(more of) Pokemon Red's Mundane, yet Bizarre World 

That's actually 10:9

@@LeonardoRodrigues-uj1sm fixed

@@LeonardoRodrigues-uj1smNo its a 10:9 ratio

It’s not 10:9?

Nice

It should be noted that the reasoning behind fathers being absent figures in most Pokémon games is because it's common in Japan for fathers to be all-day at work and barely see their families (even Norman, the only known dad in the series spends most of his time at the gym rather than at home)

​@@DeepWeeb My favorite example of this trope in games is Ness's father in Earthbound. You only ever talk to him over the phone, and in the credits when it shows the sprite for every character Ness's dad is represented by... a phone.

​@nathansmiddy732, they do that in Smash bros ultimate too

@@nathansmiddy732 I prefer the theory that Ness's father IS a phone, which is why Ness has psychic powers. He's half-phone.

​@@professorhazardDid his mom set his dad to constantly vibrate and... Well...

Yeah that tracks. My current company has legit bedrooms that you can book to sleep in.

But what about the workers families. :(

@@curtisleblanc5897That’s Japan.

thats what women are for in japan. if they arent workinf then they are stay at home mothers who do the majority of house work and child care while the husband works 18 hrs a day for near minimum wage, so they can afford their exorbitantly expensive apartment. living in japan is a complete dystopian nightmare.​@@curtisleblanc5897

@@positivea9111 But . . . . .that's mean. :(

Yhea, It's honestly something i miss

I get what you are saying... but Id say the first 5 gens are near carbon copies of eachother. They are all classic jrpgs and not even unique as Shin Megami Tensei already did the "monster collecting" jrpg.

@@fenixchief7I think that’s kinda what they were saying. Lol

​@@fenixchief7That's what he said

The amount of dialogue in this great game is incredible!

There's also a glitch that can get you stuck in that state, unable to surf or dismount a bike until you go back to Cycling Road.

For me it was the guy in the mall that says “I just finished pokemon” dont remember that at all, and I feel like I played this game endlessly as a kid

Yeah, for me it was the dialogue in the developer's computers in celadon. I didn't remember seeing that before, and I've played the gen 1 games a lot when I was a kid.

You’re in a computer game Qwesx you need to wake up, it’s the V you need to fight it.

based Max Payne enjoyer.

There's actually an invisible PC in there that still works.

Perhaps they *are* theme parks, designed to separate the kids who are way too into Pokemon from everyone else so they don't cause trouble in the wider world.

Don't forget in Gen 1 that during the Silph Co. takeover one of the scientists mentions he joined Team Rocket because upper management wanted to send him to the "Tiksi branch in *Russian* no-man's-land". Japanese Pokédex entries of Pokémon Red/Green were reused exclusive for the FireRed version, which include gems such as Gastly and Raichu being able to kill Indian Elephants with their powers (in Legends this is retconned as Copperajah) and Parasect's mushrooms being used as medicine in China. And yeah, I defo feel that the hyper-focus of highlighting which place of the world they are based every new region has gotten a little too rot, especially when they try to condense full countries like France, England or Spain but somehow their content is a lot much sparse compared to denser regions set in the much-smaller Japanese regions (what is Game Freak trying to tell us 🤔) Before knowing the games were based in real-world locations were just cute trivia to know but that could go over the head of Western players, no idea if Japanese players noticed it as much beyond just thinking it was a "relatable" setting (hundreds of JRPGs take place in Tokyo, but almost none of them take place in a cartoony version of it)

Another example is Arcanine's dex entries, which refer to it as a legendary _Chinese_ pokemon not just in yellow, but in gold, fire red and heart gold too. Later games instead call it a legendary pokemon "in the east"

Yeah it was very interesting how the first 2 gens and their cartoon merged the Pokemon world with ours, before the soft retcon that made Pokemon purely its own place.

They probably improvised the meeting room in the place as their break room

good old humble gamefreak

And I can think of at least one Gen 2 reference too - the Neo era Light Arcanine card calls it a Chinese Pokémon

Yep even have a book from the 90's that was. Considered canon. Shares descriptions of the Pokemon and even their anatomy

Yeah. Mew kinda mutated (hence the name) normal animals into these special kinda new animal called pokemon. Thats why there refrences to normal animals and stuff too. Wish they would and stuck to that to be honest.

​@@darkhoboNo, Kabutops was 2 million years old

The Pokemon world was originally closer to our world in generation one, but it was always still its own world. Pokemon aren't something that showed up one day, it's evident they've existed for millions of years. Science, technology, history, and nearly every other part of culture is somehow related to pokemon. Its world is just incredibly convergent to ours, and it's kind of the same today. Nothing was really retconned, the connections to the real world were just toned down.

Everyone already knows that bro.

I didn't know that! Thank you for sharing, bro

ok and

Meh, you guys are being dicks. The OP is pointing it out because Pretzel straight up said he didn't know anything else interesting at the location.

@@xLoLRaventhanks!

Yeah, it really puzzles me that so many people insist ghost type pokémon are ghosts OF pokémon, when a departed spirit has been shown, and it's still identifiable as the pokémon it was, unlike the gastlys. Not to mention, as early as gen 2, those "ghosts" proved capable of reproducing, something it seems unlikely a departed soul would be capable of (though then again, I guess some also insist pokémon breeding isn't biological reproduction, which always came off as weird to me as well).

Chrono Trigger even had a whole developer ending!

The Goldenrod radio tower in GS too. IIRC it blocked you from surfing behind it. How does that work? It's like an MC Escher perspective quirk.

Loading docks of course.

Makes perfect sense when you accept it's not just ten stories high, but ten stories long

​@@winkone101imma say this is canon 😂

​@@garethdwright91the player is a vengeful (but weak) god who refuses to let the playable character out of his vision.

The bed did seem like a shot at their company management for overworking them

@@healthyminds9279I'm actually not sure about that. From what I understand, the team agreed to it because they all wanted to get the game finished and out the door. The original games were made with tons of passion but middling know-how, and it definitely shows. Especially when you find out the games were in development for nearly 5 years, though broken up because they were forced to make other games in order to bring in money.

It's pretty much through dumb luck that this game came out in the first place. Game Freak's headquarters suffered a massive power outage and they lost all the information that wasn't written on paper.

Was the word Kanto mentioned in game before Gen II?

It was used in the original Japanese games when you try and look at the town map that your rival's sister is about to give you while it's still on the table. Nowhere else in Japanese and definitely never used in English.

​@@Frankster200277Yeah i think i heard it the first time in Gen 2 but only because it was written on the map.

Pavlovs dog

@@SFTaYZa you get it

If I'm not mistaken, that was a direct translation of Raichu's entry in Red and Green. (Legends: Arceus retconning this into a Copperajah makes sense but is also kind of funny to think about.)

Someone else pointed that out, so I launched the game and noticed that it's true! There is an invisible PC. I wish I had known about that beforehand, because I definitely would have mentioned it.

Yes everyone

i did

I think it's a mistake in the recap. I'm 90% sure the 2 halves of seafoam Island are disconnected and you can't move through them in the way the video suggests

@@chasesayshi9194 No, you go in one side and out the other. That's the expected game progression.

​@@bradlauk1419I always went via Fuschia.

The guy even says that Tiksi is in "Russian no-man's land." (It's on the Arctic coast of Siberia, so yeah.)

It's even 'worse' because it's talking about a non-Pokemon animal, and India. Then again the Pokedex is famously absurd.

@@wolfdwarf Yeah, absurb and horrifying.

eventually they changed it to Copperajah

@@jfb- Yeah, an interesting addition/change.

So does that mean Satoshi Tajiri is Arceus?

the fact the dojo was a former pokemon gym that got beaten is pretty interesting, the psychic gym also got an unique trainer class in it

It's definitely that last one, but that doesn't mean it isn't also the first two. Growing up, the world ages with you. Plus I found out yesterday that Space Ghost Coast to Coast is about a decade older than I had been thinking it was for over a decade and now I am become decrepit

I recently read that there's one episode in the anime (maybe a special episode rather than part of the main series) where Brock has to battle to defend the rock type being Pewter Gym's main type. The opponent wanted to change the type to water. Needless to say, it was an uphill battle for him.

​@@jaschabull2365Could they even do that? What about Misty's gym? Did that close? Or can multiple Gyms in a given region share a type?

😂😂😂😂

i HATED seafoam islands as a kid, i always flew to pallet town in order to avoid it

bro rushed this one

Since Unova is based on America, I loved the homage to all the cultures and languages that have come together to form the great melting pot that is our country. I wonder if the NPCs you mentioned speak English when you change the game's language?

Humans and pokemon used to be one in the same as from gen 4 lore, different trainer classes are effectively human's types

So are trainers who don't specialize in a particular type of pokemon classified as "normal type?"​@@dominicmoisant8393

a lot of pokemons world design makes so much more sense after i visited Japan, not just what you mentioned but the walkability, high urbanisatiom, bikes being common, bug catching being the primary inspiration, the prices are in yen which is why a pokeball is 200 pokedollars etc, its lovely making the connections and realising the pokemon world is a reflection of the developers lives

Oh my gosh, I just booted up the game and you're right. If I had known about this, I totally would have mentioned it😭

@PretzelYT aw man there's so much cool stuff hidden away in the corners of this game. If you get the time I'd suggest watching the "Glitchfest" series on gen 1 cause there's some hilarious crazy stuff going on!

You just kinda blew my mind

Obviously not. This dude's just fuckin around. It's neat content but nothing novel.

The museum also has a real-world space shuttle replica in it. The Columbia, I think?