Pokémon Red and Blue Retrospective
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Pokémon Red and Blue Generation 1 Retrospective KingK - เกม
hello yes I have read your comments about how psychic type weaknesses are based around common phobias, thank you very much I definitely missed that, please don't spam me with that thank you for watching
Did you know that the reason Psychic is weak to Bug is because I love you and think your videos are really well done and I appreciate your work
It's true my dad works for Game Freak.
As a psychic person I can confirm I am weak to bugs
I should point out that Psychic is also weak to Ghost, which you neglected to mention.
But since the only Ghost-types in the game, the Gastly line, share the same Poison-type Psychic weakness as Beedrill, I don't think it's that big a detail to miss.
we shouldnt spam you with facts but you spam us with a video made by a person who wasnt even an idea by his parents when the game was released?
well played, little boy.
Andrew Furth actually a coding error made psychics IMMUNE to ghosts in Gen 1
Man, Pokémon fever in the 90s was one hell of a time to be alive.
Right you are.
Too true..
when I opened my very 1st pack of cards and got a holo Raichu......pretty incredible can't even lie.
unfortunate that there will probably never be anything quite like that ever again. With the internet existing, kids all talking together to understand the game doesnt really work as well. information explaining every detail of the game is already out pretty early, so theres less of an air of mystery around them most of the time
I dont think the internet being around now is a completely bad thing, a lot of places had kids that just didnt like pokemon or some kids just didnt have friends that got the games and they werent able to get certain pokemon because of it. the internet adds convenience because now you can trade and get pokemon from all over the world pretty easily, just ask anywhere online and someone can probably help you out. and sometimes getting a pokemon without knowing the method is a pain because it has such a low appearance rate or evolves in a weird way. so the platform did help with some issues but i still think it hurt the original design partially relying on people not knowing a ton about the game and having to discuss it with people to beat it
That it was. I cherish the memories I made of summers where I would leave the house at dawn with my brothers, pikachu edition gameboy, and binder of Pokemon cards to trade/battle with neighbor kids until sunset. Its crazy how much the Pokemon franchise has been part of my life in the background now that I think about it.
For the longest time as a kid, I thought the guy guarding cerulean cave was one of those British soldiers wearing one of those tall hats. But then he moved and I realized it was just the cave opening lined up perfectly with his head line.
Matt Johnson same
This
Bring back way too memories thinking exactly the same.
Wow he really does I forgotten all about that guy
I thought he had a afro
To answer your question, Psychic is weak to Bug because Psychic's weaknesses are based on three of the biggest phobias: darkness, ghosts and bugs.
I kinda got that intuitively as a kid too like psychics have the power of the mind but bugs scare the shit outta everyone throwing psychics off.
Would adding Flying for heights be too reachy? Pun intended.
Can you explain to me why is poison weak to psychic??
@@einjixWatch The Princess Bride's "battle of wits" scene, and you'll understand why.
@@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853 If anything poison should be strong against psychic
This video only has made me realize how much the commercials for the show talk about how Ash has to catch them all, despite the fact that he absolutely NEVER tries to do that.
In the entire og series I think he caught Like 7 or 8 lol.
@@safersephiroth943 what about 30 tauros?
@@user-do1gm9qg7n that’s 30 of the same Pokémon, it’s equal to catching 30 Pidgey’s. He’s talking about the amount of different Pokémon.
Actually at first ash is catching them all but stop immedietly
And unfortunately he probably won't. Say bye to ash in the anime.
I remember interpreting “if you lose against the elite four, you have to start over” as new game start over. After a ridiculous amount of grinding while watching my Saturday morning cartoons, 6 year old me lost and was briefly mortified.
God i remember that feeling. Shit
OMG that was me tooo!
Issam Halabi you made it past Silph Co. , the thirsty guards and victory road at six?
JC Not
I got destroyed by Bruno...
Issam Halabi Bruno is the easiest elite 4
"Why is psychic weak to bug?"
Psychic Pokemon are weak to Bugs, Ghosts and the Dark (Dark Types), things people are irrationally afraid of.
Or in japan, Bugs, Ghosts, and Evil.
What about fire, or water (ppl who can’t swim), or maybe even the worst of them all..... GRASS! (AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!)
Huh kinda makes sense 🤔
Because insects usually are hive minded and not easy to manipulate
Ok, Psychic was actually immune to Ghost in Gen 1. It was only made a weakness in Gen 2 because they needed to nerf Psychic types a bit, hence the addition of Dark as well.
"Hey, you can catch a Nidoran and have it learn Double Kick to beat Brock. That's not true."
>Nidoran learns Double Kick at level 43 in R/B, 12 in Yellow
"Oh."
Yeah. You won't beat Brock with that. You'll completely ANNIHILATE HIM!
How did I do it then?
Use LEER for God's sake. His pokemon are only level 14. You can use leer 3 times and destroy him
His pokemon are defensive. Destroy his defense. Even if it's not effective you can still 1 shot
You can catch a Mankey
No joke, when I fought Agatha of the Elite Four, she kept using Dream Eater on my Pokémon when they weren't even asleep. It made her battle incredibly easy.
Yeah, that's one way to win at the ''Agatha Lottery'', as Jrose11 often calls it. 👻🎰
You can defeat Lance's Dragonite with a Lv. 2 Weedle because it will use nothing but Barrier. You can just use Poison Sting over and over until it gets poisoned.
As for "stories made up by children", my sister wouldn't let me play Pokémon blue at some point because when the player misses the cruise the game tells you there won't be another one for a year, and my sister was waiting for it to arrive again. Eventually I got ourselves out of that, and continued the game, but I still think fondly of my sister waiting for the cruise. Only inexperienced kids would take that seriously, oh how I miss those times.
I remember crying when the SS Anne left. 🤣 I really wanted to stay on it and visit other regions and battle new trainers and Pokemon. I didn't know it would be gone forever ...
Haha I see i'm not alone. I even bought the yellow version so I could visit it again without losing my save
You do know if you get poison and died on the boat you can re-enter the boat so you can complete everything on the boat die by poison and keep the boat there without it ever sailing away
@@TeamBostonB-City interesting I didn't know that
The kids at school told me if I got to 10,000 hours played in Yellow version the SS Anne would come back and take me to Orange Islands where I’d be able to catch a Pikablu.
I loved how even without the internet, stories like Pikablu and "Mew underneath the truck" still spread across the country like wildfire. That's kind of crazy and amazing if you think about it.
@D JL I lived in Germany at the time and it made its way there too.
It came to Australia
The internet existed. It was much different back then but that's how I found out about Pikablue. Never saw rumors about how to get it, just pictures and the name. Of course I barely knew how to use the internet when I was that young. I just knew the computer could find pokemon and power ranger pictures.
Indeed. These spread with the help of the internet though.
the internet was around back then; just not to the extent that it is now. It wouldn't have spread across the globe the way it did without the internet.
I remember my first time playing Red version, I managed to somehow catch a Pikachu in the wild but because my friend had Yellow Version we couldn't figure out why my Pikachu couldn't follow me oh, so I went into the settings for Pikachu and selected the release option thinking that he would follow me around, never caught another Pikachu after that, too rare. Sad moment.
pikachu is only a 5% spawn in viridian forest and the encounter rate is awful, catching one was such a pain in the ass
Why did you save? 🤦🏾♂️
@@NGRevenant yea its rough. Sometimes I find him right away, other times I look for half a day lol
In blue I caught three wild pikachus
That had to have been a sad moment I fail your pain brother pikachu was ultra rare tbh red was my favorite version
I always put the Bug/Psychic match-up in my head as an image of someone meditating being constantly interrupted by a loud cricket haha
King K: The remakes would make my video 3x as long
Someone who watched the 3 hour God of War review: pathetic
As someone who watched a 7 hour long review of pokemon omega ruby i would have loved a longer video.
@@andrian7820 ditto but he's worken hard. 45 minutes is countless hours
came to speak on behalf of the 7hr long pokemon review as wel
That 7 hour review was a work of art
@@imahoare4742 Or insanity, though the two are often together (yes I watched the entire thing).
Drake Bell was in one of the og trailers for pokemon?? Damn that's some nostalgia right there lol
Guess you never thought that life would be so simple, eh? Turns out you found a way!
seto kaiba was the voice over at the end too
@@Dayo_tv Eric Stuart also voiced Brock!
@dayo
In context you really should've recognized him as Brock rather than Kaiba.
Gen Z alert
The greatest memories of my childhood were all Pokémon red related. The day I got it and a gameboy colour, Fighting and trading at school, reading the manual back to front nearly every day. What a good time.
It’s a massive cliche to say things like this, but kids these days truly will never understand what it was like to get a copy of Pokémon Red or Blue back in the day. To actually be able to put yourself in the shoes of a trainer, regardless of the botched sprites and glitchy gameplay on an unlit LCD screen, was absolute magic. I still can’t believe how far we’ve come in so little time.
@@maximumbeans9310 Ya like i was 7 when i got my gameboy color and pokemon blue and liek you said it was magic... i had a original nes with duck hunt and super mario.. going from that to pokemon was crazy, it was like your own little world, i was obsessed ive never cared about a game even close too that much after
Bruh, the sense of achievement I got as an 8 year old finally getting through Rocket HQ/Silph Co and Victory Road was immense.
The more I listen to you discuss the battle mechanics the more I realise just how much Red and Blue shaped my play style to the point I really, really struggle to adapt to modern competitive play. I'm still completely obsessed with type coverage over everything else.
Ohhh Rock tunnel when your young and trying to get through it was an accomplishment whether hm flash was missed or obtained 😆 now that was a thrill
@@christian3514 When you could navigate by memory without Flash, you knew you’d possibly played the game a little too much.
@@maximumbeans9310I didn't knew a inch of English when I played it, and oh boy having knowing about flash would be useful.
@@maximumbeans9310 The Rock Tunnel shows the outline of the obstructions which makes it really easy to get through even without Flash
Putting Ho-Oh in the first episode tells you how confident they were that Pokemon would be huge
Big D fun fact.. Pokémon actually had almost all second generation ready but decided to save it for the next region/generation.
Example, togepi came out in season 1 when it’s a 2nd generation Pokémon 🤯
Never thought of this great observation
The games were already huge, by the time that first episode aired.
Fun fact, pokemon was going to end after gen 2, but due to its huge popularity they continued
Big D if only you knew the amount of times moves like these are pulled and it doesn’t pan out.
*Picks Charmander *
Brock: So you have chosen death.
But Mankey?
In FRLG he can learn metal claw
Wow, well done dude.
Genwunner Green mankey
@@joshuahall9678 mankey is only in yellow I believe
90s playing pokemon at school during recess was lit
Personally the majority of trading I did with Red and Blue were with my brothers. My mom owned the original Gameboy when it came out and when we started discovering how fun the pokemon series was, she didn't like it. She was a big Tetris fan and she wasn't able to get the console away from us. Soon she relented and got two Gameboy pockets for us to share. And we all got one cartridge each to pick. My mom got back to her Tetris and we succumbed to the pokemon addiction :)
The whole segment about the early game and Brock in Red/Blue I was thinking, "Doesn't Nidoran learn Double Kick pretty early and then go on to evolve into one of the strongest and most versatile Pokemon?" Then I found they learn it at level 43, and only in Yellow did they change their learnsets to get it at level 12. I also understand they probably did this for consistency, but it's pretty obnoxious they didn't fix the obvious "Psychic is immune to Ghost instead of weak to it" error, even though it wouldn't really matter anyway since the only damaging Ghost move is Lick with base 30 power, and the only Ghost types in Gen 1 who could get STAB are high special, low attack while Ghost was based off Attack, and to top it all off the final stage was a trade evolution. Man what a fucking mess.
Yeah, I think Nidoran should've been mentioned along with Mankey for Yellow for that reason alone. Slight correction: Lick's base power was 20 back then, only adding to the hopeless situation.
Not to mention that the only ghosts are poison type, aka weak to psychic.
They literally couldnt fix the "Psychic is immune to Ghost instead of weak to it" error, because you can battle as Red/Blue VS Yellow and you would abviously run into an inconsistency there.
And then, gen 2 happened.
Wow, I did not know this. I am so used to playing the yellow version that I never considered that was why the early game was so hard in RB, even though Blue was my first game.
Gosh that Red/Blue ad brings back memories...
Azukar same i miss the early 2000s
i love the drivers casual "whatever". like, "yeah whatever i just gonna brutally genocide your entire race by crushing them in a hydraulic press whatever"
I knew that ads from nostalgia critic
@@BlueflagAlpha I know that ads from seeing it on TV lol
Most people started playing gen 1 but I played gen 3 Pokémon Sapphire, playing the game reminded me a lot of my home town and since I live close to the beaches. This game made me feel all sorts of things happiness, anger, excitement, and appreciation for something of a small game like this. This game is what made up my years from 10-14. If I could do it all over again I would.
Well a lot of people started on gen 3. The Advance represented a brand new generation of gamers. I played first 3 but gen2 was my personal fav
Most is a majority. The majority of people who have played Pokémon have never played gen 1. “A lot” is what you were thinking of.
Oh man, the diamond and pearl retrospective might make me cry
I wonder if he’ll mention some quick thoughts on the remakes
Did it?
Man, I was a child in the 90s, and let me tell you when the first film came out, the theatre gave out special Mew cards, burger king had all of the toys, Pokemon was literally like Beatlemania of the late 90s. It was utterly EVERYWHERE. Every teacher talked about it, every kid had a gameboy, everyone on the playground traded cards and linked up. This shit wasn't just any game, it was like a revolution. It sounds ridiculous now with smartphones and whatnot, but back then, having a gameboy color in your hand was the norm. So nostalgic.
P.S. and yes every adult HAD to say it like "PokeMANNNNN, cHiNpOkeMaaaaahn! LOL, I'm a huge anime/manga fan, and I suppose from watching the anime as a kid I learned the correct pronunciation. What other series has spawned an anime from being a video game first? It's almost always from a manga, this just shows how immensely popular this thing was.)
Man, those were the days in the late 90's (Im from 89). And my and my friends wouldn't shut up about Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and Digimon 😊 We'd play the Gameboy games, watch the shows/movies, and play cards or pogs.
I still have one or two of the Burger King toyas and the actual paper tray insert with a pictures of all the toys on it. I used to have more of them + the cards with scenes form the movie until two years ago. My ex threw me out and gave away my entire Pokemon collection from when I was 7 years old in 1999 to my 20s. I never had any friends to play with when I was younger and because my parents din't have much money I often lagged a gen behind and once I could buy my own games/consoles, they'd shut down online capability from the game I had. Now I mostly play Pokemon Showdown even though I suck at competitive play because there's always thousands of people to play with any time anywhere and I enjoy teambuilding.
Hell yeah I remember being 6 and remembering all of this, I even remember going to Walmart when Yellow came out too, and an employee told me “You know you can catch a Mankey to beat Brock in this game” crazy how that stuck with me all these years later lol
I remember when x and y came out the hype came back I was in grade 5 and everyone was trading the cards and battling during lunch
KingK: You don't see a lot of Golem
Golem: Is literally one of the strongest, most used Pokemon in Gen 1, being used interchangeably with Rhydon
I'll grant you Rhydon, but I almost never see Golem used for anything. Perhaps it's just because I didn't play these games at release.
@@KingKlonoa He's just talking about competitive. Both Rhydon and Golem are used as checks for Zapdos who would otherwise be extremely potent in the highest tier format that the Mews are banned, although Rhydon is still more popular and Golem really only serves the niche of exploding and being a fairly negligible amount faster. As for casual play, let's just say the fact Golem was a trade evolution didn't help its popularity.
@@EvilApple567 They are also used to check Tauros, the best Pokemon in the competitive of gen 1, with the exception of Mew and Mewtwo, due to his great Attack, Special and Speed, access to the best moves in game Body Slam, Earthquake, Rock Slide, Blizzard and Hyper Beam and the way that critical hit work in gen 1
One of the most used, yes. "Strongest" definetly not (apart from Explosion). It's just that the Normal resist and Zapdos check roles are too valuable.
literally no trainer in the game uses a golem, I think is what he meant
wait, no, he did mean competitive. tbf you needed to trade for golem and rhydon was the same thing just easier to obtain
"These games are glitchy"
These games are miracles of programming and the fact they run at all is a miracle. They pushed the Gameboys hardware to its limit.
The glitches speedruns are some of wildest things I've ever seen. The cross stitched coding is kind boggling
Yeah, they sure did push the Gameboys hardware.... for most of the wrong reasons. It wasn't until Gen 2 that they fully and properly utilized all of that hardware could handle, only thanks to the miracle works of Satoru Iwata who came in to fix their crap the best he could. Gen 1 is a demo of how Game Freak is when it comes to developing their games on the handhelds. And the only things that showed another case of their, at times, incompetence, is during Sun and Moon. When dataminers found out they placed character models like Lillie in most if not every gosh dang room in the game for some reason.
I think the art and law is far more compelling than the code, links awakening looked much better IMHO 😛
@@byronlyons3548 keep in mind that gen 1 was developed for the OG Gameboy, while gen 2 was developed with the Gameboy Color in perspective.
And yes, one can play gold and silver on the OG Gameboy, but with setbacks.
Now, Crystal is a full on Gameboy Color game that wasn't hold back in order to be playable on the OG.
So, one still has to take into account that the improvements of gen 2 came due to improvements in hardware.
True. I never noticed any of these glitches until I already played through the game like 5 times, and the glitches I noticed had to be told to me by outside sources, not me stumbling upon the glitch myself.
This almost brought me to tears, I remember when red and blue first hit shelves, going to school everyday talking to friends about it. Spending hours walking in a patch of grass someone said they found a Pokémon I wanted in. The 1st gen was the hardest. People fail to remember that when they came out we had no idea about strategy and type advantage then. I use to order my Pokémon by level said them out in order from lowest lvl to highest. So many memories…
I think a lot of people forget about the lack of strategizing in that time. And it was a good thing! It made Pokemon have a mystique about it, because you really were out there like Ash loving and battling with your favorite Pokemon even if they weren't the most efficient. With way less access to the internet, and less Pokemon resources on said internet, it was totally different. Plus we were all little kids, so the designs and things outside of raw numbers and strategy are what spoke to us. Really part of the magic in my opinion.
Despite all its obvious flaws, there will never be a game that enthralled me the way the original Pokémon games did.
Pokemon Red/Blue was one of the few RPGs that I restarted numerous times after clearing them. I at some point got ALL the Pokemon and restarted anyway. No RPG has ever got me hooked like this.
I got the gameboy, pokemon game all in one magnificent pack. I was so excited I tried opening the hard plastic with my teeth. I've been dead inside since...
Would if there is a remaking of Pokémon red and blue that changed literally nothing
I had Blue in 99 then Yellow. Gold and Silver had me hooked as much as RBY.
Kept it simple. It ended after Sapphire/Ruby Era.
"You're a kid and you went to school with other kids with Gameboys."
Unless you were me as a kid who went to a private school that banned Pokemon because Pokemon was the devil. ;___;
Our school did a compromise because we were way too distracted by Pokemon. Banned during the semester. Allowed during end of semester/off time. Those off time moments were some of the most memorable moments of my childhood. Caught up on trading, fighting, using Gameshark/glitches, crazy rumors like Bill's garden......good times.
Lemme guess... American Catholic private school?
Or lived in a poor country, like me here in Argentina never playing Pokémon socially until 3 years ago, with the 3ds's internet connectivity. My first Nintendo console and it has no support in Argentina, I have my country set to Canada for online and the eShop to work.
Welcome to the club! Catholic elementary school?
Where I came from, you don't go to school with anything that you're not comfortable having confiscated indefinitely. And that was public school. If the teacher was nice, you'd get it back at the end of the year or if your parents came to get it. If not, it went in the trash without notification.
11:13 because Psychic represents the mind and its weaknesses are all common phobias. Bug, Dark and Ghost. There is logic there.
Melba Peach: But also Bugs have a simple brain structure. Psychics cant manipulate their emotions or predict what they do next because bugs minds are too basic.
19:40
Golem actually is quite useful in gen 1 though. Sure, he could never stand up to Alakazam, but he is cruical to hard walling physical attacking, and electric/ ghost pokemon of that generation. Like Tauros, Snorlax, Zapdos, Jolteon, and Gengar. Unlike Onix, Golem has its amazing physical attack stat to go with its amazing physical defense. As well as access to a good move pool. Like Rockslide, Earthquake, Hyper Beam, Double Edge, Body Slam, Counter, Submission, etc. But most importantly, it also had access to Explosion. Which it could use in a pinch if things got rough. So Golem actually was very very good in gen 1, he was just very situational. He had to pick his battles wisely.
I’ll never forget- I was about 5 years old and my mom would always drag me along to go to garage/yard sales and I would be upset the whole time and wait in the car. She would come to the car if she found something she thought I would like and ask if I wanted it. One day we went to a sale and she came up to me with Pokémon yellow in her hand. We had a game boy at home that belonged to my dad but I would use it to play Tetris. When she showed me Pokémon yellow I said no, I don’t want it. She said it’s only 25 cents, are you sure you don’t want it? I said no, I don’t want it I want to go home. She ended up getting the game for me anyways, and I’ll forever be grateful to her for that. It became my favorite game of all time, I always played it on the bus on the way to 1st grade.
Aww. Smart move mom!
Aww stubborn baby.
Good mom you had.
Jeez you sound like a real pain in the nuts
That’s so sweet.
39:35 Ive never thought of the Rival this way. Brilliant thinking.
Yes! I’m 99.9% sure the developers never intended for this subtext, but nonetheless, kingK found it, and it’s brilliant. A highlight of the video for sure.
@@denimchicken104 The developers certainly intended to illustrate the philosophical implications of the rivalry between Red and Blue, since they later conveyed it in the anime with Ash and Gary. A lot of Japanese fantasy stories revolve around ideas of appreciating the journey, and taking the long scenic route to the final destination, personal mastery. The foil to the hardworking well-rounded character is the archetype that Blue (or Azula in ATLA) represents; the prodigy that was so focused on becoming the best that they actually ended up becoming uni-dimensional characters in the end.
These notions appear often in Japanese storytelling as a way to encourage wonder, imagination, patience and discipline.
*Remember, Gary drove a car to each city to get his badges; Ash walked and met friends along the way.*
I can't wait to do a retrospection on all these retrospective videos in 6 years.
Four more years ro go!
The Brock Hard Wall was VERY true to my experience as a kid. I only got Red after my younger brother got his Yellow version and my parents learned that there was only one save file, so we couldn't share the game as easily. What that meant is that I obviously picked Charmander since I wanted an awesome Charizard like the one on the cover (still my favorite Charizard artwork to this day) and Brock obviously kicked my teeth in while I watched my brother sort of cruise by Brock because Nidoran learned Double Kick on Lv12 but ONLY in Yellow. I'll never forget how envious I was at that moment. Another thing I distinctly remember is how I was dreaming of catching my very own team and have a partner as tight as Pikachu in the anime. I would often daydream about things like these relating the series I currently had on my mind, but Pokemon stuck - I still remember those. Funnily enough, I actually *did* find a mon that fit the description. I ended up adoring Farfetch'd - the one you can trade for in Vermilion City. I'd always trade for that little guy and take him all the way to the Elite 4. With Farfetch'd and Charizard, I had some glaring weaknesses (I'd rarely get past Loreley) but I remember loving those two a LOT.
The not so fun memories were tons of corrupted save files. We'd always play Pokemon together with the kids from next door but we had to promise to do it outside (because playing outside > playing videogames, obviously, so it was a compromise). It turns out, those cartridges don't endure heat very well. They don't take permanent damage from lying in the sun, but apparently they do lose the save data on them. I lost SO many Farfetch'd to the sun. It was always very tragic. I must have restarted the game dozens of times.
Nowadays, I actually still replay Red, though by now, it's the VC version. In some ways the wonkier things about Gen1 make it really fun to me. Farfetch'd actually is useful, being the earliest learner of STAB Slash and critting with it 90% of the time. The balance issues of sleep and wrap allow pokemon like Arbok or Parasect to really shine despite their awful stats (Arbok being able to paralyze with Glare is especially evil). In a way, the mucked up balance allows mechanics to outshine stats in many cases. Sometimes, I get really in the mood for stuff like this.
I think the reason Moltres is hidden in Victory Road is because it's like the Olympic flame.
Fearei Shatter I always thought that also. How weird that we think that with no context
The anime did something like that, but I kinda doubt the developers had it in mind at the time.
It probably should have been in the Cinnabar Mansion, if only to fill some of the empty space.
Liam Dell in leaf green it was on one island lol
@@liamdell6319 Probably too close to articuno.
I'll forever feel so lucky to be around when all this started. It created so much magic in my childhood.
I remember I always used to spend hours and hours training with my charmander, because I loved Charizard, so I evolved my charmander right at the beginning, which massively helped with Brock, not so much with misty, that mess is something we don't talk about any more
A forty five minute video detailing the history and cultural relevance of Pokemon? By KingK? Don't mind if i doooooooooo.
And each generation to come!
You are not wrong
Is that a Gravity Falls reference ?
@@sadomi6657 If you mean me ive never watched it before.
I lost every linked battle as a kid because I refused to use Mewtwo, Alakazam, Snorlax, Gengar, Tauros, and Dragonite. Gotta catch em all my ass! Every goddamn kid used the same exact team and moveset. Even people who never touched the game could borrow someone else's team, follow instructions, and sweep my ass like I was Bandit Keith. Yes, I'm still salty.
Also, I was just shit at the game.
Don't forget Tauros & Chansey
... In america
Get gud
I was that kid that used only the Pokemon I could evolve on my own.
I still remember. Charizard Hypno, Victreebel, Seadra, Raichu, Wigglytuff. I understood what their weaknesses and what their stats meant, I gave them moves I thought were better in the long run instead of just having all damaging moves like most kids back then, and I got around to beating my first Dragonite against my best friend. It probably didn't help that I kept singing him to death.
@@ItsRetroPlanet Singing someone to death is probably the funniest thing I heard today
Probably won’t see this but whoever does, all we really need is a Pokémon MMO now that would be amazing (: nice video I’m 34 and I remember when I got the game when it first came out and watched the first episode (:
There’s PokeMMO! I haven’t played it but I’ve heard good things about it. Unofficial of course, but it hasn’t been taken down by Nintendo yet, so I’d check it out while you still can!
@@dahuntre you should check it out when you get the chance to, its a lot of fun
I feel old. I'm 30 years old and can still remember the day I got pokemon red for my 6th birthday.
I am 30 yrs old as well and I got pokemon blue version along with a blue cased gameboy color for Xmas when I was 6 years old. Best gift ever.
31 years old and got my first copy of pokemon red for Xmas and stayed up all night playing it
I’m 27, and my brother, who is 30, remember playing these games. He got red version and I got blue, I was kinda salty because I wanted red version though lol
Back in '98 the "swimming along the island cheat" was so legendary we felt like bill gates when doing it
My favorite part of it is still that you can get a limitless stock of master balls by asking an old man how to catch Pokemon.
Still the best way to catch Tauros and Kangaskhan in that game.
Hackermaaaaaaan
Classic! I remember doing that to get infinite rare candies. Had my team at level 50 then boosted them to 100 haha. Then I took that team to school and faced off someone who had Pokémon at 100 who actually trained them that much and I got swept hahaha.
Noble Am I misremembering or did the rare candies level them up worse than doing it properly? I seem to remember grinding making the stats better than rare candying it.
Hate to sound like that "Born in the wrong generation" kid, but I sure do wish I lived the days where everything in video games were like mysteries.
I miss those days. I remember spending up to 12 hours after school, sometimes longer on the weekends, at like 7 years old exploring Ocarina of Time to find everything. I used to come up with my own storylines to keep me entertained. Got everything except for 2 gold skulltulas and a single heartpiece. Hundreds of hours, countless memories. Nowadays, you get stuck, Google. Oh that's where that's at.
It's not "born in the wrong generation"ing at all. Hearing all the random bullshit and not knowing everything there is to know on Day 1 was what made being on the ground for the Pokemon boom so fun.
Dakota Jones ohh man, same thing with Ocarina. My best friend would come over with his cartridge and we’d play one dungeon at a time, swap the cart and the controller, and the other would play. Shit really hit the fan when we read online (in the extremely rudimentary early internet) that you could find the triforce. We’d have sleepovers trying all the methods to obtain it lol. Incredible, incredible time to be alive.
It’s reasons like this that us “boomers” miss the shit out of the 90s. The modern internet ruined a lot of great things the 90s created.
Trey the William It was fun but also a curse because so many untrue rumors were made haha.
@@GeddyRC If you were a 90s kid, you aren't a boomer though.
I wasn't even a kid when these games came out, yet I still love them to this day.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the clear ad breaks you put in your script so ads don't just cut you off mid-rant
So here’s how Enemy Trainer AI works in R, B, and Y with some simple bullet points:
- Enemy Pokemon always use super effective attacks, even when switching (Like if you are switching from Beedrill to Pidgiot your opponents golem goes from using earthquake to using rock slide, and they always choose super effective moves when possible, even if the move doesn’t deal damage, like in Beedrill v.s Lorelei’s Dewgong, it will keep using rest because it is psychic.
-Your opponet isn’t limited by PP, they have infinite moves uses.
- Your opponet can use any status healing item, at any point in battle, even when say, Giovanni’s dug trio is underground.
interesting, I actually never knew that!
\\ the best teeth in the fucking game // What here surprised you the most? Do you have other things in the game regarding glitches to ask about?
I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than that. Some trainers have "Good AI" where they always use Super effective moves like you said, but most of the trainers have Bad AI which just uses random moves.
Junior Mudkip Nope. It’s not. There is almost no difference. All that changes with weaker trainers is that the game runs a RNG calculator to determine if they WONT use a SuperEffective attack. All the end game trainers ignore this calculation designed to pretend like it has a difficulty curve. The only real change is the Pokémon themselves. I do love this game’s glitch Pokémon. They make Gen 1 worth revisiting for me.
But some trainers DO just use random moves. This list is limited to specific trainers like gamblers, jugglers, and FRICKING BRUNO OF THE ELITE FOUR.
Man, I was the only one in my class who got Red. All the other uncultured nerds got Blue.
Also the school culture was the real deal. We spent hours figuring out the MissingNO trick and trying to find Mew in that truck. The lack of internet made the whole game mysterious and fascinating.
Lol Missingno was an epidemic at my school. I went to a small catholic school and legit everyone from grade 2 to 8 were talking about it. Gameboys were everywhere, what a time
Valientlink right? We're kinda lucky to have had that experience. We were pretty much the last generation to not have the internet easily available. Today you can just youtube search for all easter eggs and to figure out what's possible or just a rumor. Back then some asshole told me I could play as Luigi in Mario 64 by doing a drop kick hundreds of times in front of a mirror, and I had no way to prove him wrong, so I tried.
You would have been to get so many good trades for version exclusives
I vividly remember asking an older student in my secondary school back in the day about the missingno trick, I spent the rest of the school day going over it in my head. As soon as I went home I tried it and it worked.
I used that trick to spam 99x rare candies and 99x master balls. It actually made my experience with Pokemon yellow easier, as I had the link cable and two gameboys.
🤪
From an uncultured nerd!
The fact that I remember this commercial 0:08 and saw it on tv. All the time. When it was new. Makes me feel so old reading the comments
As someone who lived through the pokemon craze, this really brings me back. I remember spending hours of my childhood trying to find the mew in the truck, debated whether or not mewthree exisited, we played the cards, games, talked non stop about the latest episodes.... man... those were the days...
Nidoran ♂ & ♀ both learn double kick which is super effective, that is how I passed the first gym.
i just burnt them with my charmeleon
Only in yellow, in red/blue they learn that at level 50 or so
@@rooka4 lol, RITE?! xD
Not gunna lie, on my first play i think i had a charizard loll
Another interesting detail of yellow version is that all three starters are actually just given to you for free in different cities so its a lot easier to fill out the pokedex in yellow
Charmander and Bulbasaur are both given to you in Cerulean.
Completing the pokedex in yellow is actually much harder then in blue and red. There's a few videos explaining why.
The Manaphy egg thing reminded me that me and my friend were thoroughly convinced that Keldeo was hidden at the end of the Abyssal Ruins in BW and spent hours finding how to get deeper into the ruins only to find a bunch of treasure instead. Good times when we were kids
Every Gen? You mad man....I can't wait.
I love his voice. Reminds me of how a narrator in Pokémon would give.
Mew being hidden under the truck was a classic, and I remember hearing that the keys to move the truck were in the casino on top of one of the slot machines... You just had to figure out how to take them 🤔
Pokemon Blue was my first and favourite Pokemon game, unforgettable. It's interesting to hear your thesis about a "social game". My experience and I believe most others' was 99 percent solitary. There was some link cable trading at recess, but by and large all my fond memories of this game involve me hunched over a glowing Gameboy Colour screen, grinding Bug Catchers to dust, getting lost on the SS Anne and praying for my Wartortle to evolve.
I replayed it some years ago and got maybe 3/4 of the way through. Still a blast. As someone who isn't particularly interested in or knowledgeable about Pokemon in his adulthood, the magic was still there.
When someone told me they found pickachu in the beginning forest I lost my shit lol as a kid and I told him not to tell anyone else lol
I got goosebumps when the anime theme song hit. I'm 29.
Jacob Chesley same now 24 😂
28 here I agree
34, still trying to travel across the land to search far and wide IRL
30
This uplifting feeling of nostalgia was great
30. Same here 🤣🤣
Fun fact: it was actually Shigaru Miyamoto who suggested splitting the games into 2 version to get people to trade together.
Pokemon Yellow also made it so that the Nidorans learn Double Kick at a much earlier level, bringing the total amount of pokemon in the starting area that are viable against Brock to three.
Mankey can be caught outside Viridian city and learns low kick at level 9. Completely destroys Onix
I still remember playing this with my neighbor. He had blue and picked squirtle. I had red and chose charmander. Still remember those link cable battles....
Man, I always get jealous when I hear about how kids would actually socialize with Pokémon, cause where I lived when I was little, nobody would do such a thing. I don't even know if anyone I knew at the time owned a Pokémon game. The closest to Pokemania here were trading with those trading cards that nobody knew how to play with, and the more recent Pokémon GO craze.
My circles, no one could afford the extra crap for one game, and their parents weren't going to spring for yet another thing.
The 90s were crazy! I remember when my school banned the cards and gameboys that's how crazy it was
I love the ways you explain each gens region itself. The way it works, the themes and stories it tells, it's history, how the pokemon within it make sense. It makes going through these games more enjoyable and the world feel more alive
I remember playing pokemon blue when I was younger on the gameboy color and I really loved it too. Gen 1 was really amazing too. And the first season of pokemon was great too. Great video.
sadly i never experienced that social aspect with red and blue... i was one of the only one playing it at my school
Oof
Ooooh, that has to hurt. As a child dumped into, what was to me at the time, a foreign country with a language barrier I had JUST learned to overcome, the social aspect of the Gen 1 and 2 games meant a LOT to that part of my childhood. So much that if I woke back up in the body of child me the day after my parents bought Yellow, I'd do it all over again.
Me too! I was always way more into it than other people I was friends with and I only got to complete my Pokedex once Gen 4 rolled around with the GTS and a friend who was into it like me
no one at my school ever really played those kinds of games... I grew up with Gen 5 and I didn't know a single other kid with the game. Luckily, when I got older, I did have a friend who liked pokemon, and our battles in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire were very intense.
Lol, me to. I am and was socially inept and that didn't help much either.
The old pokemon commercials hit me in the feels lol
Your Pokémon retrospective videos are some of my favourite videos on TH-cam! I always watch them when I want to relax :)
I really like your perception of the games. It's very unbiased and objective. Just because you love a game and feel nostalgic about it doesn't mean you can't accept it's flaws. It's strange that modern people who always preach tolerance can't accept that something can be flawed and yet still be great.
“Pikachu Heroin Injection” is a technically accurate marketing term.
Mike now its Charizard heroin injection unfortunately.
“Pokemon you’ve never seen before”
Missing no.: allow me to introduce myself
Pleased to meat you, Hope you guessed my name. But whats puzzling you is my nature in the game.
I'm a glitch of wealth and taste
OMG RAEEEEE
iv been around for a long long save
Imagine going back in time to show someone what a Kyurem looks like.
I will never forget the day I went to toys r us with my mom got a atomic purple gbc and pokemon red version the smell of the box the feel of the plastic case that came with the game the first time I turned it on are all memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life I am so happy I grow up playing these games I have my own kid now and it's amazing to teach her the history of Pokemon
Nice, something to binge! Thank you for helping me suppress reality!
15:10 i love the KingK version of the PokeRap
I remember a class mate bragging about how you clone Pokemons in Red/Blue back in the days.
He kept it a tight secret, but was willing to take your cartridge overnight and the next day in school your whole team was 6 Mewtos with which you wiped the floor of every other fellow trainer on the playground.
R. C. Christian wtf? how did he do that?
@@SuperChachi1993 I still don't know and never cared to find out.
What I last heard was that you can do some trickery when you unplug the link cable while trading during the right moment, then both trainers end up with the same Pokemon.
I'm sure nowadays there's a guide to that cloning somewhere.
maybe he just used a game genie
yeah its called game genie. We used to do that shit all the time, that was technically the only way to get Mew before it was an event but it often resulted in your game file just randomly deleting. That day when i turned my gameboy on to see the only option available was "new game"... that was a dark, dark day
there was also a ditto cloning trick but i never knew of it at the time, nor do i know how it works but ive heard of it. I think ive heard of that link cable exploit too.
Turned on my GBA and went back into my Pokémon blue today. Seeing my og team Wartortle, Pikachu, Mr Mime, and Sandshrew sent the memories trading with my sister flowing right back man. Great video.
Pokèmon Generation 1
The greatest games to ever have their code be held together with blood, sweat, duct tape, and sheer frigging power of will.
Gen 1, obviously the best gen with NO flaws whatsoever
I still remember the days when I would get walked to school by my mom with my face glued to the gameboy every morning. Then spending the entire day at school thinking about and talking about pokemon. Weekends had this routine where I would watch the anime in the morning and play Red while outside with friends. The pokemania craze was so magical and always puts a smile on my face to recall.
I went through something similar in 4th grade back when X and Y came out
@@tylermannor4290 Same, but in 3rd
I remember being 11 and playing Pokemon Red for the first time on my brand new Gameboy color... nostalgia at its finest.
I know I'm late, but these videos are so great! I love retrospective type video essays, and these are superb!
No love for missingo? I remember being the recess Pokemon dealer. Cloning Pokemon under the slide. Good times. Pre 9-11 times
I too made money back in the Pokemon economy. Think I was selling cards until we got them banned from the Chicago public school system.
at least spell itright mr dealer, missigno
@@Rispta7th
"Pokemon. Not even once."
@@Rispta7th missingno*
@@MikeHunt-wl4ye pokemon is a gateway drug to magic the gathering smh
"A tough, yet uncompromising, vision"
In all of the videos I have watched on the channel, this is by far my favorite quote and the best one sentence summary for the ideology of the first two generations of Pokemon.
Those were crazy days i salute all of us 90s kids who kept engaged with pokemon *goosebumps from nostalgia*
Thank you for spending however long it took you to produce this so that I can finally refer people here instead of trying to describe what it was like to go to school in the 90s. The part starting at 8:03 really hits on the mythos especially hard. Those types of questions were literally THE topic of conversation at school, full stop.
When people talk about balance in these first games, I feel I wanna say that some pokemon like Dragonite were designed more to be bosses in the one player game, rather than for your own team. I feel there's a reason why Team Rocket grunts are very weak stat wise, and Psychics aren't meant to be balanced... they're meant to be the strongest (and are said to be the strongest a lot in the anime). Obviously that has changed now but I feel having some pokemon just be the best was intentional.
You are exactly right. The vast majority of people only play the single player game. so every Pokemon not having equal stats doesn't matter.
You dont fuck with mewtwo, or starmie for that matter.
Mewtwo just shreds everything just teach it ice beam🤣
Okay... let's go.
Thank you very, very much for the contextualization of the time period Pokemon Red and Blue released in. Perhaps more than any other game release short of, Super Mario Bros 3, World of Warcraft, or Halo 3, the culture around Pokemon was its most defining trait. I do feel that it WAS advertised to adults in Japan - they do love their RPG's there and it singlehandedly revived interest in the Game Boy during its downward spiral there - but you absolutely nailed the grip and effect it had on kids, and sharing that information. It's those kinds of things I love about games, that social aspect where you share your experiences to either beat or better learn from the game.
With that said, I miss the kind of games Pokemon Red and Blue were; single player experiences that became social experiments. Inter-trainer battling was absolutely not the focus of the original generation, and in fact was a consideration made late into development; the trading aspect was always what Sugimori wanted to promote. Stuff like stat overflow, the psychic type's dominance, etc. wasn't really that well-considered because, well, that doesn't really matter to the narrative of the single player experience. Of course Psychic is strong, the New Game Plus Superboss you can only keep by trading, Mewtwo, is that type! Of course Dragons are busted and have very few options against them, Dragonite's supposed to be your final boss who gets wrecked if you sought out Articuno. I know that Pokemon games starting as early as Stadium focused more strongly on getting your endgame team, and made clear superstars out of mons like Alakazam and Tauros and chumps out of Flareon and Kingler's poor stat distributions, but I don't feel that was the intent of Red and Blue. You can bring your Ponyta with you, sure! It's just another, unique option that can fight against an imperfect AI!
I also do disagree with the assessment of Brock. Bulbasaur does not learn a damaging grass-type move until Level 13, and it's difficult to raise Bulbasaur against the bug types compared to Charmander, who just munches 'em up. Onix, meanwhile, is a massive, beefy boy with a terrible HP stat and a mediocre Attack stat that screams 'first boss', especially with the player learning not to press their advantage with Bide. In that way, I feel like Squirtle's the odd man out; Onix isn't really that hard, he just takes a while to take down unless you have Bubble and will kill you if you go in too hard while it's biding its time. The whittling down process of both Ember and Leech Seed are pretty comparable. And then Squirtle just shows up and wins.
I also really like the difficulty curve of Kanto. I don't think it's hard in a traditional way - giving enemy teams good movesets with good coverage that you don't see coming until they've hit you with it once - but in order to compensate for the amount of possible teams, it puts a lot of checks your way. Can you avoid mashing the attack button? You can beat Brock. Do you have a Pokemon that knows Fly? The routes around Fuchsia City won't be nearly as punishing with the agonizing walk to get to the Pokemon Center that'll help poison seep right in. Do you have a faster Pokemon? Erika won't be as big of a problem. Do you have Pokemon that can take a lot of hits? You won't have to rush out of Silph Co all the time to heal. Pokemon Centers are always there for younger and newer players, making it super forgiving, but the fastest route and strongest battles of attrition are won because you've added members to your team that can overcome individual obstacles, culminating with your well-balanced rival fighting you.
But I think what I love most about Gen 1 is its growth. Your selection is so limited in Gen 1, often just sticking to Normal, Flying, Bug, and Poison types for a majority of the routes pre-Celadon. When something like Geodude or Drowzee or Clefairy pops up, it's a huge deal because it's so much different from what you've encountered before. It's memorable because your pool was limited, and you're going from a kid catching rats in his backyard to catching weird rapey tapirs and evil acid-spitting plants and whatever the Hell Mr. Mime is. You go into Rock Tunnel and hey, there's the first boss, just hanging out, maybe you can catch him! And after Snorlax is moved out of the way, so much of the world opens up and you have so much flexibility it's insane, because you worked with your team to get to that point. And again, this is illustrated with your rival, in a really literal way. My favorite part of Gen 1 is seeing the rival sprite change every few battles, going from a cocky kid to a rather competent teen. It's the only game where you see actual age, where the journey is implied to take a significant deal of time, where having to work around the Game Boy battery means that you probably had to turn it off and sleep and go back to school or work, so you really did grow with your character and with your Pokemon. I think that little bit is just particularly special.
Also side note, don't like Yellow nearly as much. I think Mankey is super overcentralizing along with the free starters, makes it so that most teams are gonna be Pika/Primeape/Charizard/Blastoise/Venusaur/FREE SPACE (probably Snorlax). Kinda ruins the slow progression by giving you what the TV show taught you were the coolest and strongest Pokemon all in a row. I know that's not everyone's experience, but I feel it's what was encouraged, and other changes (removing Weedle from Viridian Forest especially so you don't teach the kids about the slow creeping death of poison) really do rub my the wrong way.
I don't wanna decry your opinion at all; it is more than valid, more than accurate, and Gen 1 is a mess of a game held up by glue sticks and dreams. But I love them to this day, even outside of the context of the world that I played them in (though that's a big part of it and hard to separate), because they taught me how to love traditional RPG's. I don't feel that later Pokemon games really do that, very focused on the battles after the game is done and then tossing the champion a 'gotcha' team while giving the player such a huge spread of Pokemon early on that progression doesn't really exist in the same way it did before. I don't get the joy of finding a Tentacool, deciding I like it, and then working really hard in order to get it up to snuff with the rest of my team and being pleasantly surprised when he becomes a hard-working member all his own anymore. I don't realize that aw man, this Growlithe is not only new and cool, but he fits the hole in my team perfectly to help take on Erika. And that's fine, collection and flexibility are wonderful things, but it's not the elements I learned to love from these games. The series grew out of what I liked about it, and that's okay, because I'm a degenerate genwunner who can always come back to these and yell at the children for saying that Golem is bad when he's literally one of the cornerstones of RBY OU interchangeably with Rhydon because he knows Explosion and is bulky enough to almost always get it off. I'll always have these games, and thank you for giving them a chance.
I look forward to seeing what elements of Pokemon you end up most valuing as you go through the generations.
pyrrhickong Hi
Yeah this is pretty much a lot of what I wanted to say. Internet is really the biggest hurt to these games. They really bank on the player not already knowing what to do and rather discovering what to do. Discovery is a huge part of why the games are amazing and I think was factored into the balance of the game. Sure Alakazam is wicked powerful, but you needed Abra and if you didn't already know about Alakazam why bother with Abra? Gyarados is incredible but who's going to expect that from a magikarp? Of course the anime gave out hints and knowledge, all the more to draw people in.
Pokemon was also one of the starters to the major multimedia franchises of late 90's early 2000's which I don't think has really been nearly as potent in the last decade. Things like Bionicle, Spiderman, and Transformers that tried to poke into every area of interest a kid could have. It made Pokemon unavoidable.
The only thing I will disagree with here is: The Bugs in Viridian Forest don't have any Bug Type Moves, they only have Tackle and Poison Sting, both are neutral to Bulbasaur, and if you only use Bulbasaur you will get to level 13 pretty easy and Vine Whip brock to death.
@@SimisearOfficial Agreed, but MAN Bulbasaur is a drag to grind due to his low attack. It's less "hard" and more a time investment compared to the other two.
ok boomer
Hey KingK
Thanks for the pokemon blue/red review! you really brought me back to my childhood! This is honestly the only pixel sprite based game that was near and dear to my heart in 1999 when I was 9 years old. (33 years young now!) So thank you, I didn't realize how nostalglic I felt about this game. It was nice to see the visual and music and pokemon pixel art and have you walk us through what made the game design good as well as it being such a cultural phenomenon!
Peace, love and intuition!
I finally sleep thanks to ur voice kingK, it relaxes me hearing u talk ab my childhood games in such a nice a relaxing way. Thank you!
>You don't see a lot of Golem.
Golem and Rhydon were quite good for the gen 1 OU metagame
Brock's pokemon have such weak specials that even an ember from a Charmander will put a big dent into them. He'll waste a turn healing them from a burn if you get lucky enough to inflict one. Charmander will mop up in Viridian forest too, while Bulbasaur will struggle. Picking a fire type starter isn't as much of a handicap as you may think in gen1 if you ask me
Edit: 151 likes. Nice.
I replayed Pokemon Red repeatedly. Brock was never really an issue. I didn't have any concern for Charmander/Charmeleon until I fought that gym trainer with the water types.
@@HadesHatredEdge Yeah, Misty's Bubblebeam Starmie can absolutely wreck a Charmander/Charmeleon
well considering i beat my first playthrough as a 9 year old with a single lvl 100 Venusaur, i think its safe to say nothing you do is really a handicap unless youre extremely bad at the game.
In red you could get Mankey before the first gym too, it was on the path to the elite 4
@@arja2317 no Mankey in Blue, but you could level up a male or female Nidoran to the point it'll learn Low Kick, which would do some considerable damage to Brock.
been watching this channel since near its inception. you're doing decently well on here, but i think you deserve to grow much more. Well written reviews, and your opinions aren't just regurgitated. These videos are clearly very personal with your own unique take, its obvious that a lot of effort is put into them. You deserve more success and i hope you get more recognition soon. you're up there with matthewmatosis in my opinion. Thanks for these vids man, much appreciate them.
I have watched all of these retrospectives, and actually saved this one for last.
They are all great, and the finishing line in this video was just 'Mwaahhh' Perfecto.
Like it was meant for this one to be seen last, and that line to be the last thing heard!
Salud! I have subscribed. 😊
To beat Brock after choosing Charmander I just caught a Pidgey and spammed Sand Attack and then used Gust for about 10 years.
Same lol, but it was quicker to then switch out pidgey for charmander since onix's special was low enough for ember to do decent damage despite resistance
Nidoran male learns double kick relatively early and it sweeps Brock for free
The first time I played it did the exact same thing 😂
I used Butterfree confusion
Why aint yall talking about Mankey?
42:58 The sprites were made before the artwork, and the earliest sprites were made by Sugimori a mere 5 years prior, with a radically different art style.
Literally the only thing wrong w this is saying you don’t see a lot of golem, great video as per usual. You represent my thoughts on the franchise near perfectly, and it’s great to see someone take a look back on these games through both a gameplay lens as well as one that looks at them as the phenomenon they were at the time!
I still have the burger King gold cards somewhere stuffs crazy
I've got a couple sheets of uncut cards off ebay. Aaah the memories
@@flippineddy627 I love the old rustic artwork for the old card packs
33:01 my guy sounds like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho when describing Raichu.
King of Carrotflowers woah...exactly🤣
Raichu was a little too... new wave for my taste...