Beating EVERY N64 Game - Pokémon Stadium (44/394)

[@ChasingDragons420]

Wow. Watching this takes me back 20 years! Pokemon stadium has aged really well compared to a lot of other N64 titles.

[@Adartrian92CH]

Waiting 8hrs on animations and the slow pace of PKM Stadium drives me nuts... I wonder how I was always drooling as I played the game LOLOL

[@wmcarter6096]

It's aged well compared to some Nintendo Switch games.

[@loulou3676]

@@wmcarter6096 Definitely more entertaining and immersive battle animations. I suppose to be fair they only had 151 to animate

[@thefierycharmeleon164]

@@Adartrian92CH I think the PKM stadium animations look great everytime and they really don't take so long to animate every turn. I think it's just way fucking better than the newers games animations and battle system.

[@Xpwnxage]

It's genuinely impressive how good it looks

[@Moshugaani]

The 3D models and their animations are honestly fantastic for an N64 game! Of course a game like this has the advantage of only having to render two characters with their moves and a simple stadium, but the quality is not to be taken for granted.

[@angrynightmob]

Fun fact: The stadium announcer for Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 is the same voice actor for Bakura on Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@kaishin7314]

In germany he is the VA of Rick from R&M AND Handsome Jack from Borderlands!

[@PandemicPete]

Damn for real ? Lol bro

[@Ctofer93]

That announcer was the bees knees. Especially with that critical hit!

[@groundsiamang3700]

Yep. Ted Lewis is his name. He also voiced Tracy in Pokemon.

[@critflip7235]

@@kaishin7314 Geil :D

[@astereotypicalgamer1708]

Pokemon Yellow made the Petit Cup fascinating: you could catch a lot of powerful Pokemon at level 15 or 20, including Slowbro, Dragonair, Rhydon, to say nothing of using the level 20 slot for an Alakazam.

[@theorangeswami7981]

Beating this game with only the rental Pokemon is pretty impressive 👍

[@chrisbruchak4519]

It truthfully is.

[@Xpwnxage]

@@chrisbruchak4519 Are you familiar with Werster? He has speedrun the Stadium games with only rental pokemon. He holds the world record for both 1&2 and I think Pocket Monster Stadium too.

[@dougcoffey3496]

23:46 Best name in the game. Moltrash the moltres 😂

[@thezemag]

It seems that the Pokemon movement animations are more interesting in this game compared to newer modern games.

[@DietPepsii]

Yep, pokemon has become wasted potential

[@cocomunga]

If a Pokémon uses double kick, they actually do a kicking animation instead of hopping. Amazing!

[@wintermute8315]

There were only 150 to animate. Pokemon jumped the shark like 400 Pokemon ago.

[@tonyt3955555]

only a 22 year old game, i miss when games were trying to be cutting edge for the time, its just sad now how bad pokemon looks

[@paralytaatylarap9715]

@@wintermute8315 Don‘t care. If you own the biggest franchise in the world and collect billions of dollars every year from mostly little children and teenagers, you should have a staff of animators that do this work 24/7.

[@tetermc]

21:53 It's always TAS. What a legendary Speedrunner

[@FlameClone]

Playing Pokémon Stadium with my Pokémon Red Version team was the best Pokémon experience I've ever had.

[@GlassHalfFull10]

Same… my friends and I had so much fun with this game. I had a ton of fun playing by myself too. This was the last game for me that made pokemon a social game. This made it easier to trade and made battles legit. Pokemon craze was dope.

[@warpuppy4528]

Pokemon Stadium on R2 is surprisingly tough even if you have a decent team imported. I learned so much about gen 1 pokemon battling from Stadium back in the N64 days.

[@SaltedNeos]

I especially love that Fisher in Pika Cup who has a literally unbeatable level 20 Alakazam with rentals. Even if you freeze the Zam you still almost always lose the fight as a result.

[@warpuppy4528]

@@SaltedNeos My favorite was Gambler. His design was brilliant. I think in Poke Ball his pokemon all did terrible attacks that hit 2-5 times. In Great Ball they all did Psywave. In Ultra Ball they all did Metronome, and in Master Ball they all did Horn Drill or Fissure.

[@SaltedNeos]

@@warpuppy4528 To make it even dumber, they also gave gamblar paralysis moves to make the OHKOs more consistent (Because gen 1 decided speed was a great stat to balance OHKO moves around)

[@warpuppy4528]

@@SaltedNeos Body Slam was an appropriate move for Gambler to have. It had something like a 30 percent chance to inflict paralysis.

[@SaltedNeos]

@@warpuppy4528 I mean at the same time I'd imagine they'd rather give him a strategy in round 2 master ball as that's more about the difficulty.

[@ConstanceWhenever]

Stadium was wild because you realized what they allowed each pokemon to learn in the base games.

[@MarMaxGaming]

Pokemon Stadium is sick! And getting through Round 2 is no joke... I had the most trouble with Round 2 Level 50-55s. Was so fun!

[@Whatupitskevin]

R2 pokemon stadium 1 and 2 is no joke lol

[@chesspunk489]

I couldn't beat round 2 on Pokemon Stadium.

[@worldsboss]

That Ninetales is a funny looking Rapidash 😋 Really surprising that you got another Stadium game already!

[@HybridAngelZero]

One of my all-time favorite N64 games! That Mewtwo strat was hilarious. Also, I laughed way harder than I should have at that TAS joke

[@jmike2039]

Sad when your games look better 20 years ago than what you release today

[@livingonabudget1890]

Oh my god this could be the greatest series I’ve ever come across.. subbed and looking for rayman

[@mylifeisaparty]

Welcome to the thabverse

[@joeshittheragman6252]

I was literally thinking the same thing just now

[@MrCrazychristian86]

What a classic. I remember playing this with my friends that played Pokémon. I didn't know much about Pokémon back then and I got wrecked when I played. I did learn alot.

[@justavian]

While i've enjoyed the series so far, almost all of the games you've played are ones i didn't have on the N64 - looking forward to next week, cause you're finally doing one i've played!

[@tylerrobinson4390]

Pokémon stadium 3…. It’s time

[@ShinkuGouki]

My favorite game from Pokemon Stadium was that Rattata game where you have to tap A repeatedly. Oh,and that harden game with the cocoon Pokemon.

[@MentalOutlvl6]

The scyther log chopping game was really fun

[@thefuzzypickle8277]

Yeah thats on 2 not this one

[@MentalOutlvl6]

@@thefuzzypickle8277 it's been a while since I played it

[@CidZero]

9:15 Because Agatha is poison/ghost. She uses poison types which Venusaur is one.

[@jesselindsey9760]

12:20 "aaand, it's rapidash!" and then Ninetales is on the screen. Is the audio off, or did I do something stupid?

[@MaiNguyen-ef7be]

The fights are not in sync with the audio. Other than that great video

[@babo3324]

Yea that was kinda annoying

[@ivan_pozdeev_u]

I've used subtitles to understand the commentary better -- and, to my suprise, Google has all the pokemon in its dictionary!

[@IronMaiden1164]

The anouncer still gets me hyped

[@lexszert9787]

Your very neutral tone is relaxing to listen to, and your experiences are very similar to what i remembered playing these games growing up, good stuff man, im surprised you don't have more subscribers

[@hallc91]

"And it's just hilarious" - *Cut to clip of the most stone faced, neutral expression I've ever seen.*

[@mikewilliams6025]

Had flashbacks to when this first came out. "Gibberdoo used gibberdish!" I'm glad you knew what you were doing. That makes it 1000x more enjoyable for me!

[@Lheticus]

Yeah, Wrap was freaking broken in Gen 1.

[@shane7776777]

Nobody could beat me at Magikarp Splash

[@IsaacCosmic]

I love the N64 so much, might be my favorite console. It was the first console my family got, besides my mom having a SNES for pretty much Tetris and Mario World before she met my Dad, which I also love. Gonna have to dig them out and play them again

[@reloadpsi]

You can destroy Mewtwo by using selfdestruct: stops him getting his turn so he never uses rest.

[@user-vx4vr8rb7i]

"...Aaaand it's Rapidash, good for me." That be Ninetales. 👀

[@justtwobrotherspokemon]

My first N64 game and one of the reasons I'm still a pokemaniac till this day. Even still have the little attachment for the game boy games and ryb. Amazing series bravo

[@TheodoricEichen]

12:22 Rapidash?

[@YouLoseSir]

I caught that too XD

[@timheinrich3752]

Man I absolutely loved this game as a kid. As much as I loved the gameboy games, it was so much cooler seeing your favorite Pokémon in 3d and seeing their actual moves.

[@redbeardrpg]

That TAS guy is a beast!! Gotta watch out for him.

[@xdxangeloxbx]

I miss this game so much. You're right, the voice acting was 10/10 (although repetitive after a while)

[@ir6237]

Ehh, it was a cartridge with limitations. We'll let it slide.

[@thexbigxgreen]

I used to love the hydro pump animation in R+B, with the 3 jetstreams of water rising one at a time?

[@Thabeast721]

Yeah it was way better

[@thexbigxgreen]

@@Thabeast721 I agree dude, was better!

[@blazekings]

Overall liked the video but as a note for improvement for stadium 2 whenever that is I would recommend trying to line up the commentary to the game play a little more. Sometimes the commentary lined up very well other times the commentary didn't line up until the end of the battle. Likely this was caused by the games slow pacing for the fights due to long animations not sure if stadium 2 the gameplay could be slightly sped up or clipped as it may look weird. I understand this would take significantly more effort. I know some channels do not line up all gameplay but for the context of the series it would be better suited quality wise as the intention is the complete the game and this is inva sense the story. Just my thoughts though

[@paulyshore1942]

Pokémon on N64 looks almost better than current gen

[@WatcherKoops4677]

And colosseum better than modern Pokemon

[@daveperella1263]

@@WatcherKoops4677 so true

[@DropOfHuman]

Looks better then Arceus

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

Its more true to the original form, only OGs recognize that lol

[@LaKeRsOvErCeLtIcS]

Ah yes you a person of culture ☺️

[@tgramzz5324]

“Riyachu” never heard it said that way

[@tylersatov]

Came here for this

[@saintrogies]

What??? Thats all I’ve ever heard it be pronounced as!

[@elbschwartz]

Sounds the same as in the English animated series

[@theSato]

Respect for doing this challenge! This is exactly the kind of thing I wish I had the motivation to do. It makes me sad there's so many games I'll never play from days gone by lol

[@BobbyMiller64]

Fun video! Thanks for doing the mini-games.

[@milodon316]

I remember when I was a kid I almost beated R2 Prime cup masterball with rentals, but my last pokemon, Starmie, died vs the last oponent pokemon, mew, which had only 30 or so hp left, I just had to hit it with surf to win, starmie outspeeds mew, used surf and I said "that's it, I finally defeated this thing", nex thing is see on the screen is Surf, a 100% accurate move, missing mew! that haunted me for months, later i learned that there is a glitch in first gen that makes 100% accuracy moves fail 1 out of 256 times.

[@vaillant6699]

True And for having played to this game a lot, I confirm that computer cheat very (very) often

[@ifrqi]

the 1/256 miss chance was fixed for pokemon stadium, so in theory moves like surf should never miss. A speed runner missed thunderbolt (another 100% accurate move) during a full game run of stadium, which is leading to theories on how stadium fixed the 1/256 miss.The working theory is that there is a 1/65535 chance to miss a 100% accurate move due to something about short intergers that I don't understand. You might have stumbled upon this same chance back then

[@milodon316]

@@ifrqi really? now I feel even more annoyed.

[@monorail0]

11:55 I'm 95% sure the horn drill sound effect is also Smash Bros. Melee Bowser's up B sound effect

[@heartagram_616]

Please take this as a compliment because it makes me so happy how much you sound like Mike Judge in and out of speech 🙏

[@Geomi]

Is it just me or is the video and audio mis-synced?

[@gedatzu1054]

Have the feeling too

[@biggusdiccus6045]

Yeah, the editing doesn't really follow the script at times. Super hard to watch with all the visual discrepancies.

[@busta87]

Yeah was just about to comment the same thing

[@Thabeast721]

It’s not desynced, it’s more intended as just clips from the battle while I talk about how they went. Guess we missed the mark on this one sorry guys.

[@Staynes89]

@@Thabeast721 I dont think this is a bad style to do but its weird because this is the first time? it was done without any mention. Took me a bit to realize that the commentary was leading up to the clip in the end and not talking about the game clip directly. If you continue to use this style of editing maybe mention it with a text or smth.

[@viljamtheninja]

Best series of commentator lines: "Mighty blow on the word go. TAKEN DOWN ON THE WORD GO!!!!! This is a wild one from the word go."

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

17:35 pause it, Venasaur is so high!

[@lrrrr]

You mentioned voice acting, let's remember this game was also voice translated in Europe!! I think this was the first and only time I heard Spanish on the N64.

[@nicksorenson940]

Mewtwo in the first movie after one-shotting a Rhyhorn: "Fools. Your Pokémon attacks cannot weaken me. My powers are too great! No trainer can conquer me!" 27:42 Gets one-shot by a Rhyhorn using Fissure.

[@jjh7611]

Gotta admit, stadium’s commentator was fire

[@Eatabagofahunniddicks]

Need a new Pokémon stadium for the switch

[@asymptoticspatula]

I have no idea what was happening but I certainly enjoyed it!

[@asheavyasheaven]

Rapidash looks different 12:20

[@trevorp875]

Random note. When you get a pokemon, like that eevee, and imported it into gold/silver/crystal, you would get a unique item on them that you could use for your room or even a Master ball! Was hyped as hell as a kid to get a special doll and a master ball on my oymstar and eevee i got.

[@blueberrypitbull87]

Back in the day...I had just beaten the Master Ball cup...The credits were rolling as my Pokémon were entering the hall of fame and then....My mom blew a fuse...It was all gone...

[@ayylmao633]

Filipino?

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

@@ayylmao633? Why? Fuses are a thing all over thenworld

[@sexygorillanips7535]

This series seems really easy for the fact that back in the day you didn't have Internet to tell you where to go. Also there were books but who bought the books anyway unless you are 100% completing something, Or using it as a collector's item.

[@juanmendez3212]

The rich kids bought the books. I was lucky enough to get the game

[@kevinpage4161]

This really took me back. I got a Nintendo 64 just for this game.

[@thexbigxgreen]

The trick to the diglett game is to only aim for the top and bottom rows, that way you know to only use a max power or minimum power throw and you only have to aim side to side!

[@jacobpipers]

Or just work out the amount of pull for all 3. I always win that minigame

[@samhershey4644]

13:29 What would have happened is since it was a draw and not caused by explosion or self destruct is it would have counted as a loss for you 13:45 Maybe not a great deal for you as you don't play the cartridge games, but the idea of most of the gifts was they were supposed to be sent to your cartridge as they helped you get Pokemon you couldn't really get in the game because you had locked them out. The possible gifts were Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander (so you could get the other two starters you didn't choose) Ominite and Kabuto (So you could get both the Fossil Pokemon from Mount Moon) and Evee. Evee was there Red and Blue had FOUR WAYS Evee could Evolve (Jolteon, Flareon, Vaproeon or remain an Evee) and only gave you access to ONE Evee during the game.

[@napoleonblownapart8155]

EVERY game you say? I'm here for it. Subbed.

[@shinycats5704]

To be fair that Eevee actually is a great gift because you can only get one Eevee in red and blue and there is no breeding either

[@starpetalarts6668]

The Analogue Pocket could make it so that you can play every single Gameboy/Gameboy Color/Gameboy Advance/Neo geo Pocket/Lynx/ and Game Gear game on stream as well... Js...

[@tha_mau5]

Day 375 of appreciating Thab’s content. 2022 is just one video away.

[@teyanzi]

Your voice is a cool mix between Family guy's characters: Cleveland & Herbert the pervert. Fan of your videos.

[@tonyt3955555]

the best announcer line is when you hit a Pokemon really hard but its not super effective or a crit i can;t even remember the line i just remember it got you so pumped.

[@spledgball]

The real ones know the mini games were where it was at.

[@bagzimus13]

I played this game all day, every day, all night, every night for years as a youngster 🥲 Thanks, man!

[@ElGatoLoco698]

i've never given two shits about pokemon and I know nothing about it. I decided to play a pokemon game on the gameboy color. Can't remember which one. Anyway, I completely don't understand the game. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Yeah, I fight Pokemon but I have no clue on which Pokemon are the best to keep or which do better on certain types. The whole thing is overwhelming. How are these games so damn popular? Seriously, what is the point? What makes them appealing?

[@chickensticks749]

omg... "they even have TAS on their team! that guy has a speed run record in like every game ever!" gold.

[@wakebreaker]

I’m loving binge watching this series. Thanks for all the content and edits ❤

[@MrCouchies]

This is a brilliant idea for a video playlist. Keep it up :)

[@timbits9560]

Ohh 😮 i remember you… you were that dude on twitch that was malding at your chat for trying to help you on the limitations on the Japanese version poket monsters.

[@connerfarr8072]

The commentator did not hold back.

[@wakebreaker]

30:09 I’ve finally figured out how Pixar got the seagull noise in “Finding Nemo”😂🎉

[@nate7251]

haha love the mewtwo strat!

[@RendPiece]

Chansey is an absolute unit

[@majindomttv3903]

I ran these to get all the Pokémon you need the opposite game boy game to get. I knew from your Pokémon choices that pikachu with surf would catch you off guard the first time lol

[@papadelta9485]

paralysis is only 25% chance to not move in gen 1. i thought 50 sounded kinda high, it also cuts your speed by 75% which obviously lowers your crit chance too, although they may have changed that in stadium. i know they did change/fix a few things for this game

[@frankrizzo890]

"You didn't even beat THIS game! You're supposed to do round 2!"

[@IIResonancEII]

Great game. Still own it. This game was the only pokemon game I ever played...until 2014 when I bought a 3DS and Pokemon Y. I still think Pokemon Stadium has the best animations, includes my favorite pokemon, and that announcer gets me hypedddd.

[@dhall888]

Yes yes!! The triple speed gameboy made grinding a lil easier! Good times!

[@pennylessz]

Would've really liked if the clips matched the whole explanation, because I got lost on a few of these when Pokémon were mentioned that we never saw.

[@NirvEnd]

I cheesed this a bit since my entire team in red/blue was just 6 Alakazams...

[@stephenandluffy]

Better idle animations than pokemon arceus 700 years later

[@AdamoFC]

Shoutout to Cruis'n Exotica at the start of the video in the background! Most underrated n64 racer!

[@LINKRETROGAMING]

This is wild! I love N64, it is my personal favorite!

[@ethfan922]

I remember playing all the minigames, but I have literally no memory of playing Pokemon Stadium for some reason.

[@toshiroyamada2443]

This is one of the only games my mum ever kicked my ass on. We both loved pokemon at the time and played the crap out of this game.

[@abelw.6033]

Anybody else press B 'just at the right moment' when attacking to try get a critical hit? Just me? Oh ok.

[@kouron]

That's nonsense. Everyone knows the only input that matters is pressing down and A+B at the right moment to catch a pokemon.

[@GRNKRBY]

Hold b!

[@MeepJeepLIVE]

forgot about the mewtwo fight in the end. nice video

[@splaz333]

what a video for my intro to the channel

[@TheFreshEC]

The best thing about this game is that the battle animations are way better than Sword & Shield...

[@Phytoon]

Moltres was the weak point of the team? Wild, man. I guess legendaries just didn't hit the same back then.

[@Trillyana]

Moltres' moveset in Gen I is hot garbage

[@drexelspivey872]

dude you are a legend youtuber, subscribed.

[@Noirlore]

All the cups in the stadium takes foreverrrr

[@Borti_Ovi]

I will forever miss the fact that giving your Pokémon a nickname in the early era actually gave it a different color! Shinies honestly became just a cheap replacement for it with the super rarity added in.