For a LOT of us, the music of the games defines a generation and time in our lives. As a lightly trained musician, I was aware of some of this, but some is also new to me.
For example, did you know that the percussion sound on the 8 adn16 bit systems was created by making high frequency noise, instead of defined high hats, symbols, etc? A lot of the audio on old systems was influenced by the hardware limitations, but… then there’s this absurdity that was Silph Co…
Further, I think that as a history buff and arts educator, I find that good multi-media presentations teach much better than just text on a page, so here ya’ go! I love the start of this, but also the references to classical, blues, and folk music in the original pokemon games.
When you scan short Dot Code of Machamp (New York Press Conference 2002) using a Western e-Reader, go to the TCG data and if you press in aertainequapRemet S, you can access to Glossary that doesn’t exist, making the console freeze (this is the only e-Card where this happens)
I have recorded a video and uploaded to Twitter. Contains loud sounds (produced by the console when it freezes) … That’s the reason why I haven’t uploaded the video directly here …
Meet Chrysomallom Squamiferum, the scaly-foot snail, an underwater extremeophile that lives around 400° C hydrothermal vents 2900 meters beneath the ocean surface. This creature was discovered about 2 years after Magcargo was designed.
Meet Alpheidae … Chrysomallom Squamiferum’s counterpart … If Chrysomallom Squamiferum is a defensive creature, Alpheidae is the attacking version.
This little guy measures only 5.3 cm … but it has a destructive claw that is able to launch a bubble that explodes … The bubble explosion reaches 4700 °C, so it burns its enemy alive
This species has a terrible eyesight … They had to nerf it, otherwise would be the most powerful species in the world …
The name of this species in Spanish is “Camarón Pistola” (Gun Shrimp)
From banned cards to exclusive holos, up until tonight, I truly thought I had come across every regional difference between English and Japanese Gen 1 & 2 sets, but evidently not. I never knew the Japanese counterpart, Crossing the Ruins (great set name), to Neo Discovery had two versions of the Ruin Wall card.
@Quuador references it above, and in a previous post (linked below), but sticking with the Crossing the Ruins / Neo Discovery theme, it is still wild to me that there was never an English version of this Eevee card, which helps complete this combined artwork of Espeon and Umbreon.
This combined photo can be found on the Neo Premium File 1, 2 & 3 folders, which all have pretty amazing artwork. Something I always hoped to get my hands on one day.
Later printed cards during the early wotc era had a cyan overlay that outlined the red HP and Pokemon powers in the USA printings. They can be found on the 1999-2000 USA “4th print” cards
I’ve posted about this on here a while ago, but I’ve always held a theory that some Pokémon cards depict Shiny variants though the card isn’t marked as a shiny officially. There may be some others, but these three are the ones that always come to mind.
It’s fitting that these all stem from the early days of Gen II, where Shiny as a concept was first being defined and colorations were being established.
Frankly, you could argue the coloration is due to lighting, but to me, there is something undeniable about these works when you compare them to other examples from the same set/series,
Expedition Machamp
Note how green he is compared to his Skyridge counterpart.
Neo Destiny Dark Tyranitar
On the one hand, this one looks the most similar to its Neo Discovery counterpart, but on the other hand, this is also the one I’m most certain about. The sandy, khaki skin is paired with the purple plate on the stomach. Paired with the fact that this set features an actual shiny Tyranitar. My theory is that this art was a commissioned option for Shining Tyranitar that was repurposed as Dark Tyranitar.
The third one in them pictures, the middle one in this. In some angles it’s gold others it’s silver. kanto classes it as silver in his collection post I’m classing it bronze, I may be wrong but there is a third variant.
I agree with the Rhydon to an extent, but it’s a grey area tho as they changed it to a grey skin tone in gen 3 onward. I prefer the darker coloring for sure, like seen on the jungle card
I was looking at the starter mime recently and noticed the name of its attack in Japanese is Yoga Pose. I had a lul and realized that’s where we get Meditate from. Can you think of a better localization?
