Why Generation 1 Actually Sucks

[@thanasis89]

We're living in the best timeline where Ttar uploads daily once again!

[@always5809]

I’m so glad! And all of them are of high ttar quality

[@mancodelas6051]

And still no Reborn

[@gorou2983]

Yes

[@KazzYT_FTW]

alright boys it was fun while it lasted. you've jinxed it now smh

[@thomasrivas9133]

I subscribed for this

[@Slimeonian]

11:20 the Pokémon don’t actually dodge the pokeballs.. the “dodging” is just gen 1’s way of saying the pokeball didn’t even shake

[@ChefMonke07]

Was about to comment this. Apparently you beat me to it.

[@Kali_Krause]

Lyra made a website has a video explaining the catching mechanics in gen 1 and how confusing it is in full detail

[@borrelsupremacy]

I'm pretty sure if it connects it's a sure fire catch. That's just what I've heard, so kindly correct me if I'm wrong.

[@valleyard8674]

@@borrelsupremacy if I'm not wrong, in gen 1 if it moves twice, you got the mon already, it's just extra animation to build up tension, that actually works, unless you know that info

[@kerrywien6775]

Gen 1 have one of the best Pokémon Design ever made, articuno is Among My Favorite Legendaries, the Starters are amazing too, The Legendary Birds are My Favorite Non-Mascot Legendary Trio & The Legendary Beasts too, But Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green improved it by adding postgame content with new areas in the postgame and Pokémon Let’s Go is amazing too, Gen 1 is The Gen that started the series, and it’s The Least Linear Gen because You can EXPLORE The Region not in an order dedicated to the story, but that doesn’t mean that it has no story, there’s a story of a Man-Made Legendary Pokémon in the Cinnabar Lab of show how it escapes from The Lab and goes to a cave to avoid humans for torturing him. But i NEVER PLAYED Gen 1, i ONLY PLAYED Pokémon Fire Red & Pokémon Let’s Go, i get it, The Region is TOO BLAND, but it’s so EXPLORABLE and have 151 Pokémon, most of them are great, btw articuno is My Favorite Gen 1 Pokémon, it’s design is so majestic for a Legendary Pokémon, it’s weak competitive, but it’s design is awesome, and the Characters, Gym Leaders, Professor ETC are great, Gen 1 is awesome. Speaking of The Next Gen, i WOULD SAY THAT Gen 2 is THE WORST Gen as of now.

[@virenstein1152]

I'll never forget catching a Mewtwo with a PokeBall in Red. This was before I knew of the hack and had a ton of ultra balls and like 5 pokeballs. My friends were watching me trying to catch it cause it was an event to see if you could catch it. I got lucky to paralyze it but keeping it weak enough to catch was hard as hell. I used all my ultra balls and I lost hope cause there was no way a PokeBall would catch it sure enough my 2nd to last PokeBall caught that sucker and I'll never forget that joy. Also started the challenges I used to do in catching legendaries with only pokeballs. I'm not gonna lie I somewhat miss the Pokemon dodging pokeballs.

[@drekagaming]

now a days you could catch most legendaries pretty easily, just chuck some ultra balls and eventually youll catch it. I think pokemon dodging pokeballs would bring back a challenge again. It be sick as fuck.

[@gobbluth6617]

Lies

[@Mattice1923]

No ball could hit Mewtwo except from the masterball in original Red/Blue

[@jeanbuck7643]

Lowering health and paralysis actually doesn't help with catching pokemon in that game, in terms of the catch rate. The only way to lower it legitimately is by putting it to sleep

[@valleyard8674]

@@jeanbuck7643 it does help, it's just that sleep helped way too much compared to the others, something like 40%? Not really sure about the amount.(probably a bit lower) And the HP (that is only pretty much till half that makes a difference) goes for something like 1-2% paralysis and stuff also don't have that good of a modifier The guy that made a living dex can explain way better tho

[@arnauzer]

16:00 is so true. My favorite pokemon as a child when only gen 1 existed was Golem and you just couldn't get it. It felt weirdly good when in pokemon legends Arceus trade evolutions worked like stone evolutions, despite the game having trades.

[@rodimusunicronus2089]

since the requirement to get arceus is getting all pokemon and they know people out there would probably cheat children or sell trade pokemon to make them rare and illusive just to unlock arceus, being the mascot of the the game, if a gamer can't get arceus without these pokemon, they will feel cheated So the next best thing is to well... the option to Evolve without trade

[@caaatchy]

16:46 I felt that one Even nowadays I often catch myself thinking that Magmar/Rhydon/Seadra are still the "final forms" of their evolution line, until their trade evos pop into my head a few seconds later. Those trade evolutions really were ass back in the day

[@Adrian-jw3si]

bro wym krabby design is fire, legit singlehandedly carries the whole gen

[@johngerardongjoco1903]

indeed, who doesnt like crabs

[@Adrian-jw3si]

@@johngerardongjoco1903 true, I too am an average crab enjoyer

[@good_old_johnny6661]

krabby could solo mewtwo, strongest pokemon

[@good_old_johnny6661]

evolving only makes him worse

[@Adrian-jw3si]

@@good_old_johnny6661 im sorry what is a mewtwo, all I know is crab, I've disregarded weaker pokemon

[@wikiuser92]

In Let's Go, it's explained that it was only during the events of the game that the Champion was established to be a part of the League challenge. So while before, a Trainer only needed to beat the E4 to become a Champion, now they also need to beat the current Champ.

[@LMasayoshi]

bro keeps uploading, this might be a miracle

[@kolbyredden8743]

This was honestly a great video. It’s good to know someone shares the same frustrations as I do about older Pokemon games. All I wanted when I was younger was to be able to play through the game with a Golem, Machamp, Alakazam and Gengar. Same with Gen 2 with Steelix, Kingdra, Slowking, Scizors, Porygon2, and Politoed. This is a problem for every Gen up until PLA.

[@Jdudec367]

wait what happens in PLA?

[@kolbyredden8743]

@@Jdudec367 Link Cables are an Item that allows you to evolve Pokémon without trading and trading back or, most importantly, to pay for online play.

[@Jdudec367]

@@kolbyredden8743 Holy crap...that sounds amazing!

[@pigeonfog]

The "dodging pokemon" is the original version of the ball sucking in the pokemon and not shaking before it escapes.

[@Ryodraco]

5:25 to be fair, the Let's Go games do explain a bit about the origin of the "Champion" title in Kanto. I think it's Lance who tells you in the post game, but basically before the events of the game anyone who defeated the Elite 4 simply got called a Champion and that was it. However, after your adventure it is decided that there should be a standing Champion that a trainer has to battle after defeating the Elite Four. Hence why that was how the games did things after Gen 1. Not sure what is confusing you about Gym Leaders though. They help their students train particular types of Pokemon (namely a type they specialize in), and act as a challenge to overcome for up and coming trainers. Nessa explains that battles in gyms are "test" battles, hence why the gym leader often holds back and uses a weaker team.

[@robertlupa8273]

*"Anyone who defeated the [Kanto/Indigo] Elite 4 was called a champion"* From my very, _very_ limited knowledge on ScVi, isn't that also true in Paldea?

[@Ryodraco]

@@robertlupa8273 not quite, as they do have a standing "top Champion" in Paldea who must also be beaten to qualify. What makes them the top Champion when losing is required to add a regular Champion I am not entirely clear on.

[@bucktimaan]

My dude's on the roll with the updates, Take a breather bro 🥺❤️

[@N21464]

Nah this is hype,he should take a break if he’s tired tho

[@ryhanmortuza]

He was gone for three weeks tbf

[@WhiteFeathers669]

I always assumed that the reason these gym leaders and elite four trainers used one typing was because it was their specialty.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Yeah, Pokemon within the Red and Blue games were still treated as mysterious creatures. It is unusual that the main character and the rival have so many different types let alone as many Pokemon as they do have.

[@wikiuser92]

Basically what I thought. It just represents something they're interested in.

[@justasentientmclarenp1879]

Yeah I mean in the first anime misty would scream,”Water is my specialty” any time there was water involved some way

[@MercuryA2000]

Honestly, I really want them to add some more weight to legends like you said. I really like the idea Let's go had where you have to fight them before you can catch them, and I'd love it if they combined that with the way raid battles worked. Make it so you have to fight it with a massive healthbar and double stats, a battle that threatens an entire team, and only after you defeat that phase does the game tell you its weak enough for you to even consider catching. They should make even finding a legendary an entire mission you've got to go on that you have to actively build a team around so that you get a taste of what its lore is and you can feel the gravitas that these creatures deserve. Legends Arceus did this amazingly, because none of the legendaries are just sitting there. Even if its small, there's still some reason for it to be there, some weight to remind you that this thing is different from the rest.

[@notasquiremario3299]

you're right about how you can't get every pokemon by your own means. having to trade or do limited time events SUCK and i'm happy i didn't play pokemon during that era cause I would've been mad

[@EthanPHX]

We’re still in that era. Darkrai and shaymin just HAD to be timed events again in BDSP

[@thepokemonqueen]

it's one of the things I liked about PLA, even the mythical pokemon aren't timed events

[@TheDeathmail]

Minus the mythical timed events, part of the magic of Pokemon was connecting with your friends.... Pokemon was meant to be a more social game that connected people... And frankly, most people didn't catch them all... and it was still fun....

[@auralucario7786]

@@TheDeathmail I had and still have no friends I never got a single trade evolution 🤣

[@G1nger519]

@@EthanPHX at least you can get them in legends arceus

[@danielraad6010]

You can get Mew. Step 1: go to cerulean City catch a abra. Step 2: go to the patch of grass on the left side after walking off the bridge in the city. There will be a trainer hiding in the bush. Step 3: walk towards the trainer and immediately press the menu (start) button right before the trainer spots you. Step 4: go to Abra and use teleport. Step 5: walk on the bridge gain and go right towards where the trainers are. Fight the youngster with the slowpoke and make sure he walks towards you. Step 6:after you defeat him teleport back to the centre. Step 7: walk towards the bridge and Mew will appear. Hehehehehe

[@shanaxis9074]

he's talking about legit ways to get mew, not exploits.

[@just_a_stump]

All those rumors we used to hear about how to get Mew, and none of them ever worked! And then to find this well into adulthood 🤣 This is definitely the correct way to get Mew. It might not conform to modern standards, but I wouldn't consider it an exploit. It's just how secrets were in games back in those days.

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

@@just_a_stump Are you serious? This is one of the biggest exploit in Gen 1. It didn‘t just allow to catch Mew, with the right special stat of the last pokémon you fought before returning to the route you flew away from the trainer, this exploit could get you any Pokémon using this method, including several Glitch Pokémon that are not MissingNo. If this isn‘t an exploit, what else?

[@Spiffmeister91]

@@BlueHazeBurnout93 you must be really fun at partys

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@BlueHazeBurnout93 You could also do a MissingNo. glitch on Yellow with this method (it has to be a Special stat that results in one of the fossil or Ghost sprites since a glitch sprite freezes your game). It's part of the novelty of the games honestly. The Q glitch can also give your Pokemon movesets that they otherwise can't have (just don't give the Pokemon HMs or they can't be stabilized without evolution).

[@casual3123]

I recently went through Gen 1 again and I did not enjoy playing it normally at all. However using skips and glitches, the games were so much fun like skipping Brock, getting a Level 100 Mew with 0 badges, skipping the East Snorlax to get to Lavender and Celedon faster and then finally getting the Fresh Water so I can go wherever I want (with the exception of Cinnabar). Or you could transfer a Fresh Water from Stadium 2 to get to Saffron even faster immediately from Cerulean. Also the Gen 1 birds don't really dodge. That is Gen 1's way of the Pokéball not shaking once.

[@kerrywien6775]

Gen 1 have one of the best Pokémon Design ever made, articuno is Among My Favorite Legendaries, the Starters are amazing too, The Legendary Birds are My Favorite Non-Mascot Legendary Trio & The Legendary Beasts too, But Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green improved it by adding postgame content with new areas in the postgame and Pokémon Let’s Go is amazing too, Gen 1 is The Gen that started the series, and it’s The Least Linear Gen because You can EXPLORE The Region not in an order dedicated to the story, but that doesn’t mean that it has no story, there’s a story of a Man-Made Legendary Pokémon in the Cinnabar Lab of show how it escapes from The Lab and goes to a cave to avoid humans for torturing him. But i NEVER PLAYED Gen 1, i ONLY PLAYED Pokémon Fire Red & Pokémon Let’s Go, i get it, The Region is TOO BLAND, but it’s so EXPLORABLE and have 151 Pokémon, most of them are great, btw articuno is My Favorite Gen 1 Pokémon, it’s design is so majestic for a Legendary Pokémon, it’s weak competitive, but it’s design is awesome, and the Characters, Gym Leaders, Professor ETC are great, Gen 1 is awesome. Speaking of The Next Gen, i WOULD SAY THAT Gen 2 is THE WORST Gen as of now.

[@kerrywien6775]

What’s Your Favorite Gen 1 Legendary Pokémon ? Mine’s articuno

[@casual3123]

@@kerrywien6775 Well in terms of design, Articuno. In terms of strength, Zapdos.

[@ozairh18]

I agree with everything you said. I’m replaying FireRed and used a Geodude in the early parts of the game but deposited it after realizing I couldn’t evolve it into a Golem

[@SpeshullPillz]

I’m almost positive the Mew event was Toys r us, me and my brother got it from going to an event there where they had a distribution cart and you’d have to bring your game and they’d give you Mew

[@Smokey1419]

Yea, i got my Mew from the Pokemon League at Toys R Us

[@Deathinition]

when i played pokemon red, there was this npc who mentioned "if you compare a wild pidgey with a trainers pidgey, the one from the trainer will be stronger altough they have the same level" so i thought that would mean if you catch a pokemon and train it, then it becomes more stat points per level up compared to a wild one. so i always caught pokemon with the lowest possible level and had a extra hard time leveling them because of an interpretation error :D

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

Well, in Gen 1 there were no EV-Limits, you could train every Pokémon to it‘s max stats without worrying about EV splits. What you did as child was actually not wrong.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

The only thing that sucks about Gen 1 is that, if you didn't play it when it came out in the 90s, it's hard to understand why it was so good.

[@icecreamcake5381]

It feels unfair to judge Gen 1 by today's standards because video games has come a long way since the first pokemon games.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

@@icecreamcake5381 Society as a whole as well. Gen 1 came out pre-social media. I'm not against Social media, but there is something lost to being spoiled for the game or bombarded with negative reviews.

[@Valpak223]

I believe in sword and shield it was stated that the reason so many of the people stronger trainers only specialize in one type is because it’s difficult for the average trainer to train Pokémon of different types

[@andygeo7203]

This will probably never happen, but Ttar has to play the rom hack Fire Red Team Rocket Edition. Where you play as a team rocket grunt and steal pokemon. The reason he has to play the game is the LORE. It's just so good Thamill will love it.

[@greteb1951]

So true, I wasnt expecting it to get that deep but it went there and further. It was a lot fun to play

[@PokemonPondcast]

I got Mew in Red. The way you got him was you had to wait till there was an event in a mall(mine was Pokémon 2000 Stadium Tour) go there during the even with your red or blue game , and they would trade it to your game. You even got a certificate of authenticity.

[@powerequinox]

TTar have you seen Birdkeeper Toby reacted to this video? Very interesting stuff hahahaha, especially the points he disagreed with!

[@sirfrankss7860]

Ttar uploading daily again? I love it

[@kmpartist]

How can he say something so controversial, yet so brave?

[@alioda_]

Ttar you should play the Pokemon Rocket Edition rom hack then, i'm sure you gonna love what they did with the mew/mewtwo/missingno storyline. Plus this game is straight up the best rom hack ever. The lore in this game is crazy, a lot of easter eggs regarding pokemon theories etc..

[@firebirdstark]

My focus was ALWAYS completing the dex. I finally got my original Pearl completed a couple weeks ago, and I have been playing it since like 2009? It’s those event pokemon, man. I can now buy another system, a link cable, etc. but I cannot buy an event that happened in the past.

[@NeverPutDown]

Easiest way to get those in a legit way meaning not a hackedmon would be changing the tine and date on your DS for pearl should work

[@EthanPHX]

At that point may as well inject

[@thepokemonqueen]

@@NeverPutDown just changing the time & date won't work, the game has to connect to the internet to check if the events are currently happening & if the server is giving away a pokemon. the only way to get a "legit" event now, because Nintendo shut down the DS WiFi service a few years ago, is to change your DNS address in the DS' internet settings to fanmade servers. there's guides on KZbin that show you how to do it, and for all intents and purposes the game considers it legit, the only thing non-legit is the receival date

[@el_kommander8924]

@@thepokemonqueen at least you got them though and not like you're gana trade them and because they won't release them so its a win

[@LolLol-gd7ly]

Connect to wiimifi to get them legit

[@Valpak223]

I feel like with the untapped lore, maybe they can tell that story with a Legends Mew/Mewtwo game, yeah it won’t be like set 300 years in the past like but like maybe 5-10 in the past and we’re apart of the early team rocket before they became corrupt, and we help create mewtwo

[@shi4592]

“I got no friends” I felt that.

[@nielsdebont8419]

I think in gen 1 gyms were intended to be exactly as the name implies: places for people to train a certain type of pokemon, hence why there are gym trainers.

[@slick_rickgaming1102]

I could be down for a series like this, go through all the gens

[@ianavina6981]

lets embrace it... EVERYTHING SUCKS... but that's perfectly ok!

[@gobbluth6617]

With the rate he uploads it'll take years

[@namelessmemories1132]

WE EATINNN WHEN YOU POST BRO 😌💯💯💯💯💯 LOVE THE UPLOADS

[@burakyesiloglu5218]

Still cant get over that our baby toddler died man

[@Burrybro]

never stop uploading king

[@Jarvice]

9:57 I love this idea so much! I honestly hope this is something we'll see in the future

[@enikay236]

So happy to see you upload daily man. Take care still.

[@harkharring2572]

9:50 in gen 1, there actually was no limit to the amount of EVs you could get to my knowledge, so you could actually max out the stats on whatever Pokémon you want with enough training

[@c0mpu73rguy]

To catch dodging pokemon, you need to paralyze them and try and try again. I actually managed to catch all legendaries in poke balls in VC Blue. And Mew was given during events in Japan only, you had to bring your game boy and trade with an employee.

[@thepokemonqueen]

I remember reading about a magazine competition too, where you sent in your game cartridge and they picked 20 cartridges to write mew into & sent them all back

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

Pokémon „dodging“ is just Gen 1‘s way to say that the pokéball didn‘t even shake. One funny side effect of this is, that once you see the ball shake, you instantly knew that you caught it.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@BlueHazeBurnout93 Unless they're asleep in which case they can break free after one shake. Sleep has higher odds of resulting in a catch.

[@MysticForAll]

If a pokeball misses in gen 1 it's the same as it landing and not shaking a single time so if your pokeball lands on a legendary odds are you caught it.

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

100% odds

[@razor6168]

the whole mewtwo and mew story needs to be implemented into a Gen1 game weather its another Gen1 game ( which no-one really wants) or even if they were to do switch edition of Jhoto and include the Kanto area and then keep the celebi event in there and throw in the backstory of mew and mewtwo, a Legends of mew/mewtwo i think would trigger people because itll all be gen1 mons again

[@cerobathetalllady]

Ttar uploads again! .... Wait....guys, can you hear that? It sounds like a lot of angry genwunners...

[@1lonelypigeon500]

Going back to the point he made about trade evolutions, I always hated that you couldn’t find the starters in the wild It’s like, they tell you to try to fill the dex, and yet they don’t let you get six of the pokemon unless you got a buddy who has a different starter who is WILLING to trade their first Pokémon, it’s just really annoying

[@saifrahman1879]

Daily uploads always make my day

[@unojonjero2415]

“Let’s go” was such a missed opportunity

[@MegaMachiOnline]

I snagged the birds in normal Poke Balls via Thunder Wave/Stun Spore + Wrap/Bind/Constrict to “immobilize” them in submission

[@kyleellis1825]

Hmm, good idea T Tube. Giving all pokemon a max of 650-700 maximum BST, but weaker pokemon have more EV's they need to be trained in (IV's just make it faster to train a pokemon to max potential). Psuedo's only need 50-100 EV's and Legendaries are already maxed out. That would be really cool.

[@Trigga0910]

istg trying to catch the legendary birds was such a nightmare. I've been stuck on articuno for almost a year bc ive just given up. those mfs dodge IN THEIR SLEEP

[@bread3088]

yes!!! ttar is spoiling us with these uploads

[@DeltaG13]

I love all the ttar content coming out. Thank yiu

[@chuckytgs]

12:54 one glitch happened to me, my zapdos evolved into marowak. I was like what?

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

That‘s impossible.

[@AKidLondon]

I scratch my neck like a crackhead when this guy uploads

[@joetwodogs]

Felt lucky to have a sister with her own gameboy, so we use to trade all the time. Get the 3 starters before doing the first gym 👍🏼

[@theblizardblitz2396]

Bro it’s okay for a break, lots of love bro

[@gruiaolaru511]

One more bad thing to say about gen 1 would be how badly written and chaotic the code was, even by those times' standards. I've watched a video recently about the broken catching mechanics of gen 1 by "Lyra made a website", which I wholeheartedly recommend. Long story short, the dodging/"you missed the pokemon" message is really just an instance of the pokemon getting in the ball, then breaking out with 0 wiggles, even though the text and animations imply something different. That's how it's laid out in the code. So yes, you could have easily chucked balls until you caught them, it didn't mean you couldn't catch them yet. Also great balls were better overall in most situations than ultra balls...

[@Kali_Krause]

This is especially bad if you're trying to do a living dex challenge for Yellow version. It's almost impossible. And some have had their encounter rates lowered from Red and Blue

[@TheDeathmail]

But I also feel that was kinda the fun... like, there were glitches and things that just felt random... you could clone and you could just mess around in ways that you couldn't in later games. Of course, if you play later games, it's a bit harder to go back... but I think that's less to do with Gen 1 being bad and more to do with getting used to the conveniences...

[@kanekopoint4273]

just like specific moves for the starters there should be specific trainers that will offer a trade for a trade evolution only after you battle them with any trade evo pokemon win with gravler on team but didnt use it in battle and still get the trade prompt

[@kenaniahwilliams6564]

T Tar just casually kicking the nearest bees nest

[@thousandyeargems4360]

Keep up the uploads my man, you been making strong pokemon videos lately

[@ryhanmortuza]

Bro went from not uploading for weeks to daily uploads

[@denniscousins1254]

I hope that we get an alternative to trade evolutions.

[@Hyakkishin]

I saw a video about catching mechanics in Gen 1 recently and apparently the legendaries (and Chansey) don't dodge your pokeballs. The "dodging" is basically a zero tick escape.

[@alpha-sama]

I agree on numerous things. Trade evolutions never should have been a thing, and catching Pokémon was insanely confusing in gen 1. Also, the psychic type was way too overpowered (which was why they introduced dark- and steel-types in gen 2) and sometimes, you would use a move and it would just fail for some reason. As for Mewtwo, the manga actually has some sick story for it involving Blaine and a decease that's threatening to take both Blaine and Mewtwo's lives or something. That kinda makes up for it if you ask me.

[@thepokemonqueen]

the reason why moves occasionally just miss is an oversight in the code. the accuracy check for 100% moves is meant to be "generated a number between 0 and up to and including 255, and it'll hit regardless" but instead of

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@thepokemonqueen Swift and I'm pretty sure Transform and Roar and Whirlwind (the latter 2 in wild battles) ignore the check.

[@Mm0Gang]

i loved the link cable, also using the link cable glitch too, fantastic!

[@Silverxvi]

daily upload Ttar is back? I believe in the Peeko once again.

[@WinnieBeatles]

I know it’s a separate game, but Stadium did have a feature that every time you get into the hall of fame I believe, they would randomly give you one of the exclusive Pokémon: starters,, fossils, and hitmons. So at least that part of dex completion is slightly alleviated

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

Ttar makes banger. Tyranitar makes bangers. Humans are weak to dark?

[@justinpenascosa]

I love these varieties videos TTar!

[@Rodrigo_Cioffi]

ttar just gave me an idea at 12:00 , what if in scarlet and violet we get regional forms for the dog trio and we can ride entei suicune and raikou like we can with the box legendaries? that would be sick

[@alexsutton7440]

I wasn't born around the time gen 1 came out but I did some browsing on serebii ages back and read up on pokemon stadium for the n64 there was a mode called gym leader castle where after completing it you would be given a random rare pokemon from either the starters, hitmons, eevee and fossils which you could do over and over to get them all. Granted you had to own an n64 and a whole other game to complete the pokedex which is silly and it could've been the perfect oppotunity to hand out a mew to ppl but can't change the past sadly haha😅

[@TortoiseBlaster]

But you filled legends arceus Pokédex even though you said you’ve never tried filling a nat dex

[@Ultimate23Dragon]

Sounds like you're after Pokemon Legends: Mewtwo. I can see a game like that time-wise before all the Kanto games we know of.

[@itbutcher1838]

SOOOOO many times I've caught Legendaries (throughout all the games) with only Pokeballs, sometimes on the first throw too. After the second game, made it a personal challenge to only ever use pokeballs in all the games going forward.

[@KermitTFYT]

In red you have to do the nugget bridge glitch. With an abra.

[@drekagaming]

I love these kinds of discussion videos from TTar because he always brings up interesting ideas in them for pokemon, some are hit or miss but love seeing him just throw something out there

[@WellManNerd]

Back in the day, Nintendo of America before Pokémon was its own company went around the mall circuit and hosted TCG and VG competitions. If you went, you got a free gift Mew for each cartridge. It also allowed you to battle the Nintendo reps if you win your VG heat. I got a hat for battling the guy. And it was when I learned how OP Amnesia was in Gen1

[@yasedb]

I grew up playing Pokémon on the countryside, I'm only now completing the 493-mon HGSS dex after Pokégen , it sucks that you can't catch all of them by yourself

[@theangeredcat247]

11:28 Very fucking hard. Sat there for hours trying to nab Articuno and had to resort to my Great Balls and worked

[@nikhilsworld4525]

about the trade evolutions part, i absolutely love kingdra so i had a seadra on my team. since kingdra was part dragon, i expected it to evolve at like like lvl 55 similar to dragonite. But of course that never happened and i ended up beating the game with a 63 seadra.

[@OHKOKyle]

We need to make this a series, Gen 1 - 8. BUT Then you gotta make one for Gen 9 when Scarlet and Violet launch so we can yell at you!

[@snogesallstrom]

As a kid I used to hate the idea of legendaries just being handed to you like it was nothing, and I still kinda do. All I've ever wanted was caves, new places, dungeons, idk but something and at the very end let me catch the legendaries by myself. Also the ''dodging the pokebal thing'', unless I'm getting confused, I used to just put them to sleep and they would go in the pokeball

[@hunterclements3880]

I don’t remember the lego birds dodging poke balls I caught them in great balls and never seen them dodge maybe just me

[@Jreaddy]

I have to admit, I never realized I should save in front of the mons, and I caught most of them. When I found them I would just be ready, and if I liked I kept it moving. I was a dumb ass kid.

[@itszefas]

The legends in gen 1 stop dodging after like 20 or 30 balls thrown

[@Kingdelaan]

Correctly 26 then if u miss 2 times it will dodge again

[@graceholbert2126]

Missed potential is always the biggest flaw to any specific pokemon game to me

[@piplup2884]

Gen 1 was made with a very small team so makes sense

[@kaysonlee1031]

Your right and totally valid in every of the criticism. How my ego and nostalgia refuse for me to agree with u.

[@GoranDubravic]

What I know that sucks about generation one is the level grinding and you can’t have Pokémon hold items and the only way to get Mew is by doing the Mew glitch in blue, red, and yellow!

[@yoashleydawn]

There was a guy in celadon that would offer you a prize if you completed the Pokédex. Everyone always said it was a mew but it was actually just a certificate

[@Sanbo254]

Yeah used to love gen 1 but that was because if I wanted a specific pokemkn I'd use another game and my sisters gamboy to trade so then could have what I wanted. However in 3ds remake didn't have that easy way out if i wanted Gengar or alakazam.

[@frojanty]

in the old games opddly enough i found out how to catch mewtwo with a pokeball you SLOW him down make it impossible for him to dodge sleep bubblebeam to slow him down :3

[@Jdudec367]

There are a lot of glitches in gen 1 that do still happen and are unavoidable like psychic being immune to ghost types instead of weak to ghost types.

[@Ramen_Zombie]

Pokémon Rocket Edition actually works with all the underlying lore really well, they even give Missingno a role. It's a top tier rom hack.

[@KermitTFYT]

I’ve done it to every saved file on red and Pokémon stadium.

[@dam99]

Man couldn't find anything for gen 5 so he had to go back at the start, gen 5 🔥🔥🔥

[@DenDave_]

Pokemon Legends: Mewtwo gotta be up there as the story with some of the most potential for interesting lore. Probably only second to Pokemon Legends: Kyurem, a story about the original dragon.

[@hasheogaming4130]

Don't forget Zygarde also since there was never a Pokemon Z

[@kijushiro]

Iirc there was an event where mew was distributed at certain places

[@Charliezard412]

I tried a Gen 1 nuzlocke and it was infuriating.

[@I_GrimlockSMASH]

technically you could get mew but it did require an exploit but it would spawn left of lavender town after set exploit

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

You just need a long range trainer, this exploit wasn‘t exclusive to the route left of lavender town. I think even more people did it north of Cerulean, because that‘s the earliest you could get Mew.

[@silverhetch3383]

15:26 facts, aint no one had a link cable back then