Ask PokéJungle: #J2XY — Generation I
The recent reveal of the Kanto Starter Mega Evolutions could not have come at a better time, they kicked off our Generation I theme week perfectly. It seems Game Freak are really giving Generation I a throwback, Pokémon: The Origin will be a hit with fans of all ages and Professor Sycamore giving players a Kanto Starter in X & Y, continues the trend of Generation I getting a bit of well deserved love.
Leading up to October 12 each week we will publish articles featuring on a Pokémon Generation, beginning with the first and ending with then fifth. After the fifth week our extensive Pokémon X & Y coverage will begin, including unique features and articles. To kick of the Journey to X & Y we’re starting with a Generation I Ask PokéJungle
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PLEASE HELP! In PokeTransfer I imported my Swampert and I couldn’t catch it in time and now it says to connect to import but am I going to be able to catch Swampert again?! He was my first Pokemon in my Gen 3 game and I don’t want to lose him!! D: I SERIOUSLY hope that there is no stupid mini-game involved with X & Y! HELP
Have you tried re-entering again?
Nope because I wasn’t sure if that would over write Swampert.
No, he’s not lost lol. It’s just a minigame 🙂
So I just have to restart and he will appear?
Were you transferring from Gen 3 to Gen 4? Or Gen 4 to Gen 5?
Gen 3 to Gen 4 to Gen 5.
If all six Pokémon are not captured within the time limit, the Pokémon not captured will be sent back to the Generation IV game, while those that are caught will be sent to the Black/White/Black 2/White 2 game. Just try again 🙂
Thank you 🙂
You’re welcome 😀
just try again…your pokemon isnt gone
If you don’t catch it in time, it just gets sent back to your old game(or rather,it never gets caught). Just play the game again.
Thank you so much! 🙂
To the webmasters/gymleaders: If gen 1 was your first generation, what were your first starters?
Squirtle 🙂
I can’t remember… I think it was either Squirtle or Charmander though.
Charmander, of course 🙂
Anybody remember the Spinning toys of Pokemon where to drag it across the ground and let it go to watch it spin? I had Jigglypuff.
I had Venonat!
I still have Jigglypuff.
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Back when BK toys were awesome! (I have the Poliwhirl)
Raichu was my first, my brother got Muk.
These are the gold-plated cards, there was no Muk or Raichu. :p
Oh the the gold cards I got Togepi.
jigglypuff, mewtwo, Pikachu
I am sure I got them all eventually but these were the first ones I got
I still have one of those… Whatever came inside it, or the box, no. And, the Pokeball itself is in extremely rough shape. It has no button for instance.
In loving memory of Sable’s Gold plated card 1999-????
To be honest, I didn’t even remember where I got that Pokeball.
I just have my golden mewtwo card…love it to death though and it’s sitting right by my bed so i know where it is.
for everyone:
What was your fav town/city in gen 1?
Mine was cinabar island, since I love fire types and because it was where you went to revive fossils in gen 1. I also liked the mansion
I honestly don’t know my favorite. Probably Celadon because of the slot machines!
Good choice 😛
Ahh Pokemon..Teaching us how to gamble since 1998.
Celadon City. I enjoyed the Game Corner, and the Mart, and the Gym!
Celadon City. Love the music, but even better “Heh heh heh! This gym is great! It’s full of women!” I love that quote from the old man xD
Cerulean City, Where my favorite gym leader lives 🙂
Lavender Town. The love the haunting atmosphere, and to an extent, it reminds me of my home town, as I grew up right next to a cemetery. Like, next door to one.
Celadon City. Just loved it as soon as I arrived there.
Cinnabar Island…the laboratory….and DAT music
I liked Celadon City’s layout.
Who else was freaked out by lavender town due to the music?
Strange as it sounds, I liked it. I was more freaked out by the music in rocket’s hideout underneath the game corner.
I was scared to go to dark and mysterious areas at night by myself because I didn’t know what to expect! Lol.
Anyone remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuP02W4Hnbk
That sure misled the fanbase huh?
Yeah….
You know what, this episode sparked my idea of Pokemon Fusion for the games, which was eventually implemented in 5th Gen with Kyurem!
I do!! 😀
I don’t remember that at all! Wow!
Why do they fuse like in DragonBall? XD
I was just going through my box in Emerald and heard that Claydol’s cry sounds like “Oorotto” XD
Have we even heard Oorotto’s cry?
I don’t think so; we only saw it in Horde Battles for a couple seconds each, so it was never sent out or returned to a trainer.
I actually have 1 more question (for anybody) Do you guys still watch the Pokemon anime? Do you like the new characters? I mean the Unova series not rewatching the 1st season (but that’s fine too..) I’m one of the few that hope Cilan continues to travel with Ash….
I stopped watching after Hoenn. But I may tune in again just to see how they make Chespin’s personality. I freaking love Chespin.
no I don’t watch it anymore
I do not. May start watching XY series, however.
No I don’t watch it, but I do wanna see pokemon origins.
I lost interest in the anime around the middle of DP, came back for the end, and lost interest VERY quickly again in BW.
When the voice actors changed….yeah that’s about the time
Well at least you gave it a second chance. *Chuckle
Lemme guess your going to watch Origins though?
I might give it a go. Not really a fan of the art style.
No ,but I’ll watch Origins in subtitles.
I watched bits of the first season (only one tv at the time) when it came out and the Hoenn series every day after school ( I did NOT like Harley and his Cacturne outfit!). If the animated trailers for BW were the anime, I would’ve watched those. I may watch the X and Y if they change up the usual plot and Ash actually evolves his pokemon.
I think Iris and Cilan are leaving. In the promo they become Dragon Champion and an S-class Connoisseur. They float up in the sky and disappear too.
I’m hoping Cilan will pull a Brock and somehow meet up with Ash in a later city & decide to go along 🙂
In any anime if the characters float towards the sky and disappear, that definitely means they’re leaving or something.
We did see Brock back so that could mean…
Yeah. But I mean leave for a while. In other animes they usually die or something. Pokemon usually just gives a character a break in the show or something. I wish Misty would come back for a little while, or at least another travel partner. I’d like to know how Max and May are doing.
May and her Blaziken could show up and Mega evolve too!
Please!
Also it’s kinda suspicious Ash’s Charizard returned..
Yeah. I saw somewhere online that said like ” What if Charizard returned to broaden the long term relationship between he and Ash to showcase the Mega Evolution at the end of the series?”
He could easily Mega Evolve because of their bond..OR OOR Korrina could battle Ash before/after and give him A Mega Stone!
Yes! Great thinking!
Is it bad I want Dawn & Cilan back rather then Misty & Brock? Misty’s my favorite character but still I’d like some different characters to come in or come back. I know ppl want them back for Nostaliga but still differents not bad….
No everyone has their opinions 🙂
i do sometimes
Which Pokemon from Generation 1 would you like to see in X & Y? I would absolutely love to see Mew :3 (Off-topic~ Rayquaza would look amazing!! Mine is ready to be imported 😀 I can’t wait to see what it looks like)
Nidoran male and female, ponyta (to ride), lapras(to ride)
Uh… Tentacruel. Because yes.
That’s one of the many things that defies logic in Pokemon, fish like Goldeen how do they float in the middle of the battlefield and live without air??
A battle on a surfing Horsea and using a Golem that can float and walk on water.
Ditto. Easy breeding.
Ditto 🙂
Moltres.
Pidgeot I can’t wait to use it in a sky battle
Bastiodon!
Staraptor 😀
Cause that’s really from Gen I…more like IV
sycther
Magikarp :p
We have already seen it in the first trailer! :p I suspect Gyarados will get a Mega Evolution, it has been popping up everywhere..
Well then Drantini, Oddish, Tangela, and Vulpix!
Meowth or Persian.
What regular evolutions would you like to see for Gen 1 Pokemon? It’s unlikely we’ll se anything more than we have, but it’s worth speculating about.
Lapras! I guess a Mega Evolution is fine, too. It seems to be the thing now. Although they are exclusive to Gen 6/Kalos Region (**I THINK**) I believe, so that means we can’t play with them after Gen 6 🙁 So Absol won’t have an evolution in Gen 7.
Well, I guess it’s up to Gamefreak to decide whether they want to keep this as an implemented idea or move onto something new. However, the fact that the Mega Ring and Mega Stone are being referenced to Kalos only, I can see it being region-exclusive.
This is interesting as with transfers you tend to lose the items one the Pokémon. I hope the do away with that in x/y.
I hope the thing they do away with is the “This Pokemon knows an HM. Delete it to transfer.” or whatever it says. That will be annoying for my Pokemon.
I’m dealing with this problem at this very moment in Emerald, my Xatu knows Fly so I won’t be able to transfer.
You’re practically forced to make use of the Move Deleter.
I have now done this, but please Gamefreak, change the rules. It’s an unnecessary hassle.
I think its because of the game limitations. The Rock Climb took the place of a previous HM, and with a code that is still labeled as an HM wouldn’t work out.
Why couldn’t it be an inherent characteristic? Why must it waste a moveslot?
Because some of them are actually good. I use surf on my Empoleon because of the accuracy and the power as an example. Why not just make them TMs as well.
I wish they would get rid of Mini-games, taking away items although sometimes necessary, deleting HMs. They could just be used as a normal move like really do we have to get rid of HMs to import >_>
It’s hard to get some of the berries and stuff too. Having to remove them in the transfer would mess up some of my entire strategies.
that is also a thing with m if they had made it poss to find them.
ie: bering back the underground, berry planting and other such things so that we are not really losing anything as we can go an find it like we did before
I agree with the mini-games they were annoying and just plain stupid. if they want to put main games in give us back the game corner but not with stupid games.
I didn’t catch my Swampert today in the PokeTransfer and I had to choose more Pokemon to be able to get Swampert back >.>
The Mini Games are all but assured to be gone, given we will be moving whole boxes directly to the Poke Bank.
That seems like an awful lot of work for something that will not be used ever again. What making the models, all these items, official art. Especially if it turns out to really popular, that’s a lot of stuff that we will just completely lose. Plus… Based on the new transfer method, it looks like they won’t strip us of our items again, hopefully, and seeing as they have said they’d like to maintain this system for future games, the Pokebank, and… I dunno, it’s too early to say. Is worth noting only Gen IV – V we lost items, we kept them in Gen III to Gen IV. But, it’s not like Shadow Pokemon, kept to their own little spinoff side game, this is a main series game, and they are promoting it heavily. Just seems like if they did away with them after a generation it would be a giant waste of time.
Hounddoom, I would love it if it got an evolution or a mega.
Agreed…my only reason for not choosing fennekin or charmander
i have a question but its not about the first generation;it’s about the horde battle when they reveald the new pokemon oorotto and i also notice about another horde battle with some of the same kind of pokemon but with a sudowoodo in it and i was wondering do you think that oorotto will have either a pre evolution or will bonsly evolve into oorotto;and dont get upset but i bet oorotto may not be a grass type as you think since sudowoodo is aslo not a grass type it might be a rock/dark type or a rock/ghost type or rock/grass type.
You may be on to something; I can see that being very true. It probably isn’t true, but it could be.
it would be funny if the made it grass/fairy just to mess with us
It sounds like a very Trollfreak thing to do, doesn’t it? XD
The Sudowoodo family’s Japanese name starts with “uso” (fake). An they are trees of course they are looks like same kind of thing.
Someone pointed out that sudowoodo being in the horde fits its nature of using camouflage to look like a tree. However Sudowoodo evolving into Orotto wouldn’t be that bad, i really want to see new evolutions and preevolutions this generation.
One thing you have to consider is their names. Even in japanese, Sudowoodo’s name essentially means liar or fake, and and maybe tree. Bonsly too has a name based around lies. Orroto, I don’t think anyone has found anything about it to be related to lies. I’m not entirely sure what everyone figured, but it clearly has Rot in it’s name, which may play into it. Not to mention, they are at the same level… For whatever reason, them pairing Sudowoodo with it’s Evolution, at Level 25, in the Wild? That doesn’t seem to fly with me. In some games, Sudowoodo wouldn’t even be able to be evolved by level 25, in BW2, Bonsly doesn’t even learn mimic til level 33.
Treerie took not very effective damage from an electric type attack, so very possibly could be part Grass.
You say Treerie like you know that’s its name (which sounds awesome by way)
Thank Daedardus. I liked his name for Orroto the best.
My idea for a name was Oacrot, which doesn’t sound as good or fitting to me.
You could’ve asked this question on the other post about the advert with the horde battle in it, in fact, this was raised in said post
I kinda wish the original games would come back on eShop… I would so buy them. Full functionality of the 3DS’ wireless trade, but keep the original story and graphics, etc…
where is pokemon smash? .-.
Hey Dae; if you could change one thing about Gen I, what would it be?
(Other people can answer too. =])
The glitches! Missingno killed so many games.
Thought I might as well post it here since its the most recent post… Will there be a Pokemon Smash stream here tonight?
Smash airs in 30 minutes; I’m not sure why they haven’t put up an article yet.
do you expect something from today’s pokemon smash?
We ~might~ get a tease for next week that reveals something, like silhouettes of the characters like before the BW anime. But I doubt it.
Precisely that’s what I thought. Oh well. I tried to find a stream elsewhere but, I can’t find one.
http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/380789_1361122287939-o2p82r1r.htm
That’s the one PokéJungle usually links if nothing should come up… Always with a warning for possible language.
Is pokejungle putting up a stream for Smash today?
News from Serebii:
Apparently the X and Y demos will not be in the US tours until the games release. Serebii is still getting updates.
What was your favorite Legendary from Gen 1? Mine are Mew and Articuno :p
Articuno :3
I didn’t particularly care for the legendaries. Probably Mewtwo if I chose though.
I’d say Mew, Articuno, and Mewtwo. If I had to pick one…I really couldn’t. They’re all too awesome. I used to LOVE Zapdos though (sorry if I spelled that wrong).
I still remember playing through red i always restarted my game for some reason and i always picked squirtle and named it something like bubble or wotrgun anyways i thought trading was awesome but i could never do it. so when i found an NPC that could trade I did not stop until I found it cought it so i could trade it. but when my gameboy was left in the rain i stopped playing and played my ps2 for a long time. I later got back in to pokemon when i saw the HG and SS commercial at my grand parents house and my love for pokemon only grew there. And to this day, soul silver is my favorite main series pokemon game.
I’m 24 and remember seeing the anime first. My first pokemon game was Gold (Can’t remeber what year i got it) and soon after Silver, Red, blue and yellow followed my collection of games. The first generation has a special place in my heart, but I love all gens. Gen.5 is my favorite pokemon-vise, but not so much game-vise.
I am so looking forward to XY and i’m sure they will the best games ever.
Hi all Pokemon fans 🙂
My journey with Pokemon started when I was 9. My first game was Pokemon Red and guess what? I really miss my childhood and Gameboy…
But Pokemon is still with me 🙂 I’ve played red, blue, gold, ruby, black, white (ruby only a little bit – something around 10-12 hours). In my opinion, the very best generation is Black and White. This games are far more enjoyable than (even) second generation.
Every day I get up and can’t believe that X and Y are coming. It’s already september.
Why I love so much Pokemon series? Because they’re more than games. Every generation is like world of joy and amazing adventure.
Cheers!
Why didn’t you play platinum was it because of D@P being slow
Hi all Pokemon fans 🙂
My journey with Pokemon started when I was 9. My first game was Pokemon Red and guess what? I really miss my childhood and Gameboy…
But Pokemon is still with me 🙂 I’ve played red, blue, gold, ruby, black, white (ruby only a little bit – something around 10-12 hours). In my opinion, the very best generation is Black and White. This games are far more enjoyable than (even) second generation.
Every day I get up and can’t believe that X and Y are coming. It’s already september.
Why I love so much Pokemon series? Because they’re more than games. Every generation is like world of joy and amazing adventure.
Cheers!
I’m twelve, and I started Gen 1 when I was five. I heard about Pokemon from a friend in the neighborhood who was my age when Pokemon came out and he showed me his cards. Then he showed me his old GameBoy when he was my age and I was fascinated by Pokemon blue version. The next day I wanted to go by his house again and that was the day I got my very first Pokemon starter. He gave me his GameBoy and Pokemon blue version, and said that which ever starter I choose, that will be my favorite Pokemon forever. Ever since, I’ve loved Charizard and raised him up to level 100. I thought he was the strongest Pokemon ever. Then for my sixth birthday I asked my dad for a GameBoy advanced. He got me one along with Pokemon Emerald, and that was when I lost love for Pokemon. I loved the game and picked Mudkip, but lost Pokemon Emerald. I was sad for about a week and then got over it. I didn’t play Pokemon for two years, and then heard about Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. I was fascinated. I got it and played it. I finished the entire game, and played with Torterra. That was when I started looking for Emerald again. After looking for three days, I found it, and started playing it again. Ever since that, my love of Pokemon will forever remain. After the reveal of MegaCharizard, I almost peed in my pants, no joke. That is my love of Pokemon.
Hi all Pokemon fans 🙂
My journey with Pokemon started when I was 9. My first game was Pokemon Red and guess what? I really miss my childhood and Gameboy…
But Pokemon is still with me 🙂 I’ve played red, blue, gold, ruby, black, white (ruby only a little bit – something around 10-12 hours). In my opinion, the very best generation is Black and White. This games are far more enjoyable than (even) second generation.
Every day I get up and can’t believe that X and Y are coming. It’s already september.
Why I love so much Pokemon series? Because they’re more than games. Every generation is like world of joy and amazing adventure.
Cheers!