I Played Pokémon Like It's The 90's...

[@PaPaSea]

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[@PenguinumbreonGaming]

32mins of my life and a hot chocolate later I have to say great work as always boss

[@Dynamic256-ORIGINAL]

You are about to reach 2 lakh subscribers

[@alexzander2211]

Not sure why I though you would play the games on a gameboy or colour with original cartridge and record it. While waiting 20 minutes for the sites to load up 😂

[@PenguinumbreonGaming]

@@alexzander2211 screen recording and an emulator on a laptop. It’s the way I’m using to do a long play of emerald

[@alexzander2211]

@@PenguinumbreonGaming read the title. We are not talking bout the 2020s . Its the 90s. I know my mom back then printed out the gamefaqs guide and put it in a ring binder. Internet wasnt as fast back then. Serebii the very new pokemon site back then just had made some guides on yellow and was talking about this pikemon 2 game, called gold and silver.

[@Dysll]

The personality of this guy is so obviously apparent throughout the guide, it's brilliant. The guy is probably like 40 or so now having no idea someone is making a video using his pokemon guide from nearly 25 years ago, hope he's living a good life

[@mcfarvo]

We need this Marshmallow to write a guide to life (in a Notepad txt file format, of course)

[@MarshmallowEST.90]

Actually, only 33, not 40, and you're right. I had no idea until a few weeks ago. Crazy thing is I figured that guide was gone. Also, my team is quite different for gen 1 now a days.... Blastoise, Raichu, Nidoking, Arcainine, Dodrio, and Exeggutor. Gengar sometimes takes Nidokings' spot, and my sub for Exeggutor sometimes is Sycther.

[@MarshmallowEST.90]

@mcfarvo you don't want me to write a guide to life...I assure you unless you want financial issues and plenty of other problems to occur lol

[@FinrodFelagundTheFair]

​@@MarshmallowEST.90 Probably better than what I'm doing now.

[@tylerblalack6684]

Proof ? ​@@MarshmallowEST.90

[@LagrimaArdiente]

Them describing Hyper Beam as a near 1HKO attack and saying that you'll need "sturdy" Pokémon to withstand such an attack... Truly ahead of their time.

[@oniondesu9633]

translators named the ability that because that is the word that makes sense for that ability

[@LagrimaArdiente]

@@oniondesu9633 Yeah, I wasn't criticizing the ability's name. I just thought it was pretty fun to hear those words be used in that way before we had official mechanics with those exact names and functions.

[@Muhahahahaz]

@@LagrimaArdientethere were already 3 different 1HKO moves in gen 1 actually

[@LagrimaArdiente]

@@Muhahahahaz Yeah, but Sturdy didn't exist yet is my point.

[@jaimeeshivers5001]

I used to write these guides 😭 I love seeing someone go back to them and I really hope it becomes a trend, there’s so many silly ones out there. I love it!!!

[@brandonm8901]

Imagine writing a guide for a game, and 24 years later you can watch a video of someone following it

[@derrickbonsell]

The thing about the 100kb thing is that it wasn't actually a backbreaking amount for any computer of the time to store, but that's 100kb of a simplistic text file. That's a lot of words.

[@Muhahahahaz]

Exactly! I’m like bro… 100KB wasn’t too big of a deal, even back then. But that’s pretty big for a text file! Regardless of time period

[@BusyBusyPanda]

Yeah, cause the guy goes on a lot of tangents.

[@pikaporeon]

100 000 characters

[@jimllc]

The walkthrough mentioning the Gamecube was still known as Dolphin (and wanting a 3D Pokemon game for it) just fuckin FLOORED me.

[@Uno_Hunter]

Back then was a different time. We believed every rumor and probably made up some of our own. Especially because there wasn't a lot of outside information to get besides friends, and gamefaqs was still fairly new back then

[@RiveroftheWither]

My uncle worked at Nintendo and gave me Mewthree back in 98'. I would show you but my Game Boy exploded with how powerful it was.

[@el_dank_sinatra]

@@RiveroftheWitherI respect the effort but that joke became old at least 15 years ago

[@RiveroftheWither]

@@el_dank_sinatra That was quite literally the point. This is a video about playing red/blue, using a gamefaqs article from the late 90's, in a comment about old school rumor spreading and I posted one of those literal rumors that used to make the rounds at the playground when the games came out. You're a bit slow on the uptake friend.

[@anannoyedpanda]

​@@el_dank_sinatraDon't be a buzzkill. That's annoying.

[@RolandKoller90]

That made the times so great! It’s like cheat codes, sure they’re great, but once you get everything it’s no longer fun.

[@Prince_Sakura]

Red. Blue. Green. Yellow. Long ago, Nintendo created four Pokémon games. Then, everything changed when no one knew how to play. Only Marshmallow, the writer of this guide, could help people of the 90’s play the game, but when the gamers of the world needed him most, he vanished. 25 years passed and someone discovered his legacy, a KZbinr named PaPaSea. And although he’s made a lot of videos like this in the past, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to take on Marshmallow’s guide. But I believe PaPaSea can entertain us all.

[@wvd07]

Amen, Katara!🙏

[@moonquakesoup]

Lol I am so glad you thought of this and took your time to write it in the comments. LoL hilarious 🤣

[@pikapika12321]

Nintendo didn't create Pokemon Gamefreak did

[@pokemontrainerthink9045]

I could hear the intro lol

[@Jakecollick]

Amazing

[@hhjan594]

Yeah the name Sabrina was named after the teenage witch which was quite popular around that time. Her Japanese name was "Natsume" which is named after an Asian fruit that I don't know what it's called in English. Either way back in the day a lot of the localized trainer names are quite different than the original Japanese name and mostly were just made up of traits of the trainer well known in the game. Like Bill was a rich dude who manages your PC system so he was named after Bill Gates. There are exceptions after all, like Erica actually is called Erika in Japanese.

[@Iris_1217]

The fruit is called a jujube in English. Apparently they taste anywhere from sweet to semi-tart.

[@todayidraw]

Funfact You can't spell Sabrina without B, R, A, I, N, S. because she was the master of psychic pokemon

[@Muhahahahaz]

Oh, interesting… I always intuitively “knew” the Sabrina part, since the witch was basically the only “Sabrina” most people ever knew back then (in real life or not), but I never realized about Bill. Makes a ton of sense, but Bill is such a common name, I never really thought of it 😅

[@FretboardToAsh]

Just waiting here for whoever wrote the guide to find this video.

[@untitleddocument5231]

was just about to comment this lmao, i hope it happens

[@Xylarxcode]

Upvoting just so I can help push it to the top and make it more visible (also because I agree, obv)

[@151monka]

"Comments are good for the youtube algorithim."

[@MarshmallowEST.90]

.... :P

[@rezracer6986]

No way

[@banditrests]

Hilariously that bide strat with a water Pokémon is actually a legit strategy against misty because of the way her AI works.

[@TheShanklyGates]

I love older fan-made guides like this where the author's personality shines through when reading it. Some of the more modern official guides have become far too polished for my liking.

[@opalescent4694]

The main problem for me is when they're trying WAY too hard with letting their personality shine through. This one in particular is WAY too much, haha. Literally as I'm typing this he's going, "I'm a nice guy, known for being a bit of a pervert."

[@blaze048]

​@@opalescent4694 lol yea like, we get it dude you're so edgy and cool

[@opalescent4694]

@@blaze048 Oh, I thought you were calling me edgy at first, hahaha. Totally exactly what I mean!

[@blaze048]

@@opalescent4694 ah no not at all,i was referring to the person who made this guide,a combination of an edgelord wannabe and a "nice" guy

[@ReadyJP]

This is the guide that led the future generation of Pokémon trainers to believe that holding down B increases your catch rate 😂

[@go-away-5555]

It's right and A !!!

[@KarlaO711]

@@go-away-5555 for me it was A and B smashing repeatedly xD

[@Blizznor]

It when you go back and forth like this: A-B-A-B-A-B

[@anannoyedpanda]

I still spam b repeatedly for good luck.

[@johnschwalb]

I still do this even though I know it does nothing.

[@HybridAngelZero]

Oh man, the late-90s 'tude was powerful with this one xD I hope Marshmallow sees this... and is still a big-time Pokemon fan

[@lema9509]

"You didn't do any of this and they kill your pathetic excuses for a team in less than five turns" "You will fight Gary, but he is so pathetic, so I won't bother writing up any strategy" man I wish official guides were written like that !!!

[@SirSeabass]

GameFAQs was my jam. What a simpler time. It would like like 45 minutes on dial up because someone would try and make a call and disconnect you and you would have to start all over again.

[@gimmethegrass2493]

Loved marshmallow's writing style. Kept it simple yet entertaining.

[@Agent_Grean]

Hooooolllyyyy smokes. That opening crawl of that notepad document unlocked a memory that had been suppressed for a long time lol.

[@dbzmaster1213]

My friend once took my gameboy while I was playing Pokemon Ruby, ran into a wild pokemon (a tentacool) and showed me a button combo to catch a pokemon every time. Low and behold, he caught the tentacool with a normal pokeball first try while it was full hp. As a kid, I was convinced it was true, and that I could just never get the button combo timing quite right. Looking back though, I'm pretty sure he was just really lucky.

[@Muhahahahaz]

That’s hilarious! 😂 I always pressed Down+B out of superstition, though I was pretty sure it didn’t really do anything lol

[@OverdriveGamesAnime]

I know the guy who wrote that guide. He was in high school (I was only in elementary school, so I thought writing a guide was soooo cool). Lived in my neighborhood. I'm pretty sure he printed out the guide and sold it for 3 dollars each to kids at the school bus stops. I had a version my friend got that they didn't want for long.

[@crombez65]

Its true. I was the high school

[@OverdriveGamesAnime]

@crombez65 good old Sachse High School. Right here in the comments. How you been?

[@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_Crush]

Reminds me of when I got a GameShark and was selling Mews on the playground. $2 or a bag of Doritos.

[@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_Crush]

Reminds me of when I got a GameShark and was selling Mews on the playground. $2 or a bag of Doritos.

[@ThatGuySizzleMac]

Ah the pokeball trick...that takes me back... Watching this makes me feel like I'm 8 again and looking up random gameshark codes so I could wow my friends at recess

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

100 kB is basically nothing, but it is also about 100k characters of uncompressed pure text

[@Accidental.Creation]

What a charming guide! I hope whoever made it is living their best life out there!

[@MarshmallowEST.90]

Trying too

[@sandrob.7232]

@@MarshmallowEST.90 Heey, are you the guy who wrote the guide? If so congrats!! So cool!! Still a Pokéfan? 😃

[@MarshmallowEST.90]

@sandrob.7232 Thank you, and I am absolutely a fan. I still got my Red Version in my Game Boy Color.

[@tryhardreamon5172]

About the "Town Map": In the nihongo version this item is already named as "Kanto region Map"（カントーちほう　ちず- Kantoo chihou chizu)

[@samuelstannard730]

I love this! So much nostalgia! I hope you're able to do another one for Gen 2 :)

[@DKQuagmire]

I still remember my first ever Red version file. I beat the entire game, without ever knowing what about the PC in the Pokemon center, and actually got stuck, when my bag was full, where I would "sell" items in my bag, to make space! (or use up the TM's I found on the Pokemon in my Party) My First hall of fame was Blastoise, Pidgeot, Raticate, Pikachu, Butterfree and Beedrill (I didn't know how to evolve Pikachu)

[@timotheehuffman2259]

I remember getting a 128mb memory card for the ps2 and thinking there was no way I'd ever fill that thing up. Wild how little that is now.

[@RadeticDaniel]

We waist so much digital power and storage nowadays with bloated software practices it would be impossible to put anything playable in 128mb

[@RadeticDaniel]

And yet I have a CD for One Must Fall 2097, a robot fighting game for DOS (from EPIC), that only has 37MB of data as an installation disk 😂

[@SuperFizzah]

I still go back and play blue on my old gba when I crave that special nostalgia. These are great videos!

[@taajihpickett2391]

Can't lie I used to hold b and ⬇️ when in the capture animation never knew if it was true or not but that was the combo I used every generation I played😂

[@90kalos1]

Can you imagine telling this guy that 25 years in the future tens of thousands of people will see a video about his guide

[@BadQualityStudios]

I let the soul badge do my taxes back in '99 and I'm still in federal prison 🤣👌🤣😢

[@lazerbeam134]

A gen 1 guide that sleeps on Nidoking/Nidoqueen cannot be trusted imho

[@DKQuagmire]

Whenever I replay through a gen 1 game, The Nido's have hard carried the team! They evolve into the final forms by Mt. Moon, and absolutely smash through everything. What with them learning practically every useful TM in the game! By Silph co, I usually end up teaching Earthquake to them, (if I didn't teach them Dig in Cerulean City), just so they have a powerful STAB move. If I taught them Dig, then Earthquake would be taught to someone like Blastoise.

[@thesaltyweeb]

Dude what a blast from the past! Sadly I never used the Internet or had a computer back in the 90s.... But figuring out the game by yourself is pretty rewarding in its own right! More of these vids please!

[@danielsummerville6799]

If you really want to pay it like the 90s you'd be pumping a Blastoise with surf, strength, hydro pump and strength. That's how we rolled back then.

[@digitaldexmaster]

Double strength blastoise huh? Lol

[@danielsummerville6799]

@@digitaldexmaster it's the 90's man anything can happen! My bad, I literally have no idea what I was meaning to type haha. Blizzard fits the bill though

[@tejasdixit4417]

"Hyperbeam is a one hit KO on most of your mons, only the most sturdy mons can survive." He predicted how sturdy works before it was a thing!

[@mercenarybdu]

The guide is more or less spot on from what kids thought in the 1990s for when the Gen 1 games were brand new in the late-1990s as well as the attitude to top it off. The 1990s was that great transition period from all analog to a mostly all digital one. I know, as I was there with many of the others from that segment of time. Pojo had guides on Pokemon as well since they started out as a Pokemon fan magazine before branching off into about anything else that was the TCG and other weeb stuff through the 2000s. Pojo no longer does print from what I recall, and has moved the mass of their operations online.

[@Verdantcactus]

I used to LOVE following these guides as a kid bc I loved peoples personalities shining through

[@EISENKAISER911]

i played my first pkmn game in an emulator . it was fire red and i chose squirtle as my starter . Apparently mt.moon was kinda tough for me cause at that time i never used run in battles so by the time i reached cerulean my squirtle evolved into a blastoise (i went through mount moon bout 7 times)

[@genwunner13]

As an old man I can verify that we used the term “allergic too” constantly lol

[@immortallegacy100]

"Hydro Pump is a weaker Surf, but that isn't exactly ACCURATE". If that was on purpose, kudos.

[@adamlattea3483]

The good old trick back in the day, throw a ball and press Up + B to increase your chances. Thankfully we can just wait for that critical capture animation to see if we are actually catching the Pokémon or not lol

[@roljamas]

It can’t be understated the impact that David Gibbons’s GameFAQ guides had on a generation. The guy beat everything. I owe my completion of Star Fox Adventures to him, along with many Perfect Dark cheat times.

[@abratorr6723]

"But I'm a nice guy" is never a thing nice guys say, that pervert!

[@zipperl3]

the internet was like the wild west back then...

[@Ahshie]

I cringed and said oof out loud at that part lol.

[@afibuffygirl]

Good old game facts. I used to print out the whole strategy cause my mom rarely let me on the internet. This is what we had back then

[@103Creed]

20:30 the guide maker went nuts lmao

[@jayeraine]

god, i remember the whole "hold up + B" thing on pokeballs. I think it would be fun if they implimented an actual ball like that in the game. Maybe give it X1 catch rate if used normally, but X2 or X3 if you hold up + B at the right time?

[@petroschristou4558]

I thought you would be playing on Gameboy Advanced with a dim light at night to evolve an Eevee to an Umbreon because your mum wouldn't let you play at night but Gamefaqs brings back memories of learning about Missigno etc

[@Victini0510]

That was mid 2000s

[@michaelabbamondi8892]

@@Victini0510 Gold/Silver came out in 1999 and the Game Boy Advance came out in 2001

[@bonciutalentadv7599]

ZeroKid is the GOAT of GameFaq Pokemon Guides.

[@alfiesmullet1311]

Protip, send the IRS a picture of your Soul badge and you'll be exempted from ever having to file taxes again!

[@BetterOnichThanSorry]

6:24 "Once you get Pikachu, train him hard [...] I suggest level 20 or above..." 7:50 Pikachu still at Lvl 8 You had one job. Challenge failed.

[@PenguinumbreonGaming]

Bro love the content can’t wait to watch it see you in 32 mins

[@AlKaseltzer87]

I've played like it's 1999 for the last 24 years on my Gameboy pocket that I've had for just as long.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

So, one note: There _were_ official names for the protagonist and rival in Gen I. Specifically, Satoshi Tajiri stated that they were named after himself and Shigeru Miyamoto. So, yeah, they were originally called Satoshi and Shigeru. And what were the characters Satoshi and Shigeru renamed in the English dub? Ash and Gary. Which actually appear as options in the English translation of the games.

[@jordanthejq12]

7:00 Oh, this is the magic of GameFaqs right here. In the same paragraph as outright folly and superstition is the correct and very useful advice that sleep and freeze, specifically, dramatically increase catch rate. I don't know if this is documented anywhere in-game, so that's a wonderful observation.

[@Linkubone]

It’s funny bc I recently started playing fire red and I left pikachu in daycare so I can level him up before I fought Misty. But the guy at daycare removed his only electric moves!! Lmao I spammed mega kicks and beat Misty at the end with no electric moves. It was pretty crazy and interesting for me 😂

[@heartbeat4atinman]

5:30 Kinda funny how the guide writer thinks the term "Town Map" is a lousy translation when it's 100% literal (it's タウンマップ or "Taun mappu")

[@dburris718]

I remember following one of these when I was like ten. I followed every single instruction down to what level to have my team when it said it

[@ghost_curse]

20:29 Yeah I'm not sure what version of Red/Blue this guy was playing but none of the women gym leaders are even remotely naked

[@joelcunha784]

Another PaPaSea just made my day. keep delivering this cool and entertaining content :)

[@vampirepunk24]

I think this has been my favorite guide so far.

[@Suikage]

I hecking love retro guides.

[@rococogoth]

I thought this guide was written by a preteen Pokemon fangirl. I still think this. Sea makes them sound like a sassy preteen Pokemon fangirl. xD

[@jaygamings6888]

I never believed the pokeball trick, but I still always do it because it makes me feel good.

[@ja.8077]

Man game faqs was my jam back in the day, I remember finding serebii when I had emerald and printing out the entire Pokedex and putting the holes in all the sheets for a nice binder. Good times

[@rococogoth]

I know it's not true, but to this VERY DAY, I still hit Up + B when I throw my Pokeballs. Because it helps. xD

[@lucksoon88]

Up and B for Pokeballs and Down and B for Great Balks and Left and B for Ultra Balls. That's what got thrown around at my school in UK and I still do it also to this day hahaha. Just old habits. 😅

[@jo.comics]

Would've been a reallt fun twist if it turned out that you had written the guide yourself. But this was a lot of fun regardless!

[@TalaIsDarker]

Yesss I remember getting my gameboy with pokemon blue and the walkthrough guide :D

[@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_Crush]

I miss playing through Red and Blue over and over and over again as a kid in the 90's

[@maxalmonte14]

Watching you playing while following this guide was so much fun! Nowadays people are obsessed with bAsE sTaTs and follow the most optimal path to beat the game, which is OK, but back in the day most of the knowledge we had was anecdotical, we played with love for the game, not with mathematically proven methods. The good ol' days my friend!

[@bidoofftw]

"Why do they call it a town map" because its a map of towns...

[@WorlwidePoGO]

Here's a challenge: Can you beat Pokemon Yellow using Pokemon GO rules for captures? Meaning, you can still battle trainers and wild Pokémon, like normal, but if you are going to CATCH a Pokémon, you CANNOT battle it; you can only throw balls at those encounters. For added difficulty, catch a whole team to use after each Gym.

[@CreamerOfTheDairySquad]

Not sure how possible that'd be tbh 😅 but would be fun to watch 😂 I prefer silver version or crystal tho tbh

[@shaneonthemats]

There was so much creativity on the Internet back then! This is heart-warming

[@TomAmit42]

05:27 I always assumed that it's just called a "Town Map" because it's simply a map of the towns in that region.

[@1sonictheghog]

Do people not connect its a town map because it's a map to all the local towns?

[@blaze048]

Even as a kid that's how i understood it

[@TheDan14]

we all just learned through each other and the older kids, team was always the 3 starters (everyone had pokemon so somebody would restart a game and trade them all for us), nidoking and queen, gyarados/mewtwo/zapdos/articuno/snorlax/eveelution/etc. all level 100 because of the item glitch (always save 1 rare candy! lol) the game was a race to get surf back in the day also blastoise's moves would be like water gun, bubblebeam, surf, hydro pump (because he's a water type duh) lol

[@brianlegrand9825]

Man i completely forgot about these Game Faqs guide - with the wall of text. I had to use it to beat Advance Wars

[@danonecuvisine]

Always great to catch a PaPa upload early

[@Miss_Claire]

Never heard the phrase "crankin' the hog" huh? 😅

[@TKBomber7285]

It would be interesting if the writer of this FAQ came across this video just to see their reaction.

[@Victini0510]

Gamefaqtended

[@Ironcydeus]

"Evolving into a Butterfree will help" Me with a Nidoking before even hitting Cerulean City: 😈

[@juliekilkus4510]

I thought the Mew rumor was true. Started a new save file just to do it that way. blackout on the SS Anne, then wait until I had strength went back and was severely disappointed at 12 years old. Great content as always!

[@jpw547]

Ah yes. Erika and her kimono. Famously showing so much skin.

[@blaze048]

Yea and here i thought religious fanatics are against pokemon because it's satanic or something

[@TheVillainsProjects]

9:21 No I always did "MEGAKRAP"

[@justinleland7461]

My old lady and I recently got Game Boy Colors, (on the 25th anniversary of release in NA actually!), all 3 games, and a Link Cable! I've never filled the Pokedex, I'm on a mission dangit. She's playing blue, and I'm going back and forth from Red and Yellow. Been taking advantage of the XP boost from traded Pokemon!

[@CreamerOfTheDairySquad]

As a kid I had red, my sister had yellow, and my best friend had blue. We only filled the dex in the yellow version tho. Luckily my friend had a mew that he got in trade so we FILLED the dex, even though this was well before I learned the mew glitch (I'm 35, we filled the dex when I was 12 lol)

[@celtyrysuje]

Please work more on the volume. Sometimes it is fine and other times it is loud af... it hurts ears and it is annoying when I need to adjust the volume and then change it again after a minute or so... The video was great and fun anyway :) Please make more.

[@RadeticDaniel]

Listening on speakers was no problem at all. Were you using a headset? Sometimes the difference appears only on some devices and I've a few bad experiences with this in the past on other channels

[@ilovegarradors]

When I was a kid, my best friend who also played Pokémon told me hitting the right arrow on the dpad and B button helped catch Pokémon better. Sometimes I still catch myself doing it out of habit on my old Gameboy games.

[@MrZrbrownie]

A, the old pokeball trick. I bought a cheatcodes book that claimed in RBY, if you hold B as the ball opens, hold it until it shakes twice, then let go, the catch chance goes up. When I caught Articuno with a pokeball I was sold.

[@wygolvillage2637]

My version of the "poke ball trick" has always been to hold down L and R while the Pokemon is in the ball to "hold it in". I always knew it didn't work, of course, but I still do it to this day

[@fruitpunchsamuraidavid]

This guide is super fun/funny! More of these FAW guides please

[@MichaelSotoCE]

Whoaaaaa i used to use other marshmallow guides, i think his super metroid guide

[@teadrinkerfication9160]

The best gamefaqs guide for Pokémon Red is Richard Walker’s guide for beating the gyms, elite four and Gary fights. It’s entertaining in its v 2006 internet humour and also was what taught me to finally beat the game for the first time.

[@tylerfults989]

GameFaqs is king.

[@emarti3853]

Does the pokeflute really wake your party's sleeping pokemon? Cause that would be cool af, and I didn't hear anyone say that wasn't real

[@PaPaSea]

It does I was able to use it against Lorelei

[@hugez]

I love your videos on pokemon as nintended, you should try and do another challenge where you play the game doing a shiny only Prof Oak challenge AND a nuzlocke

[@hugez]

Both at the same time tho

[@leetfukk]

20:57 sounds like he REALLY recommends using his Gyarados on Sabrina

[@austinburras2993]

as for the pokeball trick i always did the hold b and press the direction button base on the wiggle oof the pokeball on the screen

[@jmw9904]

I never even heard of the Mew under the truck rumor. I also used to get Pikachu all the time until I was playing Leaf Green and decided to go with the Bellsprout family.

[@kaylemain2006]

I love these old guides and even now when I need a guide for a retro game I go to gamefaqs. I do miss the humor and cheek in the guides, they were just nerds like us instead of just AI or journalists that write as if they were an AI.