Behind the Scenes at the First Pokemon Day in 2016 - EP159 Kit & Krysta Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 159 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today we're telling the origin story of the very first Pokemon Day back in 2016. It's incredible that over the last nine years this has grown so much into what we now expect and know as Pokemon Day and of course all the news in Pokemon Presents. It was fun to look back to see how this important day for Pokemon actually came to be and how connected to Nintendo it was in its first few years. Also in this episode, we're playing SO many games that we're excited to tell you about including Monster Hunter Wilds and Avowed. Throughout the episode, we're also sharing some incredible memories from our community about their first encounters with Pokemon. So get comfy and let's get into it!

0:00 - Happy Pokemon Day!
10:23 - The origin story of the first Pokemon Day
57:06 - Games we're playing (Monster Hunter Wilds, Avowed, Like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Inkulinati, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdree, Omega 6)
1:39:36 - News News News (our reaction to the end of the My Nintendo gold points)
1:59:31 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

Patreon shout-outs!
- All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
- Ben Eichorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft and her pig Molly, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Simon, krashuri, Master Discord, Ash, Ajay Kudlass, Fortygig, Travis Torline, EchoLadair, That’sSoOLANELL

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[MrAndypong]

Thanks for reading all our childhood Pokemon stories! In a way, you’ve sort of immortalised them, and it’s fun to share our experiences together

[kitandkrysta]

🗣 Early podcast alert! We'll be back on Thursday with a reaction to Pokemon Presents

[MedalionDS]

Guess who's back.. back again...Kit's back... tell a friend!

[Byleth_]

Recently discovered the channel and have been going back to watch everything on the channel. Really great stuff, I hope it can continue for a long time!

[cosygracegames]

I just have this core memory of visiting California during summer 2016 and people just on their phones all throughout the streets playing Pokémon go, what a time it was~

[PaulGaleNetwork]

All of these Pokémon stories were fun. What a franchise, that impacted the world in such a big way.

Fun podcast!

[shinxvolt]

loved the pikachu plush in the background!!

[RacecarAnimated]

Kit looking very distinguished with that touch of gray on his temples! On his way to becoming a silver fox (kit fox?).

[liljes]

The way you two interact is highly amusing to me

[ggnorekthx]

Diddy Kong Racing is either my favorite kart racer, or just barely below MK8D. It is quite unique and has some light adventure / collecting stuff going on. The soundtrack might be the best one on the N64. You two should definitely try it - it's worth a few hours of your time!

[novicetim]

0:18 WAS THAT A "I'M HERE ON DA SCENE" REFERENCE???? Super appropriate for the subject of the episode lol

[_Just_Another_Guy]

Nice hair Kit! 😍

That story about herding the oversized Pikachu mascots throughout NYC was hilarious! Pikachu was gonna get run over by a yellow New York taxi cab 😂

[Inujake]

"The cab is going to run Pikachu over, that's going to be a different kind of photo-op!" Lol, Can't stop laughing at that!

[DominicanStud]

Nintendo owns 33% of the Pokémon IP and owns 33% of The Pokémon Company. The Pokémon games aren’t going anywhere outside of Nintendo consoles lol

[smartalec]

Inkulinati looks fantastic. So glad you brought this up. Added to my wishlist!

[MellowFelloh]

If it helps convince you to play Avowed at all Krysta, the voice actor for Garrus from Mass Effect is one of the main companion voice actors in it 👀😌

[TheNintendoDScollector]

33:24 i had a realization moment. Just clicked in hearing nintendo minute. Then like a math wizard i put my brain pieces together. Coming to the conclusion that It's sad it just clicked 😅 spent lots of time with you both on my 3ds.

[sirmel]

It's interesting you talk about how you played Pokemon with others. I've never really seen it as an experience like that. I like playing the games by myself.

[Castcoder]

For a é, you hold ALT and then press 1, 3, 0 on the numpad.

Since 1 and 3 are bottom-left and bottom-right of the numpad, then 0, it's easy to become muscle memory.

[TriforceWisdom]

Moon Channel has a good video going in-depth on the history of Nintendo's stake in Creatures Inc and The Pokémon Company. Even if TPC and Game Freak were capable of acquiring Nintendo's shares and leaving, it's extremely unlikely it'd ever happen.