How QUICKLY Can You Complete Professor Oak's Challenge in Pokemon Trading Card Game on GBC?

Yeah, that's right, spinoff time! I absolutely adore the Pokemon Trading Card Game, and I'd like to share my passion with you by giving an olive branch through the most viewed thing on my channel, a Professor Oak's Challenge of the first game on the Game Boy Color! If you enjoyed it, definitely make sure to check out my other TCG videos, I really enjoy talking about it and playing the game, so I hope I'm able to make a few more fans of the card game.
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[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Check out the NEWEST Professor Oak's Challenge here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amWop4eXfLZ_eMk

[@bidoof9167]

Haha why are u here after 6 months I'm here because I have no idea how to play this

[@NoGoodNames0]

When he was listing out all the cards he got it sounded like a depressed pokemon rap

[@lazerchicken404]

2:49 Finally, after all this time we can catch Professor Oak in a Professor Oak Challenge

[@NChase459]

Can’t wait till he does professor oak challenge for mystery dungeon.

[@zyxaplayssomething]

Recruit-em-all speedruns for those games take well over 100 hours, I cannot imagine a casual run of that taking under 500

[@overlordeclipse8263]

@@zyxaplayssomething Can we still want one though? Even though we know it is not going to happen

[@Hyperencrpted12345]

Wait, how do 100 hour speed runs work? Do they just stay awake for all of that time?

[@Joroma5]

@@Hyperencrpted12345 I actually watched one and it was multiple sessions. Idk how it works but I also don’t know why I watched it all

[@zyxaplayssomething]

@@Hyperencrpted12345 I think they take sleep breaks, but keep the run going for it (as all speedruns have to be single-segment). Go check out Wh0misDS, they're the current world record holder for Blue Rescue team at 67 some hours for recruit em all.

[@mebreevee1997]

Lol the pokemon ranger games would be fun. Especially shadows of almia.

[@chloestarr5900]

Bree Coke-Attewell omg i ageee

[@bryndenrivers1697]

Back in the day I won a TCG Tournament in my city with a very similar deck. Hitmonchan is clearly the best mon of the initial 3 sets, so I had 4 of it, also 4 Hitmonlee and Kangaskhan. But the true star of the show was Aerodactyl. Its Pokémon Power made the players unable to evolve their mons while it was on field (didn't matter if Aerodactyl was active or benched). It dmade no difference for me because all my mons were basic, except said Aerodactyl (that evolved from the mistery fossil). With cards like Bill, Computer Search and Gambler, I made sure I always had a Aerodactyl on my bench on the 2nd or 3rd turn. So it was easy to proceed and destroy people's charmanders and abras with my Hitmonchans and Kangaskhans.

[@GlobalAlienRC]

When I was younger I played this game I liked the nidoking toxic and the Venusaur seemed good with the 60 attack and the energy transfer power. I have always been curious was the OG Pokémon meta was

[@GyzelE]

​@@GlobalAlienRCBlastoise Gyarados deck was pretty OP, especially with the Magikarp from the Team Rocket set, which has an attack that summons Gyarados from the deck when you have 3 water energy, but you're left open for a turn

[@sebastianadventurex]

How Quickly Can You Complete Professor Oak's Challenge in magikarp jump?

[@MarshtompGames]

Answer: None because you only get Magikarp, Gyarados, and rarely Dratini.

[@me30000]

Marshtomp Returns I think they mean all the styles of Magikarp

[@MarshtompGames]

@@me30000 Oh. OkAy.

[@utkuayranc3210]

@@MarshtompGames what about the items that get pokemon near the pool? you know, like the light ball getting you pikachu

[@rattfathervods8158]

@@MarshtompGames No it was a joke

[@1991shadowheart]

OH YES!!! FINALLY, SOMEONE DID THE TCG GAME OAK CHALLENGE! Thank you Chaotic. Much appreciated. Been asking all the PokeTubers to do this for AAAAGES! You da real MVP.

[@RavenWitchShade]

Great run, I gotta say. Though a slight correction - Venusaur wasn't packed in with the game, it was a Meowth promo. The Venusaur promo came with the guidebook for the game.

[@PhazonSpear]

Talking about the different archetypes, while Haymaker was definitely very strong, it had to win in the earlygame. You either won straight away, or lost. The three most dominent decks at the time were: Haymaker: A deck built around a rushdown strategy, using Pokemon like Rattata, Hitmonchan, Electabuzz and Scyther to take out enemy Pokemon before they had a chance to build up. This strategy was effective because it takes a bit of time for evolution decks to get going, and the weaker early stage Pokemon would have to compete with Pokemon like Hitmonchan and Electabuzz, who both had high HP totals to win the war of attrition (Squirtle, the core of the most popular Evolution deck at the time, had 40 HP while both Hitmonchan and Electabuzz had 70 and Squirtle's attack does a measly 10). Evolution: Pick either Venusaur or Blastoise, and use Pokemon Breeder to get to that stage as quick as possible and start distributing Energy around with their Pokemon Power. The benefit to this setup depends on the deck type. Venusaur's ability lets you save the energy attached to a close to fainting Pokemon so you're not down as many cards when that Pokemon goes down. Blastoise just straight up creates card advantage on the field by letting you play 2 Energy per turn as long as one of those Energy were Water type. The Rain Dance deck could snowball very quickly and were one of the decks that could beat Haymaker because of it. If you're wondering where Charizard factors into all of this, Charizard was usually found in the Venusaur deck as a late game cleaner, since it's ability turned all Energy attached to it into Fire type and Venusaur could just keep moving Energy onto it to keep using Fire Spin. Ninetales was sometimes used instead of Charizard because it had higher DPS overall (it takes two turns for Charizard to recharge after Fire Spin while Ninetales just needs one for 40 less damage per attack) Stall: Chansey, Pokemon Center, and Alakazam were all cornerstones of this archetype. Chansey's first attack could just outright ignore any damage taken for the next turn, and with the highest possible HP total at the time on a Basic Pokemon, it wasn't going down fast. The downside of Pokemon Center (returning all attached Energy to your hand) wasn't a downside to Chansey for two reasons. One, you would usually have more than one Chansey out on the field at a time, and two, Alakazam. Alakazam's Pokemon Power let you move damage counters from one Pokemon to another, meaning that second Chansey on the bench would be getting all of the damage and then that Chansey would be the one getting healed by Pokemon Center. The idea behind this deck is to deck out your opponent, meaning they typically ran Imposter Professor Oak to keep the opponent drawing cards so they would deck out faster.

[@cody6202000]

Still have my Haymaker deck in my closet. Upgraded it with Rocket's Zapdos x4 because of Energy Burn, then added the broken Sneasels x4 because of how effective Beat Up was at the time it first came out, what with Dark energies being +10 per at the time. Around our area, those decks pretty much weren't able to be beaten outside of against another deck like it (I sorta stole the Zap idea off my bro and added the Sneasels as a way of getting around decks like our own).

[@dragonmaster613]

I found Porygon's Conversion 1 and a Switch was good in Haymaker. Use Porygon to set up a weakness to whichever mon you got powered up in bench, use Switch and you got 40-80 damage (depending on what you got).

[@Handsomeanthony68]

Man, talk about memories. I had two baller ass decks back in the day: a modified haymaker that also used Wigglytuff’s “Do the Wave” and a Rain Dance deck. Man, simpler times.

[@arceuskarp4542]

Haven't even started watching it and the damned song is stuck in my head

[@DarianTrinity]

Which one?

[@14flash89]

You are the only person in the history of this game to say anything positive about the tutorial.

[@LunatheMoonDragon]

aww, i wonder who had to go through and make all those gameboy recreations of actual card art. that's kind of charming! But i bet it was a headache!

[@Warmatt911]

Steve's a trooper.... unexpected chuggaconaroy reference.

[@psychoDon525]

The chuggaaconroy reference made my day

[@rosestrohm7986]

Time stamp?

[@drakedbz]

I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing this game on my gbc back in the day.

[@joshtv6139]

Pokémon conquest deserves some love!! It’s my favorite spinoff

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

I forgot how much I liked this game's soundtrack. Which is could cuz I heard it often enough

[@UmbrasMercy]

I always knew Ronald McDonald is the true life rival.

[@DarkMastaC]

I'm sure someone has said this but I dont want to scroll thought every comment just to make sure im not double fact checking lol. The promo that came with the game is the wonderful Cat Punch Meowth. The Venasaur actually came with the strategy guide, I'm not sure how many of said Venasaur exist but I have never seen one in person. The Phantom Mew is also exclusive to the game entirely, but uses a redesigned version of the Promo Mew artwork. That said, this is a fun looking challenge. The gameboy TCG games were always a fun way to play the game when you didnt have other people to play with your actual cardboard with.

[@TheAnalyticalEngine]

It's time to du... Wait, wrong game.

[@chaos-x7082]

Same concept

[@carprincess]

I loved this game! I still have my old copy and it was sooo cool being able to play the Pokemon TCG game in a handheld.

[@mysteryman3010]

I had this on a disk on my parent's Dell back in the day. Learned how to play the card game from this 🙏

[@grisselbrandthegreat5567]

The old school haymaker deck never looses in this game. It is beautiful.

[@doopness785]

Plenty of decks never lose because the AI in this game is pretty bad

[@AzureKite]

God I love this game! It taught me how to play the TGC. It's so cool. Thanks for doing this video Chaotic!

[@MegaDchamp]

Awesome video, i really love this old gem. Due a lot in part to the soundtrack, the duel music was BANGING!

[@YukeWeiss]

Besides confusion not being so OP and no burn, you could play this game and have a pretty good rudimentary understanding on how the TCG works even today. This was how I learned and I was exceptionally mediocre for a good few years.

[@skippydinglechalk9397]

I was not expecting a Chuggaaconroy reference, good shit bro

[@rubyriches]

Non-Pokemon TCG Players: this game is too complicated. Magic the Gathering Players: Oh naive innocent child...

[@Raptor11794]

Laughing as competetive Yu-Gi-Oh player

[@StardustDandere]

I've always loved this game, really cool to see this challenge for it! It makes me want to pick up my old copy and replay it haha

[@logans.7932]

“Too bad he’s not a red pikmin though” Now that I think about it you were right man, I am enjoy his XC2 series despite not expecting it. Also I love the game from this video have beaten it like 3 times

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

Rain Dance, Curse Swap, and Wigglytuff Haymakers are busted. Love this game.

[@silas8772]

I love the almost four minutes of saying Pokemon names

[@TheLeageOfAwsome1]

Hey man! Just found your channel, love the content and pumped to binge some videos!! ✌🏻

[@ALLYPALL]

Loved this game as a kid.

[@windfisher7002]

Seems like a fun challenge love playing this game and just beating the game fast as possible

[@oxtim394]

Ok. I finally subbed. Keep up the good work!

[@jonathantonner4263]

Can't wait to see this but for the pokepark games!

[@birdperson5752]

You should try Storm Silver or the heartgold variant. I don’t know if you play roms or not, but if you do, it would be a real challenge (since all 493 Pokemon are available in the game).

[@keesleen1818]

I can't even imagine a professor oak. Challenge in Pokémon go.

[@Lightpaladin720]

Don't think about it

[@StarkMaximum]

I only played back when it first came out but I'd be like "well I'm doing terrible on the challenge but I do have 12 Rattatas and three Sandshrew, so I got that going for me."

[@mardukas13]

I really love this series, it's my favorite Pokemon spin-off. Couldn't you use the fan translated version of Pokemon TCG 2 in order to make a POC? It's better than the first game in every way.

[@jeremy529]

This was unexpected but pretty awesome

[@7Game0ver7]

The YGOTAS reference was amazing 😂😂😂

[@YukeWeiss]

The reason Imakuni?'s card does that is his deck revolves around playing cards that involve coin flips.

[@balakebeats5590]

Imakuni goated

[@matteopriotto5131]

This videogame man... I love it. I finished it a couple times

[@hiddenpowervalleyranch4545]

My good sir. I love you for this video. I missed playing this game. :(

[@LtheOriginal]

While haymaker decks is great in the original set, I always preferred "Rain dance Blastoise only", where your deck was pretty much Squirtles and Blastoises, as well as trainer cards that thins your deck out fast (Oak and Bill), whilst you abuse Computer Search and Pokemon Breeder. And since Blastoise had Rain Dance, you can pretty much build it's energy in a single turn. The good ol' days when you were allowed to use as many trainer cards as you like per turn, allowing you to draw and burn through 20+ cards in a single turn.

[@Xiterok]

When I got this game, early in my childhood, I spent a lot of time playing it and, to complete it 100%, I tried everything... and the last card I could not find was that Beedrill at 7:42. It looked more rare than a Charizard in real life.

[@balakebeats5590]

Some of the most iconic Gameboy music, right up there with actual Pokemon and the MMBN series ♡

[@YukeWeiss]

Slight note: The Venusaur came with the TCG Prima Official Strategy Guide; Meowth GB came with the TCG game. The Venusaur is vastly more expensive these days. A lot of the GB cards come in super rare Japanese sets or have effects that just plain don't exist. I also believe one of the Electrodes (I wanna say Base Set?) isn't in the game as its effect was too tough to program. Or was is the Fossil Ditto?

[@Nerdperior]

i cant wait to buy a gameboy and this game holy crap

[@utkuayranc3210]

the move names are pretty... "interesting" like nidoqueen having a move called "boyfriends" and bellsprout and krabby having a move called "call for family"

[@CPCisCringe]

I honestly hope this gets big, dude!

[@R9beats]

I hope you get big 😏

[@CPCisCringe]

@@R9beats thanks, buddy Wait

[@ZaaintheSteveAYFGAACDGA]

@@CPCisCringe i think u are future legend if u reached 1 million subs

[@CPCisCringe]

@@ZaaintheSteveAYFGAACDGA :') Thanks, Zaain!

[@epicgamer8255]

At minute 12 you switch the flying and surfing Pickachu

[@Begeru]

The Psychic type energy is also used for Poison

[@RKade01]

In the recent game it is. In generation one poison was part of grass

[@yommmrr]

Super underrated pokemon game imo

[@unbreakableonion1538]

Oooooo! Luve this game looking forword to it

[@clizzofficial]

Can we just appreciate that this was the first Pokémon game to include running

[@DrNarhwal]

Holy fudge someone actually made a video on this game

[@MateriaGirl]

This would probably go faster if you abused that the coin always lands on whatever side is visible when you press the button.

[@cecillewolters1995]

My friend, you can emulate and play the follow up game. Fans have translated the whole game, it's awesome ;)

[@BetaNights]

Ok, but seriously... I LOVED this game as a kid, and honestly still do now. I replay it every so often, and have a blast. I'm looking forward to a possible PMD: Rescue Team DX run in the future! (Or the original version, or even Explorers.) Edit: Ok, the Red Pikmin bit got me xD

[@mikofox9798]

I finally picked up a cartridge of this game and it’s one of my favorites on my GBC

[@kiefrancis6076]

My 18th birthdays going to be really good with the crystal poc coming out the day before. Really liked this unique challenge.

[@penguinimptheinsane774]

Yo, this is gonna be dope. I loved playing this but lost my cartridge.

[@ioriyagamy4777]

I remember playing this over and over on my gameboy color lol

[@zelawillows5498]

“Next up is Steve…just Steve. Too bad he’s not a Red Pikmin” That was definitely not something I thought I’d hear today

[@crazyweirdgirl4488]

I thought this was about the actual cards and got very confused! 😂

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Yeah honestly I didn't know what to title the video to make it the least confusing. Guess it didn't work all that well lol

[@hauntering_j1249]

ngl that would be pretty hype

[@sorenman1]

@@hauntering_j1249 Agreed.

[@zelabotu1588]

Same here

[@Hunni_Gummi]

Rewatching this vid and I can believe you did a chuggaconroy reference with Steve the Zapdos dude

[@reginalpitts6181]

One of my favorite Pokémon games

[@rainfeather2997]

I remember an amazing deck that I used to run for this- you might not think much of that promo Mewtwo, but... it works really, REALLY well with stuff like Venusaur's Energy Trans power and Big Eggsplosion on Exeggutor. I could give you a deck list, if you want!

[@arey256]

Yes decklist please

[@orllyfools14X8]

I fuckin loved this game back then!

[@longjawnsilva8877]

Sub because you reminded me of a piece of my childhood I forgot existed

[@slateportraichu5416]

I wish we have more games like this one - it is such a fun one=)

[@aurafox1]

I have never heard the Pokemon TCG compared to LoL and DoTA before today.

[@youngslimesims3181]

Nice man. I did a playthrough a few months back and I found using Snorlax was pretty OP. Was he one of the last ones you found?

[@luketetzloff1431]

This and silver version were my first ever pokemon games. I completly forgot about this game

[@jeffreydewd6572]

i really liked this game it was something different, and especially because it was something different. a the good old days.

[@carbon6111]

I threw my Gameboy against the wall because of this game.

[@goferlp7011]

My father destroy my gameboy with a hammer because i played always in the night. My mom bought me a new the next day.

[@CodeRedDamax]

Best deck to start with is Squirtle deck. Rain Dance go brrrrrr

[@loganquinn5656]

Chaos meatball haha good save

[@YukeWeiss]

My first Pokemon Game! Ronald->all other rivals.

[@somebloke9067]

I like the fact that in this universe they have a professor and a lab for a children’s card game

[@xilencered7788]

Jwittz and his friends discovered a deck that slaps haymakers. Once he explained it, it made sense how something like that slipped thru the cracks

[@GyzelE]

Ishihara really got the good end of all trades. I instantly regretted trading my only Clefable

[@Gateway2000Mousepad]

This game was my fucking childhood my cousin gave me his old gameboy pokemon red blue and the card game so i would have something to do i never see anyone who even knows this game exists

[@pkmindbreak848]

Nice chuggaaconroy reference.

[@llamaboioflusatia]

The promo Venusaur, funnily enough, is impossible to obtain because of XOR shenanigans

[@deanoor9391]

I still have both those games and I still play them from time to time You gotta make a challenge for the second one

[@happiestaku6646]

I played this a lot as a kid.

[@fallintheabyss4758]

This game is so fun

[@MeischelHD]

Unfortunately, the coin rng in this game is completely broken. 10 tails in a row is no rarity.

[@azn532]

You have to mash a or b for heads tails

[@janknoblich4129]

Couldnt you cheese the coin?

[@oxoxTwinklexoxo]

I'm super interested to know about this promo venusaur you say came with your game! My promo card was a special Meowth! Do you happen to remember if the promo cards were randomized?

[@mystikx2205]

I remember one time I faced Ronald at the end, all he had was Eevee at the start. No Bench. I opened Hitmonchan and PlusPower.

[@marnea1]

Super Energy Retrieval wasn't exclusive to the Game Boy Game. If it was it would have had a Game Boy symbol. Remember Pokemon is a Japanese game that was being localized and Wizard of the Coast sucked ass at localizing the cards. It was actually released as a promo in the Pokemon Trainer Magazine. Japanese players would have had access to it around the time of Fossil. If WotC were doing their damn job, and making sure we had a balance robust card collection, instead of padding the sets with non-holo versions of holographic cards, not something the Japanese sets did. We would've gotten it around the same time too.

[@joshernsteen2066]

Also the game is coded to crash and be rendered unplayable if you do very specific actions in the game. Also the crash is so serious that it may brick the virtual console of the games on the Nintendo 3DS, although I have never personally downloaded the game on my 3DS to try it out.

[@andrewweber9930]

Oh this is a first love this game

[@cookiebandit18]

A true classic

[@megaplays2748]

"Yeah he's just Steve. Too bad he's not a Red Pikmin." A man of culture, I see