Beta Characters of Pokemon Gold and Silver | Pokemon Cut Content

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Hope you all enjoyed this! This was the finale to the Pokemon Gold and Silver Cut Content series. More Pokemon is planned for the future, so stay tuned! Also follow me Twitter guys!: twitter.com/Obsessive_Gamer

[@nirgunawish]

thank you for nostalgia goosebumps with the heartgold intro music

[@kotoneshiomi8882]

If Red was supposed to be "Kanto's gym leader", then that may be another thing that made it's way into the manga. Red won the Gym Leader title but refused to it, so Green (Oak) took it instead.

[@TSRL_ZZ]

Bugsy being Goldenrod's original gym leader lines up with the bug catching contest lol

[@Fruitman1997]

Worth noting that the original/oldest Clair sprite actually resembles Jasmine’s official sprite - so it looks like when they redesigned Clair, they kept her bottom half and used it for Jasmine, which is pretty neat

[@azuzziken]

Exactly. Gama is just Claire's face on top of Jasmine's body. I found it weird that it wasn't mentioned.

[@NPC_5120]

I loved how the beta rom leaked and now we have a whole new world of Pokémon to explore 😉

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

It's almost like an alternate timeline came out lol

[@NPC_5120]

@@TheObsessiveGamer makes you think about it huh lol

[@kaizoku8087]

ITS A WHOLE NEW WORLD TO LIVE IN!

[@wnrr2696]

@@TheObsessiveGamer would be good to get an old school graphics game with all the regions accessible and the national dex

[@TheOverachiever7]

That corrupted sprite sheet really felt like creepy pasta material before the cleanup. Feels like G/S was going to be way bigger, which is crazy considering it still feels big in the final version.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

As with much of Gen 1 being creepypasta related, this of course would be too lol

[@silverhetch3383]

It was supposed to be the final game of the series after all

[@costby1105]

I should point out that most of the sprites seem to be designed with the Super Game Boy or more specifically the Super Game Boy 2 in mind; as a result the artist are using color differently as opposed to the Game Boy Color intended final product. Also many of the beta sprites were to busy to be cleanly readable on even modern PC much less a Game Boy or CRT.

[@spuki5297]

Honestly an event where you could just randomly skateboard with Red would have been cool

[@heart3460]

Beta Jasmine looks cute, I hope they revive that design. It's really cool to see a bit of a story change for the game.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Looks like she would be a Fairy type gym leader if that designed was recycled into a modern game in the series judging by all the ribbons, just sayin’.

[@dramaticScar]

Could Jasmine's design have been recycled as Valerie's design... cinsidering Valerie is from Johto and is introducing a new type the way Jasmine does...

[@BobbyReborn]

So concise . I lol’d at how the teacher went through 3 forms and then got cut anyway. Your vids deserve a mil views each. Thanx for all the research and hard work putting them together !

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Thanks! Hopefully one day we can hit those numbers lol

[@benarim]

I'm 99% certain the "whips" of the teachers are actually pointing sticks

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I did think it could be that, but the shape of it at the end looks like those old teacher whips that were used. I mean it fits the whole whip these of then anyways

[@Oceane1803]

I really like Falkner and Jasmine's beta designs.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Some of my favourites personally

[@Oceane1803]

Same. Especially Jasmine. And if she was meant to be Agatha's apprentice like you theorized, that would have been so cool. It would probably have expanded the lore between Agatha and Oak and that would have been really cool.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

@@Oceane1803 If it expanded that lore, i'd hope they would have had Jasmine meet Blue then considering Blue being Oak's direct apprentice too that way.

[@Oceane1803]

Oh yeah that would have been neat. And if Jasmine had that kind of treatment, I wonder what kind of cool stories they could have had in stock for all the other Gym Leaders.

[@ajtriforcegamerofhyrule8538]

Red being a gym leader originally makes sense to why the adventures his goal was to become one

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Out of curiousity where was this mentioned regarding Red's original goal?

[@ajtriforcegamerofhyrule8538]

@@TheObsessiveGamer It was in the later chapters of red & blue, green ones the gym leader has been absent for a long time and after defeating Giovanni he's offered to be one but declines to get stronger as his goal

[@charlotteshenkenberger345]

​@@ajtriforcegamerofhyrule8538 I thought he declined because of injuries from when the E4 kidnapped him and froze him solid?

[@catriamflockentanz]

7:59 That explains why Claire acts so childish upon defeat. 15:39 Also this pose looks like she's is about to fall over...

[@mafeuk]

6:55 maybe the final match was originally a skateboarding race down Mt. Silver xD

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

ah yes, Pokemon 5D's but with skateboards

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

Some comments I have on this video: For the Kung Fu Master, I wonder if that was supposed to be for Karate King Kiyo (or maybe Karate Master Koichi)? I'm also surprised that the Rock Climber class wasn't reused for X and Y, considering that was the theme of the Cyllage City Gym. Since Red was a Gym Leader, I wonder if he spoke at this point in development rather than being a silent character. It would be interesting to see what Imposter Professor Oak and Imakuni would have done in this game. Imakuni probably would be the victim of a regional difference, as he probably wouldn't have made it into the international versions. I wonder if Giovanni was cut as an Elite 4 member as the big twist of him being in such a major position wasn't as effective the second time. The Soldier may have been cut due to the same reason the whips were, not because he was particularly violent himself, but because he implied violence via military service and war. Not that this would matter now since an ancient war was a big plot point in X and Y.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Well alot of these beta classes appear to have eventually made it into the series, such as Fledgling becoming Preschooler, so makes sense. I would also hope Red would have spoken as a gym leader lol Also I imagine Imakuni would have stayed since he was in the TCG GB game. I mean I imagine Giovanni was cut all together as to not make him repeat his Team Rocket ambitions twice. Also I don't think Soldier would be cut for the sake of being a soldier considering LT. Surge existed in the first game.

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

@@TheObsessiveGamer For Imakuni, I was going to say about the TCG game, actually, but I was going under the assumption that something would've held him back for early GS. Then again, the TCG GB game was released several months after the Spaceworld Versions of Gold and Silver would have released, even in Japan, so who knows what would've happened. As for the Soldier, I had a lapse in judgement for forgetting about Lt. Surge when I wrote it. The only thing I can think of is maybe a potential concern internally at Game Freak with depicting US-controlled bases, even if it would've been pretty obscure knowledge to most people at the time. Then again, Lt. Surge himself is American, so I'm not sure what to think.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

@@Hijiri_MIRACHION I doubt they would have went political in talking about it as an "occupation" and rather would have just have them randomly standing around like most trainers.

[@ironpulcinella3586]

CoughLt Surgecough

[@MazterP28]

Bugsy beta form looks the guy from that movie with max and nay, and the fly gin…jirachi wish maker

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I should look it up to see lol

[@PerfectCell9]

Gold is my favourite protagonist by far, his artwork just worked for me, he was new and cool

[@Mattakattak]

Your content is widely underrated man, awesome video!

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Thank you!

[@silverhetch3383]

7:58 I feel like Clair still being a child makes her tantrum much more reasonable

[@SuperPuddingCup]

The Kimono girl was flipped because the fold of her kimono on the beta sprite was the wrong way, which is reserved for the dead. South Man looks like Samurai from the anime, who is a bug catcher.

[@Ness-op2uy]

Oh wow, very interesting video! The addition of Imakuni would have been funny, I wonder why GF cut him out of the game since he already was in the GBC TCG included.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Considering it was coming out later than expected, I wouldn't be surprised if their contract was starting to expire with him is why that happened.

[@almond3066]

At 14:29 that is actually the punk sprite in gen 1, so I'm assuming it was used as another placeholder

[@yokoelfvganime8112]

These beta sprites are pure art, they are extremely expressive, top tier Sugimori-based pixel art

[@LittleAl016]

Any ideas of who the Cerulean Gym Leader would have been if they kept Misty as an Elite 4 member, but had the regions be Kanto and Johto as in the final game?

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Maybe they'd canonize her sisters as a trio gym leader

[@real_Furryratchet]

Your Beta stuff is probably the best on the whole platform here :) Really great stuff and interesting to watch. Since no one really covers it besides you. Iam sad that the gameboy games are over.

[@StainedSilver]

Thank you so much for these videos. They're my go-to when I want to learn more about the beta games or g/s in general, as it's one of my interests. I applaud you for the work you put into them, and I hope you continue to make these, wether it's about g/s, or any game in general. You always give reliable, trustworthy information and make sure to include all the characters and locations! It really makes my heart happy to have a trustworthy source to get these facts and quality content from. Thank you, please keep up the amazing work! :D

[@PompadourSamurai]

20:35 In line with the toning down of sexuality, they removed the player character's mom side twerking animation.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Wait what?

[@JustAPrinnyDood]

I can't unsee that lol

[@Rarebros]

Great video man. Always enjoy your content. Especially Pokémon beta information. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Thank you!

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Enoki looks like Numbah 4 from Codename Kids Next Door🤣

[@TekuJames]

Could Silver's sister have been Green as we saw in the Adventures manga? It would have been cool to see her introduced a whole generation before FRLG.

[@wnrr2696]

The 99 Giovanni sprite had the same red tint as the two dragon leaders earlier on The rocket ones also had the same tint

[@dragooncroft]

The art for Falkner in Pokemon stadium interestingly had pidgey on that same arm

[@gfsdfsdf6546]

7:51 Have you noticed the fact that the lower body is actually's Jasmine's? Wonder if the body is just a place holder

[@MortenLongbottom]

The body is Jasmine, not Whitney. But that's very interesting

[@gfsdfsdf6546]

@@MortenLongbottom You're right, i wanted to say her but for some reason my head went to naming Whitney

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Good observation. Shows that the final Jasmine design was pretty much a split from the old Clair one. Surprisingly Jasmine looks way more adult with that compared to Clair.

[@real_Furryratchet]

7:30 the left sprite looks like a fusion of Claire & Jasmin's final desing. To be honest, the left sprite looks really unfinished. Just look at the neck.

[@TerraSoftTV]

Something I noticed about the Guitarist sprite is that the beta appears to be using the head of the Gen 1 sprite but is partially drawn over with what looks like an early version of the final design, with the nose and mouth being on the left side rather than the right and a white line where the neck line would be. It's a shame we are left with this WIP version rather than what came directly before and after this, but still interesting none the less!

[@Matty.011]

Joey and his top tier rattata.🤣 Joey is the one trainer who everyone remembers

[@shaunduzstuffs]

I really wish they stuck with the original region besides the ugly Kanto city. I've explored it and seen it and it has more life to it. There's a tropical area, a snow area, overall is more diverse. The original Team Rocket story seems to have been way better with Imposter Oak and Giovanni returning. It's a shame that the Johto region was made pretty lackluster in order to include Kanto

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I really do love how diverse it was. Course if this happened it would mean no Hoenn or Sinnoh games either.

[@beartraptree]

Giovanni having a secret second child he doesn't talk about doesn't seem that out of character for him.

[@gabrielevalentini4438]

"If you thought Jasmine wasn't cute enough, then get ready for beta Jasmine"

[@timgorg1919]

Red as a gym leader would be quite cool. I think thet reworked it and made blue as the gym leader

[@Goomatora]

So many more whips than I had anticipated

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Being a Pokemon Trainer in Gen 2 beta was pain clearly :P

[@kenW13]

I’m weak at “one hell of a busy sprite”🤣🤣🤣

[@JokingThief]

Claire's 98 Sprite has the body/pose from Jasmine's final sprite

[@Hikikomori_Mimikyu_2003]

Fun Fact: The cut Engineer class was actually brought back in the Black/White, and Black 2/White 2 versions.

[@Pixel_PedroYT]

Nice! I’ve seen many videos on cut content but had never known about those things!

[@Banyk]

Thanks for helping reviving the Blastoise. Real MVP!

[@triforce.pianist]

very well done! i really love this series (or any other beta/development content)

[@SaddieMoon]

5:38 Hot take: I wish they kept Jasmine’s old sprite. It looks complicated, but it’s so good. She looks like a magical girl.

[@timgorg1919]

21:09 Mars. There is even a fan animation about it. (Pedro Araujo Pokemon Red Episode 22)

[@ThatRandomFastingGuy]

Playing the Beta ROM is incredible. I actually might like it more than retail Gold 👀

[@WooperChannel]

Did you notice that the 14:48 minute biker is pretty much similar in appearance to the unreleased trainer featured on the 1997 MicroGroup Game Review cover?

[@michaelsarmiento3057]

I heard that in the Gold and Silver beta, Silver is not going to be Giovanni's kid and his mother would have been still alive. Also, Silver is nicer and he is neighbor of Ethan.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Well that is hard to say on if he was or wasn't going to be his kid. But yeah we do know he was gonna be the nicer neighbour

[@Shishizurui]

beta jasmine is so badass looking, with having a monster like steelix her design sorta lives up, just i think it was cut because the overworld just didn't translate.- also back then i really was thinking steel was going to be badass, but turned out to be like WORSE rock type.

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

I don’t know how old you were in the 90s (if you were alive) but the nineties were all about extreme sports. Surfing, skateboarding, rock climbing, roller blading. The 90s loved all that stuff. If you were there you remember. lol I barely have memories of the 90s but I remember all that. So the skateboards might just have been to appeal to kids. Lol

[@reyh89]

Correction, an engineer is not what would’ve been a debut battle character. In RBY there’s a single engineer in route 11, east of vermillion :)

[@Eyevou]

15:22 18:20 The teacher isn't holding a whip - that's a pointing stick.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I was thinking that at first but the end looks much more like those old whips teachers use to use. Fitting for a game that was initially heavy in whips anyways lol

[@Eyevou]

@@TheObsessiveGamer tbh when I think of a teacher's punishment weapon I see a paddle more than a whip. lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

@@Eyevou there were a few punishment tools. The short whip was one of them. You can find them via google too, they got a thick end unlike a pointer.

[@Eyevou]

@@TheObsessiveGamer Alright, I'll concede that they COULD be classified as a whip - in as far as a riding crop is technically a whip. 😋

[@RoseBleueDuRosierSec]

This video was great, thank you for sharing all these cool earlier sprites.

[@GiggaN8EX]

I love every installment of this and this was amazing. I know this is a finale, but even shitty 80's bands come back for new tours.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Thank you! And you aren't wrong as I still have to do the big compilation episode that brings everything covered here and more into a concise super video. So technically we got one more at least for this Gen 2 series. Also Gen 3 is planned too

[@MagillanicaLouM]

These are really cool differences in design and ideas

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Indeed they are!

[@blameitondanny]

I don't know why but Bugsy(?) 1997 design gave me Emerald Annabel vibe and I think the Man child could be Pokefan since they wore pokemon costume.

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Please do lost content videos on Sonic Adventure 1 & 2,as well as some videos on fighting games

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I do like the idea of doing Sonic Adventure games especially

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

@@TheObsessiveGamer As a fan of fighting games, I'd like to see videos in that

[@wnrr2696]

Or a massive card collection of the national dex with all diff formes and gender differences shinys etc

[@nikc101]

18:59 hey, it’s Josuke!

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

17:00 That engineer is a spy!

[@timgorg1919]

Manchild is probably Koko from jungle movie

[@syncerelyhim]

i think the plan with Giovanni was to have the final battle in the Elite 4 to wrap the plot up for the final battles in the game

[@JoseSantos-hb4nx]

Been waiting for this video!

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Hope I delivered!

[@shyguy778]

They should've had Karen replace Pryce, and Lorelei stay in the Elite 4. I think it would've been good to have both a steel and a dark-type Gym leader in the game, considering they were brand-new types at the time. Maybe it might've been interesting to have Kurt replace Agatha ... Then again, maybe not (lol) He would've been way better than Giovanni, anyway ... lol I think Will was just created as an answer to a problem they didn't really want to solve ... Still, he looked pretty cool lol

[@chonkychungus]

wake up babe new obsessive gamer video

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I'm here and I delivered :P

[@PrimeStarStudios]

That was a wild ride! 😃

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

The geruge members might've been dlc for the pokemon mobile gameboy device

[@wnrr2696]

The 98 guitarist looks like a ditto

[@joenowak7212]

The teacher sprites don't have whips they are pointers like when point out stuff on the chalkboard maps or strategic plans. Why would a teacher have a whip? Maybe a paddle but not a whip. Lol

[@R_wir3]

7:51 that's Whitney's body lol

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I think that is more Jasmines actually lol

[@R_wir3]

@@TheObsessiveGamer yeah, It looks so out of place haha

[@JamelHoward3291]

Ayo “ball smith” is crazy

[@timgorg1919]

Imagine Kurt using Hisuian Voltorb and Electrode

[@zacthemastodonranger]

Awesome video can't wait to see more

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

More coming as planned!

[@lionofash7700]

I think Western Older Man may just mean West Japan. Also, Jasmine may be an Itako design, which makes sense for Ghosts.

[@lancethedragontamer1409]

is it 1 pm yet sheeeeesh😅😅😅

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

A bit over 3 hrs to go :P

[@lancethedragontamer1409]

@@TheObsessiveGamer let’s goooo 5 mins!!!

[@Moonstrider]

this iis awesome! and this generation :D

[@BigSipFromGossipStoneSIPPYSIP]

Love your content!!

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Thank you!

[@Itz_YoshiMelon]

I have a theory about gold and silver, that they were originally aimed towards adults. But when Pokémon Had a massive boom among kids, they had to tone down the game to make it so that if any kids who enjoyed any other Pokémon media brought the games they could not be blamed for subjecting them to violence, sexuality ect.

[@Itz_YoshiMelon]

Also I should specify I mean when it got big in America because they care a lot more about those kinds of things rather than japan

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Well I doubt that was the case simply cause it sounds like a marketing nightmare to change the demographics over night like that. I think they just wanted more mature themes but cut it out.

[@kaizoku8087]

What if I told you that Pokémon was originally an audience for adults in the early concepts?

[@dallai3615]

@@kaizoku8087 I think it was the gen 1

[@kaizoku8087]

@@dallai3615 And in 2

[@shadowthief6471]

10:32 stranger things Pokémon edition lol

[@aurafox1]

Beta Guitarist be feeling humber.

[@salmagundi_media]

Hooligan Kuwabara wants to battle!

[@tchr9206]

1999 male teacher looks like a great guy

[@kevinlavoie8248]

Are any of these beta builds playable? To be specific area they completed enough to beat the game either elite four and or red?

[@shaunduzstuffs]

There's hacks that try to replicate what the story might of been but no there isn't any build with actual story events

[@kevinlavoie8248]

@@shaunduzstuffs Cool ty, I'll try to find a rom hack

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

You can find a Rom of it on TCRF but if you want a mod of it that makes it beatable, look up Super Gold 97

[@kevinlavoie8248]

@@TheObsessiveGamer ♥ ty

[@BlueGooseCollectibles]

What is that first image from?

[@Wesley_H]

Cool Trainers went from Whip to Drip.

[@ianfinrir8724]

Is that what the young people call a glow up?

[@Wesley_H]

@@ianfinrir8724 I didn’t think so, I’m 36. Drip sounds like a stupid way to describe fashion, let alone good fashion. I tell ya, I just wanna yeet all these gen z words right in the trash. Except yeet. I love yeet. By far the best gen z word. _To rapidly discard._ Basically the opposite of yoink, which any millennial or even gen y knows means _to rapidly acquire._

[@ontheedgeofshadow2790]

Some romhacker needs to get all these files and make and release this cut content... ppl would pay good money for it

[@kaizoku8087]

15:00 PRISM

[@myanimeroom9350]

I like Beta Jasmine's design compared to her final form.

[@Lagbeard]

The thing the teachers have, they're not whips but rather pointer sticks.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

As i've said to others, while I did originally think of it as a pointer too, if you look at the end of it, it has the shape of the old teacher whips as opposed to a pointer. And with it being a game featuring plenty of whips, this fits.

[@ConservativeSatanist666]

A skateboard would be cooler..

[@ConservativeSatanist666]

1996-98.. the good days when even games knew a good joke.

[@yokoelfvganime8112]

So basically Bugsy was a beta Burgh and Clair was an alpha Iris.

[@randaljr.8581]

Fascinating =D

[@dylanjwicklund92]

I'm pretty sure you are originally Going to get a skateboard instead of a bicycle

[@jonnieb4]

I wanted a skateboard....

[@Odelayderado]

The teacher has a pointer not a whip

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I thought that at first too, but if you look at its end, it's shaped much more like the whip end of the old teacher whips, which fits this theme of whips anyways