False Memories of Golduck in Pokemon Snap (New Mandela Effect 2024)
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- Have you ever played Pokémon Snap? Do you remember taking a pic of the picture Golduck in the game? Well, you shouldn't, because he was never in the game. But if you do... well you aren't the only one.
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Come and explore the fascinating world of the Mandela Effect as we dive into a curious case from the beloved Nintendo 64 game, Pokémon Snap. In this video, we delve into the surprising and widespread belief among fans that they distinctly remember photographing Golduck in the game, sharing numerous accounts of such an experience. Join us as we investigate this intriguing phenomenon, unpacking why so many players share this false memory and what it reveals about our collective nostalgia for the game. Whether you're a Pokémon Snap enthusiast or just love a good mystery, this exploration into gaming's oddities is sure to captivate and surprise you.
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63 total and it’s the Nintendo 64 like come on we all thought there was another
I wished there was another.
my family didn't get internet or a family pc until 2006 or so and mostly just replayed our existing games bc we didn't know more systems were coming out.
My sister and I had been returning to pokemon snap on a regular basis for 7-8 years searching for the 64th when we thought for the first time to look it up. We didn't even believe the information we found and kept looking for a year or two longer as well
It had to be intended that they would include more but ran out of time. I gotta get the second game
@@Alex-vm6efekans was in beta builds, so they would have been the 64th
Sounds like people who were playing Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Stadium back to back and got confused.
That's what I'm thinking too. The 3D model of golduck that comes to mind when thinking about the question "is golduck in pokemon snap?" is the one from pokemon stadium.
I think golduck is in the intro or menu screen in Pokemon Stadium so it might have been why people remember seeing it.
That wouldn’t really explain why several unrelated accounts are soo similar though. Thinking you saw Golduck is one thing, everyone saying it’s EXACTLY evolution method is another
One of them is from a "friend" one of them also claims ninetails which would be 65.....it's just human memory being spotty nothing interesting
Maybe people just think Psyduck is Golduck because it's yellow.
After finding out the Hylian Loach was real I don't know what to believe about anything anymore
I know I can't believe the loach is in pokemon Snap using that one gameshark code
I've seen the loach but never catched one.
Sorry dude, you hit another Mandela effect.
The fish in OoT was the "Hyrule Loach"
@@Bird-wz7nx Correct, but most people erroneously call it "Hylian" for some reason. Quite strange. In TP we have a similar fish but that time it's called "Hylian Loach". Perhaps that's why. Hylian just sounds better too, if you ask me.
@@mirabilis It was called the hylian loach in some guide I read when I was like... 7? on how to catch the thing. Never caught it, thought it wasn't real. Wild!
If it's not real, then why did I see it on the thumbnail? Checkmate.
Explain that one, Goose.
watch the video checkmate lol lol
nah why is there a big black hole in the stump if nothing comes out of it?? that's just cruel
Them putting a hole in the stump and having you drive past is was basically the ultimate blue ball. It looks incredibly deliberate that you’re supposed to try and knock a Pokémon into it.
Yes, hate being driven wild by stuff that should work but never does!
I'm interested if they planned to include this or wanted to keep the option open in the original design, but ended up deciding against it or not having time, Vulpix is in a similar situation
Not 100% sure, but there were older demos and magazines that had pokemon such as Ekans. You can find pictures of it, I don't remember if it was in that stump or not but it was on the river level.
Maybe something used to be in that stump, got cut, and they just never put anything back?
@@FoundedScreenLady Sounds like a pretty good theory too. Better than mine maybe.
I remember taking a picture of Nelson Mandela in Pokemon Snap I think it was on the river level with graveler you had to lure it close to the water and then hit it with a pester ball so that it falls in and then Nelson Mandela appears further down the river.
There is a Nelson River in Canada, in the far north. I wonder if Golduck can be found there.
I thought Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in the Tunnel level.
Shame Zubat can’t evolve into Golbat in snap, no wigglytuff, no poliwhirl or wrath, no golem, no dragonair, none of the eeveelutions, why is Charizard the only Kanto starter final form in snap and no blastoise and Venusaur
@@Jeremo-FDi thought that it was Morgan Freeman imprisoned in Shawshank State prison
@@Jeremo-FD That's a common misconception, however it was actually the Bearenstein Bear's house that was located in the tunnel. I'm sorry but Nelson Mandela was in another castle.
Golduck kinda has another mandela effect being that people swear its water-psychic type.
Which is easily explained by the fact that the pre-evolution's name is PSYduck and the fact that Golduck is able to learn some psychic moves.
It never was. At least not for me. I remember playing Red/Blue/Yellow and always being annoyed by that. Golduck with Amnesia was still a beast, though.
Which is more likely?:
1. My memory is unreliable
2. My consciousness is shifting through parallel universes, creating tiny differences in small, inconsequential things that would be easy to mistakenly mix up
I'm thinking it's the second one. I can't remember a time I was ever wrong.
Well yeah, you wouldn't remember. That's the point.
@ssj2_snake wrong
The comparison isn't one person's memory. The Mandela effect is when a significant number of people have the same relatively strong false memory.
@@ZipplyZane I know, it's a joke lol
Hold my PBJ made with Jiffy peanut butter
The memory is probably caused by that anime episode where Misty’s Psyduck disappears behind a rock and a Golduck appears, making her think her Pokemon evolved. Later in the episode she discovers it was a different one and hers is still a Psyduck.
Honestly? As someone who answered yes, this rings true. For example, I remembered it being a rock psyduck was swimming around, not a stump. Its probably a lot of things - pokemon stadium, the pattern of evolution via knocking pokemon into things, etc. I may have also just heard about it??
My friends, it just keeps not happening.
Sounds like a bunch of kids who saw Golduck in Pokémon Stadium and probably printed Golduck from the Pokémon Snap blockbuster kiosk (since Stadium was compatible with it).
Edit: Actually, perhaps the playground talk for some kids called the "Shiny" Psyduck, a "Gold Duck" or "Golden Psyduck."
Shiny wasn't a term until Gen 2.
If you think about it, Psyduck is a "gold duck".
And Golduck is a psychi--Wait, its not Psychic type?
Despite both of them being known for having psychic powers?
I feel like Golduck being a Psychic type is the real Mandela Effect.
@@SvenSierra104No you have to be kidding me it must have a psychic typ-......... it's pure water type... well shit my brain is broke
@@JosephShemelewski I was like that with Staryu. Like Starmie, it's a water/psychic, right?...WAIT, WHAT?! Next you'll tell me Seel is a pure water without any ice.. WHAT?!
@@Ashley6100 Pokémon just wants to make people question their sanity
The reason Golduck is pure water is because they didn’t want too many water / psychic combinations. They already had Starmie and Slowbro.
My uncle worked at Nintendo and said Golduck was in the game.
my uncle supervised his and can confirm
Lucky. Back in the day I was the only one of my classmates whose uncle didnt work at Nintendo.
I was one of his classmates, can confirm
My uncle is Golduck and he said "Golduck" which translates to "I am in the game"
My uncle died of lung cancer and I have nothing relevant to add to the conversation.
Honestly i think what happened is that memories are combing here, probably of pokemon staduim and pokemon snap, both games use very simliar models and so its possible the two games merged in their mind as one memory.... i played both these games too much as a kid so i knew golduck wasn't in this game but i can see someone who did a one and done playthrough combing memory with staduim
The mind is a double edge sword. A lie can become the truth and the truth can become a lie.
I will go to my grave believing that Dorrie can eat Mario. I swear I was killed by Dorrie as a kid and spent years being spooked by Hazy Maze Cave because of it.
I love this one.
you just ran out of air
@@hurricane1nox I've heard this before, but the moment I mentioned the eel, they went "OH YEAH, it was the eel".
Every Super Mario 64 copy is personalized
@@yokoelf1293 Nah.
Heard the same tale as a kid about knocking the Psyduck into the stump. Seems this was a lie that was repeated often, and kids are particularly susceptible to false memories since they have trouble distinguishing between things they remember happening and things they dreamt.
Yeah i have a vivid memory of catching a squirtel in bills garden. Probably because it was the number 1 school yard rumor in my school.
Anyone who has looked at the literature on human memory knows that eye-witness testimony is the least reliable form of evidence. Our memories suck and are easily manipulated.
Yeah, like... EVERYWHERE.
childhood memories even more so
Yea, its nuts people would rather imply we had some dimensional merge or some shit than our memories are just subpar
That's why when I hear "Eye witness accounts" or "I saw it with my own eyes" it holds very little weight to me.
It’s because when we remember something and then go to sleep, our brains kind of reset so we remember it differently every day a little by little and when you remember something, you’re actually remembering the last time you remembered it.
Not video games, but I did experience the classic Berenstein mandela effect.
The Summer in between high school and college I worked shelving books at a library. We got in Berenstain Bears pretty regularly. One day when I was putting some away I noticed, "Wait, 'stain'? I thought it was 'stein'." Was a year or two later I saw some post about the Berenstain Bears parallel universe theory and felt pretty validated.
Me I'll never forget it because when I was a kid looking at our movies I use to hear my family call it with the sound of stein. So when I sounded it out and read it as stain, I thought it was odd. So what's happening is people are experiencing what I did as a kid just years and decades later. It's that simple. People who are so 100% dead set they can't be mistaken or were ignorant it just gets ridiculous IMO. And people just like a big mystery or conspiracy. People just can't admit they could be wrong. That's what gets me. Word of mouth or heresay is the weakest form of evidence. The human brain and memory is very unreliable. We could even be remembering old thoughts from our imagination.
I've heard people pronounce it both ways as a kid in the 90's... or at least I've got memories of it lol? Stein is a common end to a last name, while stain is and was much less so. Our brains don't consciously focus on every letter, if it's close enough to something we've seen before our brain will fill in the gaps with what we expect to be there. The titles are also written in cursive, and while the a and e are clearly different, they're close enough I think our brains could easily mistake it for an e when considering the difference in commonality between Stein and Stain as last names.
The mandela effect is super interesting to me, the one I always love to read about is the fruit loop/froot loop flip-flop. I need to remember to tape those 4 paper plates to my wall so I remember how many O's there are in Froot Loops before we switch time lines again 🙃
I don't care what anyone says, I was obsessed with those books as a kid and it was Berenstien...I had the same reaction as an Adult and also found out years later I was'nt alone and that it was a "Mandela Effect"....I hate when people tell me I misremembered my literal favorite book series as a kid.
Not Golduck, but I do remember trying to use Pester Balls to evolve Gasley
Getting a Gengar would be crazy.
I distinctly remember watching my older brother try evolving the Psyduck into a Golduck because he had been led to believe by some of his friends it was possible. And at the start of the video, I had vague memories of seeing Golduck in Pokemon Snap... But it didn't even match the rumours, I could have sworn you saw it swimming around much like you do Psyduck, but that's it. No jumping out of the water or getting onto land, it just swam around in the water on the river level right where there's actually a Psyduck.
But... That's where my memory conflicts with itself. If Golduck was just swimming around in the river level, why do I remember watching my brother trying to knock Psyduck onto one of the stumps to evolve it? And how can I remember seeing Golduck in the game if I don't remember ever seeing my brother successfully evolve the Psyduck into the Golduck? I have two memories of the game, one of my brother falling for what was apparently a rumour that people spread and one conflicting one of seeing Golduck in a way unrelated to the rumour. Clearly the rumour wouldn't be there if I had seen Golduck the way I remember, so it makes more sense that I'm just misremembering seeing Golduck. It was probably just the Psyduck at a bad angle or part of Shellder or Cloyster, or even just a mix of things from various parts of the game, since that same memory of Golduck swimming around in the game had it surrounded by splashes the whole time from how quickly it was swimming as well as the surroundings being a lot lighter... More like you see in Valley, which also has a lot of water with Pokemon swimming in it, with large amounts of splashing water by the waterfall and whirlpool. So... Yeah, it's definitely a mix of half-remembered parts of the game with the memories of the rumour.
Also, regarding such rumours, hearing that a friend did something doesn't really prove it. I had a friend in middle school that insisted he had encountered the Mew under the truck in gen 1... Despite the fact that gen 4 released around the same time and people had proven that was a rumour. If a middle schooler can insist he had recently succeeded in fulfilling a decade old rumour that had been disproven countless times already, then obviously people can claim that they accomplished something according to a rumour for a then recent game with others vaguely remembering hearing about it twenty years later. It's not proof of anything except that it was a common rumour.
My Personal™ Mandela Effect Pokemon Snap Pokemon was a photo of Ghastly in place of Haunter, in the Zapdos room. I could've sworn I saw it, in my mind's eye I still see it, but I'm convinced at this point it was a dream. Really interesting how so many people have false memories of the same game!
It makes sense because the weird ball that floats around looks kinda like Gastly. Only when it's "developed" do you get Haunter.
exactly if you hadn't gotten it you would likely think it's Ghastly right?
I felt like I saw one too, but I figure it's just because I also grew up with Pokemon Stadium and I for sure used a Golduck in that pretty often
Nope! I played the hell out of that game. No Golduck of any sort!
But this guy needs "content" lol.
@@Top10WizardReviewsYou're strongly projecting. It's just a video that happens to be about a recurring subject, which is both completely normal, and new for some.
@@Top10WizardReviews the thumbnail literally immediately points out how this is not a real thing in the game, just a video discussing the phenomenon of people falsely believing it did.
I 100% remember taking a photo of Ninetales. I didnt even knock Vulpix into the lava. I just annoyed them with apples,pester ball, and flute until one of them passed out and the other vulpix gathered around the ko'd vulpix as it evolved.
I'm wondering if people are misremembering the Golduck from a different game, say Pokemon Stadium and thinking it was in Snap? That was my thought during the video.
HalloweenLett here! My comment from the Loach vid!!! Lol Thanks R! Real good stuff as always.
Ninetails would come out of the lava, run to short gap, pose and jump off to the right.
In what universe did that happen?
You're thinking of Rapidash
I happen to actually have an encyclopedic knowledge of this game. It was my first video game ever as a child and the game that made me fall in love with games. We were quite poor so couldn't afford to buy new games very often after this, so i played the absolute crap out of Pokemon Snap. I am talking I played this game for countless hundreds of hours over the next 10 years and know every single pokemon, every secret, how to trigger every pose etc. like the back of my hand.
I can with 100% certainty say that Golduck was never in this game.
I don't remember Golduck, but I do remember Ninetales
Miss the Goldeneye perfect dark videos, but always happy to get a goose upload
Goldeneye has passed away, sadly. 0 untieds this year.
My Golduck worked at Nintendo and said he was in the game.
My Golduck was also in the game, but you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school.
Haven’t watched the full video yet but I feel like people think golduck is in the game bc psyduck is around other water Pokémon that evolve in the River terrain and that cloyster is hovering around it. Not to mention, there are other mons that evolve just as you’re leaving that area and you’re trying quick to snap pics of them before they leave the screen. I’m sure at one point I thought golduck HAD to be in the game when I first completed it regardless if my memory believed it to be there or not
The fruit of the loom logo definitely had a cornucopia reality is broken someone should fix it
If you don't get a photo of Golduck in Snap, you ain't a pokemon photographer.
- Joseph Robinette Biden.
I played this game for countless hours as a child and I do not have the false memory of Golduck 🤷🏻♂️
I don't remember Golduck in SNAP but I do remember thinking the log thing would work and trying to get that to happen over and over. Never did.
Foil Golduck was the first trading card I ever bought in around 99 or 00
I also remember Golduck being in the game, in that exact same way. BUT, I also have a theory as to what might be why for folks. It's a MASSIVE stretch, but maybe some modified and not quite legal carts got put out there that looked legitimate - and had Golduck in it? Since it's really weird that so many people - with no contact between them - remember the exact same thing.
I've always known golduck was never in the game,but for me whwn I was a kid,I thought ninetales was in the game XD no idea why I thought that
No
I actually remember a rumor my older brother used to believe in when we were kids. He was told, probably by the internet, that if you lured the Pikachu in Tunnel towards the egg symbol on the wall where Haunter flies and then play the Poké Flute, Pikachu will somehow break through the wall and emerge from the other side as a Raichu.
I tried it myself after he told me and we both learned pretty quickly it wasn't possible. That pattern on the wall was just a blunt hint at what was needed to hatch the egg, but someone must've hoped it stood for much more.
I also read online through a website called SuperCheats that some people swore on their parents' lives that you could take a Blink-And-You-Miss-It snap of Mewtwo as Mew teleports away after you force it into pic taking range. That I also tested and proved to be untrue, and it was through trying all these rumors and claims that I discovered MUK was the 63rd Pokémon I was missing the entire time.
LOL!
I specifically "remember" that there was ONE TIME where I used Splash with Magikarp and it actually did DAMAGE!
I would have been about 8 or 9, playing Red version on my GBC.
So from there on out, I figured Splash has like a 1/1000 chance to actually deal damage. Super fun stuff.
I took my picture of golduck off the right side near a waterfall. I know i did. If i had the game id do it again. He had a golden glow to him. And i never got the picture so i attempted it over and over. Ive seen him 2 or 3 times. I know i did and im looking forward to someone proving this video wrong.
Now then. On to a rumor i dont think abyone else has talked about yet. When i was a kid the really big rumor on my playground was that since pokemon snap released so close to the gen 2 games, only a couple months earlier, there was a secret stage. And if you scored high enough in a certain level it would u lock a secret stage with 12 gen 2 pokmon, including all 3 lengendsry beasts. Needless to say this scpre was ridiculously high, and needless to say i eventually beat said score and got nothing. And was severely dissapointed.
As someone who played pokemon snap extensively as a kid and found all the secrets I can tell you golduck was never in snap. This game took hundreds of hours of my time as a child I remember opening the secret passage in the river for the first time and it blew my mind.
Add me to the list. I was actually just talking about this the other day playing snap. It’s crazy that I remember the same method and spot as everyone else.
wait what ninetails was 100% in the game i know this, i think the way i did it was with the legendy pokemon did it thats how i remember it psyduck don't remember that one.
I remember THINKING i was probably supposed to knock psyduck into the stump
I don't recall golduck ever being in snap but i recall it in stadium, maybe they misremembered and recalled the model from stadium and their mind said it was in snap as well.
That's weird, I actually do have a memory of hitting Psyduck with an apple and him sinking into the water and coming out as Golduck. 😲
maybe you're confusing it with shellder as both are blue?
was there any effect? Like lights or whatever, or did he just pop up from underneath?
There was lights after you hit Psyduck and he sank into the water. I played this game all the time growing up. Golduck was definitely in it. The people that say it wasn't obviously didn't play it enough. There is a lot of secrets to it and sometimes you have to go back to the level later in the game to find new pokemon.
@@Winter_Fan_01 I remember after hitting Psyduck with an apple he makes a sound as if he is passing out, like a sigh sound, and then he sinks into the water and out comes Golduck and he jumps out of the water to the river bank and just stands there looking around left and right.
@@fataldisco8216I kind of remember that too
I have played this, and not once saw any Golduck at all. Whoever remembers that, have the worst memory.
I spent so much time trying to get that platypus on that log (because there was a rumor, and it was a april's 1st joke on a Nintendo magazine, maybe that's where so many people remember it, but Im from mexico), but I mean. 63 IS a weird number, and that log feels so intentional, that is hard to believe that it wasn't planed in the first place.
I want to add that a lot of the guides we had access to back then were full of lies and unproven rumors. I can't tell you how many times I looked at some of my cheats/tips books for a game I had, only to find myself dumbfounded because a lot of what they said was bullshit. Even the "official" magazines and guides back then were not always reliable, leading to rumors and misinformation being spread like wildfire.
I remember Golduck and Ninetales actually. Ninetales had nothing to do with the lava though, I vaguely remember something like not being able to get a good picture of it because it was laying down with the tails covering it making it hard to get a picture unless you made it get up. Maybe this was a different Pokemon like Growlithe? or a major false memory from some other game or something. I also remember Persian? Golduck was definitely at that stump. AND i remember a Pidgeotto. I feel like I played a completely different Snap. Next you're gonna tell me Jigglypuff doesn't put a pokemon to sleep, I saw this happen, I know it happens!
Maybe the real Golduck is all the friends whose cousins worked at Nintendo we made along the way
I think your explanation is perfect. Water and fire evolutions did happen so it makes sense to think this was possible, on top of many people playing Snap and Stadium back to back so you technically have a decent idea of what the model would have looked like
Every copy of Pokémon Snap is personalized.
I don't ever remember seeing golduck in pokemon snap personally. I remember psyduck, but I cannot picture any time ever seeing golduck.
That was a rumor that have been told on school yards. Even here in europe that was a thing. I have no clue anymore how the number 64 came into Pokemon Snap, but I remember trying to evolve Psyduck too. Guess the idea came from charmeleon evolving into charizard at the end of the volcano by knocking him into the pool of lava. I never was particularly convinced that the missing pokemon was golduck, I just knew something was missing. So I tried out various things. But how the heck is it now ekans? I remember it clearly that it had something to do either with cubone or vileplume. Maybe evolving gloom to vileplume or cubone being in there? Idk but I remember it was one of the 2, not Golduck...
someone should distribute a mod of the game that includes golduck after knocking psyduck into the stump, and you can only take the picture from afar so Oak barely recognises it, just to mess with the people with this collective false memory.
That is weird because I somewhat remember bringing my pokemon snap guide book to school before and me and my friends drawing the pokemon from it and I thought I remembered drawing golduck from one of the illustrations but I guess not.
Wait a minute, Ekans wasn't in Snap? I can literally picture his pose in-game in my head. You bonk him with a pesterball and he uncoils and hisses at you. I was also pretty sure you could get him in at least 2 levels (in River and Valley).
Maybe humans are just super suggestible. Or trying to remember shit from 20 years ago just causes your brain to mix up games. But damn, that one got me.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Pokemon Snap
7:52 when the Shellder jumps it sure looks like the head of a Golduck jumping and it's in the exact same area. There's already 2 Shellder in the air but that last one jumping is only on screen for a very short time. Seems like this could be a very possible culprit for the belief that they saw Golduck and it was just a quick little bottom of the screen shot that could have been mentally registered as something it wasn't.
Exactly what I thought.
This game did not come out before online message boards. I remember neoseeker at this time mentioning how to evolve golduck. It was full of fake unlockables. Smash 64 said you could unlock slippy by beating the game with peppy and vice versa 😂
Worth pointing out for anyone still in disbelief, the lack of assets for Golduck really is the be-all-end-all. Without code to tell it what a Golduck is, a 64-bit computer with no Internet connection wasn't going to suddenly learn how to draw a Golduck and make it behave normally with the rest of the game.
I will never forgive Golduck for not being a psychic type…
It could be possible that it’s only part of some original cartridges.
I got pokemon snap the same christmas it released with a giant strategy guide. I played the hell out of that game. I cant say I specifically remember getting golduck. But i can say when i replayed river a few years back i remember thinkihg something was missing and kept trying to make something happen with psyduck. Something seems off with that level for sure but it was always a trippy level
I owned Pokemon Snap, and I legit remember Koffing in game.
He was in the Articuno stage and evolved the same way that Magneton, you had to get three Weezings in the same spot with the gas bombs, and then they combined into a Koffing.
I must be crazy tho. Dont remember Ninetails, or Golduck.
I do know you can evolve a Poliwhirl into a Poliwrath later in the stage, and that you can knock those Metapods into the water to get Butterfree. Please tell me I didnt imagine those too.
Omg that is a crazy account, but makes so much sense! Lmao. Getting the three Koffing together would have been insane.
Not to be rude, but you can't even remember Koffing and Weezing's names. You got them reversed. Koffing is in the game, Weezing is not.
I would buy some air tags for your belongings if I were you, lmao
I have a Mandela effect revolving Golduck,
I COULD HAVE SWORN GOLDUCKS’ SHINY WAS PINK, DIS ANYONE ELSE BELIEVE THAT???
Idk what it is, I forgot, but I remember checking a month ago and figuring out that his shiny was not pink.
Theres a video here on TH-cam called "6 FACTS AND SECRETS from P.S. you didn't know" and he list Golduck as one of the 63 at the 3:06 mark. So that proves it.....right? 😂...he also has on the list Ponyta, Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon so he can't be wrong!
The Golduck being found by hitting Psyduck onto the stump sounds identical to how I discovered Slowbro - which was my final Pokémon found. I only first saw it after turning around, and seeing it from a distance, and getting a poor score. Considering my story is similar to one of the commenter's comments, I think that their memory got muddled with Slowpoke into Slowbro. Makes sense considering Slowpoke is right next to Psyduck's location.
Vulpix could be explained by the Charmander into Charmeleon evolution right next to it, as well as the final evolution to Charizard at the end of the stage.
My theory is similar to your explanation at the 14:00 mark, but taking it one step further, by comparing what is close to both of them.
I played Pokemon Snap for N64 extensively back in the day, and this is not something I remember at all or even ever heard of. There has to be some other Pokemon media or something where a Vulpix or Psyduck evolve by falling into lava or water or something. The details from people stories match up too well, but I know for a fact that does not happen in Snap N64. Crazy how this stuff happens. Maybe something like this happens in the anime when they meet the character from Snap?
Golduck and wigglytuff are definitely in my memory but I was young so I don’t remember them counting it..
It was probably just us hanging around as kids claiming we’ve found something in it and then we just rolled with it and spread the rumor to next kid lol
You can get gold duck, you have to combo the flute, apple and pester ball I've done it tons of times. My sister was the one who showed me, it works.
This is also for people saying you can't get Mewtwo in gen 1, yes you can, you have to get everything correctly and certain conditions to follow and a new cave will open up in an earlier area and Mewtwo will be there.
you should do a video on the highest score for every pokemon in snap
One kid in my school claimed it was possible to get golduck, he was very convinced it was real too.
Maybe it was an online rumor at the time like Mew under the truck.
Never heard anyone mention Ninetails before though.
WAIT NINE TAILS ISNT IN SNAP I had no idea, but gold duck, I never thought that was true.
I definitely don't remember Golduck in Pokemon Snap, but I remember this model in Pokemon Stadium.
I think another aspect of this is that the area Psyduck swims around in is so big and intricately designed, it looks like there should be more going on there than there is.
I swore on Super Mario Brothers 3 I beat the first boom boom and the door that's supposed to appear after you beat Bowser was there I went through pressed up game over
This definitely is the kinda thing that happens when you play a game as a child and then don’t touch it for years on end. A lot of those childhood theories transform into false memories. Its really interesting how that happens.
Wait...he wasnt in snap? I thought i remembered psyduck turning into golduck when hit with a pesterball 😢
Some childhood memories I am not sure where dreams or real life. Also for me the color of objects in memories are hard. I know not to trust it.
1. They played Stadium in tandem with Snap and their recollecton of both games got mixed up
2. They're lying and playing stupid on purpose
solved
I think the confusion comes from Slowpoke. It's in the same level, you make it evolve, and they're both dumb (sorry). Psyduck's high interaction across the stage probably taunted the idea and helped mix the memory of trying AND achieving it.
i played pokemon snap well over 60 times as a kid and teen and never seen a golduck.now after watching this video its weird some false memory popped up out the blue saying maybe i have and i know thats just some mass hysteria bs that isnt true at all. see its easy to suggest something and people will believe it to be true even if its false.
I am here to be the killer of fun. I used to play this a lot as a kid. I remember psyduck very well. I dont remember golduck ever appearing.
Same, and I still play through it every once in a while just because it's so easy and short. I think it's goofy that this video even had to be made; literally just play the game lads
This person keeps saying "straddling in the water". What do they think that means?
gonna be honest, i played that game heaps as a kid and never remember seeing golduck
They were probably evolving the other water pokemon, Slowpoke and their memories got mixed up.
I wasn't sure of the method behind it, but I remember being pretty convinced as a kid that I could evolve the Squirtles in the valley stage for a while. Don't know what made me outright stop believing but it may have just been having access to the internet by a certain point.
Omg I wish! There are like 4 of them. It's a really complex high score setup. I wish you could get Wartortle!
thought this was a very easy question but then i realized not everyone does a 100% playthrough of pokemon snap every year...
edit: it only takes like 2 hours, its like a fun night with snacks and a fun pokemon island
Yeah it's a quick game. I recorded a "Longplay" last year to get clean footage of the game for these videos, and it only took me about 95 minutes.
Between this game and Pokémon Stadium, there’s so much confusion
Golduck is under Charizard - I've seen him
I swore there was a golduck at the same point, i couldnt remember the details through, but the stump did seem to be part of it, but realised it wasnt on my recent playthrough.
Moral of the story: Golduck isn't canon to Pokemon snap universe
My friends, I was very lucky on this video. I saw a video upload was 6 seconds ago. That has got to be a Goose's Gamer Folklore world record.
You were actually the Second comment!
@@GamerFolklore Still the 6 second world record for the video! 🤣 But still, great video. These urban legends for Late 90's Nintendo games were wild. I remember spending hours in Super Mario 64 looking for urban legends of secret boss fights, including another Bowser. What is funny is I did find one eventually (the Wiggler fight) that was super obvious the whole time in the the Tiny Huge level.