Nintendo 101 - The History of Pokemon Gold/Silver!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Well, this is it guys! Over 40 hours of work went into this one. Sorry I left breeding out. If enough people want it covered, I'll make a separate short vid for it! BE SURE TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WANT NINTENDO 101 TO CONTINUE! :)
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Man, I played Silver so many times. It's still my favorite. It had everything; new pokemon, types, moves, evolutions, re-exploring the ENTIRETY of Kanto... It was just so good.
Are we all going to ignore that diglett used fly?
lmao
EndMySuffering Eh not as bas because Doduo is actually a flying type.
Naw, that's pretty normal... he's playing Pokemon Stadium.
You forgot to talk about the bonus fight with RED and his overpowered Pokemon.
It was no spoilers
+kimoch :P SomecallmeJohnny: LIES!!! F***ING LIES!!!!
Having quite a nostalgia-trip right now, so i watch all the old video of yours.
Its such a pleasure, brings me right back to calmer times. I really, really hope you are doing well, Wallid.
Best wishes from germany, Stefan =)
You did pretty well but it made me angry you left out so much stuff.
-Introducing Red Gyrados, The first ever planned shiny encounter
-Unknown ruins
-The hunt for suicune, unlike the other 2 dogs
-How ???, Your rival, is the believed son of Giovanni.
rare funke
Glad you included the ending song of Gold/Silver/Crystal in this video lol. The nostalgia came flooding back with that song.
The reason for the lack of side quests and the general barren nature of kanto is memory limitations, not lack of effort - they simply couldn't fit everything they wanted to onto a game boy colour cart, so something had to be cut back, and it was the postgame that was on the receiving end of the cutting.
Darcy Scott Yeah, from what I heard, they only planned on having the Johto region, but that genius programmer iawata made some compression tools to fit kanto in there. So bottom line: we're lucky we even got Kanto. What other versions have 2 regions?
My favourite Pokemon game is Gold, so when they made HeartGold I got really excited :)
Oh the nostalgia!
Gold & Silver = Best Post Game to date.
B2/W2 is arguably better post-game wise.
BW2 are the worst!
what is BW?
ScoobWRX04 black and white
KeldeoSecret93 (ジョン) What about the remakes?
Just randomly thought about your channel for the first time in like 10 years idk. Haha, I loved your videos back in the day! I'm hopping you doing alright! Greetings from germany.
The Rival in this game has a backstory, it's just unfortunately not mentioned in the game. He's Giovanni's son.
Its mentioned in the remakes
The only problem that I have with the original Gold/Silver is that the battery that powers the time clock also powers the save data for your game. So when the battery runs out, you lose all of your data. I lost all my Pokemon and my more than 700 hours of play just because they couldn't figure out how to make the memory a separate entity. But I still love the game more than anything :3
It's such a strange feeling to be playing HeartGold while watching the history of the original.
Balrog, this is seriously your best series. You provide a ton of interesting information in an entertaining way. I can't think of any other informational video series with videos this long that is able to keep me actively engaged and paying attention the entire way through. I never feel bored or like some parts are too slow or fast. Plus, you add in some fun little jokes and stuff. This series is worth all of the time you put into it.
How the hell is a disbanded group of villains cutting off slowpoke tails and selling them on the black market not memorable?? Dude wtf
This was one of the most informative videos I've ever watched on Pokemon. I truly enjoyed it.
It blows my mind the fact they weren't actually planning on making any games after Crystal.
As good as Pokemon is... I sometimes wish they never went on with it. They had made so many classics beforehand, but now all they do is Pokemon...
New Age Retro Sans Said no one ever.
TheAwesomeDarkNinja yeag
Yeah, my brother just fixed his Gold Version and I just fixed my Silver Version just so we could get our original dream team and fight each other.
I used to watch this back in high school
Same here man, good times
oh man you never even mentioned shiny pokemon versions and breeding. I remember getting a feraligator in the second done and traded over my original charizard from red and bred them together to get a badass new charmander that had moves he couldnt have gotten without the breeding process.
I would have loved this game at the fullest if I COULD FUCKING SAVE!!
all you have to do is replace the internal battery to get it to save, I fixed my gold version and it works just fine.
I didn't have a battery plus I was broke at the time
You can install a new battery inside the cartridge. There are youtube tutorials that show you how to do so. I followed one with a nifty trick to create a screwdriver from a bic pen to unscrew the cartridge-- and fixed my dead Silver cartridge!
Team Rocket was cutting Slowpoke tails to make money. One of those sells for $1,000,000.
in gold version, kanto broke my heart. Seeing all the places I loved destroyed was kind of tough. Mewtwo's cave was destroyed, the forest was cut down, cinabar island blew up, and the pokemon tower was turned into a radio tower.
Easy to plow through? You sir never fought Champion Red!
With regards to kanto being stripped back - that's because space limitations on the game. when it was first finished, they'd just about squeezed johto on to the cart. satoro iwata single handedly made enough space to fit kanto on, but i guess he couldn't fit it all.
I was in 4th grade when red and blue came out and have played every single gen since. I can safely say gen 2 did the biggest leap and was the best game out of all the gens. the only one that offers a challenge is x and y, since they finally placed a 3d engine on pokemon. But silver and gold actually started the whole your in the pokemon world feeling. Red and Blue stole your affection for things you have raised and has had the best rival but other than that gold and silver beat it.
I hope you don't mean challenge to the player because x and y were child's play
Same I was in 4th grade when pokemon was a craze so I'm I'm guessing 98/99 when it came out but I wasn't really into pokemon at first everyone was playing with the cards when it first cane out than the games then everyone in my block was playing so I said you know what let me give it a try to see if I like it abd I was hooked afterwards thsn in 01/02 my junior high year o lost interest in pokemon than in 08/09 started to follow up on it but after gen 2 it was kinda a weird time because some people were loosing interest and pokemon johto was out for a long time since late 2000/2001 until probably 04 when they changed the region on the anime
Dude this video is about to be 12 years old
Time flies so fast! I remember making this with MS Paint and Windows Movie Maker lol
It’s crazy man time really flies
Gen II is the best
Soynereh Gen 5 is the best
William White please stop
Agreed
"No, mom, I have to play right now because they only come out at night! No I didn't use that excuse already , that was when I could only catch the lapras on Thursday!"
I got my first lost against PKMN Trainer Red he was difficult to beat.
Thank you so much for these video, I have a very close friend who absolutely enjoys the Pokémon series! He talks to me all the time about them and I feel so bad I don't know how to respond, so by watching your videos and looking things up I can at least talk about something with him!
Who else chose Chikorita?
I did on my original Silver. I remember my brother had a rom of the Japanese version on his computer before we got the games physically, and I just picked it because I thought it looked cute. So I just stuck with it when I got to play the game for real on my Game Boy Colour. Picked Chikorita again on Soul Silver because I had two friends choosing the other starters, and we were going to breed them to trade around to make sure we all had each starter.
***** I would always pick Chickorita and have a lv 100 Bayleaf because it looked cool lol
IAmGoombaSniper you never fully evolved chickorita?
Krazypenguingaming10 I have, but most times I haven't.
I always used totodile even though it was a very hard Choice to choose my starter.
a HUGE part you left out, in the celebi event in gold silver you learn your rival is Giovanni's son and yes its not a hg ss thing its also in the original, and shineys made their first apearance in gold/silver
You forgot to mention the addition of shiny pokemon
Gold and silver is really the only game I love all the starters in, I liked that they kept them pure water fire and grass.
You forgot to talk about trainer red
This I mean come on it was so cool to fight your former self near the end
It's no spoilers
2:39 Oh Gameboy screen glitching.... how I adore you so......
This video needs a remake to account for the new beta leak
I was in 5th grade when this came out, I remembered it like it was in 1080p running at 60fps or something... sounded a lot better at the time...
Why didn't you talk about eggs? That was such a big deal!!!
same with shinys
hexjo2 but still a great vid
hexjo2 dont forget pokerus
Silver does have a legit back story and unlike Blue/Green he learned to love Pokemon out of all the rivals Silver has the most character development hell May in gen 3 doesn't even deserved to be called a rival
I'll be waiting up here...
***** I beat you three times in a row so...
***** Well I can't disagree there
Pokemon Trainer Red Where did you go after Gold beat you? And why did you leave the Pokemon league after becoming the champion? Finally, what is your favorite team of 6? (Think like Red when answering these please)
The_bro7_Show Well to be honest I actually went to train up my other pokemon on my team and i wasn't the one who vanished Gold did Time for a story, After I was beat I by Gold at Mt. Silver I wen't to train up my pokemon but when i had trained them up enough I asked if anyone had seen Gold but they just replied "He went missing long ago." so i continued on my quest to complete the pokedex for Professor Oak... I haven't hear from Gold in a long time so I continued on in Johto I'm Currently in Kalos in Snowbelle city I met this kid called "X" or something and I don't have a favorite team I like all pokemon equally. So I hope that answers your questions to your liking.
3:27...
You have a nostalgia rush...
I had a nostalgia heart attack
g/s/c gen 2 is my favorite gen of all time. the best pokemon games in the series imo gen six comes close tho.
This review should get million views!
Silver was my favourite Pokémon game. I loved the remake as well, but everything since then has looked too crap to buy. Partly because of my rule that I don't buy games that don't show you the actual game on the back cover (the new ones just show cutscenes and battles).
What a bizarre rule. I feel like cover art is probably the least important reason to play a game.
Well the code was in, you could use the time capsule thing and something the pokemon from red/blue would come out shiny in Gold/silver
What about shiny sand breeding
you look like that angry videogame guy "your the calm videogame guy"
You and Jwittz are the absolute hands down best
The thing that made the story interesting (to me anyway) was all the stuff surrounding the Legendaries. Ho-oh was hinted at even in episode 1 of the anime, so to see it in Gold/Silver in its multicolored glory was mind-blowing. Plus the backstories of the legendary dogs were so sad since they were originally just run of the mill Pokemon who died in a fire :( Thankfully Ho-oh resurrected them and made 'em better than ever!
Not to mention Crystal went into further detail with Suicune (as you said) and the Ruins of Alph, aka the stuff with the Unown.
Kanto being stripped down didn't really bother me, but that's probably because, at the time, I didn't own Red/Blue/Yellow yet.
Always choose fire
GameMastur i object!
Eoin Mcnamara CYNDAQUIL (Drops mic)
5:38, or D, a shiny pokémon, which you can't catch, because you don't have pokéballs yet. That was my experience >_>
Ah the good old days
omg I nearly cried when you held up the Gold cartridge to the screen, so many happy memories :')
You get another starter in silver when you get to pokemon
Rocket was cutting the Slowpoke Tails because they sold so high. Not so much of a "childish prank".
watching mostly all of your vids with such an awesome nostalgic feeling :) great job man
Sound : 10?!
You were playing red theme,the most epic one!
TENOUTTATEN
Saying we need to get back on track then showing a clip of the magnet train. Well played balrog, well played.
8:20 "Why does it sound like I'm underwater" I'm saving you all the trouble of stopping for that split second and reading it
what i like about hg and ss is that they give your rival a reason to hate you for caring about pokemon, getting celebi allows you to unlock an event that involves going back in time and finding out that giovanni is actually your rivals father and you get to battle giovanni as well, they hint about giovanni being his father in firered and leafgreen
About the lack of stuff in kanto, the reason was because game freak could mot fit everything on the cartridge. So it is acceptable
Mumkey Jones brought me here, and I’m certainly glad: great video !
Wow. This is old. Happy anniversary
the only history channel i dont want skip.
Agreed, I'd love to see a Nintendo 101 on Heart Gold or Soul Silver. They were my favorite remakes.
Don't forget that they changed the bag system. That is a Godsend.
fun-fact, in Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver there's an event that let's you go back in time with the help of Celebi, and you learn that the rival is Giovanni's son and that actually stop him yourself before he has a chance to go to Goldenrod
i like how you show hoothoot, the one-legged bird, while ripping on genetically mutated pokemon from blue/red.
You called your Pokemon " I farted" I can't stop giggling at that I'm in to toilet humour
This guy is like a happy video game nerd and thats actually really cool
Randomly stumbled onto this video. Nice work man. You're very genuine and you can tell that you legitimately care about what you're discussing. You aren't just trying to be sensational for the sake of views (Cough Irate Gamer Cough). I'm impressed. :)
Wow, 3 years later and I JUST noticed he named his Cyndaquil "I farted." hahaha! (6:02)
I am thoroughly impressed by your critique of Pokemon Gold/Silver. Thumbs up!
All your stuff is informative and covers all base's. Plus your videos really make work a little more bearable, thank you!! Gold is king!!
Sliver is my second favorite game of all time barely behind Link to the Past. Opening it up on Christmas morning and playing it was amazing, I couldn't have loved it any more. It brings back so many fond memories of my childhood.
I disagree, the difficulty was actually insane once the 8th gym was reached and didn't slow down until the Elite 4 was beaten. This stayed hard for the new heartgold and soulsilver.
Crystal was such an epic game and I loved and still do love the music in crystal, gold and silver! The music was incredible!!
I respect your opinion, but I genuinely think Pokemon Gold and Silver had the better story-line, and it was for the exact reason you pointed out. The rival. I remember as a kid being absolutely fascinated with this individual, because throughout the game he seemed to go through character development, but when you finally fight him at the end, he seems to be on some sort of philosophical fence, and you never know which way he falls, leaving an air of mystery about him. It made it memorable.
this channel is amazing. why did it take me so long to find it?!!!!!!!!!
Great job! I expected to know everything you said but I actually learned quite a bit. i had never seen those images of Gold/Silver beta before.
"Blue has a gym made of...Lego"
such a character... Lucky we weren't told to put our shoes off before entering. XD
I think it's awesome to know this stuff
u can teach & show your kids how it was like back than
Finally, some history I won't fall sleep to.
In Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, on one of the Sevii Islands, a scientist tells you that Giovanni has a son that has red hair, refferencing that your rival in Gold and Silver is Giovannis son trying to accomplish what Giovanni did.
"Blue has a gym made of... legos..."
I always had that that feeling when you enter to his gym. LOL
I see it, this is quiet interesting to look back at.
fun story: I was really depressed earlier this year, it wasn't good... I was playing pokemon really early in the morning and went to the center. "Oh, is it your birthday today? Happy Birthday! Shall I heal your pokemon?" That was a wonderful touch that kept me going.
I had Silver and I loved it, and Soul Silver felt natural! Also I loved the original cries, but I can't complain on opinion alone.
I disagree with you. This game gets a 10/10 in my books! I love Silver version and it was the first game I ever played and I still play it. On a slightly different note tho, I love Soul Silver because it enhanced the graphics and kept the world the same as the origional instead of changing everything. I love the review and history so keep it up. You just got a new subscriber. Thanks! =)
-SuperFan686
these comments give me an excuse to point something out ive come to love about Pokemon: there are so many different ways to play. u can be the casual player, be that guy who super IVs his entire team, u can be the girl who plays purely for the cute pokemon..... so many people with so many personalities. united under one game.
I would like to add that Gen 3 (Ruby/Sapphire and FireRed/LeafGreen) does have an internal battery as well. However when that battery runs out on those cartridges, only clock-based events no longer work. You can still save the game.
i know this is two years old, but he forgot to mention that there are also morning-exclusive pokemon just as much as there are night-exclusive.
My favorite pokemon remake was HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Fun fact about the starters, they're all based off of one specific theme, all the grass starters are based on a type of lizard, all the water starters are based on some sort of water-residing animal, and all the fire starters are based on one of the animals in the chinese zodiac, this final fact has given me a theory that nintendo is intending on releasing 12 generations to match them
Got my game boy color today and crystal
Gold and Silver and a green Gameboy color were the first non-NES and Atari games my mom got my sisters and myself. We played those every day for hours. These are my favorite games ever, and the remakes are fantastic as well.
Crystal used to be my all-time favorite up until the release of HGSS. I miss generation II.
Hoothoot is actually a two legged owl, it simply alternates between right and left so fast that it appears to only have one leg