Beating Pokemon Red & Blue How Nintendo Intended

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Owned a couple of the guides when I was a kid wish I had all my Pokemon stuff from when I was a kid. Good times it was magical playing Pokemon red and yellow back then.

I've watched half this guy's videos and I'm still not sure if I like them or not.

The recommended lv 25 for misty was "a bit high" because you misunderstood the guide. The recommendation was for being that high level if fighting her without electric or grass types.

I had this strategy guide when I was around 8 (I’m 32 now) and hearing you read it is bringing back so many memories I totally forgot about. Thanks you for the video

Did anybody else start at Pokemon Red and blue, then skip all the way until Pokemon go, where you then proceeded to catch only the Kanto pokemon?

Wait - if a super ball is a great ball... then is the super rod the same as the great rod???

Never understood why blue had a cheaper polygon

No your mom references… not happy

They didn't tip the pages out. It fell apart. I did the same thing to six of my guides growing up.

When I was 8 years old I had Pokemon Blue and couldn't figure out how to get out of my bedroom at the very beginning xD
My 6 year old brother had to show me

I guess the author meant that you just battled your rival at Pokèmon Tower and you fight him again as Sliph Co soon after. So I think it’s meant to be like I battled you like 10 minutes ago bro

Wish I'd put mine in a binder, a lot of it is ruined now

The best guides for old school Pokemon I've found were the "Versus Books" Strategy guides. They not only show each trainer's pokemon, they even show every route's wild pokemon with percentages of how often they show up. I've always likes percentages over Japan's fixation on X, Triangle, Circle, and Circle with smaller circle for rarity.

the gym badges have an effect on your pokemon. talk to one of the guys living near the cerulean gym and he will tell you what each badge does

did i understand this correctly that the writer got the original japanese versions to play? that would probably explain why he uses very strange words sometimes that the games do not

As much as I Love these style videos. You’re the reason why the guides are soo expensive now. I bought mine JUST before your first guide video came out and mannnn I was so glad. I’m only missing RB/Y and G/S/C but I have the rest (:

speaking of giovanni, what if game freak was subtly hinting to silvers existence and the fact giovannis his dad with kangaskhan you know, the PARENT POKEMON?

Celadon city was always my favorite city to be at the most. God I played this game so much to the point that the game literally died due to me playing it obsessively.

This brought back so many memories of my childhood

You could have evolved your Pikachu too

Zapdos

You could catch a Voltorb right outside rock tunnel teach it flash instead of Pikachu

I can only speak for myself, but I pretty much always take on Sabrina before Koga.

Playing Pokemon Red (watched the show and played TCG but never the video game, figured I'd start at the start) and I seriously have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

Same guide I had!

Instructions unclear: hammered at like button and now commenting from computer since phone is ... "hammered"

I guarantee the reason it was in a binder is because the glue holding the pages together dried out or was put on too thin. I had the exact same issue with my GS guide.

That magicarp is a great deal if you need a water type. You have all of mt moon and cerulean city to level it to 20 to eveolce

In early games, defeating gym leaders improved your Pokemon's stats. When defeating Blaine in Gen 1, your special stat increases (the combined special attack and defense stat in gen 1)

The guide mentioning defeating blane increases there special is referring to the badge boosting special stat. love this series!

Your commentary on the guide book cracks me up sometimes

You should always catch a fearow at the start to trade for that farfech'd, as it is a superior HM-mon.

I kind of wish I was born when pokemon red and blue were relevant, I was born more into the gen 4 era so while I absolutely love these games, I can never quite appreciate gen 1 since it just seems to lack in content, my favourite games today though are the gen 5 games, they have so much nostalgia for me since those were the first I actually finished

God, take me back to 1998!
I remember walking through Walmart as a 10 year old boy. Looking in the game display case and seeing a gameboy game with “ A red dragon and a Snapping Turtle with giant bazookas on it!”- as we called it back then.

When I first played Firered as a kid I only trained my Charmander and refused to train anything else till I got to the 3rd gym and couldn't beat LT Surge. I just didn't have the patience to raise other pokemon.

Thank you this was very helpful love these guide videos

Nintendo can go to hell.

Pokemon is great, though.

That cool wonder if I could get one like that at a good price

I remember stomping the Elite Four with my level 100 Venusaur. Good times.

The thing is, Brock's Pokémon have such bad Special that even with Fire being NVE, Charmander is still one of your better choices. In Red and Blue, where Nidoran still didn't learn Double Kick until the end of its move list, your only real option other than Charmander was Butterfree, hence the mention of Bug-types (and Brock wouldn't actually get any Rock moves until the remakes...though Rock Slide was TM-only and Rock Throw was trash, so it's not like there were any good options.

I also didn't even realize until I started watching challenge runs recently that the grunt in front of Silph Co. leaves as soon as you get the Poké Flute from Lavender Tower. Growing up, I always thought that the trigger was entering Fuchsia City, to the point that I think one time when I actually wanted to do Saffron first, I biked down Cycling Road and then the moment I got into Fuchsia, I flew to Saffron.

The fact that a location-based trigger would be implemented in GSC, namely with clearing the blockage south of Fuchsia City, only reinforced in my mind that you had to visit Fuchsia City, even if just for the first step it took to set it as a Fly location, before you could enter Silph.

So many memories, I have Pokémon Red on my old 3DS (I can only play it plugged in as the board got messed up) and am thinking about getting it on my new 3DS I got recently, as the eShop is closing soon and it could be (hoping not) the last chance to replay it…

Skill machine might be a TM

The games launched the same day the English dub did.

Use bug and ghost against Sabrina...... both those are weak to psychic. I guess not having the guide and learning to play by grinding was the superior method. Lmao

Thess videos are literally the coolest

Its blue oak

I remember the Giovanni reveal! I was six and remember concluding that team rocket must be the mafia

"Hidden Skills" refers to HMs. So basically, they're bragging about the fact that Charizard can learn Cut and Fly.