The coding for the Gen 1 games, especially the original Pokémon Red & Green, were practically held together by chewing gum and hope.

Can imagine being mid fight and a wild Pokémon just slams a door on you and causes damage

The Magikarp thing isn't a mistake to the Magikarp seller, i'm sure he was very happy to take the money without giving anything in return

Those dang evil Pokémon, how dare they attack me when I disturb them.

In the italia version they translated "pound" as "libbra", which means pound but as unit of measure.

Biggest mistake was Cynthia’s Garchomp NEVER missing Dragon Rush despite missing for me 95% of the time

those facts on the pokeballs make me feel so betrayed. Kind of like finding out you're adopted. I spent so much time harvesting those apricorns.

Spearrow used Mirror Move Spearrow transformed into Ditto Wild Ditto was caught Ditto/Spearrow: I guess this is my life now.

Speaking of Trade evolving with NPCs, in 4th gen there was an NPC who offered to trade you a Haunter for a Medicham. Many players took this trade, thinking it was a one-way trip to a free Gengar. However, upon doing the trade, Haunter will not evolve. Talking again to the NPC, she'll at first ask if the pokemon evolved, then taunt you by telling you that she gave the Haunter an Everstone to hold before trading it, which keeps it from evolving. Scumbag Gamefreak.

"TO THIS DAY, no Pokemon evolves by using burn heal" I don't believe it

1:52 another word for “hook” is “crook”. Thus, “hooked” and “crooked” could be seen as synonyms. When translating “crooked” from english, you could end up with “malvado” as “crooked” and “wicked” are synonyms. This is likely caused by English’s ability to modify the parts of speech from a noun to a verb. However, the translator was unaware that “a hook (noun) could ‘hook’ something (verb).” Thus: “Hook-ed?” Hook = crook. Crooked? Let’s go with it. Malvado.

Me: Pikachu use door slam. Victim: My Leg! Me: It’s super effective!

One mistake I read about recently was that Shiny Jirachi was at one point banned from passing through Poke Bank because it didn't consider it legal. Despite the fact that you can obtain one using the Colosseum Bonus disc. The mistake has been fixed ever since.

One of the bigger mistakes was when a newspaper had a picture of Pokémon Gun, as if it was actually a 3rd game that went along with Sword and Shield.

Remember when saving in Lumiose City in XY corrupted your save? Remember how entering the Hall of Fame in ORAS crashed the game? Remember when updates weren't a thing so they had to be extra careful when releasing a game? Because I don't think devs do nowadays.

Focus Energy in the Gen 1 Game Boy games actually lowers the critical hit chance instead of increasing it. It was corrected in Stadium

On the topic of Pokémon with illegitimate moves, there's a Lanturn in Victory Road in Pokémon Emerald that knows Earthquake.

Ghost, Bug, and Dragon were such underutilized types for quite a while, especially with moves. It really shows that even from the beginning, many regions have struggled with balancing the prevalence of types without bloating the Region’s native Pokémon.

Maybe they confused hooked, and crooked when translate so they just changed it to evil?

So that's why she gave me that badge! I honestly thought it was her way of saying "you fought hard and long; here's the badge for sheer determination". An oversight seems more realistic though.

I went into this thinking it would be obvious stuff that I already knew... but wow, I had no idea how buggy the pokeballs in gen 2 were, that moon ball one had me laughing in particular.

I feel like they purposely kept Gumshoos' cry for Totem Raticate, as it sounds much more intimidating than Raticate's actual cry.

The earlier Pokémon games had their charm, but *man* are they a product of their time.

Getting rid of fat pikachu was a mistake

counterpoint: the love ball was NOT an error and in fact every pokemon in johto is gay

majority of the video is about g1 kanto. yeah, they're broken as hell :D but fishing in the water parts of a gym is a 'mistake', but being able to fish in those statues not? ...ok

"To this day no pokemon evolves with burn heal"

Another spanish move that wasn't fixed until X/Y was Counter named wrongly as "Contador" and then "Contraataque".

This video should've been 12 hours long.

I remember catching all those evil wicked magikarps

It's refreshing watching one of these without the first 2 minutes being about the sponsor.

wait, being able to fish in that gym in silver wasnt a feature?

"to this day a burn heal doesn't evolve a Pokemon" oh well maybe this status curing item might evolve a Pokemon eventually I guess.

Well, now I know why the fast ball never helped me catch the legendary dogs.....

Game Freak: Okay guys, we need you to QA your translations! Please be thorough, we don't need any weirdness in a kids game! Spanish translation team: ... *¿Quieres?*

It's really nice hearing about the spanish translation of Pokémon. Those details usually go unnoticed

Game Freak used Programming! It was not very effective...

The Gumshoos error is also in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon lmao

A pretty huge translation mistake also occurred in the Italian version of the game. The move "pound" was translated as "libbra". That is because apparently the translators were not aware of the fact that pound can be intended as a verb (to strike). Because of that, they translated it to "libbra" which is the italian name of the weight unit measure of the united kingdom (pound)! Pound can have three different meanings: - To strike -> “colpo” (the correct one); - Currency -> “sterlina”; - Weight unit of measurement-> “libbra”; This mistake affected both the first and second generation games.

"For more information, watch the Did You Know gaming vi-" AN AD PLAYS "-deo on Red"

Evolving holding a Burn Heal. Yo new tech right there

I would really like to see more of these mistake videos, this one is really damn interesting😁😁

Mew cant be found in the wild? *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT!?*

I never got to trade Pokémon way back then, so they never went and evolved.

Did you know? Pokemon Red and Blue got their name because of the cartridge color

You left out the Flabebe in the Battle Maison with a Floette's cry

4:56 Calling Mr. Mime "Marcel" was absolutely hilarious to me

EDIT: In Pokemon Stadium 2 You missed Bugsy calling his Heracross to use " MEGAPHONE " instead of the move " MEGAHORN "

Hope we get another Bobdunga collab soon. This was a good VO.

I remember in Gen 4 "Counter" was translated in Italian to "Contatore" which means counter, like, something that counts numbers It used to confuse me so much

The Move splash is also a mistake, in Japanese it means hop, which explains why pokemon like hoppip can learn it

This video was awesome. Great editing. I love how it referenced a lot of the first gen pokemon and crystal and others

In early versions of Ruby and Sapphire, Mawile is named Mawhile, though this was fixed in the 1.1 version

Funny how the Raichu evolving NPC is technically right since Gorochu was going to be the Raichu evolution.

The fact the magikarp salesman still takes your money definitely seems to be in character Salesman: hey kid, want to buy a Pokemon? Player: sure *pays* Salesman: sorry kid, looks like you have no room, come back with an empty slot and you can pay for this Pokemon

Wow, you guys should absolutely work more with Bobdunga! Happy to hear her in this video!

BIG CONGRATS TO Bobdunga!

Oh, awesome, Bobdunga! I love the pokemon series, but does seem like the games are often programmed a bit weirdly. Quirky team, Game Freak.

Thanks for the bit on Raichu's evolved form. It make me jump into a rabbit hole of prototype info that I didn't know came out recently. That was the coolest thing since the Gold/Silver 1997 demo

It should be noted, that outside of the MegaTen games, the type of gameplay being offered in Pokemon Gen I was still fairly new at the time. With Chrono Trigger's "Twelve Endings" being a unique new concept at the time. Even then, the type of Cute Monster RPG mechanics in Pokemon was far beyond what you would see in a MegaTen game at the time--as you were using the monsters as your characters--and not as a form of weapon/equipment/esper to aid other characters. Going further--it was also being programmed in z80 Assembler due to the processor restrictions on the GameBoy hardware--on a PC such an RPG would likely be programmed in C... and still take about as much time to complete (looking at the first three Elder Scroll games, first two Fallout Games, anything by Lord English and the Never Winter Nights installments). Assembler is a bit more of a pain in the hind end to debug than C... and the game was going in a rather experimental direction that was new at the time. If you wish--a decent comparison would be with the various SaGa games by (then) Squaresoft (Now Square-enix, or Squeenix if you will). Not that Atlus' really ambitious JRPGs of the time were without their own glitches. While the GameBoy's SaGa games only have a couple of new concepts in them--the SNES "Romancing SaGa" would be a better comparison to what glitches and stuff show up in a "standard" play through. Just for a further comparison, throw in the N64's Paper Mario--a game that came out at a time when we were still dealing with Tearing, Boundary Breaking, Falling out of level, etc. issues in games that were not doing anything weird with what they were rendering. With Paper Mario being all, "hey... so you know those glitches in 3D games that we already have issues avoiding... how about we make those a million times harder to deal with via the code?" To be able to "tut tut" these games--you need to look at what had came out, whether the errors made were "common errors", or if they were the earliest people to discover those "common errors"--and understand this as an evolving art form made by humans (humans make mistakes). This is not at the video--more just the comment section that is jumping on the "Gen 1 had glitches"--without really understanding the whole Gen 1 had glitches... apart from knowing that repeating a few key phrases gives the illusion that you are intelligent and know stuff--apart from knowing to repeat a couple key phrases. I mean--there is a certain point where harping on something without understanding what you are harping on about just looks silly... even if it is about how Gen 1 has glitches. Let's just dial it back before that point, shall we? Before the "starting to look silly" point?

"There are no Pokemon that evolve using burn heal." Darn it, guess I bought all these for nothing.

I don't know who this person is, but it's great to see you guys bringing on more voices for DYKG videos! You can only listen to Dazz and Greg's voices so many times, you know? _(not that that's a bad thing, mind you)_

And of course the move Focus Energy not only not working, but being harmful to you in the original games. Anyway this was a super fun episode! It's always cool to see DYKG reaching out to new channels like Bobdunga!

I clicked and Bobdunga's channel out of curiosity because she looked familiar in the thumbnail of the featured video... turns out she's the very same Ray Mona who found the lost Saban Moon pilot! 😮

I guess you could say the mistakes were ONIXPECTED

I actually realized that big with pikachus cry - back then thought I was just playing too much and needed a break

I always thought Raichu looked like middle pokemon, started playing since red and blue (but haven't played all versions) and been confused about that for 20 years. Thanks for clearing that up.

Thanks for reminding me that something was up when I played Crystal for *years*! I was given an official Pokémon guide from a close friend way back when and I recall it saying that Dragon type was weak to Dragon, and I think it may have also said that Psychic type was weak to Ghost (I'm going off my memory here, the book is currently in another state right now).

Game Freak - the only game company whose core series significantly improves as third party spin off titles

Damn, those Pokeball/Item effects not working or only working in extremely specific or impossible cases is just...inexcusable and piss poor programming. Like I know it's easy to overlook things but holy shit, if an item is advertised to increase damage of a certain move and then it just doesn't, that's ridiculous.

That was fun! Great info, nice voiceover.

I love how to jump straight into the video. We know what we clicked on and soooo many channels spend 2+ minutes on an unneeded into. so thanks

*El malvado Magikarp* Wow, he must be more menacing than Mewtwo.

There's a mistake in Let's Go in which a young NPC girl refers to her Butterfree as female when the Pokemon next to her is, in fact, a male Butterfree! She can be found in Pewter City near the museum.

You missed my favorite sun and moon error. When in a double battle with hao, and if he has a Primarina, he has a chance of mistakingly using a water z move on your pokemon.

the ghost vs psychic thing! that explains why i can never get that type matchup straight!

Did you know, Bobdunga voiced this video and that makes us all very happy💕

Raichu went and evolved to Goruchu but that won’t be revealed for 20 years.

Didn't expect to see Chuggaconroy's pokemon Crystal let's play at around 6:00 the nostalgia

It's nice to finally know why I never got anywhere trying to beat the psychics with ghosts in Pokemon Blue. I did think it was weird at the time that there was only one set of ghost Pokemon. Bizarre that Game Freak made an entire Pokemon type intended to be strong against psychics and then gave them all a secondary type that nullified it.

Bobdungaaaaaaa

Me: *throws a Moon Ball* Moon Ball: "Better have Burn Heal!"

Thank goodness for the continue glitch in Stadium 2. It was a big help!

When I watched this, I thought all these errors I already knew. but the one with the pikachu cry in the pokedex, I didn't know that at all. Good job for not using only facts that everyone knows (like the Nidorino/Nidorina thing)

Okay...as a native spanish speaking person I can say...I loved your pronunciation. It was not accurate at all...but I loved it anyways.

The biggest mistake in the Pokémon games is Pokémon X&Y 's Lumiose City Save Glitch

getting Bobdunga on board for this was NOT a mistake

Strange, I thought Lick was a Normal attack until Gen 2... I knew about the invisible PC in the hotel! Proud of myself for that one lol

The biggest mistake is not even being able to catch all Pokemon in the new games

Was that gen 2 game play from Chuggaaconroys lp of Pokemon crystal ?

Ey, Bobdunga! That's awesome! -Matt

Something weird I've noticed is that in the Gen 2 games (at least Crystal, don't remember for sure about the others) the Nurse Joy in Fuschia City (just that one) had green hair instead of the usual color.

0:20 Nidarino: “Don’t assume my sexual identity!”

Yeah but was the whole series actually planned for the n64 dd like every other game on did you know gaming?

3:07 is no one gonna talk about this poor magikarp being frenzy planted by a level 74 Venusaur??!!

In Ruby/Sapphire. You can use Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, or Hydro Cannon via Metronome. It wasnt a placeholder. They were programmed for use before Fire Red and Leaf Green were released.

Ah, yes.... the awful spanish translation. You know, is nice to know some english when in your game "slam", "close combat" and "pound" translations in spanish are "portazo", "a bocajarro" (i'm not even sure what does this means, and spanish is my first language) and "destructor" (destroyer) respectively. I can forgive some of the spaniard slang tho, but things like these shouldn't happen in a translation... There's a lot of attacks that suffer the same treatment, but those are the ones i can remember of atm.

I feel like there’s never women voicing DYKG so that’s good to hear for once

2:07 It could have been that there was a mispelling in the office that change "Hooked" to "Crooked"

"We spoke to several native Spanish speakers and none of them could explain this" wild --> wicked???