The move “Vise Grip” is named because its Japanese name means Clamp as a verb, but a clamp is also a tool, and this tool is also called a vise. It was spelled “Vice Grip” for 17 years, either because the person who translated this move was English or because someone peer-reviewing the name didn’t know what a vise was.
Lickitung could not learn Lick in its debut generation.
Ken Sugimori wishes he didn’t draw so many small details when he first designed Venusaur because of how tedious it was to redraw them.
Raichu was once meant to evolve, but Gorochu was cut to balance the game, which is really saying something considering that this is Red and Green we’re talking about here.
Official statements on Missingno. made it sound more dangerous than it actually was to discourage people from seeking it out.
Lucario’s mouth is under its snout instead of part of it. I hate this to the point I cannot ignore it.
Give your Shuckle a Berry in Gold, Silver, or Crystal, and it will churn it into Berry Juice. This Berry Juice will never become a Rare Candy despite what that rat bitch Jimmy told you on the playground.
Pokémon Crystal let you trade with other players remotely through hooking up the GameBoy Color to a mobile phone… in Japan. The Mobile Adapter-related features were removed from localizations because the Mobile Adapter’s sales were too lackluster to bring it out of Japan.
The Game Freak developers miss their families.
Some shiny Unown variants are impossible to obtain in Gold, Silver, and Crystal, because Unown letters and potential shininess were both decided by the ‘Mon’s Individual Values, which are like genes for Pokémon.
Speaking of genes, breeding for shiny Pokémon in G/S/C can be streamlined due to how IV inheritance works.
Scripts that fish through the site data of EmuParadise to recover downloads taken down by Nintendo are available to download online. If you get a virus from doing this, it won’t be my fault.
Pokémon games for the GameBoy Advance could play mini games if you scan an E-Reader card with one on it. Once again, the E-Reader didn’t make it outside of Japan because it barely made it inside of Japan.
If you Google Image Search certain Pokémon, there will be fetish porn in the first few results.
Early Gligar was a facehugger like from Alien that got redesigned into something more palatable.
Darumaka canonically shits.
The famous FireRed/LeafGreen antipiracy line, “By the way, if you like this game, buy it or die!” is not present in legit copies, meaning that we’ve been getting trolled this entire time.
There’s official Pokémon coins that are actual currency from the island of Niue.
Pokémon Red and Blue use the same memory address to check if a Pokémon is in battle that it does to check whether an item has been used, allowing you to evolve Pokémon that would otherwise need an evolutionary stone through leveling it up in a battle with a trainer, then switching to the Pokémon with the same hex address and finishing the battle.
This is not your ask box.
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