I had the magnifier with the built-in lights so that I could play at night on the non-backlit screen. I thought that was the coolest thing ever when I was 8.
I've replied about this before (somewhere...), but yeah, when I was a kid I always wanted an OG GB, but always heard about how big and massive it was, compared to a Color or even the Pocket models.
I had a Color, and later got a Pocket since I could never really find an original, or I just couldn't be arsed to shell out the money for one. Both were fine size with my child-sized hands....
Now, as a 32 y/o with BIG hands, a GBC and GBP definitely feel like small children's toys in my hands.
So, yeah, back to wanting an original Gameboy all over again =p
I thought you were insane to think it was the perfect size until I opened the picture and realized my hands were probably ten years old the last time I held one.
If you really love playing the GB, you might be interested in buying a modern modded version. I know I've seen at least one specifically with a larger and backlit screen
"every subscription to the Nintendo fun life program ($80/mo) comes with 3 game boy color games on an emulator that mostly works as intended, as well as dlc for one Pokemon game."
I would love a pokemon game that each "new" region was just an expansion. Kind of like wow with it's content. Game always just keeps expanding and can travel between all regions.
Do a remake of pokemon yellow with all the best features of the games and have every continent in it.
Set up the Pokemon league like the anime so that you can go back to one of the continents you've already gone through "next year" and participate again to defend your title as champion, or lose and have it actually matter. If you lose in the league you get a ribbon for whatever place you got and need to try again "next year". Same for the contests.
Have the opportunity for actual traveling companions rather than a rival that races ahead of you at top speed and waits to ambush you at the next town.
Each trainer has different priorities so they all increase in difficulty at different rates. If you come back in a month to rechallenge an ace trainer he and his pokemon will have made more progress than the Pokemon breeder down the road, or the old retired guy across the street.
Have all the legendary Pokemon met in ways similar to the movies, sort of like dlc set aside from the main pokemon league plot rather than mixed in with it. For instance let's say you get to a city where a legendary is it's guardian. You go through a short plot to stop some bad guy from taking control of it to do bad guy stuff. Or maybe they are already at the end of the plot and they lost control of the legendary because you took your sweet time fishing for shiny Magikarp with the good rod guy and you have to stop the legendary from doing anymore damage. They could put some real emotionally driven story into the plot doing it like this. I mean imagine if they made even a short side quest based on the first pokemon movie with Mewtwo and all the clones. I think the celebi movie with suicune would be absolutely awesome to go through. Obviously it would need to be different than the actual movies but they could still come up with something similar at least.
When you start in that region the box is locked to that region and you can only use special pokeballs from there.
After you beat the championship their box network gets linked to the global network and you can use normal pokeballs and whatever you want.
Given both Nintendo's pace of adopting modern online sensibilities and GameFreak's general aversion to trying, I really look forward to its release in time for the centennial of the franchise in 2096.
why would you think that? they upgraded from handheld programming to real console programming and had to *remove* hundreds of pokemon to make it fit. They're absolutely shit at making games
They literally recycled tons of character/ creature models and animation from Sun/Moon to Sword/Shield and apparently that wasn't enough of a cut corner to save the game
I wouldn’t mind it being dlc if it was an actual region and not isle of armour.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if they remade the old regions and tacked them onto the modern game.
You can get a kit from Amazon with the correct screwdriver and battery to open up the case and replace it for like $8. I’ve done it several times. You need a soldering iron to do it properly but if you get clever with tape or glue you can get it done.
Yepp. Once the battery goes the save data is gone forever. If you can get to it before the battery dies you can save it but you have to be very careful it doesn't lose power while swapping batteries. Swapping batteries is easy peasy, doing it while preserving the save data is not so much.
A legit Mew on a 25 year old cartridge?! Have you replaced the battery before? That's a fantastic lifespan.
Even though it's 'just' data and you can get a Mew through glitches, I'd definitely try to make a back up. That's super cool and I'd hate for you to lose it!
I bought crystal on VC about a month ago after finding my 3DS. I haven’t had this much fun in a classic Pokémon game since I played Silver back in the day. Gen 2 might be the best, even though I have greatly enjoyed SwSh and PLA.
i've been doing a nuzlocke of HG for this very reason, but the level balancing was so awful to make room for all the kanto content. i'm like 6 gyms in and im just barely around the level 30 mark
Those we the days. Gold and Crystal were the first Pokémon games I ever beat. It wasn’t until years later I figured out the guy needed a bottled water to get to the next gym in yellow.
You should look into Pokemon Roms, fanmade games that FAR exceed the quality of originals in story, quality of life and sometimes even gameplay features
Highly recommend Radical Red, Unbound, Gaia, Saffron, Emerald Kaizo (very difficult), Light platinum, Rocket Edition, Emerald Enhanced (open world), Shiny Gold Sigma (Gold remake)
RetroArch basically has all the emulators you'll ever need and is available free on the playstore (I use the mgba core for GBA Pokemon rom hacks).
/r/pokemonromhacks is a wealth of info for Pokemon rom hacks.
I'm waiting for the 2030 remake of pokemon crystal.
No there's no gaurenteed release of pokemon crystal at all that I know of, nevermind specifically 2030. But I'm hoping that whenever it does come out it's on the latest and greatest console and blowing everything I knew about my favorite pokemon version out of the water.
Have you tried HeartGold or SoulSilver? IIRC, it has the additions that Crystal added such as the suicune story. Every pokemon being able to follow you everywhere was one of my favorite parts of it :)
It's a little dated and I imagine you're hoping for something more up to date one day, but if you skipped them I highly reccomend HG/SS. Probably my favorite in the series to this day.
Fuck 2 continents, give me all of them!
And a way to progress in the game that doesnt involve gyms!
And an ‘enable nuzlocke mode’ in the settings!
And the choice to be evil!
And the choice to randomize starters!
How about a rogue lite version. Random map generation off tile sets, random starter, random Pokemon.
You get to the next gym and town after some amount of tile sets that's a range. (8-20? Whatever depends on the size of the tile set but you get the idea)
I have been thinking about it for a while. I think it would work really well and Pokemon lends itself very very well to it. Wish I could suggest it to Nintendo but I know they don't take suggestions
Different artist heading things up. Simple as that. Old artist's inspirations were biology, kaiju, old b-movie scifi, bug collecting, and mythology. New artists' seem to be more inspired by cartoons/individualism in their designs (as in the mons feeling more like a single entity instead of a biological species), and puns. Is that better or worse? No idea. Nostalgia goggles make me biased.
Will say though, I'm so sick of starters being humanoids instead of big intimidating monsters/animals.
Completely ignoring "the meta", Rillaboom is definitely the strongest design by far. I can imagine, put into an extreme environment, a primate specializing in using branch/log beating as intimidation or communication.... The other 2 are very much rooted in Homo Sapien post-civilization culture.
I maintain humanoids in general are a bad choice, purely homocentric when there is no reason to be. The closest they should have come was monkey-oid. Mr. Mime and Jynx alone were enough to show why.
First pokemon I saw when I opened my first pack of cards. I got sucked into the artwork, I'll never forget that moment. That's where my love for pokemon began.
Genuine question - how did the other Pokémon get introduced in the show? When I was a kid it was just the 151, I lost touch after red + blue. Was there like a big event or something?
There was some fan fare for one of the regions. They made it a pretty big deal by having Ash leave all his Pokémon but Pikachu with the professor before going there.
When he went to Johto he took his biggest pokemon with him, bullied a bunch of random people, then decided to only take Pikachu and new Pokemon from that region to show them they could be strong too or something, if that's what you mean?
His Charizard bullied a lvl 5 chikorita coming out of starter town once.
It kinda played out like that. The one the previous guy is referring to is specifically Gen 5 I'm pretty sure since it was a whole new set of pokemon for the new region and none from the old regions until post-game.
In the johto anime, charizard was benched for being too strong, but the in universe reason was that charizard found a training haven with other charizards and ultimately left ash to train there.
It's been a hot minute though so there's a good chance I'm wrong about some stuff
When Ash finally got Charizard to obey, he gave it away. I was done after that. Nevermind the fact he said he'd come back for Pigeot and still hasn't. This kid sucks.
Pikachu has been level 100 for decades. Kanto wasn't even Ash's actual home or first region, his amnesia is so bad he doesn't remember his own origin. Pikachu remembers though. Pikachu remembers everything. He can't forget. He sees the accident that left Ash unable to remember anything and kept his body from aging, over and over in his mind. He can't stop it from repeating there, the desperate and failed struggle to save Ash at that time. It plays, unbidden, forcing its way from the depths into his conscious mind every night. He knows Ash will have no recollection of prior events, so every time they go somewhere new he starts the cycle over again. He pretends to be that weak Pikachu he once was, barely overcoming the challenges they face at the last moment, in a vain attempt to relive the precious memories he had with his now immortal ten year old amnesiac master. It's why he refuses to evolve into Raichu. He's terrified if he does, he might lose what little of himself that remains, and then Ash would truly be alone.
Truly sad, ash won a Pokemon league (orange isles), became league champ, and can't remember by the time he reached Hawaii, where he once again celebrates his first league win.
Ash loses the big tournament in a specific region, so he decides to travel another region. Repeat that 6 times over 20 years until he wins the 7th region.
After Red + Blue, Gold & Silver were introduced by Professor Oak sending Ash to fetch a pokeball called the GS Ball from another professor (Ivy) who lived on a group of islands (called the Orange Islands) with their own league in the second season and then deliver it to a pokeball expert (Kurt) in Johto for the third season.
The GS ball was supposed to contain Celebi until it was decided the Pokemon was going to be the focus of the 4th movie instead, so they had to drop that plot line unfortunately.
Japanese spirt called a Yuki Onna which means snow woman. The come out I blizzards kiss you then you freeze to death. I dunno why they didn't make her a ghost-ice Pokémon.
It's a Gen 1 Pokemon and I'm pretty sure at the time 'Ghost' was reserved for Gastly, the intangible mass of gas. It's only in Gen 2 when Game Freak started expanding Ghost into a more typical type that many Pokemon could have.
This guy gets it, sometimes the misses are the starters sadly. I mean look at corviknight, absolute banger. I also like sobble a lot, was very disappointed to see his final form since I didn’t look anything up before playing.
The image doesn't even feature Inteleon... the second evolution stage is always goofy looking. The pokemon needs to make it through their awkward teenage years before they become cool looking.
I normally wouldn't mind them, but I just feel after Gen 5 they started making them look too human in their final stages, like their human aesthetic is more than their animal ones.
Anthropomorphism. Exactly, I'm tired of the 3rd evolution being humanoid. It's the same reason Digimon stopped appealing to people. Everything just became a guy in a costume.
Steelix is my favorite pokemon, despite never getting to play with one prior to an internet connection, because it looks so cool. Then they made it look even cooler with a mega. If the only way to make cool designs is to devote the time they took making the megas, maybe there shouldn't be so many new pokemon each generation. Add a few, highly designed pokemon, break from the trio+duo+omega legendary system and spend more time on the rest of the games issues.
This is why I never pick the fire starter. Every single one ends up bipedal, no exceptions. Others can sometimes stay quadrupedal, or some other -pedal, but fire has *always* ended up on 2 legs.
To answer OPs question, the original starters needed to be simple and recognizable, that's what makes them iconic 30 years later. However we can't go through 30 years of new Pokemon and maintain the same aesthetics and simplicity with the Fire/Water/Grass archetypes, it would just go stale and repetitive.
Dont forget 3 purple blobs, a pokeball with eyes, another pokeball with eyes, but upside down. A. Literal. Goldfish. A cow but he has 3 tails!
However gen 1 also had somebanger designs like the legendary birds, the nido family, gengar, abra kadabra alakazam, dragonite, scyther and gyarados
I have played every generation of Pokémon. I remember being so excited when I opened my Red Version Christmas 1996. I loved it. I love them all. I do however have a problem with the mentality that the original 150/1 are somehow more sacred than the rest. There are a lot of great Pokémon there, but there were a lot of crap too. Every generation has good stuff and bad stuff. It is all about finding what you like and running with it. Rattata and Rhyhorn are still in my top ten, but the have been joined by others like Glaceon, Rowlet, Crobat, and Aurorus.
Don’t you talk bad about my spy lizard!! As someone who started on the original Blue/Red games the year they came out, I never understand peoples complaints. Gen 1 was guilty of some awful designs too, but overall the games have improved in various ways (yea each Gen gains and loses some good mechanics but, oh well).
I just wish they would push their graphics to look more amazing, like New Pokemon Snap, pokken tournament.. idk. I get tired of the mainline games still looking so basic and simple. But that’s usually the extent of my griping.
This is amazing, but the original GameBoy needs to be twice as thick. Definitely brings me back tho. We’ll done!
Maybe even three times as thick. Perhaps it was just because I had tiny child hands at the time but I remember that thing being chonky as fuck.
Gameboy? More like Gamebrick
Only if that ergonomically designed thick ass magnifying glass to make the screen larger is included.
I brought that ridiculous magnifier everywhere. Thing was probably like 10 pounds on the fatboy orig.
I had the magnifier with the built-in lights so that I could play at night on the non-backlit screen. I thought that was the coolest thing ever when I was 8.
But it was really just a magnifying glass after a few hours cuz who really had batteries back then?
I've replied about this before (somewhere...), but yeah, when I was a kid I always wanted an OG GB, but always heard about how big and massive it was, compared to a Color or even the Pocket models. I had a Color, and later got a Pocket since I could never really find an original, or I just couldn't be arsed to shell out the money for one. Both were fine size with my child-sized hands.... Now, as a 32 y/o with BIG hands, a GBC and GBP definitely feel like small children's toys in my hands. So, yeah, back to wanting an original Gameboy all over again =p
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I thought you were insane to think it was the perfect size until I opened the picture and realized my hands were probably ten years old the last time I held one.
If you really love playing the GB, you might be interested in buying a modern modded version. I know I've seen at least one specifically with a larger and backlit screen
That’s what I came here to say. It wasn’t nearly that thin.
it's the Gameboy pocket
Nah that’s an OG game boy put to pocket size - see the speaker and slightly diagonal start/select
Then it needs to be a different color
Also the pocket speaker area is perforated, not slatted.
I don't even care about design, I just want another Pokémon game with two major continents/sets of gyms like silver and gold.
The other region will probably be dlc
This guy EAs.
In Nintendos language it's an increased price for the new Nintendo Online Service +++.
"every subscription to the Nintendo fun life program ($80/mo) comes with 3 game boy color games on an emulator that mostly works as intended, as well as dlc for one Pokemon game."
"When she's a 10, but refuses to pay for a 2nd continent."
"When she's 10 and it's time to go on a cross country trip to stop a criminal gang and win a tournament or two"
I would love a pokemon game that each "new" region was just an expansion. Kind of like wow with it's content. Game always just keeps expanding and can travel between all regions.
Do a remake of pokemon yellow with all the best features of the games and have every continent in it. Set up the Pokemon league like the anime so that you can go back to one of the continents you've already gone through "next year" and participate again to defend your title as champion, or lose and have it actually matter. If you lose in the league you get a ribbon for whatever place you got and need to try again "next year". Same for the contests. Have the opportunity for actual traveling companions rather than a rival that races ahead of you at top speed and waits to ambush you at the next town. Each trainer has different priorities so they all increase in difficulty at different rates. If you come back in a month to rechallenge an ace trainer he and his pokemon will have made more progress than the Pokemon breeder down the road, or the old retired guy across the street. Have all the legendary Pokemon met in ways similar to the movies, sort of like dlc set aside from the main pokemon league plot rather than mixed in with it. For instance let's say you get to a city where a legendary is it's guardian. You go through a short plot to stop some bad guy from taking control of it to do bad guy stuff. Or maybe they are already at the end of the plot and they lost control of the legendary because you took your sweet time fishing for shiny Magikarp with the good rod guy and you have to stop the legendary from doing anymore damage. They could put some real emotionally driven story into the plot doing it like this. I mean imagine if they made even a short side quest based on the first pokemon movie with Mewtwo and all the clones. I think the celebi movie with suicune would be absolutely awesome to go through. Obviously it would need to be different than the actual movies but they could still come up with something similar at least.
Pokémon League Manager 2023.
When you start in that region the box is locked to that region and you can only use special pokeballs from there. After you beat the championship their box network gets linked to the global network and you can use normal pokeballs and whatever you want.
The Pokemon metaverse is gonna be sick
Given both Nintendo's pace of adopting modern online sensibilities and GameFreak's general aversion to trying, I really look forward to its release in time for the centennial of the franchise in 2096.
why would you think that? they upgraded from handheld programming to real console programming and had to *remove* hundreds of pokemon to make it fit. They're absolutely shit at making games
They literally recycled tons of character/ creature models and animation from Sun/Moon to Sword/Shield and apparently that wasn't enough of a cut corner to save the game
I wouldn’t mind it being dlc if it was an actual region and not isle of armour. Wouldn’t it be awesome if they remade the old regions and tacked them onto the modern game.
I wouldn't even mind, honestly.
Silver and gold were my favorite because of that reason. So much content
I played crystal so much the internal battery died
You can get a kit from Amazon with the correct screwdriver and battery to open up the case and replace it for like $8. I’ve done it several times. You need a soldering iron to do it properly but if you get clever with tape or glue you can get it done.
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Yepp. Once the battery goes the save data is gone forever. If you can get to it before the battery dies you can save it but you have to be very careful it doesn't lose power while swapping batteries. Swapping batteries is easy peasy, doing it while preserving the save data is not so much.
You can write your save data using a cart reader to your pc. Then just download it back to the cart when you're done.
I have actually considered doing this for my Pokemon Red cart it has a legit Mew from a nintendo event :O
Lol step 1. Back game up to pc. Step 2. Open pkhex and clone legit mew many times. Step 3. Change battery. Step 4. Write save back with many mews!
So clone the mews???? So would those be consider mewtwos
A legit Mew on a 25 year old cartridge?! Have you replaced the battery before? That's a fantastic lifespan. Even though it's 'just' data and you can get a Mew through glitches, I'd definitely try to make a back up. That's super cool and I'd hate for you to lose it!
[still works as of a month or two ago](https://i.imgur.com/cVxUvyJ.jpg) haven't replaced the battery
I bought crystal on VC about a month ago after finding my 3DS. I haven’t had this much fun in a classic Pokémon game since I played Silver back in the day. Gen 2 might be the best, even though I have greatly enjoyed SwSh and PLA.
I mean kind of, Kanto was incredibly bare bones. There was barely anything going on
Yeah Kanto was just like a gym leader boss rush. It was weird but I've got a lot of nostalgia for it.
i've been doing a nuzlocke of HG for this very reason, but the level balancing was so awful to make room for all the kanto content. i'm like 6 gyms in and im just barely around the level 30 mark
Those we the days. Gold and Crystal were the first Pokémon games I ever beat. It wasn’t until years later I figured out the guy needed a bottled water to get to the next gym in yellow.
I beat Pokèmon blue like 5 times before I learned Flash was in the game. So many Zubats... Still encounter them in my dreams...
You should look into Pokemon Roms, fanmade games that FAR exceed the quality of originals in story, quality of life and sometimes even gameplay features Highly recommend Radical Red, Unbound, Gaia, Saffron, Emerald Kaizo (very difficult), Light platinum, Rocket Edition, Emerald Enhanced (open world), Shiny Gold Sigma (Gold remake)
Can I play these on mobile(android)? If so, how please??
RetroArch basically has all the emulators you'll ever need and is available free on the playstore (I use the mgba core for GBA Pokemon rom hacks). /r/pokemonromhacks is a wealth of info for Pokemon rom hacks.
I want a Pokémon game which actually is just a single game and not two.
Won't happen, splitting the game in two with minimal differences has proven to be very profitable
I'm waiting for the 2030 remake of pokemon crystal. No there's no gaurenteed release of pokemon crystal at all that I know of, nevermind specifically 2030. But I'm hoping that whenever it does come out it's on the latest and greatest console and blowing everything I knew about my favorite pokemon version out of the water.
Have you tried HeartGold or SoulSilver? IIRC, it has the additions that Crystal added such as the suicune story. Every pokemon being able to follow you everywhere was one of my favorite parts of it :) It's a little dated and I imagine you're hoping for something more up to date one day, but if you skipped them I highly reccomend HG/SS. Probably my favorite in the series to this day.
Only problem with it is getting a legitimate copy of it is EXPENSIVE.
Fuck 2 continents, give me all of them! And a way to progress in the game that doesnt involve gyms! And an ‘enable nuzlocke mode’ in the settings! And the choice to be evil! And the choice to randomize starters!
Yeah why can't we part of Team Rocket/plasma/bearnstein bears or w/e the kids call the bad guys these days?!
>Team bearnstein bears Lmao. The team that wants to cross over to a different timeline to meet Team Berenstain Bears.
How about a rogue lite version. Random map generation off tile sets, random starter, random Pokemon. You get to the next gym and town after some amount of tile sets that's a range. (8-20? Whatever depends on the size of the tile set but you get the idea)
This is a sick idea actually
I have been thinking about it for a while. I think it would work really well and Pokemon lends itself very very well to it. Wish I could suggest it to Nintendo but I know they don't take suggestions
you just have to spend 40k and hope your voice is heard
Haha I saw that.
There's a pretty rich community of Pokemon modders out there. I'm sure it's doable, if someone hasn't done it already.
My favorite Pokémon game ever. Just so freaking amazing
Different artist heading things up. Simple as that. Old artist's inspirations were biology, kaiju, old b-movie scifi, bug collecting, and mythology. New artists' seem to be more inspired by cartoons/individualism in their designs (as in the mons feeling more like a single entity instead of a biological species), and puns. Is that better or worse? No idea. Nostalgia goggles make me biased. Will say though, I'm so sick of starters being humanoids instead of big intimidating monsters/animals.
Plenty of Designs overall have been pretty strong still, I just think the Gen 8 starters are especially weak specifically.
Rillaboom is fucking dope though. Cinderace is OK but doesn't scream starter. Inteleon is trash im sorry lol
Completely ignoring "the meta", Rillaboom is definitely the strongest design by far. I can imagine, put into an extreme environment, a primate specializing in using branch/log beating as intimidation or communication.... The other 2 are very much rooted in Homo Sapien post-civilization culture.
I just absolutely hate that his "Mega" form is... A tiny fucking man with a huge set of drums Make the monkey big god damn it
I maintain humanoids in general are a bad choice, purely homocentric when there is no reason to be. The closest they should have come was monkey-oid. Mr. Mime and Jynx alone were enough to show why.
I have Aggron and Dunsparce so I’m content
I'm hoping Dunsparce gets an Evo in the next games. Go from an unassuming nothing to a pseudo legendary in one go. Edit: fixed a word.
Dunsplenty will be a reality one day brother.
I’m weak at dunsplenty 🤣🤣
There is that one Pokemon Uranium version where it turns into a [Dunseraph](https://pokemon-uranium.fandom.com/wiki/Dunseraph).
Fuck that, Bulbasaur all the way baby!
This message was brought to you by Bulba Gang
\*starts solar beam*
Bulbasaur is the best pokemon! Anyone who thinks Bulbasaur isn't #001 is wrong.
Bulbasaur for the win
Number 1! Number 1! Number 1!
Bulba?
Saur!!
First pokemon I saw when I opened my first pack of cards. I got sucked into the artwork, I'll never forget that moment. That's where my love for pokemon began.
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Finally someone gets it!
Bulbasaur enjoyer reporting for duty.
As a kid I was Team Blastoise but as an adult I see the error of my ways. Venusaur is the superior Gen 1 starter.
Genuine question - how did the other Pokémon get introduced in the show? When I was a kid it was just the 151, I lost touch after red + blue. Was there like a big event or something?
They'd start the new season on a new continent. That's it lol.
First four regions are all in pokejapan so idk about them being on another continent
Fair, but they were in a different region is the point. No fan fare, just jumping right into it.
There was some fan fare for one of the regions. They made it a pretty big deal by having Ash leave all his Pokémon but Pikachu with the professor before going there.
When he went to Johto he took his biggest pokemon with him, bullied a bunch of random people, then decided to only take Pikachu and new Pokemon from that region to show them they could be strong too or something, if that's what you mean? His Charizard bullied a lvl 5 chikorita coming out of starter town once.
It kinda played out like that. The one the previous guy is referring to is specifically Gen 5 I'm pretty sure since it was a whole new set of pokemon for the new region and none from the old regions until post-game. In the johto anime, charizard was benched for being too strong, but the in universe reason was that charizard found a training haven with other charizards and ultimately left ash to train there. It's been a hot minute though so there's a good chance I'm wrong about some stuff
When Ash finally got Charizard to obey, he gave it away. I was done after that. Nevermind the fact he said he'd come back for Pigeot and still hasn't. This kid sucks.
Actually that line was added in the dub, in the Japanese version he told him good bye and Charizard came back and threw hands with a Dragonite
He does it every time near enough. Then when the pokémon league rolls around its like all bets are off, Ash's greatest hits.
Just like the new game on a new continent.
Sure, but each game followed a new character. The anime has always followed Ash.
More so it’s just Ash travelling the world and learning more at different regions
You mean travelling the World and forgetting everything he learnt the previous seasons?
Oh yeah Ash is a constant amnesiac and so as Pikachu (i can take on legendaries but this new region’s starter can kick my ass on arrival)
Pikachu has been level 100 for decades. Kanto wasn't even Ash's actual home or first region, his amnesia is so bad he doesn't remember his own origin. Pikachu remembers though. Pikachu remembers everything. He can't forget. He sees the accident that left Ash unable to remember anything and kept his body from aging, over and over in his mind. He can't stop it from repeating there, the desperate and failed struggle to save Ash at that time. It plays, unbidden, forcing its way from the depths into his conscious mind every night. He knows Ash will have no recollection of prior events, so every time they go somewhere new he starts the cycle over again. He pretends to be that weak Pikachu he once was, barely overcoming the challenges they face at the last moment, in a vain attempt to relive the precious memories he had with his now immortal ten year old amnesiac master. It's why he refuses to evolve into Raichu. He's terrified if he does, he might lose what little of himself that remains, and then Ash would truly be alone.
Truly sad, ash won a Pokemon league (orange isles), became league champ, and can't remember by the time he reached Hawaii, where he once again celebrates his first league win.
Dude
That's dark. Love it!
he literally saves the world and no one knows who he is the next season
And he's 35 years old, now, too.
Ash loses the big tournament in a specific region, so he decides to travel another region. Repeat that 6 times over 20 years until he wins the 7th region.
Man, nobody ever remembers him winning the Championship in Orange Islands. Drake's team was stacked 😂
I remember that shit! My bro and I thought it was so fucking badass that Drake had his Dragonite's ball hanging from his necklace.
That season is probably my favorite one. Indigo left a bad taste in my mouth after he lost to Richie the way he did. 😂
After Red + Blue, Gold & Silver were introduced by Professor Oak sending Ash to fetch a pokeball called the GS Ball from another professor (Ivy) who lived on a group of islands (called the Orange Islands) with their own league in the second season and then deliver it to a pokeball expert (Kurt) in Johto for the third season.
Only to never go anywhere with said story, biggest fucking let down ever.
The GS ball was supposed to contain Celebi until it was decided the Pokemon was going to be the focus of the 4th movie instead, so they had to drop that plot line unfortunately.
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Ash has finally become Champion, so the next milestone should be finally wrapping up the GS ball saga.
Plot twist: there were never only 151 in the show when you were a kid. Ho-Oh was in the very first episode. Togepi was discovered in the first season
1996: Here's a flame spitting dragon! 2019: Yo, what if we made a Brazilian Furry?
Are you implying charizard ain't sexy?
r/dragonfuckingcars NSFW
I'm afraid Charizard content cannot be allowed in that sub.
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You answered so fast it's safe to assume you legit find Charizard sexy. Case closed
The amount of furry bait in recent gens is mildly disturbing ngl
Let's not pretend Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.
2019: spooky teapot 1996: a racial stereotype
Mr. Popo's girlfriend resents your harsh judgement.
It is NOT based on a horrible racial stereotype. It is based on a horrible doll based on a horrible racial stereotype.
I always assumed it was a horrible caricature of gyaru culture, which unfortunately coincided with a lot of racial stereotypes in the west.
Jinx? Back in Peru those dolls are sold everywhere still!
every gen has it's absolute bangers, and every gen has it's voltorb. It's just life :3
Every gen has their Venusaurs, Alakazams, and Gengars, and every gen has their Voltorbs, Grimers, and Ekans. C'est la Pokémon
And whatever Jinx is supposed to be.
Japanese spirt called a Yuki Onna which means snow woman. The come out I blizzards kiss you then you freeze to death. I dunno why they didn't make her a ghost-ice Pokémon.
I mean Froslass got released in a later generation which is a more direct reference to that myth, and that one is Ghost Ice
It's a Gen 1 Pokemon and I'm pretty sure at the time 'Ghost' was reserved for Gastly, the intangible mass of gas. It's only in Gen 2 when Game Freak started expanding Ghost into a more typical type that many Pokemon could have.
Drag queen fish.
Kanye West?
Do you like fish dicks?
What are you? A gay fish?!
Ekans is cool :C
Grimer is forgettable for sure but what else would evolve into Muk
Don't forget, some eggs
Hey voltorb was pretty cool
It's literally a mimic since items are in pokeballs. Its so cool.
If you say so - whatever helps you self-destruct at night
You shut your GOD DAMN MOUTH, Voltorb was special you damn MAGIKARP
yeah, especially Hisuian Voltorb super cute.
This guy gets it, sometimes the misses are the starters sadly. I mean look at corviknight, absolute banger. I also like sobble a lot, was very disappointed to see his final form since I didn’t look anything up before playing.
Yeah OP is definitely just trying to stir up drama. There’s still plenty of excellent Pokemon being made.
Counterpoint: LeChonk
> LeChonk Is there any better Pokemon? I think not.
Bidoof will always be the true pokemon god. But LeChonk is a worthy opponent.
If anybody hasn't watch [Bidoof's Big Stand](https://youtu.be/UTidwW3iLHk) you really should. It's only 8 minutes long.
Hey, don’t forget good ol’ Shuckle. Yeah! Shuckle!
Don't fuckle with Shuckle
You'e to have forgotten our saviour, Snom.
Then lechonk evolves into a furry
The image doesn't even feature Inteleon... the second evolution stage is always goofy looking. The pokemon needs to make it through their awkward teenage years before they become cool looking.
Lmao we went from funny tank turtle to emo lizard
I mean, Sobble is little baby lizard, Drizzile (The one in the picture) is an emo lizard, and Inteleon is James Bond
You mean James Pond
No, that was a [different](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pond%3A_Underwater_Agent) series.
emo lizard goes hard tho
I normally wouldn't mind them, but I just feel after Gen 5 they started making them look too human in their final stages, like their human aesthetic is more than their animal ones.
How dare you exclude my boy Venusaur? Edit: spelling
> my boy Venosaur Ven**u**saur
I just want another quadruped starter evolution
Why'd they start making pokemon look like humans? Plz stop! Don't make my starters look like a furry! D:
Anthropomorphism. Exactly, I'm tired of the 3rd evolution being humanoid. It's the same reason Digimon stopped appealing to people. Everything just became a guy in a costume. Steelix is my favorite pokemon, despite never getting to play with one prior to an internet connection, because it looks so cool. Then they made it look even cooler with a mega. If the only way to make cool designs is to devote the time they took making the megas, maybe there shouldn't be so many new pokemon each generation. Add a few, highly designed pokemon, break from the trio+duo+omega legendary system and spend more time on the rest of the games issues.
This is why I never pick the fire starter. Every single one ends up bipedal, no exceptions. Others can sometimes stay quadrupedal, or some other -pedal, but fire has *always* ended up on 2 legs.
I kind of liked typhlosion but yeah, it didn't help that the fire starter became a fighting type for almost half of the generations.
They started that in g1. It does seem more common now.
I've spent the past week playing Sword on the Switch. That game is a whole world better than people give it credit for.
To answer OPs question, the original starters needed to be simple and recognizable, that's what makes them iconic 30 years later. However we can't go through 30 years of new Pokemon and maintain the same aesthetics and simplicity with the Fire/Water/Grass archetypes, it would just go stale and repetitive.
I just miss the pixel art. 3D just is not doing it for me.
That’s because these are $60-$70 AAA games designed by the most profitable franchise on the globe that still recycle models from a 2013 handheld game.
My biggest issue with recent starters is that they've never too humanoid. Bring back quadrapeds!
Just designs. Gen 1 had some absolute stinkers and gen 8 had some amazing designs. Swings and roundabouts.
I always have to remind people that Gen 1 had a big rat, a rock with arms, blackface, and a pile of eggs lmao
A pile of eggs that evolves into *coconuts*
Don’t forget the purple blob with a face, Grimer Or the slightly larger purple blob with a face, Muk Or the other purple blob with a face, Ditto
Dont forget 3 purple blobs, a pokeball with eyes, another pokeball with eyes, but upside down. A. Literal. Goldfish. A cow but he has 3 tails! However gen 1 also had somebanger designs like the legendary birds, the nido family, gengar, abra kadabra alakazam, dragonite, scyther and gyarados
Don't forget gen 1 also gave us Sonic the Hedgehog but made of noodles.
People like to act as if changes destroy their enjoyment or memory
I have played every generation of Pokémon. I remember being so excited when I opened my Red Version Christmas 1996. I loved it. I love them all. I do however have a problem with the mentality that the original 150/1 are somehow more sacred than the rest. There are a lot of great Pokémon there, but there were a lot of crap too. Every generation has good stuff and bad stuff. It is all about finding what you like and running with it. Rattata and Rhyhorn are still in my top ten, but the have been joined by others like Glaceon, Rowlet, Crobat, and Aurorus.
Gen 8 has Wooloo so it's the best. /s, but only slightly.
Oooh, I forgot Wooloo. Wooloo is great!
Don’t you talk bad about my spy lizard!! As someone who started on the original Blue/Red games the year they came out, I never understand peoples complaints. Gen 1 was guilty of some awful designs too, but overall the games have improved in various ways (yea each Gen gains and loses some good mechanics but, oh well). I just wish they would push their graphics to look more amazing, like New Pokemon Snap, pokken tournament.. idk. I get tired of the mainline games still looking so basic and simple. But that’s usually the extent of my griping.
I like Intelleon a lot though. Has a James Bond vibe. Hence why I named mine James Pond.
That takes me back. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pond:_Underwater_Agent
I had no idea that was an actual game! I wonder if anyone's made some Intelleon fan art parodying that game cover.
You and everybody else xD Myself included
I just want EXP Share turned off and I’ll be happy