Shield and I don't feel anything close to what I did for Spooky in Red.
This is why I dont take Christions and religion seriously. They are so brainwashed they think a fucking kids game is satan or blasphemy😂😂
The fact that everyone who plays these games will have a unique experience, brings me so much joy. These games were mindblowing, still are
I remember I always used to spend hours and hours training with my charmander, because I loved Charizard, so I evolved my charmander right at the beginning, which massively helped with Brock, not so much with misty, that mess is something we don't talk about any more
Psychic types are weak to “scary” typings like bug ghost and dark, since they would cause the medium to lose concentration. Ghost not having any effect on psychic types was a result of poor programming.
Psychic being weak to bug can also be interpreted as bugs being a part of a hivemind and not having a will of their own to control, neccesarily
@@B0K0691 I thought it was based on common irrational fears like how many people are afraid of bugs, ghosts and the dark.
@@joelss22 could be both, I just found a different explanation for bug, not the other ones
All I want now is the second gen version of this video. In my opinion (heavily affected by nostalgia) those are and always will be the greatest pokemon games, especially crystal
Gen 2 expanded the world and had the passage of time. Brilliant environment, two new types, breeding, challenging Kanto gyms, fighting Red - all amazing things.
"You can't catch all 150 Pokemon by yourself. You need a friend to trade with." F you too, Nintendo.
You can catch all 151 Pokemon with glitches. Specifically the ditto glitch.
@@regional1000 news to me, care to elaborate or can you recommend source?
@@Abyssal86 I can explain, but it's easier to look it up on Bulbapedia. Look for mew or ditto glitch.
@@regional1000 ty
Pokemon Blue was my first and favourite Pokemon game, unforgettable. It's interesting to hear your thesis about a "social game". My experience and I believe most others' was 99 percent solitary. There was some link cable trading at recess, but by and large all my fond memories of this game involve me hunched over a glowing Gameboy Colour screen, grinding Bug Catchers to dust, getting lost on the SS Anne and praying for my Wartortle to evolve.
I replayed it some years ago and got maybe 3/4 of the way through. Still a blast. As someone who isn't particularly interested in or knowledgeable about Pokemon in his adulthood, the magic was still there.
Damn I still remember buying the red version with my saved up money at a Kmart.
Okay... let's go.
Thank you very, very much for the contextualization of the time period Pokemon Red and Blue released in. Perhaps more than any other game release short of, Super Mario Bros 3, World of Warcraft, or Halo 3, the culture around Pokemon was its most defining trait. I do feel that it WAS advertised to adults in Japan - they do love their RPG's there and it singlehandedly revived interest in the Game Boy during its downward spiral there - but you absolutely nailed the grip and effect it had on kids, and sharing that information. It's those kinds of things I love about games, that social aspect where you share your experiences to either beat or better learn from the game.
With that said, I miss the kind of games Pokemon Red and Blue were; single player experiences that became social experiments. Inter-trainer battling was absolutely not the focus of the original generation, and in fact was a consideration made late into development; the trading aspect was always what Sugimori wanted to promote. Stuff like stat overflow, the psychic type's dominance, etc. wasn't really that well-considered because, well, that doesn't really matter to the narrative of the single player experience. Of course Psychic is strong, the New Game Plus Superboss you can only keep by trading, Mewtwo, is that type! Of course Dragons are busted and have very few options against them, Dragonite's supposed to be your final boss who gets wrecked if you sought out Articuno. I know that Pokemon games starting as early as Stadium focused more strongly on getting your endgame team, and made clear superstars out of mons like Alakazam and Tauros and chumps out of Flareon and Kingler's poor stat distributions, but I don't feel that was the intent of Red and Blue. You can bring your Ponyta with you, sure! It's just another, unique option that can fight against an imperfect AI!
I also do disagree with the assessment of Brock. Bulbasaur does not learn a damaging grass-type move until Level 13, and it's difficult to raise Bulbasaur against the bug types compared to Charmander, who just munches 'em up. Onix, meanwhile, is a massive, beefy boy with a terrible HP stat and a mediocre Attack stat that screams 'first boss', especially with the player learning not to press their advantage with Bide. In that way, I feel like Squirtle's the odd man out; Onix isn't really that hard, he just takes a while to take down unless you have Bubble and will kill you if you go in too hard while it's biding its time. The whittling down process of both Ember and Leech Seed are pretty comparable. And then Squirtle just shows up and wins.
I also really like the difficulty curve of Kanto. I don't think it's hard in a traditional way - giving enemy teams good movesets with good coverage that you don't see coming until they've hit you with it once - but in order to compensate for the amount of possible teams, it puts a lot of checks your way. Can you avoid mashing the attack button? You can beat Brock. Do you have a Pokemon that knows Fly? The routes around Fuchsia City won't be nearly as punishing with the agonizing walk to get to the Pokemon Center that'll help poison seep right in. Do you have a faster Pokemon? Erika won't be as big of a problem. Do you have Pokemon that can take a lot of hits? You won't have to rush out of Silph Co all the time to heal. Pokemon Centers are always there for younger and newer players, making it super forgiving, but the fastest route and strongest battles of attrition are won because you've added members to your team that can overcome individual obstacles, culminating with your well-balanced rival fighting you.
But I think what I love most about Gen 1 is its growth. Your selection is so limited in Gen 1, often just sticking to Normal, Flying, Bug, and Poison types for a majority of the routes pre-Celadon. When something like Geodude or Drowzee or Clefairy pops up, it's a huge deal because it's so much different from what you've encountered before. It's memorable because your pool was limited, and you're going from a kid catching rats in his backyard to catching weird rapey tapirs and evil acid-spitting plants and whatever the Hell Mr. Mime is. You go into Rock Tunnel and hey, there's the first boss, just hanging out, maybe you can catch him! And after Snorlax is moved out of the way, so much of the world opens up and you have so much flexibility it's insane, because you worked with your team to get to that point. And again, this is illustrated with your rival, in a really literal way. My favorite part of Gen 1 is seeing the rival sprite change every few battles, going from a cocky kid to a rather competent teen. It's the only game where you see actual age, where the journey is implied to take a significant deal of time, where having to work around the Game Boy battery means that you probably had to turn it off and sleep and go back to school or work, so you really did grow with your character and with your Pokemon. I think that little bit is just particularly special.
Also side note, don't like Yellow nearly as much. I think Mankey is super overcentralizing along with the free starters, makes it so that most teams are gonna be Pika/Primeape/Charizard/Blastoise/Venusaur/FREE SPACE (probably Snorlax). Kinda ruins the slow progression by giving you what the TV show taught you were the coolest and strongest Pokemon all in a row. I know that's not everyone's experience, but I feel it's what was encouraged, and other changes (removing Weedle from Viridian Forest especially so you don't teach the kids about the slow creeping death of poison) really do rub my the wrong way.
I don't wanna decry your opinion at all; it is more than valid, more than accurate, and Gen 1 is a mess of a game held up by glue sticks and dreams. But I love them to this day, even outside of the context of the world that I played them in (though that's a big part of it and hard to separate), because they taught me how to love traditional RPG's. I don't feel that later Pokemon games really do that, very focused on the battles after the game is done and then tossing the champion a 'gotcha' team while giving the player such a huge spread of Pokemon early on that progression doesn't really exist in the same way it did before. I don't get the joy of finding a Tentacool, deciding I like it, and then working really hard in order to get it up to snuff with the rest of my team and being pleasantly surprised when he becomes a hard-working member all his own anymore. I don't realize that aw man, this Growlithe is not only new and cool, but he fits the hole in my team perfectly to help take on Erika. And that's fine, collection and flexibility are wonderful things, but it's not the elements I learned to love from these games. The series grew out of what I liked about it, and that's okay, because I'm a degenerate genwunner who can always come back to these and yell at the children for saying that Golem is bad when he's literally one of the cornerstones of RBY OU interchangeably with Rhydon because he knows Explosion and is bulky enough to almost always get it off. I'll always have these games, and thank you for giving them a chance.
I look forward to seeing what elements of Pokemon you end up most valuing as you go through the generations.
pyrrhickong Hi
Yeah this is pretty much a lot of what I wanted to say. Internet is really the biggest hurt to these games. They really bank on the player not already knowing what to do and rather discovering what to do. Discovery is a huge part of why the games are amazing and I think was factored into the balance of the game. Sure Alakazam is wicked powerful, but you needed Abra and if you didn't already know about Alakazam why bother with Abra? Gyarados is incredible but who's going to expect that from a magikarp? Of course the anime gave out hints and knowledge, all the more to draw people in.
Pokemon was also one of the starters to the major multimedia franchises of late 90's early 2000's which I don't think has really been nearly as potent in the last decade. Things like Bionicle, Spiderman, and Transformers that tried to poke into every area of interest a kid could have. It made Pokemon unavoidable.
The only thing I will disagree with here is: The Bugs in Viridian Forest don't have any Bug Type Moves, they only have Tackle and Poison Sting, both are neutral to Bulbasaur, and if you only use Bulbasaur you will get to level 13 pretty easy and Vine Whip brock to death.
@@SimisearOfficial Agreed, but MAN Bulbasaur is a drag to grind due to his low attack. It's less "hard" and more a time investment compared to the other two.
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"Dozens of kids across the world primed for the Pikachu heroin injection."
I mean, he ain't wrong lol
I was scrolling while watching the video and kingK said this the same moment I was reading this comment, spooky lol
This channel is an absolute gem! Comprehensive long retrospectives on so many things I am interested in! I can only compliment you for all the effort that clearly goes into building this wonderful archive of videos! Subscribed and count me in to binge a lot of your content!
I am surprised that you didn't mention the fact that since the 1st gen had no breeding, unless you had a friend that was willing to reset their game twice for you, it was almost impossible to get the other starter's dex entries.
And that seemed like such a cool thing to have all three! Some kids would have a Charizard, Venasaur, and Blastoise and I'd always think man that's guys team is so stacked, better not fight him 😂😂
Back when your starter was always your ride or die.
43:45 "I'm sure there are those who swear by the originals even with the bugs, the quirks, the imbalances..."
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Gold/Silver is still my favourite generation. It has a sane world size, a sane amount of Pokémon, no feature creep, and lots of charm. My first was Blue, but Gold/Silver improved on every single aspect of it.
I agree. Its also the most aesthetically pleasing gen. I love the SNES like sprites
I feel old. I'm 30 years old and can still remember the day I got pokemon red for my 6th birthday.
I am 30 yrs old as well and I got pokemon blue version along with a blue cased gameboy color for Xmas when I was 6 years old. Best gift ever.
31 years old and got my first copy of pokemon red for Xmas and stayed up all night playing it
I’m 27, and my brother, who is 30, remember playing these games. He got red version and I got blue, I was kinda salty because I wanted red version though lol
10:46 ohhhhh that old school Ken Sugimori artwork....
Absolutely fantastic video. Very, very well done.
My favorite strategy that took me 20 years to learn was to buy the Magikarp from the man at Mt Moon. Keep him in first through the cave, golden nugget bridge, rival battle and Misty's gym, have him reach lv 20 through all of that then proceed to have a 1shot hyperbeam instant killer with no cooldown turns for the rest of the game. 😎👌
I'll try this strategy right now, bought yellow again for nds a few days ago
@@the_real_swiper I just bought green. How you like it?
I always liked how that was supposed to be a "scam", but if you're dedicated you can get one of the best Mons in the game.
@NJShell2 Garados (german) learns hyperbeam at level 45, pretty late for a game like Pokemon, but even at level 30 is Garados before the 4th badge a beast!
I love this guy's respect and objective look at the game, truly a great retrospective thanks dude
As someone who lived through the pokemon craze, this really brings me back. I remember spending hours of my childhood trying to find the mew in the truck, debated whether or not mewthree exisited, we played the cards, games, talked non stop about the latest episodes.... man... those were the days...