I love how it's progressed from "the internet wasn't around so misinformation spread without anyone being able to check" to "the internet is widespread so people made a bunch of fake leaks". Never change, pokemon rumor-mill.
I mean, look at Smash Bros. It's basically the same, but even more prevalent. Look at most fighting games. It's basically the same. Look at pretty much any other game. It went from playground rumors to leaks for all of them.
@@SandwitchZebra Well it can be debunked now, better widespread it so heavily that people trying to look for actual information, just drown in more rumors.
The internet was around! It's just, most of the gaming sites were amateur fansites run by kids who would parrot any information people sent them. Thus the circulation of rumors about Mewthree, Luigi being unlockable in Mario 64, etc.
clayzulah Internet even around 2007 was pretty primitive compared to now. The bulk of information about things like video games existed in forums, there was no huge sites like reddit or twitter where primary sources would post things, pretty much everything was “he said she said”
The craziest rumor back in the day was when some kid told me he found a Hoothoot with a different color than normal. I was like "Come on that's ridiculous. Who would fall for such a thing?".
I still hold down certain buttons when throwing out Pokeballs. It's silly, but I really believed that as a kid, and just find myself doing it out of habit these days.
I've got to admit: I miss the days when none of this could be fact checked. It added a level of mystery and magic to the Pokémon games that we'll never experience again.
The internet existed when pokemon was released in the us . Gameshark codes could be found online. A class mate got me codes in 5 or 6th grade in the 1990s
@@stewie17 the 90s internet was delightfully sucky. There wasn't translation like we have now, and there were piles upon piles of pages with fake information. We’re talking about the time you had to go offline if your parent had to take a call.
pokemon trainer shwing 32-33 I remember those days but most sites relating to video games (or anything else really) was mostly just text based without much media to accompany it
@@stewie17 Not only was the internet not as common for most people back then, it was usually a single computer shared by the entire family AND whenever one had to use the phone, the internet would stop working... and many houses didn't even use the internet back then as well... plus, it was pretty slow and many of the sites just sucked... I'll admit that the internet had a magic back then that it won't now... but that was just cause something like that was so new and cool.. It wasn't really that reliable back then, and most Pokemon fans weren't in the 5th or 6th grade back then, being much younger... I was in 1st or 2nd grade or something back then...
Yeah these rumor videos they have been doing are the absolute laziest, worst and most low effort videos they’ve done thus far lol they don’t have to make sure that every fact they list is actually legit, and have to fact check it by looking up the facts to look at their accuracy, INSTEAD, they can just make up every single “rumor” they talk about, since they’re not true lol, and then every other “fact” they list (that they probably got from websites that list these types of things) don’t need any other explaining, nothing in these rumor videos are actually true so the rumor vids are literally all just blank bs vids that don’t contribute to anything aside from racking up views and ads lol ugh
DomDiggity ...Historical relevance jackass! Despite our favorite past-time currently making more money then all other entertainment mediums combined, there isn’t a big rush to preserve games or there history. If you think this video is lazy, then I dare you to make a comprehensive history on every legendary Pokemon, that should be easy and lazy to make
"This is likely due to the fact that the Lavender Town music is creepy." I like how that's stated so scientifically. Not "People believe it sounds creepy." or "Is widely believed to sound creepy." It's just a fact that it's creepy.
I mean… certain sounds trigger emotions... and the scale is weird... it makes people uneasy on average... it’s creepy is a good way to say that... it also just means “people tend to agree it’s creepy” or “it was intended to be creepy”
I love how most of these are “You can get a Pokémon by doing this” or “You can do this to make the battle easier” and then there’s “Misty/Brock will kick your ass” I love this fandom
The Misty/Brock thing should be canon anyway. XD heck, doesn't even need to be those specific types. those two wouldn't stand for such mistreatment of 'mons.
Can you feel like the brother I needed to become, and why am i gawking at the mill vodka? My man, we are all liars in the 1990s, but I don't think teammates have the ability to be mario bros,
@Christina GoetzI think what the video said was that Sony/Sega/PlayStation themselves were not recognized, but that saying them simply sounded close enough to other words that made Pikachu mad.
Having fighting, psychic, and dark type starters would make everyone's mind explode. I would love for Game freak to throw that monkey wrench in. Plus having the first gym be ice, and the last gym be an assorted type gym, plus having all the gym leaders have adapted abilities to counter your starter would be freaking awesome.
when i was a kid jirachi was my favorite pokemon and i was OBSESSED with the mossdeep space center rumor...it didnt help that i saw footage of a romhack version of the event on youtube that convinced 10 year old me that it was real 😭
In Gen III I heard a rumor that you could go to space and catch Deoxys. Come Gen VI apparently Game Freak decided that referencing that rumor and making it reality was necessary XD
AwesomeJacket -Dude around the release Gens 1 & 2, school yard kids would say “my friend/relative lives in Japan and sent me/called me. They told me...” it was basically a way of furthering the rumors of the games
@@ScatteredCollector Oh I get the friend and relative part. It's just the knowing someone in japan, who may know a secret in pokemon. Telling you that your relative called you saying that your other relative that also lives in Japan told you and send you somwhere? Seems a bit outrageous to me. 😆
The internet took all the mystery and adventure out of games.. I’m happy to be apart of the last gen of kids that grew up with word of mouth rumors and no walkthroughs, so many memories
I remembered a rumor back in school during the Fire Red and Leaf Green era, that if you level up your Charizard up to a level 100, it would earn a scar on its right eye.
When I talk about the phenomenon, I say "missing number". When I talk about the Glitch-mon, I say "Missingno", omitting the pronunciation of the first N and pronouncing the G instead.
I was thinking he was getting more and more down lol... though I love his "this is easily debunked by knowing the vague idea of what a pokemon is" things lmao
-Catch Likitung with Ultra Ball -Go to where Snorlax is -Turn Gameboy upside down -Give Likitung rare candy -Likitung evolves into Luigi Seems logical...
that was shared on a lot of "para-official" pubblications. I remeber it on a magazine I had which was the most complete guide on G1 around here. everything else that was on it, from the episode list (and a pretty complete detail on the porygon episode) to each E4 pokemon's detail was as precise as datamine, but it had that rumor as well. is not hard to believe many other did share
11:49 I swear I remember seeing an old Did You Know Gaming image that said the "if you say 'playstation' into the microphone Pikachu gets angry" thing was real.
I remember the Mewthree and Pikablu rumors all too well. Even though finding out video game rumors were fake in the pre-internet era was frustrating as a kid, the wonder and curiosity around them was actually fun :)
i beat the elite 4 in emerald in the hopes of a shiny Gen 1 starter... my friend had ashiny charmander and told me thats how he got it... found out about a year later that he used an action replay Oops i ment i beat it like 30 times not just once
I remember the Yoshi rumor. I wanted it to real so bad, especially since Link's Awakening on gameboy had Mario characters in it too. Seemed possible at the time lol.
Honestly the unknown spelling Celebi in the party and using cut on the shrine would of been pretty cool. Also catching all pokemon besides mew and getting a GS ball would of been dope I wish they really gave you more hidden features like that
I remember my friend told me that you could get Deoxys on the moon in Ruby and Sapphire by beating the Elite Four 100 times, then catching Latios or Latias and bringing it to the Space Center.
I remember when Yuriofwind was just starting out and i accidentally insulted him lmao I called his series lukewarm in an argument with someone not trying to say its watched by 2882727 people but also not trying to say its shit, but it just came off as me saying it wasn't good. I lay awake at night still thinking about that.
Well exposing yourself to a constant feeling of unease isn't great. Though just like any other horror, once it's off, you might have nightmares for a week if you are sensitive to it, but it fades.
Lavender town tune? In fact there is a note in change log, that it was altered due to "psychological issues". But it was due to high pith sound in Green version, what cause headaches. Despite whole "it being creepy", this story strain also from confusion with real event. Over hundred kids were hospitalized due to one of anime episodes causing epilepsy. It was "Virtual Soldier Porygon" incident. Also it was episode, what in fact contain explanation of PokeSystem work. What due to lack of proper explanation in the show, is still source of misconceptions regard subject (it is teleportation by the way).
6:40 you actually have to bring dragonite and lickitoung to Bill’s secret garden along with professer Oak’s parcel. Bill will clone the the parcel and let you catch Luigi and Yoshi.
The original official guides for Blue and Red actually had tips about holding down buttons to increase the catch rate. It wasn't just a rumor, it was officially in print.
These days I think these rumours have been replaced with “game theories”. And before that they were replaced with creepypastas back when people thought creepypastas were real. Even after the internet, people will find ways to expand upon games with “what if” ideas and rumors. It’s almost comforting to know it never really dies.
Theories aren’t really as popular as they were before so I’d say theories aren’t the replacement. I’d say leaks are much bigger as they not only change the way a game may be played but bring excitement at the idea sort of like rumors.
Eghm... the difference is that theories are possible (until they are stupid like Ash comma). Rumors are sensationalist and commonly make no sense if you think about it.
I knew a guy who said he had caught Mew and Pikablu. It was my older brother and it was a full ten years before I found out that he was a filthy stinking liar.
Honestly that sounds funny. Some of these rumors I'm kinda glad aren't true (beating the game 100 times is a horrible trigger for events), but that would be neat.
ANueUtsuho I know right, and honestly beating Pokemon 100 times isn't that bad...you just need to play different every time...of course you won't get anything in return, but the game is fun either way! 🤷♀️
I remember a lot of these rumors! I miss the days before the internet sometimes. I still press A when I catch Pokémon. The magikarp splash one, the pokeball catch one, and the lavender town creepy pasta, and catching all Pokémon for mew were popular in the 90s. I remember the rumors on a new hidden legendary because of the anime showing Ho-Oh when only RGBY existed.
When I was little around 5-6 or so I believed these rumors that went around my school and friends in Brooklyn: -You could get Togepi in gen 1 by using fly to "Sky City" -You could get Lugia, Togepi, or Snubull "I called him Bubble" by going to the St Anne after it left and you could choose q of 3 pokeballs by a gentleman in the ship -You could use the St Anne to get Lugia from a pokeball taken back after the Orange Islands -In Pokemon Yellow, you could get Misty and Brock to follow you -You could use the Space Shuttle in Pewter City to access either Pokegods and Alien Pokemon or even Mewthree -You could get Marill from the Orange Islands from the St Anne
Incredible how these rumors did spread through seemingly every schoolyard on earth :D Also a bit sad how Gamefreak never included anything close to these secret tricks to get specific pokemon
Yeah I remember that were a kid told me back in school about tapping the button will catch the Pokemon faster. It's fascinating that rumors spread just as good as the internet back then but also so much misinformation.
I love all that mystery from the 90s. Looking at Ho-Oh on the first episode from the anime but not knowing what Pokemon it was, the truck at the SS Anne, the GS ball, the entire Gen 2 beta (which in the end was released). The low quality pictures helped a lot to create that atmosphere. I'm so glad I grew up on the 90s.
Okay I remember the diamond and pearl rumours about yelling “snap” or “wake up” but I swear they were from the GameStop official strategy guide for those games
When I was younger, my older sister’s friend told me that in pokemon diamond and pearl, you could catch Turtwig in Sunnyshore city, but only if your save file was 1 in 100 or something (which I thought were impossible odds back then). As a result, despite playing through those games what must’ve been 20 times, I NEVER Chose Turtwig, always holding on to the hope that I would get the lucky save file and get 2 out of the 3 starters in one playthrough (nevermind that I could, y’know, just trade with people to get more than one starter oer game). Last month I picked up Diamond again and chose Turtwig for the first time and wanted to soft reset for a decent nature. In just three SRs, I had a shiny. I’d like to think in some odd way, I did end up beating the odds, even if they weren’t the odds I initially was fighting for. Her name is Shelby and I don’t regret that playthrough one bit
Yeah I remember most of those. Pikablu rumors started because the Japanese Marill card was out as a promo card before Gold & Silver came out. And I forgot about Sapasaur but I heard that one too.
I remember one for heart gold and soul silver. If you beat the game, without using any cheats or hacks, by catching all pokemon. Getting all pokemon to level 100. And using each pokemon at least once to beat the elite four, you got to face the creator of pokemon using an all legendary team with Japanese names at level 100
I won my school's pokemon tournament by scoring a critical hit on a guys Dragonite, with my Luigi's family reunion. I'll never forget that moment for as long as I live.
growing up i didnt really fall for these rumors since i wasnt aware of most of them,but i do remember falling for one in x and y. they said that you could get genesect breaking the rocks in the cave where you get your first fossil,and i remember spending hours trying to get him. sigh,if only game freak created an actual event for mythical pokemon instead of just giving them away randomly
The lavender town theme honestly calms me down. It gives me nostalgia even though I’ve never played red and blue. It makes me happy to listen to, but it haunts me in a way. It makes me feel like there’s a ghost in my room and I love that feeling. It makes me happy
I remember being told that bringing every Unown to that cave in Sinnoh near the Daycare (can’t remember the name, but there’s Unown in it) would make Arceus spawn. I was always confused. I mean you can only carry 6 Pokemon. How would you get 26 there all at once? Man, rumours always seemed so real back then.
I absolutely got mew in red version, I don't remember what the exact technique was but it was something involving catching an abra and teleporting. It took forever but it definitely resulted in getting mew.
I love how it's progressed from "the internet wasn't around so misinformation spread without anyone being able to check" to "the internet is widespread so people made a bunch of fake leaks". Never change, pokemon rumor-mill.
I mean, look at Smash Bros. It's basically the same, but even more prevalent. Look at most fighting games. It's basically the same. Look at pretty much any other game. It went from playground rumors to leaks for all of them.
@@SandwitchZebra Well it can be debunked now, better widespread it so heavily that people trying to look for actual information, just drown in more rumors.
The internet was around! It's just, most of the gaming sites were amateur fansites run by kids who would parrot any information people sent them. Thus the circulation of rumors about Mewthree, Luigi being unlockable in Mario 64, etc.
@@Jemar_Blount-Golden
...What?
clayzulah Internet even around 2007 was pretty primitive compared to now. The bulk of information about things like video games existed in forums, there was no huge sites like reddit or twitter where primary sources would post things, pretty much everything was “he said she said”
17:10 "Pokémon Unite, an online RPG."
This wasn't a rumour, this was a prophecy.
TIME TRAVEL
Ah yes
Were all in the future lul
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*_Yes_*
The craziest rumor back in the day was when some kid told me he found a Hoothoot with a different color than normal. I was like "Come on that's ridiculous. Who would fall for such a thing?".
Its a shiny.......
I know this is just being ironic because of the shinys but well umm i dont know what more to say ummm D O N T A S K W H O I S J O E
@@jeremiasisaguirre4407 r/woooosh
@@jeremiasisaguirre4407 i don't think you know what a joke is nor what ironic means.
my brother caught one in pokemon crystal, i was really sad because of course i wanted 1 too
I still hold down certain buttons when throwing out Pokeballs. It's silly, but I really believed that as a kid, and just find myself doing it out of habit these days.
Press b when it wiggles
Of course a frame perfect trick lol
After playing Pokémon for more than 20 years I still do it...
I do it because it works
Same !
I've got to admit: I miss the days when none of this could be fact checked. It added a level of mystery and magic to the Pokémon games that we'll never experience again.
The internet existed when pokemon was released in the us . Gameshark codes could be found online. A class mate got me codes in 5 or 6th grade in the 1990s
@@stewie17 Not by us 9y.o back then lol
@@stewie17 the 90s internet was delightfully sucky. There wasn't translation like we have now, and there were piles upon piles of pages with fake information. We’re talking about the time you had to go offline if your parent had to take a call.
pokemon trainer shwing 32-33 I remember those days but most sites relating to video games (or anything else really) was mostly just text based without much media to accompany it
@@stewie17 Not only was the internet not as common for most people back then, it was usually a single computer shared by the entire family AND whenever one had to use the phone, the internet would stop working... and many houses didn't even use the internet back then as well... plus, it was pretty slow and many of the sites just sucked...
I'll admit that the internet had a magic back then that it won't now... but that was just cause something like that was so new and cool..
It wasn't really that reliable back then, and most Pokemon fans weren't in the 5th or 6th grade back then, being much younger... I was in 1st or 2nd grade or something back then...
"These rumors were debunked by simply playing the game"
Nick Blinko yes pokemon kids are stupid
Yeah these rumor videos they have been doing are the absolute laziest, worst and most low effort videos they’ve done thus far lol they don’t have to make sure that every fact they list is actually legit, and have to fact check it by looking up the facts to look at their accuracy, INSTEAD, they can just make up every single “rumor” they talk about, since they’re not true lol, and then every other “fact” they list (that they probably got from websites that list these types of things) don’t need any other explaining, nothing in these rumor videos are actually true so the rumor vids are literally all just blank bs vids that don’t contribute to anything aside from racking up views and ads lol ugh
@DomDiggity I was aware of most of these rumours when I was a kid
Can you sub to HS mardre and comment this code 7878 to be in a give away he is a small yt
DomDiggity ...Historical relevance jackass! Despite our favorite past-time currently making more money then all other entertainment mediums combined, there isn’t a big rush to preserve games or there history. If you think this video is lazy, then I dare you to make a comprehensive history on every legendary Pokemon, that should be easy and lazy to make
I remember when I was a kid someone convinced me that Raticate evolved into Rattatoulie
That sounds like just the kind of stupid stuff I woulda fell for back then
How long ago was this? I feel like this was so much more recent than when I was a kid lol. I’m old.
@@ElysetheEevee Must've been like '07
obviously this pokemon yellow came very much earlier than this movie...
@@gvohardcore Ratatouille is a French dish, not just a movie. Also, Raticate has been in a lot of pokemon games since Gen I...
"This is likely due to the fact that the Lavender Town music is creepy."
I like how that's stated so scientifically. Not "People believe it sounds creepy." or "Is widely believed to sound creepy."
It's just a fact that it's creepy.
RagePoweredGamer he didn’t say that, he said “this rumor , likely stemming from the fact that it’s creepy” he’s referring to the binaural beats
@@AvgDietCokeEnjoyer buttery beats
Yeah, the Lavender Town music theory is only because 1.0 of the Japanese games was more prone to giving epilepsy. That's it.
Creepy to them.
I mean… certain sounds trigger emotions... and the scale is weird... it makes people uneasy on average... it’s creepy is a good way to say that... it also just means “people tend to agree it’s creepy” or “it was intended to be creepy”
I love how most of these are “You can get a Pokémon by doing this” or “You can do this to make the battle easier” and then there’s “Misty/Brock will kick your ass”
I love this fandom
The Misty/Brock thing should be canon anyway. XD
heck, doesn't even need to be those specific types. those two wouldn't stand for such mistreatment of 'mons.
SO in the movie Pikachu The Movie: Pikachu's Rescue Adventure Time line here =16:18 you find the answer of how exeggcute is created!!!
Okay that Bonsly design prediction was actually incredibly accurate.
IKR
I think the silhouette must have already been revealed for Bonsly at the time of that leak
@@kristi_smearg It was, I remember seeing the silhouette on Serebii. Pretty sure it's still on the site's archives.
Ah, yes, my favorite Pokémon...
*Anthrax*
luigi.
specticular entertainment Yoshi
@@RedJay326 Kurusu
I’d rather have anthrax then gay Luigi or a fat green dinosaur
@@myfellowsonicfans7131 ur fuckin nans a fat green dinosaur
6:36
"Can you name one Pokemon?"
"Uuuuuhhh... Luigi"
Munching orange is shaking right now
“Yeah, duh. Anthrax.”
Holy shit now he’s not entirely wrong
*mustache-slaps*
Can you feel like the brother I needed to become, and why am i gawking at the mill vodka? My man, we are all liars in the 1990s, but I don't think teammates have the ability to be mario bros,
“My dad works at Nintendo and...”
No joke I was one of them
Ah yes, the well known eastern Kansas branch of Nintemdo
NO WAY
That would piss me off as a kid... or when they say they have a certain toy or game whatever and then would say oh I broke it, or I lost it.
Says how geno is the fifth dlc of smash bros"
That “fake scan” of bonsley is pretty freaking spot on
The face and belly are different but yeah its really close to the official design.
Honestly the "press a certain button while catching a pokemon" is so engrained into me that I still do it even though I know its fake
I swear to god though if you don’t do it the ball shakes less 😂
I still do this hold down and B when the ball makes contact. Been doing it since red and blue
No mention of the greatest schoolyard rumor yet...
"My uncle works for Nintendo"
Rumors speculated about this uncle character but looking into the data of human bodies, the rumor has some truth to it, but needs confirmation.
Not Rumor. But always used to make rumors more believable.
It's a proven fact that all the people that work for Nintendo don't have nephews or nieces, everyone knows that! :P
Arcademan09
“If you defeat 600 Bug-types Misty will marry you.”
I thought it was the naked Misty card?
I choose you... ANTHRAX!
I choose Luigi!
@@droyconLuigi, gigantamax, Luigi, use Gmax breast bury
PEEBS I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH AHHHHH
I choose Arthur
I Choose You Yoshi
God the Luigi rumor literally made me LOL.
"Luigi used mustache slap"
"It wasn't that effective....."
“Luigi used...”
Lemme stop your right there
“It’s not very effective...”
FAMILY REUNION!
TIME TO GO MARVEL VS CAPCOM ON YOUR ASS!
Luigi used lotsa spaghetti 🍝
Luigi used Death Stare
Should have used “mustache ride”
Nothing tops trying to get to the Moon in Emerald, unregisteredhypercam2 was the truth back then 😂
Dozer03 my space station hit 99 times and someone told me you needed 100, then my internal battery ran dry and I was PISSED
I can hear the song most videos had when it was a unregisteredhypercam2 video lmao
I want a Pokemon mod with all of these rumors implemented. Some of them would be really hard to program though.
I think combatting the murder trials that result from all the kids committing suicide isn't worth the effort or lack of moral code.
@@anueutsuho7425 he probably means pokemon gods, mewthree and mewfour etc
@@dancingchineseman5033 Mr president you may have missed the joke
@@anueutsuho7425 I’m fucking dying rn
Yeah but ROMs are really good now so someone might do it
>Turn their Game Boy upside-down..."
Guess who's the fool now?
HAH! They thought the original Game Boy had a gyroscope
Inkay.
My Contrary Superpower Malamar is laughing pretty hard
I was thinking this earlier lmao
DYKG once submitted the "Playstation" Hey You Pikachu rumor as a fact.
Ironic.
It's true
@Christina GoetzI think what the video said was that Sony/Sega/PlayStation themselves were not recognized, but that saying them simply sounded close enough to other words that made Pikachu mad.
DoctorPorkenfries there’s one in the past that just says “if you say PlayStation pikachu will get mad”
But that's a really old video
@@MykiiMescal Well, they're not wrong. Even if the game doesn't recognize, it may recognize it as a word that actually does anger Pikachu.
"Heart & Gold & Soul Silver"
"Turwig"
gee-arados
Those game were good
What’s wrong with him
28 unown in a gen 2 game
Having fighting, psychic, and dark type starters would make everyone's mind explode. I would love for Game freak to throw that monkey wrench in. Plus having the first gym be ice, and the last gym be an assorted type gym, plus having all the gym leaders have adapted abilities to counter your starter would be freaking awesome.
when i was a kid jirachi was my favorite pokemon and i was OBSESSED with the mossdeep space center rumor...it didnt help that i saw footage of a romhack version of the event on youtube that convinced 10 year old me that it was real 😭
flatwoods girlfriend oh my god SAME i tried it every single day lmao!!!
Fell for it too....
Same.
In Gen III I heard a rumor that you could go to space and catch Deoxys.
Come Gen VI apparently Game Freak decided that referencing that rumor and making it reality was necessary XD
@@maximaldinotrap that was legit in the video did you not watch it?
"My friend who lives in Japan told me..."
"My uncle/aunt called from Japan and told me..."
"My cousin/bro/sis who lives in Japan told me/sent me..."
"What are you DOING cousin/bro/sis?"
What?
AwesomeJacket -Dude around the release Gens 1 & 2, school yard kids would say “my friend/relative lives in Japan and sent me/called me. They told me...” it was basically a way of furthering the rumors of the games
@@ScatteredCollector Oh I get the friend and relative part. It's just the knowing someone in japan, who may know a secret in pokemon. Telling you that your relative called you saying that your other relative that also lives in Japan told you and send you somwhere? Seems a bit outrageous to me. 😆
AwesomeJacket -Dude Yes it very much was but we believed it very much
This is might be just nostalgia talking, but I miss pre-internet gaming.
I mean with the current state of Pokemon with Thankyougamefreak and GameFreakLied I can see why
same here, I liked exploring stuff without being spoiled by a simple google search.
Brandon It has its goods and its bads that’s for sure. But I do miss the feeling of simpler days.
I hate being told big things about the games. Alot of my friends will play and within a min of making it to a puzzle. they look up walkthroughs.
The internet took all the mystery and adventure out of games.. I’m happy to be apart of the last gen of kids that grew up with word of mouth rumors and no walkthroughs, so many memories
"Source(s): Dude trust me"
Actual 1998 playground convo.
"I did it before."
"Show Me"
"I accidentally deleted my file."
Actually my dad works for gamefreak
I remembered a rumor back in school during the Fire Red and Leaf Green era, that if you level up your Charizard up to a level 100, it would earn a scar on its right eye.
Well thats an interesting rumor .
HMMMMM
That would be super cool honestly
6:29 - Never in my life has anyone ever referred to missingno as missing number.
That's what "no." means. At least in the code.
@@fullanalysis93 I am fully aware of that
Also the way he pronounces Gyarados is like nails on a chalkboard.
we always called it Missingo lol
When I talk about the phenomenon, I say "missing number". When I talk about the Glitch-mon, I say "Missingno", omitting the pronunciation of the first N and pronouncing the G instead.
19:40 For a fan prediction that’s actually pretty close to what Bonsly actually looks like.
True, but it helped that they based it off of the silhouette that came out.
To be honest it just looks like a Bonsly with a ditto face.
I love how you hear his enthusiasm go lower and lower the more he reads these crazy rumors
I was thinking he was getting more and more down lol... though I love his "this is easily debunked by knowing the vague idea of what a pokemon is" things lmao
"Pokemon Earth, Wind, and Fire."
You can find them every September (and December), not April.
In September 21 at night, specifically.
@@nathanlabrador7664 Can u dont
Don’t forget to dance!
And only if you remember it....
When does he say that?
The mew under the truck myth is so iconic.
Someone really predicted Pokemon Unite almost word for word ....
In the 90s/early 2000s too!
Yep
Probably a time traveler who happened to look at the wrong date haha
-Catch Likitung with Ultra Ball
-Go to where Snorlax is
-Turn Gameboy upside down
-Give Likitung rare candy
-Likitung evolves into Luigi
Seems logical...
Because old tech had gyroscopes and accelerometers...
Could this possibly have inspired Inkay->Malamar's evo method?
Probably. I mean they went all the way to the old design books to bring carracosta as a Pokémon so it’s not too far fetched
@@AdrianGonzalez-sh7qm can you elaborate
17:05 I'm disappointed that Pokemon Unite wasn't called "Pokemon September."
"Pokemon &"
Haha very nice 😁
F I N A L L Y
S O M E O N E M A D E T H E J O K E
And Chuggaaconroy’s video in the background makes it even better
Do you remember
I love how people were so sure a random truck was key to getting a Mew
that was shared on a lot of "para-official" pubblications. I remeber it on a magazine I had which was the most complete guide on G1 around here. everything else that was on it, from the episode list (and a pretty complete detail on the porygon episode) to each E4 pokemon's detail was as precise as datamine, but it had that rumor as well. is not hard to believe many other did share
17:08 Hold up, Did they just predict Pokemon Unite
Or, you know, they used the name after the old rumor
Yep
Accept the rumor was an mmo not a moba
"Pokemon Earth, Wind and Fire"
Do you remember? The 21st night of September
Ahhhh say do you remember
Ahhhhh dancing in September
Saw this comment and it's the 21st of September lol
It's amazing how the same rumors spread everywhere before the advent of the internet
They spread even with the internet
The internet ain't got shit compared to a loose network of sugar-addled eleven-year-olds.
Internet was not that big in 3rd world countries then and even we believe all kind of shit
@@kagari1426 Umh..
I legit heard some of these rumours and I always lived in Germany^^
11:49 I swear I remember seeing an old Did You Know Gaming image that said the "if you say 'playstation' into the microphone Pikachu gets angry" thing was real.
Yeah I swear I remember that
I like how the idea of a Pokemon evolving when you turn the system upside down actually became real.
Tom Holmes I always forget that Inkay evolves that way. When anyone brings that up I always think that it's fake.
@marianne mccrank ;
I remember the Mewthree and Pikablu rumors all too well. Even though finding out video game rumors were fake in the pre-internet era was frustrating as a kid, the wonder and curiosity around them was actually fun :)
The kids in the bus called Donphan “Elephena.”
In my schoolyard, rumors that you could catch either Yoshi or "Pikablu" (Marill) were also tied to moving the truck near the SS Anne.
I love how one of Luigi's moves is straight up Family Reunion. Like what does he do, throw potato salad at another pokemon?
omg it's the real Juju Xenoblade I can't believe it can I get your autograph
Family reunion is a very damaging move, they get together and ask you about your girlfriend, or when are you going to graduate, very very effective
Mama Luigi comes and pinches your cheeks
Ever since the internet era started these funny rumours have all but died. I miss when people used to come up with all these rumours and myths.
i beat the elite 4 in emerald in the hopes of a shiny Gen 1 starter... my friend had ashiny charmander and told me thats how he got it... found out about a year later that he used an action replay
Oops i ment i beat it like 30 times not just once
Now we have leaks and theories
@@danielcampos1715 leaks and datamines*
Early internet was a blessing I'm thankful I was around for everyday. These days internet is lame as hell when it comes to game
Nah, the early Internet was never a blessing. It was just as scummy and corrupt as it is today. We were just too stupid and naive to notice.
I remember the Yoshi rumor. I wanted it to real so bad, especially since Link's Awakening on gameboy had Mario characters in it too. Seemed possible at the time lol.
Well Yoshi's first ever game was made by gamefreak so maybe one day well see yoshi getting catched in a pokeball
Honestly the unknown spelling Celebi in the party and using cut on the shrine would of been pretty cool.
Also catching all pokemon besides mew and getting a GS ball would of been dope I wish they really gave you more hidden features like that
I remember my friend told me that you could get Deoxys on the moon in Ruby and Sapphire by beating the Elite Four 100 times, then catching Latios or Latias and bringing it to the Space Center.
Does anybody remember Yuriofwind’s video on the “Pokegods”.
I love yuriofwind!
ancient video
Kinda
I remember when Yuriofwind was just starting out and i accidentally insulted him lmao
I called his series lukewarm in an argument with someone not trying to say its watched by 2882727 people but also not trying to say its shit, but it just came off as me saying it wasn't good.
I lay awake at night still thinking about that.
Yeah, that was around the time I subbed to him.
“This rumour most likely stemmed from the music being creepy”
Well exposing yourself to a constant feeling of unease isn't great. Though just like any other horror, once it's off, you might have nightmares for a week if you are sensitive to it, but it fades.
Lavender town tune? In fact there is a note in change log, that it was altered due to "psychological issues". But it was due to high pith sound in Green version, what cause headaches. Despite whole "it being creepy", this story strain also from confusion with real event. Over hundred kids were hospitalized due to one of anime episodes causing epilepsy. It was "Virtual Soldier Porygon" incident. Also it was episode, what in fact contain explanation of PokeSystem work. What due to lack of proper explanation in the show, is still source of misconceptions regard subject (it is teleportation by the way).
It tis
6:40 you actually have to bring dragonite and lickitoung to Bill’s secret garden along with professer Oak’s parcel. Bill will clone the the parcel and let you catch Luigi and Yoshi.
:0
OH MAH GAWD
Does Luigi just say his name or is he a talking pokemon?
That Luigi myth is so hilarious, I love it.
“Pokémon unite was to be an online RPG.”
_hmm_
17:00 Pokemon earth wind and fire, releasing september 21st
I still tap the A button when catching Pokémon
Ur doing it wrong. Hold b button :)
Still doing it wrong. Press L and R interchangeably to the best of the song.
Same
I spam down and b together
same bro
Spongebob: “Hey Patrick what I’m i now?”
Patrick :“A fire starter”
Spongebob: “No I’m a fighting starter”
Patrick: “What’s the difference?”
The original official guides for Blue and Red actually had tips about holding down buttons to increase the catch rate. It wasn't just a rumor, it was officially in print.
Anyone else remember searching up “MewThree” and so on? I used to also search up “Goku super saiyan 5” and upwards. Those were the days
Mewthree does exist! It’s also known as Killer Queen!
@@garfieldcat007 Mewfour is Bites The Dust
These days I think these rumours have been replaced with “game theories”. And before that they were replaced with creepypastas back when people thought creepypastas were real. Even after the internet, people will find ways to expand upon games with “what if” ideas and rumors. It’s almost comforting to know it never really dies.
Now creepypastas have been replaced with something far worse: Nuzlockes
Theories aren’t really as popular as they were before so I’d say theories aren’t the replacement. I’d say leaks are much bigger as they not only change the way a game may be played but bring excitement at the idea sort of like rumors.
Eghm... the difference is that theories are possible (until they are stupid like Ash comma). Rumors are sensationalist and commonly make no sense if you think about it.
@@TheRezro that's why leaks are more fitting as this generation's leaks.
I knew a guy who said he had caught Mew and Pikablu. It was my older brother and it was a full ten years before I found out that he was a filthy stinking liar.
Pika blu!!!! I remember having a debate on that
You in fact can cough Mew...
"Some Claimed That If Players Named Any Water Type Pokemon A Curse Word Misty Will Slap The Player."
Sure she will lol! 😂😂😂
"Go, Bitch!"
"Misty used DoubleSlap!"
Honestly that sounds funny. Some of these rumors I'm kinda glad aren't true (beating the game 100 times is a horrible trigger for events), but that would be neat.
ANueUtsuho I know right, and honestly beating Pokemon 100 times isn't that bad...you just need to play different every time...of course you won't get anything in return, but the game is fun either way! 🤷♀️
@@anueutsuho7425 Reminds me of the wheat sword from Golden Sun... People just gotta put the most outlandish steps to achieve it!
OK, how about a team of Pokemon named after swear words?
Ass
Fuck
Bitch
Dick
Shit
Bollocks (the last one has a British curse word for its name)
I remember a lot of these rumors! I miss the days before the internet sometimes. I still press A when I catch Pokémon. The magikarp splash one, the pokeball catch one, and the lavender town creepy pasta, and catching all Pokémon for mew were popular in the 90s. I remember the rumors on a new hidden legendary because of the anime showing Ho-Oh when only RGBY existed.
When I was little around 5-6 or so I believed these rumors that went around my school and friends in Brooklyn:
-You could get Togepi in gen 1 by using fly to "Sky City"
-You could get Lugia, Togepi, or Snubull "I called him Bubble" by going to the St Anne after it left and you could choose q of 3 pokeballs by a gentleman in the ship
-You could use the St Anne to get Lugia from a pokeball taken back after the Orange Islands
-In Pokemon Yellow, you could get Misty and Brock to follow you
-You could use the Space Shuttle in Pewter City to access either Pokegods and Alien Pokemon or even Mewthree
-You could get Marill from the Orange Islands from the St Anne
Incredible how these rumors did spread through seemingly every schoolyard on earth :D
Also a bit sad how Gamefreak never included anything close to these secret tricks to get specific pokemon
Ikr wish they aleast did throw something in the remakes
The quests for capturing the Regi trio come pretty close.
It made me think of Mortal kombat putting them in, but not pokemon
yeah, so did that rumour with marylin mansion removing a rib.
Everywhere around the globe
Well. They still didn't officially confirm that Pokemon and Earthbound is the same universe, so...
Yeah I remember that were a kid told me back in school about tapping the button will catch the Pokemon faster. It's fascinating that rumors spread just as good as the internet back then but also so much misinformation.
I always held down the A button harder and also heard a rumor to tap A as soon as the pokeball hits the pokemon head to increase the catch rate.
I used to slap my dick on the screen and that usually worked.
I never heard it as a rumor but I did the button tap too lmao. I think its just like a habit of sorts
The way he says Gyarados doesn't sit right with me
He also says "turr wig" instead of turtwig
He said “supposably” which is just worse.
As a kid around 1999-2000 I definitely heard some of these.
Tool?
I have wasted so much damn time trying so many of these when I was younger. Turns out I went to school with a bunch of liars
I love all that mystery from the 90s. Looking at Ho-Oh on the first episode from the anime but not knowing what Pokemon it was, the truck at the SS Anne, the GS ball, the entire Gen 2 beta (which in the end was released). The low quality pictures helped a lot to create that atmosphere.
I'm so glad I grew up on the 90s.
Ho-oh blew my mind watching it in the first episode as a 9 year old.
Anyone remember when Mewtwo Y was leaked and everyone was calling it "Newtwo"?
I only remember people calling it Mewthree. Newtwo sounds nicer tho ngl.
I remember in my school when silver and gold were announced everyone talked about there being a new Pikachu called Pikablue! But ended up being Maril.
I remember printing these “cheats” out from geocities websites when I was a kid 😭
Man I used to have so much various pokemon stuff printed out lmao now all pokemon info is stored on my phone bc I'm an organized adult
Okay I remember the diamond and pearl rumours about yelling “snap” or “wake up” but I swear they were from the GameStop official strategy guide for those games
8:00
"ANTHRAX, I CHOOSE YOU!"
yep that would've gone over well for the child rating
*yeah
0:54 ah yes, my favorite HM, Whirpool
It was an HM in Gen 2
It's a joke on the spelling.
Ahhh ok I didn't see, sorry for the mistake
When I was younger, my older sister’s friend told me that in pokemon diamond and pearl, you could catch Turtwig in Sunnyshore city, but only if your save file was 1 in 100 or something (which I thought were impossible odds back then). As a result, despite playing through those games what must’ve been 20 times, I NEVER Chose Turtwig, always holding on to the hope that I would get the lucky save file and get 2 out of the 3 starters in one playthrough (nevermind that I could, y’know, just trade with people to get more than one starter oer game).
Last month I picked up Diamond again and chose Turtwig for the first time and wanted to soft reset for a decent nature. In just three SRs, I had a shiny. I’d like to think in some odd way, I did end up beating the odds, even if they weren’t the odds I initially was fighting for. Her name is Shelby and I don’t regret that playthrough one bit
Yeah I remember most of those. Pikablu rumors started because the Japanese Marill card was out as a promo card before Gold & Silver came out. And I forgot about Sapasaur but I heard that one too.
Seeing how so many "Poké-gods" are from evolutions, I like the idea that the first starters' mega evolutions are a homage to that.
17:06 Don’t let fascinating rumors distract you from the fact that someone actually lost the first rival battle in RSE...
Same happened to me on a nuzlock...
That’s Chuggaaconroy’s footage
It happened to OneyNG on his gameplay channel when he played red/blue too! Lol
I remember one for heart gold and soul silver.
If you beat the game, without using any cheats or hacks, by catching all pokemon. Getting all pokemon to level 100. And using each pokemon at least once to beat the elite four, you got to face the creator of pokemon using an all legendary team with Japanese names at level 100
What's you're favorite pokemon?
My is Luigi :)
speed luigi
Mine is yoshi
It's an evolution stone Luigi
Mine is chocolate.
Plumber type is too op. They can kill turtoise pokemons like squirtle, shuckle and turtwig in 1 hit.
J. Ester: Yoshi in Pokemon
Children: Seems legit
Wo
Yoshi used Egg Throw
A Critical hit
"Button mashing doesn't increase the chances of catching a Pokemon"
You sit on a throne of lies!
1: name one Pokémon
2: yes I’ve heard of Pokémon...........
2: 6:40?
This comment is transcended
17:06 SAY DO YOU REMEMBER
My niece who lives in Japan told me those games won't be released until the 21st night of September, 2021.
I 'member!
Rumor: you can catch Bulbasaur in Pokémon Sword and Shield
DEBUNKED
"Don't do that.
Don't give me hope."
Luigi slapping you with his mustache is just legendary
Man, I used to love hearing rumors like this. It's unfortunate data mining and whatever else makes this impossible now.
Ah yes, the classic, age-old rumor of being able to find Mew under a truck lol.
Crono Sapien this was a fact between my peers. Pre internet age for many.
I actually have a virus on my Pokemon Blue that lets me catch mew under the truck.
@@Porygonal64 You mean a hack?
@@TheRezro Nnnope.
I have it on cartridge and if I enter a battle or trade with any other cartridge it spreads to their game as well.
@@Porygonal64 It is a hack. Or you are really bad at trolling ;D
I won my school's pokemon tournament by scoring a critical hit on a guys Dragonite, with my Luigi's family reunion. I'll never forget that moment for as long as I live.
Slight errata: In Gold/Silver/Crystal, there were only 26 Unown. ! and ? were added in Gen 3.
Yeah, I think in FR/LG to be specific. Unless they were also in the code for R/S, like Deoxys was.
growing up i didnt really fall for these rumors since i wasnt aware of most of them,but i do remember falling for one in x and y. they said that you could get genesect breaking the rocks in the cave where you get your first fossil,and i remember spending hours trying to get him. sigh,if only game freak created an actual event for mythical pokemon instead of just giving them away randomly
The lavender town theme honestly calms me down. It gives me nostalgia even though I’ve never played red and blue. It makes me happy to listen to, but it haunts me in a way. It makes me feel like there’s a ghost in my room and I love that feeling. It makes me happy
"Pokemon Eart, Wind, and fire."
*BURSTS INTO A SOLO CHORUS OF SEPTEMBER*
I remember being told that bringing every Unown to that cave in Sinnoh near the Daycare (can’t remember the name, but there’s Unown in it) would make Arceus spawn. I was always confused. I mean you can only carry 6 Pokemon. How would you get 26 there all at once?
Man, rumours always seemed so real back then.
*sees Pokémon*
CLICK
*sees Pokémon rumors*
MEGA CLICK
"The starters are Dark, Fighting and Psychic"
*stares at the Galariab birds*
I absolutely got mew in red version, I don't remember what the exact technique was but it was something involving catching an abra and teleporting. It took forever but it definitely resulted in getting mew.