Pokemon Generation 1 Iceberg Explained

Let's journey down the pokemon iceberg with everything from MissingNo. to whether or not Mew is actually hiding under that truck.

#iceberg #pokemon #lore

[alecrutz]

To answer your fun lil question, I've caught them all in blue, obviously since it was on emulator I had no way of trading, I had to use the mew glitch to get the trade evos, the mutually exclusive pokemon (like the eeveelutions, the starters, and the fighting dojo fellas) and version exclusives. and mew.
It took over 100 hours of game time, but I did pull it off, ending by evolving dragonair into dragonite.

[davidcarney]

Using strength on the truck, pushing it from the left 3 times, then using teleport 2 steps to the right of it didn't get me Mew, though it did cure my hiccups

[MrOakridge]

46:28 - Fun fact: level was actually not a part of the catching formula until generation 8! It had no bearing on catch rate in any prior gen except when using specific balls, namely the Nest and Level Balls.

[JoKad]

This iceberg isn't deep at all.
Here some truly deep facts:
-Ultra balls are rarely the best ball, and in certain scenarios are outperformed by regular pokeballs.
-Missingno is incredibly weak actually.
-On the same note onix too is often remembered as a strong mon but is actually one of the weakest regular mons.
-Npc trainers don't use pp.
-You can use counter to counter your own moves under certain circumstances.
-This allows gengar to make use of counter: normally they can learn the move but since it only works on normal and fighting moves in Gen 1 it would always fail. That said gengar is quite fast so you can explode with a mon and counter your own explosion as long as you outspeed the opponent it will work and deal absurd damage.
-Before Gen 3 introduced EVs, stat bonuses (called Stat exp) only had individual caps and not a shared cap meaning you could max out stat bonuses on all stats.
-On that note, in pokemon stadium unevolved Pokémon are balanced with their evolved counterpart by having better stat bonuses and sometimes better moves
-Also stadium is the game that nerfed hyper beam to the ground
-Blizzard was nerfed in the International releases: in the Japanese exclusive Pokémon Green blizzard had an astounding 30% chance.
-Also Pokémon couldn't taw from freeze on their own, the only way was to use an item or get hit by a fire type move
-The bike costs more than the money cap
-Among the changes in Pokémon Yellow there are some movepool and encounter changes to give the player the means to defeat Brok easier since you start with a Pikachu.
-Allegedly there were more planned ghost and dragon mons but they were scrapped due to time constraint or cartridge storage space.
-Allegedly, since the game are so content dense they crammed the og cartridges to bust but there was still a tiny sliver of space left to add a new mon, this is apparently how mew was inserted in. Originally it was supposed to just be a part of the lore not represented by an actual mon in game and it seems even Nintendo was unaware of it's presence.
-Satoshi Tajiri, Pokémon's creator was inspired by his childhood, when he would roam the countryside trying to catch insects and critters.
-The game had a particularly long development, it took 6 years to make.

[dontecrosland]

Your character talk when he lets his Pokémon out when you catch a Pokémon or if you miss a pokeball 🤣

[Daraix]

The infamous "Porygon incident anime titled "Dennō Senshi Porygon" (Electric Soldier Porygon), which aired in Japan on December 16, 1997. During this episode, a scene with rapidly flashing red and blue lights caused photosensitive epileptic seizures in hundreds of children. Over 600 children were taken to hospitals, and the incident became known as the "Pokémon Shock"

[icedo]

3:10 The simplest "in depth" explanation I can think of is that the game only has one spot in memory dedicated to the name of the player trainer, so in order to keep your name intact it stores each byte of your name into the wild pokemon data and temporarily makes your name Old Man so that the tutorial script can proceed. Since no wild pokemon are supposed to be found in that area anyway it wouldn't typically matter or affect anything. However, it doesn't reset the wild pokemon data once the Old Man battle is over, and won't have another chance to do so until you enter an area where there is wild pokemon data to be updated. Since Cinnibar Island also doesn't have any encounters, the game still neglects to update the data. Surfing on the edge keeps you within the confines of Cinnibar Island and still acts as wild pokemon encounter tiles, allowing you to encounter pokemon whose data corresponds to the characters in your name.

In short, you've basically carried a small oversight in tying up a coding shortcut's loose ends all the way to an area of the game where you can abuse that oversight without ever allowing the game to correct itself.

[BrandonPratt-eool]

So what’s the significance between Jigglypuff back then cause you need a moonstone to evolve Jigglypuff into jiggly tough concept 39:37

[mickeystackhouse]

While you cant get mew from under a truck you can actually manipulate the rng in Blue version and catch one on nugget bridge.

[Dragondan]

Missingno cheat in this video was way easier than the way we got him in my school. We only knew about the seafoam island missingno

[BobtheExile]

14:58 I caught all 251 Pokemon in Crystal version a few years ago. Not quite what you were asking but I did. It took me six months and I am NEVER doing that again

[Ryan-kfof]

Reviving a fossil seemed confusing.. but we had Jurassic Park

[GregMcGregsen]

7:00 bro I feel this so hard. I swear the older brother of my best friend did this

[Hex.A.Decimal]

Hey, wanna know a secret? If you bought these games on eshop the glitches ALL still work.
Also Evil Cousin 'M is the one that duplicates the 7th item, and really messes up your Hall of Fame data. I personally have played and beaten the E4 with a Missingno. in my party, but I don't recommend catching 'M. 'M is always at level 80 (Wild pokemon caught via Mew and OLD MAN glitch can be >255, 256 it resets to 0) and when you catch it there is an invisible one behind it at level 0 that you can catch again. So I think it is a backdoor into a function. Idk what function, someone probably could do the math and figure it out.

I think Missingno. are indeed empty spaces or scrapped 'mon (39 actually do correspond to GBC Pokemon and turn into them when traded through time capsule. This would have made an even 190.) (Plus extra sprites like GHOST or FOSSIL are stored in the extra spaces.)

[Hex.A.Decimal]

Also if anyone is interested in how the OLD MAN/Cinnabar Island glitch works or if they want help creating a name to generate a specific Pokemon I can help.

[Nick_Slavik]

I managed to get all 150 once. Went back to the guy in Celadon expecting to get Mew, instead I got some stupid certificate to print out with the game boy printer 🙄👍 lol I was so mad at such a useless effort

[PokemonFallAsleepto]

Gen 1 wasn't just a game—it was a myth factory. MissingNo, the truck with Mew, Lavender Town Syndrome… It’s like Pokémon was designed to live rent-free in kids’ heads for decades. These iceberg videos really bring back the magic and mystery of old-school gaming rumors.

[Krendall]

Another interesting fact about Missingno is its type is Bird. Not Flying, Bird. It's believed Bird was an early type that was replaced by Flying (since not all Flying types are birds). In RBY it has no resistances or weaknesses.

"Another method is to use Teleport on a specific tile." That's actually not too far off from how you can force a Mew encounter in RBY.

Agatha confirms that Oak was once a great trainer.

[SoojuuMeup]

Literally my first games for my game boy color nice video again 🔥

[edgardeitz]

44:42 - What's with this pikachu icon? haha ;)