Eternally upset that people got gaslit into thinking that Red and Blue Golbat was ugly and bad. It's genuinely one of, if not my favorite RBY spritework and deserves better
Oh my goodness so happy to see this take. Bats are my favorite animals and I LOVE Golbat’s design here with the cat eyes and gross tongue. Genuinely my favorite R/B/Y sprite alongside old Haunter and Parasect, I wish the design stayed like that!
Ngl I still think it’s kinda ugly personally, but getting some focus on it in this video helped me realize it’s very fun and expressive and deserves praise for that
This is my theory about Sandshrew: it was a really accidental good sprite. It feels like the artists first drew it with darker colors outlining all the light spots, since that's more like the other mons' styles (and even the other Sandshrews), but that became REALLY cluttered and made the eye hard to see, so they removed the outlines. And when they did, they immediately took their hands off the keyboard, coded the sprite into the game, made like 5 backups of it, and refused to change it until they had to. For they had just beheld complete and utter perfection.
i love how all 3 Omastar are dancing. R/B Omastar is in the middle of bustin it down Yellow Omastar is cha cha sliding to the left and R/G Omastar is finishing a dance move with style
1:03:59 Unironically incredibly vindicated with this take, IMO it's the most technically impressive sprite in all of Gen 1 between the shading and implied kinetic motion
As well, it takes perfect advantage of Tentacruel's anatomy (with the multiple tentacles) It's not like this vague beholder or boring squid, no. It is looking down on you with it's arms folded, while also telling you to get on with your work, because to Tentacruel you are its subordinate
@@lordinfernape4753you can refer to them as a he, they don’t really mind. they use all pronouns so you don't need to make too much of a big deal about it.
Honestly, ranking/discussing RBY backsprites would be of significant interest. For all the updates to the full-body sprites, all the way from launch through Yellow, backsprites were _eternal,_ for better or...worse.
I know there’s really nowhere else to put this (unless Big Yellow does a Gen 2 stream), but I wanna gush about one of my favorite sprites: Spaceworld 99 Marowak. Everything about it is utterly amazing, and it’s personally a Perfect tier Pokémon sprite to me. It’s like the POV of the Rocket Grunt who killed Marowak in Gen 1. That Marowak’s child grew up, evolved, and, wearing the skull of its dead mother, is about to beat you to death, and it knows it. It has this look in its eyes like “Yeah, try me motherfucker. Try some bullshit. I’ll bash your skull in if you do. So go on, fuck around and find out.” Imagine staring down a Marowak in GSC OU, after it got a swords dance up, and it’s giving you THAT look. Shit would be terrifying!
Is it just me or does weedle look like tbh creature. I think it's just the eyes and the positioning somewhat but whenever I see that weedle sprite that's always what I associate it with
I never cared about Muk, neither as a pokemon nor as a design, but looking at RB Muk right now isolated from all of my RB playthroughs, is making me appreciate him alot. Muk in RB is the best looking Muk from any generation and is probably my favorite gen 1 design now. I've decided that on my next RB playthrough, I'm gonna use Muk on my team, which would be the very first time I've done so.
I think you can see that many of the designs were more established by Yellow. in Green, Red, and Blue, the games were still the main medium for the designs, but by Yellow the designs had been established by the Anime etc.
I feel so vindicated at RG Clefable and Porygon being as high up as they are especially after RB Clefairy being snubbed from Perfect lol And like this is definitely bias from Porygon being one of my favorite pokemon in general but RB Porygon is such a good sprite to me. It's off model and just a bit derpy in such a charming way
I think the biggest problem with hitmonchan in red/green is that the fists are WAY too big, if you showed me that I wouldn't know what the pokemon itself is supposed to look like outside of part of its face, shoulders, and legs. In blue, you can see more of it's body, so I think that one works better. none of the other pokemon have this big of a problem where something covers up 80% of its body.
banger video, hope there's a followup stream for the gen 2 sprites and deciding which game has the superior ones. Wish they'd kept up that trend past gold and silver
This was such an interesting video. Like Pokémon Yellow feels like it has the superior sprites. The poses are strong, they capture the essence of each Pokemon AND the designs are the definitive/recognizable ones that we still use today. THAT BEING SAID, there is a certain charm to the RGB sprites that you can’t deny.
R/B Omanyte is literally one of my favourite sprites in the game and for that 'mon in any generation. Like all the rest go for a cute sprite, but this one has the hands on hips sass going on. I just love it.
I came here after watching the edited summary video on your main channel. This was a lot of fun. RGB Sprites are a lot like season 1 of a TV Show, where there's a lot of weird stuff that changed after the first season, but with great personality. Yellow sprites I never liked as much although they are on the whole more faithful to how the Pokemon actually look, because it felt like they're less sprites of the Pokemon and more sprites of the anime of the Pokemon, but I've also come to appreciate them more recently. I think you were too kind to Goatse-Golem in RB, and I actually really like the Green version vacuum-head Ekans for how goofy it is.
I have absolutely no idea who this is but I was scrolling through my recommended like, for the love of god show me a video I'm interested in. Then I saw this video title and I went... this is the one.
My beloved Fearow has the same problem as Charizard for me: their necks are utterly _crunched_ to fit into the sprite box. Like damn, just don't give them necks if you're gonna compress them like frickin' Slinkies.
eating fried rice while watching and honestly i love the rby blastoise sprite a lot, and i'm really indifferent to the thing. bro is so boring but the smug face has so much charm
Red and Blue Golbat alongside Red and Green Mew are peak Pokemon sprites. They're hideous, sure. But they're the good kind of hideous that a lot of Pokemon fail to execute correctly
Honestly, you're such a positive person I feel like you would see the positives in "Fire Emblem: Fates" more than the negatives. It might be a flawed game sure, but there's still good things about it and it's unfortunate those things get drowned out.
Just saw the epic Gay Fates part of the stream, Conquest is a banger game. It's got some really good maps and it best uses the mechanics to make an interesting game. Once you've gotten some runs in, you can start doing some super cursed builds for units that can wreck house. Birthright's bad all around though, and Revelations is weird. All stories aren't good, but who really cares at this point. Also Nidoking sweep.
Old Victreebel is not nearly bulbous enough for my taste, when they started doing it much more round on the bottom its design becomes to much better to me
"Why are there so many good fucking poison sprites" maybe because there's so many fucking poison types first hand no (maybe you make the point later on I'm early in)? Anyway great VOD to chill and vibe with, love your stuff!
I have a bone to pick with the scyther one, the yellow sprite make me choose it as my favorite pokemon at the time, whereas in pokemon red and blue i disnt even recognize it right and didnt notice the open mouth so idk yellow scyther is probably my all time favorite sprite in the pokemon series
You putting Haunter in Perfect Tier almost makes up for you not mentioning Haunter in your Gen 1 Sprite appreciation video. _Almost._ (maliciously loads TF2 Sniper)
I always pictured RB Blastoise as a mob boss, like Fat Tony from the Simpsons edit: and 10 seconds after I posted this you said basically the same thing Also, Nidoqueen's face reminds me of a muppet
One of the videos of all time, couldn't stop laughing. I don't know where I am I can't see I can't hear please help oh please God help me I haven't taken my pills help please
RB Electrode just feels wrong with the open mouth rather than a closed one. Electrode should be bearing its teeth clamped shut, like its jaw is clenched from the electricity. y'know?
Eternally upset that people got gaslit into thinking that Red and Blue Golbat was ugly and bad. It's genuinely one of, if not my favorite RBY spritework and deserves better
Oh my goodness so happy to see this take. Bats are my favorite animals and I LOVE Golbat’s design here with the cat eyes and gross tongue. Genuinely my favorite R/B/Y sprite alongside old Haunter and Parasect, I wish the design stayed like that!
he's goofy as hell and i love him
@@Glory2Snowstar Glad to hear it! Haunter and Parasect are some of my favorites too! (Parasect is also my favorite RBY Pokemon as well lol)
It definitely stands out, that's for sure
Ngl I still think it’s kinda ugly personally, but getting some focus on it in this video helped me realize it’s very fun and expressive and deserves praise for that
Gen 1 Machop looks like a hunter took modern Machop and boiled it in water for 3 hours.
This is my theory about Sandshrew: it was a really accidental good sprite.
It feels like the artists first drew it with darker colors outlining all the light spots, since that's more like the other mons' styles (and even the other Sandshrews), but that became REALLY cluttered and made the eye hard to see, so they removed the outlines. And when they did, they immediately took their hands off the keyboard, coded the sprite into the game, made like 5 backups of it, and refused to change it until they had to. For they had just beheld complete and utter perfection.
I didnt even flinch when you sent the entire machamp bloodline into the shadow realm for R/G because they are abominable
i love how all 3 Omastar are dancing.
R/B Omastar is in the middle of bustin it down
Yellow Omastar is cha cha sliding to the left
and R/G Omastar is finishing a dance move with style
So it finished the dance move in the first version of the sprite?
I guess that's something.
@@Cyril86 bros got the schmoovement
Ah yes, Disco Omastar is best Omastar.
@@1111-e4padamant ditto?
ImAStar
I love how in every generation. Golbat's 2D sprite looks like he just went splat into a windshield.
1:03:59 Unironically incredibly vindicated with this take, IMO it's the most technically impressive sprite in all of Gen 1 between the shading and implied kinetic motion
As well, it takes perfect advantage of Tentacruel's anatomy (with the multiple tentacles)
It's not like this vague beholder or boring squid, no.
It is looking down on you with it's arms folded, while also telling you to get on with your work, because to Tentacruel you are its subordinate
I agree that it's probably the best sprite in Red and Blue, but ... doesn't it remind you of Vegeta?
Love a girl who's bold about his opinions and gives Gen 1 Golbat the respect it deserves
Love a guy who isnt lying to herself and gives the Rare Beedril W
Girl?😂
@@lordinfernape4753if i remember correctly big yellow is genderfluid and uses any/all pronouns
@@stagelights_ well his perception of reality isnt necessarily a reality tho
@@lordinfernape4753you can refer to them as a he, they don’t really mind.
they use all pronouns so you don't need to make too much of a big deal about it.
now THIS is content
Honestly, ranking/discussing RBY backsprites would be of significant interest. For all the updates to the full-body sprites, all the way from launch through Yellow, backsprites were _eternal,_ for better or...worse.
Venusaur is just a straight up buffet salad at 3pm
Golduck is in its own tier at the bottom then 😅
Say hello to nidoqueen who literally looks like a cross between a pimply sasquatch and a duck
This is worth like a bunch of days for peak youtube while eating. You're the best big yellow!!
Rampant Golbat apologism into Oddish dismisal was really something.
Oddish is spectacular. Zero notes.
I was mesmerized by oddish as a kid
I think Poliwag and Poliwhirl also look alright.
Late but as a kid Machop reminded me of the Looney Tunes gag where someone gets crushed or slammed into a wall and they come out completely flattened.
I think I'd want a tier that's on the same level as "good but missing something" that'd be "janky but onto something".
Green Charizard definitely goes in there
Stream starts at 2:17
Ranking starts at 8:10
I like that red/green tentacruel shrugs while red/blue tentacool crosses its arms. They should give tentacruel this kind of attitude again
I know there’s really nowhere else to put this (unless Big Yellow does a Gen 2 stream), but I wanna gush about one of my favorite sprites:
Spaceworld 99 Marowak. Everything about it is utterly amazing, and it’s personally a Perfect tier Pokémon sprite to me.
It’s like the POV of the Rocket Grunt who killed Marowak in Gen 1. That Marowak’s child grew up, evolved, and, wearing the skull of its dead mother, is about to beat you to death, and it knows it.
It has this look in its eyes like “Yeah, try me motherfucker. Try some bullshit. I’ll bash your skull in if you do. So go on, fuck around and find out.”
Imagine staring down a Marowak in GSC OU, after it got a swords dance up, and it’s giving you THAT look. Shit would be terrifying!
GameFreak should give Golbat his tongue back!
And let Grimer go "WOOOOOO!!" again!
Party Grimer is best Grimer.
consider the following for Pidgey: it looks like autism creature
I really enjoyed this video. I have never really looked at gen 1 sprites and it was nice to see them compared.
Would be fun to see this for the glitchmons. Like a modern art exhibit
Is it just me or does weedle look like tbh creature. I think it's just the eyes and the positioning somewhat but whenever I see that weedle sprite that's always what I associate it with
*gets a poison with Poison Sting
✨YIPPEE✨
I never cared about Muk, neither as a pokemon nor as a design, but looking at RB Muk right now isolated from all of my RB playthroughs, is making me appreciate him alot. Muk in RB is the best looking Muk from any generation and is probably my favorite gen 1 design now. I've decided that on my next RB playthrough, I'm gonna use Muk on my team, which would be the very first time I've done so.
We DEMAND the back sprite tier list
I think you can see that many of the designs were more established by Yellow. in Green, Red, and Blue, the games were still the main medium for the designs, but by Yellow the designs had been established by the Anime etc.
Yellow's Clefairy is _good,_ but R/B Clefairy is Yellow-tier on-model AND that expressive, it's perfect.
"Diglett Master of bisexuality"
-Big Yellow
If you were a contact in my phone your picture would be your Kadabra pose
Big Yellow giving parasect the respect they deserve? 10/10.
I feel so vindicated at RG Clefable and Porygon being as high up as they are especially after RB Clefairy being snubbed from Perfect lol
And like this is definitely bias from Porygon being one of my favorite pokemon in general but RB Porygon is such a good sprite to me. It's off model and just a bit derpy in such a charming way
I think the biggest problem with hitmonchan in red/green is that the fists are WAY too big, if you showed me that I wouldn't know what the pokemon itself is supposed to look like outside of part of its face, shoulders, and legs. In blue, you can see more of it's body, so I think that one works better. none of the other pokemon have this big of a problem where something covers up 80% of its body.
I just learned of the second impact channel and this video is just what I needed. The brows do look great by the way
18:34 Is that freaking JAZZ JACKRABBIT? IN 2023?
banger video, hope there's a followup stream for the gen 2 sprites and deciding which game has the superior ones. Wish they'd kept up that trend past gold and silver
This was such an interesting video. Like Pokémon Yellow feels like it has the superior sprites. The poses are strong, they capture the essence of each Pokemon AND the designs are the definitive/recognizable ones that we still use today.
THAT BEING SAID, there is a certain charm to the RGB sprites that you can’t deny.
Found your channel recently, love your Pokémon stuff and you have some great humor!
Caught the stream early on, glad to get to finish the second half of this!
R/B Omanyte is literally one of my favourite sprites in the game and for that 'mon in any generation. Like all the rest go for a cute sprite, but this one has the hands on hips sass going on. I just love it.
I came here after watching the edited summary video on your main channel. This was a lot of fun. RGB Sprites are a lot like season 1 of a TV Show, where there's a lot of weird stuff that changed after the first season, but with great personality. Yellow sprites I never liked as much although they are on the whole more faithful to how the Pokemon actually look, because it felt like they're less sprites of the Pokemon and more sprites of the anime of the Pokemon, but I've also come to appreciate them more recently.
I think you were too kind to Goatse-Golem in RB, and I actually really like the Green version vacuum-head Ekans for how goofy it is.
42:24 Wasn't fully paying attention here and thought Diglett was being called the Master of Bisexuality... I can believe it
dugtrio is trisexual dont question it
I have absolutely no idea who this is but I was scrolling through my recommended like, for the love of god show me a video I'm interested in. Then I saw this video title and I went... this is the one.
My beloved Fearow has the same problem as Charizard for me: their necks are utterly _crunched_ to fit into the sprite box. Like damn, just don't give them necks if you're gonna compress them like frickin' Slinkies.
This is such good content, and its also inspired me to do a gen 3 one (for the hoenn pokemon only) making tierlists is kinda agonizing though
I am charmed by Clefable sprites, he looks like a prescription-addled single Midwestern mom
I love the sandslash sprite because he looks like he's looking respectfully
You should do a gen2 sprite ranking
I think kadabra in rb deserves credite for aligning his spoon perfectly with psybeam
Wigglytuff legit frightened me the first time I saw it.
Also I'd like to nominate zapdos for best sprite in the game.
eating fried rice while watching and honestly i love the rby blastoise sprite a lot, and i'm really indifferent to the thing. bro is so boring but the smug face has so much charm
As someone from that era I don’t like small head Mewtwo when this is how he originally looked. He is also perfect in stadium and melee.
Red and Blue Golbat alongside Red and Green Mew are peak Pokemon sprites. They're hideous, sure. But they're the good kind of hideous that a lot of Pokemon fail to execute correctly
6:00, this is the explanation timestamp or the "Let them cook" time
I appreciate the jazz jackrabbit music
25:16 He ate them, thats why its more rotund
Yellow Golbat poses like Icarus falling from grace
What in earth is this bop giving me gender euphoria at 2:01:55?
Kanzuki Beach from Street Fighter V, game has an incredible soundtrack
Tysmm!! And 1:40:10???? 🥺💞🥺💞
Honestly your shuffle is just all around fun✨️
I wish i could dress up good just like my hero big yellow...
I should probably swing by for a twitch stream one day if this is the content I’m missing out on LOL
Now I feel inspired to make my own ranking on these sprites! They're my favorite sprites in the franchise by far
rb golbat IS the best it's ever looked you're so right
big yellow such an alpha they won't even play a beta
Parasect: if a condom had arms
Honestly, you're such a positive person I feel like you would see the positives in "Fire Emblem: Fates" more than the negatives. It might be a flawed game sure, but there's still good things about it and it's unfortunate those things get drowned out.
Wish I could find a template that has all the sprites for RB, G, and Y so I could make a giant list
Awesome sauce dude. Would love to see you do this for gens 2 and 3 ❤
Pokemon yellow exeggutor is one of my favorite sprites of all time!
He just has so much character and nearly looks 3D its so clean
Just saw the epic Gay Fates part of the stream, Conquest is a banger game. It's got some really good maps and it best uses the mechanics to make an interesting game. Once you've gotten some runs in, you can start doing some super cursed builds for units that can wreck house. Birthright's bad all around though, and Revelations is weird. All stories aren't good, but who really cares at this point.
Also Nidoking sweep.
as the guy who suggested gay fates, ya welcome
@@maxlimit9129 thank you for your service
what is that background music at 1:15:00?
My boi parasect finally getting some respect, he looks badass in gen 1
I was today years old when I realized Nidoran is a frigging jackalope.
I think "odd, yet charming" would be a good category for this
Here from 2024, one year remaining until we get the RBY back sprite review
RB Machop looks so fucking funny that I can't help but love it.
R/B Pidgeot is perfect tier though, I think it looks awesome
I don't care about fat pikachu, I just want RG fluffy gengar back :(
Fun video but i must ask does the actual pokemon design impact the teiring? Like seal and dewgong for instance
Nope, lickitung would not have been s tier
You should do a stream where you open up aseprite and do your own versions of the gen 1 Pokémon.
squirtle was always my first choice based on how cute he is/was. agree with the list for the most part, but i personally like slowbro
Old Victreebel is not nearly bulbous enough for my taste, when they started doing it much more round on the bottom its design becomes to much better to me
Watching this vod on my birthday, i feel seen 😻
I’m sad I missed this but please let it be known that you should drink water :(
you gonna do back sprites?
i need yellow to start a rant channel and use the RB and RG tentacruels as the two positions of their talk sprite
i love red and green poliwrath, they look like they're from an old manga
Krabby looks like an early dragon quest enemy
The Pokémon Yellow sprites are a massive improvement over the ones in Red and Blue
tentacruel’s gen 1 sprite is the basis for DJ Octavio from splatoon
source: i made it the frick up
Dunno why but the spearow sprite gave me vibes of murkrow
"Why are there so many good fucking poison sprites" maybe because there's so many fucking poison types first hand no (maybe you make the point later on I'm early in)? Anyway great VOD to chill and vibe with, love your stuff!
Damn, they got some good shit in Ireland.
I have a bone to pick with the scyther one, the yellow sprite make me choose it as my favorite pokemon at the time, whereas in pokemon red and blue i disnt even recognize it right and didnt notice the open mouth so idk yellow scyther is probably my all time favorite sprite in the pokemon series
You putting Haunter in Perfect Tier almost makes up for you not mentioning Haunter in your Gen 1 Sprite appreciation video.
_Almost._ (maliciously loads TF2 Sniper)
I always pictured RB Blastoise as a mob boss, like Fat Tony from the Simpsons
edit: and 10 seconds after I posted this you said basically the same thing
Also, Nidoqueen's face reminds me of a muppet
One of the videos of all time, couldn't stop laughing. I don't know where I am I can't see I can't hear please help oh please God help me I haven't taken my pills help please
1:12:33
big yellow plays puyo??? you love to see it...
For the algorithm!
Porygon and haunter sprites*chefs kiss
RB Grimer is a pogchamp emote waiting to happen
RB Electrode just feels wrong with the open mouth rather than a closed one. Electrode should be bearing its teeth clamped shut, like its jaw is clenched from the electricity. y'know?
Machoke looks like a Battletoad. :)
Yellow's Wartortle is doing the mr beast pose
Yellow charizard looks like he just ate and is full