11 Obscure Facts in Gen 1 Pokémon 

I'm actually surprised you didn't know Lance was from photo. With it being your fav region and everything. That and they are cousins.

What does Blue choose for a starter if you pick them all?

STOP BEING GREEDY

What if u do a rom hack of yellow but for gba like fire red and leaf green that would be so cool

Aw. Only 2 obscure facts before this video becomes unwatchable? Disappointing. RU-vid, do not recommend this channel.

^^^ Came here to say it

Yea its small stuff like this that makes you know they just be putting out the same shit year in and year out

ding ding diiiiiing

100% agree

I mean.. in gen 1, Gary/blue has an encounter theme

Boy and the crazy changes to competitive that came as a result of the competitive scene not being aware of this yet the speed running community did.

So can you poison a Poison type with Twineedle?

@@danieldutoit2187 Yes actually and you can paralyse an electric type with Body Slam. Gen 1 is fun like that.

@@Xyrusama I knew about that. You can also paralyze them with Stun Spore. If memory serves Electric Type's proper immunity to Paralysis only started in gen 5 or 6

You can poison steel types in Gen 2 with twin needle. I think you can poison poison types in Gen 1 like 99% sure but cannot confirm with bulbapedia.

Yeah no that took me out, he was dishing some good facts and then it's just genuinely funny that fact in particular blew his mind.

Was just about to say this

LOL

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Gamers when they're presented with text to read:

Yeah, that felt like a really random section of the video. Not only is it kind of obvious, but it's Gen II information. I thought he was leading up to a secret piece of dialogue mentioning Jotho in Gen 1.

Forgot to mention, I can’t read

Yeah ok how many people knew that tho or even remembered it

@@mooganify Anyone who has played Gold, Silver, Crystal, their remakes, Fire Red of Leaf Green.

There were bug testers? The 1st gen games are so glitches, I assume if there really were bug testers they didn't even get as far as obtaining the starter Pokemon before calling it a day.

​@@Grey_Warden_Invasion catching and battling was added late into development

​@@Grey_Warden_InvasionOf course there were bug tester! Why else would Psychic types be afraid of Bug types? Lol

This or the ghost in lavender tower before acquiring the silph scope

There’s just only so much time we can use to explain every little tiny detail, so I didn’t bother mentioning that as it’s more commonly known

@@smithplayspokemon Fair enough, it's just that people assume it's only Body Slam, when it's more so that the secondary effect isn't applied if the move and the attacked Pokemon are the same type

In Pokémon Stadium 2, Earl said in one of his tutorials that this is a feature.

Twinneedle can poison bug types. Secondary poison uses a different check from other statuses that only looks for the defending Pokemon being poison type.

Poison is handled in the code separately from the other statuses, so poison chances on moves are actually correctly only blocked by poison types. So, have fun poisoning Caterpie with twineedle

That's what I'm thinking, as music especially would have taken up a lot of space proportionally back then.

Back in the day, I'd imagine the tool chain was pretty primitive so finding code that wasn't used was pretty hard to do. And ensuring that removed code didn't break anything probably was a concern as well

​@@chaoslordmissingnoBasically this, yeah. Even in the modern day, sometimes it can be difficult to say for sure whether a piece of data is important or not, and being the one responsible for needing to restore said code from a backup isn't super high on anyone's list of favorite things to do at work. Unlike modern games, though, there's another issue - even if it is removed, what do you put in its place? It usually has to be similar to all the code around it. So if you remove text, you add text in its place, if you remove audio, you add audio in its place, etc. And it has to be of equal or smaller size from the thing that was removed, too, making it really awkward to use the space. In theory, you could move all data so you could combine all spare data into a blob, or split it up accordingly, but if you do that, you also need to find and change anything that got shifted as a result (usually meaning index tables and/or pointers), and that can take forever. If you don't have anything concrete to add in the spot, it's a whole bunch of time freeing up space that might not even get used. So, it's simpler to just leave it unused instead of wasting even more resources trying to change that.

RU-vidrs say "memory limitations" for literally all cut content ever, even though that's rarely the actual reason. It's just the only reason something gets cut that they know of.

Crazy how you found it by total chance as a kid!!

yea same

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I knew I wasn't crazy when I remembered getting then w butcouldn't upon replaying the game ten years later lol

Yeah me too 😮

I would periodically try and get them but didn't know why I couldn't. Glad to see this.@@Ammut6

Right? I was kind of surprised at how surprised Smith sounded since I thought that was just common knowledge and conveyed pretty overtly in the games.

yeah, its not a hidden detail.

Agreed. Its like...directly stated in Gen 2 lmao

They literally tell you that. Like how do people not know that

​@@ianfinrir8724 to be COMPLETELY fair, the word "cousin" is never used. the guard outside the dragon's den says the Master is Clair's grandfather, and one of the elder's in the dragons den says Lance looks so much like the Master did in his youth, AND that its in their blood. From this, them being related is very obvious. BUT this just makes the fact them being related the secret such a shock, especially because later games like frlg and masters just flat out say "we are cousins". its not a hidden secret. a better secret is that is Bruno used to train with Brawly.

I hate that girl

Yet, if you use a Speed boosting move such as Agility... It negates your Speed drop, and just gives you 2x Speed like normal 🤣 (It'll reset if they buff up though)

The general idea that a Fire-Pokemon can't be burned or an Ice-Pokemon not be frozen is technically very logical (aren't Firemons to this day immune to getting burned?). But as usual with Gen 1, they took a good idea and made it weird :D

There’re probably several, although the one on Nugget Bridge is probably the easiest. I remember so many forums back in the day insisting it wasn’t possible and you could only get Mew from events long past. It was weird how bad getting walkthrough information was back in the day, because the glitch isn’t even complicated to pull off. I mean, I got the MissingNo. Glitch by word of mouth.

I don’t know that any game had bugs that were a feature/asset quite like Gen 1 Pokémon.

You can get two Mews in less than 10mins b4 you fight Misty. Just need an Abra

@@balancedbeats7959 I definitely know of one. I assume you’re correct on the other

@@Cwin-ny6bp which one do you know of? I'll try and find a video that shows both aha

the unused theme sounds incomplete, like the rhythm section of high threat gen 1 dungeons without any of the other sections to give them personality

Apparently, the name of the theme was found and it's Giovanni japanese name.

Probably because evolving then adds another entry to your Pokedex, and the game isn't able to differentiate an entry from an evolved pokemon, to that of a newly caught pokemon. It'll be a fllag that checks whether you have more than one entry in your Pokedex.

@@LiamAnthony_ That's exactly why it happens. My comments just to remind people who are finding this out for the first time, so they don't let the starter evolve.

infinite money glitch?

just tried it in red/blue & yellow. does it only work before and not after

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I’m here to steal the declaration of independence

You've never seen him before?

Ok