Your description of Fighting Foodons makes me want a show where kids fight to either save or take over the world, but every once in a while the villain kids actually get close to achieving their goal, only for some adults to actually notice and wipe the floor with them. XD
"Dr. Oak said that he wan" Wan is actually the Japanese onomatopoeia for a dog barking, so in that bootleg your mom is saying that Dr. Oak was barking.
I think the main character in Fighting Foodon was voiced by Veronica Taylor, the original dub voice of Ash Ketchum. Always good seeing a well known VA in more obscure roles.
@@dartz005 Yeah, and why does no one talk about the current English dub of Pokémon for the catastrofuck it is again? Oh, right, 4Kids dubbed it originally! And did an objectively better job of it!
My absolute favorite bootleg things are those little plastic figures like the ones at 43:18. They are often horribly miscolored and have paintjobs that not even a mother could love. I have a few including a trio of Charizard, Mega Charizard X, and Mega Charizard Y. I lovingly call them the Chulzurd Family, they live on my bookshelf and bring me much joy.
The Yu-Gi-Oh card game was inspired by magic the gathering in the manga. The manga version of the card game was originally called magic and wizards and was pretty obvious with what the inspiration was. Digimon was basically tomagtchi for boys. In Japan, I think it was and probably still is that. Even Pokémon wasn't that original in Japan, the shin megami tensei games pre date Pokémon by quite a few years. The first shin megami tensei game came out in 1986 in Japan and never saw release in the West at all, whereas Pokémon wasn't until 1996 in Japan and 98 in the US. Pokémon was new to us over in the West because it was the first monster collecting game we got over here. We wouldn't see a shin megami tensei game until the ps2.
@@CD-Gaming oh sorry I should have known this being actually Japanese and all I just always thought this because yugioh was actually one of the last anime I started watching heck I watched Inuyasha before that and all of the og Naruto before I moved here to America which was when I was first getting in to yugioh thank for correcting me I’m stupid sometimes 😂
@@Momijitheawoo I'm English, I started around 2005 with Pyramid of Light, but have watched pretty much all of it up to the end of Zexal II, including the non-dubbed stuff, Seasno Zero and GX Season 4! I watched Dragonball, Z and GT before and Digimon Adventure and Adventure 02 when they first aired, as well as Pokémon back in its original run when ITV actually put that stuff on tele (Digimon, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, that is)! We've still got Super on Pop, though, so it's not all bad, I suppose...
To answer Connor's question about what Pokemon silver is based on; it's the Little Nemo; The Dream Master game for the original NES. I use to play the heck out of that game and to me was an underated game. I'm just curious if it was ever rereleased. Also; the pokemon jump em board game at a closure glance looks like the creators also made it a bootleg version of the boardgame trouble.
I actually read Dragon Drive as a kid. It took a few volumes but it ended up differentiating itself from other Pokémon clones fairly well. Basically at the start of the story, all of the kids are assigned individual dragons to play in a virtual battle royal video game but they soon end up getting transported to another world where dragons are real or something along those lines. It’s been at least 12 years since I read it so my memory of it isn’t perfect but I was pretty fond of the series
22:38 I have to rant on the idea Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon were inspired by Pokemon. I know you say they aren't rip offs, but I think the claim they were even inspired by Pokemon at all can come into question. I have a few fun facts about comparing Pokemon to Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon. Yu-Gi-Oh's manga came out in the same year as the first Pokemon games in Japan, both premiered in 1996. In the original manga Yu-Gi-Oh was about playing all sorts of games, hence the title meaning "King of Games" in Japanese. Even in that taken into account the original card game in manga "Magic and Wizards" was paying more tribute to "Magic the Gathering" made by "Wizards of the Coast". This is why even when the game was changed to be called "Duel Monsters" in the manga and later the anime the discard pile is still called the "Graveyard" which is something Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic have in common. When it comes to Digimon, even though it came out in the following year of 1997 it was already in development as a masculine form of Tomagachi that also came out in 1996. In fact, one could say the reason Digimon was released in the following year is because it was in development when Pokemon came out. The reason for this being the original concept for Digimon "Capsule Zaurus" was actually closer to Pokemon than Digimon ended up being. The developers of Digimon took extra steps to distance themselves from Pokemon to make their creation different. There is also a bit of a funny thing about the titles for all three of these franchises that connects oddly enough. Pokemon in development was called "Capumon" to mean "Capsule Monsters", Digimon in development was as previously mentioned "Capsule Zaurus" or "Capsule Saurses" hitting they where originally all going to be more like dinosaurs. Yu-Gi-Oh, in its original manga, in later in an anime spin off, as well as a Ps2 game also has a game called "Capsule Monsters". What is funny about this is Pokemon changed its name because they thought "Capsule Monsters" was too close to the Ultraman calling their monsters captured into capsules "Capsule Kaiju" first appearing from what I could tell in 1966. It is funny to me how three of these 90s monster collector franchises, arguably the most iconic three, use the word "Capsule" somewhere in their series, when the progenitor of them did the same thing 30 years before all of them. It likely had a part in all three of them, but only confirmed inspiration came from Pokemon.
Fun fact about 15:52, flies, butterflies, other insects and some crustaceans do posses taste receptors on their feet! It's worded weirdly. Also Ledyba's Crystal Dex entry is as follows: It is timid and clusters together with others. The fluid secreted by its feet indicates its location.
Remember that while Nintendo shuts down the actually good fan games made by their most passionate fans, they do *LITERALLY NOTHING* to those who bootleg their precious IPs.
MAN I have SUCH a soft spot for Fighting Foodons. 10/10 I feel it would do so well from a reboot! I still remember the sound Fried Ricer would make when summoned and I always had a soft spot for the meatball boys.
Hi uh sorry if I sound rude, but I just wanted to clarify a few things about some of these series featured in this video. Once again, I do apologize if I sound rude in any of these clarifications. I just wish to spread information so people can understand. 1:30 - Pocket Monster is the official name for the original Pokemon in Japan. The original name is Pocket Monsters, but it was shortened to Pokemon instead. 8:08 - That pokemon that looks like a yellow bug with a horn is named Weedle, and it is the baby form of the Beedrill evolution line. He's from the first generation back in Kanto. As for the games, some of these are clearly rom hacks from what I can see. I don't know the names of the original games that they're from since the old library of games is vast, but I assume some of those are hacks. 22:40 - 23:33 -Yu-Gi-Oh (also can be translated as "Game King") actually started as a manga in 1996 where the original premise was focused on showcasing other kinds of games other than cards. It was actually a lot darker where Yugi actually did kill some people. It's mostly a series of Yugi trying to solve certain problems by challenging them to a game like poker, table-top games, etc. It only switched to a card game later on. -Digimon is also another shortened word like Pocket Monster. Digimon stands for Digital Monster, and actually stemmed from toys known as Tamagotchi which is a very popular virtual pet that is still loved today. Originally, it was marketed towards the female market until Bandai decided to push it towards the male market. This created the original Digimon virtual pet, also known as Digital Monster where you raise and evolve a Digimon so you can battle others. Said Digimon can also die if they're not taken care of. Because of this, the anime originated from said virtual pets. The Digimon Ghost Game anime is very fun, and I recommend it for anyone looking to get into Digimon. It's a fresh start and very interesting to look at. Plus, I also recommend Digimon Tamers which is also unique in its own way by focusing on the Digimon card game that was popular in Japan. -Yo-kai Watch isn't about monster collecting at all, but more of a series about looking at the folklore of Japan by creating said monsters as references to said folklore. Yo-kai can be translated to "something strange or unusual" and can basically be considered as supernatural phenomenon that have their own unique lore and backstory. An example of this is the mascot for Yo-kai Watch, aka the red cat known as Jibanyan. He's based off of a nekomata, a domesticated cat that has grown old and live in the mountains. Said nekomatas would feed on humans and kill just for fun. The lore of these yo-kai are very interesting, and I highly recommend it for people who love history. 26:50 - Fighting Foodons couldn't really be considered a "clone" since its more focused on food. While there are similar aspects to Pokemon which includes fighting, it's really its own thing. 30:54 - While Legendz can be seen as "clone", it's more focused on the lore of the monsters and the world. It also started as its own manga before getting an anime adaptation. 33:24 -Monster Rancher started out as a game on the playstation in 1997 and also got its own manga and anime. The series is more focused on life simulations instead of catching and collecting. -Zoids is more of a mecha anime that features animalistic creatures. It started out as a model kit series made by Takara-Tomy and grew into the series that people love. 41:13 - Can this even be considered a Pokemon clone? I just see it as a regular dog toy. Sure, it looks weird, but it's probably just a regular dog toy. 43:25 - That "Tepig"-like creature is a Pokemon known as Shieldon who was introduced in generation 4 aka the Sinnoh region. Once again, I do apologize I if I sounded rude in any of these explanations. I do hope this information broadens people's horizons on some of these series shown in the video. I also do apologize if some of this information is incorrect. The information that I have provided is knowledge I've learned over the years. Although, this really is a shame. Pokemon has gotten so big that anything that has something with monsters is immediately considered a Pokemon clone when the only similarity could be the aspect of just having monsters. Some of these series can be great, but just having the label of "Pokemon Clone" ruins it for everyone trying to experience something fresh. This can be said for literally any kind of series though, and it's such a shame. Anyways, for those who have read all the way through this comment I made, thank you so much for reading! I apologize for this being so long, but I hope this information helped anyone! Thank you so much for reading, and have a good day! Stay safe! \(uwu)/
@@tree1710 Never apologize for giving correct information, He made a video with bad info, and he should have done more research. He is not very well-informed, as I knew way more about these bootlegs and the games they were based on, the anime and even some of the toys. I am lazy and don;t care but I could have made a better video If I wanted to make youtube videos.
yugioh wasnt a pokemon clone, it was a horror manga about games and the magic the gathering parody was popular among japanese readers so got made irl. as for yokai watch the only thing rhat is similar is its a monster collector series
I had some terrible bootleg toys and 1 t-shirt with ash Ketchum on it when I was like 11 or 12. Every toy was the wrong color and one of ash’s eyes was flesh colored on the shirt.
Legendz actually has quite the vivid fan community and the series' plot goes some dark places. It's quite entertaining and doesn't really have more in common with Pokémon that it's also based on toys. Also...Are you stating that you actually played the games?
I love this series too! it have bakugan and dragon driver vibe from it. also, it make me love more to taming monster genre after Pokemon and Digimon. dragon warrior/Dòu lóng zhànshì is my consistent fandom I already did (also I make Digimon crossover from it).
@@anindhitakiranaisa5815 Pokémon and Dragon Quest are few of the most beloved franchises over in Japan and have spread fan communities across the globe, so I guess it's understandable of not all folks really knowing every different iteration of Monster taming games of course. The historical answer would be that such kinda franchises have existed for a long time even before the 90s. In Japan, what kids mostly love are either Monsters (not matter how big or small; including kaiju), Superheroes or Robots, so you can find such things pretty much starting from the 70s already with production companies like Tatsunoko that have adapted the principles of Hanna-Barbera and you can find pretty much a treasure trove of Monster shows through the decades. Anime is fun in that regard of how you don't ever run out of finding something new. And yeah, I met quiter some folks online that like to swell into the fanfiction/fangame/fanwork territory. People have their ways to celebrate the things they enjoy.
Talking about shows and toys,I’m surprised Connor showed off Fighting Foodons,BUT did *NOT* show off BEYBLADE,which at the basics was,and still is, a Pokémon clone itself. The shows had basically the same plots of “Protagonist team go on adventures using their monsters/beyblades to fight evil”,and THE FREAKING TOYS are STILL being made today!! 😂😂 Also for shows,I’m ALSO surprised Connor either didn’t mention or doesn’t know about “Mon Cole Knight” and “Flint the Time Detective” !!
@@rinchanlife between the animes,toys,AND games,it literally is. Collecting creatures and/or objects that you can collect,trade,customize,battle and command. So yes,beyblade is definitely a Pokémon clone,but a good one! ….at least,as far as the anime is concerned,up to the Metal Fusion series with the Ginga kid and everyone. After that it went downhill with BeyWheelz 🤦♂️
You touched only the bad stuff. There's a series of NES chinese bootleg Pkmn games released by a couple of Chinese companies called Shenzhen Nanjing and Shenzhen Jncota that are actually good with the only major problem of them being the fact that they are in Chinese. The most famous one being Pokemon Yellow: Lei Dian Huang Bi Ka Qiu Chuan Shuo (this one being the only one that got an English translation), but there are other ones such as Shen Qi Bao Bei and Kou Dai Guai Shou II and III which are Pokemn Emerald split into three parts and there's even a couple with Pokemon Platinum in them. These are basically as close as you can get of having a Pkmn game on the NES which att would've been awsome since we all wanted a pkmn game released for a console. These game became so famous on the undergeound culture that there are programers who made apps to extract the pkmns you caught and send them through a series of devices and programs so that you can hsve them on your Game Boy but finding info about this is the hardest part. If anything all of this would make an interestinf video I presume.
Monsuno had a show? I picked up a couple of the toys at the dollar store ages ago because they looked kinda neat and they were $1; I had no idea it was a show.
To all the people informing conner in the comments that "Pocket Monsters" is the japanese name for Pokémon... he knows. I know. We all know. He didn't mention it, probably because he was under the assumption it was common knowledge, and that it didnt even need to be said.
35:58 Pokémon kinda have a mobile game like that aside from the cinematic fight scenes (there are scenes but I’m not sure if it’s categorized as shown in these) called Pokémon MastersEX. You collect your favorite trainers that you love from the series and team them up! I love how they’re kinda generous with gems there, making it easy for F2P to get who they want when their banner rolls around. Not only that, they have a pity system where after you spend 40k gems (which is a lot, I know) you’re free to pick whoever you want from that banner. No 50/50 bs that I know a lot of gacha games do, but you can pick the one you want that way.
kinda surprised you didn't talk about Dinosaur King, which felt a lot more 'pokemon-like' to me than Zoids or monster Rancher. Yeah, Zoids has had a couple mon games(Genobreaker Hen and the Saga games come to mind)but the series as a whole and the anime especially doesn't really have anything in common with pokemon's creature collection focus. Likewise, Monster Rancher has monsters, but neither the anime nor the games are focused on collecting a number of monsters; rather the games are all about raising one monster at a time and fusing them as needed to work your way through the pro monster fighting league, while the anime's a typical shonen action-adventure with various monsters that join the party. That said, the characters are able to speak normally with the rest of the cast and are treated as full characters, while most poke-clones make the monsters of limited intelligence. Another one worth talking about might have been Kaijudo, which does have a little pokemon influence, but focuses more on a limited selection of monsters(all taken from the card game of the same name, which was in turn a remake/successor to Duel Masters...which was itself a simplified version of MTG for the japanese market)
to be fair the training or fighting monster thing has been around anime for a long time it is just that pokemon happened to be the big one that people got into thanks to the games and the anime
I still have fond memories of Master of Monsters for the Sega Genesis. It was a TACT RPG where you raise an army of monsters to fight other armies, with the monsters being able to evolve like Pokemon, something the game did well before Pokemon. The game is a bit slow by today's standards, but I still go back to it and have fun.
@@baalfgames5318 There was even a sequel on the PlayStation, but from what I recall I didn't care as much for that one. Then again, I'd had so little experience with the original Master of Monsters, that I couldn't even remember for sure if my complaints with the sequel also existed in that, or if there were other reason why I enjoyed the Genesis game, but not the PlayStation one.
@@baalfgames5318 I don't recall a problem with missing attacks. The main thing I remember being bothered by it was how exploitative it was with how insanely powerful your leader's magic was, and how they could pretty much fully regenerate their MP every turn just by standing on a fortress. So when playing story mode, I would just hang out spamming spells every turn while moving my monsters towards the enemy base, which the CPU wouldn't do in return, so they were rendered completely helpless with me hardly having to do a thing. Meanwhile when trying multiplayer, neither of us were willing to be the one to put ourselves at a disadvantage by moving our leaders to get closer, and our monsters would be dead in one or two rounds before getting anywhere because of the magic. Which I don't recall being an issue in the first game, unless I just never realized it during the few times I played it.
8:36 Speaking of Pokémon in music games, After The Rain's "1 • 2 • 3" (from Pokémon Journeys) used to be part of the song list in later GitaDora arcade games, but as of the newest version, Fuzz-Up, "1 • 2 • 3" got removed. What a shame...
i assume that the person who translated leaf green was actually fluent in japanese, but was not fluent in english, instead of the other way around. otherwise we wouldnt have gotten "she is my grandson"
@@AdamAddictL no no not Conner. I was talking about JonTron. He made a video like this yeaaaaaars ago and talked about the same 4 in 1. His reaction to pacman was priceless lol.
i actually went and bought some bootleg capsules on holidays last winter, ended up with a charming hopip and surskit in green and blue pokeballs respectively! I adore them
btw, the reason in that bootleg fighting game that Blastoise is called "Kames", it's a mistranslation of it's Japanese name. Which with the English alphabet, is very similarly spelled. Not exactly of course, since it's a bootleg game
I still find quite sad that my favourite Pokemon bootleg game will never see the light of day again, it was a fighting game in a top down view, you choose your pokémon and if you did the combos right you could evolve
Holy crap. I had a copy of that Pokemon 2000 game in a GBA SP multi cart. I think it was a bootleg of a game based on an old anime. I think the anime was called "Three-Eyed One?"
My brother has a weird clearly fake Crystal GBA cartridge. It has randomised pokemon in it, and doesn't save. To this day he insists its real and that I'm just jealous he has it. I think he's just in denial that he spent £30 on it.
Yu-Gi-Oh! and Digimon have no place in a discussion about Pokémon knockoffs, clones and bootlegs! All three series evolved completely separate from one another, their origins having nothing in common whatsoever! That said, I'd kind of forgot about that Crystal translation, we joked about the madness of it in our Clan! What gets me is some of those games have an "e", rather than an "é", except for what appears to be written as "Po-kémo-m"... so "poh-kay-mo-em"?
19:22 Hack of Little Nemo: Dream Master. Super underrated NES game. You use the candy to transform into various animals that can kill the enemies. Later in the game you get a projectile to fight bosses that can get pretty brutal.
First off, Xerneas and Yveltal are actual Pokemon from Gen 6. Even though, you know, they were on the packaging but not a part of the actual toy. O_o The Pokemon 3 toy just ripped the logo straight from the "Pokemon: 3" movie that aired in 2000 and advertised the Sinnoh starters for some reason...Which, again, are not included. I think the SMB2 character next to Chansey is...Jigglypuff? "In a game where you're constantly mashing A to get through the dialogue." TBH I don't understand why people do this in RPGs and then complain about the lack of story. Especially in the more story-based Pokemon generations. Very entertaining and thorough look at this stuff, though. I'm sure some of us remember JonTron playing "Picaman."
I've never heard of anybody comparing Pokemon to Zoids before, even if just in passing like it was done here. But then again, I'm pretty sure Zoids is also well over a decade older than Pokemon, at least outside the anime. I think there was even an official NES game, if I recall correctly. Although I believe that was well before anything related to Zoids was ever localized in the US.
@@Burger_pants If true, then perhaps Zoids model kits did exist outside Japan for much longer than I realized. I only ever heard of Zoids when the anime started airing on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s, but then I later learned how old the franchise truly was. Having started back in the early-mid 80's, whereas Pokemon started in the mid 90's.
Picaclick is like an old game I played waaaaaaay back on my mom's first pc. The goal is to clear as many pair as possible by clicking in a way that causes more pairs to form. The score is how much of the screen is clear when there aren't anymore pairs.
it's a very popular game in japan that is put in lots of other video games as a mini-game, also sukabon AKA the "push the boxes onto the X's puzzle game
17:54 about "a lenda de pokémon" actually when Conner said if the game is in spanish or is it a hogwarts language, being a brazilian my answer is obviously that the game is in spa- portuguese
I think my cousin had a copy of that translated Japanese LeafGreen, I remember him trading me a Slowbro named "SLOWB" and I traded it away for that Lickitung in the gate
32:55 actualy they are like pokemon battle style that predates animations and stuff. and also for an 2003 was the early atempt who made toys to life in japan.
I got a BUNCH of small pkmn bootleg figures for my bday one year (they were in my cake) I lost most of them but the ones I have are so silly, the paint is so bad it’s so good. I will love them forever and ever. My favorite is Landorus T
Honestly I actually remember Monsuno as a kid but never really watched it, I remember commercials but it never caught my eye, but looking at it now I'm glad I never watched it, but we gotta admit the monsters in Monsuno look pretty dang cool unless that's just me
