Finally, a song that sums up all my old man complaints about the “good ol’ days” of Pokémon!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on March 8, 2010 · 4:21 PM
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Personally Pokemon kinda died for me after Gold/Silver… I did like the addition of Dark and Steel types.
Everything after that was just robots with stripes n' spikes!
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=263
Really? Pokemon sort of died after Ruby/Sapphire for me.
G/S/C were my favorite… the best days of Pokemon. I can't stand the newer ones, but I still find myself crawling back whenever a new one comes out.
Remember legends? There were four, five if you counted Mew. G/S/C added five, six if you counted Celebi. How many did R/S/E add? Let's see… 10? Does that sound right? Not to mention R/S started the trend of version-exclusive legends. And how many are there in D/P/Pt? I can think of 13, but I bet there are more.
This song really reminds me how out-of-the-times people consider me these days.
Apparently listening to rock music (or anything written before 2000) and playing any game older than 2 years makes me a "relic" in modern society.
I liked the addition of Dark and Steel types, too. But I miss the days when the point of the game was "Gotta Catch 'em All," and not "Gotta complete all the things that don't have any effect on the main storyline."
Gold/Silver/Crystal marked the point where Pokemon went from a fun kids item to a total shitfest of profit and profit only. Thats the only reason I'm getting the remakes when there finally released stateside.
What happened to Pokemon?
It made infinity dollars, that's what happened.
Money: Ruining awesome franchises since before anyone can remember.
So.. so true.
But R/S/E weren't that bad. Not as good as R/B/Y and G/S/C, but kinda cool. Swampert kicked ass.
But Blastoise is better.
This makes me very sad.
I know how you feel. I hate the new games, but I reserved both Diamond and Platinum and I am getting soul silver.
I actually "caught them all" in Blue and Crystal, using my brother's Red and Gold/Silver to get exclusive Pokemon, and the myriad glitches to get Mew and Celebi.
251, and it took me a damn long time. Then Ruby/Sapphire came out, and I said "screw it".
I was never a big Pokemon fan, but I watched the old TV series (and loved it). I don't know any of the new pokemon… except one. Arceus.
It's pretty much the God of the pokemon world… and you can capture it. Albeit under very strict circumstances, but still… it just blows my mind.
I never bought a Pokemon game after the original Silver (wich diesd because of a accident), so I'm getting soul silver this month… maybe =b
Your Diamond/Pearl doesn't deserve to be with my cartridges!! But then again, I suppose it would make a nice coaster for my drink!
Ahh, yes…
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008…
..The good ol' days of Pokemon. Back when kids used to stab eachother for pieces of plastic. Or even when the McDonalds lines were filled by little kids, aaaaall the way out of the restaraunt, just for the sake of the toys. Even if it were raining or hailing outside. The employees and parents looked real stressed. Or the times when the kids would lie about their parents working for Nintendo, so they could spread rumors about the franchise. Yep. Good times..gooood times.
Would you like this platinum? We're up to our necks in platinum versions.
+1'ed btw :D
Bah, the pokeymans died for me after G/S/C. I tried playing the newer versions a friend had. hell I couldn't even stand it after the first hour. Too damn complicated.
Except us old guys. We always remember…
…
…what were we remembering again?
Hell, I still have an Atari 2600 that i still play.
Hell, I never tried catching em all. Missingno, Mewtwo, and Mew were enough for me.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
You kids to day and your hippity-hoppity music and your backwards hats.
Pokemon Yellow was the best. T'is the only pokemon i played on an actual cartridge (the rest was emulators) and even when i played Pokemon Crystal (for some reason i always play the combined pokemons) i'd still rather go back to yellow.
Damn cartridge corrupting about 7 times XD Anyone else have that problem? Not corrupting from MissingDong, just in general.
HOLD IT!
Arceus is an awful god. Don't let it blow your mind.
1. The Pearl Pokedex says it can create a universe with its 1000 arms, so why can't it learn something as simple as Thunderpunch? Or any arm related move for that matter.
2. What self respecting dog shapes themselves after a llama?
3. Or in fact submits itself to being a 10 year old's slave.
4. And how does something that can create the universe forget as something as simple as how to tackle? I DON'T CARE if it was made to be powerful. Mew just overpowers Arceus in that aspect then.
Honestly Nintendo, what are you smoking nowadays?
Wut 'bout Magikarp? You can't forget the awsomest Pokemon evar 3:
I'm from the minority who loves the new ones still then? Sure most pokemon aren't that cool, but, Infernape, Electivire, Garchomp (DRAGON! SHARK! JET FIGHTER!!) and a few others are pretty cool.
Plus, the battle and raising system became so much better in Gen III, sure it looks the same on the outside, but what lies within is a much easier way to raise your pokemon into being a rape-machine, older pokemon got nerfed in Gen IV (Snorlax, i got a Focus Blast with your dead name on it) and other older ascended greatly (Gyarados, finally you can use water attacks) and Items can develop good strategies rather than just using leftovers for everything like we all did in Gen II.
The battle strategie is simply much better now than back then, and in the end that's what counts. Plus HGSS lets you play the GSC music instead of the HGSS music.
I dont have to remember. I have my yellow and thats all i need >.<
The sad part is, i sold my GB Color…. now id do anything to get it back…… but i still have an SP. Yes, total shitfest. But it plays, and i have to make due.
And your XBoxes and Playstation 3's, and your webcomics
I dont go that far back. But i do have an N64 that i play occasionaly. I've had damn well near every system past the Game Boy color.
Hmmm….nope. But then again, i never hacked
Oh i remeber that :D
I wonder why that's why America is how it is…..the childhood obesity……
I never did 'catch 'em all' but i probably have onough versions where i could. Got damn near close on yellow, then my cousin new-gamed.
I damn near cried Shawn.
Thank you for that.
I caught them all in Red, then GSC came by and i say "well, i'll try" never did it, then RSC came and i was like "I'll play but no way in hell i'll catch 'em all" then DPPt came and with them the option of using the internet. I was happy and caught all 493 of the little bastards. With the internet.
Just nowadays? They made a game about chasing down a dragon after downing a mushroom.
I never played Crystal, but I can honestly say that, along with the majority of people here, the second generation was and will remain my favorite Pokémon generation.
When Ruby/Sapphire came out, I was just too jaded towards all the additions. Running shoes, okay, I like, but only because you showed D/P/Pt how to do it right. Secret Bases? Okay…Cool? Contests? What the hell? Really?
The main thing I really have to say though:
Fuck. The. Battle Tower.
Musclekarp > Magikarp.
you young people and your hand held games that have color in them… I both pity, and envy your ignorance. -_-
actually Pokemon for me hit it's peak during the ruby/sapphire. I even got my blazikken to lvl 100, which was pretty cool since my short attention span kept me from playing most of those games past the eight badges anyway… -,-
any who, other than retarded stuff like contests, and pokeblock ruby/sapphire was in my opinion the best of all time. (OF ALL TIME) and yes, I was there for the beginning, so I know how it should be.
so very true…. but this person is WAAAAAAAAY too British!!!
Murderkarp > Musclekarp
Duke Nukem Forever predates most webcomics
I lived to see this internet thing grow!
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN! I'll go back to my Altair.
Überkarp > Murderkarp
you know im fine with pokemon… sort of i just wish the story would chage… and you could do in the game what you could do in the show, they need to make the games better
I still have my brick (original game boy). Tetris was never as fun
I think my silver did, I noticed when NPCs started to talk in icons
Yeah, I know that.
Lemme rephrase that.
"Compared to back then, what are you smoking now?"
F**K YEAH, SEAKING! > Murderkarp
I do believe my good sir I just became a legendary commenter
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Gawd dammit, i still regret selling my Snes… I loved that thing more than my dog….
AND THE WINNER IS….. Alpar!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
They had battle towers back in Crystal >_>
And believe me…50 bucks that says you can't beat it on your first try.
Disregard the fact that I said F**K YEAH, SEAKING! was better than Murderkarp, when it should've been better than Überkarp.
I have to agree with Shawn. Gold and silver were a delightful addition and a decent sequel but after that it seemed Nintendo was trying to pull a Sega when it came to Pokemon.
I, like the majority here, think the series peaked at Gold/Silver. My theory goes something like this -- For the first games, it was something new and exciting that they wanted to do well, so of course, they put the effort in. Then when it came time for Gen2, they knew that adding on to something like this would be big and could make or break the franchise, so of course, they put the effort in.
Then from Gen3 onwards, they knew it was already popular, so they decided they couold do whatever.
It makes me sad in my pants.
Oh, right. Can't forget..*Ahem*
I FIGHT, FOR MY FRIENDS! :D
Congratulations on your legendary status.
Now if only my e-peen would increase faster…
Am I the only one who feels homicidal to all new pokèmon or is that just me?
I might still have a Sega Gamegear somewhere. It's probably off eating my batteries again…
But you secretly don't have any friends.
Prepare yourself!
From what I've heard, the Battle Tower in Crystal had set teams you had to fight against. While not as exciting, it at least gave you a chance to prepare for what they threw at you.
The newer Battle Towers are all random, which sounds cool. But if you're a completionist like me, you'll have to gauntlet through 100 friggin' floors of that God-forsaken building. And because of the random nature of it, you'll never be prepared for everything it throws at you. You may lose to a Special Wall because you didn't have anything to counter it. Then you can go back in with something that can counter it, and get decimated by a Physical Sweeper because you had to replace your tank for the Special Wall counter, for example. I've clocked in over 500 hours total across both Ruby and Pearl trying to finish it, and not getting any further than floor 78.
Maybe it's just the fact that I have crappy luck, or the fact that I apparently don't prepare enough, but that Tower will always haunt me to the day I die…
You seem nervous.
Is it the accent?
Would you like to know how I got it?
So one day my father is acting crazier than usual so my mummy gets the teapot to defend herself.
He doesn't like that, so he pours boiling hot tea all over her.
Then he comes at me and says,
"WHY SO BRITISH?"
HOLD I- Oooh! shiny!
Everything needs a bad sequel. Thankfully, we have remakes.
In America!
I'll bet you wanted to go Cucco on him.
I will be surprised if anyone still have old Gameboy…
Well… I do…
All hail my R4 chip!
Y'know, adding dark type gave birth to the two ultimate haxxor pkmn's. It was fun to have new types yes, but to have a sneasel or a spiritomb with wonder guard against you in every friggin'online match sucks balls! They're both ghost/dark so no weaknesses… That was pretty much the reason for me to quit most of them.
Wanna buy my GC? I'll even get you some games with it, including Gold. Ah, cloning your legends to give 'em to your friends… Good times, good times.
I only go back as far as the GBColor, but I have some experience with the N64. Those controllers where too darn big =O
Truly and excellent job good sir! Care for some afternoon tea with biscuits? *tips top hat*
does GBC count as old?
And then he takes out a newspaper.
He starts putting fish and chips in it.
All the while saying "WHY SO BRITISH?"
And then, I noticed something.
He put mayonaise on it… from 1901… The horror! *shiver*
RAGE BOOST ROFL TO 100 E-PEEN!
. . .
GO!
OBJECTION!
Anyone else realise that he doesnt have a dsi?
Its just a DS lite.
Um, sorry, but nothing happened to Pokemon. We all just grew up.
Talk to a 6 year old discovering Pokemon for the first time, and you'll realise that what they're treasuring is a whole host of little secrets that makes it their special world. They'll find the spicy poffins incredible and the concept of putting honey on trees amazing.
If you're old enough to remember R/B/Y, you'll play every other game wanting to have that same sense of wonder you had when you first realised who Giovanni was. But it's got less to do with the game, and more to do with how old you are.
Nothing really that wrong with the new games, but they are for children. So if you're happy to suspend disbelief and pretend to be a kid, you have to do the same thing for your expectations. Or, if you'd like to enjoy games for the experience, the stories, the shared heritage that being a gamer is, and most importantly the memories, then cool.
So, I intend to purchase HeartGold not because I want to be a ten year old again, nor because I want to rage about how they messed up the plot and put in the wrong extras. I just want to see if I can beat Brock's Onix with a pikachu.
*crappy commercial* PLATINUM, BUY IT IN A MONTH! IF YOU DO, WE'LL GIVE YOU A GOLDEN HEART OR A SILVER SOUL WITH IT! *behind* haha that sucked. *boink* quiet you! DO IT! DO IT NAO!
I do believe the social gathering we call a party has just started. My fellow old chainsaw would like to be part of a ball of social disturbance known most likely as a riot
I cannot help myself but to agree chap. Ah yes, social disturbances. Good times, good ti- If you'll excuse me, I will now proceed with the act of removing an intruder from my neatly cared for lawn that will look rather frivolous in a mere five centuries. Thank you for your time. *outside* hey you, you dirty rapscallion, get your blubbering bottom out of here right this instant!
I once felt that the new games were ruining the series too. However, after I found myself getting into the more competitive side of Pokemon I welcomed the new changes and pokemon to the games. If you really look into it there are still a ton of possibilities for pokemon that still have yet to be explored. I say keep them coming Nintendo!
Ehhh…
Ok.
GBC is slightly younger than GB so why not?
So you're gay for Soren?
…
*Walks up to Leo*
*Slap*
WHAT IS MY NAME?!
Sneasel's ice and dark….
As do i , my friend. And maybe i will buy the GC
Mudkipz>F**K YEA SEAKING
My friend, that was r/b/y.
And DO YOU KNOW HOW FRIGGIN HARD THAT WAS??
Fine Sir. Thou art deserving of a +1.
Methinks if you don't like the direction the franchise has taken, don't partake in it. Someone who mourns for the past, scorns the future, yet buy a DS and a copy of D/P/Pt is clearly confused. I've played every main series pokemon game released happily (Crystal being by favourite) because I know I enjoy the franchise and know what I'm getting myself in for. It's a brilliant, addictive concept and though I've grown over the years, I still find it great fun.
Nevertheless, twas a brilliant song.
Radiant Dawn Epilogue, if Ike and Soren's memory scenes have been viewed and they have an A support:
"When peace had settled on the land, Soren packed lightly and set off with the only person he had ever trusted."
IKE AND SOREN RAN OFF TOGETHER.
Link is broken.
But I know what you mean. Remember Mewthree? My brother, who was four years older than me, fell for it.
Not just that but Sneasal or Spiritomb don't have the Wonder Guard ability…only Shedinja does.
oh god, i think i just cried a little. those originals were when you could actually imagine you had a Pokemon like pikachu is to ash. mine was fearow. i loved my fearow. one day, though he got deleted by the stupid game's lack of memory capability. after about a year, it reset itself. they fixed it in crystal version, but by then it was too late. i will never have a pokemon game as magical as that.
That's Ike. I'M not gay for Soren. Ike is (And it saddens me to admit that)
I find myself forced to disagree. Not only do I still get enjoyment out of playing R/B/Y again today (genuine enjoyment, not nostalgic enjoyment), but playing games "intended for kids" that I have no nostalgia for (whether because they're new or because I never played them when they were new) I can tell the difference between whether I'm enjoying the game or not.
Sure, newer fans who never experience R/B/Y or G/S/C may enjoy the newer ones, and I don't think that's because of age. I think that's simply because people's opinions may differ. There's nothing wrong with them enjoying the new ones -- I just don't. And it's not because of my age.
I just cried a little bit. LOL
I've been playing Pokemon since the beginning. I had Red and my sister had Blue. I love every new incarnation of the series, they always add a lot of great features that makes the game a lot easier. Granted they also add twice as many extraneous crap, but you gotta take the bad with the good. Me, my fiancee, and his brother are some of the few people that while we look back at the originals nostalgically still thoroughly enjoy ever rehash and will shell out the $35 for HeartGold or SoulSilver this coming Sunday even though we already have Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and everything that came before.
The true bastardization of the series is the spin-offs. It's one thing to keep making new versions of the same game, but saturate the market with even more child-bait? I mean, I don't see any point to Pokemon Ranger. Mystery Dungeon is kinda interesting since you play AS a pokemon, but it doesn't need to follow the same route as the original series and have multiple versions.
Didn't mean sneasel, meant uhh… dangit what's it called… sableye.
Yeah I know, I was talking about the hax pkmn's in online battles. You meet a lot of ppl who have at least one spiritomb or sableye with hacked wonderguard. That way you can only kill them by burning or poisoning.
I have the old Brick one. Still works too. Now I just need to find my Yellow with the surfing and flying pikachu.
All that money they made when they reduced the Franchise to a rush to just make said money rather than games everybody can love.
But you fight for your friends?
Quite. . . .
Lesbian Anthropomorphic Mudkipz> Mudkipz
So do Olimar's Pikmin. I'm pretty sure they don't have homosexual feelings.
Besides, Ike also does crack and heroine.
*Awesomeface*
But I learned in algebra that if A=B and B=C, then A=C…
DOES NOT COMPUTE! *brainsplode*
VICTOLEE! :D
Take off the nostalgia goggles for a second, kiddies. Maybe it's just because I was already sixteen when Red and Blue were new, but as I kept on playing the series, it only got better and better. I couldn't wait to see the new features Gamefreak added to the franchise, and I was consistently floored by how it expanded and deepened with each new set of games.
Yeah, the old games were great. I still have all three of Red, Blue and Yellow, and I've got great memories of them, but Pokemon has never been as good as it is now, and it's only getting better.
I've got my good ol' black and white brick, I do. :D Although the adhesive, for some reason, failed to keep the darker grey plastic screen on the front. But it still plays Kirby Pinball Land.
Some statistical analysis.
In the first gen, there were five legendary Pokemon, and they were rad. In the second gen, six more, and they were even more rad.
In the third generation, there were ten. Not too many, but it was starting to get a little gimmicky, plus for the first time you had to have either both games or the third game to get all the legendaries (and you had to choose between two of them with the third game).
The fourth generation had fifteen I can think of off the top of my head, but I think I’m missing a few. Many were special events, and of course more version exclusiveness; One you needed to have the older games to get. There are now over thirty legendaries (so, yeah, I definitely missed a few, I think there’s like thirty-six, but my legendaries box has become two boxes now).
Who the Hell knows how many B+W are going to have?
The remakes of Gold and Silver are rad, because they have all the gameplay improvements but you don’t have to use these new Pokemon that have all become either shitty Jigglypuff knockoffs or these weird spiky monsters.
Also, I didn’t like the first-generation Pokemon much. It was a great game, but only a few Pokemon were cool, like Charizard and Fearow (and of course the legendaries). The second generation definitely had the best Pokemon; The ideas were still neat and novel, but the art was much improved and they weren’t all “variously-coloured balls with limbs.” The third gen had some neat ones, like Absol, but all-in-all the new Pokemon sucked. I only like a few fourth-gen Pokemon, including three legendaries (being Uxie, Azelf and Cresselia, Mesprit looks like it has dreds and that I cannot abide), and Lucario and a few evolutions of older Pokemon (particularly Weavile and the eeveelutions). I’m being perfectly frank. No nostalgia glasses. The later games were better in terms of gameplay, the older games in terms of content.
Looking forward to finishing B+W and transferring all my SoulSilver Pokemon into it. Will be so cash (Imma get White even though the white legendary looks cooler, because the environment looks nicer).
i dont quite agree with what all you guys are saying… i loved y/r/b but all the other pokemon games are equally as awesome i mean i agree with that 1 dude sort of the one who said it was your age that determined your intrest level but i know plenty of people who at this moment play pokemon d p pt and hs ss who are 16+
i disagree i know people 16+years old who play this and expirenced y r b yet they still love the newer ones
Good. God. Am I the only person who isn't totally in agreement with this little bitch whining about the "good old days" of a series that continues to pump out quality titles? I will admit, Generation I was a quality set of games. It introduced many of the mainstay features of the series. It had arguably the best anime series. My fondest memories of the series come from Generations I and II. However, sitting back and claiming that the series was only good on the classic Game Boy is not only false, it also shows how uninformed Mr. Day is of the current state of the series. I kid you not, I could do a line-by-line lyrical analysis of this song, and prove my point in every line.
How about a Game Boy Pocket?