I Finally Played Pokemon Red

[@aaronlong4286]

It makes me feel old when I realize there are a lot of Pokemon fans that never played the original games when they were released.

[@warmachine1919]

Right!!!

[@ma_junia]

Can't wait for "playing the ORIGINAL Diamond and Pearl" by a 20 something who only played the remakes as a kid

[@Vanya2893]

yeah this was absolutely baffling to me. i guess it shouldn't be but i was not really super into pokemon after gen III/IV so the idea that people are like making pokemon youtube content haven't played them is so wild

[@HollowRick]

same

[@Jack-sy6di]

What was funny to me was "I've played most Pokemon games, you know... except for the first three generations". Like wait, that's "most"?

[@JudgeTyBurns]

I understand that it’s just a glitch that the future remakes remove, but I like the idea of using a Poké Doll to resolve the Marowak encounter. Calming a restless spirit of an angry mother by offering a doll as tribute feels like it fits.

[@MalachiLper]

When I was a kid, I always gave Marowak the doll to the point I thought it was the actual solution and I was so confused why it wasn’t working in the remakes.

[@edchampagne1806]

@@MalachiLper bullshit

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

I refer to it as an exploit rather than glitch. The Poke Doll is working as intended. It ends the battle, and it marks the battle as “won.” That’s how they made it, and that’s what they intended, but they just didn’t think about the fact you could use it in that battle. Still, because it allows a sequence break which is against the spirit of glitchless playthroughs, I understand why it isn’t used in them.

[@weirdtuberjournalism9757]

Would of worked better if it was cubone doll.

[@ashlinorrell3490]

I used this for the first time the other day. It felt powerful haha.

[@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853]

Fun fact about the area around 5:14 - that particular column of tall grass has no encounters. In fact, any tall grass tiles in Viridian Forest that have their bottom-right corner trampled down don't spawn wild Pokémon, meaning there's a path you can take through the grass that's free of encounters entirely until near the end of the forest. Speedrunners use that to get through this part of the game quickly.

[@capt.crimsnbeard]

Always interesting seeing and listening to people that didn't grow up with all the playground rumors/the time gen 1 came out. I love this game for nostalgia for sure. But it was all about the unknown of this game and the challenge of playing this as a 4-7 year old at first. Then replaying it thru the years. Not my favorite gen but I was happy to play this again and again as a kid.

[@ShaunAnderson_Sauce]

I still replay it and enjoy it I'd say gen 3/4 may be my favorite. I'm not sure though.

[@capt.crimsnbeard]

@@ShaunAnderson_Sauce I replayed gen 1 till I feel like I did everything I wanted to My fav is gen 3 and 5. Play the Pokemon Orre games thou if you haven't.

[@ShaunAnderson_Sauce]

@@capt.crimsnbeard Orre? You mean ORAS?

[@capt.crimsnbeard]

@@ShaunAnderson_Sauce No the GC shadow pokemon games

[@chriscramberry3624]

In some alternate universe, someone is chuckling at the idea of the iconic first pokémon rival John having a name as silly as Gary instead

[@dolgy3762]

I was 7 when this game came out. EVERYONE at school got it. It was a magical time. We all traded pokemon at recess and shared secrets about Mewtwo and Mew. The thing I remember thinking the most was how different the sprites were from actual designs.

[@chadzard4]

Me too man those were the glory days of grade school. I love every generation of Pokemon but Pokemon will NEVER be that popular again. It was almost like a religion for kids. It was literally all we cared about. That whole entire year I was actually excited to go to school because then I could talk to my friends about Pokemon. Pokemon actually made kids excited to go to school that's so crazy.

[@dolgy3762]

@@chadzard4 yeah we had it all. the toys, the cards. there were pokemon card trading nights at the local burgerking lol. It was literally everywhere. Pokemon Go almost made that popularity come back, very close but not quite.

[@mcfarvo]

I remember getting up before school to see the anime TV show to discover new pokemon to try to hunt down in the game! I would be especially attentive during the pokerap!

[@Jac735]

Yeah man at first I didn't like pokemon back in 97/98 but I had no choice but to fall in love because everyone outside of school or in school had the games cards and toys that was very epic but pokemon craze died down in my area after my 7th grade year in 01 that's when nobody outside played with them no more nor barely played the games notjust only my grade but kids younger after gen 2 I never really got into pokemon anymore I'm atoll studying the second gen pokemon since it was hard to get the evolved firms in GS but waa a fun game amd good craze run

[@dolgy3762]

@@Jac735 yeah out of all the games I've played Crystal the most I think.

[@ianmcandrew7893]

people who grew up on the later pokemon games are always quick to shit on gen 1 and point out the glitches and balancing issues...but to an old guy like me...the thing that truly makes gen 1 the best to play is that it actually lets you play. as the series went on, the series became more of a "babies first rpg" type of game with over the top guiding, hand holding and walls upon walls of unskippable text. the more recent generations are nearly unplayable for me as i am stopped at every little part along the way to mash through text, getting ambushed every time i finish a gym battle, and they are so linear. gen one was like the wild west. it was a game meant to be fun, not a play it safe, family friendly cashcow that it has become

[@Jac735]

Facts gen 2 was also fun after grn 3 I ✋️ because everything changed at one ☝️ 👆 but I still respect t it though

[@pCadavez]

"Except for Venomoth wich is a flying type"

[@GerBessa]

Scott's thoughts are spreading...

[@sgrantle]

And i'm glad the Game told me that

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

I figured someone would have already pointed out that part lol

[@cocomunga]

It’s Psychic Flying nublets

[@AICaliceinchains]

“For the first game in the series it got most of the core mechanics down?” Well yeah that’s where everything came from… The newer fans can call it overrated or nostalgia driven, but this is the model that created all of the basic concepts in the entire franchise. Also when you say some mechanics were missing, that is just due to your bias and experience with more recent games. Personally, I could easily go without a lot of those. More often than not it’s just Gamefreak’s way of introducing something just to have newer content in future releases. TBH, the fact that the model has become so redundant is proof that there really hasn’t been significant progress in the series.

[@SomethingLegit1]

The difficulty doesn't stem from the battles. It stems from the exploratory nature of the games (as you pointed out) and more importantly, the mystery aspect around the game. We live in an era where it's very easy to optimize gameplay. Back then, we couldn't google gym leader parties, wild pokemon or movesets. You sort of stumbled through the game, learning on the fly. Nowadays you've got full online guides on sites like Bulbapedia or Serebii. You played the first games like a mega pro back in those days. I'd say the games got a lot easier because all the unknown variables are all common knowledge at this point. Do you realise that merely knowing the power and accuracy of all the moves is a luxury we didn't have back then? The first order of business for a first time player was to empirically test whether quick attack was stronger than tackle or gust on random wild pokemon XD

[@MichaelSotoCE]

Agreed.

[@f_yu]

doesn't that mean that the game was always easy, it was just that the internet didn't exist as today? if you go out looking for stuff, that's on you, really

[@SomethingLegit1]

@@f_yu Yup, it does. I'm just saying that's why we remembered it as hard.

[@JT5555]

@@f_yu " if you go out looking for stuff, that's on you, really" right on the fucking pokemoney. i hate when fans complain about stuff that is 100% their own damn fault.

[@eronalu]

That and things like de exp share for every pokemon, or your team being healed before the battles, like with your rival.

[@kevinbell5674]

I've played this game so much that everytime I replay it I'm basically on autopilot, and yet I still have more fun with it than any game I've played in the last 5 years.

[@JohnnyVasquez8]

I couldn’t agree more.!! At this point I’ve also don’t just about every Pokémon you can possibly use without special trading. It’s fun to add different Pokémon to my party. My ultimate Favorite team is: Blastoise, Nidoking, Jolteon, Lapras, Hunter (hate that I can’t evolve it) for whatever reason I never used a 6th Pokémon. Dugtrio is fun to play with but makes the entire game too easy.

[@Irenicus91]

This was super cool watching somebody who didn't grow up with the first three generations play Generation 1! Aside from feeling old, it's interesting seeing another adult experience for the first time what 7yo me experienced five thousand years ago. Liked and subscribed! Going to watch the Crystal video you did now! To this day Crystal is my favorite game in the series. :D

[@brandongardner9148]

Good playthrough, did make me laugh when you didnt understand why people say the earlier gens are more difficult when you clearly have alot of pokemon knowledge going in, looked stuff up in advance (although some battles took you off guard) and used some of the most powerful mons in the game (some of which still died). It is bare bones in ALOT of ways but I still enjoy it some of the game breaking glitches are fun to abuse on challenge runs like hardcore nuzlockes or monotype runs

[@MichaelSotoCE]

Yeah this and his time counter hit 91 hours due to the daycare center abuse.

[@av2279]

Let's also just ignore the X Accuracy + Fissure abuse. :^)

[@irift3]

Was looking for this exact comment. Agreed. Being a young kid not knowing anything about Pokemon with super limited internet and info made this much more difficult. Kind of silly he didn't acknowledge that since he even admitted to looking up info about the game before playing. Fun vid though.

[@Xpwnxage]

Red/blue are ridiculously easy. The AI/move sets are just terrible. Yellow fixed this a bit by making the move sets...actually challenging.

[@TheKingRiku]

The first games have laughably bad AI, but at least they give you a lot of player freedom and don't hold your hand I guess. You can do badges in a lot of different orders as well.

[@sebastiankulche]

For me this stills holds up. Compared to other RPGs the stats arent fixed, and you have 151 playable characters, something not even modern RPG lets you to do this. And also doesnt have annoying padding like newer gens. It gets straight to the point.

[@graalcloud]

It's kind of crazy to know that Pokemon was made specifically for my generation in the 90's when I was growing up, and nowadays kids all these years later are still into it. Sometimes I wonder when the younger generations are going to get something original to call their own! I was obsessed with Pokemon before it ever even released here and it was only mentioned as "Pocket Monsters" in an issue of Nintendo Power that I remember had Starfox 64 on the cover.

[@XYZHAUSS]

You never read the anime and it shows

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@XYZHAUSSyou’ve never SEEN a sentence and that shows lmao

[@fitzlepop8101]

Fun fact is that the color of the town is actually related to the color that that town is named after! Lavender town is slightly purple for example

[@Charsept]

The first 3 gens are my favorites ! Probably because I grew up with them. Guess you didn't know Old Rod can only yield Magikarps. xD

[@pm4655]

Bro this is a massively underrated channel. you need more subs.

[@adamg2031]

I'm in the opposite position as you: I started with the early gens, but stopped playing for around 15 years. When I came back to Pokemon, the thing that struck me the most about the new games was how much they had become these narrative games with a big cast of recurring characters and scripted encounters for every major area designed to move a central plot forward, while the early games were just about getting a pokemon and exploring the world. It seems like you noticed the same thing, just from the other direction.

[@XxWhiteBoyxX1000]

Idk if the younger generation will ever know what its like to get on the bus & pull out the gba/ Gb color you kept in your backpack waiting to play all day. Good memories.

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

As somebody who had few friends, I did that with my gameboy, my DS, 3ds, and switch, graduated last year and that’s just a beautiful feeling to remember

[@Theundisputedelite]

I had the privilege of playing pokemon blue back in 98, and goddamn i was blown away, keep your fancy graphics and flashy gimmicks, the games were just special and will forever be a part of my life 😌😌

[@crazyoliver7877]

16:11 I agree Vaporeon has some nice bulk to it but there is other water Pokemon that can fill that need. I personally prefer Jolteon because of the lack of electric types in this game.

[@JohnnyVasquez8]

Definitely my go to for eeveelutions

[@yourdemiseishere]

The internet's need for vaporeon cannot be replaced.

[@GreenLinzerd]

You can play a Nuzlocke however you like. It's up to you whether you use gift Pokemon or not (personally I always do). And 99% of Nuzlockers use the dupes clause, i.e. if they get another Weedle encounter then they can try again. Because it ain't fun otherwise. EDIT: And as for NPC trades... well, why not? You get a new Pokemon, but you have to sacrifice one of your old ones, so it's not like it's a freebie. You still have the same number of Pokemon afterwards as you did beforehand.

[@cleverman383]

You can really just add "clauses" to whatever parts of Nuzlockes you don't like. "Accidentally going into an overleveled area and losing your pokemon is dumb, so that doesn't count" "Losing pokemon to wild encounters while grinding and mashing buttons is dumb, so that doesn't count either" "Losing my pokemon forever is dumb, so after I beat the Elite Four, the Nuzlocke ends and I get to take them back out of the box"

[@M3rtyville]

the difficulty of gen 1 and 2 come from the puzzles and finding what you need to progress or unlock new areas and resource management. It was not really about the difficulty in terms of having strong enough pokemon to beat everybody. Because eventually you can grind anything to max level and stomp everyone. Edit: Articuno crying for nobody looking for it.

[@naaahevers2093]

You get it👍

[@ieyke]

A: You have expectations of what's going to be hard and try to avoid it. B: You stopped to grind. THAT is why you found this game easy. Sun & Moon you can just mindlessly waltz through without even thinking. No expectations, no delays, no grinding. Just....you can blunder through effortlessly. Red and Blue will murder you for that. Not knowing what to expect, and thinking it'll be fine....no, no it won't.

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

Red and Blue also had the following "Your pokemon wants to learn a new move" "It is Substitute" Average player: "What does it do? How much PP does it have? What typing is the move?" And the game is like "I dunno, you'll know once you try it a few times" Yeah knowing is half the battle, and this game was more or less designed on just throwing players into a single player adventure with collecting and experimentation in mind. Not a exactly the Pokemon game of todays standards

[@weedmilk]

@@MrDwarfpitcher “this game was more or less designed on just throwing players into a single player adventure with collecting and experimentation in mind” I was so confused by your comment until I realised this somehow wasn’t a compliment.

[@peacefusion]

yur rival was a good case. always in the way of story with tougher pokemon.

[@16maze]

I’m dying when you switched over to color ha ha ha ba as a kid those color updates were amazing 🤣🤣🤣 this is awesome, especially that it’s well in depth and to see someone who has never played until now makes ju enjoyable

[@edoggy6699]

The colors were added on the emulator. The old school way with a game boy color the coloring was only red in red version and blue in blue version. Pokémon yellow was the only game in gen 1 ,back then, that had different colors

[@asce780]

This is actually slightly incorrect. The colors in the video weren't added in whatever emulator he's using. Those colors were actually used in the Pokemon Stadium version of Pokemon RBY if you inserted your cartridge in the GamePak in the back of your N64 controller and played Pokemon RBY on your tv back in the day.

[@eduardogodinez]

@@asce780 It's even older than that. The color palettes were initially used when playing Red or Blue in the Super Game Boy (an adapter to play Game Boy games on the SNES). RB were some of the "SGB enhanced" games that had unique color palettes. Can't remember ATM if Yellow was also playable on the SGB or not.

[@joemck85]

@@eduardogodinez Yellow had SGB palettes. If I recall they're a bit more washed out and less colorful than the GBC palettes it used. G/S had them too, and they were way worse than the beautiful GBC colors they had. Crystal didn't because it's a GBC exclusive and therefore can't run on a Super Gameboy.

[@Rinabow]

29:00 Venomoth isn't flying type. It's Bug/Poison.

[@RedCloudGawdian]

I'm sure that was a reference to Scott's Thoughts

[@chancearilla]

Pokemon red was the first game i ever owned, and i had played it so much that the left half of my big brick gameboy (yea, im old) had crapped out. I played it so much that i would institute "blind challenges" where i would play the game without ever looking at the screen. I had memorized every single tile in the game and would play with audio only. When i beat the elite four without ever having looked at the screen, it was an accomplishment that i couldnt really share with family or friends because its really lame lol. Sorry for the long comment but this game was just such a huge part of my childhood and will always have a special place in my heart. Great video!

[@YugiMomo]

As a child FireRed was my first video game and I didn't know anything about the series and this was before guides so I didn't know about the champion fight either. You have no fucking idea how much of a devastating volte face that was to my elementary school ass, and it was so in character for the rival too because when you think about it he almost always shows up at like the most unexpected times. Silph Co rival was also brutal because as a kid I never thought of just clearing a floor, leaving, healing, clearing another floor, rinse, repeat. I treated it more like a cave or forest where if you leave your progress is reset so you have to push through the whole thing

[@littlecsommercorn]

"You can buy these games easily on the virtual console these days." Oh how I wish that was still true.

[@Hutchgold]

Bruh ethics vidoe is of 2 yeras ago xddddd , f for the virtual console

[@Bassynater2500]

This was a really great video and earned my sub! I wanted to watch your Crystal review but it said watch this one first so naturally I just went to this one. Early gens are fond memories for me as a kid

[@daniell7357]

I think you were to harsh. These games were amazing back in the day and I don't think it is fair to judge them against modern pokemon games.

[@SkyeBerryJam]

Hey in the future, dupes clause is a thing a lot of people do where if they encounter the same pokemon evolution line more than once, they'll give themselves another encounter until they get something new

[@BAIGAMING]

26:00 I felt the same way, the legendaries were endgame optional bosses you could recruit. Man did I feel sad as a kid when I realized after that they were unique pokemon you could only encounter once a playthrough. But it felt amazing randomly going to a cave and finding a post-game region with Mew Two, and then I used my master ball to catch it and I used it in Pokemon Stadium.... 27:50 I also love how Mew Two is randomly Guyanaese. 😂We get no representation in media except for Mew Two and George from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. I really doubt there was a friend/family who was Guyanese working at Game Freak, I think they quickly looked through a documentary or at a globe to pick the country that has rain forests.... 37:20 The craziest thing is that from datamining, there was supposed to be another boss after Gary. It was Professor Oak, he has battle sprites in the game. He would've used most of Gary's pokemon but they'd be even higher leveled. OR it may have been possible he was originally meant to be the final boss instead of Gary. Maybe a post-game boss even. Hmm. Imagine 6 final bosses though haha.

[@michaelmulligan8527]

These are my favorite games of all time. My brother and I rode our bikes to Nobody Beats the Wiz every day for weeks and weeks until we finally found one copy of Red and 3 copies of Blue on the shelf. We snatched them up and my life has never been the same.

[@mrlemonanimates5816]

You deserve more subs and support the videos you make really high quality stuff.

[@oscarsullivan5983]

just found ur channel, still surprises me how many ppl started w/ gen 4

[@VinylcoteYT]

i love that you say that cause diamond was my first pokémon game lol

[@spud7148]

it makes sense considering how popular the ds was

[@rggamesofficial8391]

15:03 I remember in my first playthrougt I didnt find flash and spent a whole week blindly going thru rock tunnel and getting My ass handed to me. After I finally got thru with only a 5hp venusaur I accidentaly stepped into that trainer and had to redo it all

[@kylespencer7756]

I don't remember if i hit the Trainor at the end, but I had pretty much the exact same experience you described otherwise lol.

[@shukuchishikeishuu9540]

24:55 Silph Co is counted as a separate area from Saffron City, as in Gen 3 getting Lapras has its encounter location listed as something different from the Hitmon you get at the gym. So yes, you can use both in a nuzlocke.

[@TrialzGTAS]

Got this on my 5th birthday in 2000. What a time. Thankful to have watched this series of game evolve from inception.

[@wintertheampharos4725]

In the Japanese version of Red and blue, the old man who teaches you how to catch Pokémon is drunk and passed out on the road, possibly from a hangover.

[@JT5555]

i'd argue that he still is in the english version,but the coffee is to help with the hangover. i should also point out that i don't drink either of those things so i have no idea if coffee is actually good for hangovers or not.XD

[@destinysaiyan014]

So uh, Magikarp would've been completely valid as that Spearow was on R3 and the Mt.Moon Pokecenter is technically part of R4 New area new "encounter"😜

[@ss4kaioken295]

I'm a genwunner so that being said I actually don't think the first games look that bad except when it comes to the back sprites

[@irs2486]

fire red better tho 👍

[@kevinbell5674]

Nidoking is one of my favorite sprites in the og games. It's a great example of how they used shading to make sprites come to life without color.

[@JakeRandall]

Dude you're like the How To with John Wilson of Pokemon and thats the highest tier compliment I've ever given another person.

[@YoungLink51423]

I remember that level 38 Hypno fucked me up too. I went to the grass and grinded for 3 days straight after that lol

[@Mastervitro]

Someone forgot about the bike voucher...

[@davidzcomputer3303]

I got brand new copies of Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Blue, along with a snazzy purple Gameboy Color, for my 6th birthday in May of 1999. I've been hooked ever since, its literally the only game series I can say I've played consistently for over two decades. Jesus that makes me feel old, at least Im still not 30 yet.

[@joelmorris9694]

"at least I'm still not 30 yet". WOW THANKS No, I'm with you that this video made me feel super old haha. The way he's explaining stuff I'm just like, "well yeah, that's how it was", but he says it like it's caveman paintings haha.

[@SoulOri]

Do the save batteries still Work?

[@davidzcomputer3303]

​@@SoulOri Sadly no, most of my GB/GBC copies stopped working properly between the GBA and DS eras...Now theyre simply junk drawer heirlooms that i take out and look at from time to time.

[@SoulOri]

@@davidzcomputer3303 I feel your pain :( . I have Yellow, blue, red, silver, and gold. Ironicly yellow does still work. But you can switch the batteries in the games if you have a replacement and the screwdriver (wich i dont have 🥲 )

[@davidzcomputer3303]

@@SoulOri Ya, Id probably do that if i had the extra money to throw around, but emulation is good enough for me if i wanna play.

[@joshlynch5676]

"It's just 3 Diglett stuck together, honestly." Well the new LEGENDARY in SWSH is literally a dog with a fucking sword lmao.

[@marcosdheleno]

dont forget the designs of some other pokemon that are equally bad, like klink line(basically a worse magnemite) or binacle(just wth is that thing), or even trubish and garbador, which are basically worse grimer/muk. im not even gonna comment on mimikyu, as its literaly something wearing a pikachu doll(or rotting corpse).

[@joshlynch5676]

@@marcosdheleno Yeah, I just don't get the idea of shitting on gen 1 design when every other generation has the same downfall

[@peacefusion]

Dugtrio was always slightly larger and always angry. It was a menace on its own. You cant hate the simple design when theres no other before it. Its an original art piece. I never looked at magneton as 3 magnimite, always its own thing.

[@lindendrache8998]

A lot of people like myself grew up with this generation of Pokemon games. As a young kid with almost zero RPG experience and NO internet to google stuff on the fly - yes, these games were kinda difficult. I remember getting stuck in Rock tunnel without flash and it took me days to leave the cave, as I could not find neither the entrance nor the exit ^^ I had my heart beating faster when finally beating Lance's dragons for the first time which were pulverizing me with hyper beams before. If you go in with the knowledge of an adult that knows Pokemon, of course you don't feel the same. People forget that the games were intended for children and that they felt different as children, too. And that the mid 90s were a much different time without all those youtube videos and dial-up internet. You had to figure out stuff on your own! And you had all the time you wanted for this! I got stuck in Zelda Links Awakening for WEEKS. Man, what a great feeling when I finally solved the puzzle! Yes, games back then were more about exploration and they did not hold your hand too much - and that is what makes them great. Pokemon was intended as an adventure. If you are a child and you get invested in the game and you find this legendary Pokemon, it feels epic - the graphics did not matter back then - it felt EPIC! Going back to them as a Pokemon Player without nostalgia... well, kinda difficult. Great video, man!

[@JT5555]

testify. i was hoping to find a video of someone playing the original games (not the remakes) and then this one popped up and i was kinda disappointed by how unfairly this guy judged what were the first pokemon games to ever exist (not to mention looking a bunch of stuff up and then having the gull to call the game too easy). i feel like this video would have been way better if he had at least made a effort to play the game as if he had never played pokemon before and not look anything up unless he absolutely needed to (or put in any effort at all. am i the only one that feels like this entire playthrough was very half-assed? where's the passion?). all and all i feel like he just didn't play the game right and it took a lot away from the experience of watching it.

[@najpotenicewolf934]

Tbh. People will have this nostalgia for whatever version they played first. My first was FireRed, and I guess the first gen would feel underwhelming if I were to play it. However, I guess I still had somewhat of a pure experience with FireRed, as I didn't know I could find all the stuff on the internet. So I also had to figure it out on my own. I found out about many mechanics years after my copy stopped working. Also, I played kinda like a complete moron as a kid. Not understand how types work, stubbornly only using my starter (partially because for a long time I didn't know how to switch Pokemon around), not knowing there are separate stats for physical and special attacks. Add also the fact that English is not my native language (and there were no official translations at the time), and saving didn't work (Some part of the cartridge must have been broken or really dirty. I'm not sure where my parents bought it, far as I know the Pokemon games weren't actually widely distributed in my country at the time) no wonder I didn't actually beat the game as a child. xD

[@lindendrache8998]

@@najpotenicewolf934 I feel you, friend ^^ I also did not know how to switch the first Pokemon in my party out back then. And yes, of course people will have nostalgia for the first entry of any franchise (or music or other media) they experienced. I played FireRed on an emulator back then and was surprised that those games were exactly the old games with better tech. I think you will miss a lot of quality of life features when you go back from them to Gen 1 - I am used to them so it does not bother me too much (but the bag with only 20 items is awful). Oh, no save feature is bad >_< The only way of finishing is speedrunning xD But that sounds like you got a bootleg cartridge - pretty common, especially if your country did not have official releases. If you still got the copy, open it up and take a look at the circuit board. If you see a black blob instead of a chip it is a bootleg.

[@najpotenicewolf934]

@@lindendrache8998 It may have been a bootleg. Though I don't have any of my Gameboy games from that time. My parents just threw them out when the console itself stopped working. :(

[@lindendrache8998]

@@najpotenicewolf934 Oh no, that is sad :(

[@GoatOfWar]

I appreciate the non linearity of this game the most. You can do things in so many different orders.

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

Btw in gen 1, crits were stupid. The rates were based on your base speed stat. That Aerodactyl crit is something you’d see very commonly since Aerodactyl has good speed. You probably noticed your own Kadabra crit a lot as well. Another quirk is that Focus Energy is bugged and rather than increasing crit ratio as advertised, it actually lowered your crit ratio. More fun facts: the badge boosts you mentioned get applied at the start of every battle, but also get re-applied any time your stats get modified. This includes if an opponent lowers your stats. Your opponent just outsped you but used Leer? Well, you have the badge that boosts speed, and then you outspeed on the next turn because the boost just got applied a second time when your defense dropped. Also, Ghost not affecting Psychic was a glitch as even game text hints that Psychics fear Ghosts, but Lick has low power anyway and Night Shade ignores type effectiveness and deals damage equal to the user’s level, not to mention as you said the only Ghost types are also Poison and thus terrible to use against Psychics anyway. I think I’ve ranted long enough lol.

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that if you level up, the glitched extra badge boosts go away, but you still keep the intended badge boost.

[@doopness785]

91 hours!? Geez you really did an obsessive amount of grinding.

[@maxiuxoxo]

I’ve just done a play through of Japanese blue and gen 1 is just a favourite. It’s bland, buggy, frustrating at times but was my intro to Pokémon… I still enjoying playing through using different Pokémon than previous plays and feeling the nostalgia and remembering the discovery I felt as a kid playing for the first time. For that, it’s a magical game. Also this play through I’m completing the Pokédex for the first time which I’m really enjoying!

[@marcosdheleno]

to me, what makes gen 1 so special, even compared with the remakes, is the jank. all the little bugs and bizarre encounters that are unique to them. even if it doesnt look great, i still have a special place in my heart due to how simple, but effective gen 1 was.

[@joemck85]

The thing where routes are broken up strangely, notably in routes 12-15 ("Silence Bridge"), 16-18 ("Cycling Road") and sea routes 19-20, is that way for technical reasons. Every route or town is a rectangular area as stored in the game. To make an L-shaped route, you can build it as a really big square and fill a huge inaccessible area of that with trees, wasting tons of precious space in the cartridge. Or you can make it two separate long skinny rectangle routes that take up far less space. Also the Missingno glitch is the way it is because the catching tutorial calls the battle program to show it. The battle program always displays your name for stuff like when you use a ball, but they needed it to say "OLD MAN used POKe BALL". They did this literally by changing your name to "OLD MAN" temporarily. They needed someplace to stash your real name so they could put it back afterward. They were short on memory, the list of Pokemon species and levels that appear in the current area is blank because you're in a city where no encounters happen, and it's the right amount of bytes, so they stash your name in those bytes. When they copy your name back after the tutorial, they don't bother clearing the copy of it in the encounter list because it'll get loaded with a real encounter list whenever you go someplace with wild Pokemon. Now you go to Cinnabar, which is a city and doesn't have any wild Pokemon so no encounter list gets loaded. But that little strip of "shore" tiles where you can surf DOES have encounters! No encounter list has been loaded either, so whatever is in those bytes of memory becomes the encounter list. If you flew from the Safari Zone, you'll get Safari Zone Pokemon there that you can catch without throwing rocks and bait. If you flew from the catching tutorial, you'll get your name, with alternating characters' numeric character codes being interpreted as species and levels. Lots of the characters you can type don't correspond to a real Pokemon, so you often get glitches instead.

[@Ahturos]

Respect for never updating your fishing rod. Just the good old rod until the end. It was fun seeing you do things out of order. Erika second to last haha. My last time was a nuzlocke of this and I had a geodude facing Gary in the Lavender Tower and facing his gyrados. I was like. "No problem good EXP for Geodude with rock throw." The Gyrados used HYDRO PUMP on lv20. My geodude become gravel, not the evolved form.

[@thesheton123]

I know this is a year old but I hadn't seen it posted yet about the bag limitation. This wasn't actually designed as a core game mechanic but rather due to the size limitations on the Cart. In fact, when gamefreak finally finished pokemon red and blue, there was enough room for just one more pokemon. So Shigeki Morimoto placed into the files a pokemon based off of his cat as a joke but was uncatchable (there is actually a glitch to catch it in cerulean city before Bill's house) And thus legendary pokemon were born.

[@Neorecon19]

One thing I like to point out about the Missingno bug is that it also works at the Seafoam Islands from the Fushia City side

[@violentincantation]

ngl it's always fun watching younger people who didn't grow up with these games play them. well, at least despite its flaws, you seem to have enjoyed it.

[@ErickGTRZ]

btw, badges do increase stats but only in the Gen 1- Gen 3 games. It was no longer mentioned ingame ever since D/P/P.

[@deviaan]

It was very interesting to see someone who didn't grow up with the game play it! I agree with your points, it's very difficult to go back to the original games unless you're in the right mindset. I think of it kind of like watching an old movie from the 40s/50s. Just like games, the old movies are slower and simpler than modern equivalents, but if you're in the right mood you can have a really fun time and get to see how certain themes, tropes, etc became as ubiquitous as they are. On the note of difficulty, I agree that Pokemon games have never been hard. If they were like, say, Ninja Gaiden, very few of us kids would have ever beaten them. What made them difficult in comparison was the context. For a lot of players, this was their first RPG--I know it was for me. Many didn't bother grinding out levels or sticking with just one team. My brother and I, for example, would catch every Pokemon on we could on each route and then use them for the next route. It resulted in us being permanently under leveled. Aside from that, information was scarce because the internet wasn't easily available. For most homes, mine included, if you needed to look something up you'd have to go use the computer at the public library--and honestly most of the time I just looked up DBZ art to put on my binders. Information was mostly shared through playground rumors--the mew truck, missing no, Pokemon higher than level 100, "they have real Pokemon in Japan". Couldn't really google anything to see what was true. In short, we had no idea what we were doing, everything was a discovery. Ultimately, I think this context is what makes the first gen so endearing to those of us who played through it when it was new. The game in a vacuum is not that spectacular, but the mystique around it, the sense of exploration, has been hard to replicate. I think it's hard for modern games to match the feeling of hearing some kid you don't know at the park say a thing that just sounds like complete BS, going home, trying it, and seeing it work (instead of corrupting your save, which happened more than once...).

[@marcosdheleno]

to me the biggest problem of the 1st gen is the game overall speed and how dated it looks. but even with its bugs, and outdated mechanics, i still think it is a solid game, with alot to offer.

[@kylespevak6781]

"You don't notice the glitches....so I used this glitch to skip this section" 🤣

[@TheKingRiku]

Great video. Gotta say I disagree about gen1 sprites though. I think they are the best in the series. Each one is so unique and conveys a lot of personality.

[@00higgo]

Its a blowout to here young people complain about "missing mechanics" Yeah games were intended to be a challenge and accomplishment and your concept of technology and its growth rates is generally lacking

[@Wimpyfox]

The lack of difficulty complaint is kind of stupid considering you abused turbo to grind. Like yeah, if you sit and grind to level 100 using speed up the game will be a cake walk.

[@asce780]

This is my complaint about Nuzlocke's supposed "difficulty" in general. How is it an added challenge if most versions of it don't feature rules banning grinding? Pokemon's battle system more than a lot of RPGs can be completely circumvented by simply having a pokemon 20 levels higher than your opponent.

[@Wimpyfox]

@@asce780 some nuzlockes do feature level caps

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

@@asce780 indeed A nuzlocke is only ever a real challenge when you want to beat times of other players. But Pokemon has a ton of RNG involved so I dont like speedruns for it in general. With this game though, I remember it being forgiving if you decide to beat every single trainer in the game. You would only need to grind for Brock if you chose a Charmander. That said, it is a good video. Stuff like certain evolutions being underwhelming is something I certainly agree with.

[@lucianofernandezrolon9473]

And using cheese strategies like the fissure thing

[@topichu970]

... the game is still a cakewalk in a nuzlocke where you refuse to catch more than 5 pokemon throughout the game, said pokemon are shitty pokemon like farfetchd, seaking and beedrill, dont use items in battle, play in set mode and are never higher level than the next gym leader you literally just spam normal type moves and you win 95% of the battles in the game edit: this is coming from an individual that did that and proceeded to have an emotional breakdown about the run still being trivial. gen i is a joke.

[@gnaark1181]

"The game is easy I don’t understand" >has to overlevel content >has to cheese the game with Fissure where Quick Attack would have won the fight

[@cmbaz1140]

part of what made these games so fun is YOU finding out how to progress... yeah true it sucks being stuck in an area and not knowing what to do or how to progress which makes it really rewarding once you actually manage to do it... i dont condemn you for taking the easy route and looking stuff up... but if you wanted to know why people like these games and why they were so sought after back in the days you should have tried to play without any maps tips and help...

[@CODA96]

You say the game isnt difficult, but you would have lost the entire nuzlocke without reading the wiki bug about fissure having 100%. Not even to mention the wiki was open alot of times. Back when i was 6 in 2002 we kinda didnt have a pokemon wiki or even internet. You heard rumors on the playground about a secret legendary and you searched for it. The only information you gained was from other people or Gaming Magazines. So yes, the game was extremely difficult for that time. More than new Pkmn games. Nontheless i appreciate your effort. It was a nice nostalgia trip through Gen 1.

[@MightyAnik]

"Charizard The Venusaur, Crobat The Golbat" I had a stroke hearing that lmao

[@Bananazu2411]

I would like to inform you that the video buffered for me right as you entered Rock Tunnel and all there was on screen was genuine pitch-black so I was convinced for a second that that was an intentional gag- 😂

[@brownshoes5225]

This is a great retrospective. Keep up the great work.

[@T.Maximus]

First pokemon game I played as a kid was blue version...back in 99..still love this game! I do think gen.2 improved on a lot, but I do have nostalgia for this.

[@Jac735]

Facts I like both it's kinda hard for me to say what I like on some days but silver/gold had more things to do after the post 🎮 that's the only thing that beats it in my opinion

[@T.Maximus]

@@Jac735 that was a big plus in Gen 2 for sure

[@CEDL0W]

I wanna say the badge stat boost thing was a feature up till Gen 3. With Gen 4 getting rid of it.

[@dakotadoyle7573]

Their is a Nuclocke rule known as Dupes Clause. If you encounter a Pokemon you have already caught/ a Pokemon of the same evolutionary line of one you have caught, you can try again

[@cleverman383]

That's not an official rule, this guy was just using the two official nuzlocke rules

[@thecosmic8248]

It’s been 10 months but most people consider bought/traded Pokémon to be separate from encounter Pokémon

[@patitoduck123]

It so interesting/nice seeing someone who didn’t grow up playing these as their first Pokémon games ahah. Yes these weren’t perfect, had tons of glitches, and were missing tons of the mechanics we have today.. but it’s the best we had! I was 8 when I got my red version and the chokehold this game + cards had on us in school was crazy. It was a much different time back then, we didn’t know all the exploits and info we have today. It was just more about trying things out and exploring the game lol. The mew stories, GameShark, the missingno glitch, and alot more. These games will always hold a special place in my cold, dark heart lol. They’re the OGs that started it all!

[@crait]

The plot is that you're trying to become a master, but you keep bumping into bad guys and stop them because they are in your way. Later games make it a point to have you beat the bad guys because they are bad and you are good. That has always been one reason why I like Gen I and II the most.

[@cleverman383]

Ten Year Old Takes Down Mafia Because They Were Blocking His Way to School And He Didn't Want to Be Late

[@1000EyesCasts]

10:57 While I agree giving infinite space is the best option, based on all I know about the development I believe this is more an instance of the game not having enough space. The devs working on the first pokemon games were NOT experienced and that shows in a lot of the bugs that were around. One of those bugs involves going into backpack space and going so much deeper than intended you can manually change behind the scenes values in the game by tossing "items" that are showing and it modifies bits. The second game had Iwata who was an amazing programmer at a time programming was an unknown science to almost anyone, and he alone is the reason we got all of Kanto in gen 2 and probably how we fixed the limited space issues.

[@kanpaifighto]

Iwata worked on Gen 1 too, he designed the compression algorithm for the monster and trainer sprites iirc

[@marcosdheleno]

that's what i think as well, that is less a design choice, and more a physical limitation of the cartridge. which contributes to alot of the problems of the game.

[@masterx1907]

You’re young lol there’s a difference between then and now. It was on the original gb where it took 4 double a batteries and had no back lighting at all. Plus, the battery inside the game console died over time for the saved data. You’re lucky that emulators were made over the years. That’s why it was difficult over in the past. Plus, trying to collect all 150 before the mew glitch was found was tough to get all 151

[@JT5555]

damn kids these days don't know how good they have it! also you forgot having to steal batteries from the TV remote because you couldn't find new one's to put in the gameboy.XD

[@laughingmantis1769]

My guy, it was "difficult over in the past" because you were 5 years old. No backlight and cart batteries dying (after YEARS of use, mind you) did not make the game hard lol

[@Vanya2893]

@@laughingmantis1769 realistically it was more difficult because you learned the mechanics of the game over the course of playing it instead of having years of gameplay experience and knowledge of every stat and bug in the game beat into you, and before the mid-00s you probably also weren't looking anything up on the internet to fill gaps in knowledge. just had to figure stuff out. made the games feel a lot bigger and more adventurous

[@kvngjaygamez2570]

@@Vanya2893 unfortunately I never got that experience, to be fair I finally decided to play Pokémon in middle school but by then I already played too many rpgs and leveling up each individual Pokémon felt more tedious if anything, I did ultimately enjoy my time either way tho

[@michaeliccutreb6321]

Some of this stuff was really hilarious. Like the fact that you kept being surprised about Magikarp encounters when you were using an old rod. LOL

[@muslimmetalman]

dude the surprise at the day care and no genders had me pikachu faced myself.

[@obits3]

Regarding difficulty, I believe Pokémon games should be aiming for the flow state: challenging but not overwhelming. I’ve played nearly all of the mainline games starting with Red as a kid. Overall, I would say that Pokémon Sun and Moon had the best flow state. I quite literally ended the final fight with both sides one hit away from winning. It was a rush. On the other hand, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon busted the level curve in an attempt to be “challenging.” This ruined the game for me. The original games were hard, but that was for a lot of reasons. Namely, they were the first games, so all the skills you have from other games wouldn’t be there. Plus, most players were young kids. Finally, you were doing it on a gameboy… with no backlight.

[@Shigeru0508]

When that came out, it was something special. A mystery you have to solve for yourself, internet was barely there. Everything after that kinda lacked this special something.

[@BlakeJob9]

I grew up with the OG games and they will always have a place in my heart

[@Heldermaior]

I remember buying a GBC and this game with my own money when it came out. I was mindblown at the expansiveness of it and all the mystery surrounding these games. We went in blind. We went in fast. Stupendous games... The whole ass game is just over half a Megabyte in size... That for me is the craziest part.

[@neithermannormachine]

Only just saw your Crystal video pop up. Never heard of your channel before. The personality you inject into these makes it mate!

[@johnsgamingandmore1237]

This very game is what got me hooked on Pokémon. I was 14 and am 38 and still play Red

[@misterfuzzyflippers]

Just had this recommended and it was awesome seeing someone experience Gen 1 for the first time. I grew up with Blue as my first Pokémon game so my nostalgia biases always have my coming back to this one over most others, but I can confirm that objectively speaking, FR/LG are the best way to experience Gen 1 these days, even if I generally prefer playing Gen 1. I think the thing that actually keeps me playing the original over the remake is weirdly enough the monochromatic color scheme, which might he a strange opinion. Also as a side note, I greatly appreciate that you named your Weedle "Jim" because it reminds me of the Beedrill I caught in the bug catching contest one time in SoulSilver named Li'l Jim. He didn't win the contest so I wanted to prove he was a winner and took that bee the whole way to the hall of fame.

[@IshayuG]

It's interesting to hear your perspective on it looking back like this, because when I was a kid back in 1999 and these things came to Europe properly, this was INSANE. What you must understand is that this is a GameBoy. It's the first actually usable video game console that ever existed except those weird Tetris things I guess, and most of the games on it were low-end NES style games from 10 years prior. They generally took up 32kB and lasted a few hours max. This game, by contrast, well, it's still only 512kB which is very impressive actually, but more importantly it's an open world RPG on a handheld. We barely even had open world RPG's on the desktops - at this point most RPG's were linear - and so to see a game deliver a fully open world in the palm of your hand was remarkable, and then everyone brought them to school and we were all trading Pokemon and battling in the school yard with link cables. I personally think it compared quite favourably to some of the later entries in the series, mostly due to map design (yes, really. Kanto is very well laid out) but back then it was absolutely revolutionary. Nothing came close, let alone on the GameBoy.

[@justsomejojo]

I got started with Red and still love the game, but I do think a lot of the "Gen1 was way harder" stuff is coming from people who haven't played it in a long while. I too struggled to beat the game as a kid, but I also played it when I was barely able to read, much less strategize. Like, my "team" everytime my save files got corrupted (because these cartridges don't like hot temperatures and I had to go outside to be allowed to play) was always Charizard and Farfetch'd. Because one was really cool and the other leveled up super fast (because of boosted exp). They also both learned Slash, which overpowered many other moves, since I sure as heck didn't use anything that didn't do damage (crits ignore buffs in this game, even your own). The reasons I love replaying Red are the region layout (the open-ness after Rock Tunnel means I can truly get any mon I want), the open-ended story structure (not having a concrete story leading you along makes the game feel much more "adventurous" to me) and, perhaps the nerdiest reason, I just love messing around with early Pokemon mechanics. I already mentioned Slash and its 100% crit chance, which makes Farfetch'd, Persian and a couple others actually usable, but beyond that, there's boosting moves that reapply badge boosts every time you use them (something as simple as Meditate becomes an omni boost with multiple badges, meaning Hypno and Mr. Mime suddenly have *something* over Alakazam), semi-infinite Wrap shenanigans that make Ekans and Arbok viable, broken sleep, the list goes on. RBY are a mess not necessarily regarding bugs, but balance-wise, which ironically makes usually weak mons much more powerful (and a select few absolutely busted). It's a bit of a gallery of weird stuff and that alone makes it worth it to me.

[@purplekermit2162]

To all the gripes and complaints about the first games there’s one answer to cover all of it. “Compared to what?”

[@tmwk__]

Back in 1998. This is what it was. If you had a gameboy pocket, you were set.

[@BaneRain]

I wouldn't call limited bag space a mechanic. They had limited cartridge space.

[@TheJunPiece]

The name rater looks like Danny Deveto

[@dustinhatfield8373]

Pokedoll actually isnt a glitch. The devs intentionally made it possible for smart players that thought outside the box

[@IamMeHere2See]

I have to play a Let's Go game, but I feel the age makes the game more novel than later entries. Besides plot & characters, what really separates later games from each other? Here, the single special stat is a novelty, Cloyster is useable, and the bugs don't actively destroy the experience.

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

Note for Ivon: starters are gift Pokémon, if you can use those, by Nuzlocke rules your totally good for gift mons!

[@FutureOverYou]

1000th like, despite the rage of KOing the Legendary Birds and using the Master Ball on a lvl 5 Magicarp. Great video!

[@ch33seweasel42]

I laughed for the last 6 minutes of this video after I saw you throw your master ball at a magikarp. Might as fucken well, but I couldn't stop.

[@videogamescoverftw]

i REALLY hope that was a bit at 5:20, that patch of grass is bugged and has roughly ~1/100 the encounter rate of everywhere else in the forest

[@michael_betts]

Patches of grass with the flower In the lower right can't spawn encounters in viridian forest, which is that line he walks on.

[@videogamescoverftw]

@@michael_betts yeah... did you read my comment wrong? thats what i said

[@michael_betts]

@@videogamescoverftw 1/100 is not 0