Not sure if the same Moltres but Dive Bomb while this song was playing was intense for me and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the 50-50 hit chance of the move
The song starts out smug and side eyeing you, it knows that its bad ass. Transforms about a quarter of the way reminding you that this is bad ass territory.
This theme will always be Courtney's. And perhaps Rod's. The description you gave it sums up those smug ass side looks they give you in their character portraits. The sequel to this game even gave them smug emotes when they're either winning or they draw a good card.
That beat change at 1:23 was crazy as a 12 year old ha ha I love the 8 bit era, they had to really make sure the music was small enough to fit the cartridge and create something in the matter of size.
when this music starts up, you know you're in for an epic battle.... then you win by default because the Grand Master only managed to put one weak pokemon on the field and you beat it on the first turn...
I won last night against final boss Ronald with the Colourless Energy Jolteon and lucky plays. It was actually quite a tense fight because I was trying to dig for my other mons. 3 Oaks in the deck and I didn't hit one.
Man, you don't know how relieving it is to hear that other people struggled against Courtney. Played the game just now for the first time in years and swept through everyone with brutal beatdowns and energy control... Except for her. If I hadn't gotten lucky with confusion on her Moltres, it would have just run through me before I could get anything going....
I've just gone back to the game after years of not playing it because it came out on the game boy player on the switch. I beat all the champions on my 1st attempt with my deck although the 2nd champion came the closest by far to beating me since he's zapdos attacks kept landing on my pokemon but still won in the end. The others never came close inc courtney.
The best track in the game and it still holds up to this day for 8 bit goodness. Starts off slow as it should as both players draw their cards and begin their plans and set ups, then picks up as the duel goes on and things start having more pressure to it.
I feel like this theme needs to return in one way or another. It is a masterpiece, starting out with a solid rhythm and then turns into a intense climax. Maybe bring it back while introducing some sort of extra post-game challenge outside of battle facilities. At this point I'm just looking for even more challenging battles. (With multiplayer having a lot of Pokegenners, cheaters & hackers, I don't give a damn about playing any PvP.)
Five years ago I commented on this apparently... and even with my 15 month old son I snicker at Gyarados's 3-energy-card dragon rage. 50 damage within 2 turns was phenomenal. Poliwrath's Whirlpool was a dominating force thanks to its secondary ability of washing away an energy card. That's all I needed.
@@palm0607 Not because of Blastoise, which is *until this day*, one of the best ace cards a Water deck can have? Seriously, other types *wish* they could ever have an ability like Rain Dance.
@@WH40KHero Oho, yes for sure. It and Yu-gi-oh are still alive and kicking. Right now, they´re adding Pokemon-V and -VMax cards to the game, together with content from Sword & Shield. Picked it up again recently, and I must say I didn´t anticipate such a difference in depth from back then. Nothing compared to the 4D chess that is modern Yugioh, but it got more tactical depth now than "play strong basic, rush with energy and strong attacks".
+Guan Yu Lmao know that feeling so good!!! I specially remember the first duel vs greta, where she was getting a shit load of energy out of moltres passive and I was like: Damn this is getting hectic hahaha
This song was everything !!!!! When courtney would play Moores and use those its effect it always happened when the song picked up......I was like I gotta fight back !!!!! Memories :)
Pokemon TCG was one amazing game, i played it quite a lot, maybe my third most played GBC game, after Pokemon Gold and Zelda Links Awakening DX... GBC games had surplrisingly great soundtracks, i wish Nintendo released some arranged or remastered versions
Funny thing is, the way the coin lands is preset. If you play the game with savestates, you'll notice that loading won't help, because the coin will ALWAYS land on the same side.
I finally got around to playing and beating this game again. The old water deck I used seemed to work, and after a few deck tunings, I was able to wipe the floor with every trainer and grandmaster with ease. I guess that's what comes from 10 added years of logic, knowledge and experience. Still had a rough time trying to manage without the key cards early on.
I never got a chance to make it this far in the game as I would get my ass kicked towards the end every time, but this song goes so hard. Perfectly fitting for the tougher/toughest boss or bosses.
By this point in the game, I went on a huge card collecting marathon. I built 5 decks, each with specific types to take down the Grandmaster's decks. I was able to run through them in about 10 turns each.
I always associate this song with Courtney. Also, this theme should be reused, I love the main pokemon game soundtracks but none of their battle themes have ever bested this one.
its been so long since i played the game... thinking back i now remember that i couldnt play it cuz whenever i saved it would just start new files:'( i never got past the second grandmaster either...
lol, the Electric guy (can't remember his name) was so easy. EVERY TIME all he would get out was has Zapdos and I would kill it before it got enough energy XD
I got a promo Meowth card when I bought this game new when it came out (the GB meowth card from this game), the reason being is that Meowth is a popular poke'mon in Japan. I hope this info was helpful.
In my play through on my game boy, I had actually beat rod before he could get his dragonite out and beat Ronald before he could set up the legendary birds
i can't hear this song without hearing the sound of Courtney's Moltres moving fire energy around in my head
Me too (; _ ;)
😆 eww
EXACTLY!!!
Bro that was my favorite card from them, cause I had a spicy charizard deck
Not sure if the same Moltres but Dive Bomb while this song was playing was intense for me and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the 50-50 hit chance of the move
Literally one of those hardest tracks put into a handheld game cartridge
Still the most intense 8 bit song of all time... alongside the lance battle theme in Pokemon Gold and Silver
Check gym leader intro. Its epic
Better than the Lance theme imo
It was this game that made me wonder: “Why the hell doesn’t the gen 2 music have a beat?”
Very few songs after Gen 1 and TCG even come close to the pump I get from the gym leader/Gary/four masters themes.
I dunno about that. Ever heard the Silver Surfer NES soundtrack?
This song slaps so fucking hard. Kind of wild it’s 8 bit. Truly a masterclass of music. The progression is subtle but builds up nicely.
The orchestral arrangement is dope look it up
これはずるいって。8bit drum'n'bassでは間違いなく最高峰だよ。
1:42
The song starts out smug and side eyeing you, it knows that its bad ass.
Transforms about a quarter of the way reminding you that this is bad ass territory.
This theme will always be Courtney's. And perhaps Rod's. The description you gave it sums up those smug ass side looks they give you in their character portraits. The sequel to this game even gave them smug emotes when they're either winning or they draw a good card.
@@Rad1antGeneralZelcina I would love to see that emote haha, I never was able to play the second game.
@@MysticBlueFox Courtneys emote is a typical anime girl “Ohohohoho!” laugh while Rod gets an evil look in his eyes.
@@Rad1antGeneralZelcina That's amazing! I was trying to find them somewhere online, but I would probably have to find a playthrough.
@MysticBlueFox You can find them on the respective wiki.
Truly an 8-bit masterpiece
That beat change at 1:23 was crazy as a 12 year old ha ha I love the 8 bit era, they had to really make sure the music was small enough to fit the cartridge and create something in the matter of size.
This song needs to be in smash so bad.
too bad gamefreak doesnt even recognize this game ever
@@goukenslay7555 smash doesn't care about any pokemon spin-off representation....at all
That would be so good!
best you get is stickers for Pokemon Conquest, not even Rangers :(
Not everything needs to be in a smash bros game. shut the hell up.
This is one of my favorite GBC songs of all time. The percussion really sells the intensity of track.
わかります！！😊
when this music starts up, you know you're in for an epic battle....
then you win by default because the Grand Master only managed to put one weak pokemon on the field and you beat it on the first turn...
Flashbacks to the Dragonite master only sending out 1 Dratini with 40HP
@@DerVasto well his deck is the worst compare to other 3 lol
This applies to almost every single Pokemon battle in every game lol.
I won last night against final boss Ronald with the Colourless Energy Jolteon and lucky plays. It was actually quite a tense fight because I was trying to dig for my other mons. 3 Oaks in the deck and I didn't hit one.
2:18 - 2:43 That rising tension in the music always got my game on!
Love how it has a hip hop beat to it, beautiful.
Man, you don't know how relieving it is to hear that other people struggled against Courtney. Played the game just now for the first time in years and swept through everyone with brutal beatdowns and energy control... Except for her. If I hadn't gotten lucky with confusion on her Moltres, it would have just run through me before I could get anything going....
Gyarados + dewgong deck to go hahaha. Lapras and Chansey helped to tank early game too
I just went in with budget Haymaker.
….no issues ever
I've just gone back to the game after years of not playing it because it came out on the game boy player on the switch. I beat all the champions on my 1st attempt with my deck although the 2nd champion came the closest by far to beating me since he's zapdos attacks kept landing on my pokemon but still won in the end. The others never came close inc courtney.
This game's soundtrack is awesome
I used to have the original one. Technically I still do, but it died and won't start up now. Thank you, 3DS E-shop! :P
it might need a battery replacement, there are guys out there who make a living replacing and restoring the cartridge art of those games
The best track in the game and it still holds up to this day for 8 bit goodness. Starts off slow as it should as both players draw their cards and begin their plans and set ups, then picks up as the duel goes on and things start having more pressure to it.
I need a hip hop remix. This beat screams for one. Especially some jazz horns or something
U mean gba horns
Gamechops
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(yeah replied to a 4 year old comment, so what?)
@@abarette_ I’ve waited 4 years for this
These battles were so intense
The music composer for this game must be a genius to be able to make this with 8 bit machinery! one work: Amazing!
So intense. I always think of this song whenever I'm making an exam, lol
Man this soundtrack is just made of epic!
I feel like this theme needs to return in one way or another. It is a masterpiece, starting out with a solid rhythm and then turns into a intense climax. Maybe bring it back while introducing some sort of extra post-game challenge outside of battle facilities. At this point I'm just looking for even more challenging battles. (With multiplayer having a lot of Pokegenners, cheaters & hackers, I don't give a damn about playing any PvP.)
Yeah...is incredible... :(
Imagine a mainline game having trading cards as a minigame. With this music when playing top-tier opponents
@@Anaklusmos42 Should have totally been a concept. Pokemon TcG within the main game as a game within a game!
GameChops has a remix of this song called “Trapped in a Pokeball” YALL should check out
Me at 0:00 aww yeah.
Me at 1:42 OMG. Its f*cking awesome ( * - * )
Such slick themes... Played once between main Pokemon titles, will never leave my head.
Five years ago I commented on this apparently... and even with my 15 month old son I snicker at Gyarados's 3-energy-card dragon rage. 50 damage within 2 turns was phenomenal. Poliwrath's Whirlpool was a dominating force thanks to its secondary ability of washing away an energy card. That's all I needed.
The sole reason why I played water type most....
@@palm0607 Not because of Blastoise, which is *until this day*, one of the best ace cards a Water deck can have? Seriously, other types *wish* they could ever have an ability like Rain Dance.
@@DerVasto Wait, its still played? Impossible!
@@WH40KHero Oho, yes for sure. It and Yu-gi-oh are still alive and kicking.
Right now, they´re adding Pokemon-V and -VMax cards to the game, together with content from Sword & Shield.
Picked it up again recently, and I must say I didn´t anticipate such a difference in depth from back then.
Nothing compared to the 4D chess that is modern Yugioh, but it got more tactical depth now than "play strong basic, rush with energy and strong attacks".
@@DerVasto I know that the Pokemon TCG is still played, i meant more the base set Blastoise, if that card is still played.
Just rediscovered this tune along with the others, this is by far the best music of this game to me.
When I was a kid this song used to get me pumped lol
+Guan Yu Lmao know that feeling so good!!! I specially remember the first duel vs greta, where she was getting a shit load of energy out of moltres passive and I was like: Damn this is getting hectic hahaha
Hell yeah, was quite difficult for a nooby like me too but the epic song kept me going xD
This song was everything !!!!! When courtney would play Moores and use those its effect it always happened when the song picked up......I was like I gotta fight back !!!!! Memories :)
Same. Brings back nothing but joyous nostalgia.
8-bit sound quality but its still very good. I would love to hear a remake of this song. Would be awesome.
This game introduced me to the ASSKICKING power of Scoop up
Thank u!! Pure nostalgia!!
Pokemon TCG was one amazing game, i played it quite a lot, maybe my third most played GBC game, after Pokemon Gold and Zelda Links Awakening DX...
GBC games had surplrisingly great soundtracks, i wish Nintendo released some arranged or remastered versions
Funny thing is, the way the coin lands is preset. If you play the game with savestates, you'll notice that loading won't help, because the coin will ALWAYS land on the same side.
This theme is awesome! I'd really like to hear an orchestrated version of this!
I doubt you'll see this comment 12 years later lol but there is an orchestrated version, I can link if you want
@@thugchihuahua I'd like to see it
@@happy.time.boredom try this czcams.com/video/akM8HnLrYak/video.html
I finally got around to playing and beating this game again. The old water deck I used seemed to work, and after a few deck tunings, I
was able to wipe the floor with every trainer and grandmaster with ease. I guess that's what comes from 10 added years of logic, knowledge and experience.
Still had a rough time trying to manage without the key cards early on.
0:02 - 0:14 The intro to this theme is SO GOOD. 😭😭😭
Adrenaline rush as a kid.
Sweaty palms.
Save game after every grandmaster multiple times.
Access to sacred card = I'm the fk King 😏
Awesome! This will be my Pokemon TCG match theme song.
nostalgia ten fold impact, ahhh, so good.
I remember this, effing loved it, & still have it! ^^
I also remembered how the Charizard & Chansey cards were THE BEST card of the original TCG sets!
Ronald with no pokemon but a Magikrap wiped out on first turn
TRUE STORY
I first played this game back in 2009. I played it again this week and yesterday I beat the grandmasters and Roland. It was a great moment.
actually,that's a second game of this
Anybody still play this, I play it on my nexus when I take a shit
O my God, i remeber this from way back, i played this so much the thing broke.i loved this pokemon game cause you could actually collect them all and
I didn’t think other people played this game lol
Best remix of mission impossible ever. The guitar midi thing in the background is the verses are so groovy.
i really havn't played many 8-bit games but from what i heard, this is classicaly amazing
I had the beginning sound effect set as my ringtone
@EnkerZero yeah that equals one of the most amazing games ever created in the history of gaming.
I Love this music!
This theme is ironically better than the OST Championship theme from the main games!
Wow. I forgot how hard this track goes.
Man I kicked arse on this game, once I got my Gyarados I was just set to win, best pokemon ever.
小さい頃はあんまり思ってなかったけど、リュウドーってめちゃくちゃイケメンだったんだね。
登場回数の少なさと、カードゲームでしか出てないっていうのも相まってあんまり認知されてないかもだけど、ポケモンのゲームでリュウドーが再登場したら人気出ると思う。
Light's Castle 4 - Rockman CX
Oh god, I'd completely forgotten this music. But it's like the mains series Champion battle music, it's so cool , it's NERVE RACKING!
My fav pokemon game
this hardly even sounds like pokemon gba music, it has a classic 8-bit musical vibe to it.
Your ears are spot on--this was surprisingly a Gameboy game, not advance. Still have fond memories of playing this on my Gameboy Color. 😊
The memories...
Music like this ranks up there with FFVII boss music. I love nostalgia!
I never got a chance to make it this far in the game as I would get my ass kicked towards the end every time, but this song goes so hard. Perfectly fitting for the tougher/toughest boss or bosses.
By this point in the game, I went on a huge card collecting marathon. I built 5 decks, each with specific types to take down the Grandmaster's decks. I was able to run through them in about 10 turns each.
8-bits are awesome ;D
I always associate this song with Courtney. Also, this theme should be reused, I love the main pokemon game soundtracks but none of their battle themes have ever bested this one.
These old video game ost are so fucking good
2:20 is amazing
@tibyandy what im thiking from this,is usd as a trumpet(or something similar) violin, base guitar and a bit of drums
Oh, the glory days, back when my older brother had a custom deck called "Beat Jack" deck.
its been so long since i played the game...
thinking back i now remember that i couldnt play it cuz whenever i saved it would just start new files:'(
i never got past the second grandmaster either...
Nostalgy. And what a great soundtrack :)
This song has one unforgivable flaw.
It ends.
1:44 EPIC DRUM BEAT STARTING!
The year is 2023,we now have Game boy online for our switch..And I'm waiting for this and the sequel to be announced for it
lol, the Electric guy (can't remember his name) was so easy.
EVERY TIME all he would get out was has Zapdos and I would kill it before it got enough energy XD
Steve
@EnkerZero yup. a pokemon game based on a pokemon game based on a pokemon game.
Listening to Gamechops: trapped in a pokeball, brought me to this nostalgia
I'm on a boss music listening spree since finals are this week for me
I always thought that the Club Master theme was the most badass one in the game. Then I heard this!
That first Grandmaster duel was so intense.
Such an underrated song
I forgot about this gem! This song is better than most of the music in the Pokémon series! This needs to be in another game please!!!
Interesting concept. I could totally hear the melody line being played by a solo violin. Perhaps I'll arrange this for string quartet.
i really miss this game, i lost it ages ago...
you should play it again. i'm playing it right now using a GBC emulator on my phone.
If you heard this music you know shit was about to go down.
You know when you hear the beginning of the song, Shit's about to go down.
Holy cow! This is awesome! This should be remixed for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!
Right you are now SCREWED even the song says it. such a catchy tune :-D
Why do I have a feeling I've heard this in a Mega Man hack before?
EDIT: Turns out I was right - it's the theme of Right Stage 4 from Rockman CX.
dame my childhood ruled
This theme song slaps. This game was the shit back in the day.
Make sure to bring Potions, Super Potions and stuff to let the Zapdoses withstand the damages. And the Revives might be useful there too.
The Elite 4 of childrens' card games
I used a defender card; I'm glad he got tails for what ever it was, but it made sure the defender was succesful and he couldn't draw next turn.
This song from 1:45 on made me step my game up. Similar to Yugi cheating with the soul of the pharoh
There was a sequel made to this game on the GBA, but it was only released in Japan.
Famn I miss this game. I remember saving before every battle and reloading the game if I got rubbish pokemon first on my deck
I got a promo Meowth card when I bought this game new when it came out (the GB meowth card from this game), the reason being is that Meowth is a popular poke'mon in Japan.
I hope this info was helpful.
I just noticed it now, but the beginning of this song resembles the beginning of the Lance theme. Possibly Nintendo snuck a few remixes in.
In my play through on my game boy, I had actually beat rod before he could get his dragonite out and beat Ronald before he could set up the legendary birds
Same here =)