My memories come side to side with Dragon Ball. Back then where i'm from there was a show that ran by 3 p.m every weekday that showed both shows on 30 min intervals if i remember correctly and the moment i saw the Pokèmon intro for the first time in my life, my mind just zoned out of this Earth. I couldn't believe what i was watching but it was so damn cool for my younger self that i always made sure that i was on time at home just to watch Pokèmon at least, that for me is a memory that will always stay with me for as long as i live.
haha the kids wb afternoon block! i remember that too :) kids today will never know the pleasure of blocks like we did. ffs saturday morning cartoons have literally been banned by US Law because they have to have something educational every so often apparently to retain their license(which makes me wodner how cartoon network can play teen titans go for 12 hours a day)
Damn I really love pokenostalgia stories. I often think about how awesome it would be to be a kid living in Japan in the 90's Just imagine getting to immerse over all the known media as it slowly releases, getting to enjoy it throughout your life.
I am always on board with putting more positivity out into the world. Way too often, people fixate so much on the flaws of something that they let it completely drown out the good. I've been getting back into Pokémon for the first time since Gen II over the last few months and it all started when I gave into the urge to indulge in some nostalgia by rewatching the first 3 movies. There has been so much to catch up on and, at least from what I've seen, the good massively outweighs the bad.
Oh man, this brought back a lot of memories. I got introduced to Pokémon by my cousin. He gave me a Gastly card. I was hooked after that, even decades later. I do competitive batting online and collect some toys and cards.
My earliest memory of Pokémon is an episode that doesn't exist. I remember Ash, Misty and Brock hanging onto each other's legs as Ash holds onto a cliffside in outer space. The three then manage to pull each other up only to be met by Jessie and James smuggly waiting for them with a big city in the distance in the outskirts of a forest.
this is a flawed memory. memories are not exactly the best at remembering exactly as it was especially when you're young but i do know the episode youre talking about its a season one episode. it wasnt space tho it was just the night sky. i think this was one of the episodes just before togepi came along. Ill double check my archive see if i cant find that episode for you. do me a favor and like this comment so i get a notification and can come back and let you know
actually did some digging while i was watching the vid and heres what i found: HOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT ITS GONE!!!!!!!! I remember the episode well it had the song "on the road to viridian city" in the middle of the episode they started it on the edge of a town and in distance they saw the lights of some celebration going on. but i know exactly what episode youre talking about. i think its been scrubbed! this happens a lot with digital media, things get deleted/lost/forgotten constantly which is why i archive things so they can never be gone forever as at least one person will still have a copy of the file. i just sped through every single episode of season 1 including the multiple banned episodes that never aired outside of japan and yeah i cant find it anywhere. how strange. you really opened up a rabbit hole here, i wont rest until i find this lost episode and archive it.
@@iliketrains263 No shit it’s a flawed memory, haha. I mean.. Ash & Co. in outer space? Not likely. Which is why I was almost certain I had either dreamt it, or that I was in fact misremembering. If you can find the episode and scene I speak of though I would really appreciate it! This is a mystery of my childhood that has gone on long enough..
@@PikaLink91 think i found it! the episode you are thinking of is season 1 episode 45 titled "the song of jigglypuff" im 95% sure this is the one you were thinking of. theres a moment where it shows team rocket in space and stuff, it also opens at night with the gang in the desert. combining these two elements along with several decades of eroding memories this is most likely the episode you were thinking of. hope i helped :D
@@iliketrains263 I just skimmed through the episode and due to the “eroding memory” you mentioned it is literally impossible to tell if elements from this episode mashed together are what I really saw back then. Nevertheless I appreciate the effort. This might be the first episode I ever saw. Since we’re here… the first episode of yugioh I ever saw revolved around Yami Yugi sitting at a glass table playing against some shady dude, where the play field was etched into said table xD
Pokémon Gen 2 Gold & Silver was perfect. Gen 3 was released when I was in HS Ruby & Sapphire, no joke my best friend & I both got the games "I got Ruby & he got Sapphire" & brought it to school. We had a bunch of other kids in different clicks watching us play the game. They ended up buying & playing the game, but we also got football & wrestling kids to play Yu-Gi-Oh so idk. We were nerdy but the so called popular kids were nerdy as well, pays off being from Hawaii where Japanese culture is kind of big so Anime was always kind of normal & military brats went to your school & some came from Japan before & ect. So HS was kinda cool for me personally, no one picked on me & a lot of people knew me when I didn't even know them.
If you're nostalgic for Gen 1 I highly recommend the Japanese live action show Pocket ni Boken wo Tsumekonde aka "Pack Your Pocket With Adventure". A super wholesome 10 ep series full of references to the old games as it follows a young woman who plays her GameBoy alongside her daily work life. You can watch the full show eng subbed here on TH-cam.
My introduction to pokemon was similar to how it went with you. I was hanging out in my older brother's bedroom on a lazy Saturday morning. I was bored, so I started playing around with his cheap portable TV. While I was turning through the channels and trying to clear up the static with the TVs bunny ear antennas, I suddenly caught a faint glimpse of Pikachu in the middle of a really cool looking battle. I immediately stopped what I was doing and ran downstairs to the living room TV and turned on channel 11. It was the thunder badge episode where Ash's Pikachu was fighting Lt. Surge's Raichu. The rest is history. I was hooked. I ended up getting all the gameboy and N64 pokemon games, just like you did. But yeah, Pokemania was such an amazing period of my childhood. I actually cried a little during the car ride home from the first pokemon movie because the credits made it almost seem like Pokemon was officially over 🤣I lost touch with the series around gen 3, but returned to it when gen 5 released.
The truth that people don't want to admit is that gen 1 is still one of the stronger games in the franchise, and that it truly is a really great game. Yes, its got issues but even with the story being mostly shoved aside, its still a very strong one, and the exploration as a whole is amazing. Plus Blue is one of the best rivals of the series and I'm sick of the friendly ones personally; they don't motivate me. N, Blue, and Silver, and to a lesser extent Brendan actually do. I'd give it an 8/10 overall and put it sixth place overall behind Gen 5, 4, 3, 6, and 2.
Interesting, I always found that story was front and centre in Gen 1. Blue is always ahead of you and your goal. The Rockets and the league are mentioned multiple times by NPCs. There's even cops looking into them. You, some punk, over throw the Yakuza and finally put your rival in his place. Stealing his glory before his Granddad could get there to congratulate him on becoming champ 😂. F*** Blue he sucks hahahaha
What if the first games had a tournament League like in the Anime and Gen 8 games? And if Red beats Blue in the final round? And canonically, Red becomes the world's first Champion of a recently-invented Pokemon League? How'd that experience have been like?
@@tlst94 I wanted the league to be like the anime for so long, I love the idea they had for the one in the anime, and the winner could take on the elite four
The first episode I saw was the diglett/dugtrio episode where ekans and koffing evolve, hooked me immediately I think my first holo was Zapdos on my birthday at the bowling alley They banned the cards at my school too lol but that didn't stop us
Somehow, when I was a kid I would *always* miss the diglett episode when it came around in the rotation. I think I've seen all the others in the first season, but never that particular one.
We didn't have the channel where they showed Pokémon here in Denmark, or ... we did ... but the reception was awful. But by god we were gonna watch it anyway, so me and my brother sat there in front of the CRT every saturday morning and faithfully watched the episode which was a mix of static, black screen, and occassionally a few seconds of colour when the reception decided to be good for a fraction of a second. Sheesh, and people today bitch if their TVs aren't 4K ultra and has a perfect internet connection with 5G mega bit. Back in MY day we ENDURED crappy reception!! :P Which reminds me, I went to this afterschool club at my school during summer break, and there was this super nice adult who would always let me and a handful of friends into one of the classrooms where they had a TV where we would watch Pokémon (with clear reception) every day the whole summer. Best summer ever as I caught up on so many Orange Islands episodes I had missed! Also, I remember me and my kid sister taking the bus to school every day where we would befriend this one lady bus driver who was driving every tuesday and thursday. She quickly caught on that we loved Pokémon, and so one day we boarded the bus she handed us a VHS with the St. Anne episode that her kid was no longer using.
@@Forged4War206 it has its problems but ngl the hate is still so overdramatic. Gen 9 was lowkey fire but yall still ONLY focus on whats wrong with the game and can’t stop comparing it to the 3ds era, just enjoy Pokemon for what it is man.
You don't have to faint to keep the St. Anne in place. You can have a Pokemon traded to you that knows the HM move CUT without even going on the St. Anne to begin with. That way it stays there for the rest of the game until you get SURF in Fuscia City. Then you come back, show the St. Anne ticket to the guy and right before entering the ship, surf to the right and there's the truck.
I moved to Germany when I was 12 in 2001, the first game I got there was Pokemon Blue in German. This game (and the whole Pokemon hype back in the day) helped me to find friends and learn the language. I play the other franchise games, but gen 1 will always be in my heart.
It's difficult to explain, if you weren't there in 1998. I was in 4th grade at the time, same age as Red and Blue, and I still, to this day, have fond memories of walking around my neighborhood with my see=through purple GBC playing this. I remember I had Red, and I thought it was so cool that there were pokemon only available on Blue. Not to mention I picked Charmander and thought it was really cool seeing somebody who started with a bulbasaur and had a Venasaur that you could see from your point of view. The TCG and anime season 1 were also big back in 1998. I remember when the old booster packs only cost $4 each. Now they are worth hundreds. I remember when the fossil set came out, and I got a shiny Dragonite in my first fossil pack! I think it's the rarest card in the set, too. I also remember when I got my Team Rocket shiny Dragonite, and walked home 2 miles from the card shop with it in hand. The feeling was like no other. I could honestly see myself pre-birth being told "The world is gonna fall apart in the 2020s, but you get Pokemon in 1998, and Harry Potter, and Star Wars Special Edition, and Diablo II, and GTA III, VC, and SA." What a time the 90s and 2000s were to grow up in.
It's's so cool that you have such vivid memories of your first time experiencing Pokemon. I was in first grade in 1999 so all I remember is some friends in my class were talking about Pokemon and I didn't know what it was, so when I went home that night I watched some episode of it airing on cartoon network and the rest is history 😅
I was so young when I caught on to Pokémon I legit can’t recall if I watched the Anime first and begged for the game (1st gen) or if it was the other way around. I think they used to air it early morning and I just recall in 1998 near the end of, Pokémon was everywhere. I got Red that Christmas in 98 and everyone in my school and neighborhood got red/blue+gameboy too. I swear looking back the mania came so fast I don’t even recall the first exposure to it, for all I know I heard it first at school but I was a gamer by then so it wasn’t unusual to hear about games from friends, my first Zelda was through a friend who’s cousin let him borrow Ocarina. All I know is from late 98-2000 it was huge and everywhere, the game the show the cards everything Pokémon was everywhere. I just can’t for the life of me put my finger on when I first saw Pokémon anything but I will always recall that 1998 Christmas, all my friends on break from school talking, trading, comparing and for a year or 2 it was everything.
I grew up poor in a middle class neighborhood. I was 10 when this came out. The first time I was introduced to the game was by my friends/neighbor kids. Black and white but it was so cool and soon after yellow came out but I didn’t like that you needed to have Pikachu as the starter. I preferred Charmander. A few years later I finally got to play when someone let me borrow Soulsilver and his Gameboy Advanced. I didn’t get enough time to beat the game tho. Fast forward to now, I play Heartgold on my iPhone via emulator. My wife doesn’t understand the joy this game gives me. I ALWAYS use the master on Mewtwo. Wish I could catch a Mew.
This is crazy, I had a very similar story with Pokémon. My first episode was the SS Anne when ash traded his Butterfree. I was flipping through the channels and stumbled on it looking for cartoons. This was before school at like 7 am and it’s all I could think about all day. I the rest is history. My grandma got me and my brother Pokémon yellow and that’s all I did. I also collected the cards and my first hollows were aerodactyl and dark arbok. I cherished those cards
For me, this video is a trip down memory lane, wow, thanks. I remember being first introduced to Pokémon by the anime as well, but I kind of denied that I liked it because I was in high school or whatever. Video games though was certainly all the rage, but because I was into SEGA, I actually started playing pokemon on emulator, and then later I bought a gameboy and played online too in shoddybattle which was the early version of showdown.
You and I started the same year! I was 7 then. 😂 I watched Nick, Disney Channel AND Cartoon Network equally, just about. I think my first Pokémon episode was maybe the 7th one? Idk. It wasn’t the first one but it wasn’t as late as Sabrina either. It was also my first JRPG, but not my first video game. My dad was a gamer when I was born and I was put on a controller as soon as I could walk. But I still did more book reading, drawing, playing outside, doll roleplay, etc… until Pokémon. The mainline games have been my favorite video games ever since. And I also never could play the card game but enjoyed the art, so I had a full binder of them that I got as a Christmas gift. I lost it in the last few years though to my dad… and I haven’t been into collecting them again. The mainline games are more fun to me anyway. 😅
as someone who has been with the series since literally the beginning (im old eat me) i can def say for sure that gen 1 was a product of its time but was also pokemon at its absolute core and made you feel like you were playing as ash in the series. many did the "ash ketchum run" before run categories or even google was even a thing on yellow version. it def had its problems looking back but at the time id have to agree it really was the perfect pokemon game for its time. maybe im just old but i still feel the series has lost something along way and cant seem to find it.
Gen 2 is my favorite because they fixed so many problems with 1. Gen 3 and 4 also added plenty of great features and mechanics we couldn't live without these days.
It’s nice to see a positive video on Pokémon for a change. I’ve grown up alongside this franchise and it’ll always be my favorite. Sure the games have some bad qualities here and there but every new gen has a new region and Pokemon to explore and even with the glitches they’re still so fun to play through.
It was a wild time, here in the UK we got the anime first so by the time the video games were being released every single kid wanted pokemon. My first was pokemon red, and because my only reference for pokemon were the anime I was confused about the look of some of the pokemon because some really look jarring compared to the anime. It was rough, I remember the beginning with the fight against Blue, I had no idea how RPGs work and I thought your pokemons health was in the top left and not the bottom right and I didnt know that tail whip is a non-damaging move because again my reference was the anime. Those play ground rumors were wild, we would sit outside after school trying for hours to move the truck with strength. I will admit my love for pokemon did fade a bit after Gen 1, I did play Gen 2 but only in Spanish because someone had a sus cart to give me that came with both gold and silver lol I didnt play gen 2 in my native language until someone sold me Crystal for £10. I think these 2 gens are the best for the feeling of a sense of adventure, but gen 3 was the moment that pokemon was maturing and realising its potential. I still play pokemon, I basically own at least 1 game from every gen, recently I decided to boot up Pokemon Yellow and you know what? it still has that magic that made it special.
Oh mylanta! I remembered the VHS tapes of pokémon, i just to get them from big lots cu they were cheap and AMES was the best for findings booster packs❤
I went through Rock Tunnel the first time on Blue in complete darkness. No part of my 8/9 year old brain thought "no this would be an insane way to do it", but on a later playthrough of Red game, my brother discovered Flash.
I'm so old I remember watching the second episode when it premiered on Fox kids back in 1998. I would get pokémon Red for Christmas that year and my entire life would change. I've been a fan ever since. My first exposure to pokémon was on these little cards you could cut out from the back of a lunchable. I remember my older cousins were talking about it and I wanted to be cool like them.
I remember the movie theatre in my home town gave everyone who saw the first Pokémon movie a holographic Machamp card. Which made the card useless when trying to trade cards with people cuz every kid in town had one lol
The 1st Gen game pushed the hardware of the Gameboy and is what caught my love for Pokémon; the show and cards were second. I never got into any other gen or owned any of the other games about the other generations except Pokémon Go and Pokémon Snap 💯
I think I had a vague awareness of Pokemon as long as I've been alive. I think my earliest memory was an episode of Advance, where the characters try to get out of a cave, and also akmost get bitten by Trapinchs at one point. The majority of my memories, though, come from the latter half of Diamond and Pearl and Best Wishes 7:55 oh believe me when I tell you that this is a widespread disease if you play on emulators, once you taste it it's hard to go back
Card game is way easier then I realized. I wish I knew as a kid I would have taught so many kids in my class. I now play pokemon tcg on my phone it's so fun. Yugioh was super easy to learn because of the TV show.
Man, I also didn’t know how flash worked and made it to cerulean through mt moon in darkness 😂 literally. I played that shit under my blanket, pretending I was asleep
I still remember asking my godfather to watch the 2000 movie one. That was the actual first time I knew Pokémon. Fun fact, I didn't noticed that Pokémon had games, or it started with games, when I reached my 12'ish, I hooked up an emulator and ADDICT ON IT.
Had to do chores to get my hands on a Gameboy and a copy of Red still to this day I have that Gameboy and the Kanto and Johto games. I remember trying to beat Brock with Charmander yelling set the rock on fire
Pokemon had pretty much always been there for me bc of my older brother. I can’t pinpoint an exact first memory, but I feel like I didn’t fall in love with it until gen 2. I would watch my bro and cousins play pokemon stadium 2 and I really enjoyed seeing the pokemon animated and in 3D, it was a treat for the eyes hahha. I just thought the gen 2 pokemon were way cuter.
What if Pokemon came out worldwide on 2/27/1996(same as Japan's release date)? And had more features like genders, breeding, and a female protagonist? Plus the running shoes, Gen 6's Exp Share? And a tournament League like in the Anime and Gen 8 games. And the player canonically became the world's first Champion of a recently-invented League(after beating Blue in the finals)? While several existing mons were retyped into part Ghost and Dragon Types before release(like the Vulpix and Charizard lines)? While Gengar was pure Ghost? While Dragonite resembled its pre-evolutions more? While more damaging moves existed sooner for Bug, Ghost, and Dragon? While catching em all was easier and fast-paced(especially Porygon and Chansey)? And if Mew became catchable after showing Oak the completed Pokedex? How'd the first games have been like? How'd all your memories, experiences, and POVs have been altered? And how'd the franchise's history have been altered?
That opening with Stadium 2's Challenge Cup theme dude... omg the feelings... Edit: Now that I finished the video, oh my god, those OSTs from Pokémon Snap, Stadium and Puzzle League REALLY hit right in the middle of the fucking feelings. Not a remembrance from a better time, a remembrance from a better franchise. Better thought games and anime, at least. Nice video!
I have many similarities as you. My first game was yellow and it was used. I never learned how to play the card game. That tower show was one of the first episodes I saw and haunter is my favorite Pokémon to this day. I grinded with dodrio 3x speed on my red version. Was hyped af for the first and second movie… remember getting the Burger King toys too. All great memories!
I believe that the first pokemon experience for each person is the most important. Like for me the first contact with pokemon games was FireRed and remained my favourite even niw in 2024😆
I think the first episode I watch was when Ash caught a Krabby on the beach, and met Bill at his lighthouse. My love for pokemon was about the same as professor Alphalax; but my first game was the Blue Version and I didn't get Pokemon snap or the console. I got conned into giving away my Charizard card so I lost a special card as well. I've got bored of it though and gave away and sold my poke stuff. I got back into it about two years ago. I bought pokemon cards again and also pokemon Lego figures you build yourself. And I download the game emulators to my phone and play them. I'm not sure why I got back into it again.
So like… “Basic cable” is a retronym…basically a term that was invented when a new thing came out. Before Digital Cable, “basic cable” was just cable. Sending a digital signal down a wire allows for more “clean” and “distinct” signal, so more channels. The channels you did get, whether in digital or basic cable came down to the cable package. Basic cable, at least what was offered in households, generally would have Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, but it woukdn’t have the move “obscure” channels like The Golf Channel.
@@dstinnettmusic Ah I see, makes sense. Thats what my parents used to call it so that’s what I started calling it. I’m not sure what the proper term was but my grandma’s tv had only the first 15 channels. It was boring for us at night when there were no cartoons on, unless the Simpsons were on but she wouldn’t always let us watch it. 😅
I'm a proud genwunner. The entire experience of the games, the shows, movies, comics, and other media was unmatched. I got into it late and consumed all my pokemon in one go at like 14. I had up to gen 4 to compare it to. Gen 1 was the best 🤷♂️. And everything after got worse and worse🤷♂️.
Perfectly imperfect. So I’m a few years older than you. I started off with Pokémon because a friend of mine had blue version when it first came out and let me borrow it. He had two other brothers, so one had red version and I can’t remember if the other had a blue or red version but it doesn’t matter. Anyways, I ended up trading them a video game to get whichever version I had and I played it for hours. Fast forward a bit and the anime came out and I watched it from day one. I tried getting into the card game. But didn’t make a deck until about 2002. So the fad had faded. I then got into yugioh and still play casually until this day. Up until scarlet and Violet came out I had only played and beat the first two generations. I want to go back and give them all a go
Pokémon 1st generation (pre remake) was the greatest and it has to be the hardest. I honestly didn't know how broken were the first games until I watch false swipe gaming got me back into Pokémon again. OG rival champing battle will always be the hardest champion Cynthia doesn't compete. It was just a level grinding that got me that took me awhile to beat it. Back then we had no TH-cam no Internet and some of us didn't have the strategy guides.
The "mew truck" graphic was actually found in the leaks a few years ago. There was basically the same truck in a beta town they never used. And yes it's real not a troll or anything here. Lots of stuff make more since now because of them.
Yknow I’ve never thought of a kid discovering it now with how many pokemon there are… like in my mind it’s brilliant but thinking from a kids POV it probably would be a bit daunting to begin with.
Gen 1 was loaded with glitches, but you don't really notice those when you're a kid. My only real complaint was that there wasn't a whole lot to do in the game once you beat it. Also the PC boxes filling up at the worst possible times.
Subbed and liked good reminder u should do it like this from now on in the middle of the video once people see your style enough to throw the like and sub your way great vid!
Gen 5 is my favorite, especially in the games. I love most of the pokemon, the story and its telling, the characters, the gameplay and overall the atmosphere it gives. But still, gen 1 is the one remembered the most and that’s right, I mean it was the first one ever and it has the most remarkable pokemon (even tho, let’s admit it, Kanto sucks. It has NOTHING special to be remembered, except Lavender town)
As far as replay, I'd replay the first 3 generations over the anything past gen 5. The exp share all just runined it for me yes some games you can turn it off but not all
I was born in 95 , christmas of 99 i got a lime green gameboy color n pokemon red only problem was i was 4 and only knew spanish and didnt even know how to read jajaja.. later wen i was maybe 8 i got both red and blue and later saphire, good times
Theres a part that isnt true. If you didnt have cable or satellite.... i did come on antenna tv. It was on Fox at 5:30 or 6 a.m. when i discovered that i would get up a little earlier than i would nirmally for middle school.
You look like the Nancy Drew Dude, Michael Gray. Are you his brother? I know he didn't get into Pokemon at all. He was completely lost in the videos of him playing Pokemon Yellow.
The first pokémon anime really opened a lot of kids' imaginations
when thy went to Johto I was beyond SHOOK!
I still have my old Gameboy and pokemon blue version. I kept Duracell in business because that Gameboy drained batteries fast!!
I Definitely Wanted To Get Pokémon Blue Version Too as Well
That's interesting actually, I'd love to know how Duracell and Energizer etc did financially during the Pokemon boom.
@@VitZ9 the battery's would last mabe a day and a half depending on how much I played. I would go through a pack of 8 batteries a week!!!
I only ever had Red, and its battery never died!
@@VitZ9I think rechargeables in particular may have had an increase
My memories come side to side with Dragon Ball. Back then where i'm from there was a show that ran by 3 p.m every weekday that showed both shows on 30 min intervals if i remember correctly and the moment i saw the Pokèmon intro for the first time in my life, my mind just zoned out of this Earth.
I couldn't believe what i was watching but it was so damn cool for my younger self that i always made sure that i was on time at home just to watch Pokèmon at least, that for me is a memory that will always stay with me for as long as i live.
haha the kids wb afternoon block! i remember that too :) kids today will never know the pleasure of blocks like we did. ffs saturday morning cartoons have literally been banned by US Law because they have to have something educational every so often apparently to retain their license(which makes me wodner how cartoon network can play teen titans go for 12 hours a day)
@@iliketrains263 Yeah i remember the Saturday Morning blocks back then it was a amazing thing that sadly you don't get to see nowadays.
Damn I really love pokenostalgia stories.
I often think about how awesome it would be to be a kid living in Japan in the 90's Just imagine getting to immerse over all the known media as it slowly releases, getting to enjoy it throughout your life.
I am always on board with putting more positivity out into the world. Way too often, people fixate so much on the flaws of something that they let it completely drown out the good.
I've been getting back into Pokémon for the first time since Gen II over the last few months and it all started when I gave into the urge to indulge in some nostalgia by rewatching the first 3 movies. There has been so much to catch up on and, at least from what I've seen, the good massively outweighs the bad.
Oh man, this brought back a lot of memories.
I got introduced to Pokémon by my cousin. He gave me a Gastly card. I was hooked after that, even decades later. I do competitive batting online and collect some toys and cards.
My earliest memory of Pokémon is an episode that doesn't exist. I remember Ash, Misty and Brock hanging onto each other's legs as Ash holds onto a cliffside in outer space. The three then manage to pull each other up only to be met by Jessie and James smuggly waiting for them with a big city in the distance in the outskirts of a forest.
this is a flawed memory. memories are not exactly the best at remembering exactly as it was especially when you're young but i do know the episode youre talking about its a season one episode. it wasnt space tho it was just the night sky. i think this was one of the episodes just before togepi came along. Ill double check my archive see if i cant find that episode for you. do me a favor and like this comment so i get a notification and can come back and let you know
actually did some digging while i was watching the vid and heres what i found: HOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT ITS GONE!!!!!!!! I remember the episode well it had the song "on the road to viridian city" in the middle of the episode they started it on the edge of a town and in distance they saw the lights of some celebration going on. but i know exactly what episode youre talking about. i think its been scrubbed! this happens a lot with digital media, things get deleted/lost/forgotten constantly which is why i archive things so they can never be gone forever as at least one person will still have a copy of the file. i just sped through every single episode of season 1 including the multiple banned episodes that never aired outside of japan and yeah i cant find it anywhere. how strange. you really opened up a rabbit hole here, i wont rest until i find this lost episode and archive it.
@@iliketrains263 No shit it’s a flawed memory, haha. I mean.. Ash & Co. in outer space? Not likely. Which is why I was almost certain I had either dreamt it, or that I was in fact misremembering. If you can find the episode and scene I speak of though I would really appreciate it! This is a mystery of my childhood that has gone on long enough..
@@PikaLink91 think i found it! the episode you are thinking of is season 1 episode 45 titled "the song of jigglypuff" im 95% sure this is the one you were thinking of. theres a moment where it shows team rocket in space and stuff, it also opens at night with the gang in the desert. combining these two elements along with several decades of eroding memories this is most likely the episode you were thinking of. hope i helped :D
@@iliketrains263 I just skimmed through the episode and due to the “eroding memory” you mentioned it is literally impossible to tell if elements from this episode mashed together are what I really saw back then. Nevertheless I appreciate the effort. This might be the first episode I ever saw.
Since we’re here… the first episode of yugioh I ever saw revolved around Yami Yugi sitting at a glass table playing against some shady dude, where the play field was etched into said table xD
Pokémon Gen 2 Gold & Silver was perfect.
Gen 3 was released when I was in HS Ruby & Sapphire, no joke my best friend & I both got the games "I got Ruby & he got Sapphire" & brought it to school. We had a bunch of other kids in different clicks watching us play the game. They ended up buying & playing the game, but we also got football & wrestling kids to play Yu-Gi-Oh so idk. We were nerdy but the so called popular kids were nerdy as well, pays off being from Hawaii where Japanese culture is kind of big so Anime was always kind of normal & military brats went to your school & some came from Japan before & ect. So HS was kinda cool for me personally, no one picked on me & a lot of people knew me when I didn't even know them.
If you're nostalgic for Gen 1 I highly recommend the Japanese live action show Pocket ni Boken wo Tsumekonde aka "Pack Your Pocket With Adventure". A super wholesome 10 ep series full of references to the old games as it follows a young woman who plays her GameBoy alongside her daily work life. You can watch the full show eng subbed here on TH-cam.
My introduction to pokemon was similar to how it went with you. I was hanging out in my older brother's bedroom on a lazy Saturday morning. I was bored, so I started playing around with his cheap portable TV. While I was turning through the channels and trying to clear up the static with the TVs bunny ear antennas, I suddenly caught a faint glimpse of Pikachu in the middle of a really cool looking battle. I immediately stopped what I was doing and ran downstairs to the living room TV and turned on channel 11. It was the thunder badge episode where Ash's Pikachu was fighting Lt. Surge's Raichu. The rest is history. I was hooked. I ended up getting all the gameboy and N64 pokemon games, just like you did. But yeah, Pokemania was such an amazing period of my childhood. I actually cried a little during the car ride home from the first pokemon movie because the credits made it almost seem like Pokemon was officially over 🤣I lost touch with the series around gen 3, but returned to it when gen 5 released.
The truth that people don't want to admit is that gen 1 is still one of the stronger games in the franchise, and that it truly is a really great game. Yes, its got issues but even with the story being mostly shoved aside, its still a very strong one, and the exploration as a whole is amazing. Plus Blue is one of the best rivals of the series and I'm sick of the friendly ones personally; they don't motivate me. N, Blue, and Silver, and to a lesser extent Brendan actually do. I'd give it an 8/10 overall and put it sixth place overall behind Gen 5, 4, 3, 6, and 2.
Gen 1 will always be awesome for me ;)
I especially like Pokémon Yellow ^_^ 💛
Simplicity in its finest form.
Interesting, I always found that story was front and centre in Gen 1. Blue is always ahead of you and your goal. The Rockets and the league are mentioned multiple times by NPCs. There's even cops looking into them. You, some punk, over throw the Yakuza and finally put your rival in his place. Stealing his glory before his Granddad could get there to congratulate him on becoming champ 😂.
F*** Blue he sucks hahahaha
What if the first games had a tournament League like in the Anime and Gen 8 games? And if Red beats Blue in the final round? And canonically, Red becomes the world's first Champion of a recently-invented Pokemon League? How'd that experience have been like?
@@tlst94 I wanted the league to be like the anime for so long, I love the idea they had for the one in the anime, and the winner could take on the elite four
The first episode I saw was the diglett/dugtrio episode where ekans and koffing evolve, hooked me immediately
I think my first holo was Zapdos on my birthday at the bowling alley
They banned the cards at my school too lol but that didn't stop us
Somehow, when I was a kid I would *always* miss the diglett episode when it came around in the rotation. I think I've seen all the others in the first season, but never that particular one.
We didn't have the channel where they showed Pokémon here in Denmark, or ... we did ... but the reception was awful. But by god we were gonna watch it anyway, so me and my brother sat there in front of the CRT every saturday morning and faithfully watched the episode which was a mix of static, black screen, and occassionally a few seconds of colour when the reception decided to be good for a fraction of a second.
Sheesh, and people today bitch if their TVs aren't 4K ultra and has a perfect internet connection with 5G mega bit. Back in MY day we ENDURED crappy reception!! :P
Which reminds me, I went to this afterschool club at my school during summer break, and there was this super nice adult who would always let me and a handful of friends into one of the classrooms where they had a TV where we would watch Pokémon (with clear reception) every day the whole summer. Best summer ever as I caught up on so many Orange Islands episodes I had missed!
Also, I remember me and my kid sister taking the bus to school every day where we would befriend this one lady bus driver who was driving every tuesday and thursday. She quickly caught on that we loved Pokémon, and so one day we boarded the bus she handed us a VHS with the St. Anne episode that her kid was no longer using.
What a heartwarming video! As a lifelong Pokémon fan, I can relate a lot to it. Thanks.
First bit made me feel so relieved, people hate on newer gens so damn much
For good reason lol
@@Forged4War206 it has its problems but ngl the hate is still so overdramatic. Gen 9 was lowkey fire but yall still ONLY focus on whats wrong with the game and can’t stop comparing it to the 3ds era, just enjoy Pokemon for what it is man.
You don't have to faint to keep the St. Anne in place. You can have a Pokemon traded to you that knows the HM move CUT without even going on the St. Anne to begin with. That way it stays there for the rest of the game until you get SURF in Fuscia City. Then you come back, show the St. Anne ticket to the guy and right before entering the ship, surf to the right and there's the truck.
Amazing video, amazing writing, amazing editing, I hope your channel takes off to heights you wouldn’t imagine, my friend
I moved to Germany when I was 12 in 2001, the first game I got there was Pokemon Blue in German. This game (and the whole Pokemon hype back in the day) helped me to find friends and learn the language. I play the other franchise games, but gen 1 will always be in my heart.
It's difficult to explain, if you weren't there in 1998. I was in 4th grade at the time, same age as Red and Blue, and I still, to this day, have fond memories of walking around my neighborhood with my see=through purple GBC playing this. I remember I had Red, and I thought it was so cool that there were pokemon only available on Blue. Not to mention I picked Charmander and thought it was really cool seeing somebody who started with a bulbasaur and had a Venasaur that you could see from your point of view.
The TCG and anime season 1 were also big back in 1998. I remember when the old booster packs only cost $4 each. Now they are worth hundreds. I remember when the fossil set came out, and I got a shiny Dragonite in my first fossil pack! I think it's the rarest card in the set, too. I also remember when I got my Team Rocket shiny Dragonite, and walked home 2 miles from the card shop with it in hand.
The feeling was like no other. I could honestly see myself pre-birth being told "The world is gonna fall apart in the 2020s, but you get Pokemon in 1998, and Harry Potter, and Star Wars Special Edition, and Diablo II, and GTA III, VC, and SA." What a time the 90s and 2000s were to grow up in.
Great video man! Definitely hit me in the nostalgic video. Looking forward to your Gen 2 video, that’s my favorite generation!
“Professor AlphaLax” sounds like a laxative you’d buy at Spencer’s.
It's's so cool that you have such vivid memories of your first time experiencing Pokemon. I was in first grade in 1999 so all I remember is some friends in my class were talking about Pokemon and I didn't know what it was, so when I went home that night I watched some episode of it airing on cartoon network and the rest is history 😅
I was so young when I caught on to Pokémon I legit can’t recall if I watched the Anime first and begged for the game (1st gen) or if it was the other way around. I think they used to air it early morning and I just recall in 1998 near the end of, Pokémon was everywhere. I got Red that Christmas in 98 and everyone in my school and neighborhood got red/blue+gameboy too. I swear looking back the mania came so fast I don’t even recall the first exposure to it, for all I know I heard it first at school but I was a gamer by then so it wasn’t unusual to hear about games from friends, my first Zelda was through a friend who’s cousin let him borrow Ocarina. All I know is from late 98-2000 it was huge and everywhere, the game the show the cards everything Pokémon was everywhere. I just can’t for the life of me put my finger on when I first saw Pokémon anything but I will always recall that 1998 Christmas, all my friends on break from school talking, trading, comparing and for a year or 2 it was everything.
Thanks for bringing me my old fond memory.
I grew up poor in a middle class neighborhood. I was 10 when this came out. The first time I was introduced to the game was by my friends/neighbor kids. Black and white but it was so cool and soon after yellow came out but I didn’t like that you needed to have Pikachu as the starter. I preferred Charmander. A few years later I finally got to play when someone let me borrow Soulsilver and his Gameboy Advanced. I didn’t get enough time to beat the game tho. Fast forward to now, I play Heartgold on my iPhone via emulator. My wife doesn’t understand the joy this game gives me. I ALWAYS use the master on Mewtwo. Wish I could catch a Mew.
Randomly turning on WB one saturday morning and catching the first airing of the pilot episode is still one of my strongest childhood memories.
This is crazy, I had a very similar story with Pokémon. My first episode was the SS Anne when ash traded his Butterfree. I was flipping through the channels and stumbled on it looking for cartoons. This was before school at like 7 am and it’s all I could think about all day. I the rest is history. My grandma got me and my brother Pokémon yellow and that’s all I did. I also collected the cards and my first hollows were aerodactyl and dark arbok. I cherished those cards
you summed up the child experience of learning everything perfectly. highly recommend trying the tcg live game
I was there since red and blue. To this day, it’s the games I replay the most!
For me, this video is a trip down memory lane, wow, thanks. I remember being first introduced to Pokémon by the anime as well, but I kind of denied that I liked it because I was in high school or whatever. Video games though was certainly all the rage, but because I was into SEGA, I actually started playing pokemon on emulator, and then later I bought a gameboy and played online too in shoddybattle which was the early version of showdown.
My first ever episode was the samurai guy in the woods with the pinsir and Kakuna. Can’t believe I even remember that.
You and I started the same year! I was 7 then. 😂 I watched Nick, Disney Channel AND Cartoon Network equally, just about. I think my first Pokémon episode was maybe the 7th one? Idk. It wasn’t the first one but it wasn’t as late as Sabrina either. It was also my first JRPG, but not my first video game. My dad was a gamer when I was born and I was put on a controller as soon as I could walk. But I still did more book reading, drawing, playing outside, doll roleplay, etc… until Pokémon. The mainline games have been my favorite video games ever since. And I also never could play the card game but enjoyed the art, so I had a full binder of them that I got as a Christmas gift. I lost it in the last few years though to my dad… and I haven’t been into collecting them again. The mainline games are more fun to me anyway. 😅
as someone who has been with the series since literally the beginning (im old eat me) i can def say for sure that gen 1 was a product of its time but was also pokemon at its absolute core and made you feel like you were playing as ash in the series. many did the "ash ketchum run" before run categories or even google was even a thing on yellow version. it def had its problems looking back but at the time id have to agree it really was the perfect pokemon game for its time. maybe im just old but i still feel the series has lost something along way and cant seem to find it.
Gen 2 is my favorite because they fixed so many problems with 1. Gen 3 and 4 also added plenty of great features and mechanics we couldn't live without these days.
12:47 i loveeee the original art for pokemon so much ❤
Gen 1 was perfect indeed. Gen 3 was a copy of Gen 1, which tells so much about Gen 3
It’s nice to see a positive video on Pokémon for a change. I’ve grown up alongside this franchise and it’ll always be my favorite. Sure the games have some bad qualities here and there but every new gen has a new region and Pokemon to explore and even with the glitches they’re still so fun to play through.
It was a wild time, here in the UK we got the anime first so by the time the video games were being released every single kid wanted pokemon. My first was pokemon red, and because my only reference for pokemon were the anime I was confused about the look of some of the pokemon because some really look jarring compared to the anime. It was rough, I remember the beginning with the fight against Blue, I had no idea how RPGs work and I thought your pokemons health was in the top left and not the bottom right and I didnt know that tail whip is a non-damaging move because again my reference was the anime. Those play ground rumors were wild, we would sit outside after school trying for hours to move the truck with strength.
I will admit my love for pokemon did fade a bit after Gen 1, I did play Gen 2 but only in Spanish because someone had a sus cart to give me that came with both gold and silver lol I didnt play gen 2 in my native language until someone sold me Crystal for £10. I think these 2 gens are the best for the feeling of a sense of adventure, but gen 3 was the moment that pokemon was maturing and realising its potential.
I still play pokemon, I basically own at least 1 game from every gen, recently I decided to boot up Pokemon Yellow and you know what? it still has that magic that made it special.
Oh mylanta! I remembered the VHS tapes of pokémon, i just to get them from big lots cu they were cheap and AMES was the best for findings booster packs❤
4:12 DAMN DOES THAT TAKE ME BACK!!!! I HAD ONE OF THOSE POKEDEX!
gen 1 oozes pure nostalgia for me, peak pokemania in 1999 and 2000 was special.
I remember basic cable.
Good times, I watched a bunch of shows on WB.
Pokémon though was my favorite.
Cant wait for your shilling after gen 5, that's going to be elite gymnastics
2:53 yeah, honestly, Ash took dying really well.
i still enjoy playing gen 1 to this day :) nice video :)
The music chosen took me back to 20-25 years ago. I too am a Gen 1 kid.
I went through Rock Tunnel the first time on Blue in complete darkness. No part of my 8/9 year old brain thought "no this would be an insane way to do it", but on a later playthrough of Red game, my brother discovered Flash.
I love Gen 1, I watch the first season off and on , on repeat.
I'm so old I remember watching the second episode when it premiered on Fox kids back in 1998. I would get pokémon Red for Christmas that year and my entire life would change. I've been a fan ever since.
My first exposure to pokémon was on these little cards you could cut out from the back of a lunchable. I remember my older cousins were talking about it and I wanted to be cool like them.
I remember the movie theatre in my home town gave everyone who saw the first Pokémon movie a holographic Machamp card.
Which made the card useless when trying to trade cards with people cuz every kid in town had one lol
The 1st Gen game pushed the hardware of the Gameboy and is what caught my love for Pokémon; the show and cards were second.
I never got into any other gen or owned any of the other games about the other generations except Pokémon Go and Pokémon Snap 💯
I think I had a vague awareness of Pokemon as long as I've been alive. I think my earliest memory was an episode of Advance, where the characters try to get out of a cave, and also akmost get bitten by Trapinchs at one point. The majority of my memories, though, come from the latter half of Diamond and Pearl and Best Wishes
7:55 oh believe me when I tell you that this is a widespread disease if you play on emulators, once you taste it it's hard to go back
Card game is way easier then I realized. I wish I knew as a kid I would have taught so many kids in my class. I now play pokemon tcg on my phone it's so fun. Yugioh was super easy to learn because of the TV show.
Man, I also didn’t know how flash worked and made it to cerulean through mt moon in darkness 😂 literally. I played that shit under my blanket, pretending I was asleep
Need a video for Gen 2 now
I still remember asking my godfather to watch the 2000 movie one. That was the actual first time I knew Pokémon. Fun fact, I didn't noticed that Pokémon had games, or it started with games, when I reached my 12'ish, I hooked up an emulator and ADDICT ON IT.
Had to do chores to get my hands on a Gameboy and a copy of Red still to this day I have that Gameboy and the Kanto and Johto games. I remember trying to beat Brock with Charmander yelling set the rock on fire
Pokemon had pretty much always been there for me bc of my older brother. I can’t pinpoint an exact first memory, but I feel like I didn’t fall in love with it until gen 2.
I would watch my bro and cousins play pokemon stadium 2 and I really enjoyed seeing the pokemon animated and in 3D, it was a treat for the eyes hahha.
I just thought the gen 2 pokemon were way cuter.
What if Pokemon came out worldwide on 2/27/1996(same as Japan's release date)? And had more features like genders, breeding, and a female protagonist? Plus the running shoes, Gen 6's Exp Share? And a tournament League like in the Anime and Gen 8 games. And the player canonically became the world's first Champion of a recently-invented League(after beating Blue in the finals)? While several existing mons were retyped into part Ghost and Dragon Types before release(like the Vulpix and Charizard lines)? While Gengar was pure Ghost? While Dragonite resembled its pre-evolutions more? While more damaging moves existed sooner for Bug, Ghost, and Dragon? While catching em all was easier and fast-paced(especially Porygon and Chansey)? And if Mew became catchable after showing Oak the completed Pokedex? How'd the first games have been like? How'd all your memories, experiences, and POVs have been altered? And how'd the franchise's history have been altered?
That opening with Stadium 2's Challenge Cup theme dude... omg the feelings...
Edit: Now that I finished the video, oh my god, those OSTs from Pokémon Snap, Stadium and Puzzle League REALLY hit right in the middle of the fucking feelings. Not a remembrance from a better time, a remembrance from a better franchise. Better thought games and anime, at least. Nice video!
I have many similarities as you. My first game was yellow and it was used. I never learned how to play the card game. That tower show was one of the first episodes I saw and haunter is my favorite Pokémon to this day. I grinded with dodrio 3x speed on my red version. Was hyped af for the first and second movie… remember getting the Burger King toys too. All great memories!
I believe that the first pokemon experience for each person is the most important. Like for me the first contact with pokemon games was FireRed and remained my favourite even niw in 2024😆
Pokemon took over the world when it came out.
I think the first episode I watch was when Ash caught a Krabby on the beach, and met Bill at his lighthouse. My love for pokemon was about the same as professor Alphalax; but my first game was the Blue Version and I didn't get Pokemon snap or the console. I got conned into giving away my Charizard card so I lost a special card as well. I've got bored of it though and gave away and sold my poke stuff. I got back into it about two years ago. I bought pokemon cards again and also pokemon Lego figures you build yourself. And I download the game emulators to my phone and play them. I'm not sure why I got back into it again.
Great video but PLEASE, PUT THE DRAGON DOWN! 9:40
NO
So like…
“Basic cable” is a retronym…basically a term that was invented when a new thing came out. Before Digital Cable, “basic cable” was just cable.
Sending a digital signal down a wire allows for more “clean” and “distinct” signal, so more channels.
The channels you did get, whether in digital or basic cable came down to the cable package. Basic cable, at least what was offered in households, generally would have Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, but it woukdn’t have the move “obscure” channels like The Golf Channel.
@@dstinnettmusic Ah I see, makes sense. Thats what my parents used to call it so that’s what I started calling it. I’m not sure what the proper term was but my grandma’s tv had only the first 15 channels. It was boring for us at night when there were no cartoons on, unless the Simpsons were on but she wouldn’t always let us watch it. 😅
I'm a proud genwunner. The entire experience of the games, the shows, movies, comics, and other media was unmatched. I got into it late and consumed all my pokemon in one go at like 14. I had up to gen 4 to compare it to. Gen 1 was the best 🤷♂️. And everything after got worse and worse🤷♂️.
Perfectly imperfect.
So I’m a few years older than you.
I started off with Pokémon because a friend of mine had blue version when it first came out and let me borrow it. He had two other brothers, so one had red version and I can’t remember if the other had a blue or red version but it doesn’t matter. Anyways, I ended up trading them a video game to get whichever version I had and I played it for hours. Fast forward a bit and the anime came out and I watched it from day one.
I tried getting into the card game. But didn’t make a deck until about 2002. So the fad had faded.
I then got into yugioh and still play casually until this day.
Up until scarlet and Violet came out I had only played and beat the first two generations.
I want to go back and give them all a go
Took everyone long enough. Waited 20 goddang years for Gen Z to see how good Gen 1 was.
6:32 *literally what i'm going thru while watching this
And now you can do a series learning the TCG on mobile.
Pokémon 1st generation (pre remake) was the greatest and it has to be the hardest. I honestly didn't know how broken were the first games until I watch false swipe gaming got me back into Pokémon again. OG rival champing battle will always be the hardest champion Cynthia doesn't compete. It was just a level grinding that got me that took me awhile to beat it. Back then we had no TH-cam no Internet and some of us didn't have the strategy guides.
*fat pikachu*
Perfection
Pokemon pinball such a cool and great game
The "mew truck" graphic was actually found in the leaks a few years ago. There was basically the same truck in a beta town they never used. And yes it's real not a troll or anything here. Lots of stuff make more since now because of them.
It was great. They cracked the code with gen 1.
Each Pokemon needs 3 different Abilities to choose from.
Yknow I’ve never thought of a kid discovering it now with how many pokemon there are… like in my mind it’s brilliant but thinking from a kids POV it probably would be a bit daunting to begin with.
Gen 1 was loaded with glitches, but you don't really notice those when you're a kid. My only real complaint was that there wasn't a whole lot to do in the game once you beat it. Also the PC boxes filling up at the worst possible times.
I'm literally playing Yellow right now on an emulator at 3x speed. @7:52
Subbed and liked good reminder u should do it like this from now on in the middle of the video once people see your style enough to throw the like and sub your way great vid!
I loved doing the mew glitch
I watch Pokemon when was 17
I heard Yoshi evolved from Dragonite, I think it was an April fools joke from Nintendo power
I spent two years and fixed all the problems with gen 1 with swampert tools!
Dude. NO ONE got the cards to play the game. It was strictly to collect them. Playing was what YuGiOh was for
DUDE!
This man was alive and kicking in the late 90’s lol
It’s still like that?
Naw there's plenty of people who get them to play. They even have tournaments
I definitely played pokemon? I learned how to play from the game boy game (which I’ll still play)
Gen 5 is my favorite, especially in the games. I love most of the pokemon, the story and its telling, the characters, the gameplay and overall the atmosphere it gives. But still, gen 1 is the one remembered the most and that’s right, I mean it was the first one ever and it has the most remarkable pokemon (even tho, let’s admit it, Kanto sucks. It has NOTHING special to be remembered, except Lavender town)
The design was so much better.
As far as replay, I'd replay the first 3 generations over the anything past gen 5. The exp share all just runined it for me yes some games you can turn it off but not all
Gen 1er here 😊
Gen 2 and 5 (Black + White?) are perfect for me
I was born in 95 , christmas of 99 i got a lime green gameboy color n pokemon red only problem was i was 4 and only knew spanish and didnt even know how to read jajaja.. later wen i was maybe 8 i got both red and blue and later saphire, good times
Theres a part that isnt true. If you didnt have cable or satellite.... i did come on antenna tv. It was on Fox at 5:30 or 6 a.m. when i discovered that i would get up a little earlier than i would nirmally for middle school.
More shorts soon??
pokemon live was peak gen 1
Exeggcute is actually a group of seeds, not eggs.
It wasn’t perfect. You just have nostalgia for a youth you’ll never experience again 😔🪦🫶
I don't think Gen 1 is perfect, however at least it starts at 150 Pokemon all the way to 1025 Pokemon now.
You should play with the original pea soup colors of the original gameboy
You look like the Nancy Drew Dude, Michael Gray. Are you his brother? I know he didn't get into Pokemon at all. He was completely lost in the videos of him playing Pokemon Yellow.