Super important thing you left out concerning the GB printer: If you complete the Unown dex (collecting all Unown letters), you can write messages in Unown font and print them out.

I never owned Pokèmon Crystal during it's initial release since my mom cannot afford to buy it. 20 years after its initial release, I finally bought it on the 3DS e-shop last year and it made me feel like I was 2001 again. Kind of bittersweet; I wish I got to experience this during my youth but there are things you cannot have if you are lacking on funds.

Only thing going against crystal is removal of mareep line. Everything else is absolutely top tier

Animations in battles was jaw dropping back then. This made the game vastly different from Gold & Silver. Just putting it out there.

I think a big part of Crystal's identity in Japan was the Mobile Adapter GB, a peripheral that let players connect their Game Boy Color devices to their mobile phones to do things like trade and battle with anyone in the country. Other features were also tied to the feature: the Battle Tower was completely different in Japan, being a network-exclusive feature, and you got an Egg Ticket from the Old Man that you had to redeem for the Odd Egg by connecting to the Mobile Station instead of just receiving the Odd Egg outright (meaning in Japanese games, it's not possible to get it without hacking). For 2000, I can see why it was so significant to Crystal's marketing in Japan. Though the feature was entirely localized, as leaks have shown us, the feature was removed entirely from international versions, likely because the age demographic of people who owned phones outside of Japan was much older at the time. With that in mind, it's really funny seeing the game's international marketing stretch itself to try and think of new features to advertise.

I remember doing the battle tower at level 70 and beating it for the first time. Just to get some calcium. By the time I had a team to beat it, my mons were maxed out on vitamins, such a waste. So I figured in my nativity that surely the level 100 rewards must be something special or better. I trained up my Snorlax Blissey and Shuckle to 100. Yes, I was that kid who went max stall in battle. Finally, having my triumphant battle in the level 100 matches. Just to get some proteins. That absolutely ruined my desire to do the battle tower anymore. The battle tower would have been the perfect spot to have the GS ball in the game. Or anything to give the player something good, at least.

Man I gotta say I got quite emotional at the end of the video when you mentioned 9/11 and pokemon going on a hiatus, since the original gens one and two came to an end around that time as well, thus marking the end of pokemania and all those fun "Mew under the truck" playground rumors (although gen 3 still had its fair share of interesting rumors, so not all hope is lost for people who like that stuff). Even though I doubt 9/11 had anything to do with the end of pokemania, and it'd still go out of style even if 9/11 never happened, it's still kind of sad, it's like the end of an era of sorts.

Crystal allows you the first chance in the series to play as a girl. This changed my life as a kid, and I have never looked back. Thus it is the best version.

Crystal on the GB tower on Stadium 2 is the definitive Pokemon experience

According to Game Freak, Shigeru Miyamoto was the one who suggested the two version idea for Pokémon (instead of each copy being unique depending on your ID number. Too much data). He also suggested the multi version idea to Capcom for the Oracle games.

This was my first game. 6 years old at Christmas. I literally felt like I was reliving it with you. Thank you

I had all three games. Actually, I still have them sitting in their boxes in my office. As a female player, it was huge to finally be able to chose a female avatar. How well I remember chasing those dogs around from route to route.

Feels like Gen 2 and 3 had the biggest leaps in innovation and improvements for the series Looking forward to what is essentially the most hours played for me! Gen 3!

I love Crystal. It was my first ever game that I got when I was a 1st grader. So many memories, I still have and play it to this day.

Something worth noting with Crystal in my opinion is that some Pokemon were moved to be available earlier in the game. Like Sneasel is available in Ice Path in Crystal, but in Gold and Silver if you wanted a Sneasel before going to Kanto it was impossible if you didn't have a buddy willing to trade for one. A major criticism of Johto is that a lot of the new Pokemon were only available in Kanto for some reason, so it was nice to see Crystal try and remedy that for some of them.

unown was a cool thing because "all" kids during the 90s loved pyramids, mummies etc.

Crystal was my first game. Best game ever! Wish I could have goten celbe

I remember when my Lil bro dropped our Gameboy Color in a puddle, and killed the crystal cartridge we had. I cry

Unknown shouldve had a side quest like the third pokemon movie. Wouldv’e been sweet and rivaled or surpassed Lavender Town.

I will always love Gen 2 for its innovations

Ok but those animations are the best animations in Pokémon Games ever

I just discovered you and I'm already loving that Paras and Parasect are your channell's mascots. Good choice, the Paras line is severely underrated and Paras is one of my favorite bug types (after Vespiquen, Beedrill, and Butterfree). Anyways, Pokemon Crystal is one of my favorite games in the Pokemon series but it would've been my absolutely fave gen 2 game if it weren't for the fact that you can't catch Mareep in it :(

So, this is a sad video for me. I vaguely remember playing Crystal, but sometime afterward this was the last Pokemon thing I interacted with until Pokemon Go. In 2001 I was 10, not "too old" for this stuff by any means, but I got into sports heavily. I dreamed of playing baseball (spoiler didn't happen past college), and I went into sports year-round. You may say I could still have played Pokemon video games and the TCG in my spare time, but things just went differently. MTV, XGames, Madden, Halo, and other things consumed my small life. Similar to Paraspectre's great Madden 04 purge, I didn't sell my stuff to buy a game (because I didn't own a system), I just sold all my stuff because I thought I was 'too old" and wanted the money for what I have no idea. Like so many others it is a huge regret. I don't claim to have first edition blah blah, but I had versions of all the cards, even some German cards as I have two cousins who I met only once in my life when they came to America and we traded. Despite selling a Charizard, my biggest regret was losing my holographic Neo Discovery water type Kabutops. Kabutops was equally cool to me like Scyther for those sick scythe arms. What stood out for this Kabutops card was the different typing from the original cards, and the holographic pattern was stunning, the shiny bursts like the bubbles in the water, and Kabutops swimming at you, scythes geared up for an attack. Yeah, I can go buy one on TCG Player, but it's like selling your old cartridge and losing your og starter, some cards you had when you pulled them in this case were special. Welp, enough crying, I could surf to Cinnabar Island with all these tears. I'll watch some other Paraspective videos for games that seem interesting.

Dude your channel is amazing pouring passion for these games, so nostalgic

Not having Mareep in Crystal was a stupid decision, as that’s like not having Electrike in Emerald.

Crystal was, and still is my favorite of the Pokemon games. It brought me so much joy as a kid, and I maxed out the gameplay clock. The Odd Egg with its enhanced chance for shininess also gave me my first shiny, a Smoochum. I never knew it was shiny back then, I just thought it had cool sparkles when it emerged because I hatched it myself lol.

I got crystal as a kid to replay g/s without overwriting my original save file, curse developers who limit you to one save slot

If Kanto was flushed out more then gen 2 would be the best games ever!

Unown was never popular; and it's the devs fault for making them almost entirely useless. Having a useful function of any kind could have changed Unowns destiny.

This was great :D I can't wait for the gen 3 ones!

The nostalgia hit was fantastic. Thanks buddy!

Refreshed my feed while playing crystal and this popped up! Great surprise!

oh man, I was 10 when this came out! proud to say, I've played every single generation! gen 2 are still the best games 😂

Thank you very much for this, one of my favourite new series and channel altogether! I played Silver & Crystal in Argentina, in a city where NOBODY had a gameboy :( I did the cloning trick to get the 3 starters on Silver, my pokedex had the most pokemon you can catch without trading but with cheating/cloning. I then played with a friend's cousin, obliterated him because I had all level 100 with rare candies. I asked to trade my Snorlax lv 100 for his MewTwo, but he didn't want to, until I told him that I would clone it and give it back! Such amazing times, I still have all my games plus the box for Crystal and Silver manual.

Mobile phone dlc and the Celebi event in the Japanese version was the extra selling point of this version

Love this paraspectives bro keep it going

The whole Neo era of GSC was incredible. Crystal was the best game in the Gen 1 and 2 series. It was the last generation that I actually paid attention to. Then the popularity fell off with me during RSE.

This takes me back so much

i traded my Yellow version for a Blue version because i couldnt get past team rocket in Mt. Moon. then a friend gave me japanese version of crystal along with a gameshark device! to this day i cant read japanese, but i had already beaten gold at that point, so i knew what to expect. except now i had access to cheats!

I downloaded the digital version of this game on my 3ds a little while back and it was my first time seeing the intro. It was so eerie with the Unown sounds. I still need to finish the game, but there's just so much uniqueness.

I remember being a kid playing crystal on emulator, and I went out of my way to catch parasect so I could "round out" my team. Always loved the bug since then.

In the GSC games, the male option’s name was Gold. He was renamed Ethan when HGSS came out.

I remember that first time I battle at Battle Tower... The guy used a Machamp with the elemental punches and MOP ME TO THE FLOOR SO HARD AND NOT EVEN LOST HIS MACHAMP AT ALL!

I remember playing the gold Version back in the days. It blew my mind! Thank you for this series

Another fantastic episode by the spore boy himself

Man i remember seeing this game at my local electronic Boutique and Sears (never bought it cause i had Silver). A shame Kris didn't appear on HG/SS. Also forgot about the Neo Discoveries booster set (fantastic art). Looking forward for good ol 2003 and the Ruby/Sapphire vids

My cousin had the gold version and sadly couldn't get a silver version, but during highschool a friend offered me a trade, my Mario party 2 for his Mario 64 and Pokemon Crystal so that's how I got that game. It was pretty good.

Gen 2 was my Gen 1 in terms of me being the perfect age to enjoy the game. I know Gen 2 isn't perfect, but to this day I think it is one of the best representatives of Old School GameFreak's passion for the series I.E exploring two regions instead of one and updating all of the sprites.

I had all 3 versions of this gen. Getting "bribed" for having good grades pays off :P I was a fan of collecting Unknown. I took the time to get the full alphabet. This was probably my favorite gen of all since the leap in features from Gen 1 to Gen 2 felt so significant at the time it just stuck with me... Also gen 2 had Umbreon: the best Eeveelution.

In well over 100 crystal playthroughs, I have never seen a shin, hatch from the mystery eggs...

This is my first game I ever got and played even tho I could never find out how to get past goldenrod as a little kid the day I finally did and made it all the way to Clair and forgot to save I wasn’t a happy camper 😅all jokes aside I love this series bro thank you for it.

I didn’t get to play Crystal until the virtual console release, as the original release was when I was just a baby. Now that I’ve played it, I’m inclined to say it might be the definitive Johto experience for me, even with HGSS in consideration. Sure the remakes made massive quality of life improvements, but the main thing about Crystal that appeals to me is the encounter table overhaul they did to make many Pokémon easier and earlier to obtain, which HGSS sadly didn’t carry over (and arguably made worse with its limitations on Sinnoh cross-gen evolutions). Only goof was making Mareep unobtainable, but if it HAD to be a Johto mon I can’t think of any that could be cut in its place since even Sunflora adds a lot of flavor to the games that a Kanto mon couldn’t (I guess maybe Slugma since it’s post game exclusive in every iteration, but I have a soft spot for the little guy).

Oh boy the end of an era of Paraspective!

Yellow & Crystal were my 1st 2 Pokémon games ever! In 2002 on my 7th birthday I received a brand new GBA and brand new copies of Yellow & Crystal. I’ve been a lifelong Pokemon fan ever since!

Pokemon Crystal was one of the very first videogames I bought with my own money. I played the everloving crap out of that game and it holds a special place in my heart. I still have the original cartridge but like most GSC cartridges the battery has run dry so I can't save my game anymore. I would love to get it fixed but I do not know how. I know you can replace the battery but I am too afraid of accidentally breaking the cartridge to mess around with it. I think I only managed to get a shiny from the Odd Egg once and it was a shiny Tyrogue that would eventually evolve into a Hitmontop. I loved that you could catch Seel midway through the game, there was a Dewgong on my team every playthrough that tore Lance a new one. I tried several times to beat Champion Red but I never could. Back when I was a kid I figured trainers gave better experience so instead of battling against wild Pokemon in Mt. Silver I would ride the SS Vermillion back and forth multiple times every Wednesday and Saturday trying to grind experience as much as possible. It was kind of bittersweet when I found out that HGSS doesn't reset the trainers every ride. The soundtrack is burned into my mind and I still recall Buena's Password's theme song since I checked in to score enough points for Rare Candies.

best pokémon game

so gold's name was always than even in gen 2??? Idk why this is tripping me. Crystal has a special place in my heart. Firered was mt first game and I feel in love with it so much am begged my dad to take me to gamestop and he bought be crystal. I thought the cartridge was so pretty

My theory on the Unknown came about because the Japanese developers had a fascination with the English alphabet. Much more of a treat for people who don't see English everyday.

Enjoyed

Brand new Paraspectre? Brand new reason to stay on KZfaq

Ah, Crystal Version. What got me into the Pokèmon games was this one right here alongside Gold Version way back then. The boxart and the manual were my favorite parts of owning the physical copies as a kid. Shame we don't see the coolness that manuals were nowadays.

No idea why they didn’t bring back Kris for the gen 2 remakes and gave us Lyra instead

Haha I just realized watching this since I grew up only borrowing pokemon games in gen 1 and 2 I realized I've never seen crystals intro in full before 😂

cool!! i skipped crystal so its fun to get to know more about it

see thats the one thing that always bugged me, was the massive character they gave to entei but suicune for what ever reason was the game mascot, like well for the color i guess i get it, but with entei it could have been ruby (thank god its not) or granite or amber ? idk i just liked entei a lot i guesss :)

Dude, don't make fun of the GameBoy Printer! My brother and I had a blast printing out our pictures from our GameBoy Cameras!

I don’t know why but even now, with them appearing in Go, I remain blissfully unaware of the legendary beasts

I heard Green will be resealed when Vizzi’s reopens

From gameboy color until the DS I had all the pokemon hand held games

"croc pot" made me laugh!!

I owned gold and crystal and my couzin silver and crystal and have to say pokemon crystal is in my opinion the best entry in the series made the game si much more enjoyable with the animated sprites and. Adition of the story/lore and ofc the battle tower spend hundreds of hours in the game as a child and adult

If I could get original copies of heart gold or soul silver I could die happy. That remake made me fall so hard for pokemon all over again. I played crystal when it was released with a "brand new" Gameboy color. (My mom bassically stole it from someone) I've never stopped wanting obtain a copy. But they have gotten so expensive.

Idk how as I kid, Crystal was my first Gen 2 game XD I guess I skipped gold and silver lol

Paras and magicarp where my first few shinies.. I was eight and didn’t know

Big pog

I thought Ethan was just in the remakes and the male character was named Gold in the originals.

you forgot to mention that summer 2001 marked 2 years since the New Radicals disbanded 😞✊

The world changes all the time. September of 2001 was no outlier in that regard.

First time viewer - this looks promising

I actually managed to get a crystal in working order with a friends help. Found the thing in a dumpster run for a school project and ended up using it as the main subject. I got a B- due to poor grammar on my report. :p

I believe in a Pokemon Crystal supremacy

To impress a dweeb, helicopter leaf~ I never bothered with Yellow, but Crystal was my first "definitive version" of a Pokemon game and the only one I care about. And let's just say, I also appreciate the series' debut of female player characters too. Also cements Suicune as a top fave legendary of mine... especially its beta sprite. Fun fact. I think I got a Mew from a friend -- who I now as an adult wonder about its legitimacy -- to sweep the Elite 4. And inevitably grind to a halt in Kanto. Prior to beating a bugfix of Blue last year, that was the farthest I had ever gotten in a Pokemon game. Crystal was great.

I would say only get Crystal if you haven't got Gold or Silver version. I got Pokemon Red before Yellow was released on GameBoy so I learned a bit when it comes to Pokemon games, wait for a year or two to pass and see what is coming out from Japan before supporting any Next Gen Pokemon series. Crystal was my final traditional Pokemon game before I came back to the series with Sun and Moon, simply because I wanted to focus on other Japanese JRPGs in my gaming life and couldn't fit Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire in my crowded budget. But I did get Pokemon Colosseum on the Nintendo GameCube because I was a huge Stadium fan during the N64 days.

Gold, Silver and Crystal were the best.

For the algorithm

Here's one game that really changed the landscape of pokemon as a whole.

Seriously hoping all the best for you in your life, just so you continue to put this series out until you get to scarlet and violet and beyond. I'm that selfish

Continuing to really enjoy this series!! Here's something neat about Pokemon Crystal including a girl character - I was really excited for it specifically for the ability to play as a girl. I remember really hyping this up as being like a new thing and that there were like no video games where you could play as a girl (I have no idea if this was actually true at the time but it was true of the games I was playing) and people around me were just like "uh okay I guess." I continued playing as a girl for several more generations of Pokemon, arguing i did this because it was 'different' from what most games would let you do. and then later i realized i was trans and it was like 'oh actually mostly i just like being a girl in pokemon because i like being a girl in general." And I know other friends who also joke about Pokemon Crystal "making" them trans. So for me the introduction of player gender choice into Pokemon ultimately meant a lot for my identity development and finding myself! Even though I have more nostalgia for elements of Gold like its intro cutscene and box art, Crystal holds a really dear place in my heart as well.

The only real Pokémon sequel. Series peaked and never improved

Algorithm comment

Whoot I turned it to 666

I've kinda got a personal attachment to pokemon crystal because I'm trans and crystal was one of the many things instrumental in the slow lifelong process of cracking my egg

Gen 1 > Silver/Gold > Gen 3 > Crystal

It's interesting to hear the perspective of an American, u guys really seem to think u're the center of the world, 9/11 didn't change the world, it changed the US, I have no memory whatsoever of 9/11 even being a thing when it happened (I was 6 years old), I only heard about it years after it had happened, I do remember the Iraq war being a very hot topic on the news

Well, you prob won't get much more views... except the challenge videos...Gen 2 is the last good gen

Crazy that while Pokèmon Crystal dropped in Aus, I was a few hours off being born on the opposite side of the planet.

Refreshed my feed while playing crystal and this popped up! Great surprise!