Ah yes. I just adore how he chose to poke fun at Ash’s constant Pokémon League losses. Will he ever break that streak?! (Hopefully not. If he does fulfill his “Pokémon Master” dream, he’ll most likely finally start aging again, and eventually cause a chain reaction that will make the whole Pokémon universe collapse, killing the franchise as a real-world side-effect of that chain of events. And who needs that? (And any of you Genwunners don’t count; it’s partially your fault that the franchise still exists anyway, with your love forcing them to continue making games. Also, in response to your claims that their design team is losing creativity: Voltorb! Muk! Magnemite! Ditto! Ring a bell?)) Sorry about that little rant, I guess I got a bit ahead of myself. 😁
"Ash, Ash Ketchum, Satoshi, Gary's Rival, This Kid, and the guy from the anime that looks like Red." What is this? Kingdom Hearts where everyone is the same 5 people?
this game is brutal I've played it, I don't even know why the minimum threshold is 20 power, after like 5 hours we decided to work together because we all wanted to go home and cry because this game violated us
The reason that this is one of the best board games ever is because they actually put indents into the board so that the pieces all stay in place. Not enough board games do this!
I bought that game at a charity sale once in my early Pokemon days. I was too young to understand how it worked and no one to play it with so I just looked at the pictures all the time.
This guy should be a storyteller, sounds tragic and nostalgic, but equally evocative with childhood sentiment, an ephemeral time for infinite happiness and frolic.
I always saw mew, celeby, jirachi, etc. As bridge pokemon. The link used to complement the transfer into a new gen or a half baked excuse to retcon why the pokemon have never been seen in one region or another.
Nate L I think how the trading is supposed to work is that each player NEEDS to pick one of THEIR OWN Pokémon and then the players trade with the selected Pokémon. A person an only select their own Pokémon, and will have to accept whatever the opponent offers. It's not thievery.
Frank A while it's true that they do swap Pokemon but do you really think it's a good deal of someone uses the trade card, and trades their margikarp for their mewtwo, that's a forced scam
The legendaries are generally a bad idea IMO, you are much better off trying to get a 2nd stage evolution with the +5 bonus. Dragonite, Alakazam, Machamp, Gengar, Victreebel, etc. These will be as powerful as the best starters with a 12 or 13 base attack. Then if you fight Gary you have a shot to beat him even if he gets a 5+8 bonus with a +4 and +5 attack bonus on yours. Legendaries by comparison are weak, and generally I would only use them if I'm behind and need to risk it for a quick victory (ie my opponents all have better options than I do).
10:43 JWittz: "You'll laugh everytime someone gets time machined *into the shadow realm"*. I just love that Yu-Gi-Oh reference and glad that is still being used even after all these years. Never get tired of it! :D
Infinity Master Oh yeah. With the new movie and show, the Duel Links mobile game, and the Abridged Series, it's no wonder we still make references to it. "It's really more of a Purple Realm ...." ~ TDG
the__wolf Yeah, it is definitelt hilarious but I am actually glad they banned that episode. Having Team Rocket hold a real gun and threatening someone's life is a bit too messed up although it is kind of funny when the warden threatened Ash lol
This video is 7 years old so this probably won't be read, but there's a fan made version of this game that's free, and you can print it yourself. It removes the time machines, adds gym battles, type advantages, etc. Its really fun, but still a bit too long
Got this as a Christmas present in the 90s. I was definitely that older brother that recognised the wear & tear mark on the back of the Mewtwo legendary card so that little brother would never know how I - miraculously - always knew which one he was. What a game. Definitely played it wrongly to begin with but got the hang of it in the end and as young kids, you need stuff with complexity that's gonna challenge you and teach you to lose.
I have a distinct memory of having an Ivysaur token from this game in my Lego box when I was a kid. But I have never seen this board game. Where did I get that token?
I had this game given to me as a birthday present (I think I was around 8 years old). Had an absolutely blast on the rare occasion I got to play it with my friends, although we never got to the Elite Four as we had more fun just battling each other and trading Pokemon. Found the game again about 5 years ago and realised what a frustrating game it is! We calculated before the game that the only realistic way of 'winning' was to own a Pokemon with the double evolution bonus, and to have attack bonus cards. This meant that for about 20 minutes, we were rocking back and forth one the blue and red paths to pick up the said pokemon and item cards. But then by the time both of us got to the Indigo Plateau, we were going around again and again desperate to just be able to face one of the Elite 4. The first person to have a go failed, but then due to unlucky rolling on the part of the other player (also in the Plateau) was able to return and have a second go, this time to win. So for the loser, they spent most of the game searching for the Pokemon and items needed, only to be stuck in the purgatory of the Indigo Plateau.
Three house rules: 1. Replace Pikachu, Meowth and Clefairy with Pokemon that have 2 evolutions. 2. The pokeball card lets you choose which bonus (if you want) to use after the die roll. 3. Only add the bonus the Elite Four dice roll represents, not the dice itself.
That's similar what I was going to suggest. Add a couple of house rules and the game might be playable. In addition to those rules, also add a limit on how long you can be in the Indigo Platue, like if you pass the second Enter Final Battle twice, you will immediately enter the battle (even if you don't land on the spot) Generally, I would say this game is as backstabby as Munchkin. When used to play it a lot with my friends in high school, and every time you went into the final battle for the last level, you had all the others ganking up on you.
I play the second house rule with my daughters. Also, I never realized you could Time Machine someone else's roll, so we inadvertently had a house rule that Time Machine can only reroll your own rolls (though that includes rerolling the Elite Four die if you are the one controlling the Elite Four member.
Wait a minute, I've STILL been playing it wrong? I thought the die is rolled for Elite4 Card Trainer and they get the corresponding attack bonus without the dice roll on top. Which makes sense as Gary becomes the only near-invincible one. If they get the dice roll on top of that the game is absolutely bonkers. I'm gonna check the rulebook when I get home since Hasbro's servers hosting it are loading it very slowly. Edit: holy crap yep. Still been playing wrong hahaha
This is a major throwback, I was really young but somehow I remember that I played pretty much via these rules. The only difference was that we agreed that if you have an evolution line complete, it became yours and the other was not able to trade it anymore haha
Funny how you mentioned Monopoly, as most people actually play it wrong and use house rules that extend the game substantially. The main rule most don't seem to know is that if a player lands on a space and doesn't buy it, it goes up for auction starting at $0, meaning that you can buy properties without ever landing on them (and for a cheaper price). Also, when you go bankrupt from debt to a player, all of your assets go to that player, not the bank. There are others, but those are the main 2 I noticed.
i had that game. i was destroyed during the great moving of 99... many good soldiers were lost that week... master trainer, lego mans, teh card album... many, MANY stickers.... and dont even get me started on the blue eyes white dragon card found crushed after moving... poor soldiers. may the god of the 90's have them...
Yu-Gi-Oh made more sense to me than the Pokémon card game, and it was fun. I lost all the time when I was a kid, but it was interesting since I actually knew all the basic rules (I didn't understand any other card game at the time).
well the Yu-gi-oh anime was all about the card game so it was easier to get a grasp on how to play the card game compared to playing the pokemon card game. I recall only collecting pokemon cards for the shake of collecting.
I definitely want to see those second and third generation Master Trainer games! I would love to know if the series evolved into a less brutal or _more_ brutal game, and I'd love to see those other Pokémon board games as well.
2nd gen butchered it with the gym leaders mechanic and don't get me started with gen 3. They just get more simple, basic and boring as it goes on. This one is by far the best.
I think the best decision my friend ever made was turn anytime you lost or missed a Pokemon is that you took a shot. I had this game for years and I bought it at a garage sale. I dug it out a couple of years ago and that's exactly what my friends and I did.
@@pkmntrainermark8881 I was just looking for one, personally I want both the first and second, they have different flavors and many people don't appreciate monopoly levels time spending so I want both because of that, different flavor and time required. The ones Ives seen for the original go for around 70 ish dollars with like 20 buck delivery fees. Do you think that's worth it for a game before my time.
@@dragonmaster3030 So $90 for the original? It's a pretty fun game that can go on a while, so if you play it at least a few times, I think it'll be worth it.
I have this and it isn't missing any pieces and is in overall pretty good condition. I loved playing it with my Dad when I was younger, but we threw in a bunch of home rules to make the game more managable.
I remember this game very well, my cousin had this and we'd play it every time. His big brother would try to watch over us and make us follow the rules (with little success) but by the end of the game we'd just have a fight. Every single time.
Yeah, they need to grow up. I don't wanna toot my own horn or nothin', but my brother was kicking my a** the other day in Sm4sh and I came back next time stronger than ever. I also discovered the true power of Aura that day, if you catch my drift. ; )
I was pretty sure that time machines could only be used by actual battle participants. I don't recall the elite four getting the dice roll added to their score. My favorite part of this game is that we allowed the trading of dead Pokémon. It made things even more cruel.
I just read the rules and, yes, they get the roll and the value. I do, however, read time machine as only being able to be used by the participants in the battle.
OtakuDaiKun me and my friend made a really good Pokémon board game couple years ago that’s easy to fallow and challenging at the same time. The downside it’s not easy to get the license to put it out and we would get mostly a small % profit it took a year and a half to fit and work on it. Changing the theme for it harder to make work. I’m working on a different theme by myself. When my friend is marking the Johto region expansion. We just play the Pokémon game with are group of friends, family, & people at cards shops to see if they like it and for feedbacks. So far for 2 years of it everyone says it’s a bit confusing in the beginning but is super fun in the middle and end game. We haven’t gotten a really negative review for it yet. They only ask when will we add the Johto region. Game time last for 45min-2hours and is for 1-5 players. It’s fun and we both Really hope it becomes a game we see in stores one day
I wonder if JWittz will ever do a video on all the different takes on Master Trainer in the Tabletop Simulator workshop. There's a ton of custom expansions, full reworks, and wholly custom games based off Master Trainer. There have been people adding mega evolution, gym trainers, evil teams, there'd be so much to talk about.
YESS!! I loved this game so much!! I used to play all the time. We usually never ever finished the game, instead we just collected the Pokemon, which was fun in itself. Sometimes we went the whole way. I would totally play this game again if someone had it on hand. I had no idea the time machine could be used on opponent's rolls!!!
I can remember having great fun with my nephews with this one. Changes made to the rules: no 7-hand max, catching for other players when you fail, defeating all of elite four in 1 go (but without the dice roll added, only the attack bonus added) and no trading or at least not on something you evolved.
Believe some of those rules were not clear and people would fill in the gaps with their own rules. Like the Time Machine didn't mention that you could interrupt another players turn to have them re roll, Instead most people I know had Time machine only affect others players if you use it during your own battles so only people within the battle could use time machine. As for the + 4 + 5 cards the rulebook gave you an example how to use them but it never explicitely said that you couldn't use more then 2 during battles so you could place 3 or even 4 item cards with +3 or +4 +5 if you wanted. And the Final Battle xD Most people wanted to beat the whole Elite four like in the Video games so yah that made it quite long but with the Multiple use of + 3 4 and 5 it was more about who had the most Plus cards would win xD
Harm Hoeks it feels like Magic: The Gathering a little. they had cards that were not very specific starting out and people would use them to their advantage. these cards in this pokemon game should definitely have been more specific on when you could use them. it would have settled a lot of fights in my house and i assume many others as well
This video goes viral and your subs skyrocket Pewdiepie: TIME MACHINE. Jwittz: that's not how it works- Jacksepticeye: TIME MACHINE Jwittz: stop saying- Markiplier: TIME MACHINE
I worked at Goodwill over the summer and someone actually donated a Pokemon Master Trainer game. Unfortunately, store policy says we aren't allowed to sell board games that are already open, so we had to throw it out. But I took a few of the Pokemon tokens home with me. Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, Chansey, Vulpix, Snorlax, Nidoran F, Nidoqueen, Dragonite, and Arcanine. I'm sad I couldn't get either of my favorite Gen 1 Pokemon, Vaporeon and Ninetales.
Cherry Chocolate wtf?! I see old games at goodwill all the time. I just bought perfection few months ago and it definitely wasn’t unopened. Had all the pieces but surely it wasn’t sealed.lol. This is why I work at value village. And yeah, it came into our store last year, but we aren’t stupid and put it in the showcase for what I believe was $100. It sold really fast so I couldn’t buy it. Have to wait at least two days before we can buy anything.i totally would have tho
Also, if you get in that predicament again, you can take it out of the trash and get away with it. Lose job, but no other penalties. My coworker got fired for taking something that was thrown away and it went to court and he won against the company coz he played it as dumpster diving.lol. It’s kind of a weird concept when your stealing trash.lol
I kinda get why. If the board game is open there's a 98.67% chance that pieces are missing. Some games have a lot of pieces and it would take a long time to have an employee check to see if they're all there. If the game is missing pieces it could be unplayable and effectively trash. Now maybe somebody would want it to replace pieces from their own game but I still think it's not worth it to have incomplete board games taking up space on the shelves. Employees should be able to take home things that Goodwill throws away though.
@カプ・テテフ most Goodwills have rules like that. The theory at mine is that someone would pocket a piece from a game (so it couldn't be sold) and then take it home and get the game/item/whatever for next to nothing before any customers have a chance to buy it.
Surprised no one is mentioning Pokemon Diamond and Pearls 10th Anniversary in North America today. I mean I only know that because I was on Diamond a while ago and I noticed it was like a week of my 10th Anniversary of getting the game. I mean all my Game Boy files are gone at this point so my oldest save file is 10 year old. I also got the game about three months earlier than anyone else because the DS wasn't region locked. So that is fun.
Aww, I have a love/hate relationship with this game! It's so fun, but it can be very unforgiving. I can also confirm that game can take nearly forever to finish, as I remember starting a game at around 10pm and not finishing until after 1am. Unfortunately, one of my dogs got to the figurines, and so I now have a headless orange figure and a yellow figure I like to call "Legs" (I even still have the mutilated body). The other ones are fine, but at least it gives some story behind my game.
So I watch this video from time to time, and I know part of the enjoyment JWittz gets is from the sheer chaos and brutality of it, but is it possible a few house rules could make the game much less agonizing? I have a few simple ones. -Forced trades have to be between Pokemon of matching colors, if there's no match, you can't force a trade with the card. Manual trades can be whatever the players agree to. -Trainers in the Indigo Plateau are immune to any and all cards played by opponents on them. Alternate take: Immune to any and all cards played by opponents *that aren't also in the Plateau.* -Alternative to the previous rule: Time Machine can only be used on your own rolls. I think those were all the broken things he talked about, and they seem easily fixed. Does that make the game more enjoyable, or is having your balls crushed in a vice part of the appeal? (I won't kinkshame.)
This game is available for TableTop Simulator through Steam Workshop! Haven't played it to know if it's any good or not but I thought it would be cool to try and tell people about :D
Games that look innocent, mario party... Pokemon master trainer trilogy Most games look fun on the outside but when you start... it’s very brutal. I know because I have Pokemon Monopoly: Kanto Edition
i made a paper version of pokemon master trainer (with all the 108 cards and 150 chips 2), because the only left are probably on ebay, so i looked up everything about the game, and after a long day of nothing but pokemon master trainer, its 95% ready, all i need to do is colour in the rest of the backs of the chips
The Gen 3 Master Trainer is actually really good. It's still very luck based and reliant on having strong Pokémon, but it's way more balanced and easy to win. You should check that one out, it's a great board game in my opinion!
obviously it does. one the person who uploaded the video is extremely popular, two the person who uploaded the video responded, three he gave an answer people would like.
I had this game and it's probably simple nostalgia talking but it was super fun. I probably didn't actually play according to the rules or anything but oh my god I forgot this was a thing. Don't know where the game went probably sold in a garage sale or something but gosh did I enjoy this game.
are you sure the elite 4 trainers get the bonus in addition to the dice roll? Wouldnt it make more sense if they got the bonus instead of the dice roll? So the gengar's 12 with a rolled 1 or 6 would both be worth 18 instead of 19 and 24. That just makes more sense to me
That would make more sense, but by the rulebook, nope. Dice roll plus the bonus, which I suppose is supposed to counterbalance the fact that you can burn Attack + cards and Time machines and they can't. Kinda makes sense, as the low-roll for Agatha is +6, which for you would be a +3 and +3, a reasonable bet.
I owned the game when I was like 5 years old but... I would just open it to mess around and do whatever I wanted with... all of those chips! I kinda wish I actually learned how to play it while I owned it though...but of course I got it when I had a mind of a 5 year old... lol
It didn't occur to you that maybe not everybody has sisters? A person can have multiple brothers and no sisters. Or maybe if they did have sisters, maybe they wouldn't want to play. Who knows?
I actually had this board game! I barely played it as intended though, I just played it as if I was playing the game boy games, with gyms in the cities and all.
Meowth as a starter may be a bit of a stretch, if not a sensible stretch given Team Rocket. Clefairy, however, makes a surprising amount of sense since it was intended to be the face of Pokemon before Pikachu assumed that role for a variety of reasons.
I suspect that, wanting to appeal to the widest audience, they tried to draw equally on the games and the anime. 6 starters, 3 from games (makes sense to use starters), 3 from anime (the most popular + consistent were Meowth and Clefairy/Pikachu, assuming they chose these before they had decided which would be the protagonist pokemon - or it was originally 5 then they added Pikachu after the change)
Nicholas Farrell i thought the same, the 3 Og starters, pikachu and eevee from the Yellow version/anime and clefairy cause it was the pokemon meant to be ash starter in the series before pikachu.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 Gary's starter in the anime was actually a Squirtle. This was only revealed by Brock and Misty during the Johto League when he sends out his Blastoise in his battle against Ash. He also wasn't shown to have an Eevee until RIGHT BEFORE the Johto anime started, and despite making a cameo in one of the Johto openings, it only appeared in a single episode as an Eevee. It had more screentime as an Umbreon.
Imagine this: You have a Dratini, Dragonair, and Dragonite. You've managed to get your hands on two whole +5 attack cards, and you have ungodly amounts of luck with your own rolls, to the point where you roll what you want. You're fighting Gary, and you pull out all the stops. With your 7 attack Dragonite, the +5 from the full line, the +10 from your cards, and rolling a six, you have an apocalyptic 28 power. Then Gary rolls a five. You lose.
@@danangell548215 base attack, plus the 8 he gets from rolling a 3 or a 5, then the value of the dice itself gets added, tying you at 28, which means you lose.
If I were playing and managed to get to the end, get into the Indigo Plateau, beat the Elite Four, then beat Gary, and immediately afterwards someone used a Time Machine card I'd probably my flip the board and they'd get a fist stuck in their head.
I mean perhaps this is months too late but you only have to beat one “Elite 4” trainer (including Gary). So you’re not doing 5 back to back battles in this game, you just gotta win one. Of course, winning one isn’t that easy either, but I mean if it was all 5 then heck, forget 4 hours, this game would take DAYS (considering each loss would knock out your Pokémon and you gotta revive them).
Also very late but me and my brother had our own house rules: The trade event card was allowed to be ignored, and if we wanted each other's Pokemon to fulfil an evolution line, we'd allow the trade. We battled with teams of 6. For Indigo Plateau, we'd have to battle all 5 Elite 4 in a row (rather than a randomly selected one) with a team of 6, with power items having permanent effect (but only 2 allowed as per) and transferable between the team of 6. We were nice to each other.
1:03 my god I forgot that I even owned one of these until I saw you remove the cover. I remember removing all of the chips from the holes in the board! This brings a tear to my eye. Thank you.
Yeah, me and my brothers have deemed this game as very broken we always ended up working together towards the end. Thank god we got Pokemon Master Trainer 2 which is a MUCH more stable game.
Omg I always wanted to see what this board game was about! One of my cousins found the board on a trash pile but didn't had the chips, so we printed and crafted chips and made out our own rules and played a lot!
