How Pokémon Red & Blue Were Made

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United States ThatGuyGlen
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Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUHU2I-haA


Game:
Pokémon Red and Blue (1996)
Duration: 20:12
1,453,065 views
34,169

This Pokémon documentary details the development of the monster collecting RPG Pokémon Red & Blue and goes behind the scenes of their creation. Discover more about creator Satoshi Tajiri and how his love for bug catching led to the idea for Pokémon. The documentary also explores all the design decisions that development studio Game Freak, which consisted of only nine developers at the time, made and shows how Pokémon trainers were initially going to participate in battles with certain weapons for example.

It also takes a close look at all the hurdles Game Freak had to go through. The title was initially going to be “Capsule Monsters” but it had to be changed multiple times, because it resembled Ultraman’s Capsule Kaiju a little too much. Additionally, reducing over 200 designs for all the Pokémon to their favorite 151 proved to be a bigger challenge than anticipated. Furthermore, there was one moment during development that almost destroyed years of work. Lastly, the developers experienced serious problems when they were localizing Pokémon for various regions, because English for instance takes up more space than Japanese.

Sources:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtL-iav41hYanTSezn2IeImstxEh

Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_9zu2Ig88&ab_channel=PidgiWiki

Gameplay footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4psw3ccUI&ab_channel=GameArchive-NoCommentaryGameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O1OYQRqUag&ab_channel=hirudov2d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqkYZ037BaY&ab_channel=quill18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfANfIG5xps&t=298s&ab_channel=TheMarioBros.net

Other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4Q6AEGSoE&ab_channel=aleckirstein

Outro song: Thank You R.G.E. - Joe Bagale

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ThatGuyGlen currently has 1,453,065 views spread across 1 video for Pokémon Red and Blue. His channel published less than an hour of Pokémon Red and Blue content, roughly 2.31% of the content that ThatGuyGlen has uploaded to YouTube.