10 Things Only Pokémon GO OGs Remember

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

I’m surprised the original gym system wasn’t mentioned in this video to be honest. I remember being sooooo confused why i would be fighting my own teams pokemon in gyms..

[@ChrisBridges7]

Or…Blissey stacking. Hours of my time spent kicking those monsters out of gyms.

[@10meisterballe]

I still have the opinion that the original gym system is better than the current one. Maybe it's just nostalgia, idk.

[@Nova-Prime12]

wasnt it like in order to power it back up you had to beat them? or was it to put your own pokemon in? i remember having to do it but i dont remember why we had to.

[@NukesWarshipsBlitz]

I miss the OG gym

[@kellenocallaghan]

Reason they got rid of that was because everyone put blisseys in or snorlaxes 😂

[@WillCopeman]

Damn, I'm OG. I remember my first Dratini spawn in my rural village, not knowing where it is, but knowing all the possible 10 spawn points in the village. It was raining and I ran outside in my shorts and shirt like a madman trying to find it. I got it

[@Axuu]

same, there was maybe 1 pokestop in my area but all the kids we used to know the spawn points and one day i remember it was like 15 of us in the park then someone shouts theres a mr mime nearby then we run to the spawn point it was nice

[@lq7777]

There was a park a few miles from me that had a large lake and spawned Magikarp, Dratini, Slowpokes, and such. I’d hang out there most days after work, walking around the boardwalk grinding towards my first Gyarados and Dragonite.

[@BentheArcher2000]

Completely forgot and never would’ve thought of the old power up button or the lack of xp gaining methods. Also, I miss when Pogo used to decorate the map for the Halloween event back in Gen 3(I think it was then). Hopefully they do that again and keep it

[@richardproper8682]

I'm still hoping they release a feature allowing you to change out your non-AR background. Complete a Halloween event, catch your pokemon in front of a haunted house background. Summer, beach background, etc. You can choose from a list of received backgrounds or set a selected list on shuffle.

[@pankoty1479]

update: they did it again

[@BentheArcher2000]

@@pankoty1479 Yeah for Halloween. I really hope they go all out on the map for Winter

[@Ramzz_15]

I remember the excitement i felt when my friend messaged me early in the morning that pokemon go is finally in the app store, grabbed my bike and meet up with the gang immediately to hunt pokemon in real life.. what an amazing experience Edit: wow, thanks for the likes trainers! Glad to know yall can relate 💯

[@Jagg753]

Did that with my uncle. He told me when we were camping a pokemon game was coming to the real world and when we were done and that same night the game came out. He brought his old Iphone 4s and he let me use his hotspot and we walked around catching guys for an hour. 1 moment I won't ever forget! EVEN IF THE 4s battery kept dying on me LOL

[@icecoyote]

I was with my dad, it was a great bonding moment

[@FieryIcyk6727]

I got a 6/10 Im not an OG

[@darthganon944]

I remember that fateful day in 2016...I was 8, and my dad had just come from home with a new game on his phone. the memories...

[@jacobbirch21]

I started in July of 2016 and I loved the game I used to play with my friends all the time and when i was out one time and a pikachu spawned and me and my friends where freaking out

[@chariiteee]

I remember memorizing those Blanche lines so I would know which pokemon were worth keeping 😂 and I transferred my first starter too, unfortunately!!

[@chariiteee]

I started the day the game came out in the US :)

[@lambo-dud9589]

I remember my dad telling me to transfer decent Pokémon

[@BradleyWer]

I remember the crowd of people running to one spot for a lapras it was so funny. People back in the day were so much more interactive aswell. Gotta say, I dont play much nowadays but I would love to go back.

[@TheWarthogaa]

I live near a near military base and it was fun see soldiers go crazy seeing a venomoth spawn

[@BradleyWer]

@@TheWarthogaa haha hilarious, u wouldnt think soldiers would do something like that. Especially since its just a venomoth!!

[@bruhbunga]

I remember when i was getting back into Pokémon go this year after a long break. I’m glad mystic7 is making these history of PoGo vids because I was searching for these types of vids when I was tryna catch up on what I missed 😩

[@tresnalder2149]

the good ol' days. I'm still sad over losing a shiny wooper to ar+

[@A_Person177]

OOOOFF. thats rough

[@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy]

My brother lost 3 shiny deinos in community day, even a 98%. They kept fleeing for no reason

[@feelingsFN]

@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy soft ban?

[@Planetmango48]

@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy in a car? Going fast? It happened to me a few days ago where almost every pokemon fled

[@feelingsFN]

Same*

[@Lady_Blade_WarAngel]

Not gonna lie, I remember all of this. I actually used to transfer on the go, during Community Days, until the mass transfer system came along. I couldn’t bear sitting for hours transferring. I also remember chasing down wild spawns like Snorlax, Dragonite, Lapras and Chansey. My first ever dragonite came from a wild spawn in the Edmonton Green shopping centre. I legit ran away and left my Mum with two trolleys of fruit to find that Dragonite. But I got it. My Mum didn’t understand at all. Until I then got her into the game. Now she has 300 Pikachu that she won’t transfer. 😂😂😂

[@annabelwessel7545]

Actually, when I returned to pokemon go after a long time and wanted to exp farm, the first thing I did was evolution xp grind, only to realise it isn't as effective as it was anymore. I do have to say that I remember also mostly evolving weedle and caterpie as I believe those were also 12 candies, not just pidgey

[@WZPlayer10]

Not gonna lie I completely misunderstood your comment when you were talking about weedle and caterpie, my bad! I swear that evolving only used to be 500 XP but I think I’m wrong on that too

[@andreasstrus9594]

@@WZPlayer10 indeed it did. 500 for evolution, 500 for new dex entry, 100 for excellent throw. Exp grind was hard back then.

[@shrishtysaxenashow]

Do you think this message for claiming a prize is legit??

[@andreasstrus9594]

@@shrishtysaxenashow Nope, I'm 99,99999% sure it's a scam, tried to fish for data on them, but not much luck in that regard.

[@stevewakefield5001]

I remember Reversal had a Pokemon Go vlog of the 5 kings, as he called them. All 12 candy to evolve. Now there are more. Still a good XP gain with a lucky egg!

[@S113Productions]

I started on July 7, 2016, a day after the release date. I picked Charmander and thankfully still have my starter! I started playing this game again back in May 2022. I miss the old loading screen with Gyarados. One thing I really miss in the OG days is the old Dratini nest that used to be at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach! I wish Niantic made a setting to where we can choose loading screens, I’d definitely put it as the original one with Gyarados!

[@Planetmango48]

I started on the July 9 2016

[@S113Productions]

@@Planetmango48 That’s my friend’s birthday!

[@lucastlsuen6287]

Me on July 26 2016

[@MsDaffodyl]

July 10, 2016... Charmander. Still have it!

[@kmungoven]

July 11 2016 here 🇦🇺

[@gr3mlin404]

I started a few days after the game came out. So I remember all of these. Still got my starter. It was a Bulbasaur I caught in a Denny's of all places. I also still have my first shiny which was a Magikarp I caught during the first Water Festival which is pretty sick.

[@5olaire]

I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the 3 foot step tracker that we had and how it would decrease to 2 and then 1, the closer you got to the Pokémon.

[@10meisterballe]

yeah. that was completely removed for a while, and I don't remember why.

[@JasonVaysberg]

I remember that so well. I went to an abandoned area that probably wasn’t safe chasing a wild Blastoise and the ground looked like it was crumbling and I saw the Blastoise was like 1 step towards the crumbling ground. I had to I give it up and I was so sad. My only goal for like a month after that was to get enough Squirtle candy for a new Blastoise.

[@Dixy_1989]

Genuinely sat with a smile the whole video here. Played for a solid 2 years when it first released and loved it so much. Loved the size of the game and the huge social side it had. Seeing groups going mad in town centres with charging blocks in every pocket for their phones. I really miss the old days of Pokémon go.. Recently installed it again and just playing super casually trying to add to the pokedex. Level 35 where I left it years back and so much has changed. That's why I'm not able to get back into it. Feels weird seeing you guys still posting videos too. Havnt seen your videos in so long. You grew up 😂

[@shottgum7899]

I started playing the moment the game came out, and even was there when the go anywhere hacks came out, and have a couple of pokemon from Hong Kong and San Fransico despite never leaving the east coast. I just started getting back into it because I am in college now and have more free time, but its crazy to see that we went from one region to all of them

[@zapthebandit3793]

The game will always be close to my heart. I still play almost daily, and the memories I have associated with this game are priceless. Summertime with friends going outside every day exploring new places. Running to the nearest store so we could use a wall outlet to charge our phones, buying cheap battery banks just to squeeze more playing time. Great OG memories.

[@Wolfyplays_]

Yes I am an OG and started 2 days after you did and I know all of these things crazy how many years went by and I do miss the old days hype and the mobs 😅 thanks Mystic and all of these OG things in these video were crazy

[@itzjowii]

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[@FunkyDgoofy_YT]

I started a week after playing but stoped for a cupple years then came back in 2020

[@Planetmango48]

9th July 2016 when I started

[@itzjowii]

@@Planetmango48 idc

[@Planetmango48]

@@itzjowii I don't care either

[@roberthendrie1046]

My first pokemon was a squirtle, now an almost level 50 and max mega level blastoise that was my buddy for over 530 days, there was a long time it was my only buddy lol. I've got a lot of good memories with this game, and I'm sure we've all got more to come! Have fun with the new events, and keep up the amazing work!

[@user-xv1sr3uy7p]

They need to bring back that 2016 loading screen at some point. It freakin iconic

[@TDot_SSB]

I just started getting back into PGO after not seriously playing since 2018. The amount of content and quality of life updates is insane!

[@bug3861]

right? This game cares so much about its players. 🖤

[@charliehammond9732]

I remember when the game first came out the servers would crash constantly but you’d get that really cute group picture of the Gen 1 Pokémon being like ‘Sorry! But look how cute!’

[@nicolehegarty4749]

Omfg yes! Lol! 🤣

[@Kimmerkel-k]

I started July 15, 2016 because I wanted to know what the hype was all about. Yep, remembered nearly all. I, too, wish I had kept my first, which was Pikachu.

[@nofivefivesevenseven]

I would say I was somewhat OG. I was there before Johto, and I think before shinies. One of my best mons to this day was a random Dragonite I found at a park once. My excitement that day was overwhelming

[@GGDAWG7]

I played Pokémon Go when it also first came out, but I stopped for months because catching Pokémon was such a chore. Only like 5 Pokestops and Gyms in a 2 mile radius meant I barely got any items. Really wish I hadn’t transferred my 1st Pokémon Charmander and all those 2016s knowing now they could be lucky trades.

[@sidpatil3806]

Playing since 17' and we used to play in Rural Places so No pokestops and we used to follow the footsteps.. the closer we are to Pokemon it turns the 3 foots gets highlighted... Miss those old days.. my first Big Pokemon was Venasaur 1435 CP and Still Have it 💖 Also early in the game who remembers about Wild Pokemon with ???? CP 😂😂

[@kingswagger8300]

Pokémon still have that if they are high go and you are a low level trainer

[@Planetmango48]

Yeah I remember ???? My latest was slaking, that was the first time in ages

[@duncanmeatbreak1724]

The ???? CP is when that CP is higher than any Pokemon you already have, so as soon as you get past ~3000 cp pokes, you never see it

[@joereverslype9073]

Also remember the days/nights where we were with 4 in a car, driving 10km/h with insence and eggs fully incubating, through streets far out of the city but we knew those streets gave us rare spawns out of the insence ( like Machamp, Dragonite, Charizard, Snorlax, Magmar,… Yeah, they were rare back in the day 😅)

[@BaileyMitchell42]

Been playing since it came out in 2016. These are accurate. Mass transfer has saved my life after com days

[@pokeladds4772]

Me too

[@DanClapp]

Man I just got back into pokemon go. I started playing day one and nothing beats that first day when the entire neighborhood came together at my local park and everybody was playing! I've never seen anything like it! I was a pretty hardcore ingress player before pokemon go came out, and so when I heard niantic was making a pokemon game I was overwhelmed with excitement just waiting for the game to come out. Plus i had already submitted a bunch of portals in ingress which are now pokemon stops and gyms! Unfortunately I stopped playing for like 3 years and so I'm still only level 35... but I've got that 7/6/2016 start date and that's something you can't earn in the game. You simply had to be there :D

[@t_random_c]

dang I remember getting the app on its release date, when raids weren’t a thing and when there were only gen 1 Pokémon in the game

[@purplecliffe819]

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[@FlorasMori]

I was working in an outdoor mall at the time, it was honestly so funny seeing people walk into our store looking for them. What a time to be alive. I miss 2016.

[@sourav9543]

I am an OG... I remember those good old days 😍 I hate my decision to leave the game after 2018 but I came back during covid time & enjoying since ❤️❤️

[@DSLego3]

2:10, yes still have my starter Charmander. Not good IVs but I'll keep him as a reminder of when this game started. I also remember transferring and powering up slowly and gyms were rough that first year as well. Good video Mystic7, keep up your awesome content, stay safe and have a great day.

[@clanza77]

I’m surprised he didn’t mention every time you took over a gym you would have to put somebody in there before somebody stole the gym on you while you were deciding

[@derpybart4398]

I remember very clearly about the rare spawns and its been the thing ive cared about the most since i strarted playing. I remember once when i had taken a break long enough to forget the game, i finally came back and it happened to be on porygon comday and straightup just freaked out seeing that many porygons at once. I literally checked online whether someone had hacked the game or what. Man those were the days

[@joereverslype9073]

Started july 17th 2016 and 3 of my first 10 pokemon were Porygon, Lapras and Snorlax 😅. I still remember the xp grind. Using 2 mobiles to double the evolutions. I used Pidgey, Caterpie & Weedle, because not only Pidgey was 12 candy as you mentioned :)

[@purplecliffe819]

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[@Camila1010]

I remember when pokemon go was released in my country on august 2016 but I hesitated to download it because I thought no one really played it in my school, as soon as I get to school the next day, my whole class was playing it. I remember the pikachu glitch, but I didn't do it because I already caught my first one. my first pokemon is squirtle btw.

[@trixicenby999]

Oh my god yes, I remember How it felt with spawns back then. Not just me but others was running and seeking after where the rare Pokémon was

[@EnderGamer8089]

Pokemon go always has a special place in my heart as I played it when it first released and it was my first pokemon game to ever play (wasn't able to play any previous games). I've caught countless pokemon, including my very fist shiny which was none other than pikachu (flower crown pikachu). I do miss the old days of pokemon go, but I do love how much the game has evolved over the years and I hope to see it keep evolving

[@KevinLM1321WEQS]

LOVE THIS VIDEO THANKS MYSTIC7

[@juice2843]

How u sayin that when the vid just came out?

[@RichardSmith-pb8qk]

Brings back memories! Still remember getting a shiny Magikarp the day it came out, with no idea it had come out… think I peed my pants… or nearly

[@oskiboski8]

I actually also got pikachu as my first pokemon and I had it marked as favourite and named but I somehow still transfered it... it was quite sad when I found out

[@feelingsFN]

I don’t have my first Pokémon ever but my first ever raid mon was a HUNDO dragonite

[@ItzStardustYT]

I love the OG loading screens

[@horohorosrin]

I'm so OG I remember the original footsteps hunting method that they almost immediately discarded. I actually really liked the "Hot and Cold" game method of finding nearby pokemon, and I wish it were still the way it worked. You see a shadow popup with absolutely no images, zero hints of precisely where, or even what direction. You picked a direction and walked. If the number of footsteps dropped, you knew you were getting closer and going in the right direction. If the amount increased or the pokemon fell off the map of nearby pokemon entirely, you knew you picked the wrong direction. Idk, it definitely made it feel more like you were actually *hunting* for wild pokemon. It was more rewarding to find them that way.

[@Agreus93]

I installed PoGo the day it was published, not because I was a fan of it (I'm DBZ generation) just because my GF and everyone in my team (younger than me) was doing it. I remember I was fascinating with the social interaction that this game created, I didn't even knew other Pokémon than Pikachu, I only knew that Charizard was a big deal, but within the weeks I found myself interacting with a lot of people, even meddling between young people and old people because a Charizard spawn near private property of this old people that they didn't knew WTF was going on and why there was a bunch of teenagers sieging their property lol , and trying to explain to them what all this mean...it was amazing...good times 2016... Long story short, after I broke up with this GF I uninstall it, my nieces bring me back in 2021 and now I'm hook with PVP and I'm the old f*ck creep grinding legendaries for them and trying to get mons with good PVP's IV's....I'm enjoying it still :D

[@dragonman910]

In January 2020, there were two wild Gyarados next to each other at my college campus. One wasn't shiny, but the other one was! To this day, that remains my only wild shiny Gyarados encounter.

[@Viruo]

I guess I'm an OG because I definitely remember all those Pidgey spawns which annoyed me but also helped me evolve it to Pidgeot for the first time. Also caught an Arcanine, Kadabra, & Flareon on my first week of playing.

[@jasperheyming2009]

I’m in OG I started in 2016 in about December I remember my first ever squirrel catch which was the starter and I was so excited the lock screen with the Gyarados was always super cool for me because I was always imagining that I might get that someday so yeah thanks mystic7

[@korrytv]

I remember the excitement when i finally found a wild pinsir back then i was searching for him through entire city

[@BNotInc]

Man, I haven’t seen a Pidgey in so long! I guess the poor bird went extinct after being hunted down so much for EXP.

[@lq7777]

Started playing Summer 2016 right after it released. Stopped playing for a while and started again so the changes were more apparent. Decoding the messages for IVs was a PITA. I actually haven’t tried analyzing one since returning to the game, so having actual stats instead of “I really like his Attack” is a huge plus. If I remember correctly when I first started, when you evolved a Pokémon it didn’t tell you what CP the resulting Pokémon would be. It was somewhat of a guessing game based off the original Pokemon’s CP.

[@leonardorios3884]

I played for a few months in 2016 deleted the game, redownload it in 2023, 7 years later and I transferred over half my 2016 Pokémon not knowing that all of those Pokémon’s turn lucky in trades 😢

[@Green_Cube809]

8:00 I love jow he casually transfered 33 mewtwos 💀

[@someonewhopostsvideos1914]

I only remembered the stuff 2017+ because that's when i started playing and getting addicted. But i do remember the old english appraisal, the two year long to just power up a pokemon 5 times, and individually transferring that took me 5 months. It was a pain back then

[@rainbowrunner1550]

Some other things that only OGs know: - You could still get XP from PokeStops even if your bag was full. Unfortunately, that's not the case anymore. - The prestige based Gym system. You could have up to 10 Pokemon in a Gym, and they could all be the same species. As you can bet, lots of downtown areas had Level 10 Gyms with tons of Snorlax, Dragonite, or some other Pokemon. I do enjoy the current Gym system though.

[@nstinctldrspark5323]

I'm an OG as well. Been playing since day 1. I remember the old gym system where you could have 10 Pokemon in it. Later on it became the 10 Blissey Gym...yeah um...I don't miss those days. Also the nearby feature in the game had the footsteps so as you got closer to the mon there would only be 2 foot steps or 1 depending on how close you were getting. The foot step tracking was kind of interesting when Pokemon weren't near Poke'stops.

[@Mr_Ste4l]

6:45 you also had weedle and caterpie which you could evolve for 12 candy back in the days

[@TheSerperior]

Man I remember when I was walking home from either school or my friends house when I saw a Snorlax appear on the nearby Pokemon thing (which also worked differently back then, didn't track based on Pokestops) and I was damn near sprinting around my neighborhood to find this Snorlax, to eventually find and catch it. Good times.

[@seanmcclure]

I remember they had that Pokémon map. A couple super rare Pokémon popped up and I jumped in my car and drove to the location. Those were pretty exciting days

[@Hamsters_are_edible]

6:40 as a 2016 verterán i remember when I would sit with my family and use the lucky egg and start evolving as fast as possible

[@danielnelson2725]

At the start I remember popping out of the office to catch something I didn't have in my pokedex and the slow drives around looking for more. And seeing a wild gyrados nearby in a park for the first time at about 11pm on a cold winters night and having an argument in my head whether to get out of warm bed. Did it but always remember a guy walking his dog at the time and wondering what he was thinking about a single dude wandering around a playground at that time of night. And also the hype about people that thought they could become professional pokemon hunters, accounts were selling for crazy amounts on ebay.

[@artixi3291]

Been playing on and off since release day and it's insane watching my friend you just created an account level up so quickly. Back in the not so good'ol days, it was ALL grind.

[@pjw1993]

OG here, I played pretty regularly 2016-18 then started to die off around 2019. I've recently got back into the game and A LOT has changed! I still can't get over the thrill of a crazy wild spawn though...sprinting all the way across town for a wild Dragonite that I still have to this day!

[@purplecliffe819]

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[@beneachus4901]

I’m a day 3 player but I took a 3 year break and came back about a month ago. I’m fully addicted again with all the new Pokémon and all of the events and research we have now. I’ve been walking everyday again! It’s been really fun

[@dreamysheepstudios]

I remember walking on the boardwalk with some friends when a Snorlax appeared at a certain shop nearby. Literally a SEA of people running over catch him

[@PlagueNB]

I most OG thing I remember is being on a bus at 10 pm when the game got into everyone's appstores and there was hysteria trying to download it and the servers not being able to connect anybody to join the game. Also with the evolving I remember getting pokemon whose evolution I didn't have yet and nickname them as "A" then taking a bunch of pidgey and nicknaming them "a" so the ones I would get more exp for a new pokemon took priority in the A-Z menu

[@jgbdeblois]

proud to say i've been playing since launch! well, i stopped playing for a couple years and then picked it back up in 2020, but still LOL. summer 2016 was incredible!

[@masonthekyogre]

I knew about the game when my dad introduced me to it. One day when I was 9 or 10, he came back from work and told me about the game and how it works; and this of course was when that OG Gyarados loading screen was still around. I did love the game a lot, and I kept playing more Pokémon ever since. If it weren’t for my dad back then, I wouldn’t even be commenting on this video right now.

[@H0n35t]

As a OG who played since 2016, everything mentioned here is nostalgic and brings back so many pain, lol...

[@DuckyB]

Remember when all the gyms were shut down in the summer of 2017? The only gym in my town had been shrunk to only the top. I drove ten miles to the next gym and I was devestated to find it was gone too. Good times!

[@DuckyB]

Oh look everybody - I have won a prize.

[@gamingwithsavage3742]

I remember all of them, it’s bringing back the good old days, the memories were insane.

[@Risad]

Remember when you had to actually hunt the location of a Pokemon. It would show you the direction they're in and you had to search for em. None of the pictures of the stop by their location. Just the Pokemon itself. Also being able to get more than 50 coins from being in a gym. I think the cap was 200/day.

[@SwitchGoesOn]

Started Pokemon GO 7/7/16 :) I was there for all that excitement

[@areshorror]

I remember using Calcy IV to calculate a Pokémon's stats. Since the new appraisal system, it's much easier to determine the percentages from looking at the bar.

[@milotem]

I started playing 11 days after release because it wasnt available in my country earlier. I remember i was sooooo excited.

[@hxcpkm]

I remember I first played Pokémon Go in 2019 with friends. We’d hang out after school near a skate park and just catch Pokémon the entire afternoon. I clearly remember our first raid was Groupon and I think it was my first shiny legendary. What I wouldn’t give to go back to those days.

[@Wanzie]

I miss the OG tracker system too. Just hearing someone scream whatever Pokemon they got on their tracker and having a whole horde of people follow one person to catch a pokemon was peak. I used to play almost every night and the streets used to be FILLED with people all over hanging out playing Pokemon GO. What a time to be alive haha

[@AyeVerse]

I was so hyped back in the day seeing that dragonite with ??? Above it's head. Good memories....

[@stallogstutterikfarstad6867]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the old gym system, having to battle all the pokemon several times, preferably with a low cp party. It took forever to beat a gym!

[@theceng]

I remember those days. Out with friends hunting. A friend saw a wild hitmonchan once and we ran to it

[@ryuken6889]

"It was only Pidgey..." and Weedle. And Caterpie... Good research :)

[@Delta-The-Duck]

Been playing since the day it dropped so this brought back a crap ton of memories… definitely miss those days.

[@skiddypepper6876]

Omg i miss the old pokemon go...

[@MW_147]

Oh yes, so much fun how things were much more difficult back then... Gyms were so different, and a bit confusing, and I remember how the day/night cycle used to impact spawns, like how pidgey would only spawn during the day and zubat only a night. Unfortunately, I put the game down only a month or two after it released as back then I didn't have a phone plan, so I had to rely on wifi networks, which weren't always readily available to me, and the phone I had back then wasn't officially supported by the app, so I had to download the apk from third party sites when there were updates, which wasn't always easy given my aforementioned wifi reliance. However, I got back into it 2 1/2 years later, levelled up from 19 to 40 within a year (am currently 47 and 4 mil xp off 48), and have been going strong since.

[@Soulenite]

Don't bother too much with leveling back in the day and I don't remember if I stopped playing for awhile when shinies came out, but everything else I remember. A lot of pain back then. Oh and the "near by" pokemon until we finally had stops to track most of these things down. Unless you really had no stops then I think these "near by" ones show up.

[@wayoftheraven5920]

Ah yes I’ll never forget. Hydro the Blastoise and I still battle with him to this day. I remember the first shiny too, I found mine at a Chinese restaurant 😂

[@citrustaco]

Also OG, when Pikachu was first released as a shiny, when you saw it, it didn't have the sparkles. You simply had to notice the color. And there was no shiny icon on the catch screen or in your Pokemon storage. That came with a later update.

[@Strakester]

OGs also remember: - Rustling grass! - All Pokémon being genderless - Training at your own-colored gyms - Being able to catch Pokémon traveling at any speed, because no speedlock - The glitch where Pokémon IVs were linked to their Pokedex number -- lots of 0 ATK Venusaur from those days, great for the meta today - The ace trainer badge that was suspended for several months, leading people to worry that it was missable, like the Seer badge in Ingress - Not being able to stack powerups, having to wait exactly for when they expire to use another - Those magical few months where it was a global phenomenon that united the world

[@Mat1sDumbAn1m4t10ns]

Still nice to know you still play Pokémon go after 7 years

[@mysticmuth8411]

I remember. every single one of those! The most OG thing I remember is the shield button in the item shop. If you put Pokemon in a gym you would collect poke coins and stardust for as long as the Pokemon is alive. I remember the max limit was ten and that would give you 10,000 stardust and 1,000 pokecoins per day your Pokemon was in the gym.

[@PedroFigs]

I thought the mass transfer came a lot later, not in 2016. That, along with the power ups, really helped speeding up the game (though there's still more that could help, like the sending/opening gifts, evolutions and trades).

[@shawnmacmurray2562]

Im a day one player (for Canadian release) and remember all of these. The popularity of this game during that summer was insane. I played heavily until the initial release of the Legendary Birds then more or less quit shortly after and have recently gotten back into the game. I was curious and checked, my oldest pokemon I kept is a Snorlax Caught July 20th, 2016

[@beneachus4901]

Oh my god I forgot about the pidgy evolving days. Looking back it was awful but at the time I was still having so much fun grinding XP

[@rhondacampbell9495]

Thanks for this video!!!! Aaaahhhh the good one days. I forgot about some of these. I miss running to catch Pokémon 😂

[@MCFilmsBAV]

2:11 I chose Charmander and he started as 10 CP. No believed he will be any good because of his CP. He’s the heaviest, and the tallest in my Charmander I got. But to this day, he’s a Charizard with 2826 CP, with Mega Charizard X CP level at 3789, and Mega Charizard Y CP level at 4395. If I could enter the world champions, with any Pokémon, it will be my Charizard. 🔥🔥🔥

[@thisthat2554]

i have only been playing for 2 years personally,but i remembered my uncle who loves pokemon played it in the early days and catch pokemons together

[@leemiles6963]

The ability to pinpoint where Pokémon were spawning, by checking the tracker. That's OG

[@luffyandgokuskits]

I started playing pg with my brother like 4 days after the game released. Man those times were too nostalgic. In conclusion, yes we are both very OG

[@lawhatpirate7942]

I quit pokemon go 2 weeks into the game coming out in 2016, ended on level 17. Picked up the game again in 2018(didn't know Pikachu could be shiny during that CD) so I started playing pretty consistently since February CD in 2018. Now I'm level 50 with nearing 4000 shinies ever caught. I'm glad I started playing agin.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

I've played Pokemon Go since September 2019. By then they were already up to Unova pokemon in the game. I'd heard about it from the start, but A, I didn't have a smartphone until 2019, and B, I was reluctant at first to try it. I tried it while I was bored at a reception, and now I play it far, FAR more than any of the other games. I'm especially hooked on trying to catch shinies, and I love the new huge/tiny feature. I definitely missed some things about the early days of the game, like actually having to physically walk to catch a pokemon, having no shinies, and having no gender differences. I only had a small window before the Covid-releated changes came to the game, like remote raids, not having to walk during (non-daily) incense to spawn pokemon, and not having to get very close to the Pokestop came into play, so I don't remember those days very well.