Which was the most badass oldschool Pokemon game?

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YELLOW was the first pokemon game i had.

3 votes so far. Red was the first one I had.

I got yellow first.
So.
Now that I'm somewhat making games, I have a question.

How is missingno possible?
He'd half to pre-exist in the database right?
I don't see how talking to the trainer dude, flying to cinnebar island and moving up and down on the right side of the island makes a jacked up pokemon.

Everyone in town had red. I was lucky enough to get blue. I was the one they selected to be the unpopular kid at the time, so I missed out on trading and stuff. :\

yellow the way the yellow lad followed you around was a nice touch

yellow was the best, not only cuz I like pikachu but because it had that "friend" element that the other games lack.  Pikachu follows you around and reacts differently to the situation...I miss that.  True the variety of starters in the others was nice but only having Pikachu made it a bit more fun to play, since you needed to build up a good team before really doing anything, making it a bit more engaging and personal.  The others...you could just go ahead with bulbasaur or squirtle right through the first 2-3 gyms with hardly any other pokemon. Also in yellow you could get a few more pokemon than in the others, and for me that was better because by the time I actually got the games no one was really into them anymore and had sold theirs or lost them, so no one to trade with.  Also the color-change for the different towns, that was a nice touch at the time.

Also Pikachu rocks.  if I could choose any Pokemon to bring to life I'd choose pika.  Mew is in second place, Articuno in third. 

Yellow, hands down.

yellow the way the yellow lad followed you around was a nice touch

You mean pikiachu, and red version.

True the variety of starters in the others was nice but only having Pikachu made it a bit more fun to play, since you needed to build up a good team before really doing anything, making it a bit more engaging and personal.  The others...you could just go ahead with bulbasaur or squirtle right through the first 2-3 gyms with hardly any other pokemon.

ur bad at pokemon

Blue, cuz i liek blue

How is missingno possible?
He'd half to pre-exist in the database right?
I don't see how talking to the trainer dude, flying to cinnebar island and moving up and down on the right side of the island makes a jacked up pokemon.

Spoiler for Taken from Bulpapedia:

Missingno. is the Glitch Pokémon that appears after viewing the Old Man's tutorial in Viridian City on how to catch Pokémon, then immediately Flying to Cinnabar Island and Surfing along the right hand side of the island until one is encountered, without visiting any other areas.

Whenever the game "sets up" the planned battle against the Old Man's Weedle, it needs to change the player's character name to "OLD MAN" so that it will display "OLD MAN" instead of the name the player has entered.

The programmers decided to use the area of data where wild Pokémon information is as a temporary storage area for the player's name, due to the lack of memory on a Game Boy. Normally this wouldn't cause any abnormal activity, as the correct data for the wild Pokémon available is written to this area in memory whenever the player travels to an area where it is possible to catch wild Pokémon.

Along Cinnabar Island's coast, however, there is no data indicating which wild Pokémon are catchable, and the same is true for both Viridian City and Cinnabar Island itself, at least by movement in long grass. The game uses whatever data was already in the corresponding area of data when determining which wild Pokémon encountered and their levels-- now the player's name. Normally this space in memory would hold the data of the last area visited where wild Pokémon were catchable in grass and their level data (this same glitch allows players to exit the Safari Zone and Fly immediately to Cinnabar Island to be able to catch and fight Safari Zone Pokémon in the same way as they would in other areas), however, since in both Viridian City and Cinnabar Island the data is empty for Pokémon obtainable in the grass, the active data is never overwritten, leading to Missingno.'s. availability, among other things.

The name of the player has six hexadecimal values in it. The game needs only three "slots" of wild Pokémon data to store this.

The wild Pokémon the player encounters along the coast are determined by the third, fifth, and seventh characters of the player's name, while the levels are determined by the second, fourth, and sixth characters, respectively. By knowing which letters and symbols match which breeds and numbers, through use of certain calculators and charts [2], it is possible to set your player name at the start of the game depending on which Pokémon you wish to find, and at which levels.

Never played any but blue, which is good.
Emulated it.

Blue, cuz i liek blue

How is missingno possible?
He'd half to pre-exist in the database right?
I don't see how talking to the trainer dude, flying to cinnebar island and moving up and down on the right side of the island makes a jacked up pokemon.

Spoiler for Taken from Bulpapedia:

Missingno. is the Glitch Pokémon that appears after viewing the Old Man's tutorial in Viridian City on how to catch Pokémon, then immediately Flying to Cinnabar Island and Surfing along the right hand side of the island until one is encountered, without visiting any other areas.

Whenever the game "sets up" the planned battle against the Old Man's Weedle, it needs to change the player's character name to "OLD MAN" so that it will display "OLD MAN" instead of the name the player has entered.

The programmers decided to use the area of data where wild Pokémon information is as a temporary storage area for the player's name, due to the lack of memory on a Game Boy. Normally this wouldn't cause any abnormal activity, as the correct data for the wild Pokémon available is written to this area in memory whenever the player travels to an area where it is possible to catch wild Pokémon.

Along Cinnabar Island's coast, however, there is no data indicating which wild Pokémon are catchable, and the same is true for both Viridian City and Cinnabar Island itself, at least by movement in long grass. The game uses whatever data was already in the corresponding area of data when determining which wild Pokémon encountered and their levels-- now the player's name. Normally this space in memory would hold the data of the last area visited where wild Pokémon were catchable in grass and their level data (this same glitch allows players to exit the Safari Zone and Fly immediately to Cinnabar Island to be able to catch and fight Safari Zone Pokémon in the same way as they would in other areas), however, since in both Viridian City and Cinnabar Island the data is empty for Pokémon obtainable in the grass, the active data is never overwritten, leading to Missingno.'s. availability, among other things.

The name of the player has six hexadecimal values in it. The game needs only three "slots" of wild Pokémon data to store this.

The wild Pokémon the player encounters along the coast are determined by the third, fifth, and seventh characters of the player's name, while the levels are determined by the second, fourth, and sixth characters, respectively. By knowing which letters and symbols match which breeds and numbers, through use of certain calculators and charts [2], it is possible to set your player name at the start of the game depending on which Pokémon you wish to find, and at which levels.

Thank you Zephyr, I always wondered how it worked, and I understand now.
So wouldn't that mean that missingno. was purposely put in the database?
(Seeing how his name is conveniently stands for missingnumber.)
If the players name determines which pokemon and what level they are at.

Also, I tried loading him to pokemon stadium once.
Didn't work, but he popped out as that Blue Thing that will
take damage for your pokemon when you use a certain skill. (I forgot)

True the variety of starters in the others was nice but only having Pikachu made it a bit more fun to play, since you needed to build up a good team before really doing anything, making it a bit more engaging and personal.  The others...you could just go ahead with bulbasaur or squirtle right through the first 2-3 gyms with hardly any other pokemon.

ur bad at pokemon

how so?  my first time playing through any pokemon game I only whited out once...it was against a poison trainer that I wasn't ready for (I was training low-level pokemon on cycle road and he spotted me as I tried to edge around him; Pikachu was already low on health)  I should've taken him out beforehand but I had forgotten about him at the moment.

@arkbennett--do you mean wobbuffet? or substitute?

I voted red, but Silver was the best.

True the variety of starters in the others was nice but only having Pikachu made it a bit more fun to play, since you needed to build up a good team before really doing anything, making it a bit more engaging and personal.  The others...you could just go ahead with bulbasaur or squirtle right through the first 2-3 gyms with hardly any other pokemon.

ur bad at pokemon

how so?  my first time playing through any pokemon game I only whited out once...it was against a poison trainer that I wasn't ready for (I was training low-level pokemon on cycle road and he spotted me as I tried to edge around him; Pikachu was already low on health)  I should've taken him out beforehand but I had forgotten about him at the moment.

@arkbennett--do you mean wobbuffet? or substitute?

Substitute.
But I went ahead and went to http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki.
Answered my questions.
Also makes me wanna play a pokemon game.

Thank you Zephyr, I always wondered how it worked, and I understand now.
So wouldn't that mean that missingno. was purposely put in the database?
(Seeing how his name is conveniently stands for missingnumber.)
If the players name determines which pokemon and what level they are at.

I figure the wild pokemon are chosen by their number. aka, 003 would produce Venusaur, 006 would produce Charizard, etc. So if a number was generated by the name of your character that didn't fit in the 1-151 range, it would reset itself to 000 and produce a message MISSINGNO. It doesn't necessarily mean it was planned, it just means that the game couldn't find a pokemon to fit the number you generated, and it tells you that. I'm not 100% sure about this but it makes sense (to me at least.)

@arkbennett

I haven't really seen missingno in the game, but if that's his in-game name it was probably put in there in case of a glitch.  So technically he might be in the database in case of an error or something...but if his name is ? then it's a sprite glitch.

I remember this one glitch called "Glitch City"... I don't remember the whole thing but the gist of it is:  you go into the safari zone, do not take a step instead save, go back in, say no, go back out, fly to cinnabar, and the entire island turns into a green glitch city.  Pikachu doesn't follow you--it's more like a house of mirrors: pikachu will pop up in different places and walk in random directions and disappear udner tiles.  You can still surf and everything...  I think that's the glitch, I found it online and tried it.  Didn't do anything to my game but I didn't save there.

I had every single old pokemon game. Cept silver....But yeah Red and Blue were the first two i got, and i liked the glitch but yellow was more fun because you could get all three starter pokemon.

so true.  Yellow was better for people (like me) that didn't have many others to trade with, whereas Red and Blue required quite a bit of trading to get a full pokedex.  Though before I had to give yellow back to my friend I never got to test the mew glitch...I've always wanted Mew so badly in those games.

I like crystal but I hate how there's no point to Kanto other than the badges and a few new pokemon...the Museum's closed, the Safari Zone is closed...it was such a letdown, especially the safari zone.  I found that place pretty cool in yellow when I first played.  And there's no point in the other places like the Kanto radio tower or the power plant...or seafoam islands, or unkown cave...BTW is there really an item called wardensglasses in G/S/C to open the safari zone?  I heard the old man in...where is it...goldenrod or something...the town with the casino and radio tower, the old man wandering around near bill's house is the safari warden on vacation.  Is that true?

@arkbennett

I haven't really seen missingno in the game, but if that's his in-game name it was probably put in there in case of a glitch.  So technically he might be in the database in case of an error or something...but if his name is ? then it's a sprite glitch.

I remember this one glitch called "Glitch City"... I don't remember the whole thing but the gist of it is:  you go into the safari zone, do not take a step instead save, go back in, say no, go back out, fly to cinnabar, and the entire island turns into a green glitch city.  Pikachu doesn't follow you--it's more like a house of mirrors: pikachu will pop up in different places and walk in random directions and disappear udner tiles.  You can still surf and everything...  I think that's the glitch, I found it online and tried it.  Didn't do anything to my game but I didn't save there.

No, I read up on the bulba wiki.
There are like, 22 missingno.
It was done on purpose, just getting it wasn't done on purpose.
Also, there is some generator on the bulbawiki site, that allows you
to catch whatever pokemon you want by your players name on Red/Blue when you do the missingno cheat.
I think you can capture Rockets and Gary and the other trainers.
Either that, or they just enter a pokemon battle with you.

BTW is there really an item called wardensglasses in G/S/C to open the safari zone?  I heard the old man in...where is it...goldenrod or something...the town with the casino and radio tower, the old man wandering around near bill's house is the safari warden on vacation.  Is that true?

No, no way to get on the safari zone. When I looked up glitch city, they said it couldn't be done in Crystal, Gold, Silver because no access to it.

glitch city is only yellow, and possibly red and blue.

To answer Missingno, it does not exist. I have tried on all three original Pokemon games "Red, Yellow and Blue" to no avail. Unless I'm doing something wrong, it does not work, I have tried at least four or more ways to get Missingno, none worked, including the one posted in this thread.

To answer Missingno, it does not exist. I have tried on all three original Pokemon games "Red, Yellow and Blue" to no avail. Unless I'm doing something wrong, it does not work, I have tried at least four or more ways to get Missingno, none worked, including the one posted in this thread.

If I can find my red version and my gba, I'll take a picture of it.
It works, trust me.

I've seen it also, it does work.  So does the pokemon duplication in gold, which also duplicates items the pokemon is holding.  Rare candy=HAX.

I've seen it also, it does work.  So does the pokemon duplication in gold, which also duplicates items the pokemon is holding.  Rare candy=HAX.

Yeah, my party in Silver were my two best pokemon, pimped up with great attacks...god, I love that game!

I caught a missing no in my game. The trick never worked again for me.

I caught a missing no in my game. The trick never worked again for me.

I had to restart after the second or so day I caught glitch pokemon like a level 170 Golbat and Missingno.

True the variety of starters in the others was nice but only having Pikachu made it a bit more fun to play, since you needed to build up a good team before really doing anything, making it a bit more engaging and personal.  The others...you could just go ahead with bulbasaur or squirtle right through the first 2-3 gyms with hardly any other pokemon.

ur bad at pokemon

how so?  my first time playing through any pokemon game I only whited out once...it was against a poison trainer that I wasn't ready for (I was training low-level pokemon on cycle road and he spotted me as I tried to edge around him; Pikachu was already low on health)  I should've taken him out beforehand but I had forgotten about him at the moment.

@arkbennett--do you mean wobbuffet? or substitute?

The purpose of Pokemon is to catch them all, not rush through gyms with one pokemon. And it is just as easy going through the first few gyms (the whole game, probably) with a single pokemon in Yellow as it is in Blue/Red.

Probably easier.

@chewey
you call that being bad in a game?  When I've gotten as far as I can in a game and I restart it after a while, I just go through it and not try to do much.  For me it was harder in yellow to just run through as fast as I could, but that's probably the way I play; every trainer has their own style, therefore different things happen.


I remembered last night that I left something out of the Glitch City glitch: After flying to Cinnabar you have to surf along that eastern shore, same as with Missingno, but this time the glitch isn't a pokemon.  You're counting down steps like in the safari zone (since flying out after saying "no" apparently sets the countdown for anywhere you go).  When you're "time" is up you'll hear the Ding-Dong and be taken back to the Safari Zone, but from there everything's messed up.

And on the missingno topic, I believe there are a few vids on YouTube, I was gonna post them last night but I was having too much fun finally getting to play my GameCube via my computer. 

(stupid) Question: would a pokemon yellow ROM have the same glitches as the game?  (well duh, probably yeah)

(stupid) Question: would a pokemon yellow ROM have the same glitches as the game?  (well duh, probably yeah)

Yeah, unless, like someone modded the rom. (which would probably be hard...very...?)

@chewey
you call that being bad in a game?

No. I call being bad at a game.

I never tried to catch them all... most times I would get 20 - 25

lol after my first play-through and getting pretty much all that could be gotten in Yellow my maximum count for catches after that was...I think 45.  I only caught the ones I liked.

lawl bad at pokemans

I used to play Red when I was 12, and played Silver and Gold on Japanese on my GB room.

I had all pokemons on Red exept Mew and Missingno. But I liked yellow. Don't play pokemon at all anymore, since I think Im to old to play them.

whatever, chewey, think what you want but i'm not bad at pokemon.  I play how I want.  That's all. 


I heard somewhere online that, in Yellow, talking to the old man that starts the missingno glitch and then going into Mewtwo's cave, without running into any pokemon, either gets you Yoshi or a skeletal version of Mewtwo when you fight him...I don't think it's true but is it?

I caught a missing no in my game. The trick never worked again for me.

I had to restart after the second or so day I caught glitch pokemon like a level 170 Golbat and Missingno.

for me it was 200 snorlax and weezings oh i found a charzard once

That bug destroyed all challenge in Pokemon

Hmm i had a level 256 rydon, so the different names, turn it into different Pokemon due to the hexadecimal system. also i caught like 20 missingo's, my games wrecked.

i gotta get myself yellow again...

Just to clarify, Missingno does NOT work in Yellow version?

Somehow, I own all of those games, right now. I just can't find them

I don't see why people would play the new pokemon games. Yeah they are good games but that number of pokemon is ridiculous. I stopped after Crystal and I am glad I never went back.

But; a little more on topic

The answer is RED.

RED AND ONLY RED.

That and all the fake ones like Hot Pink and Black.

Silver Version and Leaf Green are my favorites.

Anyone who believes in more then 150 pokemon FAIL.

Well I started out with red, and to be honest ... I don't recall blue and red being any different...
I didn't like yellow for that pikachu thing though.. (he was annoying)
So I'll go with blue, because blue= good obviously...

Anyone who believes in more then 150 pokemon FAIL.

some of the  new ones the should have thought of b4 but some are the stupidest

I agree.  I like some of the new ones but most of them...they could've done without.

i think the question here is, DO  YOU LIEKK MUDKIPZ

I agree.  I like some of the new ones but most of them...they could've done without.

I agree.

i think the question here is, DO  YOU LIEKK MUDKIPZ

Actually, Mudkip is one of the few pokemon I like from Hoen.

i think the question here is, DO  YOU LIEKK MUDKIPZ

No.  Torchic is awesome.  I like ice pokemon better though.  Pikachu's my top favorite though.

I tried going through a game with mudkip...might be because I like martial arts better but I found Blaziken to be the best.  Swampert...just didn't work.  Blaziken can do super-effectives against all three Regis, that came in very handy.

I only liked very few of the Hoenn pokemon...Torchic, Latios/as, Rayquaza, Groudon, and...oh what was...a few others.  Not many. 

...Did no one notice that Bluexx just posted here, outside of Sword and now myself?

...Did no one notice that Bluexx just posted here, outside of Sword and now myself?

I noticed, I was wondering why he was back, I thought he like left, then I wondered even more why he has EA.

Because he used to be awesome, duh.

Also, Red Version ftw

Because he used to be awesome, duh.

For some reason, I can't imagine that...

it was before your time youngling

I feel inclined to tell the tale of the Japanese only green version. Yep, it really exists.

Let me explain some old history... the very first pokemon game to come out was green version. It was in Japan only, and was only available through a special mail order. That game turned out to do alright, so they decided to re-release it as blue version, with many graphics changed, as well as a few other things. blue version became a hit, so they produced red, and sent that one overseas as well, and then yellow version, because of the fans all saying that the games need to be more based off of the television show.

Now let me explain the game color code. You'll notice that in pokemon red version, (if you play it off of a GBC or GBA, but not a regular GB), you'll notice that the little guy on the screen is green, and the background is red.

In pokemon blue version, the little guy you control is red, and the background is blue.

Finally, in pokemon green version, the little guy you control is blue, and the background is green.

So while Blue was just a revamped edition of green, it did have links to it that would suggest that the games are meant to be taken separately.

Interesting, right? I have pokemon green version right here, and some of the pokemon images have them in different poses and stuff than in blue.

But I still voted Blue. Yep, good old. Blue.

I feel inclined to tell the tale of the Japanese only green version. Yep, it really exists.

Let me explain some old history... the very first pokemon game to come out was green version. It was in Japan only, and was only available through a special mail order. That game turned out to do alright, so they decided to re-release it as blue version, with many graphics changed, as well as a few other things. blue version became a hit, so they produced red, and sent that one overseas as well, and then yellow version, because of the fans all saying that the games need to be more based off of the television show.

Now let me explain the game color code. You'll notice that in pokemon red version, (if you play it off of a GBC or GBA, but not a regular GB), you'll notice that the little guy on the screen is green, and the background is red.

In pokemon blue version, the little guy you control is red, and the background is blue.

Finally, in pokemon green version, the little guy you control is blue, and the background is green.

So while Blue was just a revamped edition of green, it did have links to it that would suggest that the games are meant to be taken separately.

Interesting, right? I have pokemon green version right here, and some of the pokemon images have them in different poses and stuff than in blue.

But I still voted Blue. Yep, good old. Blue.

But don't GB's have color palettes that are adjustable and change the color? I think I read that on wikipedia. @.@

True, but the color thing for the 3 versions only works on a gameboy color or gameboy advance

I feel inclined to tell the tale of the Japanese only green version. Yep, it really exists.

Let me explain some old history... the very first pokemon game to come out was green version. It was in Japan only, and was only available through a special mail order. That game turned out to do alright, so they decided to re-release it as blue version, with many graphics changed, as well as a few other things. blue version became a hit, so they produced red, and sent that one overseas as well, and then yellow version, because of the fans all saying that the games need to be more based off of the television show.

Now let me explain the game color code. You'll notice that in pokemon red version, (if you play it off of a GBC or GBA, but not a regular GB), you'll notice that the little guy on the screen is green, and the background is red.

In pokemon blue version, the little guy you control is red, and the background is blue.

Finally, in pokemon green version, the little guy you control is blue, and the background is green.

So while Blue was just a revamped edition of green, it did have links to it that would suggest that the games are meant to be taken separately.

Interesting, right? I have pokemon green version right here, and some of the pokemon images have them in different poses and stuff than in blue.

But I still voted Blue. Yep, good old. Blue.

A lot of people have played green I should think.
I did. You can get it via emulator.
Which reminds me, does anybody know where to get Ruby and Fire Red via Emulator?
I'm searched almost everywhere.

I feel inclined to tell the tale of the Japanese only green version. Yep, it really exists.

Captain obvious  , I thought everyone knew that?

A lot of people have played green I should think.
I did. You can get it via emulator.
Which reminds me, does anybody know where to get Ruby and Fire Red via Emulator?
I'm searched almost everywhere.

http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,19360.0.html
check for fire red

A lot of people have played green I should think.
I did. You can get it via emulator.
Which reminds me, does anybody know where to get Ruby and Fire Red via Emulator?
I'm searched almost everywhere.

http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,19360.0.html
check for fire red

Got a 404.
Every site I go to either leads me to a vote to get in that doesn't work properly.
Has an insane amount of pop-ups, and even keeps going to a different part of the site.
404
Or they just took down the ROM for "legal" reasons.

Okay, get firefox, get adblockplus, then got to dohgames.com

If you're too lazy to get firefox and abp, got to emurussia. both of those sites rock, I use them regularly.

Okay, get firefox, get adblockplus, then got to dohgames.com

If you're too lazy to get firefox and abp, got to emurussia. both of those sites rock, I use them regularly.

See, I did go to do games.
And when I downloaded them, they didn't work.
And it wasn't the emulator, I used VisualBoy.
Nor my computer, I've played a game on VisualBoy before.

hmmmm...wonder if tezuka knows what's up with the links I linked to...

Okay, get firefox, get adblockplus, then got to dohgames.com

If you're too lazy to get firefox and abp, got to emurussia. both of those sites rock, I use them regularly.

emurussia B)

By far my favorite rom site. Direct downloads, no bullshit.