Chasing Bugs- Generation 1's Seemingly Endless Flaws (Pokemon)

1/16th of 100 is not 16 lmao

Your Rattata may be in the top percentage, but can it keep itself in the air for 25 straight turns?

This took me too long because I moved rooms and forgot that audio bounces off of walls, so I held a shoebox in front of my face.

Huge thanks to Crystal_, ChickasaurusGL, and Glitch City Laboratories Forums:
Without these guys, this video would have been twenty times less accurate and worse overall. Please feel free to check them out!

All of the music is from the Pokemon Red/Blue OST.

This video brought to you by forgetting that sound bounces off of walls and having to rerecord literally every line 4 separate times.

Thanks for watching!

[takkoy]

By the way, the japanese versions of the game featured something spetacular.
You can not be defeated by Sabrina.
I mean, you can. But she will give you the badge anyway.

[marsupialmole]

You mention Dragonite using barrier, but didn't mention how Dragonite CAN'T LEARN BARRIER

[smashmallow]

a hillarious thing about Toxic:
If you switched out while badly poisoned, the status would revert to normal poison

[theicycharmander]

Reminds me of when Giovanni kept spamming Earthquake on my Charizard. Sure, he's fire type but it seems he didn't realise that he was flying as well.

[valletas]

Gen 1 is just like mario 64 very few gliche's affect normal play but one step in the wrong direction and the game is broken

[unboundsoul]

"One sixteenth means sixteen damage"
You're thinking sixteen percent. Which is closer to one sixth.

[Sebastian-tmhk]

The ammount of glitch mons (yes, Glitch Pokemon) that are in these games could've made a whole new typing and dex slots of there own. No seriously, there are 67 "glitch mons" in Red and Blue and that's not even counting the "evolutions" and alternate form in Yellow. They're all up on Bulbapedia if you're curious.

[Feraligono]

Tentacool's near-infinite wrap was terrifying.

[sparrowstale]

Kinda wish you mentioned the 1 in 256 glitch. It's totally would have fit in here and it's really interesting

[HetTrivedi]

1/16th of 100 = 6.25...rounded to 6. How did you get the damage values as 16, 32 and so on?

[wadayatalkinbeet]

8:08 Everyone gangsta until Poliwrath uses B

[ThereBeGoldInThemTharHills]

Can we at least recognize that this game was still way ahead of its time? Yeah all you youngsters out there talk about how shitty the mechanics of first game were. But remember this game came out on the same platform that played Tetris. No other game mattered when this one came out and most of you will never know the pure joy of battling friends over a link cable.

[astuteanansi]

"generation 1 was the best generation" -genwunners

"How fucking high are you and where can I get some of that shit?" -me

[parrot]

Honestly, I actually think the bugginess of gen 1 is what made the series so popular. The world was full of mystery, and the unexpected could always happen... It may have been due to unstable code, but it doesn't matter because ultimately it's glitch to stability ratio was just perfect to create the atmosphere that made gen 1 so compelling. It's also probably why so many people think the games have gone downhill as due to the code becoming better the behavior of the games has gotten more and more predictable, and they really haven't compensated well enough for that since Gen 3... (The slew of mysteries and secret areas in gen 2 and 3 definitely helped those game carry that tone despite the vast stability improvements over the course of them)

[AlteredNova]

Talks about questionable gen 1 game design decisions. Doesn't mention that psychic pokemon were absurdly overpowered because they effectively had no type weaknesses. Lol.

[mwbgaming]

10:27 terrifying childhood memories of running out of AA batteries

[TheMPLR]

"Whoops, you just performed a specific series of events that is very easy to do by accident. Welcome to the Shadow Realm."

[covershopkid]

I think the glitches of the game made the game so mysterious and made it much more fun. Like a hidden story to find in the actual game. These glitches are certainly one of the reason the game became more popular were these types of glitches.

[GiordanDiodato]

I like to think of this as a Bethesda game before Bethesda became popular

[glanni]

Every topic becomes exceedingly creepy if you use the Lavender Town theme in the background.