I Bought EVERY Used Pokemon Game, Here's What Was On Them 

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Imagine being in a dam egg for like 13 year and everyone is disappointed

It's like sifting through someone's valuable safe and only finding a few pennies.

7:41 "How do you play for fourteen hours and you get one badge?" as a fellow Kalos traveler, considering the gap between Santalune City and the next Gym in Cyllage City...the chances of them rage quitting because of the distance to Cyllage City is likely (or they spent too much time at the Battle Chateau and got tired of it). Not to mention going through the maze that is Lumiose City. But hey, at least the music when you finally arrive at Cyllage City is a bop.

As a manager at a Gamestop, you made those employees day. TBH DS games are now considered a relic of the past sadly, and will sit in that case until they tell us to send them off to another store that sells them more. The unfortunate news is that because the stores you purchased them from have "sold many DS games recently" they will only get more shipped from the warehouse to sit there until some other brave soul buys a boat-load of them at once.

The fact that they sell gen 4 games without a package for 75 bucks is a crime in itself holy

My older sister bought me a used version of Pokemon Y for my birthday years ago. I remember going through the save file and spending like an hour Wonder Trading off all the good Pokemon to random trainers so I didn't "waste" the legendaries and starters in the copy. Good times.

Seeing people going through used game cards always leave a bittersweet taste on my tongue. On one end it's exciting to see how others played the same game but on the other it's kinda sad to remember that after all those hours (or as little as they were) they ended up being resold. Thanks for the video!

I really enjoy this type of content. Seeing what people left behind on their old pokemon save files is always somewhat magical. There's always an adventure behind every team.

That was a fun watch dude! I remember a few years back picking up a used copy of Soul Silver. The player character was named Isaac and he seemed to have done nearly everything you could in the game. we're talking every event pokemon, complete national dex and beating the elite four a good five to six dozen times as well as completing Kanto and nearly every side quest . Dude even had a complete unknown alphabet (which is the least believable part LOL.) But as I rooted around I saw he never went to mount silver and battled Red. So I built a team with his lowest leveled mons and hatched all of his 50 eggs. A kinship was born between me and Isaac along with all the Totodile (My favorite pokemon.) he had eggs of. That little gator boy is my precious favorite boy. then I trained up the team I whipped up and finished Isaacs long journey. Felt it was the least I could do and was a top five favorite pokemon experience for me.

This seems to be the most expensive concept you've done so far, but it's always interesting to look through a person's past through their saved games. It's basically a time capsule that they've thrown away, either because of frustration or boredom. You learn so much (or so little in that regard) just from when & where a person decided to give up and sell the game.

7:40 this is actually very understandable, between the first and second gym badge in kalos, there is an enormous story gap and someone could easily spend 14 hours doing all the story stuff before the second badge

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Scott Wozniak is absolutely the kind of guy to SOMEHOW spend 12 hours playing Pokemon Pearl, after SOMEHOW attaining all 3 starters, just to get one (1) singular gym badge, face Purugly, then say "Hell nah, I can't play any more of this! This is just ludicrous! They don't do this to me in Gubble!"

This was such a fun watch! Sifting through old save files is a great time. Hope this video gets the attention it deserves

Mars: It's over, Scott, I have the high ground! Scott: You underestimate my power! Also Scott: *rage quits because of Purugly* If Scott wasn't even able to defeat Mars, Cynthia would've given him the reckoning of a lifetime had he make it to the League. Scott was doing himself a favor.

I am 99% certain that copy with the name Lil Y was mine

My dad bought me a used copy of Pokémon black version when I was in middle school and apparently it had every event legendary/Mythical/Shiny Starters Pokémon from every generation. All legit and most of them being traded. And a few hacked Pokémon like Shiny Alakazam, Shiny Magmortal & shiny Metagross on master balls caught on route 1 lol I don’t remember the items or the amount but I don’t think the game was hacked aside from having a few hacked Pokémon.

I mean… My Black game had 247-260 hours into it. Yes the game was lagging a bit. I had literally beaten every fight there is possible to beat, only never exploring the underwater ruins because it scared 15 year old me.

This is such a fun yet expensive hobby to do. I've done this year's ago but eventually stopped since the last games had recent save files on them, not from nearly two decades ago.

I remember buying a used copy of Heart Gold. The guy had 4 badges already, and his name was Zack if I remember. His team was absolutely horrible, with a level 27 croconaw and everything else being hm slaves. I decided to train up his team and defeated the Cianwood and Olivine City gyms with relative ease. Pierce was surprisingly easy too. But oh boy, Claire really ended my run there. I tried over and over again with no luck. I caught a pilowswine, but it didn’t help against the kingdra. No matter how hard I tried, I was unsuccessful. Angrily, I gave up and even ended up losing the game. 3 years ago I finally found it, and decided to start a new save file. This time I chose cyndaquil, and I wasn’t backing down this time. I lost to Claire once, but the second time I was ready. Dragon rage Gyarados really came in clutch. Heartgold remains one of my favorite ds games alongside bw2.

What's your favorite save file we found?

For the Pokemon X one, it wasn't hacked. There was a Volcanion Event where you could get Volcanion event code on the movie ticket with every purchase of the newest movie that had came out at the time

I did this with a copy of ultra moon, cause I needed mons and wanted one with a progress already to save time. Took over a jessica who had only beaten the first trial but had a full team. The story that develops in your head popping into someone else's save is honestly an experience.

I remember selling my old copy of Ultra Sun at Gamestop a couple of years ago before PokeBank was a thing; I left lots of legendaries and shinies on the cartridge in the hope that someone might be happy :)

This type always makes me think about how the switch games are saved on the console or in the cloud now instead of the cartridge itself, it's sad we won't be able to dig through the stories of used games anymore, but I'm also a little happy that if my specific game cartridge disappears, I'm not out all that time and I can pick up where I left off

Awesome to see Lud And Schlatt's music in effect already. And it fits incredibly well too

Whenever I buy vintage games I'm excited to see save files. I actually continued a couple of them that were part way through. Nearly finished a Pearl game started in 2010

I respect a man who rounds his number down for simplicity when needed for concisely making the point in a video, thank you. Keep it up

I like that you have the Diamond and Pearl Adventure manga! Such an underrated series, especially with PokeSpe being so much more popular.

First time seeing your channel. And I adore finding a good save file. I’ve been working on 100% leaf green, my first Pokémon game, and had to rebuy fire red and Ruby, and I was stoked to see the Ruby with 300 hours and a damn near complete Pokédex

This makes me hope that whoever stole my copy of White resold it to someone who’s taking good care of my Tepig. I miss you, Flame-Pig, I hope you’re doing okay out there

I remember working at GameStop and anytime someone wanted to buy the games out of the case, we were so happy. There was rarely any stocked, except the new games in one drawer and that case being emptied was the nicest feeling

I randomly found this but never have I laughed so hard before

Never seen your channel before. This idea was hype. Well done! I loved how you were able to give life and stories to not only the trainers in these used games you picked up, but you and your friends also created narratives for the previous owners of the games. Don't be surprised if you see other youtubers copy this. Great content!

4:18 when he yelled Scott after saying one gym badge i lost it XDDD

Used game spelunking as one of my favorite parts of buying a secondhand game. Sometimes you get the guy who sold his game with a completed roster and sometimes you get the folks that quit halfway through or make the save file unusable. Always a treasure to find out

I had over 1000 hours in my Y copy, but it was mainly from just trying to breed shiny Pokemon. Used the trick where you could put something on the thumbstick and just ride in circles around the tower to hatch eggs.

I love the idea of going through old copies of games. I got Ultra Moon recently and I have yet to actually start it because I want to save this man’s Pokemon into bank. I remember going through it with my friend and we were laughing going through all of the names he gave his mons.

This made me go back and log into my old games… some of these are super stacked lol

Never was invested in Pokemon but I find this video concept ingenious! I wish it were easier to find memory cards for things like the ps2 or gamecube

The hero we didn't know we needed. Now ur making me wanna go and collect all the gens 😤

For Scott I believe he never even entered the windworks. The galactic grunt said his dialogue as soon as you entered. I doubt employees even check the games apart from maybe to see if it works. I often get second hand ds games and even amiibos that still have saves. Games that had almost empty boxes I believe are people who transferred their pokemon to newer generations before selling their game and you just see the leftovers. The hacker with 900 of every ball even had cherish balls which are impossible to get as a usable item

Scott the Woz lost to Purugly with 3 starters. Now we know why he isn't an RPG Guy.

Great video idea. BTW your short brought me here and subbed.

Just came across your channel and wanted to say keep up the good work! Love your videos so far man

I got a used copy of heartgold back in the day that had a Toys R Us Arceus on it. Sadly, they already did the whole song and dance event, but there was plenty of side content they hadn't done yet. So I spent hours exploring the game with Arceus following me.

I bought a used copy of Heart Gold one day. When I loaded it, there was a single lv.11 chikorita in the team, at red hp. He was standing in front of Falkner. I was so sad that he threw away that chikorita(and sold the game) from such an unfair match. I healed, built a team, then later, beat the game. Loved chikorita ever since.

Scott got violated by purrugly so bad he got PSTD from the fight. Legend has it he still has PTSD to this day

Buying used DS & 3DS consoles is always interesting. Cuz they don't usually wipe those either. Therefore you get to see random people's voice notes, Photo Dojo, etc. Fun times! I feel ya with the chewed cartridge. My copy of Wild World was a WRECK, yet somehow still works. I also once got a GBA SP that had water damage and they never told me, so I could barely see the screen. :,)

I remember the second Pokemon game I owned was a used copy of Diamond, the Original trainers name was Sosuke, dude had nearly every legend available some transfered over from the Gen 3 games, a complete sinnoh dex, half a complete national dex. That copy was glorious and I kick myself all the time for misplacing it, especially since it's where I found my first shiny (a random Ponyta)

This gave me flashbacks of the good old days bro Pokemon is just love I appreciate this video so much ❤️

Love that demonic tutor playmat, sick video

This should be a certified classic!

I recently bought a copy of Platinum- on it was a save file from 2009. They'd gotten pretty far, Sunnyshore City, but never went through Victory Road. I backed up their save, thinking it'd make a cool video or something some day to just "finish an unfinished adventure." Obviously though, I am very lazy

i remember buying a used version of heartgold. i had soulsilver at the time, so i wanted heartgold to complete the Pokédex on my own. turns out that the used version i bought from gamestop was chock full of shinies. having never seen a shiny outside of gyarados and not knowing hacking or AR codes being a thing, i was in awe and transferred every shiny pokemon over to my save file. i wiped the save file after that and played thru heartgold like normal. i still have all the shiny Pokémon that Todd had in my box to this day lol. thanks, Todd.

0:30 Him snapping that melee disk made me die a little inside

I think I've only bought one or two used games with save files in the past, but that was part of the fun of it. Checking out the original save file before starting your own

Damn this reminds me of going to the shop and finally getting a new ds game and being so excited to try it out damn good times

First time seeing your content ... is so cool having a group with friends that loves pokemon too c: keep it up guys!

That was a really good video dude. First time seeing your channel!

I wonder what was written at 12:28

5:23 I think that Scott stopped playing because of purugly and forgot he had it and then sold it when he found it because he grew out of Pokémon (most likely scenario)

I remember buying pokemon platinum and it had so many insanely good pokemon on there. I traded the nicest ones to pokemon pearl before starting over haha

Found this from your Short on Scott. Scott! And his 12-hour rage quit after losing to Mars’s Purugly XD

Imagine if one of the copies turned out to have had a nuzlocke run saved

That Purugly was BRUTAL! I was 10 years old and just couldn’t beat that damn cat. 5 generations and almost a decade later, I picked the game back up and beat it a few months ago!

I just bought the of games for nostalgia and I checked the previous players save file lol. It’s interesting to see what people were running

10:19 You could get Volcanion. I have 4 on my Omega Ruby save because I transferred the ones from my X/Y and Alpha Sapphire to it. Also the starters isnt a giveaway for cheats because Wonder Trade and GTS exists and you could get lucky and get something crazy.

so its your fault i couldnt find any pokemon games!!!

Seeing these prices makes me glad im a "mostly buys physical and never sells games at stores for credit." type of guy. Im fortunate to even have my original copies of Gen 1/2 from my childhood with the boxes. Even still have muh Pokewalker from Soul Silver.

I did that back in 2011 with all the gb advance carts and ported them over to my soul silver copy but I ended up with mind bogglingly awesome results.

On my first play through of Pokemon ruby I got terrified when the groudon stuff happened exited with out saving which my last save was awhile ago so I ended up back on the surface of the ocean cave. I proceeded to spend the next year and a half getting my packmueled swampert to level 100. After NOT catching Groudon(I'm 90% certain I wasted the master ball on a kekleon) I steamrolled the elite 4 then when the speedy boi dragon type started appearing I tried catching them but always failed. Years later in 2018 or 2019 I sold it to the local game store called game on.

Should have checked to see if you had any game stores nearby like Game Force or Doc's! They will sometimes have copies of older games. I have a Fire Red that I picked up from a Game Force many years ago that I never restarted because whoever had played it before had a lot of really cool stuff (including what I am assuming was a hacked Mew) and hundreds of hours of game time. I felt too bad just erasing all of that.

Please do another one of these. I love watching these type of videos

I stumbled across your channel completely by chance only to find out you're a NE Poketuber! I go to those gamestops all the time man, small world. Anyways love the channel, what a treat having something so close to home!

Lucky. My GameStop doesn’t even sell DS or 3DS games anymore.

I bought some older copies of games to fan out my own collection and basically did the same thing. It's so interesting trying to piece together a narrative on how the person who owned the game before played

I love videos that put game soundtracks in certain spots

That thumbnail is way to accurate for me I have all shinies up to x and y because of how obsessed I was also got the pokerus

I usually try and pick up older Pokemon games to do exactly this. I'll transfer the interesting stuff into Bank before I reset the game, to let the legacy live on!

I feel bad for all the kids living around those gamestops who would have wanted those games

That Riolu egg gave me whiplash because I currently have 3 whole boxes of unhatched Riolu eggs that have been sitting there for 4 years.

This is really cool actually would love too see it done with like crystal gold silver maybe red and blue versions possibly yellow version

I didn’t realize how insane the prices are at GameStop now. Damn. And I thought I was spending too much on a copy of HeartGold at GameStop with $20 around 2014. Seeing old save files are a fun thing on its own though lol. I remember buying some pre-owned GBA games from eBay that still had the save data intact and I haven’t deleted them yet.

After seeing you say those prices, I was genuinely shocked. You can go online and get used copies of those games for much cheaper… well, other than DPP 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is one of the most fun things for me is buying old Pokémon games and seeing the old save file

Good video in my recommended with persona music. Yep subbed.

As someone who worked at gamestop back in its prime of GBA games and DS games, the workers like myself, would trade over anything good to our own games before putting them on the shelves ! :D

I’ll admit I love looking for old Pokémon games. My favourite old game file was on diamond with a couple of shinies on it. This was a game I bought

its crazy how different places price things. The gamestop that i go to regularly sells older gens of pokemon games at 10$-40$ and nothing higher.

I love buying second hand copies for pokemon games its always so exciting to see whats on there

Amazing video

My camera case with almost all of my 2DS and 3DS games was lost, most likely stolen a couple of years ago. It’s an absolute pipe dream to ever get them back, but it’s still cool to see how people treat the used games they get and the pokemon from them

*gets born, ready to greet father* *crowd sighs dejected*

I did this, but with my own game. I never touched my copy of Pokémon moon for 6 years, and recently moved, and was missing the Pokémon experience. So, I decided to spend a few days looking for my copy of Pokémon moon and finally found it! A lot of old memories I didn’t remember until I saw them

I got pretty lucky with a used copy of Omega Ruby, getting a shiny Xerneas, which I made sure to transfer to Pokemon Home before starting a new save file. Got quite a few good pokemon from that copy as well, does that count as pay to win on online battling? lol

2:52 seeing someone sold yokai watch back to gamestop just makes me....sd

8:14 they probably transferred the games to switch

I remember buying a used emerald and it had all legendarys and near perfect ev iv pokemon on lvl 100. So good.