Not to brag but I just became the Pokémon league champ for about the 100th time last night. Been playing these games since the 90s and I still love them.
Dude! I loved your video! I've seen a ton of Pokemon retrospectives, video essays, critiques, analyses and the like, and yours is one of the best. I'm so glad I found your videos. Here before 100 subs!
Fun retrospective! I definitely agree there is a charm to the wonky battle mechanics and restrictive movepools of Gen 1. It's the only game where I can look forward to getting otherwise lame moves like Wrap and Slash.
Also only Nidoran (male) can learn the very powerful horn attack. Its absolutely worth holding out for a male nidoran over the female version. Especially in the early game where horn attack really helps. Later in the game TMs negate Nidokings advantage
Nice video but seeing flash taught to Abra really sucks. Just get Abra to a measly level 16 and it evolves into kadabra and learns confusion. Its super effective against anything with a poison type (including venusaur and nidoking) and almost everything team rocket uses. Even a low level kadabra will absolutely dominate against Erika and Koga, all of the team rocket encounters, pokemon tower, cycling road and is incredibly helpful against Bruno and Agatha of the elite 4.