That Steelix/Sentret fight is pretty lopsided as long as the rodent knows surf

I have a friend who I used to abuse this game with, but he was murdered unfortunately. This really brings back the endless battles we had with modded pokemon. Gen 2 competitive pokemon is even more annoying when you have to avoid letting the person next to you see what you can or will do next.

Seeing the N64 struggle to read the cartridge and start the game put a nice smile on my face: That really is how it was. Can you imagine if a modern game console released and it was as finnicky as the n64 was? I also never really put it together till you mentioned it that the Delibird minigame was basically a retooling of the Likitung one, but you're totally right. Speaking of the minigames, I've always thought that Pokken (which I play competitively and do some community stuff with, I actually shot you an email about your eventual Paraspective on it) would benefit from a similar set of Minigames: Stadium's already focus on reaction time, pattern recognition, or precise timing and spacing, so I could easily see such minigames being used to teach fighting game concepts like timing combos or punishes/spacing moves, or responding to mixups, etc. It'd also be a great way to add some mode variety for more casual players or in a party game context, you could probably reuse the models and animations from the main fighting game mode in them, and In some ways Pokken is similar to the Stadium titles as a more dynamic and better rendered depiction of Pokemon battles vs the mainline series.

Ah yes, the children love Fraiser. Name their Pokemon after such iconic characters, they do.

Man, I used the GB speed boost to race through the games, get the legendary pokemon, store them, reset and repeat.

Still waiting on Pokémon Stadium 3 And no I don't consider Battle Revolution on the Wii a proper sequel

Imagine a new pokemon stadium game on the switch that allows you to access pokemon home... So many sad tears since that'll never happen.

Dr Dre the Togepi 😂

I remember when I went to Toys R' Us and was so hyped to get it. Man, that was an awesome time. I wish we could have a Stadium 3, with accessibility to more than 900 pokemon, it would be insane on how competitive it would become, truly a masterpiece being held off for a better future? Let's hope so.

The mini-games are insane, I made my friend play thru some games a while back, if you set the goal at max the game can go on for a really long time.

I'll forever be disappointed that the re-released virtual console games didn't get a stadium/stadium 2 re-release to connect with. I never got to play the stadium games back in the day so it would have been fun to experience them together. I'd like to experience the Gen 2 meta outside of showdown

Entei had his own movie and pichu had the short I think this is why they were mentioned.

Man, wish the current 3d models were as energetic and captivating as the N64 and GC ones.

I’d say they name dropped Entei since it was the feature of the 3rd movie

I wish I knew where all of the online stadium players are.. probably never going to stop playing these games

Playing Crystal on my N64 with Stadium 2 is in my opinion is the definitive Pokemon experience as a kid it was mind blowing

The best thing about this video was how often you showed Totodile

Parasect actually put in some work for me in stadium 1 r2. Spore having 100% accuracy sleep really came in clutch.

Pokémon Gen 2 was easily my favorite of the series thus far. I’ll always remember the time me and friends played Stadium 2’s mini games and battle each other without knowing too much about type advantages lol boy were we clueless back then. Good memories really.

Stadium 2’s far more durable saves is the last archive of People’s original Pokemon for a lot of people. Wish I had loaded some of mine on there now since all of my GB games have dead batteries. Stadium 2 was also the first, and currently only, official way of setting up tiers. It has a custom setting that lets you set up level limits, which Pokemon are allowed, I think it has settings for items even. Never used it since you needed hand raised Pokemon from the GB games for it, but it was way ahead of its time there. The models are actually so good that Colosseum and XD reused them for the first 251 Pokemon, hence Smeargle’s tail color being reversed.

I love the announcer I feel he brought so much interest to the battles in the games and anime. Little details like that are very missed today

Fun fact about Mystery Gift in this game... the game generates two items every time, one for you and one the girl will tell you she got. This is also the only way to get the Scope Lens, an incredibly useful item for competitive play, and one many high-level trainers in the game use! You only have a 0.2% change of getting the Scope Lens and you can only do Mystery Gift once a day (unless you have access to other connections such as Pocket Pikachu 2 or another game) I bring this up mainly to share my salt story of the time where I got a Bitter Berry and the stupid little girl got the Scope Lens. I will never be able to look at her the same way again. That thieving little...

Pokémon Stadium 2 and Pokémon Crystal were my first games and they hold a super close place in my heart.

As a parasect lover (fav bug type tbh) I'm pleased to have stumbled upon this channel.

I love Pokemon Stadium 2. Earl's Classroom was how I learned to "git gud" as the kids say.

Pokemon ended after I finished Pokemon Crystal and played all I could out of Pokemon Stadium 2 on the N64. Amazing and beautiful time to be a teenager at the time as I was in high school when I got these games back in the day a few short years before turning 18. When the Nintendo GameCube was released, the world became a darker and more horrifying place after what happened in New York around that time, but my memories was all about escaping the horrible reality by focusing on enjoying myself in some JRPGs that I got more into when I became 18 and could play any JRPG I wanted. Skies of Arcadia (GameCube version) became the JRPG that I resonated most with and that lead me down to some amazing and beautiful Anime inspired JRPGs on the PS3 and the PSP/PS Vita handhelds. But it was the Pokemon games that started that familiarity of JRPGs for me because back when I was a kid, living in PAL region often meant never getting any JRPGs unless you knew where to go to find them.

I was someone who loved Gen 1 and 2 as a kid. Had both Pokemon Stadium games as well. I liked Pokemon Sapphire, and I did rent Colosseum and Gale of Darkness, but I got to a point where I felt like I just needed a break from new Pokemon games for a while. I did eventually return to the series with Heart Gold in 2010.

These reviews are really good. I think this perspective is what a lot of people are missing in older Pokemon games. Or a Paraspective.

I just found this channel this morning and I’m absolutely in love, pokemon is such a good game series and I still remember the first game I got, a pre-owned platinum where the player name was Jacob and the game was action replayed to shit… I still remember my team of six mews and other silly shit I did, I’m now a senior in high school and still loving the games and KZfaq community around it, thank you for another outlet through which I can help grow my love for Pokémon!! Edit: when you said guide I had a ptsd flashback to sonic and said “Omochu” 😂😭

I cried thinking about the good old days.. And that it will never be like that again

Such an underated KZfaq channel. Love all your Pokémon content!

7:58 "Come in to my CLASSROOM. Listen to my lecture or practice in the battle. If you pass the tests, you can go to the next CLASS."

Lmaoooo I loved streaming stampede 😂😂😂 the AI clicking randomly always got a good laugh out of me

These are always really good and informative. I love these videos

That 249 Pokemon figure was because by then Nintendo did not include Mew or Celebi in the count. I think at this point they didn’t have set plans for Crystal and also didn’t know the shenanigans Gamefreak pulled with Mew in Gen 1.

This game is one of my favorite n64 games. I wish I could have received the full experience this game offered as a kid but I still had endless fun with my friends as we stayed up late and played the mini games and custom team battles with the bad rental Pokémon lol

Currently a hitmontop and Golbat away from having a full mini game shiny cartridge

This has legit became my favorite channel. Love the Pokémon content

I forgot I wasn't subbed to you before now. Fixed that! Loved your older videos on the TCG video game, and I had to see this when it came up on my feed!

251 is ‘nearly’ 250, technically speaking…

Ty so much for your insight!!!

cool video and channel. feels very relatable and interpersonal. keep it up.

I wonder if Entei's name was mentioned on the game box specifically because of the movie with him that came out around the same time. Btw, first time I'm seeing your channel and I like your content so far. I can't wait to see more!

I love these paraspectives, so much nostalgia

I beat the first pocket monsters stadium doing rental randomizer, pocket monsters stadium 2, and stadium rental randomizer, I’m ready for gen 2 goodness especially ost

Dux the farfetched is a school yard legend

I love the look of this game and the 3d models. Very cute

I agree the series had a lull in popularity during the mid to late 2000's. I stayed a big fan of the series but I could tell most people around me weren't interested anymore. But nowadays they're jealous because I own so many games from that time period that are pretty valuable now.

I love this paraspective so much. Such an underrated game

Cool video! :) thank you

Pokemon Stadium 2 is fantastic & Crystal is the GOAT! I'm replaying the series on my channel & can't wait to jump back on Stadium 2. Those animations & the announcer... Gen 2 was truly peak Pokemon

I just started thinking, since you mentioned why they didn't mention Venusaur or Raikou or Suicune. Perhaps because Blastoise and Charizard were actually on covers of Pokemon games in North America, so there is the correlation to owners of those games. As far as the legendary dogs, mentioning Suicune might spoil the Crystal coming out, and Raikou would maybe be too much electric or similar to Pichu and Pikachu, which they already mentioned, and their evolution is RAIchu, so maybe they were just keeping it fresh in their own way by mentioning the fire type Entei.

You do such a good job with this retrospectives, is like going back to those simple days, just hanging with Friends and enjoying Poke Mania. Such a simple and effective cover with Ho-Oh & Lugia. Man that was such a hype intro with the Gen 2 Mons. The Eevee mini is adorable. Also u still got a Mew?? Amazing. Looking forward to Gen 3 & Cristal.

6:59 ohmg! Now I know why The living dex videos loves Sentret.

I spent so much time playing Stadium 2 back in the day, specially playing minigames with my younger sister and being thoroughly humiliated in the gym leader castle.

So I guess I was today years old when I found out Pokemon Stadium has a PNG of the Hey you Pikachu 64 in the delibird game

Hitmontop was a true beyblade

Im glad im not the only one who loves the ghost riding the whip meme from Cosmonaut's channel

Unlocking the speed up feature in this game definitely needlessly more complicated and more work.

Pokemon stadium was one of the few games on the oldass N64 at my local rec center in school. Since we didn't have any gamepack, mostly we just play the minigames, but they were so damn fun. For the longest time I had even forgotten about the battling part and thought it was some Pokemon-branded Mario Party clone that we had been playing back in the day.

I used to love this game as a kid i remember having a 64 I didn’t play this game enough

The games eventually do lose their game saves. Might want to invest in hardware to do backup saves of them.

*Shows box art* "Now let's play the actual game" *Boots up emulator* Jokes aside, I unapologetically love the Stadium games. And the guides on Earl's Academy are surprisingly in-depth. Doesn't quite get to Bulbapedia levels of information, but it still goes into stuff like STAB and Physical/Special. Also I was pretty good at Egg Emergency, not satisfied with perfect i liked to see how many consecutive perfects I could get

Honestly, if you want to keep those pokemon, you should transfer them to the n64 cart and replace the battery. The fact your red still has battery is astonishing and it's partly why it took so many attempts to get it to register for the pak check

wow an OG pokemaniac who never played later generations? I’d pay to see you do a let’s play of some of the gens you missed. That’s a rare perspective!

What? No mention of how the player's Girafarig can be used in the Furret Mini-game? It's the silliest thing ever.

I'm sure you didn't even know that you can check with poke stadium 2 if you have shiny pokemon in the eggs that you got in GBC games just saying this info is more useful for the shiny hunters

I know your next challenge: go through the gym leader challenge with team fraiser on Pokémon Stadium 2!

Good video

Awwwww, yeah! The nostalgia is real. X3 Especially with little cup. Which fun fact: you can play RBY little cup. It's freaking awesome! They allow all lvl up moves. I love using Drowzee leads, with a Pidgey or Spearow assist. For Mirror move shenanigans. :3

Crazy, I found my Gold & Silver, N64, ps2, GTA 3, Street Crimes L.A. I still haven't played gen 3

Pokemon Stadium 2 is the best of the duology. (trilogy in Japan)

I learned all the secret mechanics from Earl!

Stadium 2 is the Sam and Max Hit the Road of the Poké franchise

You get a like and sub for the intro alone

The reason why gen 2 batteries die more often is because they use it for a clock AND the save file, original RBY is just the save file

I'm saddened. I used to have both Stadiums but lost them along with my N64 during a move. I loved both games, but funny enough I didn't even remember 2 until I saw those mini-games. I guess I know what I played the most. lol This vid made me want to replay it. Especially since it hit me that 2 actually does teach you how to play Pokemon than the main games themselves. It sucks that Stadium never got a 4 for gen 3. Battle Revolution isn't the same... But yeah, the 2000s the Pokemon fad was dying and around the early 10s were embers. It was still popular but not like it is nowadays, with the fad resurgence. Good times.

8:14 did you recorded this using real hardware with the expansion pak ? It looks way smoother than playing without the expansion

Gotta get a James Bond tour. That is a pretty beefy collection of editions. Do you collect the old novels as well?

Before Crystal was released, the only way you learned about its existence was through the Trainer School. Completing it unlocks the extended library, including Crystal exclusives.

Oh maaaan I have been waiting for this. Always makes my day when I see a new Paraspective pop up in my notifications.

Dang poor Earl 🤣

I don't think it's nostalgia to rate pkmn stadium 2 higher than the first one. I grew up with stadium 1, and it's the one I've played all my life. I love that game and I have so many memories with it. but until just very recently, less than a month, I get to play stadium 2 and I was very surprised at what an incredible improvement it is from 1. its A LOT more both in quality and quantity. I was really expecting a little upgrade from the first one, or even the same but with new pokemons, I was pleasantly and greatly surprised.

We need Nintendo to port the stadium games to the switch.

I hope I'm not the only one who noticed 19:21

I wish those transfer paks weren't so damn flimsy. I was surprised your still worked, tbh. Mine quit on me before this game came out, and I could never find one for sale on its own so I always assumed I had to find a new copy of Stadium 1 to find a new one, and the base game was nearly unplayable without one because the rentals all had intentionally bad movesets. Had a great time with the minigames though.

A Parasect-ive

waht rom are you using to have mewtwo as a rentel

Bro we both got black Kia Optimas

I wonder what's harder and more frustrating. Stadium 2 with rentals or Stadium Kaizo

Sadly my Pokémon Red and Yellow both have dead batteries now.

Would you say your brother knows eggs-actly what you mean?

1:30

I thought stadium 2 was missing mew and celeby

I love this series.

14:42 Is That Causmonauggt variety Hour? Marcus?

I would swap around Snap and Stadium 2 in terms of ranking N64 Pokemon games.

My copies of Red and Blue have dead batteries.

9:06 What the **bleep** are those cartridges and boxes?

I never played either of the stadium games but I do remember reading about 2 in Nintendo Power and thinking how cool it would be to own it. From the few people I knew who did own it they all gush about the mini-games they played with their friends and the battles they had between them so I feel that Pokemon Stadium 2 really shines as a multiplayer experience. IT's just a pity you need so many additional parts for it to shine but it's not the worst example Nintendo's ever put out (looking at you FF: Crystal Chronicles).