Pokemon Generation 1 Iceberg Explained

my cousin took my copy of red and said "wanna see something cool?" and did the missingno trick and it scared me so bad i cried for an hour at applebees 😂

This iceberg isn't deep at all. Here some truly deep facts: -Ultra balls are rarely the best ball, and in certain scenarios are outperformed by regular pokeballs. -Missingno is incredibly weak actually. -On the same note onix too is often remembered as a strong mon but is actually one of the weakest regular mons. -Npc trainers don't use pp. -You can use counter to counter your own moves under certain circumstances. -This allows gengar to make use of counter: normally they can learn the move but since it only works on normal and fighting moves in Gen 1 it would always fail. That said gengar is quite fast so you can explode with a mon and counter your own explosion as long as you outspeed the opponent it will work and deal absurd damage. -Before Gen 3 introduced EVs, stat bonuses (called Stat exp) only had individual caps and not a shared cap meaning you could max out stat bonuses on all stats. -On that note, in pokemon stadium unevolved Pokémon are balanced with their evolved counterpart by having better stat bonuses and sometimes better moves -Also stadium is the game that nerfed hyper beam to the ground -Blizzard was nerfed in the International releases: in the Japanese exclusive Pokémon Green blizzard had an astounding 30% chance. -Also Pokémon couldn't taw from freeze on their own, the only way was to use an item or get hit by a fire type move -The bike costs more than the money cap -Among the changes in Pokémon Yellow there are some movepool and encounter changes to give the player the means to defeat Brok easier since you start with a Pikachu. -Allegedly there were more planned ghost and dragon mons but they were scrapped due to time constraint or cartridge storage space. -Allegedly, since the game are so content dense they crammed the og cartridges to bust but there was still a tiny sliver of space left to add a new mon, this is apparently how mew was inserted in. Originally it was supposed to just be a part of the lore not represented by an actual mon in game and it seems even Nintendo was unaware of it's presence. -Satoshi Tajiri, Pokémon's creator was inspired by his childhood, when he would roam the countryside trying to catch insects and critters. -The game had a particularly long development, it took 6 years to make.

I hate the misconception that poke-dollars are equivalent to American dollars, in reality it’s based on the Japanese currency Yen and 100 yen is roughly 1 dollar so that “million dollar bike” is only like 10,000 dollars, still a ludicrous amount but not a million dollars. The trainers aren’t giving you 3,000 dollars at the end of a battle, it’s 30 bucks so no you’re not stealing a ton of money from these people.Also throughout a Pokémon gen 1 play through the max amount of poke-dollars you can get is 999,999 which would only be 9,999 dollars, so no you’re not a millionaire or even that rich by the end. Hate this misconception with a passion

btw, the old man glitch works because the old man tutorial stores your player name in the encounter table's data (because the game needs to change your name to Old Man for the tutorial and it needs somewhere to put your own name whilst its changed and the encounter table won't be used until its changed since your in a city) When you fly to cinnabar, the encounter table doesn't change because cinnabar has no encounters but the water route next to it only has water encounters so land encounters don't get changed but the shore of cinnabar is improperly labelled as a land tile rather a water tile even tho you surf on it so you encounter land pokemon and since the land pokemon encounter table is currently your name, you'll see weird pokemon based off your name (with each odd character being the pokemon encountered and each even being the level) its actually really cool how this works because it means you can encounter any land encounters next to cinnabar, if you enter the safari zone then leave and fly to the cinnabar shore, you'll encounter the safari pokemon in a normal battle, meaning you can get chansey/scyther/pinsir without having to do the safari game

To answer your fun lil question, I've caught them all in blue, obviously since it was on emulator I had no way of trading, I had to use the mew glitch to get the trade evos, the mutually exclusive pokemon (like the eeveelutions, the starters, and the fighting dojo fellas) and version exclusives. and mew. It took over 100 hours of game time, but I did pull it off, ending by evolving dragonair into dragonite.

Using strength on the truck, pushing it from the left 3 times, then using teleport 2 steps to the right of it didn't get me Mew, though it did cure my hiccups

Later, when they introduced Shiny Pokémon, Mew and Ditto's Shiny version are both blue. It almost feels like a confirmation of the, "Ditto are failed Mew Clones" Theory. Maybe just a coincidence as well.

I always assumed TM’s were just for the trainer to watch and then teach the Pokémon. Like an instructional video burned onto a CD

I never heard about the Mew truck glitch until like 2008, but I still find it hilarious that there is a way to get Mew far earlier that was real chilling right under our noses the whole time. I didn't hear about this glitch until like 6 years ago so I get why we didn't know back then, but it's still funny that we were so close but so far on how to get Mew.

37:31 fairy type was not introduced in gen 4 it was in gen 6

Insane how this channel hasn’t blown up yet, great video

I forget where, but in some media TMs and HMs are shown to literally be CDs that the Pokemon listen to to learn the move (with little headphones and everything. Very cute). Hence why they keep the 'music' theme in SWSH with TRs, which are literally records like for a record player. I do love the FRLG animation though, where you just slap it on their forehead and they absorb it somehow. As for the Butterfree-Venomoth switch... I don't think young kids would notice or care about the difference between a butterfly and a moth, particularly with jank RGBY sprites. I do think that, originally, they were they were the other way around, but I don't think the switch was an accident. I think they wanted a stronger contrast between the intimidating Beedrill and the cuter Butterfree in the early game. Venomoth is kinda creepy looking if you don't like bugs. I think they realized Butterfree was more appealing to a wide audience, design-wise and swapped them thinking no one would notice or care. Pokemon's success was kind of a miracle, and I don't think they EVER expected the game to be scrutinized to such an insane degree as it has been.

I wonder, did anyone prove that the Gameboy is capable of outputting frequencies humans can't hear?

The Venonat & Butterfree thing blew me away! Can't believe I never noticed that! Nice video!🔥🔥👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

While you cant get mew from under a truck you can actually manipulate the rng in Blue version and catch one on nugget bridge.

Fun fact: TMs and HMs are used in a computer type of thingy to teach the pokemon NOT futuristic and Egyptian codes or pokehistory. Ha "how to insert them?" In the anime and animations they use a computer to teach a pokemon a TM or HM. Much us like humans if you watch a movie on a cd in a computer you remember the plot, characters and everything in that movie just like TMs and HMs.

Your character talk when he lets his Pokémon out when you catch a Pokémon or if you miss a pokeball 🤣

I like this! Your voice makes the video feel much more mysterious at points. Keep up the good work!

Fairy was introduced in Gen 6, not 4

For the TMs/HMs I think that silph co basically recorded brain scans as pokemen learned and used new moves, and those scans being applied to another pokemons brain unlocks that ability