Iceberg | Pokémon Red Blue & Yellow

The humble beginnings of one of the most influential franchises of all time. Pokémon Red and Blue Iceberg. Let's dive deep into this very special topic.

[@markhill8150]

The Professor Oak battle should have been a real part of the game. It would have been a cool twist and its good that he ends up training the starter who is left over.

[@HeinousinAppearance]

Weezing and Koffing being called "New York" and "Los Angeles" is pretty damn funny.

[@thugnastyfysu5370]

Lmfao I know right

[@MaggiesBirds]

The "Mew Glitch" (where you fly/run from a battle then encounter Mew) actually can be used to encounter any Pokemon, it's just based off a detail of the last pokemon you encountered. I suspect people found the glitch, and then just experimented until they got pokemon they wanted to encounter from the glitch.

[@jascha8681]

Yes, I love all the glitches in the first gen

[@matthewallen1957]

As a veteran Pokémon player there were some things I didn’t know from this video. Excellent work on the research. 10/10 video.

[@RealEisenBerg]

I really appreciate it! It's incredible what we can still find after decades.

[@trev6535]

Thank you for your service sir! God bless the troops

[@slutwagon4270]

Then you are not a veteran you are a newbie learning new things.

[@GuillaumeDuhan1]

Same here

[@scottlematua4031]

​@@trev6535Lol bro said "Veteran Pokémon Player" not war veteran 😂😂😂😂

[@Cuppamilky]

I remember being a kid and seeing Mr.Fuji in Pokémon Crystal with all the baby Pokémon sprites somewhere outside ice cave. I remember telling friends about it at school and one of them telling me you have to be in ice cave at a certain time and a secret exit will unlock and it’ll take to to Mr.Fujis house where you can pick an extra baby pokemon. Looking back this was a dream or something but man did it feel so real.. I legit still have memories about it

[@jjane222]

I never realized how many pokemon shared cries!

[@RealEisenBerg]

And I think Starmie's cry is actually a sped-up variation of Mewtwo's as well.

[@justin_the_turtle]

Another interesting theory is the one about how butterfree and venomoth were accidentally switched in development. Butterfree’s design shares a lot more similarities with venomoth’s pre-evolution and vice versa. (I still like the way it is now though lol 🦋)

[@tannerlawrence4287]

There are a lot of theories about swapped evolutions in gen 1. As a couple lines final evolutions look like other lines. Another example is the dratini line, and the Magikarp line. People have theorized that gyradose and dragonite were swapped as the snake like body of dragonair looks like gyradose. And vise versa. Cool stuff

[@justinwalton1017]

I don’t think the veno butter theory holds up I think u can chalk it up to one guy making all the original designs and just reused features(by the logic nodoking and ryhdon could be switched) I think a more compelling theory is that flygon was switched from the bagon line obviously the name but the shiny color is the base color scheme (roughly) to bagon’s

[@Mastervitro]

If Lance was the Champion before Blue/Garry, who left the elite 4?

[@Darius_Videos]

Prob giovanni got demoted to gym leader from the team rocket drama and was a gym leader

[@Arvegtor]

Some early Pokemon names were actually used in the anime in some languages, Aria and Ariala being the most noticeable, but Parasyte and Kokoon were clearly used as well. At least now that translation oddity is explained.

[@Whfox]

4:16 Fun fact: In the Fire Red and Leaf Green remakes Gamefreak hid a Lava cookie there too. 😂

[@Darien2016]

Pokemon orgins pretty much confirmed the red kill's blue's raticate theory. His nidoking kocked blue's raticate out a ss anne window and threw it overboard. It drowned in the sea. I also feel like x and y confirms the pokemon war theory too lol.

[@rxm8524]

Koffing and Wheezing named after New York and Los Angeles is classic😂

[@Leto85]

09:10 So, I did remember that right:I always found Parasact's and Mewtwo's cry so similar. Im glad to hear that myth got lifted.

[@DelphinusOrcastra]

I will always maintain that I once accidentally went to glitch city. I was messing around with safari zone, left, then went into that poke mart or poke center (I forget which one is right there), then i walked out into glitch city.. I didn’t have missingno or had done anything weird with the game. It was maybe my 3rd play through of the game.. Then many years later I watch a video on glitch city. I was like “well damn..” 🐬

[@profskitty]

Just wanted to say so happy to see someone else remembered Tales from the Glitch, given the Glitch City postcard image!

[@Synostra]

They should have picked a random game and added Mew under the truck LOL

[@TwoHeadedMeerkat]

I love the implication that anyone could mistake _Mr Mime_ of all things for being Yakuza

[@wyleFTW]

If he doesn't have missing fingers he's not yakuza

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

Very nice iceberg video, surprised that many of the entries I never heard about despite watching a few Pokémon icebergs before. Awesome job 🔥🔥

[@TheFatestPat]

Surprised there wasn't anything about the Mother series on there. You could make a whole separate iceberg with all the connections that series has with Pokemon.

[@RealEisenBerg]

I actually wasn't aware of it. I'll take a look at it. Thank you for watching the video!

[@taebeebee]

wait really?

[@darrylshields6148]

Mew was handed out for free at mall tours in the US. Toys R Us also had a scratch off ticket Mew giveaway where you could win a Mew trade from a cartridge that the store was given. This giveaway was limited and probably wasnt well known because every Toys R Us i went to basically gave me the whole stack of tickets and i got close to a 100 Mews

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

i got a huge stack of Eon tickets (in the brochures) from an event where they were packing up for the day, and some free figures and pins too

[@pablodelgado7919]

About the Unused Tracks, i've always thought that the first track fitted Team Rocket very well. To the point it sounds like a marching theme

[@dylanstrife7652]

Amazing research on this video! I knew the majority of the stuff covered, but I learned some new things! Thank you for your hard work ❤

[@RealEisenBerg]

My pleasure! I hope you enjoy the upcoming Pokemon Iceberg videos

[@dylanstrife7652]

@@RealEisenBerg i'll definitely check them out! You earned my subscription for sure 🥰

[@hp5310]

They gave mew away at the mall tour they did. Back in the 90's. We played a 3 round set and you got the mew before the tournament started. Each round won you got a badge. So in less words. Mew was given to thousands of kids in the US.

[@PancakeJake]

Awesome content!! This hits the spot. Keep it up!

[@RealEisenBerg]

I really appreciate that you enjoyed it. I hope you like the upcoming videos!

[@danturner9760]

I really like the Gen II video you did. Excited for a Gen III video!

[@RealEisenBerg]

I'll make sure it's better than the previous ones. Greetings!

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

2:44 i have 2 of these certificates from a nintendo event

[@RealEisenBerg]

Very rare items indeed!

[@erthany]

For the similar cries - you forgot: Machamp/Machoke and Slowbro.

[@Thematafata]

Love your vids man, keep it up!

[@RealEisenBerg]

Thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Greetings!

[@TWLSpark]

To elaborate on two particular points: The reason the old man says their "Raichu" evolved is because the Pokemon you trade him was changed from the japanese release, but the text was left the same on the international release. I don't remember off the top of my head which Pokemon it, but it shouldn't be too hard a search. The infamous "Buy it or die" message supposedly present in the first Kanto remakes has been proved to actually be from a ROM hack that literally just added that line to the game. It's believed that it was done so it could be shared on the internet as a legit ROM, and considering that the message is, again, infamous on the community, I think it worked.

[@RealEisenBerg]

I read that in the Blue Japanese version the original trade was a Kadabra in exchange for a Graveler, and they are indeed Pokémon that make sense they evolve that way. So, all in all, it was an oversight. Greetings!

[@RoninCatholic]

Raichu also had a scrapped evolution called Gorochu. It was scrapped fairly early in development, though.

[@sernis2396]

Damn this was good, great job! Make more!

[@OfficialCrumpdiddy]

Great video man.

[@bradmorgan8561]

The soundtrack is to nostalgic, like heartbreak that them times have gone. I remember the first time I played pokémon, I was addicted them and I'm still addicted 😊

[@Emily-lh6em]

What a fun video to enjoy while i wait excitedly for part 1 of the dlc to release in a week. 🎉

[@christianbell8347]

Don't waste your money. That's a demand. Don't do it or else.

[@ChrisPTY507]

Very well researched video. It was a pleasant watch.

[@afro025]

17:20 frankly, I'd consider didyouknowgaming's video on the topic pretty bad. They don't actually disprove any of the evidence for the theory, they simply said that a bunch of Pokémon weigh the same, and that it has never been confirmed by anyone apart of Game Freak...but again, this doesn’t disprove it from being true. There's a bunch of things that are "canon" within the Pokémon games without Game Freak outright confirming its canonicity. One most notable example is the entire Pokémon timeline tweet that was quickly deleted and never acknowledged again

[@adamg2031]

2:57 "Due to the high risk of adding it after the debugging process was completed." The fact that Gen 1 had a debugging process at all is the most shocking Pokemon fact I've learned today.

[@Chudpope]

To defend them: Pokemon was an ambitious game for the hardware it was on, and was coded in assembly. Assembly is way, way, WAY harder than coding in a more modern language. You're poking the hardware directly, and don't have any type handling. Something as basic as adding together two numbers is very noticeably harder in an assembly language than even C. I put together the battle mechanics of the original pokemon games in Unity pretty quickly, just to see how hard it was. If I were to try that in assembly, for an actual gameboy? I'd probably give up pretty quick.

[@JayceCH.]

Say you dont know anything about programming without saying it.

[@L0ve1tRetr0]

Hyper Beam didn't need to charge if it KO'd its target... That's brilliant! A super powerful move that doesn't need to charge as long as its going to KO. I love the idea of thinking, "Im pretty sure this will KO, but can I risk it?"

[@Zanji1234]

but only in the GB games. As soon as you played it on Stadium this was fixed

[@L0ve1tRetr0]

@@Zanji1234 Yeah, I was saying it would be cool if they intentionally introduced a move like that now. If you click it, and it's not going to KO then it has to charge. But if it KO's the opposing mon that turn them it doesn't need to. It would make some interesting moments and be a unique mechanic that has never (purposefully) existed before.

[@Zanji1234]

@@L0ve1tRetr0 sounds yeah but i'm not into competitive to know how broken that would be xD

[@KachoDeUva1]

This video should have more than 1 million views, it is so good!

[@RealEisenBerg]

Thanks a lot, friend! I hope at least it reaches 10k!

[@jakegenocide]

I tried to watch another KZbin channel do these Pokemon icebergs, about gen 1, and it was painfully obvious that they didn't play gen 1. It's cool to feel the nostalgia in your voice and anecdotes about growing up with it.

[@jacquecortez5014]

Red, Blue and Yellow are masterful game design. The game is so special. You get a feeling that there is so much more to the game than on the surface. A underrated Masterpiece.

[@CriTicOfsOrts]

I’m sorry.. you’re saying Pokémon red blue and yellow.. games that launched a company into one of the biggest franchises in the medium.. billions of dollars later.. is underrated

[@jacquecortez5014]

@@CriTicOfsOrts Not everybody likes pokemon. Its only the people grew up with pokemon that likes it. I know so people who are gamers that never gave Pokemon Red a chance or never experienced it. So yes its underrated.

[@CriTicOfsOrts]

@@jacquecortez5014 that doesnt make it underrated.

[@alessandrospinello1433]

If you're saying that pokemon blue/red/yellow, a game that started one of the most successful franchises in the whole world is underrated, then sorry but you clearly don't know what the word "underrated" means. Lol

[@philipmurphy2]

Awesome content, Keep it up.

[@MrLump]

I already know everything, but I’ll still watch this

[@Jojo-wq4fy]

This was one of the best pokemon iceberg videos ive seen. Greetings from Germany

[@RealEisenBerg]

Das freut mich! Don't forget to enjoy the rest of the Pokemon icebergs on my channel!

[@stupidvideogameclips]

I did not expect to be so terrified by a Pokémon video, but wow. So people really made like fake sprites and such for these scary hoaxes?

[@RealEisenBerg]

Back in the day when the internet wasn't that available, things like this were quite common! Greetings!

[@kylianthehylian]

the Japanese lavender theme IS a but different, I have a copy of Green. What they removed is some of the higher pitched tones that occur at the end of the sequence because some kids wearing headphones experienced headaches. And they really do get high pitched. I can see how they could develop a headache if they had headphones in.

[@mcam96]

My brother own an original Japanese red game from 1996, and we didn't spot the difference at first, but yes it is a little bit different.

[@Cyntaria]

​@@mcam96kids can hear higher frequencies as our hearing degrades as we get older. As an adult I'm very sensitive to high frequencies and can't play old games on a CRT but that's due to a mixture of sensory issues.

[@wyleFTW]

I used to play the Japanese Pokemon when I was a kid and I killed myself because the pitch was so high

[@VitZ9]

​@@wyleFTWCan confirm. I also played Japanese Pokemon as a kid, and when I got to Lavender Town, Blues dead Raticate stuck a Poke Flute up my no no hole.

[@Xibyth]

There is in fact a glitch you can perform to aquire mew in red and blue version. It has to do with battling specific pokemon (with matching spec stats to the mews hexadecimal id) running into specific trainers and before the exclamation pops up hitting the start button and using either dig or teleport to cerulean city then going north to nugget bridge, and boom, as soon as you step on the bridge you enter a battle with a wild mew.

[@RealEisenBerg]

That's precisely the Mew glitch. You can do it with different trainers and depending on some factors you can get other unobtainable Pokémon like Gengar or Alakazam.

[@Vourne]

It's not called the Mew Glitch, which you may already know. It's called the Trainer Fly glitch. And yes, you can use it to obtain almost every pokemon in the game, there are a few exceptions such as Kangaskhan that cannot be obtained this way. @@RealEisenBerg

[@petergazer9135]

@@Vourneactually its called the mew glitch u F kN fool

[@jefferrrson1x]

Subscribed !!!! Awesome content man. Love it.

[@RealEisenBerg]

Welcome to the community! There's a Gen III video about to be released

[@cocomunga]

Did you know that one time, a child died after listening to the lavender town theme? He haunts the games to this very day. If you find him, he will bury your character alive.

[@MonsterTaming420]

I ran to my collection of topps cards and found a fixed version of Peacemaker Pikachu but found a Here comes trouble... card that used the Buru/Pikablu names, very neat thank you!

[@RealEisenBerg]

You might have a rare item there. The Legend of Pikablu!

[@stanstansky5522]

You can thaw out from the frozen status if you are hit with a fire type attack

[@Ciara_Foxx]

An exclusively iceberg channel is ambitious. You provided very little context for these entries. Icebergs really should be handled by specialized channels that have a deep familiarity with the topic. Like the Evil Magikarp entry is explained time and time again by the fact that the Spanish translation of RBY was a translation of a translation of a translation. That Spanish translation would then become the translation for other language translations further carrying on the errors.

[@WhoIsCalli]

Thanks for this.. this was fun

[@RealEisenBerg]

My pleasure :)

[@stevdor6146]

I saw you chose to omit "MewThree" or "mecha mewtwo" from the list of pokegods, even though you showed the famous anime clip that inspired it 18:51

[@PoisonedElite]

I will point out that there was actually 40 pokemon cut from Gen 1 as Mew was added to the game after the decision to cut the roster down to 150. thanks to a leaked prototype build of japanese blue we actually do know what 40 of these pokemon would have been! Some are thanks to interviews/the satoshi tajiri manga meanwhile for the ones that have existing data in the leaked prototype it is just the backsprites that exist in game.

[@AnonYoBizness]

How can you hear that magical 8 bit music and not realize why Gen 1 was the best, despite all it's flaws.

[@Lapman95]

Regarding gen 1 mistranslations, the problem was that translators had to translate names without context. For examples, to translate pokemon moves, Game freak sent to the translators the English name of the pokemon moves without telling them they was Pokemon moves. This gave birth to hilarious Pokemon moves names in other languages. For instance, in Italian, the name "pound" for the move was translated into "libbra", which is the weight measure. The move "counter" was translated as "contatore", which refers to an counting instrument.

[@jascha8681]

Yes, the same thing with pound in Germany. I was always so confused about this name 😂

[@RoninCatholic]

Pikablu is one of my favorite nicknames for Marill, which in turn is one of my favorite Pokemon overall.

[@LimeLoaf]

Me watching a 40 minute video on a game I know alot about already just to learn some abscure shit found in the code back on August 19th 2003.

[@Bludgeoned2DEATH2]

The Japanese were wild for the OG Koffing and Weezing names 😂💀

[@eddie9591]

2:03 the "music" is actually in the game. It's different channels from a song. This one is the Celedon City harmony. I used to love hearing all the different parts of songs from the game broken down when I was a kid.

[@kylespevak6781]

Moltres is in plain sight im Victory Road so you see it and it makes you aware of the birds. For the remakes, everyone already knows the birds, so they gave it a special spot

[@thatguy7551]

Nice video!!!

[@onkel_knuelle]

Subscribed! Nice one.

[@steakcrust558]

lavendor town has the stupidest rumors for one of the best locations in all of pokemon

[@Gaz66d]

It wasn’t just the thing about the fossil being selected, it’s was more that the luck of the draw would have it that every time they had to get a water type Pokémon they fluffed it- and the game kept going, and struggling against everyone when they really badly needed a water Pokémon for the type advantage… including the Flareon who became known as the false prophet because when everyone was praying for Vaporeon and the water stone to be selected the meddlesome chat input the directions to select the fire stone instead. And all our hopes rested upon Omanite(Omastar) the Omen finally sent to save us from dying repeatedly on Cinnabar Island in the Fire Mansion against Blaine. It came along just when we needed it the most pulling our collective asses outta the fire (literally) so that we could continue the game finally.

[@curtiswfranks]

Goodness, I love and miss these games.

[@kingoflofoten9675]

good work!!

[@DCol]

I mean technically there are already over 65k versions of the same game because everyone’s trainer ID is different, with up to ~65k combinations

[@jacob-968]

Ngl that’s a cool accent

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Funny thing is, we now have TWO recent Pokemon based on Mechagodzilla: Duraludon in Sword/Shield and Iron Thorns in Scarlet/Violet.

[@obambagaming1467]

Also Mecha Tyranitar in Pokestar studios (altough this is some time ago)

[@MrShootMania]

The Secret Garden from Bill is actually accessible with Save/Surf glitch, (Look up next to water, save and close game, then turn on gameboy and use surf and will pass through wall) but pokemon you will find in this area are common ones.

[@WiiFan-1300]

Amazing video! Can you please send a link to the Lavender Town remix?

[@RealEisenBerg]

Of course! Here it goes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYbddo1uZdJ5jZo

[@Filotus]

The music makes me disassociate in such a good way.

[@ELFBOYMUSIC]

Sick video I love you Eisenberg

[@RealEisenBerg]

Thank you Elfboy! More videos are in the making.

[@Corahernan]

How is this not have more views wtf I’m learning so much and I’m a die hard fan but I’m learning so much

[@RealEisenBerg]

I'm planning to make an iceberg for every single Pokémon Generation. I hope you can learn even more there, friend :)

[@imshadow4297]

Underrated youtuber alert

[@Lynn17]

Pokegods were a big part of my Pokemon fandom experience back in the day.

[@samhrrr2377]

That intro is sub worthy

[@saturndust5043]

25:55 Omar On The Come Up... AYYYYY

[@yamirpoke2616]

The truck was fake too , mew only was available with an event in the 90’s in toys R Us . The other meth is the trick with the slowpoke trainer before bills house

[@Zombinaxbaby1313]

I remember hearing about Bill's garden in gen 1. Apparently, if traded the Raichu to the trainer (don't remember where) & revisit after beating Elite Four, he would say "The Raichu you traded me just evolved". If you then went & spoke to Bill 100 times, he would take you into the garden & give you Pikablu... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

[@noeljbass]

Bills secret garden is accessible with gameshark walk through walls code. Turn off right before you enter the location, and you end up in a glitch city with crazy levelled pokemon. Another additional urban legend was that if you took one of these dratinis over lvl 100 and raised it from level one (when you use it in battle it would revert to lvl 1) all the way from lvl 1 to lvl 100, it would evolve into Yoshi. It did not.

[@BigManE.]

1990 mon sprites and the art work just looked so good u feel?

[@WinchesterxNL]

The Munna connection has been mentioned in a few interviews that it was merely a coincidence. It was not a line in the first game that inspired its creation. (Gods knows where I can source them, I looked around but I don't really know Japanese, sadly. But I've heard it mentioned in several "things you didn't know about." style videos.)

[@Dj3ndo]

Interesting channel! Subbed.

[@RealEisenBerg]

Welcome to the community!

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Koffing and Weezing’s prototype names managed to get a chuckle outta me since those two cities are even more toxic now, in more ways than one, than they were back in the 90s! 😂

[@Zeenobae]

1k subs lets go!!

[@terrencelaplant9971]

No one has covered surfing pikachu in yellow version, gen 1! People tell me it’s fake but I know I actually did it and am shocked not one KZbinr has made a video to show the real urban ledgers 🌊

[@ManoloLago]

there was a whole mini game with surfing pikachu too

[@DT-tq8ku]

I love Mew but holy cow do I wish we also got Mechagodzilla lol

[@Mizikame]

Agreed, but one over the other Mew wins for she is best Pokemon ^_^

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

And now, we have Duraludon and Iron Thorns.

[@gedeuchnixan3830]

15:55 reading the descripiton I totally understand why some people got headeges or so. Just play that part using headphones and you might experience it as well because some people have a hard time listening to binaural beats but the effect only works with stereo headphones/ earphones. When using headphones with binaural production the sound isn´t in your ears it´s in your head like Dolby Atmos or so.

[@WooperChannel]

@Eisenberg thanks for the video, please make Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal iceberg video!

[@RealEisenBerg]

I can't wait to make a Gen II and Gen III iceberg :)

[@WooperChannel]

@@RealEisenBerg Thank you so much!

[@dedpxl]

Well presented.

[@godalex8985]

🔥🔥🔥

[@sadtekk1036]

When I was little, my aunt used to send old devices/games such as gbc, gba and such. The first one was gbc with pokemon blue. This was way back in the late nintys/early 2000s. If I remember correctly if you annoy the drunk old man in viridian city (given the fact that you were a little boy not knowing what to do next) he will suddenly eat you. I don't really know what happend next but that was traumatizing for me since that was a kids game and now I'm just having vague flashbacks of it. If i can find the cartridge I will try that again but damn.

[@taebeebee]

huh?😮

[@vladimirmejiaperez1156]

You earned my suscribe by your channel name

[@4LordBaKa]

Lavender town music the second one is spooky I like to

[@osaka_phong]

35:59 that message actually existed, but only in some ROMs of the game you could find online. I know it, because I got that message many years ago when I played the game on emulator and while using cheat codes to get the event-exclusive tickets.

[@RealEisenBerg]

Do you know if that very message was originally put there by the person who extracted the ROM? Or was it really put there by somebody at GameFreak?

[@TheSalamanderMenace4]

@@RealEisenBerg Man I would love to know this as well

[@osaka_phong]

@@RealEisenBerg I would say it was added by the person who extracted the ROM. iirc in The Cutting Room Floor they asked about this message, and they could not find it in the game files.

[@DaisyPainted]

Due to being a lil kid when gen 1 came out, I didn't have access to any events/internet/ect and went through the game fully blind, since the only thing I knew was that the kids all loved the cards at school. Didn't even know distribution events were a thing until like...gen3 or 4. XD So over the years it's been fun to learn a lotta the lore & all. I attempted the Mew Glitch first time last year and was so excited to get one since I never did as a kid.

[@blackfrieza6969]

I'm Currently Play Through Pokémon Red Again.

[@RealEisenBerg]

Enjoy!

[@Corahernan]

Get this video more interactions so KZbin sees it! What’s your fav Pokémon? Mine is Glacion

[@RealEisenBerg]

I think Mew is actually my favorite Pokémon. It's story and the impact it has had when we realized this secret Pokémon existed is amazing. Glaceon is pretty elegant and nice.

[@HARMFULPARKRECORDS]

Raichu is my absolute favorite! Alolan Raichu is actually quite adorable but I’m not sure if I prefer it over the original design