Pokemon Fan Club

[Cipher_Peon]

I mentioned the IV Calculator and Characteristics in passing. Having at least 1 Pokemon with fantastic IVs (and 1 perfect one) is a great start since you can breed them and pass off their IVs with Power Items.

And luckily for everyone, I have about a billion Eevees with 31 Speed IVs ;D

[MagicMurderBag7]

I just read the Wiki article about MissingNo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MissingNo.

And Mew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mew_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

Both were rather interesting.

[Cipher_Peon]

Who needs Wikipedia when you got /vp/'s crazy theories?

[MagicMurderBag7]

Who needs Wikipedia when you got /vp/'s crazy theories?

The Mew one was especially interesting. It claims that Mew was created last minute and was never intended to be seen by the public.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

The Mew one was especially interesting. It claims that Mew was created last minute and was never intended to be seen by the public.

It was created last minute. It was done after all the testing was done, and there was just a bit of room left on the cart. It WAS intended to be seen by the public, by means of basically rumor marketing of a secret 151st species, and once that got around, they would(and did) distribute it to carts. Up there with Super Mario Bros's infinite lives as a word-of-mouth marketing technique of the gods.

[Cipher_Peon]

Nintendo didn't even know about it. I like that about Game Freak.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

Nintendo didn't even know about it. I like that about Game Freak.

Nope, once they found out, there were like, "What the hell, guys, that coulda messed up the game," and Game Freak just shrugged like, "What are ya gonna do?"

[MagicMurderBag7]

It was created last minute. It was done after all the testing was done, and there was just a bit of room left on the cart. It WAS intended to be seen by the public, by means of basically rumor marketing of a secret 151st species, and once that got around, they would(and did) distribute it to carts. Up there with Super Mario Bros's infinite lives as a word-of-mouth marketing technique of the gods.

That may be true. Wiki isn't always 100%. The article says though that it was thrown in last minute as a secrete for the employees that did it and once it was discovered Gamefreak just ran with it.

If it was always intended for the word of mouth rumors then that's fine, but, if it was just thrown in as a last minute joke (if you will) then that is amazing! Without that would we have ever gotten Celebi?

Either way it was an interesting read about something I never put much thought into before. I also tried looking up the truck but all I could find was rumors and speculation.

[ClaptonsWig]

I mentioned the IV Calculator and Characteristics in passing. Having at least 1 Pokemon with fantastic IVs (and 1 perfect one) is a great start since you can breed them and pass off their IVs with Power Items.

And luckily for everyone, I have about a billion Eevees with 31 Speed IVs ;D

Thought I'd add links to them.

[Cipher_Peon]

Thought I'd add links to them.

Nice catch.

If there's anything you need me to clarify, don't hesitate to ask. Everyone knows that a healthy game community is one where new players are invited in to become as grizzled as the grizzliest of veterans.