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When I was just a little boy... I went through the dark tunnel with no flash. No flash. I did not know what flash was until my next Pokémon game. This might be my biggest flex. I traveled along the cave walls until I eventually got to the other side of the cave.... it was the most satisfying bright light or ladder I climbed ever. Those challenges of not doing things the right way made my Pokémon so effin strong. My cousin would rare candy all his Pokémon and I still beat him. I miss those Pokémon every single day. I lost them in my crystal game when I forgot it on a bus on my way to Texas. To this day it's one of my saddest moments. The bus hadn't Departed yet. I went inside to look for the game! I could not find it!! I miss you charizard and gengar! If you find a kido ash. That's me take care of my mon please.
"Hammer away is always the answer when you're in a Pokemon battle." This is how I play every single Pokemon game. Who needs strategy when you have punching?
Only if Eric was still here so we could ask him what he was thinking when writing this guide. Rest in peace Eric. I will make sure to keep hammering away at my enemies!
Patrick Ilse probably suicide or overdose. You can tell from the way the obit is written if you’re familiar with their style of writing. There’s an unspoken rule when writing about certain events they use certain vocabulary.
Eric was a literary genius. He wrote an intense psychological thriller from the perspective of someone learning English through old cowboy movies. This character progressively becoming more violent. Seeking destruction. He wrote it all in the format of a gaming maual.
First gym : I am gonna be the very best. After beating the champion rival : Welcome to the human race *light up a cigarette* No trainers left alive, new dark age for humanity. Thank you Eric.
So what you're telling me is that this guide is pretty aggressive when it refers to defeating Trainers, overestimates the effectiveness of Electric Pokémon, hypes Giovanni's Nidoking and gives bad advice against him? Well, I think it's pretty obvious this guide was written by Team Rocket.
As a kid, I never knew that flash existed, so I just learned to walk through the tunnel in the dark. My friends and brother didn't know how, so I did it for them
Good times buddy I played gold first and both that and blue in monochrome on a pocket I remember thinking the whole way navigating by the bumping noise of the trainer hitting an obstacle dam not giving you flash before the cave is harsh! How my heart sank when nobody rewarded me for the journey
Plot Twist : Erik is actually Giovanni, and wants players to feel that 'oh shet' moments when he pranks them to use electric against ground. (edit : Holy shet thank you for 1.6k likes this is the highest I ever got haha)
Lowkey a little heartbreaking to hear the author passed away, while I'm pretty sure it got lost or was thrown away when we moved like 12 years ago I did actually have a copy of this guide and the one for Ruby and Sapphire too.
Right, I still got my guide for X&Y. Turned out that I don't even needed it, but at least I looked up to the type-advantages for and against the fairy-type. And there were nice pictures of some Pokémon I cut out off of the book to decorate my GBAs DSs and 3DS. 😂
It's kinda sad they're dying, though. Obviously the internet is more useful but there's something about a physical strategy guide that's just nice in a way.
Rip to people thinking their Machamp was good against dragonite. P.s. i know that Rip means Rest In Peace and _should_ only be used with the dead, but this is the internet, now rip means "F" or "i'm acknowledging the pain"
The original gen 1 guides greatest offense was tell players they could start the game over and it would carry over all their pokemon into the next playthrough, so they could acquire the starters and other fossil pokemon they missed on the second playthrough.
I had the same guide. For some reason, I SPECIFICALLY remember the Cherrim x Pikachu pairing was used as an example when explaining how to breed a Pichu with Volt Tackle.
@Jo Jo That's how most translations from Japanese feel like, to be honest Especially dub scripts. That's the main reason why every anime has this certain weird "vocabulary spice" to it that just doesn't feel natural. Professional translators aren't the kinds of people to "mediate" emotions and inflections in a way that makes sense in other languages, having known some of them. They're just one or two steps away from translating things word-by-word.
I love during the beginning of the guide you made fun of "Hammering away" at the gym leaders, but towards the end you use it so casually. Eric would be proud.
I just wanna say i thought really wholesome you just taking a little time off your video to talk about the guy who made/translated this all those years ago, so thank you for that!
I had this guide as a child and I still remember being stoked that I was the only kid who got LeafGreen instead of FireRed solely because Dragonair is allegedly slightly less rare in LeafGreen and how Porygon cost significantly less.
My brother and I got the original Red and Blue Strategy Guide when it first came out...because we wanted to see all the Pokemon. We knew about the show, but had no idea about the games. The only mistake I saw in it was they mixed up Mewtwo and Marowak's sprite at one point, but otherwise I remember it being pretty accurate. I'm also glad you spoke kindly of Hitmonlee, and discovery of our mutual love of Primape is most pleasing. I'm happy to bury the hatchet and let peace reign between our nations once more.
Yeah I had a strategy guyide for Red and blue to but in Swedish. What I can remember from it it didnt have any glaring mistakes in it since it got me through the games a couple of times until I learned them. But yeah, looking at all the Pokemon was some of the best thing you got out of the guides.
I love how at the start of the video "Hammer away" was just a strange throwaway phrase but by the end, its kinda like a short eulogy I love that, and im gonna start saying it too to honor our boy Eric
I didn't even plan to reference it so much. I wrote and recorded the script as I played the game rather than just writing it all at the end in one sitting which I think made it even better
@@PaPaSea i certainly think it did :) I just started a regular old run on Leaf Green (i always liked the choice of pokemon in that one over Fire Red) and it really does bring back memories
"Exeggcute is, well, a sad joke-" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's honestly the greatest thing. Whoever wrote or translated that guide basically got paid to roast the rival. X,D
Older sister in my case she did so much of the tedious crap I couldn't be bothered to she also taught me not to only level up my starter. Iirc my charizard in blue was level 36 while the rest were as low as 17 😆.
i remember when i was like 6 i played spongebob on the gameboy advance and got stuck and asked my father to help me, like the madlad he is, he found some nice cheat codes for me and i remember feeling unstoppable and the most powerful ive ever been lol. never had problems with pokemon or anything else tho which is funny enough when you think about it...
I remember when I was 9 and didn't speak English. Ruby was my first game and I asked my brother if I had to write my name and he said he'd do it for me. After showing my mother how proud I was of my game file she asked me why my character was named "Dork" 😂 Luckily I was only in Rusborow so I could start a new file.
- Starter Level 78 with all the cool TM moves - HM Slave - A Electric-type that only gets used when the Starter has a type disadvantage - Three underleveled Pokemon that are only there to fill slots or be sacks to heal the starter isnt that how we all played mons back in the day :D
Depends from the game,but my setup for FireRed was : Starter,always with the highest level and one of the starter specific moves A Flying type for Fly,maybe an elemental bird One of the Eevolutions The Snorlax with Immunity,my number 2,and with Metronome The other 2 may vary.
Rewatching after seeing the more recent ones. And I love how the annoyance of "hammer away" becomes a staple in every video after this one. Excellent homage to Eric
Bro... the flash thing! When I was a kid I didn't know that was a thing.. nonetheless after hours...HOURS. ... I made it though the dark cave and as a result memorized how to get through it without flash lol
when i was a little kid, i was so confident in my gamer skills that i always laughed at the notion of ever buying one of those guide books. "well, im clearly better at this game i've never played than the professionals who are literally PAYED to know their way around the game"... it makes me very happy to see after all these years that i was absolutely right.
R.i.p. Eric, you will be missed for all the guides you made that me and thousands of other children read over and over again. May you keep hammering away at your opponents wherever you are😊
Honestly I love these sort of videos. You’re one of the few Poketubers nowadays who actually uploads new and interesting videos unlike the repetitive top 10 formula everyone knows and hates lol
I hope to god this gets noticed. I first beat Pokemon red as a 5 year old by only leveling charizard to 100. Literally ran in grass until level 100 because I knew nothing else to do. Lol
My first game was yellow and I never fought Brock until Pikachu was at level 30+. Pika was like level 80 by the time I beat the elite four and my others were all at level 30
@@Turial55 saaaame! Lol!! I was 8 yo, my Pikachu was at 74. Yellow version. Don't know if I battled Elite 4 or not though. I just loved to take a walk with my little yellow friend
Man, you sure are hammering away at these new video ideas. I wasn't really expecting this to take such a poignant turn near the end, but it is heartbreaking that Eric passed away at such a young age, especially since he really seemed to have a passion for covering anime based games, which were nowhere near as popular in the early 2000s. Thanks for being at our sides for all those adventures, Eric, before the days when walkthroughs were a few clicks away, we salute you
Did anyone else other than me never learn what the original Rock Tunnel in gen1 looked like? I never found flash, so I memorized how to navigate along the walls and even where every trainer was... ahh the memories
Just watching this vid...I could easily see Caterpie sitting on his shoulder the whole way through. He wasn't the strongest but he was the heart of the team.
I like the statement “the older games aren’t any harder than the newer games like everyone says”. It feels like people confuse difficulty with grinding. If you fight a gym under level, it’s going to be hard. If you fight over leveled, it’s going to be easy. If you train you team to the same level as them, it becomes difficult but not impossible (even better if set mode is on)
Specifically; the need to grind. Which is still a sound point. You can go through the older games without needing to grind to get to the necessary level, it just means you'll probably be carrying less pokemon to level up, and rely more on your wits in battle than just primarily type advantages. If you're the type to use the exp share in newer games and you run through the old games the same way you run through the newer ones, you end up even-levelled or under. Which doesn't necessarily mean you're outmatched, since your pokemon's EV's may very well make up for the level difference. There are also little things that can make the older games harder, like how certain pokemon are screwed by how the movesets, or lack of physical/special split affect them. Or the number of instances where you need to find a certain pokemon type in order to beat something that most of your pokemon can't. We can't take for granted how newer gens offer both quality of life and more options for your pokemon. But generally, yes, the more you find yourself needing to grind the more difficult the game evidently is, as grinding is merely a method of reducing the difficulty that was initially presented to you.
Hi, long time Pokefan here. I was 10 when I got Red and loved it. My niece who is 10 recently got let’s go eevee, she didn’t have a clue how to go about the elite four. Grinding in itself is part of the diffficulty, the fact you don’t even have to fight Pokemon to catch them significantly reduces difficulty. Sword and Shield are beyond easy, exp share by default, your rival being pathetically easy and the constant hand holding takes away from problem solving. Also, going into a long cave and fighting through and risking dying and starting all over again was certainly difficult. Compare Sword to Red and get back to me lol
@@fresh4families the problem with the “difficulty” of older games is entirely preparedness. As long as you have potions on you, you really shouldn’t risk dying half way through a cave route and restarting. And even then you don’t have to fight the same trainers you already fought, so it makes it easier on your second run through. The idea of difficulty in my opinions, is no matter how prepared you are, how good you are, you will still have a difficult time doing something. So the fact that I can simply buy a few hyper potions and get through a cave very easily, doesn’t make it harder. And claiming that grinding is apart of the difficulty, I mean sure you can see it that way but it’s not like grinding is hard either. If you fight most trainers and any wild encounters, 90% of the time you’ll be within a 5 level gap of the gym.
Finding out about what happened to the guide's writer was sad, but that means all the more reason for you to continue, and to honor his memory. To "hammer away", on the challenge and on the rest of the year, for Eric's sake.
"Great to see the guide using a different word other than hammer" For some reason I feel like the guide telling you to "hammer" your rival wouldn't go over very well.
Nintendo: endorses guide that doesn’t show hot to catch Mewtwo Also Nintendo: doesn’t endorse competitive melee scene in which Mewtwo is unviable... Obvious conclusion? Mewtwo runs Nintendo.
ok so im only about halfway through but this concept makes me so happy??? ive been trying for a while to chase the feeling of nostalgia the older games give me, and following an official guide sounds like the PERFECT way to relive that nostalgia!!
I like how he switched to saying how Eric says rather than the guide says. For some reason, hammer away goes from dorky to charming when you associate someone with it. May Eric Rest In Peace
bro thank you for this series i truly like your style no fluff all straight to the point and my personal fav that you don't show the grinding!! thank you, we all just want the results so thanks again
It's crazy how 8 year old me was able to beat the whole game, reach passed the team rocket hideout on an isolated island without guides nor help. Pretty much had a lot of time back then.
Why is this crazy? I feel most kids did this. The games are meant for young players they are not supposed to be difficult...I had a few guides but only ever used them to look at the stats and available moves of the Pokémon. Has more fun exploring and figuring out everything on my own.
Idk why but this video brought me tears of joy. This game was all I had as a kid at age 6 and I had no idea what I was doing. I was always made fun of by my cousins for poor decisions when I battled and I would always need them to help me with gym battles. I’ve played through this game multiple times throughout my teen years and even into my 20s and have only just recently have beaten the elite four. Rip Eric
I have that exact same Pokemon FireRed LeafGreen guide, I begged my parents as a kid to buy it for me at a bookstore since I have FireRed, it was like $20 but I’m so glad I have it. Feels like a treasure.
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When I was just a little boy... I went through the dark tunnel with no flash. No flash. I did not know what flash was until my next Pokémon game. This might be my biggest flex.
I traveled along the cave walls until I eventually got to the other side of the cave.... it was the most satisfying bright light or ladder I climbed ever.
Those challenges of not doing things the right way made my Pokémon so effin strong.
My cousin would rare candy all his Pokémon and I still beat him.
I miss those Pokémon every single day. I lost them in my crystal game when I forgot it on a bus on my way to Texas.
To this day it's one of my saddest moments. The bus hadn't Departed yet. I went inside to look for the game!
I could not find it!! I miss you charizard and gengar!
If you find a kido ash. That's me take care of my mon please.
You and every 10 year old 😂@@xrpkidotec520
You calling Eric a "they" instead of just saying "he" is wild
@@bofasofa9399 I don’t see what the problem is both pronouns can still refer to Eric like that. I promise you it’s not that deep
@@xrpkidotec520
When your group gets an A+ on the project but you did absolutely nothing:
The Level 5 Caterpie
Caterpie came in clutch with that tackle to get the KO. He's 1 for 1 on reliability lol.
his name is dan
turns on GameBoy
grabs hammer
"Let's do this."
I make videos. Lol
I hate when I'm facing a pokemon and many of its moves can lay waste to my intrepid band in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
@@travisgraham6293 copied comment...
@@HorrorGuy96 so? It is still quite the funni
@@HorrorGuy96 copied comment
Beating Pokemon as Nintended
you get it
Hammering away*
@@PaPaSea and agense nintendo
Pun nintended.
Ahaha I was gonna say that! Darnit
"Hammer away is always the answer when you're in a Pokemon battle." This is how I play every single Pokemon game. Who needs strategy when you have punching?
That's such a Bruno sentence
If the other guy has a higher speed stat than you and they have a type advantage then you're screwed.
@@Halcon_Sierreno That's why I bring a couple of good type advantages to every fight.
Xactly.
The only stat we're reducing is the enemy's HP to zero. Hyper offense for the win baybee!
Only if Eric was still here so we could ask him what he was thinking when writing this guide. Rest in peace Eric. I will make sure to keep hammering away at my enemies!
For Eric
PaPaSea should buy those other guides and make a video about them!
Does anyone know why he died? Dying in your early 40's is not very common...
I'll also remember to do that in Leaf Green.
Patrick Ilse probably suicide or overdose. You can tell from the way the obit is written if you’re familiar with their style of writing. There’s an unspoken rule when writing about certain events they use certain vocabulary.
Eric was a literary genius. He wrote an intense psychological thriller from the perspective of someone learning English through old cowboy movies. This character progressively becoming more violent. Seeking destruction. He wrote it all in the format of a gaming maual.
The character's main weapon was a hammer, had alot of dry blood on it by the end probably
now I wanna read that!
Seriously? I kinda want to read it now. What's the name?
@@GamerGrovyle Prima Pokemon Firered and Leafgreen Strategy Guide....
First gym : I am gonna be the very best.
After beating the champion rival : Welcome to the human race *light up a cigarette*
No trainers left alive, new dark age for humanity. Thank you Eric.
I hate when I'm facing a pokemon and many of its moves can lay waste to my intrepid band in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
Yes!! Two shakes of a lamb's tail loool
@@mori5733 And your moves (with 90% accuracy) miss three times in a row. RNG my arse. 😝
Very relatable moment 👌
Yeah! Don’t forget when their ground types start laying the law on my type advantaged electric types!
So they hammered away at your pokemon?
So what you're telling me is that this guide is pretty aggressive when it refers to defeating Trainers, overestimates the effectiveness of Electric Pokémon, hypes Giovanni's Nidoking and gives bad advice against him?
Well, I think it's pretty obvious this guide was written by Team Rocket.
Or it was written by Ash. Would explain the whole "use electric vs ground type" bit.
@@illusionofquality979 lol
@@blaizemeaux definitely was written by ash, they overhype the hell out of pikachu specifically.
This gave me something to think about...
@@FatalHog but i mean so does team rocket
As a kid, I never knew that flash existed, so I just learned to walk through the tunnel in the dark. My friends and brother didn't know how, so I did it for them
Good times buddy I played gold first and both that and blue in monochrome on a pocket I remember thinking the whole way navigating by the bumping noise of the trainer hitting an obstacle dam not giving you flash before the cave is harsh! How my heart sank when nobody rewarded me for the journey
I would hug the wall until I found my way out.
Relatable
i did the same
We all did. The bumping into walls sound effect was our jam.
RIP to Eric. Dude didnt know what the hell he was talking about but he's still a legend
Plot Twist : Erik is actually Giovanni, and wants players to feel that 'oh shet' moments when he pranks them to use electric against ground.
(edit : Holy shet thank you for 1.6k likes this is the highest I ever got haha)
:0
Aim for the horn, Pikachu!
@@psychotheunsane7285 game: it doesn't affect ryhorn
@@soulhoney1908 The joke was from the anime. Ash shouted to his Pikachu to "aim for the horn".
@@psychotheunsane7285 yeah i know but imagine the anime with the game logic
Nintendo: *makes a character that sells Magicarp*
also Nintendo: "Yeah but don't buy it"
but it's always with good IV
It's cheaper to catch it yourself.
@@thewanderinggamer1369 but it tooks way longer
@@thewanderinggamer1369 a PokeBall costs ¥200 while the Magikarp costs ¥500. It *is* cheaper to catch one but you also can't do that til later
HAH
Me: "What i need to do here?"
Guide: "H A M M E R A W A Y"
It's the only way
Me: you mean hammer arm
Lowkey a little heartbreaking to hear the author passed away, while I'm pretty sure it got lost or was thrown away when we moved like 12 years ago I did actually have a copy of this guide and the one for Ruby and Sapphire too.
R.I.P Eric. Hammer away at those pearly gates, my friend. God bless.
God: Well, looks like you're going to hell
Eric: *hammers away at God*
@@nolanstauffer9405 It's worked before, it'll work again
Anyone else feel offended he chose bulbasur
@@tkblackout1483 No, Bulbasaur is the perfect Grass type starter
@@tkblackout1483 no bulbsaur is awesome
"All of the battles are optional, except for the ones that are not."
In other news, people die when they're killed.
"Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa"
Hmm the floor here is made out of floor
In even more news, in video games the best strategy is keeping your health above 0 and making sure your enemy’s health isnt above 0
When you bleed your blood comes out
@@hayfrand5094 "Every 60 minutes, a Africa passes in seconds"
“That’s the second time they told me to use an electric type on a ground type Pokémon.”
Hey, it worked in the anime! 🤦♂️
Melee!!!
Yeah, but I think you’re supposed to activate the sprinkler system in the gym first.
Or hit the rhydons drill
Just gotta pull a TTYD and abuse the arena.
If only we could use anime logic in the games😭😭
"Lay down the law with Erika."
We're still playing Pokemon, right?
Muahahha yes yessss
Just hammer away :P
@@basedeltazero714 yeah hammer it real good
Underrated comment, you got me on that
*ERIC DIDN’T LIKE ERIKA*
*Anyone who has owned one of these can literally smell the book*
I have never owned or heard of these books until now and I can still smell them
As someone that owned a single one of these books as a pre-ten kid, this is true.
oh lord the memories
I did not own this one, however the smell is strong I my mind
smells like newspapers :3
to summarize this video:
“I could just __________ but instead I have to __________ as the guide suggests”
Use water types, use electric types
Summary number 2: hammer away and lay down the law
Bro this guide is too funny "hammer away" "lay down the law" "dispatch"
"clean the joint out"
I cant xDDD
It sounds like the most American guide ever.
Sounds like they are trying really hard to make everything sound cool.
I really wish guides were written in this style today. It would add so much flavor to them.
I would've loved it as a kid
@@Iivaitte *most British guide*
Strategy guides are still around. Even Pokémon Sword and Shield have them.
Right, I still got my guide for X&Y. Turned out that I don't even needed it, but at least I looked up to the type-advantages for and against the fairy-type. And there were nice pictures of some Pokémon I cut out off of the book to decorate my GBAs DSs and 3DS. 😂
@@Gagafreak92 Same hahaha. I bought the ones for Pokémon Sun and Moon and Sword and Shield. It’s just fun to look in them.
It's kinda sad they're dying, though. Obviously the internet is more useful but there's something about a physical strategy guide that's just nice in a way.
I buy the guides, though my collection isn't complete sadly
Are the newer ones any better than the old ones, or are they full of errors as well?
Ironically, the wrong type match ups were present in the original Gen 1 guide as well, which stated Fighting types were strong against Dragon Types.
Rip to people thinking their Machamp was good against dragonite.
P.s. i know that Rip means Rest In Peace and _should_ only be used with the dead, but this is the internet, now rip means "F" or "i'm acknowledging the pain"
I'll destroy dragonite with my karate chop. Give me all the crits baybay!
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx no offense I think a lot of people know the reason why people use rip enough to understand it’s a joke
The original gen 1 guides greatest offense was tell players they could start the game over and it would carry over all their pokemon into the next playthrough, so they could acquire the starters and other fossil pokemon they missed on the second playthrough.
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx We're all on the internet buddy you don't have to explain to us how people communicate on the internet.
I feel bad I was like “ who made this bad guide?” Then he straight up just said he died and I took it all back.
😄😄😂😂😂
I mean… It's sad that he died, but that doesn't mean his guide isn't bad.
@@NoriMori1992 Yeah, nonsense comment, even worse than the guide.
I had a diamond & pearl strategy guide
Through it, I learned that Cherrim and Pikachu can breed....
I need to get all the guides now
I had the same guide. For some reason, I SPECIFICALLY remember the Cherrim x Pikachu pairing was used as an example when explaining how to breed a Pichu with Volt Tackle.
That HG/SS guide with the pokedex included is gold. Tells you what pokemon to fight and what route they are on for each specific iv.
@@SSBBPOKEFAN are you telling me that pichu can get volt tackle by breeding Cherrim and Pikachu
My HGSS has the same trick for a volt tackle pichu
I think 'Eric' is a translator who translated the Japanese guide literally. This explains the questionable vocabulary choices.
To be honest it CAN be true because the japanese language is really funny when translated even the anime so yh...
@Jo Jo That's how most translations from Japanese feel like, to be honest
Especially dub scripts. That's the main reason why every anime has this certain weird "vocabulary spice" to it that just doesn't feel natural. Professional translators aren't the kinds of people to "mediate" emotions and inflections in a way that makes sense in other languages, having known some of them. They're just one or two steps away from translating things word-by-word.
Eric: hammer away the rival's Pidgeot, as according to keikaku
translator note: keikaku means plan
A lot of the words and dialect used are British
@@yuwu585 All according to cake.
Translator Note: Cake means Keikaku.
Translator Note: Keikaku means plan.
RIP Eric. I'm sure he's hammering some angels in heaven.
Oh my.
Honestly I bet Eric would really appreciate the video
And it made me smile that you started saying “hammer” more after finding out that he had passed.
I like the lv 5 Caterpies energy at the end
caterpie carried
@@PaPaSea yeah man. Caterpie absolutely destroys Charizard
@@pear63_ imagine it actually did
@@JacrepidYT that be crazy man
@@JacrepidYT well there's some crazy plays where some severely under leveled pokemon beat some tough battles.
From now on I will not "smash the like button" I will HAMMER AWAY at it instead.
I love during the beginning of the guide you made fun of "Hammering away" at the gym leaders, but towards the end you use it so casually. Eric would be proud.
I just wanna say i thought really wholesome you just taking a little time off your video to talk about the guy who made/translated this all those years ago, so thank you for that!
"I picked the Dome Fossil because I love chaos"
Dome: represents democracy
Helix: represents anarchy
Me: _visible confusion_
Domecrazy
He’s a fake twitch plays Pokémon watcher 😤
It would cause chaos amongst followers of Helix though.
Maybe he means that, by picking the Dome Fossil, people would be angry, thereby causing chaos_
Is that just another bad meme or is that official? Like what they represent
"Eviscerate youngster Joey." -Nintendo strategy writers.
Disembowel youngster joey and have your pokemon desecrate his corpse.
discombobulate
11:25
Ha, sounds like something a dad would tell you to do. "Son i want you to march right over there with your chameleon, and lay down the law."
I had this guide as a child and I still remember being stoked that I was the only kid who got LeafGreen instead of FireRed solely because Dragonair is allegedly slightly less rare in LeafGreen and how Porygon cost significantly less.
Porygon costs less, but the slot game is tougher thanks to Voltorb being the same color as the 7s and pokécherries.
Why was LeafGreen not as popular?
@@Az22490 fire cool, leaf girly
@@Az22490 frorg vs cool dragon
Next “beating life how god intended”
please
the bible being the guide book...? 😂
"So I've beaten the Old Testament, now to go onto the postgame..."
But which god?
@@WinterPains "So I've completed Hercules' trials..."
My brother and I got the original Red and Blue Strategy Guide when it first came out...because we wanted to see all the Pokemon. We knew about the show, but had no idea about the games. The only mistake I saw in it was they mixed up Mewtwo and Marowak's sprite at one point, but otherwise I remember it being pretty accurate.
I'm also glad you spoke kindly of Hitmonlee, and discovery of our mutual love of Primape is most pleasing. I'm happy to bury the hatchet and let peace reign between our nations once more.
all fighting types are cool
Yeah I had a strategy guyide for Red and blue to but in Swedish. What I can remember from it it didnt have any glaring mistakes in it since it got me through the games a couple of times until I learned them. But yeah, looking at all the Pokemon was some of the best thing you got out of the guides.
I love how at the start of the video "Hammer away" was just a strange throwaway phrase but by the end, its kinda like a short eulogy
I love that, and im gonna start saying it too to honor our boy Eric
I didn't even plan to reference it so much. I wrote and recorded the script as I played the game rather than just writing it all at the end in one sitting which I think made it even better
@@PaPaSea i certainly think it did :)
I just started a regular old run on Leaf Green (i always liked the choice of pokemon in that one over Fire Red) and it really does bring back memories
"The guide writer is confused and he hurts himself in his confusion!"
Shout-out to Cleetus ! Real ninja
"Exeggcute is, well, a sad joke-"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's honestly the greatest thing. Whoever wrote or translated that guide basically got paid to roast the rival. X,D
If you watched the whole video or payed a bit of attention you would know who wrote it
@@sinisterxyz8492
I did watch the whole thing but not before I had to make my comment. Lol 😂
@@sinisterxyz8492 chill wtf
@@sinisterxyz8492 Do you have ants shoved up your ass mate? Leave the man alone. He is having fun.
@@MarioChaparroLampard looks like they took your advice. They now have a playlist that consists of relaxing stuff lol.
How to beat any Pokémon battle
3 options
1 HAMMER AWAY
2 HAMMER AWAY
3 HAMMER AWAY
Why have one when you can have three?
what about the fourth move
lay down?
Don’t forget to lay down the law !
More like:
3 options
1 Hammer Away
2 Lay Down the Law
3 DISPATCH
@@HondaFit-ot5ws
Too bad there wasn't any 'Hit it 'til it dies'.
I think Ash Ketchum might have written this guide after all he can attack Ground types with Electric.
Love how you just kept Caterpie on the team for the whole game.
Strategy guides?
No thats where you're wrong.
We had these things called older brothers who would beat the level for you.
Mine would just delete my save file when I'm at the end of the game with no remorse because it's "his game". Good times.
Older sister in my case she did so much of the tedious crap I couldn't be bothered to she also taught me not to only level up my starter. Iirc my charizard in blue was level 36 while the rest were as low as 17 😆.
i remember when i was like 6 i played spongebob on the gameboy advance and got stuck and asked my father to help me, like the madlad he is, he found some nice cheat codes for me and i remember feeling unstoppable and the most powerful ive ever been lol. never had problems with pokemon or anything else tho which is funny enough when you think about it...
I need more Darth Maul in my life.
Artwork by: Venture Pictures
I remember when I was 9 and didn't speak English.
Ruby was my first game and I asked my brother if I had to write my name and he said he'd do it for me.
After showing my mother how proud I was of my game file she asked me why my character was named "Dork" 😂
Luckily I was only in Rusborow so I could start a new file.
Eggsecute: exist
Strategy Guide: I took it personally.
Exeggcute*
@@Conorator god damn auto correct, I went searched his name too.
@@dead_vibes rip.
Autocorrector sucks in these cases
"Yeah yeah, I dragged the team the whole playthrough. All of my teammates were weak compared with me. They all should praise me"
~Dan, the Caterpie
Dan is that one kid who doesn't do any work on the group assignment, but nobody minds because he's everyone's friend.
🤣👍🏻
Every zone said "Catch em all"
I guess you didn't really play as intended
You mean "Nintended
Imagine catching them all but it required u to get literally every pokemon
@@Mailodi47 At least the catchable ones
@@Mailodi47 j
Back then you could catch Em all. At least is was more feasible with 386. Now with 800. Not so much.
- Starter Level 78 with all the cool TM moves
- HM Slave
- A Electric-type that only gets used when the Starter has a type disadvantage
- Three underleveled Pokemon that are only there to fill slots or be sacks to heal the starter
isnt that how we all played mons back in the day :D
I always had my starters then one good backup to it like my Blaziken and Hariyamma in ruby
ah yes the good ol' 1990s
wait, i was born on 2007?
Depends from the game,but my setup for FireRed was :
Starter,always with the highest level and one of the starter specific moves
A Flying type for Fly,maybe an elemental bird
One of the Eevolutions
The Snorlax with Immunity,my number 2,and with Metronome
The other 2 may vary.
One overleveled starter, three legendaries two hm slaves.
no I was the weird kid who made a team :/, lol
Make a series called “Games as Nintended”.
dammit jack, you beat me to it :[
He beat both of us to it lol
remove the "a"...
@@JoeBob-rc3cp r/beatmeattoit
@@megselv6633 oops
Rewatching after seeing the more recent ones. And I love how the annoyance of "hammer away" becomes a staple in every video after this one. Excellent homage to Eric
Pokemon fire red: get 6 pokemon to same level
Me: Overleveled Charizard and HM slaves
Bro... the flash thing! When I was a kid I didn't know that was a thing.. nonetheless after hours...HOURS. ... I made it though the dark cave and as a result memorized how to get through it without flash lol
Ya me too
Me 3 lol
“Lay waste to your intrepid band in two shakes of a lamb’s tail”
Translated:
“Destroy your party quickly”
It’s a British saying.
I know 🙂
That part had me in tears 😭
i fucking died at this part
That GBA startup sound came right after an ad. It was fully unexpected. And I felt that nostalgia.
...thank you.
“Nidoqueen is easily cooked with a fairly well-powered-up Electric Pokémon...”
Aha! Ash wrote this guide! No wonder Nintendo approved it!
"Oh yeah by the way your opponents fast"
"Then how do I beat it?"
"Be faster"
Wow thats some big brain stuff right there
"All fights are optional, except for the ones that's aren't."
@@_bed_bug_ That shit's deep.
RIP Eric. 😤🙏
Sounds very Japanese
when i was a little kid, i was so confident in my gamer skills that i always laughed at the notion of ever buying one of those guide books. "well, im clearly better at this game i've never played than the professionals who are literally PAYED to know their way around the game"...
it makes me very happy to see after all these years that i was absolutely right.
R.i.p. Eric, you will be missed for all the guides you made that me and thousands of other children read over and over again. May you keep hammering away at your opponents wherever you are😊
"Cut out the page with all the berries on it for some reason" sometimes kid brain just do what kid brain does XD
Honestly I love these sort of videos. You’re one of the few Poketubers nowadays who actually uploads new and interesting videos unlike the repetitive top 10 formula everyone knows and hates lol
Level 5 Caterpie is a champ that nobody wants to mess with.
Dan the man
That’s funny af “i cut out the berry page for some reason” 😂 that’s something i would have done as a kid 😂
I hope to god this gets noticed. I first beat Pokemon red as a 5 year old by only leveling charizard to 100. Literally ran in grass until level 100 because I knew nothing else to do. Lol
My first game was yellow and I never fought Brock until Pikachu was at level 30+. Pika was like level 80 by the time I beat the elite four and my others were all at level 30
@@Turial55 lmao we had the same type experience, and happy new years
@@Turial55 this is exactly what i did😂😂
did that in blue with a dodrio 😆
@@Turial55 saaaame! Lol!! I was 8 yo, my Pikachu was at 74. Yellow version. Don't know if I battled Elite 4 or not though. I just loved to take a walk with my little yellow friend
Man, you sure are hammering away at these new video ideas.
I wasn't really expecting this to take such a poignant turn near the end, but it is heartbreaking that Eric passed away at such a young age, especially since he really seemed to have a passion for covering anime based games, which were nowhere near as popular in the early 2000s.
Thanks for being at our sides for all those adventures, Eric, before the days when walkthroughs were a few clicks away, we salute you
Did anyone else other than me never learn what the original Rock Tunnel in gen1 looked like? I never found flash, so I memorized how to navigate along the walls and even where every trainer was... ahh the memories
Same.
Yes I got Pokémon yellow and beat it with flash and without
I didn't even know/understand flash was a thing when I played Pokémon red.
Didn't help I only knew a few words English 🤣
Just watching this vid...I could easily see Caterpie sitting on his shoulder the whole way through. He wasn't the strongest but he was the heart of the team.
I like the statement “the older games aren’t any harder than the newer games like everyone says”. It feels like people confuse difficulty with grinding. If you fight a gym under level, it’s going to be hard. If you fight over leveled, it’s going to be easy. If you train you team to the same level as them, it becomes difficult but not impossible (even better if set mode is on)
Specifically; the need to grind. Which is still a sound point. You can go through the older games without needing to grind to get to the necessary level, it just means you'll probably be carrying less pokemon to level up, and rely more on your wits in battle than just primarily type advantages. If you're the type to use the exp share in newer games and you run through the old games the same way you run through the newer ones, you end up even-levelled or under. Which doesn't necessarily mean you're outmatched, since your pokemon's EV's may very well make up for the level difference.
There are also little things that can make the older games harder, like how certain pokemon are screwed by how the movesets, or lack of physical/special split affect them. Or the number of instances where you need to find a certain pokemon type in order to beat something that most of your pokemon can't. We can't take for granted how newer gens offer both quality of life and more options for your pokemon. But generally, yes, the more you find yourself needing to grind the more difficult the game evidently is, as grinding is merely a method of reducing the difficulty that was initially presented to you.
Hi, long time Pokefan here. I was 10 when I got Red and loved it. My niece who is 10 recently got let’s go eevee, she didn’t have a clue how to go about the elite four. Grinding in itself is part of the diffficulty, the fact you don’t even have to fight Pokemon to catch them significantly reduces difficulty. Sword and Shield are beyond easy, exp share by default, your rival being pathetically easy and the constant hand holding takes away from problem solving. Also, going into a long cave and fighting through and risking dying and starting all over again was certainly difficult. Compare Sword to Red and get back to me lol
I mean also, the fact the new games literally tell you what moves are super effective against pokemon should tell you all you need to know
@@fresh4families the problem with the “difficulty” of older games is entirely preparedness. As long as you have potions on you, you really shouldn’t risk dying half way through a cave route and restarting. And even then you don’t have to fight the same trainers you already fought, so it makes it easier on your second run through. The idea of difficulty in my opinions, is no matter how prepared you are, how good you are, you will still have a difficult time doing something. So the fact that I can simply buy a few hyper potions and get through a cave very easily, doesn’t make it harder. And claiming that grinding is apart of the difficulty, I mean sure you can see it that way but it’s not like grinding is hard either. If you fight most trainers and any wild encounters, 90% of the time you’ll be within a 5 level gap of the gym.
@@faze2alien you are spot on but that’s the problem, these new games don’t challenge you enough to learn to prepare lol
Finding out about what happened to the guide's writer was sad, but that means all the more reason for you to continue, and to honor his memory. To "hammer away", on the challenge and on the rest of the year, for Eric's sake.
"Great to see the guide using a different word other than hammer"
For some reason I feel like the guide telling you to "hammer" your rival wouldn't go over very well.
He's writing in the stars now.
Rest In Peace Eric. You were a good man.
Sometimes he hammer one down and we get a shooting star
truly one of the persons that ever lived.
Nintendo: endorses guide that doesn’t show hot to catch Mewtwo
Also Nintendo: doesn’t endorse competitive melee scene in which Mewtwo is unviable...
Obvious conclusion?
Mewtwo runs Nintendo.
Well, I never saw Nintendo and MewTwo at the same place and same time....
Bowser already took over Nintendo of America, this is just the next step
@@thisisaterribleargument_but Doug Mewtwo
ok so im only about halfway through but this concept makes me so happy??? ive been trying for a while to chase the feeling of nostalgia the older games give me, and following an official guide sounds like the PERFECT way to relive that nostalgia!!
Speedrunners would be triggered immensely by this
Oh my, you are everywhere.
Hello there
Heh, indeed
I would like, but come on, 69 likes..
Lol
"All of the fights that are optional, except for the ones that are not"
That's funny
This is my new favorite twist on the "video game challenge" genre.
I didn’t even intend to have this be like a challenge video but there’s some similarities
"land yourself right in Sabrina's lap." DON'T MIND IF I DO!
Moments like these, I remember that the original Sabrina had a whip.
@@Iivaitte yes she did
@@Iivaitte I'd simp
The original eGirl
Remember Prima Guides? Remember when they gave such wonderful advice as “Normal types can’t get same type attack bonus”? Yeah, good times...
Still better than 4kids saying Arbok evolves into Seviper
I like how he switched to saying how Eric says rather than the guide says. For some reason, hammer away goes from dorky to charming when you associate someone with it. May Eric Rest In Peace
"Let's follow the guide."
*Amazon ad plays*
Me: Well, that's one weird way to do it, so of course.
16:28 more interested in the "land yourself right in Sabrina's lap" part
It took a lot of restraint for me to not make a joke about that
Rule 34 is writing it down
@@rosas5014 I dont think "writing" is what they are doing.
@@Iivaitte oh no
@@Iivaitte hahahahahahaha
I'm interested in seeing the results
Got a Switch ad at 2:23, really threw me off for a second seeing the GBA start-up turn into the switch logo
bro thank you for this series i truly like your style no fluff all straight to the point and my personal fav that you don't show the grinding!! thank you, we all just want the results so thanks again
Eric was never wrong, he was just on another level
The idea for this video was awesome! and the backstory on Eric was super cool, more content like this would be wicked!
It's crazy how 8 year old me was able to beat the whole game, reach passed the team rocket hideout on an isolated island without guides nor help.
Pretty much had a lot of time back then.
Why is this crazy? I feel most kids did this. The games are meant for young players they are not supposed to be difficult...I had a few guides but only ever used them to look at the stats and available moves of the Pokémon. Has more fun exploring and figuring out everything on my own.
That guide book is just one wild ride.
Please do more “how Nintendo intended” walkthroughs! I loved this! Hammered away the liked button 😂
"Playing Pokemon games how they were Nintended"
Doing this for gen 4 would be really interesting
R.I.P
ECM a man who did many children a favor but sadly his end came 2018 this video is now a dedication to him so thank you
~Follow The Guide~
Well, we now know what happened to that one cracked Exeggcute. It was hammered away at.
Idk why but this video brought me tears of joy. This game was all I had as a kid at age 6 and I had no idea what I was doing. I was always made fun of by my cousins for poor decisions when I battled and I would always need them to help me with gym battles. I’ve played through this game multiple times throughout my teen years and even into my 20s and have only just recently have beaten the elite four. Rip Eric
the guide was written by ash "Electric types strong against groud:
Just aim for the horn 4head
i think it was misty who said that
Which unknown pokemon is that in your prof pic
@@postalguy5571 not a pokemon its the trans symbol
@@transgamergirl5004 I don't think the unknown have genders?
I wish I could get paid to poorly write Pokémon strategy guides.
And give advice for battles by telling them to clear out this joint, hammer away, grab it by the horns or something else that sounds mad 🤣
3:23 The guide means the Museum can be visited for $50 I guess..
Now that caterpie has made it to the hall of fame i can confidently say the guide was a really good one 😁
R.I.P. Eric,
Thank you for teaching us how to hammer away.
I have that exact same Pokemon FireRed LeafGreen guide, I begged my parents as a kid to buy it for me at a bookstore since I have FireRed, it was like $20 but I’m so glad I have it. Feels like a treasure.
Guide: "Destroy the trainers"
Me: "Nah, I wanna destroy Sabrina if you gnomesaiyan"
gnomesaiyan LMAO
😂
@@ethancha9361 looool too funny. What about the line: " two shakes of a lamb's tale....loool. this guide is awesome
Grab them by the tuna