Current Events > So I'm playing through pokemon yellow. Why did we like this game as kids?

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It's really awful. So many things wrong with it. I don't know where to start.

1. Your item bag. Everything is put into one compartment in your bag. Medicine, items, TMs, keyitems, pokeballs. And it can only hold 20. That's ridiculous. Sure you can put items in your PC. But even it can only hold 50. So you will run out of space no matter what you do.

2. The pokemon boxes. Each box can only 20 pokemon. When a box fills up, it doesn't switch to a new box automatically. This can be disasterous if you're trying to catch a legendary. Throw a pokeball, get a message saying the box is full, didn't save beforehand = noooo!!

3. When you catch a pokemon and it gets sent to a box, it doesn't heal automatically. You have to take it out of the box and heal it yourself. This is minor, but still stupid.

4. Psychic pokemon are ridiculously overpowered. They are only weak against bug and ghost type. But in gen 1 all of the bug and ghost types were also part poison type. So psychic was super effective against them! And the only bug attacks were pin missile, twin needle. The only ghost attack was lick. Night shade doesn't count since it did fixed damage. I also noticed that night shade could somehow hit normal types. Huh?

5. Those stupid hm moves. They couldn't be un-learned in this gen. So you needed a hm slave. The best ones are slowpoke, krabby.

6. When a pokemon gets frozen in battle it stays frozen forever. I mean unless you happen to have ice heal. Getting frozen was rare. So nobody bought ice heal.

7. Charizard's battle sprite looks like a damn skeleton.

8. Can't evolve pikachu in this one. So it becomes useless. Especially compared to some other pokemon you can have on your team. The best pokemon you can get are: Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Snorlax, Rhydon, Dragonite, Mr mime, Aerodactyl, Mewtwo.

Those are all the grips I can think of for now. But I'm sure there are more. Gen 2 fixed a lot of these, but still wasn't quite there yet. Pokemon didn't get good until gen 3.
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Yeah imagine a 20 year old game not having all the features you'd expect this day and age

Tadamoto topic, why am I even bothering
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Did Tadamoto get denied by one of the female gym leaders
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Erika is best girl.
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Guy_Fieri posted...

Did Tadamoto get denied by one of the female gym leaders

It's for the best. She'd just end up cheating on him like all women do.
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Because it came out 20 years ago and we were fine with the lack of features back then.
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It did have a lot of issues, but this is well known now.

I don't really agree with pinky on this one though. The game's age isn't an excuse for many of the issues it had. I can appreciate it missing features that the modern games have, but that's not all we're talking about here. There are so many things that are broken or stupid in the game that you're probably better off listing the things that do work properly. Even back then, this level of glitchiness was pretty much unprecedented.

Obligatory:


Also: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_in_Generation_I

if you hate it so much then just play Firered or Leafgreen

luigi13579 posted...

It did have a lot of issues, but this is well known now.

I don't really agree with pinky on this one though. The game's age isn't an excuse for many of the issues it had. I can appreciate it missing features that the modern games have, but that's not all we're talking about here. There are so many things that are broken or stupid in the game that you're probably better off listing the things that do work properly. Even back then, this level of glitchiness was pretty much unprecedented.

Obligatory:


Also: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_in_Generation_I

Oh god. This is fantastic. Nice find.
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Tadamoto35 posted...

4. Psychic pokemon are ridiculously overpowered. They are only weak against bug and ghost type.

Are you sure you actually played the game? Because this isn't even true
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kirbymuncher posted...

Tadamoto35 posted...

4. Psychic pokemon are ridiculously overpowered. They are only weak against bug and ghost type.

Are you sure you actually played the game? Because this isn't even true

Yes I'm playing it now.
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some of those glitches arent so bad and some are just awful
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kirbymuncher posted...

Tadamoto35 posted...

4. Psychic pokemon are ridiculously overpowered. They are only weak against bug and ghost type.

Are you sure you actually played the game? Because this isn't even true

You're right, it's not true. Due to a glitch in the original R/B/Y, Psychic-type Pokemon were actually IMMUNE to Ghost-type moves (which was still just Lick) instead of weak to them. So they only had ONE weakness to Bug-type moves. Leech Life was super weak, Twineedle was exclusive to Beedrill (who's part Poison and weak to Psychic moves) and Pin Missile was exclusive to Jolteon (with its shit attack stat, it's not doing anything) and the aforementioned Beedrill.

So that part is actually even worse than TC says.
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Calwings posted...

So that part is actually even worse than TC says.

Hah, pretty much.

I especially like Slowbro with Amnesia. Broken as fuck. And that's not even talking about Mewtwo...

Gen 1 did not age well at all, but back then, it was all we had, so we enjoyed them.
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I will never forget how I I told my friend mathew in elementary, to get me through that first cave because I didn't feel like it, and there he sat, utterly transfixed, enjoying himself

good good game imho!

pinky0926 posted...

Yeah imagine a 20 year old game not having all the features you'd expect this day and age

/thread
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Vindris_SNH posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Yeah imagine a 20 year old game not having all the features you'd expect this day and age

/thread

I'm actually pretty glad that didnt end the thread
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What the hell are you even...

"Tadamoto35"

Never mind.
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This game was revolutionary and ahead of it's time. It came out on a handheld that wasn't even in colour for fucks sake
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seiki posted...

This game was revolutionary and ahead of it's time. It came out on a handheld that wasn't even in colour for fucks sake

good point. it was probably the most advanced game to ever be made for the original game boy. it was pretty impressive, with that in mind

Yeah the original Pokemon games do NOT hold up well at all. They were like beta tests for Gen 2 which are perfectly competent, borderline perfect games that are still enjoyable today.

We liked em as kids though cuz no time is quite like your first time ;)
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In what world would you not save before a legendary?
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Youre golden if youve got Jolteon.
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TFW you get all the way to Articuno and find out your box is full. But yeah, even as a kid I always saved before Legendaries. That's common sense, lol.

Also, I couldn't go back to anything earlier than, like, Gen 4. Totally loved those games back then, but I can't do without the stuff they added over the generations.
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Highwind07 posted...

Yea, Gen 1 really only has impact nowadays because of nostalgic value. I would still say that it had the most memorable league and legendaries though.

There's also how unbelievably glitchy Gen 1 was, which actually works in its favor now because people like to experiment and see what crazy stuff they can do with the glitches.
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Calwings posted...

There's also how unbelievably glitchy Gen 1 was, which actually works in its favor now because people like to experiment and see what crazy stuff they can do with the glitches.

Yeah, that's the good thing about (some of) the glitches. Missingno, Mew glitch, glitch city, arbitrary code execution, etc. They're fun to mess around with.

Highwind07 posted...

I only know about Missingno and the Professor Oak one.

I think the Oak one is a variation of the Mew glitch.

With the Mew glitch, you walk towards a trainer who is off screen and in line with you until they notice you, press start, use Teleport/Dig/Escape Rope/etc., then encounter another trainer. Then you go back to the area with the first trainer and an encounter will trigger depending on the last Pokemon you saw. Certain Pokemon will trigger an encounter with Oak.

Killing someone with hyper beam not requiring a recharge turn actually makes sense.

Let's say you use hyper beam and don't kill. Then the other pokemon would have a chance to counter attack.

But if you do kill, then the battlefield is cleared and the Pokemon can recover before the trainer sends out another Pokemon.

Realism.
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Yeah Pokmon is incredibly dull to me as an adult

Vindris_SNH posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Yeah imagine a 20 year old game not having all the features you'd expect this day and age

/thread

Not even close to the point. There's games that are fucking 30 years old that hold up better. The original RBY are fundamentally bad games that we all overlooked at the time because it was new and exciting.
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