The WEIRD World of Pokemon Spin-off Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.พ. 2023
- Today for Pokemon Day, we are taking a look at the long list of Pokemon Spin-Off games that really defined why Pokemon was so great and yet, so weird. While we don't touch on the larger spin-off games that have their own long list of sequels, we do however get to look at some of the best memories in Pokemon while growing up over the past couple decades as well as the not so great memories too.
Check out my video Pokemon: The COMPLETE Guide To Ash’s Journey (Part 1) over on my other channel: • The COMPLETE Guide To ...
Written By: Jordan Fringe
Edited By: Jordan Fringe & Jackson S.
Gameplay Captured by: PaleoSteno & Jackson S.
Channel Art By: Jerry Meehan - เกม
Thanks so much for watching! Let me know some of your memories with these Pokemon spin-off games that you personally have!
Happy Pokemon Day Jordan😁
Pokemon red rescue team made me go through 5 GBAs and every single time whether I lost the GBA or it broke, the first game to go into that was red rescue team again, mystery dungeon will always be the absolute best in the entirety of the series in my opinion.
Interesting
Thanks for always having the best content waiting on Yu-Gi-Oh review
I always love playing Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2. I hope they make a modern version with Pokemon form Gen 1-9
Im so mad that Conquest didnt sell well because i wouldve loved a second one. Its actually so obscure that when a youtuber i watch was streaming it people were constantly joining stream and asking if it was a fan game or romhack
Also pokemon shuffle was so much fun. I remember having every pokemon from stry and events at one point and then my phone broke and i lost all my progress. And yes i paid for gems so my money went down the drain for that and several other pokemon games
Pokemon quest was also really fun and now has become a completley seperate game in japan. It looks so cool compared to what we got in the west
I’m surprised myself. I had basically every Pokémon game on DS but Conquest. I want to play it someday.
Same with Ranger, I really want them to bring that kind of game back
I'm still salty they never brought Pokémon Conquest to Spain.
I remember getting “Hey You, Pikachu” and being very annoyed with Pikachu not understanding me. Not because I was screaming into the mic as a kid, but because the BlockBuster mic was borked.
This was one I never rented or played as a kid when it was first new, but one I played with a buddy years later as teenagers. Maybe it was just because the mic was so old, but we couldn't get Pikachu to understand a single thing lol
@@jordankeller4253 nah, that game always had poor voice recognition.
What a weird time. When most "grown ups" weren't gaming and there wasn't online patches. Adults probably just assumed the kids were playing it wrong (like mine)
Borked?😅 that’s a new one
@@mattodude237 Aside from they were younger themselves, this is pretty much the main and only time my parents ever played games with me, although it was still a rare sight. My mom would play Ms. Pacman with me on the PS1, and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on the GBC.
I have a very vague memory of my dad playing one of the Oddworld games with me. It was such a vague set of memories, that I wasn't sure if that game was even real or just a fever dream until I was old enough to find it on the internet.
My mom will still play the odd Namco arcade game with me if she's either drunk or I twist her arm and enough, but my dad hasn't played a game since like, 2002, and that's never gonna change lol
WAIT... Remember when Jordan Fringe and Jordan Fringe Gaming dropped 3 hours of Pokemon Content for Pokemon Day? I remember!
not all heroes wear capes o7
Yeah I remember that, it feels like it was just yesterday.
So awesome
Pokémon is one of the few things worth remembering that are spoken of here.
Happy pokemon Jordan day
Can't wait to see you touch the Ranger, Mystery Dungeon, Rumble & Poképark franchises. Out of the games you talked about today, the one that stands out to me is Pokémon Trozei, although for me it was called Pokémon Link as it had a different name in Europe
With you on that. Shadows of Almia was EVERYTHING i wanted in a Pokemon Game, except the loop mechanics.
Pokémon Conquest is so insanely fun and complex and I’m so sad that it sold as poorly as it did. It’s unironically a top 5 game for me (definitely some nostalgia in there) and my second favorite Pokémon game behind Platinum
As a kid I genuinely got hours and hours of entertainment from Pokémon channel. It was just super simple and relaxing as a young kid even though I knew it was pretty simple and not much gameplay. Didn't change my enjoyment and excitement with the game
Same for me
Comforting
You're not alone. Heck, I just started my wife on her first playthrough last week and she's loving it~
@@CyberSurferXDMe and my girl also played it and it was fun! Just something chill and pikachu being adorable also helps lol
I had Pokemon Channel when I was really little and I do NOT understand why the saddest music ever would play if you turned off the TV in the room. I remember that music actually making me cry so I made sure to NEVER turn the TV off. I still had fun playing the game though. It was super chill and helped me learn to read (same with Animal Crossing).
43:22 The girl that appears Pokemon Dream Radar is Professor Burnet, the wife of Professor Kukui (the pokemon professor from the Sun and Moon games and the Sun and Moon anime). She debuted in Pokemon Dream Radar but also appears in the Sun and Moon games as Kukui´s wife and as a researcher specialized in the relationship of pokemon with other dimensions (hence why she appears in the alola games) and she got married to Kukui and had a child in the anime as well.
small trivia about the Card Pop feature in Pokemon TCG, due to being developed by Hudson Soft; they also produced Infrared Catridges called the HuC-1 cartridge; which was used in the Japanese version of Pokemon TCG, they called it GB Kiss (though TCG called it Card Pon), which was also used in games like Robopon, Pocket Family (1 and 2), and the japanese version of Pocket Bomberman. there's probably more games that utilized GB Kiss, but information is pretty limited.
There are also HuC-3 cartridges which are larger than normal GBC cartridges, however i'm unsure if the external-acessible battery compartment is used for holding the game's saves or to power the IR sensor on the cartridge itself.
fun fact about pokemon quest
while it was basically abandoned on release internationally, the game eventually got a release in china where it has a lot more content including pokemon from other generations (last pokemon i remember them adding was duraludon, from gen 8)
since it seems like the game will never get updated, it's safe to say that it became a china exclusive game
This took me a bit to look up, but as a kid I had a Pokémon "Battle Trainer" from Hasbro that has these figures that you'd connect to the handheld device to use to battle in the game, which itself was in black and white and had very bit-crushed sound effects. Come to think of it, it was pretty much an early version of amiibos in some regards.
I had some of these as a kid and you're right, it was hard to find any info on it when I looked a few years ago. They were fun at the time, but I think the gameplay was pretty shallow
I still have some! A couple unopened packages of the figures and like 2-3 bases. The rest of my figures are unfortunately quite damaged. :(
I’m actually so glad you’re finally doing Pokémon content, I’ve been waiting just because I knew you were into it and I love how you cover topics. I’m genuinely so excited and I’m playin through White 2 rn
I spent a year and a half completing _Pokémon Picross_ without ever spending a cent on it. The grind is reeeeeeeeal.
I loved the minigames from Stadium so much. It's unfortunate that we'll never get a 3rd one
Basically battle revolution is the 3rd
I'd say Colliseum/XD are 3/4 and Battle Revolution is 5.@@MrTrailerMania
What a blast to the past.
My brother and I play the heck out of the mini-games of both Pokémon Stadiums.
Not to mention Battle Revolution where I could live out my love for building themed teams like I never could before thanks to all the cosmetics.
And don't get me started to Pokémon Channel: I was literally ADDICTED to the game. I played it daily even after I had unlocked everything...until the Wii came out...
Pokémon Conquest was one of my FAVORITE Pokémon games and everyday I hope that it gets a sequel. I have played and replayed that game so many times
Really wish for more Coliseum esque games. The linear singular story telling could really help with world building, judging from BDSP they aren't into the gigantic reboots anymore.
I had Pokemon Channel as a kid. I had an obsession with Pikachu so it was loads of fun for me to just hang out with my own Pikachu and watch TV and run around outside lol. I remember the Pichu Bros. series fondly, as my sibling and I watched the hell out of it. We even got inspired to make some stories of our own based on it. Good times...I still have the game, I might come back to it one day.
One of my earliest memories was walking out of Target with my very own Pokemon Stadium N64 collection. I played the hell out of that game/system
Hell yeah, I love pokemon. Glad you made this one. Pokemon Conquest is hands down my favorite spin off.
Man you have been on a rampage, 7 hr long videos, awesome pokemon vids, and running two awesome channels. Tons of great content and Im here for it all
THANK YOU for caring about Pokémon Puzzle League. It’s one of my favourite spin-offs to this day. And I dream for it too come back in a new light. (Not the original on online, which is nice, but a new edition/sequel).
Yes! Me and my partner played pokemon puzzle league the whole of last summer and it was great. Seriously such an underrated gem.
Good video.
Conquest is definitely interesting I haven't
played much of it. It's a shame it's so expensive these days.
Glad to see someone else who enjoyed Puzzle League and Conquest!! I played Puzzle League a ton on the N64 back in the day. So when they re-released it for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack I was super happy. It had so many modes too, not just the tournament part. There was a Practice Mode (that's where Tracey shows up), a Spa Service mode where you fight Team Rocket, and even a Marathon mode. The 3D puzzle mode was also hard because you could easily lose just by not paying attention to what was happening on the back of the cyllinder.
Conquest I found really interesting. I didn't have much experience with turn-based strategy games at the time (just Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and maybe Sakura Wars: So Long My Love for Wii), but I still did ok. I had no idea the postgame was so long! I still haven't finished the postgame even after all these years. Back in the day there were also special missions you could get for Conquest that were able for download over wi-fi for a limited time, which I got, so my postgame is probably even longer!
I played the Detective Pikachu game prior to seeing the movie, and they honestly did a good job adapting it for the most part, aside from a few additions and changes. The movie also gave the mystery of Tim's dad's disappearance a resolution, which the game does not (which makes me wonder if that's why we haven't gotten the sequel yet?? That being said, Pokémon Sleep was announced at that same press conference, and it's FINALLY coming out this summer, so I guess there's still hope). The gameplay overall is pretty fun.
I haven't played much Unite either. It's kinda fun but I honestly suck at it. At least the battles are short, so you can play it whenever you have time.
Café Remix is pretty fun. Like other similar games I've played, the puzzles get harder as you progress, but thankfully don't seem quite as dependent on microtransactions as other similar games. You can also easily gain staff members through the Delivery feature, where Pelipper delivers food from the cafe to random Pokémon. You get one free delivery per day, though you can pay to get more. You can sometimes also get more delivery opportunities through events they have from time to time. There are also limited events to get rarer Pokémon and/or items, and I think seasonal events too. Also, as you said, the animation style is adorable.
Really cool to see all these side games get more love!
I 100% completed Pokémon Picross and loved every moment of it, and I was super scared that it might’ve been too nothing to be included in this video, so when he eventually got to the 3D3 Eshop games and I heard the name of the title, me face absolutely lit up
I tried to complete it but the paywall was strong, you either pay or grind forever to unlock new zones
@@riccardomosena4162 I willingly payed the amount to get access to infinite picrites (which was about 30 dollars if I remember correctly) because at that point it was basically paying to own the game, just like any other picross game on the 3DS
that game looks weird....looks like the game some one loves, but no one any one usually knows who.
My favourite spin offs/side games include Battle Revolution and Pokemon Ranger! There were so MANY good ones they should have continued! In my opinion, Revolution was more of a sequel to Pokemon XD and Colosseum than Stadium.
Man, Pokemon Stadium 2 is like, peak Pokemon nostalgia for me.
I vividly remember as a little kid every weekend when my family would rent stuff from Blockbuster we would always get a movie and both me and my brother would get a choice of N64 game to play on my brothers console.
He would always get something different but i always rented Stadium 2 without fail, sure i didnt have any of the Gen 2 games so i couldnt use the transfer mechanic at all but i still found enjoyment in that game anyway.
Honestly it's weird my parents never just bought the game for us outright with how often we rented it.
I made my friends mom rent it when I spent da night and he wanted to rent a ps2 game as it jus came out but I was still in my n64 pokemon phase even tho I had a ps2 too. Bro didn't even wanna play it with me lmao. Fast forward to last week. I jus beat it lol
I appreciate how comprehensive this video is. You talk about games I remember playing but never hear anyone talk about. This is the first video I have seen that mentions Turbo, Masters Arena, and Champion Island.
Pokémon conquest is such a blast, I love some of the mods made for the game too. There’s this one mod manager that lets you completely alter the games properties, it’s great
Pokémon Conquest is one of my all time favorites!! Also love Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness. Wish they’d all get ports or sequels.
That face from the TCG computer software didn't seem so nightmarish when I was a child. Thanks for that, Jordan.
My memory of Hey You Pikachu was I couldn't afford to get it at the time with my allowance and for some reason two kids at my school from different classes and at different times of the day just came up and handed me the carts and the mic plugin at the playground. I have no idea why they gave them to me or where they got them from but it just blew my little mind!
One thing I love about your videos is how you do ads. Like I love how we take a break with an literal ad for the topic, then it goes into a TH-cam ad but like I’m not mad
This pokemon content really made my day, thank you for all your hard work!
im excited for you to cover the pokemon ranger and mystery dungeon series; they hold a special place in my heart!
Pokémon stadium will always be the greatest. I had sooooo much fun during my childhood battling and playing mini games w my siblings 🙌🏽
Pokemon puzzle league is also my favorite! I borrowed it from movie gallery/blockbuster as often as I was allowed to. I love the sequel too, they're definitely my favorite games on this list. Also played a lot of the master quest cd
Thanks for making our days a little brighter, Jordan. You're the man!
The way you activated such a deep memory with those Poke-roms!! Thanks for the Pokemon videos Jordan, they're awesome!
I love stadium games so much - fun and really tough with rentals=) Thank you for the video!
I think Pokken Tournament got overlooked hard and definitely deserves a second chance. The game is so fun to play and has a perfect balance between in-depth complexity and pick-up and play casual fun
Out of every one of them, Hey You Pikachu will always be my favorite.
The two that held the most of my attention were Pokemon Stadium mini games and Unite. Had a blast with both
I have nothing but praise for the content you produce! It's one great video after another!
Man you're like Scott The Woz if he liked Pokemon. Very good video
Thank you for bringing up those Beckett magazines. I had a very faint memory of those awful Gold and Silver pokemon designs, but until now I honestly wasn't for sure if it was a thing or just my mind playing tricks 😅
I cannot wait until you drop the Pokemon Ranger video. I love those games, but no one ever talks about them. The mystery dungeon games are great too.
You just awaked a memory of mine about that one review which trashed Trozei for being too easy compared to the Puzzle game. I remember it complaining about that combos made it easier to match more.
Except Trozei plays very little like Panel de Pon. In Trozei you move an entire row/column at once while in Pon you swap two blocks. Both require you to match blocks but the way you do it is very different.
Also levels in Trozei start out slow but they become faster and with less room for error later on (also good luck hitting Target Score in the Hard versions of the stages lmao).
I remember getting the original Pokemon Snap for my birthday and ignoring my party guests for a good portion of time just to play it. When I heard that a sequel was finally coming out I actually teared up a little bit. I've played it so much since it's release and even have level scores that put me in the top 100 globally and nationally.
My top 6* spinoffs [no particular order] Conquest, Coloseum, GBC TCG 1, Pinball, GBC Pokémon puzzle challenge, and Pokémon channel [honorable mentions:] Stadium and BR
26:44 That Skitty with Pay Day is worth it, since in the later games there seemingly still is no other way fof Skitty to learn it.
Man I love all of ur videos😩 gives me the most amazing dose of nostalgia with every video.
Thanks for the support!
every time I see footage of hey you pikachu I remember all the hours I poured into it as a kid, to the point I get emotional, and at the same time, all my frustration that they never remade it for the DS comes back. I'm still baffled and saddened they never took such a golden opportunity. can you imagine exploring a nice fall forest with Pikachu on the DS and talking into the microphone and him still not understanding you half the time? (though I swear I remember practicing and experimenting and did get it to listen to me more but it took a LONG time to figure out) it would have been glorious
I vividly remember getting one of them weird pc discs and it was eevee. My nana found it in a charity shop. At the time she’d buy me anything pokemon themed and my family had an awful computer so i tried to use it. I nearly destroyed my families computer as it lagged like crazy and didn’t work as well as anticipated. I didn’t realise there was so many (I think my mum threw it away because she didn’t want me playing a slow game that ducked up our computer)
For all my Conquest brothers, 31:05
I LOVE CONQUEST
The Pokerom things were my first Pokemon game if you count the spinoffs so I'm happy you mentioned them & laughed at the fact that you have the two that I have, Slowking & Lugia.
Takes me back to sitting on the floor trying to figure out how to teach my parent to play with a n64 controller so we could play those Pokémon stadium mini games together.
Really liked this video, brought me back! Would also be cool to go over the non-digital spinoffs such as the unique board games. I remember the Pokemon rumble TCG set which used a custom playmat area and dice for attacking.
I got pokemon channel on accident from a dude at gamestop. Got home and was like "this isn't coliseum!"
There was a really old board game me and my friend used to play (back when we were children). It was only the orginal 150, but I remember it fondly.
I still use my Pokemon Pikachu 2 as a pedometer while I'm at work and I'm 30. Also, you just unlocked a core memory of me having a Sega Pico when I was really little. I'm 99% certain I had the Busy Town, Winnie The Pooh and Sonic the Hedgehog booklets for it.
Man...I completly forgot about pokemon pinball...but man this video made me remember the good old times
I didn't have a memory card for my GCN when I got Pokemon Channel, so I had to leave my console on for days to play it. It was worth it to get Jirachi in Ruby though
The mention of the Beckett Card magazines unlocked a buried memory
Pokemon Channel was my JAM growing up. I never really understood what was happening or why, but there were cute pokemon on screen so i loved it anyway
I would love to see a new Pokémon Ranger that has the Legends: Arceus gameplay with Abilities working in and out of battles.
For new Pokémon snap, the Pokémon company was so impressed about how pokken looked visually that they tasked Bandai namco who developed pokken to be the one working on new Pokémon snap. So my second favourite Pokémon spinoff led the way for my favourite Pokémon spinoff.
The jingle that plays when a new game is mentioned is a rendition of "Another One Bites the Dust" right?
The Pokèmon Mini is one of my secret fave consoles and I still carry it around a lot because it's just so small and the mini games are perfect for killing a few minutes instead of playing on your phone. I own all the games that came out for it on the European market.
There was 3 mystery dungeon games in the Japan on the Wii (they were all very similar). There was also going to be Pokemon Picross GBC game that didnt come out officially but was shown in a magazine. That wouldve been good to mention during the segment on Pokemon Picross 3ds
Pokemon Pinball Ruby/Sapphire was a revelation! Great Stuff!
Im still to this day planning on beating the original Pokemon ranger game !
Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almnia is hands down the best
((I think Jaiden animations did a video on it , it's a fun watch if you want the whole story ))
I'm playing the first game now after realizing kid me started with par 2/3 part series later
When Jordan mentioned leaving Pokémon in pokemon ranch I felt that 😢 cause I keep thinking about my emerald and gen 4 pokemon I left and cant get back cause you can only return them to the same game you transferred them from.
Was there someone at the ranch who looks after them? (Never played it lol) It's almost better that they're there, being taken care of and having fun, rather than sitting in the cartridge... I only say this because I had a guttural pang of sadness the other day, thinking about my original Pokémon Red team on GB - I have no idea where that cartridge went. Too bad I never sent them to the ranch hahaha
Pokemon Conquest is my favorite spinoff after mystery dungeon and I loved the matching pokemon outfits
“If you didn’t have this game… who even were you?” I was too poor to have all these games 😞
Loving the game videos you’ve been making lately!
Pokémon channel was one of my favorite games growing up, I completely forgot about it until now!!!
Okay but like, living life out on the ranch sounds infinitely better than sitting in a box all day! xD
I came for Pokemon Conquest, but I stayed for the great commentary and style.
10:43 The Game Boy Tower wasn't a new addition for the Gen 2 Stadium game. It was in the previous game, I use it all the time. It just gained access to the Gen 2 games in Stadium 2.
I had a Pokemon Pikachu (the tiny yellow Gameboy looking tamagotchi device) when I was a kid, man that thing was so fun for it's time.
I still have it, but it doesn't work anymore.
I remember loving Pokémon Art Academy, if I remember correctly there was also 2 other free DLC that gave Rayquaza and a Halloween themed lesson (Gourgeist and Mismagius) which were treats to have.
Man so much effort in this video wow! This was awesome dude
The original pokemon pinball is still my favourite spin off. It was one of the few games I held onto from the era when you could go into gamestop for gameboy games (those were the days), and I still have it and play it from time to time. It has just the right amount of things to do in my opinion
Pokémon conquest is my favorite Pokémon spin off, I’ve been working on getting every Pokémon available
I’ve done every story campaign in the game and have been figuring out how to level up all my warlords to unlock all the legendaries and rare encounters
52:39 Wow, talk about a flashback. I grew up with a Mac during this era and only once saw this disk at a friend's house who had a PC. All this time I was never sure if it was some knockoff piece of software!
I wish i had memories of pokemon art academy when i was younger, i didn’t even know it was a thing till last week.
I love your overview and content!
Only wish there were timestamps in this video so I can quick show off to friends who aren't aware of the chronological list of side games XD
Wow what a great video!
The part of games for pc unlocked A TON of childhood memories tho... Specially the rom and the creation studio, omg
I cannot wait for the PMD video.
My cousins had the Pikachu podometer! Never got to use it.
Pokémon Stadium was honestly one of my favorite games of all time. I was so invested as a kid and of course the OG Pokémon are the greatest, so I was loving that.
I like the mini game in Pokémon stadium 1/2. My little sister didn’t like Pokémon or many video games but she like to play the mini games with me.
I love Pokémon and I have fond memories of Pokémon Snap, Pokémon Channel, and Pokémon Ranch. I really do need to play Pokémon Conquest though, it looks awesome.
It really sucks that The Pokemon series only got one crossover game (apart from Super Smash Bros of course)
being Pokemon Conquest. Apparently there was going to be a Pokemon game crossing over with Fire Emblem
but that never happened which is sad because I love both franchises. I would love to see Pokemon crossover with
another beloved JRPG series or one of the many Mon based games out there that aren't as popular as Pokemon,
but still have their fans.
I used to be OBSESSED with Pokken Tournament on my Wii U! I refused to use any other pokemon other than Pikachu Libre and would only spam the same button cause I had no clue what I was doing lol
Out of the games discussed here the ones I think I played the most when I was a kid were trozei, the trading card game and the Pokémon pinball gba. I sunk so many hours into those and still go back to them occasionally years later. I also remember playing battle revolution a bunch with my younger brother
Pokemon Channel and Pokemon Ranch give me the most fond memories
Fabulous video sir ❤❤❤ It was a joy to watch an remember along 😊