Fun fact: Pikachu’s rarity was purposeful, because the designer (I forget who) wanted it to be kind a sort of secret.

@harold5337

Жыл бұрын

I think they did the same with Ralts and Shroomish in Gen III, only you are given an incentive to find it through NPC dialogue.

To be fair, the starter Pokemon are also the final bosses of the game, since whichever starter your rival picks will be the last pokemon you battle before you beat the game.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s a fun aspect. Very similar to Eternal Darkness, if you’ve played that

Me, an intellectual, liking the video to support this 66 part series till completion.

5 years later: "Hey guys welcome to part 24 of my 60 plus video retrospective of EVERy POKEMON GAME EVER."

@krankarvolund7771

2 жыл бұрын

"Of course what began as a 66 part is now more than 70 because pokémon games still come out...." XD

>Find the person with the other version (singular) to complete the collection. Laughs in three starters, three Eeveelutions, and a 50/50 chance you both choose the same fossil.

@Rachel-we8ge

2 жыл бұрын

That's why it was great to have a younger sibling. "Yeah, just restart the game and we'll trade again. I'll give you something to make the early game easier in exchange". *gives random common pokemon caught later so higher level*

My first Pokémon game was also the Blue version : When I was 6 (2004), my mom had no money for a babysitter so she had an arrangement with a very nice neighbor who lived upstairs. She was alone all day because her son left home a few years ago. Her son was a big fan of video games. I remember seeing a few Zelda games and a GBA SP... She was nice (and her son too apparently, even tho I've never met him) because she let me borrow her son's Gameboy Color and his copy of Pokémon Blue. It was my first Nintendo experience too, as I've played older PC games so far (yup, 6 year old and already addicted to computers, who knew this would be my job ?). I loved Pokémon Blue, even if the copy had some progress and I couldn't understand the story and most mechanics. I remember not knowing the existence of the START menu and saving the game by switching boxes in the PC lol. Later, my neighbor let me borrow her son's copy of Pokémon Silver and I remember looking at the cartridge for days, wondering what Pokémon stands on the sticker... This was the best of times. I used a flashlight to be able to play in my bed at night (you know the drill). Got caught a few times but it was all fun in the end. Later I moved. I wanted to keep the GBC and games with me, as my neighbor never asked to get them back but I don't know why, I gave them back to her. Maybe I've felt that if I kept them, her son might have been upset, as it was probably good memories for him too... Later, I managed to get my father to buy me a used GBA SP and I got a few Pokémon games, starting with the Crystal version, which I initially thought was a fake game because nobody at school heard about it (What did I expect, I was 6 years late !). Crystal was my favorite game that time. I had some good memories with other GB/GBA games, but I remember Pokémon to be the best. I've also spent too much time playing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team when I was 12 instead of sleeping. Good times. I will never forget.

@haruhisuzumiya6650

2 жыл бұрын

I was bought Pokemon blue but stupid me didn't know how to move , but I managed to beat Pokemon gold.

I don't know for America, but in Europe they too released the anime first for legal reasons. In Europe, at least at the time, releasing an anime for a video-game was considered an advertisement, so you had to release the anime first, then say that the game is merchandising for the anime, to avoid that law. At least, it's the excuse given by the french team ^^

@darkjester1222

2 жыл бұрын

What an interesting loophole to have to jump through.

Nidoran learns double kick at level forty something. That is in yellow.

@archpigeon

2 жыл бұрын

nope, level 40 in red/blue, level 12 in yellow

Time to invest in a super sized popcorn machine in preparation for the hours I'll be sinking into this series.

Yo dawg, my older brother’s best friend told me he found out how to catch Mew. You have to use surf before S.S. Anne and then use strength on the truck. Then Bill shows up and challenges you to a battle. This is super important: YOUVE GOTTA LOSE THE BATTLE!! After you loose, Mew appears and pushes Bill into the water. Then it joins your team. I promise you it’s true! He showed me his game, and he doesn’t even own a GameShark. There were so many of these “cheats” on the Internet back in the day. Hilarious that eventually an exploit was found that did let you catch Mew.

@haruhisuzumiya6650

2 жыл бұрын

The irony is that mew is catchable via a glitch but kids are stupid

@Iris_1217

2 жыл бұрын

I remember one of the playground rumors going around when I was a kid was that if you beat the Elite Four some ridiculous number of times (Like... 500 or 1000, I think?) you'd get your own gym. Then you could press the B button to conjure random Trainers to challenge. Then Gen 7 happened and they actually did frame E4 rematches as you protecting your Champion title. I think there's something like that in the postgame of Gen VIII too? Still looking for a Pokemon game where you play as a Gym Leader though. Or another Colosseum/Gale of Darkness-like. Or, heck, remakes of either of those games.

Note: Parasect was also 4 times weak to Poison in Gen 1, given that Bug and Poison were weak to each other, making it the only fully evolved Pokémon in the franchise's history to have 3 4x weaknesses. Truly an awful situation for our little friend.

@erikedelkamp473

2 жыл бұрын

At least bug and poison had crappy moves in gen1

For the love of god, please don’t stray away from this. Your takes on these games is 👌🏻

I feel like I know so little about everything between Gen 2 and Gen 8 and ESPECIALLY the side games, so I’m looking forward to this series.

@KibbysGhost

2 жыл бұрын

You’re going to learn a lot!

I'm actually a big fan of Parasect for the record. It's a really evocative design that's both creepy and cute. It is weak to everything and only really has ok attack and nothing else, but if I get one in non-Nuzlockes I always try to get it working.

So happy MDB introduced me to you. You're really calm to listen to. I really like it.

Your channel is really popping off. Hope for many zesty and spicy videos!

Oh, you can't beat it with one Pokemon? Shit, I should have just read the box, would have saved me a lot of time.

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Good thing I warned you before you tried something crazy

@genwunnergreen2100

Жыл бұрын

Vague box descriptions are great for the YT algorithm!

Fun fact, Parasect has THREE 4x weaknesses in Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. In generation one, Bug and Poison were both weak to each other, this was rebalanced come GSC. I love the format of this retrospective though, great script and delivery. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series. :)

Even growing up with the games land seeing all these retrospectives on red and blue no one ever mentions the box art or the packaging. This is an amazing thing to touch on as those things can get lost to time. Looking forward to the rest of the series

Skipping optional rival fight on Route 21 is punish-worthy.

Really looking forward to it. Your particular style of commentary is funny to listen to. Specifically waiting for that Pokémon puzzle league video

Gen 1 was so scuffed, but it introduced me to turn based rpgs. I picked Squirtle as my first ever pokemon. No regrets. I love how there were these ubiquitous false rumors on how to get Mew, but years later an actual exploit to get Mew was found.

Missed chance by not calling it a " Paraspective"

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. And I changed it. I’ll be sure to give you credit in the next one haha

For Red/Blue, Double Kick isn't available until the low 40s for the Nidoran line. They did fix that in Yellow to make the Brock fight easier, but all you really need is a Mankey or Butterfree.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I missed this in the episode. I correct it in my Yellow episode

I feel like this video missed that when the games first released, the internet was NOT widely accessible. If I wanted to go online, I had to go to the local library or be in my school's computer class. Type weakness/resistance was entirely logic-leaps and trial-error! Couldn't figure out how to wake snorlax? Then you were SOL until the anime gave you clues about tracking down a hippie with a flute. My entire grade was in the dark about how to get garyados until we saw James accidently evolve his magikarp one Saturday morning. If you had a strategy guide then you were the go-to pokedex for all your friends!

Hey dude. Good to see that the yt algorithm's mercy gave your channel a boost in exposure. It's also obvious that you put a good amount of work into your stuff. Keep going man ✌

Whats worse for Charmander players, in Red, Green, and Blue Nidoran don't pick up Double Kick until the 40's. On the other hand, Brock only has Normal typed attacks.

you shouldn't have said that sandshrew is really your fav pokemon, now you need to beat the TCG game with him and sandslash only lol

I really like that you are looking at the games within their own timeframe instead of applying what we now know about them. There's a bit of tongue-in-cheek merit in doing so, but this approach feels more grounded, especially with your personal anecdotes from the era.

Ok ok ok... I've been drinking. I want to absolutely preface this with the fact that I absolutely LOVED your video. I've subbed and notifications are on. I want to see your channel grow because you've got the IT factor. My only critiques/advice (and PLEASE do not take this as anything negative with the formula you've got going on): 1) Your origins based information in the beginning was excellent. I've been playing pokemon since it came out in NA back in '98. I'm currently 27. Please please PLEASE keep this up. I actually learned a lot about the original games just based on your first 10 minutes. It's a throw back for me to when I was younger and could not fully grasp all of this information. 2) The majority of viewers that will be watching your videos are fairly well seasoned pokemon players/viewers. Your post-intro to this video is beginner based, and perhaps an ideal way to start the series. I would pursue this with the understanding that the basics and fundamentals of the mechanics are covered with viewers and treat it chronologically. 3) The weird facts are always the head scratchers and even if one has heard them before, it's always is a good reminder of how much depth these games truly have to offer. 4) The step by step of the story of the game is also always a good way to bring back memories as well for viewers who have not physically played these games in years/decades. 5) Each game following Red/Blue/Green all introduce different mechanics in battle and/or general gameplay. This (I think) is always one of the most interesting concepts for someone that has a better-than-average IQ for pokemon. It makes one think about how they use to play the game as opposed to how they would play it now having known these mechanics. 6) Even if none of this pertains to your vision of the series, I'll still watch all of them all. It's an excellent start, and I truly did enjoy it! Keep up the good work, man! I see you doing very well and being successful with this series!

How you didn't name your rival Matthew I'll never know

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely a missed opportunity. What was I thinking?

He took the Helix fossil. Mah-Dry would be so proud! Really glad he gave you a shout out. I'm really enjoying your content.

happy to see you start a new series bud keep making banger videos

@KibbysGhost

2 жыл бұрын

I wish he made burger videos too

I was 7 years old when Pokemon Red entered my life, what a time.

31:51 I’m sure someone told you this already, but just in case, bug was weak to poison in Gen 1, so it was actually a 4x weakness for our zombie bug, not 2x

I dig the branding. Parasect is a really cool Pokemon that suffers from being barely viable in its debut game thanks to the awful movesets available to all gen 1 bug Pokemon and having never been prominent in any of the media tie-ins. I would never think of combining Parasect and S.P.E.C.T.R.E., but now that you've done it (great logo, by the way), it almost seems natural.

YES MORE PARASPECTRE CONTENT!!!!!!!

So excited dude. You're awesome! Take your time and we will support you the whole way!

I grew up with these games as well. They hold a very special place in my heart and I play them regularly. Kind of as compfort gaming. I really enjoyed your video and especially the presentation made me remember how I felt back in the day. The setting is so important, and you nailed it! Looking forward to the next episode ;D

I love these videos! As someone who grew up obsessed with Pokemon, but only got into it around the tail end of gen 3 because that's around when I learned how to read, I find it incredibly interesting to think of how these earlier generations were received and thought of at the time of release. Keep up the awesome work!

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad so many people appreciate hearing about the time period with each release. I don’t go TOO in depth with that but I’ve always found it to be important to the experience

Nintendo Power is what got me into Pokemon. I remember making sure to watch the premiere of the anime, which happened to be the pilot episode (Battle Aboard the St Anne). I downloaded a rom of Blue when the games came out, played with Bulbasaur (because I knew he was "easy mode.") Got Blue and a Game Boy Pocket that Christmas, went Blastoise. I was definitely the main reason Pokemon cards got banned at my middle school.

I always grab the lovely cheap amazing offer of a 500g Magikarp pre-Mt Moon. Gotta have the Gyrados by Misty :P

Fun fact: Only in gen 1, bug is weak to poison and poison is weak to bug, which means that parasect actually has a 4x weakness to poison in gen Red and Blue.

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I didn’t really mention this here. I did in the Gold and Silver episode though, that it was changed

Neat, looking forward to the rest of the series, or whatever you may feel like producing :)

Clever choice with Blue version. Picking Squirtle since it's number 007 in the pokédex.

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

That is very true, but not my intention haha

Great video! Super stoked that I found your channel and for the series!

Great video, I like the focus on the physical media and historical context of the releases. Looking forward to making my way through the rest of the series :)

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Why thanks! The series is like 1/6th done so far ☺️

I’d like to hear even further detail about your experiences with specific moments in the games, like your impressions of the region, it’s gym leaders and E4, the different Pokémon etc. you can do a lot with Paraspectives. Love the work all the same!

Finally, a fresh take on video game retrospectives! I absolutely love the 1st person point of view as if we were back in the early 1990’s!

An intro to the franchise, a summary of the first Pokémon game(s), and a full explanation for the Paraspectre moniker. Great stuff all around.

This is great, man, I can tell I’m gonna enjoy this series!

Aw man, so nostalgic. I started with the cards and used to go to the mall every Saturday to play in a league. Excited to see yellow when you do it since that was my first Gameboy game! I still have that cartridge too!

Im here for the retrospective from a paras I'm certainly here for the Pokemon equivalent of a rabbit hole

While this is a huge project I'm really looking forward to it. You make some amazing quality videos and I also bought one of your shirts. It's a good quality shirt and I hope you keep up the amazing content

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for supporting the channel! I wear my shirt pretty often too haha

As a kid I always took Butterfree for beating Brock with Charmander

But we all need to know: what fossil did YOU choose?!

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

I mean… Omanyte > Kabuto 🤷🏻‍♂️

fantastic content, excellent work man

OKAY! So I stumbled upon your channel after a good friend suggested I check out some of Mah-Dry-Bread's Pokemon Challenges, which led me to his Pokemon TCG Playthrough, which of course led me to you. I absolutely freaking love your content. Literally just finished all your TCG Videos thus far. But what really reeled me into this video (and I've barely started it) was your comment about how this is too big an undertaking, so here's Part 1. I'm hooked!

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Love this. Thanks for joining in! I’m hoping to have the next part out this weekend.

Waiting for Pokémon pinball no paddles

Oh… I love these! I really liked your Metroid videos, and I’d love to see your take on mainline Pokémon!

I’m binge watching these bro had to restart from ep 1, great content

Found out in gen 3 even tho brocks weak to steel and resists fire ember hits harder against onix than metal Claw btw actually since geodude and onix are physically defensive makes sense as to why ember still helps in gen 1 especially since Brock has no rock or ground type moves

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh interesting. So it plays more into attack vs special there

@Silverlugia1256

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre yep I've been playing pokemon since gen 1 so took note of ember being more effective

I like the picture you added towards the beginning of the video with the front/back sprites of all the main Pokémon and the beta ones as well. We definitely lost out on some good Beta concepts.

Ima just be real and say, Gen 1 superior.

Hey man great start to the series! Really looking forward to the rest of it! But if I may, can I make a suggestion? Well, two really but they're related...if you're not using a pop-filter, you probably should be. Your P's are very loud and cutting, it's called a "plosive". Anyway, you don't have to buy one, literally just wrap your mic in a swiffer pad or two, or a hand towel, or find some way of holding the swiffer pad somewhere between your mouth and the mic when recording. That's number one. Number two, also audio related, I always run my final mix through a normalizer and compressor if I haven't done any compression during the rest of the process. They're audio effects in premiere, and will make sure everything is around the same volume so you don't blow headphone users away lol. Just some advice, obviously you do not have to listen to me, do what you think is best!

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

I actually do have a pop filter on, but only for the last few videos. I think anything from the first Parasect one and before didn’t have it.

can't wait for you to get to the spin offs! I think that the pokemon side games are legit really interesting and underdiscussed

3:32 and relevant to 6:19 - According to bulbapedia (which has a source), the Pokemon anime actually debuted in the US on September 7, 1998 and actually ran for about 14-15 episodes before the games released on September 28, 1998; so for a lot of kids, the games were not their first taste of Pokemon, and they wouldn't exactly be going in blind. Though it is weird how they barely used Pikachu in the marketing for these games; I guess they didn't think he would be that popular at the time?

tbf, professor oak does have a little text blurb when you examine a given pokeball remarking on you easy/hard they are to raise. it's pretty neat!

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

I never even realized that! That part of the game is so second nature by now

@TigeriPlaysGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre yeah! i have the "difficulty select" ingrained in my mind by now, but i remember playing firered as a kid and being like "ohh ok i was gonna pick charmander but maybe squirtle would be easier actually". so it does its job, at least from my own anecdotal experience lol

22:37 the game clearly tells you that charmander is the hard mode and bulbasaur is the easy mode when you are about to choose them

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

I know it’s in the manual but I didn’t realize the game said it too. Who listens to Professor Oak?

@threehead99

Жыл бұрын

The game and manual literally say nothing of the sort...

@ianweir3608

25 күн бұрын

When? where? I don't think it does

After playing Legends Arceus we all have a drastically different opinion on Parasect. This zombie bug tries its best to let you notice its existence in that game.

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

I love hearing the alpha’s roars in the valley. That’s good stuff

Shane is a cool dude. Shoutout to Shane!

these are so cool, found you through the ruby sapphire video these are incredible man keep up the awesome work you. and i think you’ll love this but i think these videos are making me really attached to parasect

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Haha that’s what I like to hear! I’ll be putting the spotlight on Parasect in EVERY part of this Paraspective.

One thing I want to mention from my perspective, most people thought that the game was based on the cartoon... so kids went into the game thinking they could be a trainer like Ash... so your experience isn't the same as lots of people... I loved it because of the anime... I named my protagonist Ash... as did all of my fellow elementary school kids... In fact, I think most kids only bought the games because of the anime... and it took years for many people to know the anime was just an ad for the game...

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I mean I did think you played as Ash in Red/Blue. I didn’t know his name was Red for a long time

Honestly I like how you try to pretend you don't know anything about pokemon its an interesting take on the retropective format

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s how I used to check out games during the video game rental era. This format may make less sense the closer I get to present day, but I still like it ☺️

Nice Paraspective my guy

Check out this guy talking about how great the New Radicals are gonna be from the perspective of 1996 while playing a 1999 Ricky Martin track instead. Boy, I bet he feels really silly right about now /s GYM is clearly in all caps because it's an acronym for "Get Your Medal," the original name for a badge.

@_Pikahiiri_

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure about that. All the Pokemon names were also in Caps, and also all the other named buildings such as POKE and MART.

@gadgez_

2 жыл бұрын

@@_Pikahiiri_ I was just curious if I could backronym it.

tbh, i think 12 and 13 were better ages to be into pokemon when it first hit, i was 7, and was not brave or clever enough to try & get around pokemon card bans at school, so i never got to trade any. all the kids i knew that were also into pokemon were older than me, and doing stuff like getting to go to the stores to play with other kids wasn't something my parents were willing to do when i was that young. then it took gen 2 too long to show up & i didn't really get a social experience with the games until gen 4.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

That’s a fair point. You’re able to think more critically and plan things out more at 13 than at 7. I always felt “embarrassed” that I was into this supposed kid’s game at that age though. It’s so funny now that the demographic for my videos is easily late 20s - early 30s

Bulbasaur and my man MARCEL the Mr.Mime were my OG team. Was 7 at release and didn't bother with 6 pkmn teams

And the Pokemon games still look good even to this day,

Hey very nice! I'll stay for the series

Welcome to part 1 of 66 of EVERY POKEMON GAME

When you say every pokemon game you better cover Pokemon Conquest

squirtle is so fucking happy in this games, keep it up small boi, keep it up

66 Pokemon games And a cute paras to boot.

Loved this episode, wlll be following!

Man, remember when Pikachu was fat?

@Strosfan85

2 жыл бұрын

Pepperidge Farm remembers...

@KibbysGhost

2 жыл бұрын

Chonky boi

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

I like that classic round art style on the box

29:17- I like seeing people lament that they were already too old when getting into it at 13 when people like myself got into it at say 17. Infact my 18th Birthday was celebrated with Pokémon Stadium and some Mighty Morphin Power Rangers VHS tapes.

@averytubestudios

2 жыл бұрын

Now that sounds like it was a fun birthday.

19:11 A wild mouse cursor has appeared lol

Good luck on this I'll be along for the ride

Huh... I don't think I'd ever payed attention to the original release dates before and so hadn't noticed Pokémon's US release was a birthday present.

@KibbysGhost

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday!

@EmeralBookwise

2 жыл бұрын

@@KibbysGhost I'll appreciate that in 5 more days :-)

Man now I just want to go replay Red and Blue and that never happens

Rename your channel to Sandspectre NOW!

awesome series idea. subscribed

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Good luckwith your project ! But you know the tme you'll be half-way, it'll be 4-5 more Pokémon games

@Paraspectre

2 жыл бұрын

Haha very true. That’s why I made sure to point out 66+. Who knows how many it’ll be at when I reach 66

Heyyyy Snorlax makes the back cover!

I wonder what the deal was with Nidoran being male and female

Oh yeah, I'm so down for this!!!

Very interesting video series idea ☺️

I first got started with the card game. By the time that Fossil was about to come out, I traded 4 playsets of the at the time still new Jungle set, along with a 1st ed set of jungle for a friend's brand-new Game Boy Color and several other games. Then, I bought Pokemon Blue before going on a road trip.. I don't know how much money I lost on that trade. I try not to think about it.

@dereko333

2 жыл бұрын

but i’m sure the memories you made with that gameboy color & pokémon game are worth it.

I was a kid in the 90s and we knew about the Pokemon before the game was released. There was a lot of magazines and stuff around it. I collected lunchables and would cut the Pokemon out of the cardboard containers to play with before the games were released. They were squared off and different lunchables had different Pokemon. I had all 150 before the game was even out.