That's gonna be so much less of an insult after the Hawkeye series premieres and Clint finally gets to be the badass comic fans have always known he is
@@zpick2214 I choose grass as every starter, my first was Sapphire's Treecko I'm glad Andy had the exact Sun/Moon playthrough as me with Moon and the owl son lol
No lie though, Eevee is a precious boy that must be protected. My favorite bit is when you send it out to battle and it goes "fight!" Yes my beautiful murder child. Kill them all🥺🥺
I asked my Grandma for a pokemon game for Christmas when I was little, she got me Pearl. The problem was I had a gameboy and she didn't realize I couldn't play the one she got me, she bought me a different one later because she's the best. But one day, my parents got me a DSI for my birthday, imagine my surprise when on a whim I asked what had ever happened to that old game she bought me by mistake, and it turned out she had kept it in a shoebox in her closet for seven years after the fact. Still one of the best gifts I've ever received.
Can you imagine being a fly on the wall for that wake-up call? "It's four in the morning... what the hell?" "ANDY THERE'S A TAUROS COME QUICKLY." "ON MY WAY."
Side note, OMG, watching old episodes of SOTWE... The one from Nov 16, 2019 has Andy telling the same story. Wow. Just shows he has never recovered from that injustice.
I dont know why but any time I hear Mike talk about himself I'm surprised at how warm and compassionate he is. I shouldn't be because he's a lovely guy but 🤔
I feel him on his memory. Quite a lot, actually. When I got Magikarp for the first time and read its entry, I was so fired up to prove everyone wrong. I called my first ever Magikarp Bishop. He's been the Magikarp of all my Pokémon games thus far. Evolving him into Gyarados was always awesome, and he earned his place in every of my constant rosters for decades. Later, I went even further and bred a Magikarp, gave it an Everstone and trained the ever loving hell out of it. It became one of my most powerful Pokémon ever. xD I love them. :D
I relate to Mike’s segment a lot. Chimchar is super underrated, and also training weak builds/characters is just coded in me. Just look at Might Guy and Rock Lee from Naruto, who can’t ninjutsu but can flying kick your ribs through a mountain. 😂
@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human I’m doing this right now with Genshin lol. Amber, the first four star you unlock in the game, is the weakest character because she got obliviously power-crept. Been playing since 2021, it’s 2024 and I’m now randomly building one-shot sniper Amber, and she’s a beast lol. She’s even one of my favorite characters in story and this made her lore accurate. As for DnD, legit any class/subclass can be a beast, especially with martial classes. But the caster community thinks that martial classes suck because spells like banishment or some 5th level shite is their end-all/be-all.💀💀
Yes, so excited to have another entry in this series! Love hearing these non-scripted takes from you guys. One of my most prominent Pokemon memories was convincing my cousin to use her master ball to catch a Donphan in her copy of Silver because I thought it was super rare for some reason. She still hasn't forgiven me all these years later, and I don't blame her one bit.
I was thinking to myself as I watched that I couldn't recall any that specific experiences playing pokémon as a kid despite playing it so much. Then I remembered Whitney's Miltank 🙃
I remember this, the game is so easy until this point, then there's this difficulty spike in the form of a Cow with high HP and Full Restore as a special move!!
@@AldoLop I remember grinding outside Goldenrod city in that tiny patch of grass by the daycare for what felt like an eternity for my childhood self 😔 Rollout was the end of my childhood innocence
@@huppaduppa When I hit The Milktank, I didn't even really understand grinding. So while I did grind until I won, it was only off Whitney's Clefairy again and again as I challenged her again and again.
That thing with the Euro Tunnel just made me feel old 🤣 Back in the day, when they opened the Euro Tunnel, my dad won a contest and we were among the first people to actually travel that way and I remember very clearly that Pokemon hadn't come out yet at that point.
If this helps, Mike, Chimchar's final evolution form is a clear reference to the Monkey King in Journey to the West. He was a chaotic and ultra-destructive metaphor for the human mind, and literally became immortal 7 times over somehow. He wrecked all the armies of the heavens until the Buddah had to seal him under a mountain with all the collective power of the universe just so he would behave enough for the aforementioned journey to start..
I enjoy how "innoventions" has bled into other videos from the Blades in the Dark videos. Pokemon is a series I think I will always have a place in my heart for. Got into them all the way back at Red and Blue, they're brilliant games to relax and unwind with.
I've got a soft spot for the Mystery Dungeon spin offs, even the weak ones are enjoyable, and the endings always make me cry. Explorers is the best and the most emotional ending too. I can't think about it and not start welling up
yeah, had loads of fun. Even more so when you can ditch the hero pokemon and use whatever random you picked up instead. :D I spend SOOO much time using a Tropius in one of them. :D
I adore these types of videos and definitely want to see more of them, but I'm even more delighted to discover Andy has a Houndoom on his spooky squad because I feel like no one else ever mentions it and it's genuinely my favourite Pokemon ❤️
@@marinemanaphy101 that's fair, one of the first Pokemon games I owned was XD Gale of Darkness, and you get Houndour fairly early on and it's the BEST, and a fairly big reason behind why I love it so much haha
Pokemon is burned into my psyche as well. I was fighting my rival for the final time in the original Blue version and my battery light turned red. I managed to get thru the credit sequence and as the screen said that my progress was saved, it died. Such tension, but great memories!
Because there was only one, I was convinced Rotom was a legendary until like gen 7 when they made the pokedex a Rotom. Catching that felt like a big achievement at the time
Diamond was my first pokemon game. I distinctly remember being at the airport fighting the elite four in queue at the scanner things. The queue got shorter and I still hadn't finished the fight. It was intense. I have never battled harder. I was so close. They made me turn it off to have it scanned. I lost ALL my progress and had to fight them all again.
There's actually something called a Gen 1 miss that means anything with a 100% hit rate has a 1 in 256 chance to just go "lol no" which even affects the Master Ball. Fun fact.
@@faceless58 I am guessing that the way it works is if the random number generator picks the number zero, which was then compared to a test like "if random number> ball threshold, success, else fail", which means even if those ball chances are set at a threshold of zero, zero is not bigger than zero, so fail
Honestly my favorite Sinnoh started will always be Turtwig, it wasn’t what I picked my first run, but became my favorite so quickly. I picked Piplup my first run because I wanted to be like Dawn in the anime
@@Sadboi_Rook As much as I love Torterra, I also have a fond memory of a PvP match where the other guy rage quit because I beat his Torterra with my Linoone. :p seriously.... Linoone=free money.
Great video guys :D My precious Pokemon memory was with Pokemon Gold, when I was in the middle school. After winning the League the first time and then defeating the Kanto Gym Leaders, I finally went to Mt. Silver. My team was around levels 40-50 and when I arrived at the end of the dungeon I found a trainer. I talked to him, thinking that he would be an easy challenge, then, after his dialogue was just three points and after the introducing battle screen, I realized he was Red! When I saw his Pikachu around level 70 I just thought "Ok, I'm f***ed!", and he easily wiped my team. Then I made some changes, took some grinding to make my Pokemon stronger and finally I had my revenge. That team still remains the one I have got more attached to. Thank you Feraligatr, Scizor, Tyranitar, Crobat, Espeon and Umbreon, together we defeated the undefeatable!
My greatest memory was finding my first ever shiny. I was only like 5 or 6 when I got Fr/Lg and I distinctly remember grinding up on victory road after getting wiped and finding a shiny sandslash. Now heres the thing, I was only like maybe 7 at the oldest at that time, didn't know what shinies were, and I missed the star effect when the battle started. So young me saw the red spines, figured it was weird, and caught it.....only to learn YEARS later that I found something absurdly rare (reminder this was back when the shiny odds were 1/8,192 and sandslash also only have a 5% spawn chance on victory road). So since then, I have always had a soft spot for sandslash and just like my very first ever starter I have brought it through every game to current gen alsoas a lover of Ice types I was extremely happy for alolan sandslash.
My favorite memory will always be the first day I got to play Pokemon X. That first day...I found a Flabebe. A shiny Flabebe. I didn't know it was a shiny for an hour or two. And the story involves a very specific shiny Pokemon, an evolution of that Flabebe. I felt...incredibly moved by this.
One of my favourite memories about Pokemon was this: As a child, I had Pokemon Gold, and not very many other games. I played a lot of Pokemon over the years. How much Pokemon, exactly? I don't know, the gameplay clock only logs up to 999:99 in playtime. However, the memorable part only comes years later, playing it for nostalgia purposes while in university. It was there that I discovered, for the first time in my life, that there was a distinct "morning" time of day in Pokemon Gold. I'd been such an incorrigible nightowl all my life, that I'd never once in well over a thousand hours been up early enough to have experienced morning in Johto.
I was a late comer to video games, too, and for the longest time the old GameBoy was my only video game... thing. This really brought back some fond memories and nostalgia, and it's really lovely to hear Oxboxtra's perspective on the same sorta events I went through as a kid. Lotsa love, Oxboxtra.
I respected Andy for being a secret Goth before... but now that I know he loves Rowlet and has a spooky team I respect him even more. As a Ghost type trainer I approve.
Luke: “Mewtwo is unbelievably strong” Footage: *fighting Mewtwo with a level 67 Pidgeotto Note: assuming the Pidgeotto wasn’t caught high leveled, that means they press B at least 30 times to stop it from evolving.
@@TracinyaLachance Ohh, of course. I've still got my original Gameboy and Red/Blue/Yellow, but it's been so long since I played through in Gen 1... someone really wanted their Pidgeotto!
@@jennasloan396 99% sure the footage capture is an emulator. I also suspect the footage capture was NOT from a legit save where they leveled up every pokemon properly.... there's no way you'd spend hours doing that just for a list video. So I suspect what it actually means is that when he was hacking to give himself the Pokemon team he wanted he messed up and put in Pigeotto by mistake.
My hands down favorite moment has to be from the FR/LG days. I managed to train up my Charmander into a Charizard of such stomp ass power (and a bit of luck) that I managed to solo each member of the Elite Four with it!
"That means Charmander is old enough to drive." On a slight tangent, Charizard is only five feet and seven inches tall (1.7 m). So... watching a dragon-shaped, fire lizard drive a vehicle doesn't sound too crazy.
I'm 32 and my reaction to that story was "wait, what?" I thought it was for Articuno. I must have stopped and restarted after the elite 4 multiple times...
The “Missing No.” glitch and the trade glitches from the original gameboy games are some of my favorite memories. You better believe I had a dex full of lvl 99 Pokémon
Honestly, with all the experiences I've had with pokemon over the years... Remembering the first time I ever got anything non-legendary to level 100... Finally getting a Spiritomb... Finally beating the league in Pokemon Gold back when I was 7 and had restarted several times because I didn't understand English yet and got stuck not knowing where to go... Sneaking out of school at a recess to go pick up the copy of Pokemon Black I had preordered, then beating the main story within 24 hours... So many memories, and yet the one thing I can remember feeling the most joy about is being 28, standing in the Obsidian Fieldlands in Legends: Arceus, and just having a tiny flock of wild Wurmple congregate around me with their dopey little squishy faces, talking at me. Why that, of all things, makes me turn into the same adorable mess Ellen becomes thinking of Eevee, I don't know, but I sure do love that dopey little wormy boy.
I was actually unaware of the Master ball being a guaranteed success, so I spent my time in Emerald on the DS lite whittling a Rayquaza down to 3, count em, 3 hit points, before throwing the Master Ball at it
I want to add a pokémon memory to this. In the end of Gold/Silver and crossing the waterfall to discover you can explore the Kanto region as well! One of the most exciting moments in video game history to me. Nowdays with the internet and the fact that many games have additions it's essentially impossible to get so genuinely starstruck by an in game reveal.
I love how both Luke and Andy have a memory of going up against the One Pokemon At The End -- and then Luke's other memory is them snarking at each other over their starters in a different game. XD And yes, the ability to pet Eevee and have it go squee is the best.
love these lists where they all reminisce about gaming memories! Good to see this coming back! P.S. "presh mems" has firmly entered my vocabulary and is here to stay
I've got too many presh mems with Pokemon to count, honestly, but Diamond has a special place in my heart for being the game I played with my best friends one summer, with us battling and trading regularly. Maybe the time I proved that Diamond was better by one-hit-KOing Palkia with Dialga's Roar of Time, lol (I don't even think it was a critical hit). Can't wait to get my pre-ordered copy of the remake soon!
This makes me kinda sad because I’ve never had a console, and therefore never played an actual mainline game. But my memories with Pokémon Duel will last forever.
I'm 43 and I've always had a thing for Eevee too and quite often when I'm by myself I like to cuddle to my Eevee Plushies and sometimes I get overcome by these intense feelings of what is known as cuteness aggression. Lol you should have seen me playing Let's Go Eevee, it was like being in my late Teens again.
I have a lot of pokemon memories. I was obsessed with it in middle school. Though I think my favorite pokemon memory was playing through gold and silver the first time. Honestly, I wish more of the games would be like it. Because not only did you get a whole new pokemon adventure, not only did you get a free shiny if you were good enough with the red gyrados, but you got to travel to Kanto and you got to fight the protagonist from the first game. Like it was amazing. I wish there was a Pokemon MMO where you could go to all the lands and catch all the pokemon in a huge pokemon world.
The pokemon Go story...oh my goooood... So I lived in Florida and while the downtown bay area I lived at would get busy...this was...the most Id ever seen. So its at the peak of the hype, im sitting in my group among a CROWD of families, teens, kids, adults, GRANDPARENTS....all having fun, running around, excitedly talking about something I had loved since I was a child. I remember being a kid and going to a school where being a nerd, let alone a girl nerd, would get you beat up. So seeing basically my ten year old dreams come true...i nearly cried in the glow of how amazing that moment was.
25:07 I can completely understand this. I always loved the episode where Ash’s Bulbasaur is abducted by a wild Bulbasaur tribe. Then gets caught up in a evolution ritual where dozens of Bulbasaurs evolve into Ivysaur, and Ash’s wills it’s self not to evolve. I related so much to refusing to change yourself, because someone else wanted you to be different then you were.
I also really loved the Bulbasaur herd scene from the Detective Pikachu movie. Every single bit of lore in Pokémon says that Bulbasaur is a herd animal. You will never see just ONE Bulbasaur by itself in the wild. I had this glorious moment where I had my own Jurassic Park, “They’re moving in herds. They do move in herds” moment.
I can't remember what day I first saw Pokémon, but my first episode was the actual first episode and Pikachu and Ash's friendship has held my heart ever since.
Everything about the battle with Groudon in the original Ruby Version has left a huge impression on me. But the opening of Platinum Version, the music of gen 4, the story of gen 5, researching fairy types in gen 6, and everything about red rescue team and the explorer's games are all precious memories to me.
An early Pokémon memory I have is of a family holiday to France, my brother and I were playing Pokémon Diamond on the ferry to Dunkirk and arguing over who's team was better. Suddenly this huge German man came over with his kids, sat them at the table next to us and said "sharing the Pokémons" while gesturing between us and his kids. We had a great time trading and showing off our Pokémon!
I remember when I first played Pokemon. It was Pokemon Blue and I choose Squirtle because it's evolution was on the cartridge. I thought Blastoise was the most powerful Pokemon because why else would they put it's picture on the game?
You ever notice how the choice of starter Pokémon is the only time in the game you decide on a difficult level? The specifics vary by gen, but looking at gen 1, starter #1 gives you type advantage for 2 gyms and is neutral in gym 3, starter #2 gives you advantage for 1 gym, neutral on gym 2 and disadvantage in gym 3, where starter #3 is neutral to gym 1, at a disadvantage for gym 2, then back to neutral in gym 3. It’s a super subtle piece of game design and I absolutely love it.
So, my biggest Pokémon memory was back during Diamond and Pearl. I had Pearl, and I remember there being this character who gives you an egg that eventually hatches into Riolu. Obviously Riolu was a big deal back then, because everybody wanted Lucario, and it’s still a fan favorite even today. I wasn’t big on Lucario myself, but my friend was, so I wanted Lucario basically just to flex on him (even though he had it too - not sure what my thought process was). Anyway, I trained it up to evolve it, and when it eventually happened I was equal parts hype and confused. You see, my Riolu had originally been male when I hatched it. And I must have run into some sort of extremely weird glitch, because when it evolved into Lucario, it became female. To this day I still don’t understand that, but it’s probably the most memorable moment I have in Pokémon. Well, alongside the time that same friend convinced me to trade him a shiny Tentacruel because they supposedly weren’t a big deal. Curse you…
It was such a nice nostalgia trip listening to all of these things. I've been a fan since the start in the US, and I can't think of a single thing as my greatest/best Pokemon memory, because there's just. So much. So many things that have and wouldn't've happened because I was a fan.
1) I'm in the same boat as Luke on the Mewtwo thing. I knew there was a Legendary in the game, I had no idea there was *more* than one. I too, wasted my Master ball on Articuno. 2) I've never been a huge fan of Eevee, but I understand Ellen's reaction, I was almost the same when Go! released and I could pet my Charmander. "A Trainer's Starter is always special." - Professor Samuel Oak
I have a good friend that was one of the tour guides to that cemetery around that time Jane, if your tour guide was a gothic pinup model, then you got the best guide!
My most precious memory comes from Pokemon Moon - I started with Popplio, and Primarina's exclusive z-move has the end of the animation end with the pokemon taking a bow. I dealt the final blow of the league challenge with Oceanic Operetta, and when I saw my primarina take a bow to end my league challenge I felt this sense of accomplishment I'd never felt before in anything. I put my system down and just sat there letting what I'd just seen sink in. I finally felt like a real champion.
butterfree leaving was probably the one biggest event for me from my time watching tv in blue i had squirtle who i will always have a soft spot for (not his evos so much) but it was butterfree who really won my heart, an absolute powerhouse in the game, always coming through for me when everything was on the line. the one thing i could really count on in that super turbulent time of my life so watching that episode absolutely broke me, honestly iv never gotten to into any character because of that lol
My best moment has to be my first run in X & Y on Route 14. Where i found a rather cute and goofy pokemon called Goomy. I had not done any research ahead so did not know about it. But thinking swamp area and a purple color scheme "has to be a poison/water type". One dragonbreath from it later and me being a dragon type fan had his mind blown and had to get this little guy. So in my army of dragons i sometimes will have a tiny ball of goo.
The way Jane pronounces Tauros makes my eye twitch lol. I breathed a sigh of relief when Andy said it the way I do, and confirmed I wasn't going crazy all these years lol
It may have taken me over a decade to come back and beat the Diamond elite four (BLOODY CYNTHIA AND HER GARCHOMP OF DEATH) but god did the Diamond game bring me joy
I think my favourite memory of any Pokémon game was catching my Mimikyu in Sword. When I played Ultra Moon, I loved Mimikyu from the second I saw it, and I got one easily in the game. But when I played Sword, I realised I couldn't fight the Ghost Captain or whatever. I got kind of upset 'cause Ghost types are my absolute favourite, but because I pick which game off of the game-exclusive legendary, and I didn't like the Shield legendary too much, I didn't get it. But then I just made a team of mostly ghost types (save for Zacian and my Inteleon). But I didn't have Mimikyu. When I heard that, yes, Mimikyu IS in Sword and Shield, I worked towards catching one. I literally did twenty minutes worth of research to figure out the best way to catch one. I found one in the specific patch of grass in the Wild Area, and I used my weakest Pokémon (it was my Chandelure at the time) but the move was a crit, and the Mimikyu died in one hit. I reloaded my save like 5 times, but the Mimikyu didn't respawn. So I did yet more research and saw that there's a small chance to get a Mimikyu Dynamax raid in a specific den only if it has a rare beam. I spent about 3 hours reloading my game to get that rare beam and make it a Mimikyu. But then I finally got it. I've never taken that Mimikyu off my team, and it's my strongest Pokémon
To me. My Pokémon memory is the first Pokémon movie. Where ash dies trying to stop mewtwo and mew from fighting and as a results gets turned into stone. The reaction from his best friend pikachu. His tears will never be erased form my mind. First movie I watched where I cried like a baby. Til this day I get choked up.
This is a bit of a long story but here is my Pokemon Presh Mem. So with most Pokemon, either they're legendary Pokemon that has a dedicated spite in the overworld and you can battle them by interacting with the sprite, or they're your starter and it's just a matter of choice, or you randomly encounter them in the wilds and you decide you like the look of them. However, in the original Pokemon Ruby there is a legendary Pokemon called Latios that becomes available after you beat the Elite Four, but unlike Groudon and Rayquaza who are in a fixed location in the overworld, Latios spawns in tall grass or whilst surfing on a Pokemon's back, BUT there's only one Latios in the game. Most people know that the in-game Pokedex has an entry that tells you where on the map that Pokemon spawns once you've seen it once in battle (unless it can only be acquired through trading or evolution), but what I don't often see people talk about is that when you see Latios after the 5% ish chance of it spawning, is that the Pokedex tells you which zone it's currently spawned in from then on, and you learn that Latios relocates when you walk through a level transition, so if you walk through a level transition there's a 1/20 or so chance of the Pokedex telling you it'll spawn in your area, at which point it's close to 100% that it will be the first thing to spawn when you actually enter the tall grass. Nothing in the game tells you to do this and this is one of the rare things that I discovered all on my own, so I stocked up on Ultra Balls and I kept on walking through the level transition until Latios spawned for me a second time, I didn't catch it that time but I did the same method again a few weeks later before I managed to tag him with a successful Ultra Ball, he has a high chance of fleeing but I didn't save my Master Ball. I'm gonna be charitable and say that catching 80% of the Pokemon in any given game basically doesn't require any effort because it's just a matter of grinding, so acquiring them doesn't feel special, but my Latios took genuine patience and effort on my part so owning the Pokemon actually feels special, I was devastated when I lost the cartridge that my unnamed Latios lived in.
Favourite pokemon memory for me was the first time my quilava evolved inyo a typhlosion. I wasnt familar with the johto pokemon at the time so didnt know anything about them, and so having that experience of not knowing what pokemon will evolve or what they will evolve into was absolutely fantastic. It was mostly the name that blew my mind, typhlosion, it was awesome then, and its awesome now.
I had to go to the US for work in July 2016 during the initial Pokemon Go madness. It was a hugely stressfull trip for me, my first time flying anywhere, so it helped that some of my US colleagues were also playing and I spent a Sunday driving around New Jersey hunting pokemon. I didn't see any Tauros until I was sat in Newark airport waiting for the flight home and one showed up as nearby so obviously I had to head off towing my suitcase with my phone in the other hand to find it. Still got it too, all of CP189 but it's still the only foreign regional I've caught myself.
This makes me kind of sad i genuinely have no memories of playing gen 1 and 2 for the first time, partly from being so young and partly from the multitude of times ive replayed them since. I do have a specific memory of beating the gen 3 league for the first time while queuing with my mum for a custom photo cake of our cat in an Asda though.
For me, my most vivid memory is when I finally reached Lance in Crystal. It was my first handheld pokemon game, and I was playing it on my T.V. with the Pokemon Stadium 2 tower, so having that epic music start up out of my T.V. as my Feraligatr and his Gyarados were staring down each other in what I thought was the final battle was so intense as a kid. I've never had a more epic fight.
This is how to do Sponsored content. Basically apart from the Purple Text it's a regular Oxboxtra video. Also, yay for a return to the "tell us your gaming stories" format, which is one of my favourite things you do.
So i used to love Pikachu when I was younger as i had started that journey at age 10. But over time, it started to wane as i saw how popular it was becoming, so i decided to seek out a different Pokémon to like. Flash forward into my early 20s, this was during the time I was working at a mall and also was getting into drawing Pokémon as humans, which started out as what the trainers would look like dressed as the partner Pokémon. One day, I had finished working and waiting for my dad to come pick me up (i was learning to drive at the time), and decided to stop by the Hot Topic store. I was browsing around and the Rise of Darkrai DVD caught my eye. This is during the Gen4 era, but because I didn't have a GBA or a DS at the time, i wasn't able to play the Gen3 or 4 Pokémon games. I bought the movie and watched it when I got home. I immediately fell in love with Darkrai and for years tried to get him in any game i came across which was through events. But what was frustrating was that you couldn't rename event Pokémon in the early games ( trust me, i tried) and i wanted to name him Issac because
( oops, posted too early) But yeah, i named Darkrai Issac because he looked like one to me. As a side effect, I became resentful of Cressalia because she was the one who's catchable in the game and not Darkrai. Just hated her. Nowadays, i still make human Pokémon as a project since Issac was the one that inspired me (500+!), and with Legends Arceus and Brilliant Diamond out, i was able to catch Darkrai in both games and give him his proper name in-game! Seeing him with his name popping up in battles makes me happy.
I feel you Ellen. I very feel you. On eevee and on Ash with Pikachu. I dunno how far you watched the series but in one of the last regions to date Ash actually mentions that he still has that thunderstone. (I kept it safe just in case Pikachu ever wants to evolve.) And it's presented in a way that made me tear up a lot remembering all their first journeys. I remember when Ash and Pikachu "split up" in the Pikachu Forest I also legit cried as a kid and still do despite knowing that it ends well. I really want Pokémon to be real.
I am the youngest in my family so I did grow up failing to play blue and gold on the game boy but finally became fully immersed in when I got Pokemon dimoand in Australia. But I must been from the beginning because my first word was look and I pointed to a Pikachu. My mother was so happy that she bought it for me 😊
Pokémon Diamond was my first Pokémon game ever, which I started when I was 10 years old and spent years playing. My fav memory from it was finally beating Cynthia because I had to spend WEEKS farming leppa berries for my Pokémon to regain enough PP/moves that could beat her Spiritomb
IIRC I rummaged in my boxes until I found some ~L15 pokemon I'd never bothered using before. Put it to sleep, swap, smack with low level loser, swap back, catch
I love how they all have very different impressions from the game! I think my favourite moment was in the lead up for Gold and Silver, it had been released in Japan, but it was a while before it was released in the west, and I remember getting mum to constantly check the 90s blog of this guy who had gotten a Japanese copy and was trying to work out what everything was and what it did. I think it was the first time I had like serious hype for something which hadn't been released yet, and it was one of the first times I realised that the early internet back in those days had all this information on it that you couldn't get else where, and then just playing the game to absolute death for months on end. Just great memories all around
Bruuuh, brings me back so much! Probably one of the most precious memories that i have is hunting for a Feebas and grinding to evolve it into a Milotic in Pokemon Emerald! Good tiiiimes..
My favorite Pokemon memory.... I caught a Dewgong in Seafoam Islands in my original Blue version, that was pretty epic. Hmmm....the first couple months of Pokemon Go! were pretty epic as well. I think my favorite memories were from my Silver version where I had assembled my all-time best team. What still gets me is it was only four Pokemon, but they covered everything I could face at that time. I took that team through the Pokemon League and Red so many dozens of times....I think my Typhlosion at lvl81 was the highest I ever trained a Pokemon before modern games. I loved that team, they were like family to me.
Mike, you are a person after my own heart. Magikarp will always be my favourite pokemon. I love dragon pokemon, but they are incredibly hard to raise, and often times you get them too late in the game to raise them properly (in my mind). Magikarp was tough to raise, but you got it early on, meaning you could spend time to raise it properly. And once you got Gyarados - a dragon pokemon in all but type - you had a butt kicking water pokemon that could learn dragon moves.
I remember doing my first mega raid in pokemon go. It was for regigigas. I showed up and there were 30 people from my podunk town. It was a great feeling knowing I was part of a community that I didn't even know existed. It took 2 lobbies and everyone got their regigigas. Good times
Some day the servers will go off. Just like for harry potter. That's ok. I've had a lot of days like that regigigas day because of go. It meant something
White 2 was my first main series game and i loved it. My favorite moments where when i caught a Sandile, named it Chomper, and held on to that beautiful bastard and made him a level 100 Krookadile. By far my favorite pokemon of all time
I love the sheer outrage in Andy's voice at Decidueye being compared to Hawkeye
I watched this bit far too many times 😂
That's gonna be so much less of an insult after the Hawkeye series premieres and Clint finally gets to be the badass comic fans have always known he is
Im with andy on rowlet being much better than popplio
@@zpick2214 I choose grass as every starter, my first was Sapphire's Treecko
I'm glad Andy had the exact Sun/Moon playthrough as me with Moon and the owl son lol
@@zpick2214 rowlet is easily the best pokemon starter
Watching Ellen lose it over how cute Eevee is was an absolute gem
Time to genetically engineer one in the basement!
Ellen's too pure for this world
"Hey guys, I think something's wrong with my computer. The speakers got all squeaky high pitch"
No lie though, Eevee is a precious boy that must be protected. My favorite bit is when you send it out to battle and it goes "fight!"
Yes my beautiful murder child. Kill them all🥺🥺
Still nothing compared to her getting tears in Luke’s Playstation VR headset due to cuteness overload of the mice in Moss.
In this episode, we learn Ellen really needs to get a cat.
I'm surprised Ellen still hasn't gotten a cat
I may be misremembering, but I think she or someone in her household is unfortunately allergic.
@@oftenspanx Boooooooo. Level up and take allergy meds like over 2/3 of pet owners do!
Cats... meh... Fennecs are better 😊
@@CyborgArmGun Or get a hypoallergenic pet instead 😄
I asked my Grandma for a pokemon game for Christmas when I was little, she got me Pearl. The problem was I had a gameboy and she didn't realize I couldn't play the one she got me, she bought me a different one later because she's the best. But one day, my parents got me a DSI for my birthday, imagine my surprise when on a whim I asked what had ever happened to that old game she bought me by mistake, and it turned out she had kept it in a shoebox in her closet for seven years after the fact. Still one of the best gifts I've ever received.
The fact that Andy sounds like he is still mad about Jane's tauros hilarious!
Brother and sister comparing their perspective of a childhood memory
Can you imagine being a fly on the wall for that wake-up call?
"It's four in the morning... what the hell?"
"ANDY THERE'S A TAUROS COME QUICKLY."
"ON MY WAY."
Side note, OMG, watching old episodes of SOTWE... The one from Nov 16, 2019 has Andy telling the same story. Wow. Just shows he has never recovered from that injustice.
"I caught a Tauros and Andy was angry." Now which one does Jane remember with more fondness?
I was not expecting Mike in this video but his segment was amazingly wholesome
I dont know why but any time I hear Mike talk about himself I'm surprised at how warm and compassionate he is. I shouldn't be because he's a lovely guy but 🤔
I feel him on his memory. Quite a lot, actually. When I got Magikarp for the first time and read its entry, I was so fired up to prove everyone wrong.
I called my first ever Magikarp Bishop. He's been the Magikarp of all my Pokémon games thus far. Evolving him into Gyarados was always awesome, and he earned his place in every of my constant rosters for decades.
Later, I went even further and bred a Magikarp, gave it an Everstone and trained the ever loving hell out of it. It became one of my most powerful Pokémon ever. xD
I love them. :D
I relate to Mike’s segment a lot. Chimchar is super underrated, and also training weak builds/characters is just coded in me.
Just look at Might Guy and Rock Lee from Naruto, who can’t ninjutsu but can flying kick your ribs through a mountain. 😂
@ellbent I'm the same with D&D. If people say a build is weak, it makes me want to play it and prove them wrong.
@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human I’m doing this right now with Genshin lol. Amber, the first four star you unlock in the game, is the weakest character because she got obliviously power-crept.
Been playing since 2021, it’s 2024 and I’m now randomly building one-shot sniper Amber, and she’s a beast lol.
She’s even one of my favorite characters in story and this made her lore accurate.
As for DnD, legit any class/subclass can be a beast, especially with martial classes. But the caster community thinks that martial classes suck because spells like banishment or some 5th level shite is their end-all/be-all.💀💀
I love that after beating the game Andy becomes a ghost type gym leader. It’s seems very on brand.
Yes, so excited to have another entry in this series! Love hearing these non-scripted takes from you guys. One of my most prominent Pokemon memories was convincing my cousin to use her master ball to catch a Donphan in her copy of Silver because I thought it was super rare for some reason. She still hasn't forgiven me all these years later, and I don't blame her one bit.
As Luke stares grimly at the camera relaying the intensity of his battle with Mewtwo, I realise that's how he got that scar
Andy cutting in throughout Luke's bit is a wonderful window onto their pokemon rivalry.
And it's okay Mike, I chose Chimchar too.
Turtwig for life! 🌳
I was thinking to myself as I watched that I couldn't recall any that specific experiences playing pokémon as a kid despite playing it so much. Then I remembered Whitney's Miltank 🙃
I remember this, the game is so easy until this point, then there's this difficulty spike in the form of a Cow with high HP and Full Restore as a special move!!
@@AldoLop I remember grinding outside Goldenrod city in that tiny patch of grass by the daycare for what felt like an eternity for my childhood self 😔
Rollout was the end of my childhood innocence
You'd better not be dissing my Miltank!
@@huppaduppa When I hit The Milktank, I didn't even really understand grinding. So while I did grind until I won, it was only off Whitney's Clefairy again and again as I challenged her again and again.
I couldn't remember any specific moments until I read this comment. Ohgods.
Man I love Andy chiming in with his witty remarks on Luke in the euro tunnel along with Ellens laughter in the background.😂💜
That thing with the Euro Tunnel just made me feel old 🤣 Back in the day, when they opened the Euro Tunnel, my dad won a contest and we were among the first people to actually travel that way and I remember very clearly that Pokemon hadn't come out yet at that point.
If this helps, Mike, Chimchar's final evolution form is a clear reference to the Monkey King in Journey to the West. He was a chaotic and ultra-destructive metaphor for the human mind, and literally became immortal 7 times over somehow.
He wrecked all the armies of the heavens until the Buddah had to seal him under a mountain with all the collective power of the universe just so he would behave enough for the aforementioned journey to start..
I enjoy how "innoventions" has bled into other videos from the Blades in the Dark videos.
Pokemon is a series I think I will always have a place in my heart for. Got into them all the way back at Red and Blue, they're brilliant games to relax and unwind with.
I love listening to all of you wonderful people talking about your favorite memories and moments. More of this format please!
Was thinking the same thing! All the videos where they reminisce and joke about gaming memories are brilliant and missed them so much
Same! 💜💚
I've got a soft spot for the Mystery Dungeon spin offs, even the weak ones are enjoyable, and the endings always make me cry. Explorers is the best and the most emotional ending too. I can't think about it and not start welling up
yeah, had loads of fun. Even more so when you can ditch the hero pokemon and use whatever random you picked up instead. :D I spend SOOO much time using a Tropius in one of them. :D
Love the video but the fact that Ellen and Luke singing like jigglypuff didn't make the cut is an absolute travesty of justice.
no one remembers that, they were all too asleep . :p
They fell asleep singing
Ellen: dwells in memories and is happy, mentions watery eyes
Andy, totally unphased: that's called crying, Ellen.
She wasn't crying, just sweating from her eyes!
@@jorvach9874 “Wait that was really disgusting. Yeah, I was crying.”
-Gumball Watterson
I adore these types of videos and definitely want to see more of them, but I'm even more delighted to discover Andy has a Houndoom on his spooky squad because I feel like no one else ever mentions it and it's genuinely my favourite Pokemon ❤️
Houndoom is an absolute beast, in several ways! Crunch, Flamethrower, and why does he need FOUR moves??
I never really used it until the remakes bc it was either Houndoom or Rapidash lol
@@marinemanaphy101 that's fair, one of the first Pokemon games I owned was XD Gale of Darkness, and you get Houndour fairly early on and it's the BEST, and a fairly big reason behind why I love it so much haha
SOOOO HAPPY about these "Oxbox team memories in the studio" videos coming back!
Pokemon is burned into my psyche as well. I was fighting my rival for the final time in the original Blue version and my battery light turned red. I managed to get thru the credit sequence and as the screen said that my progress was saved, it died. Such tension, but great memories!
Because there was only one, I was convinced Rotom was a legendary until like gen 7 when they made the pokedex a Rotom. Catching that felt like a big achievement at the time
Diamond was my first pokemon game. I distinctly remember being at the airport fighting the elite four in queue at the scanner things. The queue got shorter and I still hadn't finished the fight. It was intense. I have never battled harder. I was so close. They made me turn it off to have it scanned. I lost ALL my progress and had to fight them all again.
Nice its my favorite gen. I was 22 when it came out though
There's actually something called a Gen 1 miss that means anything with a 100% hit rate has a 1 in 256 chance to just go "lol no" which even affects the Master Ball. Fun fact.
ive heard about that from speedruns of gen 1 but had no idea it also affected the master ball.
@@faceless58 I am guessing that the way it works is if the random number generator picks the number zero, which was then compared to a test like "if random number> ball threshold, success, else fail", which means even if those ball chances are set at a threshold of zero, zero is not bigger than zero, so fail
Honestly my favorite Sinnoh started will always be Turtwig, it wasn’t what I picked my first run, but became my favorite so quickly. I picked Piplup my first run because I wanted to be like Dawn in the anime
Yessss, I love the leaf turtle! 😭
@@Sadboi_Rook As much as I love Torterra, I also have a fond memory of a PvP match where the other guy rage quit because I beat his Torterra with my Linoone. :p
seriously.... Linoone=free money.
Great video guys :D
My precious Pokemon memory was with Pokemon Gold, when I was in the middle school. After winning the League the first time and then defeating the Kanto Gym Leaders, I finally went to Mt. Silver. My team was around levels 40-50 and when I arrived at the end of the dungeon I found a trainer. I talked to him, thinking that he would be an easy challenge, then, after his dialogue was just three points and after the introducing battle screen, I realized he was Red! When I saw his Pikachu around level 70 I just thought "Ok, I'm f***ed!", and he easily wiped my team. Then I made some changes, took some grinding to make my Pokemon stronger and finally I had my revenge. That team still remains the one I have got more attached to. Thank you Feraligatr, Scizor, Tyranitar, Crobat, Espeon and Umbreon, together we defeated the undefeatable!
This oxboxtra format will forever be my favourite! It’s so funny to watch them just talk and sometimes have a go at each other 😂
My greatest memory was finding my first ever shiny. I was only like 5 or 6 when I got Fr/Lg and I distinctly remember grinding up on victory road after getting wiped and finding a shiny sandslash. Now heres the thing, I was only like maybe 7 at the oldest at that time, didn't know what shinies were, and I missed the star effect when the battle started. So young me saw the red spines, figured it was weird, and caught it.....only to learn YEARS later that I found something absurdly rare (reminder this was back when the shiny odds were 1/8,192 and sandslash also only have a 5% spawn chance on victory road). So since then, I have always had a soft spot for sandslash and just like my very first ever starter I have brought it through every game to current gen alsoas a lover of Ice types I was extremely happy for alolan sandslash.
My first ever shiny was a shiny magikarp in Gold. Didn't even know it was shiny till years later.
My favorite memory will always be the first day I got to play Pokemon X.
That first day...I found a Flabebe. A shiny Flabebe. I didn't know it was a shiny for an hour or two. And the story involves a very specific shiny Pokemon, an evolution of that Flabebe. I felt...incredibly moved by this.
One of my favourite memories about Pokemon was this: As a child, I had Pokemon Gold, and not very many other games. I played a lot of Pokemon over the years. How much Pokemon, exactly? I don't know, the gameplay clock only logs up to 999:99 in playtime. However, the memorable part only comes years later, playing it for nostalgia purposes while in university. It was there that I discovered, for the first time in my life, that there was a distinct "morning" time of day in Pokemon Gold.
I'd been such an incorrigible nightowl all my life, that I'd never once in well over a thousand hours been up early enough to have experienced morning in Johto.
I was a late comer to video games, too, and for the longest time the old GameBoy was my only video game... thing.
This really brought back some fond memories and nostalgia, and it's really lovely to hear Oxboxtra's perspective on the same sorta events I went through as a kid. Lotsa love, Oxboxtra.
I respected Andy for being a secret Goth before... but now that I know he loves Rowlet and has a spooky team I respect him even more. As a Ghost type trainer I approve.
I disagree..... with the idea that Andy is a secret Goth.... based on the use of the word secret. He's not really hiding it.
@@marhawkman303 I mean fair enough
Luke: “Mewtwo is unbelievably strong”
Footage: *fighting Mewtwo with a level 67 Pidgeotto
Note: assuming the Pidgeotto wasn’t caught high leveled, that means they press B at least 30 times to stop it from evolving.
Everstone, baybee! Though I'm not sure why anyone would keep it as a Pidgeotto...
@@GriffinWolf It's gen 1, held items didn't exist. Someone actually had to press B every single time it leveled up.
It's gen 1; some glitch probably affected it
@@TracinyaLachance Ohh, of course. I've still got my original Gameboy and Red/Blue/Yellow, but it's been so long since I played through in Gen 1... someone really wanted their Pidgeotto!
@@jennasloan396 99% sure the footage capture is an emulator. I also suspect the footage capture was NOT from a legit save where they leveled up every pokemon properly.... there's no way you'd spend hours doing that just for a list video.
So I suspect what it actually means is that when he was hacking to give himself the Pokemon team he wanted he messed up and put in Pigeotto by mistake.
If Ellen ever goes rogue, the others can incapacitate her by talking about petting an Eevee
Or just brandish a kitten.
My hands down favorite moment has to be from the FR/LG days. I managed to train up my Charmander into a Charizard of such stomp ass power (and a bit of luck) that I managed to solo each member of the Elite Four with it!
This here! I found this was how I had to deal with them… did you find it harder than the rest of them?
Weirdly I remember Fearow being my strongest. Fly and the stronger version of Peck did it for me.
That was me with my Typhlosion back in Crystal. I got it to level 100 and it could one hit KO anything
"That means Charmander is old enough to drive."
On a slight tangent, Charizard is only five feet and seven inches tall (1.7 m). So... watching a dragon-shaped, fire lizard drive a vehicle doesn't sound too crazy.
I did the exact same thing as Luke, used my first masterball on Articuno all those years ago.
I'm 32 and my reaction to that story was "wait, what?" I thought it was for Articuno. I must have stopped and restarted after the elite 4 multiple times...
Same here. I used mine on Articuno . The fight against Mewtwo was hard , I managed to catch it eventually.
The “Missing No.” glitch and the trade glitches from the original gameboy games are some of my favorite memories. You better believe I had a dex full of lvl 99 Pokémon
Honestly, with all the experiences I've had with pokemon over the years...
Remembering the first time I ever got anything non-legendary to level 100... Finally getting a Spiritomb... Finally beating the league in Pokemon Gold back when I was 7 and had restarted several times because I didn't understand English yet and got stuck not knowing where to go... Sneaking out of school at a recess to go pick up the copy of Pokemon Black I had preordered, then beating the main story within 24 hours...
So many memories, and yet the one thing I can remember feeling the most joy about is being 28, standing in the Obsidian Fieldlands in Legends: Arceus, and just having a tiny flock of wild Wurmple congregate around me with their dopey little squishy faces, talking at me. Why that, of all things, makes me turn into the same adorable mess Ellen becomes thinking of Eevee, I don't know, but I sure do love that dopey little wormy boy.
Don’t worry Ellen. I too am a grown adult that cried when I first pet Eevee.
I'm a grown adult who wishes he can cry when petting Eevee.
hey Luke, don't feel bad I wasted my first ever master ball on a level 30 kecleon because it shat all over my ultra balls before 😅
I caught a rhydon on Victory Road because OBVIOUSLY nothing could be more powerful than this walking tank that one-shot all my mons. I feel ya
I was actually unaware of the Master ball being a guaranteed success, so I spent my time in Emerald on the DS lite whittling a Rayquaza down to 3, count em, 3 hit points, before throwing the Master Ball at it
@@austinknight5881 I used mine on an Aggron! It looked so silvery-metallic and powerful, SURELY it was a legendary!!
I used my first one on a Dodrio.
I just flat out didn’t understand there was only one Master Ball and used it on a Seaking 😭
I want to add a pokémon memory to this. In the end of Gold/Silver and crossing the waterfall to discover you can explore the Kanto region as well! One of the most exciting moments in video game history to me. Nowdays with the internet and the fact that many games have additions it's essentially impossible to get so genuinely starstruck by an in game reveal.
I love how both Luke and Andy have a memory of going up against the One Pokemon At The End -- and then Luke's other memory is them snarking at each other over their starters in a different game. XD And yes, the ability to pet Eevee and have it go squee is the best.
love these lists where they all reminisce about gaming memories! Good to see this coming back!
P.S. "presh mems" has firmly entered my vocabulary and is here to stay
I've got too many presh mems with Pokemon to count, honestly, but Diamond has a special place in my heart for being the game I played with my best friends one summer, with us battling and trading regularly. Maybe the time I proved that Diamond was better by one-hit-KOing Palkia with Dialga's Roar of Time, lol (I don't even think it was a critical hit). Can't wait to get my pre-ordered copy of the remake soon!
After getting my poor team crushed by Witney's Miltank for the 9th time I finally got a lucky paralysis and got the win
I’m an adult and she’s still a pain. It took my Magby learning Confuse Ray to put her down in my most recent play through of Soul Silver.
This makes me kinda sad because I’ve never had a console, and therefore never played an actual mainline game. But my memories with Pokémon Duel will last forever.
I'm 43 and I've always had a thing for Eevee too and quite often when I'm by myself I like to cuddle to my Eevee Plushies and sometimes I get overcome by these intense feelings of what is known as cuteness aggression. Lol you should have seen me playing Let's Go Eevee, it was like being in my late Teens again.
I have a lot of pokemon memories. I was obsessed with it in middle school. Though I think my favorite pokemon memory was playing through gold and silver the first time. Honestly, I wish more of the games would be like it. Because not only did you get a whole new pokemon adventure, not only did you get a free shiny if you were good enough with the red gyrados, but you got to travel to Kanto and you got to fight the protagonist from the first game. Like it was amazing. I wish there was a Pokemon MMO where you could go to all the lands and catch all the pokemon in a huge pokemon world.
The pokemon Go story...oh my goooood...
So I lived in Florida and while the downtown bay area I lived at would get busy...this was...the most Id ever seen. So its at the peak of the hype, im sitting in my group among a CROWD of families, teens, kids, adults, GRANDPARENTS....all having fun, running around, excitedly talking about something I had loved since I was a child. I remember being a kid and going to a school where being a nerd, let alone a girl nerd, would get you beat up.
So seeing basically my ten year old dreams come true...i nearly cried in the glow of how amazing that moment was.
25:07 I can completely understand this. I always loved the episode where Ash’s Bulbasaur is abducted by a wild Bulbasaur tribe. Then gets caught up in a evolution ritual where dozens of Bulbasaurs evolve into Ivysaur, and Ash’s wills it’s self not to evolve.
I related so much to refusing to change yourself, because someone else wanted you to be different then you were.
I also really loved the Bulbasaur herd scene from the Detective Pikachu movie. Every single bit of lore in Pokémon says that Bulbasaur is a herd animal. You will never see just ONE Bulbasaur by itself in the wild.
I had this glorious moment where I had my own Jurassic Park, “They’re moving in herds. They do move in herds” moment.
I can't remember what day I first saw Pokémon, but my first episode was the actual first episode and Pikachu and Ash's friendship has held my heart ever since.
Waking up at 8 am on a saturday to cry buckets watching the charmander episode... Ah, presh mems
Everything about the battle with Groudon in the original Ruby Version has left a huge impression on me. But the opening of Platinum Version, the music of gen 4, the story of gen 5, researching fairy types in gen 6, and everything about red rescue team and the explorer's games are all precious memories to me.
An early Pokémon memory I have is of a family holiday to France, my brother and I were playing Pokémon Diamond on the ferry to Dunkirk and arguing over who's team was better. Suddenly this huge German man came over with his kids, sat them at the table next to us and said "sharing the Pokémons" while gesturing between us and his kids. We had a great time trading and showing off our Pokémon!
MewTwo is up to this day my favorite Legendary. Idc about its stats. Its about childhood nostalgia.
mine is Moltres. :p Or was.... until Rayquaza got added. YAS! Pretty sure I called one of them Shen Ron...
I remember when I first played Pokemon. It was Pokemon Blue and I choose Squirtle because it's evolution was on the cartridge. I thought Blastoise was the most powerful Pokemon because why else would they put it's picture on the game?
I always choose Bulbasaur
Mike's mission to make Mgakicarp evolve into something stronger, not even knowing if that's possible, is very, very sweet. He's a really good person
You ever notice how the choice of starter Pokémon is the only time in the game you decide on a difficult level?
The specifics vary by gen, but looking at gen 1, starter #1 gives you type advantage for 2 gyms and is neutral in gym 3, starter #2 gives you advantage for 1 gym, neutral on gym 2 and disadvantage in gym 3, where starter #3 is neutral to gym 1, at a disadvantage for gym 2, then back to neutral in gym 3.
It’s a super subtle piece of game design and I absolutely love it.
Thanks Mike, that was really insightful and lovely. Go Magikarp!
So, my biggest Pokémon memory was back during Diamond and Pearl.
I had Pearl, and I remember there being this character who gives you an egg that eventually hatches into Riolu. Obviously Riolu was a big deal back then, because everybody wanted Lucario, and it’s still a fan favorite even today. I wasn’t big on Lucario myself, but my friend was, so I wanted Lucario basically just to flex on him (even though he had it too - not sure what my thought process was). Anyway, I trained it up to evolve it, and when it eventually happened I was equal parts hype and confused.
You see, my Riolu had originally been male when I hatched it. And I must have run into some sort of extremely weird glitch, because when it evolved into Lucario, it became female. To this day I still don’t understand that, but it’s probably the most memorable moment I have in Pokémon.
Well, alongside the time that same friend convinced me to trade him a shiny Tentacruel because they supposedly weren’t a big deal. Curse you…
Ellen talking about petting evee made me smile so much my face hurt. So adorable lol❤😂
It was such a nice nostalgia trip listening to all of these things. I've been a fan since the start in the US, and I can't think of a single thing as my greatest/best Pokemon memory, because there's just. So much. So many things that have and wouldn't've happened because I was a fan.
1) I'm in the same boat as Luke on the Mewtwo thing. I knew there was a Legendary in the game, I had no idea there was *more* than one.
I too, wasted my Master ball on Articuno.
2) I've never been a huge fan of Eevee, but I understand Ellen's reaction, I was almost the same when Go! released and I could pet my Charmander.
"A Trainer's Starter is always special." - Professor Samuel Oak
I have a good friend that was one of the tour guides to that cemetery around that time Jane, if your tour guide was a gothic pinup model, then you got the best guide!
Ellen as a 30 year old man I had a very similar reaction to petting Eevee in Let's Go. It's too precious for this world.
My most precious memory comes from Pokemon Moon - I started with Popplio, and Primarina's exclusive z-move has the end of the animation end with the pokemon taking a bow. I dealt the final blow of the league challenge with Oceanic Operetta, and when I saw my primarina take a bow to end my league challenge I felt this sense of accomplishment I'd never felt before in anything. I put my system down and just sat there letting what I'd just seen sink in. I finally felt like a real champion.
butterfree leaving was probably the one biggest event for me from my time watching tv
in blue i had squirtle who i will always have a soft spot for (not his evos so much) but it was butterfree who really won my heart, an absolute powerhouse in the game, always coming through for me when everything was on the line. the one thing i could really count on in that super turbulent time of my life so watching that episode absolutely broke me, honestly iv never gotten to into any character because of that lol
My best moment has to be my first run in X & Y on Route 14. Where i found a rather cute and goofy pokemon called Goomy. I had not done any research ahead so did not know about it. But thinking swamp area and a purple color scheme "has to be a poison/water type". One dragonbreath from it later and me being a dragon type fan had his mind blown and had to get this little guy. So in my army of dragons i sometimes will have a tiny ball of goo.
The way Jane pronounces Tauros makes my eye twitch lol. I breathed a sigh of relief when Andy said it the way I do, and confirmed I wasn't going crazy all these years lol
It may have taken me over a decade to come back and beat the Diamond elite four (BLOODY CYNTHIA AND HER GARCHOMP OF DEATH) but god did the Diamond game bring me joy
*rolling up in 2021 with the experience share all and a fairy type*
"Guess who back!"
I think my favourite memory of any Pokémon game was catching my Mimikyu in Sword. When I played Ultra Moon, I loved Mimikyu from the second I saw it, and I got one easily in the game. But when I played Sword, I realised I couldn't fight the Ghost Captain or whatever. I got kind of upset 'cause Ghost types are my absolute favourite, but because I pick which game off of the game-exclusive legendary, and I didn't like the Shield legendary too much, I didn't get it. But then I just made a team of mostly ghost types (save for Zacian and my Inteleon). But I didn't have Mimikyu. When I heard that, yes, Mimikyu IS in Sword and Shield, I worked towards catching one. I literally did twenty minutes worth of research to figure out the best way to catch one. I found one in the specific patch of grass in the Wild Area, and I used my weakest Pokémon (it was my Chandelure at the time) but the move was a crit, and the Mimikyu died in one hit. I reloaded my save like 5 times, but the Mimikyu didn't respawn. So I did yet more research and saw that there's a small chance to get a Mimikyu Dynamax raid in a specific den only if it has a rare beam. I spent about 3 hours reloading my game to get that rare beam and make it a Mimikyu. But then I finally got it.
I've never taken that Mimikyu off my team, and it's my strongest Pokémon
To me. My Pokémon memory is the first Pokémon movie. Where ash dies trying to stop mewtwo and mew from fighting and as a results gets turned into stone. The reaction from his best friend pikachu. His tears will never be erased form my mind. First movie I watched where I cried like a baby. Til this day I get choked up.
This is a bit of a long story but here is my Pokemon Presh Mem.
So with most Pokemon, either they're legendary Pokemon that has a dedicated spite in the overworld and you can battle them by interacting with the sprite, or they're your starter and it's just a matter of choice, or you randomly encounter them in the wilds and you decide you like the look of them. However, in the original Pokemon Ruby there is a legendary Pokemon called Latios that becomes available after you beat the Elite Four, but unlike Groudon and Rayquaza who are in a fixed location in the overworld, Latios spawns in tall grass or whilst surfing on a Pokemon's back, BUT there's only one Latios in the game. Most people know that the in-game Pokedex has an entry that tells you where on the map that Pokemon spawns once you've seen it once in battle (unless it can only be acquired through trading or evolution), but what I don't often see people talk about is that when you see Latios after the 5% ish chance of it spawning, is that the Pokedex tells you which zone it's currently spawned in from then on, and you learn that Latios relocates when you walk through a level transition, so if you walk through a level transition there's a 1/20 or so chance of the Pokedex telling you it'll spawn in your area, at which point it's close to 100% that it will be the first thing to spawn when you actually enter the tall grass.
Nothing in the game tells you to do this and this is one of the rare things that I discovered all on my own, so I stocked up on Ultra Balls and I kept on walking through the level transition until Latios spawned for me a second time, I didn't catch it that time but I did the same method again a few weeks later before I managed to tag him with a successful Ultra Ball, he has a high chance of fleeing but I didn't save my Master Ball. I'm gonna be charitable and say that catching 80% of the Pokemon in any given game basically doesn't require any effort because it's just a matter of grinding, so acquiring them doesn't feel special, but my Latios took genuine patience and effort on my part so owning the Pokemon actually feels special, I was devastated when I lost the cartridge that my unnamed Latios lived in.
“That’s called crying, Ellen”
Cuteness is SUPER EFFECTIVE
Favourite pokemon memory for me was the first time my quilava evolved inyo a typhlosion. I wasnt familar with the johto pokemon at the time so didnt know anything about them, and so having that experience of not knowing what pokemon will evolve or what they will evolve into was absolutely fantastic.
It was mostly the name that blew my mind, typhlosion, it was awesome then, and its awesome now.
I had to go to the US for work in July 2016 during the initial Pokemon Go madness. It was a hugely stressfull trip for me, my first time flying anywhere, so it helped that some of my US colleagues were also playing and I spent a Sunday driving around New Jersey hunting pokemon. I didn't see any Tauros until I was sat in Newark airport waiting for the flight home and one showed up as nearby so obviously I had to head off towing my suitcase with my phone in the other hand to find it. Still got it too, all of CP189 but it's still the only foreign regional I've caught myself.
This makes me kind of sad i genuinely have no memories of playing gen 1 and 2 for the first time, partly from being so young and partly from the multitude of times ive replayed them since. I do have a specific memory of beating the gen 3 league for the first time while queuing with my mum for a custom photo cake of our cat in an Asda though.
For me, my most vivid memory is when I finally reached Lance in Crystal. It was my first handheld pokemon game, and I was playing it on my T.V. with the Pokemon Stadium 2 tower, so having that epic music start up out of my T.V. as my Feraligatr and his Gyarados were staring down each other in what I thought was the final battle was so intense as a kid. I've never had a more epic fight.
This is how to do Sponsored content. Basically apart from the Purple Text it's a regular Oxboxtra video. Also, yay for a return to the "tell us your gaming stories" format, which is one of my favourite things you do.
Yeah but it's easy for Pokémon to be a whole video because it spans generations. Not so for other sponsors.
So i used to love Pikachu when I was younger as i had started that journey at age 10. But over time, it started to wane as i saw how popular it was becoming, so i decided to seek out a different Pokémon to like. Flash forward into my early 20s, this was during the time I was working at a mall and also was getting into drawing Pokémon as humans, which started out as what the trainers would look like dressed as the partner Pokémon.
One day, I had finished working and waiting for my dad to come pick me up (i was learning to drive at the time), and decided to stop by the Hot Topic store. I was browsing around and the Rise of Darkrai DVD caught my eye. This is during the Gen4 era, but because I didn't have a GBA or a DS at the time, i wasn't able to play the Gen3 or 4 Pokémon games. I bought the movie and watched it when I got home. I immediately fell in love with Darkrai and for years tried to get him in any game i came across which was through events.
But what was frustrating was that you couldn't rename event Pokémon in the early games ( trust me, i tried) and i wanted to name him Issac because
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But yeah, i named Darkrai Issac because he looked like one to me. As a side effect, I became resentful of Cressalia because she was the one who's catchable in the game and not Darkrai.
Just hated her.
Nowadays, i still make human Pokémon as a project since Issac was the one that inspired me (500+!), and with Legends Arceus and Brilliant Diamond out, i was able to catch Darkrai in both games and give him his proper name in-game! Seeing him with his name popping up in battles makes me happy.
I feel you Ellen. I very feel you. On eevee and on Ash with Pikachu. I dunno how far you watched the series but in one of the last regions to date Ash actually mentions that he still has that thunderstone. (I kept it safe just in case Pikachu ever wants to evolve.) And it's presented in a way that made me tear up a lot remembering all their first journeys. I remember when Ash and Pikachu "split up" in the Pikachu Forest I also legit cried as a kid and still do despite knowing that it ends well. I really want Pokémon to be real.
I am the youngest in my family so I did grow up failing to play blue and gold on the game boy but finally became fully immersed in when I got Pokemon dimoand in Australia. But I must been from the beginning because my first word was look and I pointed to a Pikachu. My mother was so happy that she bought it for me 😊
Pokémon Diamond was my first Pokémon game ever, which I started when I was 10 years old and spent years playing. My fav memory from it was finally beating Cynthia because I had to spend WEEKS farming leppa berries for my Pokémon to regain enough PP/moves that could beat her Spiritomb
This whole video was an absolute pleasure. Love watching the Ox teams interact with each other. Great way to end a study night! Thank you!
Gosh, I remember Rotom being SUCH a pain to catch. So many soft restarts!
IIRC I rummaged in my boxes until I found some ~L15 pokemon I'd never bothered using before. Put it to sleep, swap, smack with low level loser, swap back, catch
Oh SMTV. Ant and Dec doing the pokeraps is such a core memory. Along with Wonky Donky of course. 🤣
I love how they all have very different impressions from the game! I think my favourite moment was in the lead up for Gold and Silver, it had been released in Japan, but it was a while before it was released in the west, and I remember getting mum to constantly check the 90s blog of this guy who had gotten a Japanese copy and was trying to work out what everything was and what it did. I think it was the first time I had like serious hype for something which hadn't been released yet, and it was one of the first times I realised that the early internet back in those days had all this information on it that you couldn't get else where, and then just playing the game to absolute death for months on end. Just great memories all around
Re-playing Heartgold now
trying to catch the roaming pokémon without a masterball
Bruuuh, brings me back so much! Probably one of the most precious memories that i have is hunting for a Feebas and grinding to evolve it into a Milotic in Pokemon Emerald! Good tiiiimes..
I always love the episodes where everybody gathers around to reminisce and tell stories.
Karp-Diem; when your Magikarp evolves into a badass sweeper.
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Luke: Explaining when he was in an intense battle
Me: HEY! I live there at the top left!!!
My favorite Pokemon memory....
I caught a Dewgong in Seafoam Islands in my original Blue version, that was pretty epic. Hmmm....the first couple months of Pokemon Go! were pretty epic as well. I think my favorite memories were from my Silver version where I had assembled my all-time best team. What still gets me is it was only four Pokemon, but they covered everything I could face at that time. I took that team through the Pokemon League and Red so many dozens of times....I think my Typhlosion at lvl81 was the highest I ever trained a Pokemon before modern games. I loved that team, they were like family to me.
Mike, you are a person after my own heart. Magikarp will always be my favourite pokemon. I love dragon pokemon, but they are incredibly hard to raise, and often times you get them too late in the game to raise them properly (in my mind). Magikarp was tough to raise, but you got it early on, meaning you could spend time to raise it properly. And once you got Gyarados - a dragon pokemon in all but type - you had a butt kicking water pokemon that could learn dragon moves.
I remember doing my first mega raid in pokemon go. It was for regigigas. I showed up and there were 30 people from my podunk town. It was a great feeling knowing I was part of a community that I didn't even know existed. It took 2 lobbies and everyone got their regigigas. Good times
Some day the servers will go off. Just like for harry potter. That's ok. I've had a lot of days like that regigigas day because of go. It meant something
I love these videos where they banter back and forth.
I believe Luke's Tauros trap pun is severely underappreciated.
White 2 was my first main series game and i loved it. My favorite moments where when i caught a Sandile, named it Chomper, and held on to that beautiful bastard and made him a level 100 Krookadile. By far my favorite pokemon of all time