The First Pokemon Distribution Events!

this video took way longer then expected , glad to finally have it done. comment if you are reading this "shake & bake" credit all goes to all orginal photo owners and thanks to bulpapedia bulbagarden for helping provide information to some of these events check out more events here
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[@paigehollihan7339]

I bet those Mew machines are chillin in Area 51 with Mew himself

[@R9beats]

Paige Hollihan 😂😂 comment of the year!

[@smjflamesproductions5486]

That is a very good theory!

[@car1188_]

Ofcourse just look under the truck you will find it

[@bighead2169]

@Takeo Fuck off you hater

[@Dottman56]

@Takeo shut up bitch

[@alphajohnlive583]

Having a Mew back in the day held more clout than owning a Lamborghini Also RIP Sportsworld 😭

[@R9beats]

AlphaJohnLIVE sports world is chillin with harambe right now ❤

[@smjflamesproductions5486]

I remember the water park there! It was awesome that place

[@HistoryandReviews]

Wrong dweeb

[@theyenvy1368]

it didn’t, but lol😂

[@KevinArcade87]

In Belgium we got Celebi event before Mew. When the Pokémon craze was slowing down we suddenly had a Mew event at Game Mania stores all over Belgium. A Mew machine was present at each location. You couldn't use Pokémon Gold, Silver or Crystal cartridges to receive Mew but you had to use your old Red, Blue or Yellow cartridge.

[@ravatosthepro1323]

There Arent as many game manias as there used too be

[@R9beats]

wow that's incredible information thanks for sharing jealous you got those experiences

[@niahoad]

Good old times. I remember filling in a quiz in a nintendo magazine. Going to a toystore and getting it on my blue cartridge. I grew up in switzerland, europe. I am 30 years old now, time flies

[@t8elite707]

Wow, people had it more difficult back then for those special events. New tech over the years has made it so much easier. Really liked your vid R9beats!

[@R9beats]

Thanks a million new tech has made event Pokémon less interesting. Does have its perks thou ... Like your mom not having to miss one...

[@mike65085]

I was so eager to get a Mew back in the day for Pokemon Red but no distribution event occurred close enough to home. Then in 2016 I finally got my first Mew with Pokemon's 20th Anniversary event giveaway. It felt great to finally get Mew!

[@Mynostalgicvideos]

No, it made it way better and was simple.

[@kermut]

Man the Toys R Us event haunts me to this day. All i wanted was that damn Mew man

[@xanethedarkwerehog]

Jake Bailey I feel your pain

[@HistoryandReviews]

Try being an adult for once

[@MattZRJSRoxy]

I remember the TRU event where you had to trade for them

[@tonkuriihq8133]

​​@@HistoryandReviews they were obviously joking not seriously traumatized by not getting a pokemon calm the fuck down

[@beatzuma1996]

If not too late some guy on eBay has 2 promo mews from Pocket Monsters Red and he got them from the events in this KZbin videos. He told me the story of him getting it from a guy from Japan and how cool and sick the events sound. I wish I can go back in time

[@hunterdomingue5600]

My Friend and I went to our local Toys R Us for the Mew event way back. He was one of the Mew winners! I had won a copy of Yellow from Radio Disney and was still waiting for it to arrive so, I didn't have a game to get Mew and opted out of entering. Since we were the only kids to show up, the guy snuck my friend a second Mew for me for whenever my game arrived. We were both beyond happy! Good times!

[@wooqly4586]

Do you still have the mew ?

[@diegogalvan1810]

That employee was a real one, great story :)

[@phil.]

I teared up reading this wholesome asf

[@lucemonfalldownmode]

In Mexico there were Mew events too. I went to the last one that was organized for the Gen 2 games. The event was held by the official Nintendo magazine of Mexico, which happened to be called Club Nintendo. You just had to bring an issue of the magazine, a Game Boy and a Gen 1 or Gen 2 game. One of the staff members plugged his Game Boy Advance to your system using an universal Game Link cable, then, he asked you to trade any pokémon and that was it. You could also get Celebi in that event (unless you hadn't brought a Gen 2 game). The gift pokémon belonged to a specific trainer (Ash for Mew and Hiro for Celebi), they also had set OT Numbers; finally, one of its stats was guaranteed to be 15 (the other 4 were random).

[@R9beats]

That's so cool thanks for sharing

[@lucemonfalldownmode]

Keep up the good work :)

[@senabea]

I was too young to get to the OG mew events, but i remember going to a Mew event in the mid 2000s and trading the employee with the mew distribution a zigzagoon for it, lmfao. I really miss when mythical Pokemon were harder to get, they used to feel so much more special.

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

Do you still have this mew?

[@senabea]

unfortunately no, i was terrible at taking care of my games as a kid so i lost basically all of my original GBA games from then lmfao

[@MattZRJSRoxy]

might have been TRU since I remember that one

[@senabea]

@@MattZRJSRoxy it 100% was a TRU event, lmao

[@shortguy07]

Nintendo: Don’t turn the console off while the game saves Also Nintendo: M A S S G A M E B O Y M U R D E R

[@Sheepybopeepy]

I was actually lucky enough as a kid to win the Mew from the Toys R Us distribution!

[@dirtsquids9854]

Do you still have it?

[@Sheepybopeepy]

@@dirtsquids9854 sadly no. Even if I did the battery in the game pak would definitely have died and I’d have lost it anyways.

[@TheVideoGameManiac]

Mew had itself some work done. Also, the Johto Region beta Pokemon spawned so much fan art. It's remarkable how big the Pokemon franchise is.

[@R9beats]

TheVideoGameManiac lmao mew looked very fetus like in Pokémon green 😂😂 the gold beta slaw ed some amazing art and theory's 😁

[@KevinArcade87]

Funny fact. In Belgium we actually got a Mew event AFTER the Celebi event. You simple had to take your Pokémon Red, Blue or Yellow cartridge with an empty slot to a chain store called Game Mania (Belgium's Gamestop) and they had a Mew Machine present at the shop. After they put a Mew on your cartridge they put a sticker on your cartridge that said "Mew inside". I don't remember what the OT of these Mew's were. Perhaps these few Mew/Celebi machines remained in Europe and are now somewhere collecting dust. The device did have a special adapter because it was basically a Japanese device being connected to a European powersocket.

[@R9beats]

Wow that's amazing man. That's definitely an experience of a life time. Thanks for sharing , I really hope some mew machines are discovered one day!

[@R9beats]

Do you still have your cartrage with the sticker "mew inside" . That's definitely a unicorn item now a days

[@lightyagami3492]

@@R9beats i could only imagine what would happen if one of these mew/celebi machines are found lmao. Personally I'd like to see if any mew data is left over in the roms of the celebi machines.

[@TheCakeLie]

In Norway we had a event for mew, we inserted our cart, and got a mew in our party. I don't remember this as much as I was quite young then, but I remember it was around the time Crystal was out

[@ShapelessMonstrosity]

Clarification on the Nintendo Power Mew: The IVs aren't the standard set used in all the other distributions, but that doesn't mean they aren't fixed. It's unlikely that the IVs were truly random, and even more unlikely that they could be Shiny.

[@R9beats]

SnorlaxMonster thanks I do agree with you although it would be extremely unlikely the possibility could always have still been there. Thought it was just an interesting point to bring up

[@danieldosouto7912]

Awesome video bud and some interesting information glad to see that your back uploading It's the 90's baby

[@R9beats]

Daniel Do Souto my man Dan with the master plan thanks allot bro!

[@TheAlkaun]

Dan is an R9 super fan

[@danieldosouto7912]

Michael Maser hell yeah man Ryan's the man

[@JuanRamirez-fx3tf]

I think there was a distribution contest by the end of the 90s in Mexico by a Nintendo magazine. I remember I met one of the winners of the game he said something like he received a high-level Mew with terrible attacks such as headbutts. He got a low replacement later a low-level Mew.

[@StatusQuonald]

If I could travel back to the 90's, I'd do the Mew glitch in Yellow and live as a God on my playground.

[@PieMastyr]

Great work man, worth the wait!

[@R9beats]

You're the man thanks!

[@Oraceon]

Just wanna say this video is extremely underrated, man. I’m lookin for old event cartridges, so i figured I’d do my research first. Thank you for this video! Sharing and liked!

[@R9beats]

Thanks means so much I'm glad you enjoyed

[@shopretroreplay]

Great video man. Im sure someone has one of those distribution kiosks kicking around somewhere.

[@R9beats]

If you find one let me know 😂😂

[@R9beats]

I'd love one

[@nextchannelgames763]

I wonder if there is a way to reverse engineer/recreate these Mew Machines in the future? 🤔

[@R9beats]

Its up to fans , Pokémon company and Nintendo to come together to prosurve a piece of gaming history! I hope one day one is found thou!

[@scurrie666]

I love this so much I wish I could go to the pokemon . Tue distribution events seemed sooo cool

[@aidanjones9433]

I smashed that notification bell so hard after watching this

[@R9beats]

My man 😄❤

[@andychaves4728]

Unreal video and amazing edits bro

[@R9beats]

Andy Chaves eh! From the edit king himself 😎 I'll take it thanks man

[@andychaves4728]

R9beats too bad Fayth does all my edits ;)

[@R9beats]

Queen *

[@tyrathus380]

YOU GET A MEW! YOU GET A MEW! EVERYBODY GETS A MEW! Awesome video, very detailed and very interesting!

[@R9beats]

Thanks my man always dropping the best comments 🔥🔥

[@sideskull5955]

ya know... there is SOMEONE out there, who has every single event pokemon. like ever.

[@TheTobylyn]

I Know i am late, but this was so fun to watch. I perfectly remember getting a Mew to my Pokemon yellow in Denmark, using the mew machine and even got the certificate:D

[@KevinArcade87]

11:12 that's me at the Celebi Tour in Belgium :D

[@R9beats]

Whaaaaaat! No way that's legendary!

[@KevinArcade87]

@@R9beats most pictures of that event are also mine. I think the article was also scanned in by me but could been someone else. I got some more articles too

[@johnnyringo4947]

Just found this channel. Pretty good info here. I'm a new Pokemon fan so i had no idea about this.

[@kev4claire]

I remember using a Mew Machine back in 2000 here in the UK, I still have it, it’s ID 000001 and the OT is UK it was given out at the Pokemon Tournament 2000, I’ve had 2 but lost one when my Pokemon Gold battery went dead, my last surviving as been backed up for safety

[@GameBoothUK]

I'm gutted because I lost my Mew when my Red battery died.. still have the memories of being at Meadowhall for the event though.. and the badges I won there Wish I'd had it stored on Pokemon Stadium..

[@HistoryandReviews]

Sell it! Legit mew cartridges go for $100,000!!

[@MattZRJSRoxy]

makes me so sad that I’ve never gotten to use a Mew machine

[@Topjaw3]

SHAAAAAKE AND BAAAAKE!!!!! ...In all honesty this video was great, man! really interesting! Way cooler (and more braggin rights) to get a pokemon like OG mew back in the day rather than going to a Gamestop and getting a code. Keep up the great work!!! ...that's why you asked for those old pictures of Sports World!!

[@R9beats]

Topjaw3 you know it I couldn't get one of the front entrance way thou 💔 event Pokémon ain't no joke

[@R9beats]

You read the description my man! I just noticed 🔥🔥

[@MTL-Matty]

Oh my god, that last event you talked about. It was on my 9th birthday when they were in my home town while also held at a place that was 'the jam to my toast' . And I also didn't know so I also missed it. Never knew till now. Retroactively devastated.

[@R9beats]

i feel your pain on a spiritual level :(

[@VanillaScoopYGO]

Nowadays event distribution just sucks. Go on the internet, yaaaay you did it. Heres a legendary.

[@newphilmz3605]

People will complain either way. Before, they were too exclusive. Now, they're too easy to get

[@JeffBoyardeeSon]

nwphlmz I know what you mean.. Personally, I would like some sort of side mission or quest of some sort

[@puppy4779]

Like that shiny zeraora event.

[@fristlyextras5002]

@@JeffBoyardeeSon i kind off miss catching em like the old events with u having to do side quests and shit

[@GameboyLuke]

this was interesting!

[@R9beats]

Wow! Thanks so much for checking out my video can't believe it 😄

[@Freshtildeath]

When I was little I got very into pokemon. My Grandparents bought me the red Gameboy Pocket and my Mom and Dad got me Pokemon Red. I got it for my 8th Birthday. I will never forget it. I remember one morning at about 5 am, they woke me up and told me I had to go to Grandparents because they had somewhere to be. They didn't tell me where, just that it was Important. A few hours later they came home. I was awoken by them because I just slept on the couch in the living room which was connected to the driveway door. They handed me my gameboy and said "We waited for 4 hours to try and get a secret special pokemon for you." I was shocked as I didnt even know about it, Just rumors from friends who had internet at the time and after 3 days of loading some crazy unreliable webpage, in the depths of the garbage some user mentioned he heard about said secret pokemon from a friend from japan, and that there was indeed 151 pokemon, that the show had it in the beginning and might be related to Mewtwo. The then said to me " We're sorry but we couldnt get it, they had a contest and only 3 people were drawn. But they did give us some promo cards and comics (the manga)." I was so happy even though I didnt win. I was so happy they did that for me and I still appreciate it even now and it makes me tearful with happiness. The promo cards were Mew btw, a Holo which i still have as well as the manga. confirmed the rumored rare pokemon. And now the hunt was on for another chance or way to get it. man the 90's were awesome, I miss the mystery behind the games and mons before datamining. But I have some great memories of the game and most importantly my Loving Parents and My Grandparents who are both gone. Cherish who and what you have. End grudges, learn to submit and forgive. Go tell who you love that you do love them.

[@smjflamesproductions5486]

Mew in the past, it was too good to last. I wanted one too, but I missed all the cues. R9beats, you're bringing the pokeheat! Your videos are great, because they're not clickbait! Really love your videos! That was awesome!

[@R9beats]

SMJFlames Productions the R9 Rap might even been better the orginal pokerap if you ask me🔥 Thanks you are the best!

[@Leto85]

Mew is my alltime favourite Pokémon. After watching this video I have to share my own Mew experiences. I remember how around 2003 me and my sister were at a game store in Arnhem when the boy behind the desk told us he knew a guy who had Mews on his cardridge. And he was willing to come over to trade with us. My sis and I didn't have our games with us but our mom was kind enough to ride all the way back to Beuningen to get those cardridges so that we could get a Mew. I was so hyped! I trained mine to level 100 asap, but figured out too late that at level 100 I couldn't give it any vitamins anymore, but I could clone my sister's Mew as that one wasn't level 100 yet. Around 2006 I got My Pokémon Ranch on the Wii (I still have that Wii with the game) and that was the first time I got my own Mew (OT: Hayley). Unfortunately Pokémon Bank didn't accept it, so I had to say goodbye to that Mew around 2019 when I decided to replay Black for Pokedex completion. At the end of 2018 I've invested a ton in Pokémon: Switch, Sword and Shield double Pack, both Let's Go games and a Pokéball Plus. I finally had a Mew in Sword and I was so excited. Until the Switch decided not to turn on anymore and I had to switch in the switch. Thing is my Mew was on there, and Pokémon Home was far from released. My mom felt so sorry for me that she bought me a new Pokéball Plus. (Yes, she is the sweetest.) But after a lot of trouble I not only got a new Switch, but a second Pokeball Plus as well, so now I have a Mew from Galar and one from Kanto, since I've connected the other Plus to Let's Go Pikachu. Around 2019 I saw a video on KZbin that thanks to the 2008 event leaks it still was possible to get the events for all gen 4 and 5 games. So now I am the proud owner of a few Mews from back in those days as well. 2019, same year and I've bought a few second hand cardridges with living Pokédexes on it. On Sapphire there was the Mystery Mew and the shiny Japanese Mew. My first shiny Mew! 2020. Shiny Mew event in Pokémon Go. Of course I bought it. As I've stopped playing Go for the moment I still have to get that Mew, but that would be the first shiny Mew with my own OT. I've only finished the Catch a Pokémon 30 Days In A Row part of the quest though. I will transfer this shiny Mew to Home once I have it.

[@cyanrazorCel]

Great video!

[@saixmusic9322]

Molto presto arriverà su questo video la community italiana, grazie Cydonia

[@ericcorona8167]

I had the certificate of authenticity! Lol I wonder if I still have it

[@R9beats]

that would be so cool would love to see a picture if you still have it

[@ericcorona8167]

R9beats I just checked. I don’t think I have it anymore, couldn’t find my Pokémon league tcg stamp books either :/ the oldest thing I have still are 2 of those jumbo sized “articuno moltres and Zappos” cards. Not that it’s that amazing, I still have a squirtle and jigglypuff blockbuster pokemon snap cards though (used) lol

[@andrewzegura6502]

At 8:57 I went to the one in Sacramento at Arden Fair Mall. Got myself a Mew that day, and got to compete in the tournaments.

[@rafsoto24]

I was at the first us event in Oxford valley! and got a mew I still have the certificate and photos from that day. Only kid in my neighborhood. That thing been traded more then any Pokémon I ever had but luckily I got it back. Last time I saw it was 2013 when I got back into Pokémon and man I loved it and was so sad when I couldn’t move it up to fire red. It’s last stop was crystal version

[@KevinArcade87]

An error made in the video regarding where the player's cartridge is slid into. If you look closely at the pictures available you will see the slot either being green or yellow. Clearly these were Gameboy Pockets as they came in Green and Yellow. The Super Gameboy 2 had a feature to be able to link up with a GameBoy so they must have simple connected a Gameboy Pocket to a Super Gameboy 2

[@neoneyland8300]

Very good video! I got a Mew around 2001. A buddy traded it to me from Pokémon Gold. I wish I could find that cartridge today 😭

[@SKARDANIOTHS]

it was a mew event with Mew machines in Greece many years ago what a nice memories!

[@R9beats]

sounds like you had an experience of a life time that's amazing :)

[@mrdoukaschris4803]

Στα Jumbo λες ε? Ακομα θυμαμαι που δεν πηγα...

[@SKARDANIOTHS]

@@mrdoukaschris4803 Ναι ειχα παει με 3 κασσετες και τους ελεγα δεν το ξαναπατατε καμια 1αρια φορες

[@neillholley5061]

I received Mew at the Fiesta Mall event in '99. Almost positive that i was given a Mew certificate during that event. Don't remember if anyone wrote a number on it, though.. It's probably somewhere in my parents' house still. I'll have to try and find it one day.

[@WedgeStratos]

This could be a cool marketing thing for independent game stores. You may never be able to get that feeling of being among the smallest margins with it, and it's so easy to get with cheat devices now, but wouldn't it be cool to walk in with a Game Boy and a copy of Pokemon Red, to get Surfing Pikachu, in 2020?

[@R9beats]

that would be so cool

[@lightyagami3492]

Do you have any more information on the Chinese gen 1 events? I never knew that mainland China actually released offical pokemin games. I just figured if i saw a Chinese player it was either from Hong Kong or Macau or somebody international that prefers speaking Chinese.

[@mikejacobs8718]

Got my mew in july 2000. I had people at school offering me everything they owned for him. Did end up doing a couple trades with my friends so they could complete their pokedex though. For a couple weeks me and my friend that went with me were the coolest kids in school

[@GameBoothUK]

I managed to grab 2 official Mew at the UK event in 2000 at Meadowhall. One for me, one for my friend.. both lost to battery fails now though 😔

[@howwesurvive767]

I wanted a Mew so bad as a kid. Luckily I was able to get a legit one from a distribution event in my city, my grandmother took me and my brother. They used one of those blue Super Game Boy SNES terminals. I had one of those multi carts that weren't compatible with the machine so the staff let my brother get two of them and trade one to me. Good times.

[@Vyocae]

AYYYY AN ONTARIO BRO 🥰 Ty for making this, I enjoyed watching it immensely. This shit is interesting as fuck.

[@Piipperi800]

so basically still even 20 years ago these events were region restricted

[@jeshu8372]

Hi. 5:40 are you shure about a flying pikachu? I had never knew about this. If someone use fly to go to one city in pokemon 1 generation apears a special animation o something like that? Regards.

[@jurassicstaff8639]

Your from kitchener lol that's insane nice !

[@TheAstroCreep]

I was trying to find info on this, I went to a Mall tour for Mew in 98 or 99 at the Westminster Mall in California and my Mew's OT was LINKWS or something to that matter.

[@alexandergriffin7754]

I remember winning a competition to fly from the UK to Japan to get Mew. It coincided with the release of the first pokemon movie in Japan, pretty cool event. 4 days, flight on the ANA pokemon 747, got to see the movie and get mew. Even got our favourite pokemon drawn by one of the movie producers, still got my signed gengar and signed pokemon red cart to this day, but mew went with the battery a few years back now.

[@R9beats]

Wow you are one lucky fan I'd love to see the pictures if you don't mind sharing them! You can tweet them @ me (@r9beats) on Twitter I'm extremly jealous! Also gengar is a great choice 👌

[@alexandergriffin7754]

@@R9beats more than happy to share some pics with you. It was a great experience, also picked up a pokemon center gameboy color. Quite a treasured little collection. I'll grab some snaps for you tomorrow.

[@R9beats]

@@alexandergriffin7754 you may have been the luckiest kid of the early late 90's early 2000's. AND! a Gameboy from the Pokémon center of japan cant wait to see them thanks so much for sharing!

[@_RiseAgainst]

I got the Toys R Us mew back in the day. It was supposed to be special and be able to be used in Pokemon Stadium and in tournaments. However I call BS on this as I personally had game shark mews and successfully used them on Pokemon Stadium, traded them to gold and silver and have second hand knowledge of them being used in sanctioned tournaments. What was their differences if any?

[@super8bitvideos]

Six flags did a celebi event and I had no clue, but always traveled with my silver version. It was an unbelievable surprise to say the least. They had a whole tent set up with pokemon games and events. I was a dumb kid and peeled the sticker off my cartridge and wondered what the little silver button underneath did. It wiped my game. I searched and reset the game at least 100 times hoping the celebi would show back up in the box like it was when I got it. No luck.

[@Omega_Room]

I have one of those Mew's! I'm also a collector of event pokemon, i found one of the japanese Mew's!

[@Omega_Room]

I transfered them to my save file of Pokemon UltraMoon ¡they look awesome! (Yeah, i know thas kinda impossible but you can do it!) And yes, is difficult... But now i have them in my actual savefile.

[@supremekingthesupremelifef9684]

@@Omega_Room I have the FAL2010 event Mew, Its Lv 5, I have so many Mews because of cloneing.

[@daliretoncho]

Anyone else got Mew in the Pokemon Training league of '99? Got mine in Florida :D still in my Blue version to this day

[@Texasbroski512]

If I had a Time Machine I’d go to these events and offer thousands to buy the machines

[@dror843]

R9beats could you tell me the year and magazine number of corocoro that featured mew? wanna search for it on ebay for collection reasons

[@tonkuriihq8133]

Mew is my favorite pokemon and getting my hands on one of those mew machines is my holy grail. I doubt id ever get one much less be able to afford it even if i did find an opportunity, but holy shit i would kill for one

[@kona5853]

I received 2 Mews from toys r us for my Red and Yellow. I still have the save files on my mega memory card I believe I’d have to check. The game batteries failed so I never put the saved back on the cartridges. I had Pokémon blue also but I’ve reset that game several times. My Pokémon blue still has the OG battery but not the OG save file.

[@doug9358]

Interesting video!

[@R9beats]

thanks? maybe?

[@doug9358]

@@R9beats haha you’re welcome. It was very cool to see the history of the first event. A ton of information I didn’t know!

[@nidhoggoflegand]

i remember giving out Mew at a toys r us event and it sucked because i was the only one in the store who knew how to do it.

[@Epsilonsama]

Mew event on Coro Coro is actually the reason Pokémon became popular in Japan. Before it was a niche JRPG on a dying console but after that people were starting to buy the game for a chance to get Mew. It still wasn't the phenomenon that it later became for that gotta thank the Anime.

[@NeoXDonut]

I still have my Mew from Toys R Us, they had special carts that only had boxes of mews and it was traded over to you via link cable

[@MattZRJSRoxy]

yup I remember the one that they did for Gen 3

[@Mynostalgicvideos]

I was hoping to find a video about this. I went to the mall to get Mew on my Blue version game.

[@bbqtool]

Everyone I went to school with had Mew in early 1999 because someone knew a guy with a game genie, months before the event even happened. I live in Victoria, Australia by the way.

[@theclubvids]

I entered this when I was 12 and won! Had to send my game cart away.. was only thing I've ever won.

[@Leto85]

1996... I was actually at the age of Ash back then, but wouldn't have heard of Pokémon until at least three whole years later. I never would have thought the first Mew event was before the games even were released. Such a nice fact to know.

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Dang, so this is what non-Jontron R9 sounds like. Huh.

[@christopherwalag]

Was so jealous of everyone who had Mews. My parents didn't have a single beat on any of these events until I gained enough consciousness to tell em about it all myself

[@R9beats]

I never got the chance to find out about these until it was to late 😔

[@snrrlax]

Definitely missing some dates on the US 99 training tour.

[@thepwrtank18]

"I can't believe I got a Mew, I wonder how rare this will be in 30 years!" Kid named save battery:

[@R9beats]

😂

[@corabain]

I took part in the first pokemon league that came around the UK. I got knocked out first round by some guy who they later found out had a been cheating but it was too late. Still got a boulder badge out of it. Anywho, they had Mew machines there. Me, my best friend and his little sister went. We kept sending her back up to get more and ended up with about 8 in total, including our own which we gave out to our friends that didn't get to the event. For a while we were legends in school. But about a month later someone had started mass cloning them and everyone had a Mew.

[@matveyxivan7159]

so morimoto was the reason why poor kids who didnt live in specific places could never fill out their pokedexs

[@R9beats]

😂 thats one way to look at it

[@SirKanti1]

You had to have an open space for a pokemon and be in a poke centre for the trade to work. I got a new from a uk event and a friend released my new into the wild.

[@SuperTrainStationH]

4:03 holy mess EAGB, now THAT brings me back.

[@R9beats]

classic

[@dannydavito201]

At school I was the go to guy As I was the 1st with a Mew, I'm from the UK and we had no way of getting him and the actual method to get him wasn't known yet, I had a cheat cartridge and was distributing them to people for cash, The good old days

[@phil.]

Nahhh🤣 I cloned my lugia on emerald and was trading them off, pretty sure thats how I got my first shiny

[@user-rs1990]

I remember getting Celebi at Westfield Tea Tree Plaza by means of that 'distribution machine'.

[@R9beats]

That's incredible not jealous at all... Okay maybe a little a lot ...

[@elbarnii143]

3:46 Thaats right, a MEW Machine xD

[@KantiKane]

my mom took me to one of these events at a mall to get a mew. and it was cause she heard of the event. shes a good mom

[@R9beats]

i shall trade you moms

[@KantiKane]

@@R9beats no shes mine lol

[@kasaibouF29]

I'm willing to bet that Shigeki Morimoto parked his truck there on purpose.

[@keizaronstesticularcancer4608]

I won a sweepstakes for Pokémon Crystal that came with all shiny Raikou/Suicune/Entei and Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres but the cartridge battery died some years ago 😥

[@NatsumenoKage]

I was a three of the Toys r Us events. I did not get a mew. But anyway I did get to see one of the GB pockets close up that the Mews had been on. It was a Gameboy pocket silver with a red version in it with silver void tape it had nothing but the Pokémon that had been traded for the Mew. Other then that it seemed to be a normal red version.

[@R9beats]

sorry to hear you never got one but that's still an amazing experience and you saw the gameboys in person that's pretty cool

[@NatsumenoKage]

@@R9beats it was an amazing experience in hindsight I remember being real upset at the time. I think the employee was just trying to make my day better since the last mew went to the kid in front of me that already had one.

[@randomstuff_21]

They gotta bring these pokemon back

[@prescriptionpete866]

I received a mew from a machine but I thought it looked different, in Australia in 1999. It was level 5. Definitely needed to have a free place in your party to allow the trade. The graphic of the trade is 100% burnt into my brain haha. Having Mew was huge as an 11 year old lol. It could learn any move. I lost it when the battery died 😞 Great memories though 🎉😊

[@R9beats]

Regardless of the battery being dead that memory will live forever I can't even describe how jealous I am of that thanks for sharing your story

[@pikajak3y]

I still cherish my cousins Pokémon yellow with distributors Mew.

[@Joey-tw7wt]

Banger

[@SpaceVandal]

Das a cool video chief.

[@R9beats]

Thanks man, I see you make Pokémon content aswell 👀

[@SpaceVandal]

I dabble lol, thanks for checking me out. Good video here for sure though.

[@ThrE3-GeS]

8:30 timestamp: That‘s not a silver gameboy color! They weren‘t out yet! That‘s a Gameboy Pocket. The original Gameboy but smaller and equipped with backlight. I know right, so many years before the gba sp. And yes i know im old for knowing all this stuff, don‘t remind me. Pls like so he can see it, thx

[@ThrE3-GeS]

Omg you did see it ^^ cool video. I felt so young for one moment ;)

[@seldeztiny318]

It always annoying as a kid bc most if not all the event pokemon were at specific stores we didnt even have in Canada, or said store was in a city hours aways.

[@KevinArcade87]

A error was made in the video about the functionality of this device. The device at the very least has the following hardware (or part of it) Super Famicom console, Super Famicom controller, Super Gameboy Player 2, Gameboy Pocket console, Gameboy Link Cable and a Pokémon Cartridge inside. The player would slide his cartridge in a slot which is a flipped upsidedown Gameboy Pocket. Deducted from following evidence. A Super Gameboy 2 player has a linkcable slot on its side, the Super Gameboy border of each machine would either be in red, blue, gold, silver depending on which cartridge would be inserted internally for the destribution from the event cartridge to the players cartridge. The slot that you insert your cartridge in would be either in yellow or green or perhaps even other colors? Matching existing Gameboy Pocket model colors. Super Famicom controller because it was clearly written on the controller.

[@R9beats]

thanks for help the extra information not sure how many people even knew about this now

[@TheClosetGamer]

I was at the tri-counry giveaway in Cincinnati. My step mom threw my Authentication in the trash and sold my copy of Pokémon red that had Mew on it...

[@allhailme8457]

I had an original Mew from the events…. He went from blue to yellow, fought in stadium, went to gold and then Crystal… then crystals battery ran out. And all my Pokémon were lost. 😭

[@xanethedarkwerehog]

My older brother attended the mew toys r us event and actually got a mew in his gen 1 game. I was always jealous of that.

[@R9beats]

I'm jealous of your brother too :(