[SGB] Pokémon Red ~ Unused Prof. Oak boss battle (cheat in description)

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Published on December 1, 2021 2:02:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RBpAcKnkac

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Pokémon Red and Blue (1996)

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Here is what you came for, THIS is the Gameshark cheat that works:
01E22DCD

For some reason, despite most people showing this code working with any trainer in the game, for me this code only works if I fight that trainer in the tall grass west of Nugget Bridge. Also very much unlike everyone else, who seem to get his Blastoise roster from this code, I get Venusaur... despite my starter being Bulbasaur.

Really, I feel like the biggest reason I made this video is that finding working codes for the unused Prof. Oak battle nowadays is WAY harder than it has any right to be. Lots of codes you find on 20+ year old sites don't work right, or at all. This is a crying shame, since this is a really cool battle and the closest thing you can get in the game to a post-game final boss similar to what some of the later games would offer.

Anyway... Gee, it must be 2008 outside, or something, for me to feel like a video of this is necessary! I apologise for not being able to deliver a more exciting battle... You know how bad Generation 1's AI and movesets are. The only way I could ever have recorded anything but an absolute stomp is if I blatantly sandbagged.

Me posting Pokémon in this channel is not ENTIRELY unprecedented. I was arguably one of the first people on Youtube to hop on the hype train of the SpaceWorld '97 alpha version of the Generation 2 games on Youtube and some of my videos covering that game got reasonably popular.

It is my tradition to write a sort of review for the game I'm making a video of, but does anyone really need a review of this game? The Generation 1 Pokémon games are some of the most iconic videogames ever developed and kickstarted by far the highest grossing media franchise in history. Despite this, time has not at all been kind to these games as they've aged appallingly. Grossly incompetently made with glitches up the wazoo, horrible performance, subpar graphics even for the platform (and on top of that, most of the sprite art for the Pokémon look bad and completely off-model), a seriously inconsistent difficulty curve and by far the most similar pairs of versions in the franchise, as the differences between Red and Blue only really amount to a little over a dozen randomly curated 'mons. At least Pokémon Yellow goes a long way with fixing some of those problems, but obviously it can't exactly do miracles.

Generation 1 is undeniably carried by its concept, novelty and, nowadays, legacy. Damn near everything this game accomplishes well has been long topped by pretty much every single subsequent game, with the sequel generation Gold and Silver and the GBA Gen. 1 remakes Fire Red/Leaf Green perhaps best contrasting with the first games over how much this series has outgrown it in execution. If you're a fan of Pokémon yet never played the first generation games, trust me, you don't know what you're in for.

All of this, yet to be honest, Pokémon Red and Blue are still mostly "fine"... they're completely playable if you don't think about them too hard and establish a healthy amount of disconnect between it and the newer games. Of course they are infinitely more tolerable if you've played them beforehand, but even if you're a newer fan, this is still Pokémon (even if you need to squint to see it. If you're playing it on a real Game Boy, perhaps literally too).

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