The 142 Cut and Altered Pokemon of Gold and Silver | Cut Content

Pokemon Gold and Silver had a development cycle that changed drastically as time passed with the game even getting rebooted once. These include large differences to at least 142 Pokemon that were altered or cut. Today on Cut Content, we explore these Pokemon

NOTE: This is a compilation video of the two Gold and Silver Beta Pokemon videos

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Credits to all the amazing people:

Rachel Briggs "Raciebeep"
Artist of Beta Renditions of Pokemon

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Footage of the move Curse being used:
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Footage of walking up to Ho-Oh
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Footage of Pokemon Musuem in Red and Blue

[TheOnlyTreasureGuy]

In my headcanon, the legendary beasts that we see today were the dogs in the beta that died in the fire

[TurquoiseStar]

Those leaks were a gift that keeps on giving, I love how we're still learning about Gamefreak's thought process for Pokemon over 25 years later. It was clear from Ho-oh appearing in episode 1 of the anime that the Pokedex was never set in stone, even in the first games. I fondly remember those days before social media when the debuts of Togepi and "Pikablu" drove us nuts trying to figure out.

[jlczped]

Fun fact about Umbreon: Despite becoming pure dark in the final games, It's Pokédex still mentions it having "poison sweat".

[Enterprisingengine]

I love how they occasionally bring one of these lost ideas back. Even the stork! I hope they revisit the electric tiger hamster and the fireball seal someday

[jlczped]

Here's another fun fact! This time it's about Porygon 2: It's beta design is strangely similar to a Japanese food mascot named Pon De Lion. Even stranger, Porygon 2 predated Pon De Lion by several years.

[jlczped]

13:02 Delibird's present sack is actually it's tail in the final game as well.

[someonecalledeulogio]

ladies and gentlemen, this is manbo #5 (funky swing starts playing)

[shadygodd]

WE WERE ROBBED OF BABY TANGELA AND COOL TANGROWTH 😭😭😭

[megatronacepticon]

7:57 - that mini Girafarig backsprite got left out. It's the backsprite of that white Wobbublob thing in the 1999 build that evolves into Girafarig who by this point had its final design, meaning that it was presumably an intended Girafarig preevolution between Twinz and becoming Wobbuffet. Most of the other Gen 2 beta dex videos forget to mention it too and it's a shame that we only have its backsprite, but it's clearly a separate preevolution of Girafarig.

[Celtic]

I find it funny how little he took note of the dinosaur skeleton Pokémon at the end. It's possible that it's the monster from the original idea for the second Pokémon movie. Basically archeologists would have discovered some more dinosaur bones which would have come alive and destroyed stuff. It was supposed to be weirdly existential because if the headspace of the writer at the time (He kept writing stories about coexistence including a Pokemon revolution idea) In interviews he said it was meant to be a more normal dinosaur, but that could have changed before it was scrapped to better match the established lore. I really want to know if its index is by the legendaries.

[ToxicWyvern]

One thing to remember is the Pokémon, at least early gens, were created as sprites first before being drawn, it’s likely many of these were only ever meant to be proof of concept and not indeed to actually be put in the current game.

Also. Bellsprout having a planned evolution could be an explanation as to why Speout tower was in the game.

Also this is the first time I heard “Animon” pronounced, so I just realized the pun

[jamessmithson-brrm]

I was convinced Dunsparce was going to do a Magikarp and evolve into an awesome dragon. It was only when I got mine to level 100 that I finally realised I was incorrect. Oh, the pre-internet age…

[OmegaVideoGameGod]

Now if only we could have a complete list of gen 1 I remember they said when Gen 1 was being developed they had 300 designs and when Gen 2 was done it was 650ish but I remember Satoshi and Ken saying every generation of Pokémon ends up deleting half to most of the ideas they have.

[jordan]

If the hoppip line kept its 97 cat-like beta design it would be one of the most popular pokemon ever easily

[alcatrazvongola]

Man, I really wish we got the ninja squirrel. That design rocks.

[ashenwolf]

Any Gold and Silver related always seems to have some good content involved in it.

[ivantothemax]

I always thought the hopip lines were plant cats and the beta sprites kinda prove it

[klkviis]

This video fully proves Ho-oH isn't anime's creation, it was GF's creation and i'm glad for that.

[WyvernLP]

24:28, that looks alot like Castform.

[TheCrazyhusky]

We got a tanuki pokemon, Zigzagoon is a tanuki hence why it learns Belly drum, Tanuki's drumming on their bellies is a common trope in Japan.
It's strange because it evolves into Linoone which is a japanese badger.