Was it Good? - Pokemon Red / Blue

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This world is inhabited by creates called Pokemon!
Join me as we travel back to 1998 and replay the classic Gameboy RPG 'Pokemon Red / Blue', known as the 'generation 1' pokemon games.
This is the game which launched the largest franchise in history, so how did it work, what was so special about it, and how many coding tricks did they use to fit this entire game into only 512KB of data.
In this review I'll beat all 8 gyms, defeat the elite 4, catch all 3 legendary birds, show you the MissingNo glitch and then, to prove it's real...
Catch Mew.
Thank you to the Patreon supporters and Twitch subs who keep the channel alive!

[@defmore5099]

i saw so many pokemon youtubers and so many playthroughs do I didn't know if I wanted to watch another one. but its you so I wanted to give it a chance. but then you said pokemon green was released alone in japan??? so literally the first thing you say is wrong and you want to do an retrospective? no thanks

[@JoshStrifePlays]

pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Green_Version Pokemon green was only released in japan along with Pokemon red, then when they were ported to the west green became pokemon blue. Pocket monsters Green only released in japan (mainline games) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_video_games#Main_series

[@JoshStrifePlays]

pokemon green japan only: www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/39lhgj/non_jpn_pokemon_green_version_is_it_a_real_deal/ pokemon green became pokemon blue but green was japan only: www.serebii.net/rb/greenblue.shtml Pokemon green became pokemon blue when released outside japan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue#:~:text=They%20were%20first%20released%20in,1998%20and%20Europe%20in%201999. Pokemon green only in Japan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_video_games If you want to apologise, I will happily accept it.

[@defmore5099]

@@JoshStrifePlays No. Japanese Pokemon Blue became Western Pokemon Blue and Red. (Changing Pokemon so you have to trade) But you implying Green released alone in Japan is what actually irked me. The first Pokemon game that got released "alone" is blue. It's pedantic and I don't wanna come across as a know-it-all condesending brick. I just came to expect more from your videos. I mean that as a compliment. I still give it a like. edit: didn't notice it got pinned and your second answer. doesn't change anything tho

[@beast667]

@@defmore5099 you like getting worked up on a very small thing don't you? It's a gaming series "was it good" not "a full history of.."

[@tangyhyperspace2217]

@@defmore5099 Pokemon Green was only released in Japan, it was changed to Blue to appeal to the American audience since red and blue are the colours of the American flag.

[@davidcanada1927]

" I teach cut to Mew" You're a monster Josh.

[@Bifragura]

It hurt in my soul when I saw that…

[@SerDerpish]

I used Mew as my HM slave too, tbh. Having multiple team members taking up valuable team slots isn’t worth the trouble. If it takes a mythic to condense the problem to just one, then so be it. All hail Gen 7, when they finally figured out it was a terrible mechanic and got rid of it at last

[@willtheprodigy3819]

@@SerDerpishHow did it change for Gen 7? I haven’t played since Gen 4.

[@spotsthecat7913]

@@willtheprodigy3819 You got multiple ride pokemon that are not counted as your party pokemon/pokedex completion that fill those roles, like Tauros that breaks boulders, Charizard that fly you to places, etc

[@a.p.2019]

#Truth Ed.: At least it wasn't Rock Smash...

[@Disig]

"And nobody chose the water type" *cries softly while hugging Squirtle*

[@WillACarpenter]

HE'S A SQUIRREL TURTLE!! What's not to love!?

[@Kultureliten]

BLASTOISE HAS CANONS.

[@kuromatsu1539]

@@WillACarpenter why- Why did I never realize that's literally his design and name? I just saw it as a fancy turtle

[@WillACarpenter]

@@kuromatsu1539 idk... Bulbasaur is a Dino with bulb on back and charmander is a burning salamander... So the starters all follow that format

[@kuromatsu1539]

@@WillACarpenter wellllllll... In my defense I mostly don't play it in English and my head hasn't made the connection until now

[@eddiekalista3222]

I chose Squirtle. Same reason I chose Blue version. I went to Toys R Us. My choice was the version with a dragon, which looks cool, or the version with a giant turtle with tank cannons on his back. In that moment, I decided that dragons are a dime a dozen. I grabbed the Schildkrötenpanzer, joined Squirtle Squad, and I regret nothing.

[@Mehwhatevr]

I always chose the water type. I missed the first generation, but I would've chosen Squirtle just like I chose the water type in the Pokémon gold. Blue being, my favorite color would've helped. But I always considered the fire type to be power, the water type to be wisdom, and the grass type to be courage. mainly because the fire type always seem to be the easiest play through, the grass type the hardest and the water type is somewhere in the middle. The Triforce also had a part of that,

[@marcelblock2454]

Omg I lived to age 39 without realizing the "Schildkrötenpanzer". 😂

[@somelass133]

I didn't even get the choice, Blue was all they had lol When Gen 2 came out Silver was all they had, same with Gen 3 and Sapphire, Gen 4 and Diamond

[@andrewbreding593]

I didn't go into it expecting to have a life long Blastoise addiction either

[@JustinSeizure]

Squirtle4dawin, saying Bulbasaur was for geniuses is hard cope. Nobody picked him cause grass pokemon were easy to get.

[@archimagirussancti7956]

Dude... I'm American; I played Red version in 1998 when I was a kid and also thought the guy in front of Mewtwo's cave looked like the Queen's Guard. You just made my day

[@JaredittonGaming]

Same here

[@unscripted483]

I'm american too and though the same thing lol

[@alwayslearningtech]

What's with that dude's hair?

[@duane_313]

Same!!! Omigod!!!

[@sarafagin3967]

I 100% chose Squirtle as my first pokemon playing Red, and I still don't regret it

[@MrNicefff]

Because Squirtle is brilliant

[@ArchjSM]

Blastoise forever 👍

[@abp1599]

Squirtle gang!

[@PSNMyfoot]

Why would you regret the correct choice? It makes no sense.

[@Mistershongmail]

Brother!

[@behemoth9543]

In Pokemon, you generally have 2 types of moves. One type that does damage and one type that does nothing and was never used by any kid ever.

[@Muhahahahaz]

So true

[@ADUSN]

Baby's first RPG. I struggle to see how anyone over the age of 15 enjoys these games at a base level.

[@BubbyBold]

​@@ADUSNit's because your brain is obviously too big to enjoy the smaller things in life.

[@ADUSN]

@@BubbyBold Blinded. In terms of rpgs, pokémon is boring as fuck, stole everything from SMT. I understand the nostalgia and liking the monsters themselves, but as games they're a joke. Sorry someone disagrees with you.

[@BubbyBold]

@@ADUSN It is a pretty tired formula but I thought Arceas was preety fun. I was more poking fun at your condescending anger at people enjoying a video game.

[@improcrastinator7130]

catching articuno with only 2 ultraballs (many saves and resets, at least 40) in my inventory just because i didn't wanna run back through the maze of rooms is a highlight of my childhood

[@apersonontheinternet8006]

Great Ball is actually the better ball. Higher catch rate and only need to get them to 50% instead of 30%

[@robmalcolm8042]

@@apersonontheinternet8006never knew that. And the legendaries in gen 1 are probably the easiest to catch in any gen. I never struggled to catch them all easily.

[@Johnyted717]

I was hoarding my master ball and powerful balls, so I spent about 30 minutes throwing standard pokeballs from my stack of 99 at Mewtwo

[@JC-eq3ml]

"If you played these games then you were there at the start. You lived through the birth of the biggest franchise in history." Kinda sent a chill down my spine, considering I was hardcore into gen 1 and 2, but fell off after that.

[@RaytheGrayt]

Same. It's crazy when I see posts about newer pokemon games being "this many years old" and people saying they themselves feel old now, meanwhile we were there since it's inception which would make us ancient

[@Acemanveryspecial]

Hasn't really changed in all that time from what I've seen. I started on Gen 1 and stopped at Gen 3. So much wasted potential, imagine a Pokemon MMO with a large complex world, my God.

[@solsystem1342]

​@@Acemanveryspecial Idk if pokemon would work as an mmo? Pokemon go already did that too, kinda

[@rude_wredne]

Npc comment be like

[@Acemanveryspecial]

@@solsystem1342 It would have to be complex and large scale, something akin to FF14/WoW but with a bigger world to work.

[@teadrinkerfication9160]

The game is not based on the original manga. These games came first, then everything else followed afterwards. However Satoshi Tajiri did say that the Pokémon Adventures manga was the closest thing to how he envisioned the Pokémon world to be.

[@teadrinkerfication9160]

@@RaulMartinez-tz9je 2:31

[@Vadnarr]

Facts, I’m a little surprised that Josh got that wrong but everyone makes mistakes

[@DiegoGonzalez-sr9kl]

That manga was so great

[@Linkale_]

@@Vadnarr True but when I watch a video more than one hour long I expect the content creator to get the facts really straight, and with mistakes like this I'm no longer sure that's the case

[@sinom]

@@Linkale_ this video has a bunch of smaller errors here and there. But most of the stuff he says is correct.

[@matthewtheobald1231]

Pallet Town being named after an art pallet and all the other towns being colors actually blew my mind

[@cantsleep7760]

ArcticUNO. ZapDOS. MolTRES. 1,2 and 3 in spanish.

[@freshbosstrader]

@@cantsleep7760Dios Mio 😮😂😂😂

[@sjacqVO21]

😂

[@FlareStorms]

​​@@cantsleep7760they'd later do this with german numbers for a pseudolegendary

[@SunshineSuperstar]

​@@cantsleep7760Here's one for you... Three started types. Grass. Water. Fire. Grass BULB dinoSAUR Water SQUIRTing tuRTLE Fire CHARred salaMANDER...

[@markcooper4876]

Here are some fun facts I thought I should mention: 1. The overleveled Pokémon disobeying orders mechanic only affects traded Pokémon so feel free to over-level the team you caught yourself. 2. Ice-type’s aren’t inherently weak to electric, it’s just that 80% of Lorelei’s team is also water-type, which is weak to electric. 3. The original red and blue version for gameboy color were originally monochromatic. Meaning they were all red and blue respectively. It wasn’t until the awesome Yellow Version came around that we got to see some real color. Thank you for this video. It was a fun watch.

[@cqis7820]

Did you know, if you traded your pokemon to a different game, power leveled it in said game, and then traded it back, it would also still listen to you, even though you didn't actually train it?

[@16m49x3]

You could also change which color the game used for the graphics if you pressed the buttons when starting up the game

[@skycloud4802]

I didn't know that. I was wary of overleveling for that very reason.

[@Reece8u]

​@@skycloud4802Yeah the whole your non-traded pokemon disobey you thing started in sword and shield I think

[@CanisVampirim]

​@Reece8u in red and blue, overleveled pokemon, traded or not, would disobey you. The threshold was higher for nontraded, and the chance lower, but it was still there. It wasn't until G/S, possibly yellow before then, that your own Pokémon would never disobey. This was added back into the game with Sword/Shield.

[@vbarreiro]

I did the Mew glitch until I found one with shiny IV’s, transferred it to gen 2 (virtual console), then used the coin case glitch to change its OT so I could transfer it to current gen and about a week ago, I gave it the Mightiest mark with the event. It now says, Go! Mew the Unrivaled. It’s the crown jewel of my collection.

[@calelkestifer3570]

when I played as a kid, my dad said "hey, do you have the master ball?" and I said "yes" and he said "Do you know fly and surf?" and I said "yes" and he said "You been to Cinnabar?" and I said "yes" and he said "lemme see your game for a bit." He handed my game back to me and showed me my new infinite pokeballs and that is a core memory for me. I think it formed my opinion that sometimes cheating can breathe life into a game as long as your not cheating against another player.

[@jontolar6838]

Bruh I would abuse the hell out of that glitch with rare candies when I was a kid.

[@alwaysabiggafish3305]

and I said "yes"

[@GDC2127]

Exploits utilizing broken code by the creators is fair game because it is the creators fault for not checking and fixing that potential bug. I get that an older game would have deadlines to meet so that the game can be sold on time, which meant that you couldn't fully playtest it and bugs are bound to be present. I still think it is fair game to abuse the bad coding put their by developers. Hell, there are cheat codes developers give to you if you beat or unlock hidden stuff in the game and a lot of old games had them (Timesplitters was one that did this.) However if you are using game shark or any online scripts/codes intended for hacking a game, you have effectively cheated yourself out of playing the game fairly from when the code was written.

[@MintyLime703]

@@GDC2127 If you've ever had programming experience you'd probably rethink the idea of it being their fault. Bugs are simply part of coding. They're pretty much unavoidable in software such as a game. If they knew what Pokémon would become I'm sure they would've done some extra bug fixing and general polish but it worked out regardless. I only agree that utilizing exploits is fair game so long as it's purely singleplayer. But deliberately ruining the experience of other players by using a clearly unintended exploit is on the player if they choose to do it. They shouldn't be permanently banned for it but they don't have much grounds for complaint if they're temp banned or otherwise punished. Especially since most ToS regarding online play specify utilizing exploits isn't allowed; but often times this isn't enforced as it's generally easier to just fix the issue.

[@ShiningDarknes]

@@MintyLime703 "I'm sure they would've done some extra bug fixing and general polish" naw for at least the next 2 generations they seemed to have just not bothered testing things. By gen 3 they were defiantly a worldwide success. It is one thing to find obscure things no tester in their right mind would ever find, it is another to find stuff like the missing no glitch here that is so easily repeatable that any amount of testing probably would have found it.

[@mightylink65]

Yup, I was there back in 98/99 when this took off. To understand why you have to know there was nothing else like this on handhelds at the time, all we had was simple games like Tetris and Dr. Mario and then suddenly comes along this epic 50+ hour RPG that made you go through a set of batteries almost every DAY! This was the first handheld game that turned peoples attention from playing minutes at a time to several hours at a time and from what I could tell back then it was the system seller, it was the main reason most people owned Gameboys.

[@HistoryandReviews]

Tetris made people play hours. Try harder

[@rafazardly]

emulating i can understand that, finally... cause i'm halfway through it, with 34h... i'm playing Ys Origin in Steam with my 3rd character and I have less hours total lol also metroidvanias take less time than i think will be necessary if i want at least 6 pokemon 99 without glitching

[@SamuraiMasenko]

Pokemon Red and Blue were the reason my mom bought rechargeable AA batteries.

[@ButteredToast32]

There were handheld RPGs like the Final Fantasy Legend series that came out long before Red/Blue. But there’s no denying this was a portable gaming phenomenon.

[@badmankano2011]

This game taught me to read 😂

[@uchuuseijin]

I feel like the lore of red/blue (especially the Pokemon Special manga adaptation) contained a lot of answers and solutions to things that would only become ethical dilemmas after the series was "sanitized'. The fact that wild Pokemon attack humans was a simple, believable plot point that simultaneously justified why everyone out on the road seemed to be a Pokemon trainer and why it's considered ethical to make Pokemon fight each other- these would both be natural consequences of a world where catching and training Pokemon is necessary for survival.

[@straydogfreedom7795]

I still clearly remember being in elementary school having to go to some dull grownup event with my parents and being glued to my gameboy playing through that horrendous casino dungeon, getting nauseous from the constant spinning, while walking out the door. Not many games create strong visual memories like that but gen1 seems to have been able to on a very consistent basis for it's players.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

Pokemon Red/Blue has different wild battle transition depending on where you are and how powerful you are. If you're in grass and you're higher level than the wild pokemon it's two rotating transitions, if you're lower level it's a single rotating transition, in caves it's horizontal and vertical stripes, for trainers it's spirals... This is a detail I haven't seen many people know but the game actually tells you pokemon levels just before you enter battle.

[@joshua.recovers]

Yo stop your roll. What the fuck? You've got to be kidding me.

[@waleedkhalid7486]

Wow…I never realized this!

[@jonathonrobinson6081]

Thank you. I noticed there were different battle starts but I thought it was a random/special fight thing.

[@Noctah]

I knew that for sure as a kid because when I was doing Cinnibar Island coast glitch to get pokémon level 178, I would always get the single rotation for the BIG ONES and double rotation for random standard level pokémon. I had some kind of PTSD of the single rotation afterwards because of glitch pokémon eventually fucking up my save.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Even the remakes on the GBA do this.

[@cataclysmicbane9068]

Gen 1 had this sense of mysteriousness and creepiness that has never been repeated in any game. I loved it. Finding Mewtwo after reading about his dark origin was crazy when I was a kid. And even after playing tons of Pokémon over the years, the cubone momma dying is still the most tragic thing that has happened in any Pokémon game I’ve played. RIP

[@lightning2279]

Agreed.

[@VilaToro64]

Lol I remember always having to turn down the music when I got to mt moon that music still creeps me out

[@maximumbeans9310]

So true. Even coming back to Fire Red and Leaf Green there’s a unique quality to Kanto. It really was the Wild West of Pokémon before they nailed down more of the world and its lore.

[@usrnmntavlibl2666]

The most tragic thing in a Pokémon game is Pokémon Z not releasing

[@David-bj8ri]

@@usrnmntavlibl2666 And to add to that, the battle frontier not being in ORAS and the trash remakes for BDSP, first two that spring to mind

[@WarsmithUriel]

Fun fact: In the German version Lance ist called Siegfried who is a very famous character in German folklore for killing a dragon and bathing in its blood. I always wondered if Pokemon's Siegfried also killed some of his dragons while training them...

[@crisnoria3757]

I remember being so damn hype on the final Gary fight. Thank you for this walkthrough, im 32 years old, and you brought back soooo many memories and emotions. This game was damn near perfect, ESPECIALLY for the time. Thanks again!

[@abigdumbamerican315]

Words cannot describe the physical pain I feel watching this dude pick up Mew after the countless hours I lost in my childhood trying to find a way.

[@kennykiller]

I never wanted to do Mew/Missingno/Rare candy glitches cos I was more scared of breaking both my Gameboy and Pokémon Yellow and getting grounded.... even at 16 when I got em heh

[@SporeTres]

And then teach it Cut.

[@CakeorDeath1989]

I remember, peak Pokémon craze, my cousin knew a boy in his neighbourhood who had a GameShark. We cycled round to the boy's house, knocked on his door, and stood there while he put a Mew into my game. It's stuff like that that makes the 90s a special time in gaming. The mythology of the Gen 1 games goes far beyond what was actually coded into the games.

[@chadthundercock455]

@@kennykiller Would your name happen to be Butters?🤔

[@Carlos.Rivera]

​@@CakeorDeath1989Mew at level 5 starting game was legit. Even making him more stronger because we traded him and get the boosted exp

[@JetWarrior]

My favorite lore "myth" about Pokemon is that every Ditto you see is a failed attempt to clone Mew. They both have the same color for their sprites (pink for regular, blue for shiny), they weigh the exact same (8.8 lbs), they are the only Pokemon that can learn Transform, and the places you can encounter Ditto in Gen 1 are places connected to either Mew or Mewtwo (the mansion and the Cerulean Cave).

[@jbartnik1918]

You can also get ditto outside Fuschia City, but i do like this lil fan theoru :)

[@kurisechan88]

Makes perfect sense

[@SuperHGB]

Also, ditto can change it's genetics if I remember properly

[@maxstrike3022]

​@@viewer6152Naw, GameFreak is wrong!

[@juanjotur114]

Didnt the books say at the abandoned mansion that?

[@KarmaHauntsYou]

This inspired me to play red. I haven't touched gen 1 since I was 9 on release. This is amazing, and the actual mew glitch is amazing. I heard all those rumors growing up at school. My neighbor actually had one of the legit Mews won through the Toys R Us giveaway events. Whole neighborhood was crazy jealous.

[@stephanesurprenant60]

Caught Mew back in the day using it. The reason it works is that trainers face South by default, so you have time to fly away which freezes the state of the game in a fight sequence. You reinitialize the sequence of stepping and dialogue when you allow another trainer to meet you somewhere else, but one state entry does not get re-initialize -- the one that says you're in a fight on whatever route you just left by flying. So, when you step back on that route (no matter how you get there or where you enter) the game launches a fight. You face Mew because Mew shares the number the game uses to store a specific trainer and pokemon -- that youngster outside of Celadon city... When I saw the explanation, my jaw just dropped. That fly away glitch works in many ways. There are at least 2 or 3 dozen variations that yield different pokemons. There are a lot of glitches in these games because different stuff shares the same references to save space. 😂

[@Tang-qi6zw]

Early on a few errors. In generation one, tackle was 95% accurate, not 100. This was intentional. This was the case until gen 5 I think. Swift isn’t affected by the 1/256 glitch. Swift hits regardless of modifiers, so ignores the accuracy check altogether. 100% accurate moves like dig or psychic are the ones affected by 1/256. Edit: Psychic was also never super effective against ghosts. Just the only gen 1 ghost types were also poison, which psychic is super effective against.

[@diekritischestimme]

Also he mentions that giving a drink to one of the guards is optional, but I think it is the only way to enter Saffron City. Then also on the island gym he says you have to beat all the trainers to get to Blaine, but you could just solve the riddles on the machines to pass.

[@thishouseofglass]

pretty sure tackle was also 35bp in the older games as well not 40

[@FaolanKitekaze]

Also ice isn't weak to electric

[@lionpaladin]

Swift can miss in the Japanese versions of Gen I. It was fixed in the English versions. So he's kinda mixing in Japanese-only bugs into it all I guess?

[@Luprand]

Another couple of errors I noticed - if memory serves, there's a person you can talk to in Celadon City mansion who will give you tea for free, so you don't have to buy a drink at the department store. Also the Vermillion Gym, you don't have to fight the trainers if you interact with the quiz machines in the corner of each room and get the question right.

[@MWalkah]

48:50 Small correction: even in Gen 1, Psychic was not supereffective against Ghost. However, it was (and still is) supereffective against Poison, and every Ghost pokémon in Gen 1 is Ghost/Poison.

[@pageclayton6850]

Not gonna mention "electric is good against ice" bit?

[@dajjukunrama5695]

The video creator doesn’t care what you say he has money

[@syraxiis8692]

@@dajjukunrama5695 or.. just maybe.. hes human and made some slight oversights during his research.. Im 35. i was at the perfect age for pokemon when it came out and ive always been a huge fan. that being said, the fanbase can be real trash sometimes.

[@dajjukunrama5695]

@@syraxiis8692 at least I'm not Anglo

[@suxkdaniles1677]

15:40 pokemon with matching trainer OT's will listen regrdless of LV and badges, this however dose not apply to any pokemon you did not hatch or catch as they require badges due to a miss matched OT/secret ID. common belief is that you need badges for all mons to listen.

[@dave_yarders]

Fun fact: I was so young when I played my first Pokemon game, that I didn't know what "rival" meant and assumed it was testing if I remembered his name correctly. I did my first playthrough with my rival called RIVAL.

[@operator8014]

That's excellent.

[@MiisterShane]

Literally did this with Silver and "???" I felt pretty stupid about 1 hour in. In Red, I just assumed it was Gary

[@HistoryandReviews]

THATS NOT A FUN FACT AND FACTS ARENT FUN! We dont care about your childhood go away!

[@mr.awesome6011]

That's his name in Pokémon Stadium

[@MetallicMutalisk]

@@MiisterShane I did this too LMAO I was so confused at the start

[@keyanklupacs6333]

I always found it was super interesting that Pokemon in the first generation references Real World locations. They stepped away from this for obvious reasons but it was still super cool to think that it taking place an our world.

[@Muhahahahaz]

Not Pokemon X and Y literally taking place in France

[@MLPIceberg]

3 months late... but they didn't completely step away from real world references. They're just less frequent and less obvious, ignoring the fact that certain Generations of Pokémon games take place in regions based on real world locations like Black/White that depict (to some extend) United States of America or (New York more specifically) with their Castelia City. X/Y are based upon an interpretation of France. But beyond that? Some random NPC in some dark, creepy corner that'll make a vague hint at some real-world location.

[@AudaciousAce1989]

This is a great video. Very hearwarming. The fact that a singular image is more kilobytes than the entire game blew my mind!!!

[@kojirotakamashi]

That "Poison Fainting right when you reach the Pokémon Center Desk" has happened to me once before, and it was after the Koga fight. It was my last Pokémon too, so I blacked out, and woke up with money gone. This leads me to believe it's always been Nurse Joy taking your money after all your Pokémon faint.

[@asimovvomisa4040]

Makes sense and now imagine all the other trainers fainting as you beat them (only the game is unable to display it) No wonder Nurse Joy is advertising her healing Pokemon as free. She makes enough from robbing fainted trainers. Next: think about the fact that a potion heals less (20 HP) than fresh water(50 HP) and is 50% more expensive. Maybe a potion is 2/5 of a glass of fresh water sold for max profit: fresh water: 200 potion: 300 margin: potion - (fresh water *2/5) = 300 - (200*(2/5)) = 300 - 80 = 220 profit per potion or 550 per bottle of fresh water. I wonder if Nurse Joy is supplying the Potions on sale as well and making some more money on the side or does she own the Pokemart ? I bet nurse Joy is the true underground king no one will talk about as she is just too inluential/rich to allow anyone telling the truth. My question wold be: What is she using the money for ? Real estate ? Research ? Archeology ? Warfare ?

[@ShermTank7272]

Hey, _someone's_ gotta pay for all that healthcare...

[@SushiReversed]

This is how the American healthcare system works.

[@Dong_Harvey]

@@asimovvomisa4040 Joy is Giovanni's daughter

[@asimovvomisa4040]

@@Dong_Harvey Is that where Giovanni got experience with cloning ? To later clone and improve Mew into Mewto he cloned and changed his own daughter ? Some of the sister Joys are a bit different appearance wise (there was even a very sportive one in the anime)

[@PowerHungryFool]

A minor note about the 1/256 miss glitch is that your example of swift is actually the only move in the entire game that is exempt from this glitch, as it bypasses the accuracy check code entirely.

[@MalekitGJ]

It works like a match of Magic, but with Priority Move instead of First Strike: 1. Resolve 1st round, only Priority Moves allowed, fastest mon acts first 2. Resolve 2nd round, fastest mon acts first.

[@RokuroCarisu]

Swift could also hit Ghost-types despite being Normal, and it could even hit through the invulnerable turn of Dig and Fly.

[@_Sinduss]

Yeah he is wrong about so many things in this video

[@ricksimpson1948]

move deleter gen 2@@RokuroCarisu

[@Purriah]

@@MalekitGJbro, what are you talking about? We all understand how it works based off the original comment and the fact that we likely are here because we play(ed) Pokémon. We dont need the explanation from a totally different game

[@curtneedsaride]

Wow. This video is fantastic. I’ll probably watch it a few more times. Thanks for the hard work on it!

[@rrudeljr]

It took ages for us to realize the starter was actually picking your difficulty for the game. Bulbasaur was easy, Squirtle was medium, and Charmander was Hard mode.

[@ovinedreamer1451]

Most of us went for hardmode unintentionally....

[@Se7en2107]

In FireRed and LeafGreen, Professor Oak actually hints at this. If you want to choose Bulbasaur, he'll say, "it's very easy to raise" indicating that it is indead 'easy' mode while for Squirtle and Charmander respectively, he'll say "it's one worth raising" and "you should raise it patiently". This indicates that picking Charmander will make the early game more difficult for you while Squirtle is more the middle ground. Ivysaur also evolves at Level 32 as opposed to both Wortortle and Charmeloen which evolve at Level 36 so it is quite literally easier to raise as well.

[@rrudeljr]

Yeah, once we saw the first two gyms you would see Bulbasaur was good against both, Squirtle good against Brock but not Misty, and Charmander wasn't good against either.

[@diekritischestimme]

Not to mention that charizard really sucks. It cannot even learn FLY, which is horrible, since you cannot teach him any flying type move, I think - so his type boost for flying attacks is utterly wasted. At least "wing attack" would have been cool, but no... Then, his stats are also quite bad, compared to other pokemon and his strength - fire moves - when do you really need those? Against a gym full of plant pokemon, which can by that point easily be taken down by any water pokemon by learning ice beam from the same town (girl next to vending machines for those who don't know about that TM). Not to mention that you can have so many other pokemon by the time you get to that gym. Fire is only good against grass + bug type pokemon, while water is good against rock and ground, while grass moves are good against rock, ground AND water types. Fire is a bit better in Gen 2 with steel pokemon, but even then, not many encounters with steel type. I usually go for the water type starter. Surf, together with Earthquake and Ice Beam you can beat almost every type easily, incl. those who are super effective against yourself... (super effective against ground, rock, electric, poison, grass, flying, steel type) And you have another free move to customize your starter, Double Team might make it unbeatable. I say, water type is the best type for this reason, in almost all pokemon games. Gyarados can even learn Electric moves.....

[@rrudeljr]

@@diekritischestimme pretty sure the Flying type was added to him in later generations, not the original RBY.

[@PoisonousPen]

One thing people usually miss when talking about trading, was the “clone glitch”. My friend has a Rapidash - Lvl51 I have a Pidgey - Lvl3 We both go into a Pokémon centre and save our games. Then we connect the link cable and go to trade. We make the trade. I now have Rapidash, he now has Pidgey, but to leave the trade centre, it makes you save the game, cementing the trade. At this point, my friend turns off his Gameboy and reloads his last save - back in the Pokemon centre WITH his Rapidash. I however, still have my Gameboy turned on and I’m still holding Rapidash from the trade. I save my game and continue on my journey with Rapidash in my team and my friend continues his quest with his original Rapidash 👍😜

[@MrHaVoKeR]

definitely not a glitch, more like an exploit, but in this case, its so simple, its more like a mechanic xD

[@seantaylor424]

My cousin and I relied so heavily on cloning as kids that when I played Diamond many years later, I was weirded out by trades now being one-way and permanent. People who didn't play Gen 1 back in the day were astounded when I told them how we cloned back then.

[@kazehana7143]

@@seantaylor424 you could still do it, it just required timing.

[@seantaylor424]

@@kazehana7143 Wait, really? I'm not sure if that's amazing for the old ways living on, or tragic that Gamefreak didn't fix that glitch even years later. Surely it's a thing of the past now, though.

[@kazehana7143]

@@seantaylor424 yeah, instead of just being able to turn it off, you had to turn the one losing the pokemon off at a specific point in the ball transfer animation. I did it all the way through x and y, I had a shiny cloning "service" for people where id give them 2 and make one for myself.

[@ravioli6394]

The music in these games has been forever burned into a section of my memory that will never disappear. Thousands of hours

[@cupguin]

That final rival fight music instantly ups my anxiety while others instantly put a smile on my face.

[@kennykiller]

​@@cupguin Yes as a teen when I first played this, I was legitimately ANGRY at the piss take of FINALLY BEATING THAT LAST DRAGONITE, being told I'm the champ, then arsepull of arsepull the guy who loses EVERY FIGHT WITH ME is somehow THE ACTUAL CHAMPION AND HERE I AM WITH ONE POKÉMON LEFT IN REDBAR.

[@ex-x7079]

You can just hear one tune and you'll immediately remember the rest.

[@omegamanGXE]

@@Joselox Just wait until you are 69 and your Alakazam kicks in 😉

[@casedistorted]

Oh that music.. playing it on my red game boy color with a blue Pokémon game using charmander.. gyar

[@Johnny_Robert]

One of the best retrospectives I've watched so far, thank you very much.

[@EstSincee93]

I never used the town map as a kid. Took up space in my bag. Fun fact the move fly acts as a map when you go to use it.

[@ShanyaTC]

This is actually how I found out there is a map codded in game, through fly hm

[@Mister_BIack]

My first Pokémon was Charmander, named him Dragonfly after he evolved into Charizard because he looked like a dragon that could fly (I'm German, didn't know what a dragonfly was but it sounded cool). Every starter Charmander was named Dragonfly since then for the past 25ish years, he's like an old friend to me.

[@MrErikola]

Great comment, nostalgia is a wonderful thing.

[@diekritischestimme]

Just ironic that Charizard cannot learn fly in Gen 1 ... Such a pity. I was bluntly reminded on my last playthrough xD

[@AzakielRuns]

When I was a kid I had no idea I had to save the game everytime I turned off the Game Boy. I started all over again for several weeks before I learned what that Save button did.

[@Tony-fq5bn]

Dam thats crazy, I wonder if Pokemon is the first game I had where you could save like that, I think so

[@dannys9074]

Same here.

[@LCDigital92]

@@Tony-fq5bn From what I remember, other games had like specific save points. Pokémon was the first/only game where you could save (basically) anytime unprompted.

[@dreamteam9800]

noob

[@legendkillersshittyduffleb932]

Damn sorry too hear this

[@ronaldh9487]

Great video! I have fond memories of Pokemon Blue for the GBA when it first came out. Much simpler times back then; water starters forever!

[@bertietheboy]

This might sound kinda stupid, but ive been trying to find names for the tables at my wedding. 3:25 you listed the names for the cities. I love it. You have saved my wedding. Big thanks x ❤

[@renclave]

Find one that is fine with a quiet, simple marriage with no more than 4 friends there. Trust me. Good luck.

[@michaelcalvin42]

The reason you had to save the game to swap boxes was because of memory limitations on the GameBoy. Only one box was actively kept in RAM at one time; the other boxes were in the save RAM and needed to be swapped in and out. As such, it necessitated a full save. It was quite obnoxious, but unfortunately quite necessary. Luckily modern systems have more than enough RAM to avoid this problem.

[@FaelCacilhas]

But why did they need to save on box in the RAM? Couldn't they all be in the save RAM?

[@lucasmateus4244]

@@FaelCacilhas probably speed because changing box wouldn't be done as often as sending to box and changing box wasn't as real time demanding as sending to box.

[@sebastianaliandkulche]

@@FaelCacilhas You know that the ram of the gameboy is so small, right?

[@FaelCacilhas]

@@sebastianaliandkulche Yes, I'm wondering why one box needs to be on it, instead of zero. The only time I remember it being used was on the PC, why is it needed on the RAM?

[@michaelcalvin42]

@@FaelCacilhas The reason is that if no boxes were in RAM, you would need to save the game every time you catch a new Pokemon. Without doing this, you could of course save the new Pokemon into the active box, but it would create a situation where the Pokemon storage data and the story progress are not synchronized. You would also need to recalculate the checksums every time you catch a new Pokemon in order to protect against data corruption (or cheating). In other words, it's just far simpler to keep one box in RAM and the rest in save RAM from both GameFreak's perspective and the player's.

[@danieltilson4053]

In Blaine's gym, you don't have to fight any of the trainers. You can do the quizes from the machines in the corners of each section to open the doors.

[@DerIche]

cant believe he apperently didnt knew this

[@BIGLOLONERS]

I can’t believe all the things he knew and he didn’t know this! Hahahah

[@InquisitorXav]

also, you can do both x) open then door THEN beat up the guy next to it. To assert maximum dominance.

[@danieltilson4053]

@@InquisitorXav That's what I usually did.

[@Lord_necromancer]

​@@InquisitorXavthat's what I always did lol

[@bigalsretroroom]

I just recently started watching your videos and just wanted to say that I love that you've created something more unique and interesting than just a regular let's play. Especially with this episode, I truly felt like I was replaying this alongside side you, remembering all of the bugs and secrets along the way from a game I haven't replayed since 1999. I have played this countless times, but haven't actually completed OG Pokemon Red since the first couple of years after it's release, and now I likely will solely due to this video. There are two great remakes now, but nothing feels nostalgic like the original version.

[@dannyjbrigs]

Nothing can truly live up to the 8-bit tune for the final rival fight. They capture the epic nature of the fight perfectly.

[@kuvisit]

The games weren't based on the manga, the manga was based on the game. Japanese Pokemon Red and Green were the start of the franchise. Also, Red and Blue weren't re-releases of Red and Green. There was a Japanese Pokemon Blue, which was an updated and upgraded version of Red and Green. This Blue served as the basis for the international Red and Blue

[@stellviahohenheim]

Hillary created Pokémon when she said Pokémon go to the polls

[@rodrigobueno8652]

Pokemon adventure is not even the first manga adaptation, i'm pretty sure the first was the comedy one with clefairy as mascot

[@lyonnaismatt]

yeah my excitement to watch this video faded immediately when I saw such a basic mistake. Like, you have no idea what's going on here

[@EkkusuHayate]

Unfortunately he makes a lot of these small mistakes. Kind of understandable on how tight schedule he is but it stains the reception a bit

[@DamnDaimen]

@@rodrigobueno8652 Oh god, you mean the male clefairy who has a penis and balls, in the comic with an obsession with scat and cockNball torture.

[@Artictoc]

No, getting a drink for the Saffron City guard was mandatory. All four guards are thirsty at the same time, giving one of them a drink will have him share it with his pals, failing to give a drink to either will make them not let you pass. I was stuck on this for weeks as a kid.

[@adud6764]

Yeah, I am really curious what he meant. Doubly so because he said you didnt have to do it ... and then didnt mention an alternative.

[@Tony-fq5bn]

Can't remember how long I was stuck on that, but I do remember being confused, like I had no idea I was supposed to get them a drink lol, I just thought they were saying random shit like most of the other random characters

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

@@adud6764 that’s what I thought! I was so confused, I knew it was mandatory.

[@adud6764]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel this video is riddled with small mistakes and weird moments. I have written a couple of other comments about it but youtube is hiding it.

[@sp4rksmith]

i think this is because while mandatory to get the drinks to the guards you can either get them early from the vending machine or a bit later on from an NPC, so it is more of a timing thing rather than an optional thing.

[@Welsh-Trials-Enduro]

When I was 8 I got pokemon yellow for my birthday in 98. I tell you back in the day it was the best thing ever. I was kinda jealous of my brother having blue and being able to start with Charmander lol. I loved grinding my team up to level 100 by beating the elite 4 over and over again. There's just something about Gen 1

[@Rowlandi11]

Great point about the quadrants implying depth. Such a simple and ingenious effect that worked wonders

[@akapsi7679]

32:00 you can also lose a trainer battle on board S.S. Anne after receiving HM01 from the captain, causing you to white out and warping to the last Pokemon center. You can now continue your journey, receive HM03 and HM04 naturally, and return to the ship with the ability to surf to the island the truck is on. Sadly, you still cant move the truck... Mew is still stuck under it after all these years.

[@indieWellie]

the mod/romhack 'pokemon crystal clear' may actually have that in the game

[@akapsi7679]

@@indieWellie Not sure if that really counts, but I'm glad someone did the hack!

[@mrb692]

Check out the Games Done Quick glitch exhibition for Pokémon Blue, they moved the truck.

[@jakobpbengtsson3608]

The even easier way to do this is using teleport/dig/escape rope, no need to faint or leaving an NPC with a sense that they could beat you. They need to know their place.

[@PhayzinOut]

@@indieWellie There's also a rom hack patch for Fire Red where your rival is Green (or Red if you play as Green) and you're able to catch Mew from under the truck. There's also an NPC at the pier that mentions movement from their truck. Patch is called Rival Variation

[@riograul2043]

Bill using a "teleporter" and it accidentally merging him with Pokemon DNA is an Easter egg/reference to Cronenbergs' "The Fly"

[@gamestrument]

I never noticed that before, that's pretty cool!

[@kennykiller]

I imagine by 16 when I got Pokémon, I'd seen the Fly once or twice but don't think I ever made the connection, AND RIGHTLY SO EEEEW

[@12345DJay]

shoutout to my grandma , who in what can only be described as the most genius move ever, got me a copy of Pokemon blue alongside that brick of a game boy for my 6th birthday, officially starting my gaming journey.

[@alext6933]

I can't believe you found the magic Muffler. You are truly a legend.

[@brettgottuso6127]

DUDE. I also thought the guy guarding the cave was wearing a Royal guard hat playing this as a 9 year old. I lost it when I heard u say that haha. We aren't alone anymore 😢

[@chrisrichfield8906]

i remember getting laughed at for thinking that lol.

[@zedustman6780]

You don't actually have to fight anyone other than Blaine in the cinnabar gym. The machines in each section ask trivia questions to move forward without battling.

[@serosilence]

Had to scroll way too far for this. Not super important but the fact he especially states that this is the only gym where you have to fight the majority of trainers made me wonder.

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@serosilence The majority of trainers?

[@serosilence]

@@MegaSpideyman that’s what he said in the video

[@horizonbumpy2828]

it's very obvious by watching his ''gameplay'' he has never actually played the game before. also not the only mistake, the instant text glitch is very susceptible to being cancelled. so much in fact it isn't even used in speedruns because of how many resets it would take. yet he says ''and it will remain this way until you talk to him again''

[@kennykiller]

All my plays as adult I take on all those trainers cos exp/gold and I'm like the complete opposite of a speedrunner

[@TwinFlyDSW]

GameBoy was really a special time for handheld gaming and the arrival of Pokemon was the icing on the cake.

[@64podcast]

A beautiful review where I learned a lot. Thanks so much

[@EclipseCoD]

Gen 1 made a lot of us confused back then about type matchups. I thought for so long psychic was strong against ghost, when it was the poison typing that made the Gengar line weak to psychic. I thought ice was weak to electric when it was the water typing that made all ice pokemon in gen1 weak to electric. The similar dual types like water ice, rock ground, and grass poison created a lot of misconceptions on type match-ups.

[@Yndril]

Not all ice pokemon were water in gen 1, there were also Articuno (still weak to electric because flying) and Jynx, but i admit it took me until misdreavous in gen 2 to realize ghost wasn't actually weak to psychic.

[@Reece8u]

​@@YndrilTrue true, but in gen 1 psychic was immune to ghost so it is a very easy mistake to make.

[@sakyuujuunin]

It's crazy how these games released so late into the Game Boy's lifespan but also ended up becoming the best selling (non-bundled) games on the console.

[@martynconkling8876]

And we were playing Pokemon red and blue on Gameboy color long after.

[@skillganon606]

I'm pretty sure gen1 pokemon is in the top 10 best selling games of all time.

[@pandaman1331]

If I am not mistaken Pokemon was the first game that was solely released for the Gameboy unlike all the other games which were retrain version you could alternatively play on your home console. This game single handedly made people buy handhelds. Even if it was the only game they played on it.

[@skillganon606]

@@pandaman1331 you're mistaken. Plenty of games were released as game boy exclusives. The game boy was selling gangbusters for for almost a decade before pokemon came out.

[@pandaman1331]

@@skillganon606 Interdasting

[@clifflynch4159]

I love how well put together this video is. I havent checked yet but i hope there's one for silver or ruby. Those next two gens peaked for me in different ways. I do wish that in red/ blue they used the elite 4 from the manga more than just in name but i get why they didn't

[@danielsear7816]

If you growl against the slowpoke it will decrease the level of the mew, this is important. The game never had level one Pokémon so if you catch a level one mew and then earn just enough xp not to level it up the mew will instantly go to level 100

[@greenhowie]

I like how the gen 1 sprites looked. They weren't as standardized and uniformly either cutesy or cool - there was a real variety in weird looking animal things.

[@nicks4802]

Dodrio agrees

[@AStickOnCheese]

@@nicks4802 Well, one of the heads agrees.

[@MichaelSotoCE]

I hate the way fire red leaf green removed personality from the sprites. Their poses are more basic, the colors are muted, etc. Really disappointing

[@SgtSega]

Because back in the original Japanese version, they were just monsters.

[@ZombieBarioth]

@Sgt. Sega Its actually because the spirits were designed first, the official art came later. A lot of stuff was decided as they went. From gen 3 onward it was the opposite, they did concept art first. Trying to maintain consistency between between various mediums is why they seem so bland, the sprites/models have to look like the anime and vice versa.

[@Arcticiris]

How tf am I still learning things about this game after 25 years. That Cut thing absolutely blew my mind.

[@dasheiligedonerhuhn]

Lucky you figuring that menu lights up the cave thing out. I had to listen to sound queues when hitting walls and write down all input sequences that progress me through that cave. Spent about a month of my life on this thing.

[@saucelegendary]

The Gems you taught we watching this. Thank you. Amazing video!!

[@gbacl]

My god, really good rundown of the game. Im genuinely surprised at how me and my friends, at the yong age of 8 or 9, without knowing a word of english, were still able to finish this and discover many of its secrets.

[@jonathansoko1085]

It was the first rpg i ever completley finished on my own with no help other than owning the pokedex, even thoughts its rpg lite. But still, i found everything the game had by myself. If i try today to do this with a game id probably quit a third of the way in.

[@Ghi102]

I really got stuck trying to get to Saffron, never managed to figure it out as a kid

[@gastonslashx]

Yeah, and its weird, didnt know that the power plant was optional until this video, remember doing a lot of this stuff, but i dont remember how.

[@Sad-Lesbian]

I think RBY in particular are really good at showing the player without telling a lot of the time, and a lot of it makes sense, even to a kid.

[@ArchjSM]

Ah, the power of having enough free time.... I wish I still had that.

[@thematt6705]

I thought Blue's Raticate dying in Lavender Town was a completely intended piece of conveyance. He says "your Pokemon aren't even dead" implying one of his might be, then "I can at least make them faint" implying he wishes he could kill your Pokemon so you could feel his pain.

[@Mr.Monacle]

Nah, Blue is just a dickhead. I think you're meant to assume he's there to catch ghost type pokemon (as you probably are)

[@wompwomp9946]

So, I thought this comment was interesting and went back to see if the Japanese version held any hidden meaning like this, but, unfortunately... BUTT is just being a feisty jerk lol. 「なにしにきたんだよ？おまえのポケモンしんだのか？ ……あほか？いきてるじゃん だったらせめてせんとうふのうにしてやるか！ かかってこいよ！」 The "your Pokémon aren't even dead" is more like, "you have no reason to be here--are you stupid or something?" and the "I can at least make them faint/unable to battle! Bring it on!" just feels like plain old trash talking. Not saying the theory is wrong. (WHERE'S YOUR RATICATE, BUTT?) Just wanted to share some info from the original version. Love from Japan.

[@christianboeckh3449]

But the "You have no reason to be here" line would also imply that one of his Pokemon has died and that it was his reason to go to the tower? Love that theory, 100% on board with it :D

[@jatticusfinch9015]

@@christianboeckh3449 it could just imply that in general that’s why people come here. It doesn’t necessarily imply that’s why he’s here.

[@Freakattaker]

@@wompwomp9946 I'm not native or nearly fluent, but the feeling I get reading the JP text is that the rival does seem to be genuinely curious about whether you're in the area because one of your pokemon died. Albeit he is speaking to the MC in a jerky way still. Though him wanting to beat up your pokemon can kinda go either way imo.

[@jacksoncapper]

I'm having a reminiscing binge of my 13 year old life and this video was exactly what I was after. Thank you. It was perfect.

[@johnnybravox909]

I cant wait to see you review Gold/Silver!

[@bladechild2449]

Repels only kept Pokemon lower than your leading party member from appearing. There was no mechanic that merely lessened encounters, if you found an encounter, it's because the wild pokemon was higher than the Pokemon you were sending out

[@IltisJoe]

I know everyone knows this, but in Blanes Arena you dont have to fight any trainer. The gates can be opend if you answer a question correctly if you talk to these vending machienes or whatever these should be. Just wanted to point it out :)

[@chefjp315]

i was gonna comment this myself :)

[@tyrongkojy]

Yeah, but I was an xp (and money) slut, so......

[@AngryWindmill]

I think they're supposed to be computers, even though they're shaped like arcade machines

[@YugiMomo]

Is terminal or computer the word you're looking for?

[@nesflaten]

I never knew this, because it wasn't very intuitive that THESE machines had a function, when every machine looking like these had been "mute" so far.

[@cMARVEL360]

17:45 Ya! I forgot all about that until you mentioned it! A friend of mine was and is a True Pokemon Master! And that part of the video reminded me of how he trained me to keep a Pokemon that can knows Hypnosis to put the pokmon to sleep as I damaged it. Man! What a Rush of Memories that part brought to me!

[@Chiken0163]

Great vid, enjoyed it and actually learned a thing or two 😂 but in Blaine’s gym, you don’t actually have to fight any trainers, there are boxes in each room with a quiz question and you have to fight if you get it wrong. Otherwise you can walk straight through if you get it correct.

[@SicketMog]

Caught a Missingno, taught it surf and fly and then evolved it into a Kangaskhan, put that in my N64 Pokémon Stadium and watched it do dumb stuff. Good times.

[@MrHaVoKeR]

damm, how could you transfer gameboy to n64? a specific cable?

[@SombreroPharoah]

@@MrHaVoKeR A Gameboy pack that'd plug into the n64 control. Via stadium was the only way to replay first gen, they needed the double speed.

[@ozzyp97]

@@SombreroPharoah Transfer Pak is the name, and they're actually kinda cool to have for gen 1/2 enjoyers. Not only can you play the games on big screen with speedup, you can also use them to trade without the need for any other hardware, and even store pokemon on the Stadium cartridge to carry them over to a new save.

[@MrHaVoKeR]

@@ozzyp97 despite being corporate dicks that prey on little ppl, nintendo does have some gg ideas

[@Ichthyodactyl]

@@MrHaVoKeR They did, I'm not sure it can be said that they still do, imo. Reminds me of Boktai, the GBA game where the cartridge had a light sensor on it and your abilities in game depended on the light level the cartridge could detect.

[@Toksyuryel]

A lot of the game's lore was actually in the instruction book that came with the game, including the information about the Elite Four being your end goal.

[@Kyush4]

and in oak's pc

[@TXFDA]

While true, how many people actually read manuals back in the day? I mean, I did, because I'd always get a game from a store and read the booklet on the way home in the back of my parents car. But it's an RPG. Usually it's expected that lore is in-game. Especially something as important as a final boss rush and how one becomes champion.

[@Viper607706]

@@TXFDA Everyone always did, that's something we all experienced as kids.

[@gowford]

@@TXFDA not really, a lot of games back then sacrificed in-game text for gameplay aspects, so much so the original zelda is almost impossible to beat without the manual, because the game was meant to be played alongside it. many other games at the time did the same, and pokemon did that for the lore.

[@bawbsmith]

​@@gowford Comparing Zelda 1 and Pokemon R/B/G doesn't make sense though. Zelda was 64kb while Pokemon was 512kb, 8 times the size. There's also 10-year time gap between those two games... Pokemon came out the same year the N64 was released, and games like Diablo, Tomb Raider, Super Mario RPG, etc. were released in the same year, all with very heavy in-game lore via cutscenes and dialogue. You should compare it to Link's Awakening, which was also on the Gameboy, was only 3 years older than Pokemon, and... also had its story and lore within the game via dialogue. You could understand the entire story and beat the game without ever touching a manual. So yeah, I wouldn't group Zelda 1 and Pokemon within the same timeframe.

[@zackschofield4240]

51:48 dude! I’m so glad you brought up this useless fact about using Cut on actual grass! I remember the first time I figured out you could do it and because of your previous videos like this I asked myself before starting this if you were gonna bring up how you can cut regular grass too! Made my night!

[@Siggy_Sour]

had to be there bro. hard to play any of the newer ones. they just nailed it.

[@ciphergarden8281]

The 1990s was quite the time to be born...I'm greatful to be in that bracket...games like this are a core memory for me, what a game

[@postymusic4387]

Word, makes me feel special I was there as kid when all of this started. Red/Blue was best games ever. At least for those kids who had been there at the time

[@RikiJasmin]

Born in 91. I fully agree with you.

[@FlareStorms]

if i was there for this game i probably wouldn't have a hate boner for kanto. the pokemon i know and love would never have been a thought if not for this game

[@omegamanGXE]

@@FlareStorms Kanto master race for life

[@shanescott3166]

First had a green GB pocket - still black and white, but compact! Played blue version on that and then my lime green GBC, now I've moved my ROM to my phone and modified it so I can catch all 151 in one version and it's in full color like gen 2. the first gen Pokèmon games were something else.

[@TheTundraTerror]

Never, and I mean *never*, forget that GameFreak owes everything to the late, great Satoru Iwata. That man was the reason the games even got localized for other countries. Working with Teruki Murukawa to assist him, Iwate was the one who poured over the source code and he was the one who mapped out how to make localized versions. Oh, and Iwata was the president of HAL Laboratory at the time. Yeah, the dude was in charge of running a company but still found the time to do what GameFreak didn't even want to do.

[@SgtSega]

I think it was by a bunch of passionate people who wanted to prove themselves because they were young and full of fresh new ideas. Back then, those were the only Pokemon games. Then as soon as things got rolling, it was onto the bigger and better sequels, Gold and Silver. Game Freak and Nintendo were better back then.

[@priestesslucy3299]

@@SgtSega ehhhh. GSC has better coding with some of the holes repaired, and better graphics, and somewhat better somewhat worse mechanics {Better: no infinite loop Wrap type moves, special stat split and being able to see a move's statistics in game, Fixed Focus Energy/Dire Hit/Rage} Worse: they fucked up critical hits) but I don't know that I would necessarily call them better games. There is definitely something lacking in the way pokemon are distributed in Johto, in the narrative of team rocket (with an ending that feels rather flat) and Kanto that- while a pleasant surprise- is just too empty.

[@SgtSega]

@@priestesslucy3299 What do you mean with the way Pokemon were distributed? Traded over? They gave the Pokemon traded over their own genders and some of them even carry items. That's a nice surprise if you ask me. That and there's a sweet glitch with the PC if you deposit a Pokemon into the Box while holding a specific item and then change the Box to another one, turn the game off and on while it's still saving, and then you have two of the same Pokemon holding the same item. You can only do this up to 5 times per Pokemon though. Good for Legendaries and Master Balls. Also love that some Pokemon only come out at night, usually Dark types which makes sense. Then you have certain trainers that are only out at night too! There's a radar for Legendary Pokemon that run away in battle that's somewhat helpful at least in telling you if you are in the same location, but trying to follow them barely works. It just tells you if you are close. Gold and Silver are AWESOME.

[@SgtSega]

@@priestesslucy3299 Kanto got screwed due to time constraints and cartridge space.

[@rogersrs9261]

@@SgtSega some Johto Pokemon were distributed poorly, like Houndour, Slugma, Mukrow can only be caught on Kanto post game which a game that introduced 2 new typing Steel and Dark, you have to beat the game to experience Dark type Pokemon unless you used Umbreon and Larvitar can only be caught on Mt.Silver, which also, only on post game.

[@gunzandgodz]

These games are masterpieces. And they’re still a very proud part of my collection.

[@tramonte]

My first Pokemon cartridge was Red and boy, I did explore every little corner and nook of it! I did find the truck by the ship and I also remember being super excited about finding other "secret" stuff that was absolutely useless 😂 I was so proud of finishing my pokemon red before any magazines published a walk through.

[@Fomortiis100]

Actually the ghost type in gen 1 wasn't weak to Psychic. It's just that every ghost type is dual ghost/poison type, the latter of which is weak to psychic.

[@Laezar1]

Psychic pokemon are however immune to ghost... well to lick more precisely since that's the only ghost type attack that checks for type resistance.

[@paulyshore1942]

Whoa crazy!

[@xxMpEGxx]

You mean every ghost pokemon in Gen 1 Its a pity: my Gengar would be awesome if it weren't part poison type....

[@travv88]

gen 1 things

[@travv88]

If they weren't poison type I think they'd have fixed the ghost type problems. They likely tested, and super effective from psychic was the signal they were looking for.

[@JCperfection]

This is, by far, the best video of John I've ever seen. There's so many tidbits, details, personal experience, and explanation of the glitch that every part of your video was entertaining! What I love the most is that you will introduce some topic but you will talk about it later on when it makes the most sense for the viewers. I seriously love your script writing. Keep it up, Josh! Subscribed.

[@zealous404]

80 minutes of john's analysis, what a gift we got today

[@HallsteinI]

I love John Dry Face

[@GrumpyRook]

🤣🤣🤣

[@BaronLickilicky]

Hardly a good video, he gets three things wrong about the franchise within the first three minutes of the video. I can't respect someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. He makes several other mistakes - just look at all the comments correcting him!

[@bengoshi4]

if this is the best...let alone the others..

[@Snakeyes244]

Extremely high quality! Loved this!

[@perrinayebarra]

I was in my early teens when these games came out. It’s hard to describe just how big Pokémon got. Everyone in school was in a competition to gain the most Pokémon knowledge and show off.

[@andrewthemaroon8608]

I don't think Ice is weak to Electric, I think the issue is almost all of Lorilie's pokemon are duel water/ice and that water typing is what's making your Zapdos hit like a nuke

[@q306005]

Yes. He also said that Ghost was weak to Psychic but that's not true. All three Ghost type Pokemon in gen 1 are also Poison type, as a play on ghost sightings being dismissed as "swamp gas" or halucinations caused by poison fumes. The Poison is what makes Psychic attacks so strong against the ghosts in gen 1.

[@Skarfar90]

Ice is neutral to electric attacks. Jynx is a good indicator of that (being Ice/Psychic type). Ice is only weak to fire, rock and fighting types (in gen.1), as well as steel in later generations.

[@shadestrider1033]

These are all misconceptions a lot of us had as children. I find it oddly relatable.

[@kevinbell5674]

I used to think Grass was weak to Psychic since most Grass types were also duel Poison.

[@yoshinpixels9924]

Another beautiful thing about the battle screen Gameboy tiles can only have 4 colours, 1 reserved for transparency, so functionally 3. The battle screen is ALWAYS white unless a weird effect is going on. This being the case, the sprites are drawn in a way where the transparent white would imply highlights, essentially allowing 4 colours and thus more detail on that screen specifically!

[@XanderShadow]

Would love to see more of these based on the later games

[@diekritischestimme]

Just that there are many factual errors in this episode and there are other youtubers which are more accurate.

[@yungruuku]

You're a brave man, Josh. For releasing this video. My community might be one of the most toxic on the internet and it took this video to realize it. I want to apologize on behalf of the rest of us, the people in the comment section of this video do not represent our community as a hole. They forget that you're making these videos for non pokemon player, not the hardcore fans. lol

[@ChrisTheNjord]

You know, after you deliver Oak's Parcel and you head back to Veridian City, if you head left towards the Elite Four area, you get confronted by your Rival and he talks about the Elite Four before you even get to your first Gym. It's completely optional as a fight, but it's cool. Plus you see the very beginning of his team coming together.

[@FlankYouMuch]

Yup I also remember this fight he is pretty over leveled if I remember correctly...or at least for most people's teams that early on to fight against

[@mattjohnson5540]

@@FlankYouMuch It's a lv 9 Pidgey and a lv 8 starter. Higher than the surroundings, but not terribly so imo. The Rival three fight (just before Nugget Bridge) has a similar disparity.

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@mattjohnson5540 Disparity?

[@mattjohnson5540]

@@MegaSpideyman "a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity" I.e. the rival's pokemon's levels in comparison to the wild's levels near where the rival is encountered.

[@the_juug_god4100]

Yea fighting him was how you got a level 100 Gengar or Nidoking before brock lol

[@math112358]

To think that in that point, when we first played this game, we did not know how massive and influential this game/franchise would be… it is quite a realisation.

[@tima6044]

Oh, we all knew. The show and games were immediately a huge hit and dominated at the time.

[@nathanboosman]

Lol when you described the rumors of mew, I immediately thought about the truck 😂

[@jimijames6449]

This is a fantastic video mate

[@marcleach6167]

The rumour I always heard was if you stay on the ss Anne for a certain amount of time it will take you with it The hours I spent waiting for it to leave as a kid was a pain

[@pascalsimioli6777]

Yeah try being convinced that you needed to defeat the Elite 4 100 times to finally get the rocket to the moon in emerald.

[@Spudmay]

Man, the S.S. ANNE leaving always made me sad. I wanted to see where they went... I wanted that adventure! They went underway and a portion of the game leaves forever with it. Fuck, still makes me melancholy lol

[@godspeedhero3671]

@@pascalsimioli6777 See, stuff like this is why I liked the Megaman Battle Network series so much. The rumors were usually true in those games.

[@riograul2043]

So many dead double A's

[@jessl1934]

The rumor I heard was that if you listened to the lavender town music for too long it would turn you racist

[@aquaesque3490]

I remember being in the schoolyard when I was really young--kindergarten or first grade, maybe--and my friend, who was part-Japanese and had a lot of relatives in Japan, showed us this magazine full of funky-looking cartoon monsters that we all thought were pretty neat and immediately folded into our schoolyard games. Cut to a year later, and those funky little monsters were *everywhere*. What a time it was to be alive.

[@thrash208]

Same sort of thing happened to me. We had a Asian woman who owned a little shop and it often had weird toys from asia. I remember buying what we now know as syther keychain thinking it looked really cool she called them "pocket monsters" and it even said pocket monsters on the bottom. then all of a sudden pokemon red and blue came out and i didnt even put two and two together until i played it and saw syther. It was such a mind blowing experience

[@LanceCorporal_Waffles]

14:44 Don't tell me that you don't give Muk a backwards name, nowadays 🤣 53:59 You bastard... LOL I'm so glad to have found this channel. I'm currently building some Super Sentai Mini Pla Model Kits while having this play in the background!

[@RonponVideos]

I also played Blue as a kid (it was my first game!) and when you mentioned you played Blue, I felt such an odd sense of camaraderie lol.

[@RonponVideos]

Nvm you dissed my boy Squirtle.

[@tut-4126]

​@@RonponVideos🤣

[@onechippyboi]

It's crazy how this game was the beginning of Pokemon. Imagine that some japanese game devs were making this game totally unaware of what it would become.

[@kowikowi8718]

Everyone Had a specific rythm Combination i Miss the old Times. A b a b a b dpamming only after the First Shake.

[@electrominded8372]

Played Pokémon Red for the first time in 2000 and it was LEGENDARY. Best soundtrack on the Game Boy.

[@Real_Dystopian]

Contested only by Link’s Awakening I’d say!

[@Re207]

exactly. this is the comment i was looking for

[@aldrincarbonell1757]

Gameboy color but German texts

[@glenncairns2650]

holy shit catching Mew was actually a real possibilty, can't believe it after all these years

[@DCol]

yeah but the glitch wasnt discovered until 2002 😂