The worst and the best old pokemon 1st gen rumors

[LegendariixMeganium]

if i remember correctly...i thought somebody told me something about catching missingNo and having to battle Prof. Oak? o.o it was creepy whatever they told me..i thought they said he was a ghost or something and tried to take all of your pokemon..who knows though.

 

[LegendariixMeganium]

if i remember correctly...i thought somebody told me something about catching missingNo and having to battle Prof. Oak? o.o it was creepy whatever they told me..i thought they said he was a ghost or something and tried to take all of your pokemon.. who knows though.

 

[Sayho1234]

My brothers and I believed Togepi was a Legendary when it first appeared.

The PokéGods rumor is not familiar to me, but Pikablu is ringing a bell. What was it again?

I actually once believed this one kid that Mewtwo and Mew were aliens (and I heard "Nyu" and "Newtwo" the first time, so that's what I called them for a while) and that you could catch them on the way to Indigo Plateau.

I could see how someone could've believed that Togepi was a legendary pokemon back then. He was a rare, new, unknown pokemon, with unknown attacks, and wasn't apart of the original 151 set.

Pikablu is the name that the internet fandom had come up with for Marill around early 1999 before his official English name had came out. A Japanese picture of Marill was leaked somewhere around that time thus making Marill the 3rd official Johto pokemon to be known about after Ho-oh & Togepi. Unlike those two though Marill hadn't gotten an appearance in the anime yet (as we were in mid-Kanto by that point in the anime at the time), so in a sense he was the most mysterious out of the 3. Thus wild speculation had occurred and since he hadn't made a debut appearance in the anime yet the fandom had absolutely nothing to go on at all but his physical appearance from that leaked picture of him. Because Marill is a mouse pokemon and he physically looks like a fat, blue, Pikachu that's how he got his name Pikablu from the fandom. Many months later during the Fall of 1999 promotion was going on for Pokemon: The First Movie. I remember seeing a new picture of Marill (alongside some other new pokemon) in either my October or November Disney Adventures magazine. The article of that magazine was about how there were 3 brand new pokemon! Two of them were going to be seen in a short before Pokemon: The First Movie, and one of them was going to be seen in the opening of that movie. Those 3 new pokemon were of course: Marill, Snubbull, & Donphan, and it was in that article that had revealed Marill's official English name for the very first time. Lol, I remember as a kid that I was so used to calling him Pikablu all the time for sooo many months prior to that Disney Adventures magazine coming out that I had actually thought that the magazine had made a mistake when they had called him Marill .

I could also somewhat see how someone could think that Mew & Mewtwo were aliens. In the theme song during Kanto we see the two pokemon flying in space, so it makes perfect sense to come to the conclusion that they're somehow "alien" pokemon.

 

[jadebullet]

One that I still do to this game just out of habit(though now it has turned into tapping the screen with the stylus.): Press Up+A as the pokeball explodes and it will always catch, but you have to time it just right. (other variants include B, A, Down B) It was even on game winners for a while.

Big one in my school: Bills Hill. Upon catching all 150 pokemon, if you talked to Bill, he would let you go behind his house, where you would find a Mew sitting under a tree. There was also a tunnel that led to that grassy field next to Rt1. The grassy field added alot of credibility to the rumor.

Another big one at my school: If you played for 100 hours the S.S. Anne came back. This would allow you to surf over to the pickup truck. Then what you would have to do is talk to each accessable face of the pickup, then fly to Veridian City and talk to the old man and have him show you how to catch stuff. Then you would have to surf at cinnibar and catch the first Missingno that you could find. If another pokemon appeared first, you would have to start over. Once caught, you would have to fly to Pewter and enter mount moon. Then you have to level up the missingno until it turns into Kangeskhan by only fighting Clefaries. Then you need to teach the Kangeskhan strength and then fly to Vermillion and redo the process until you have an entire party of 6 special Kangeskhan's. Then you have to go to the truck and have all 6 Kangeskhan's use strenght at once. This would allow you to move the truck, revealing a pokeball. Inside of this pokeball was another Kangeskhan named Steve. Upon removing it from your box, it would break out of it's ball and talk to you. It turns out that it was Bill's brother, and that he was turned into a Kangeskhan by Mewtwo as punishment for being the head scientist involved. He asks you to help him by taking him to his brother. Upon reaching Bill's, he heads into the teleporter and both he and a Kangeskhan come out. He thanks you, and instructs the Kangeskhan to reveal it's true form, which it does, revealing Mew. Mew then decides to accompany you. Then you have to fly to Viridian and talk to the old man again, who reveals himself to be Mewtwo in disguise. He tries to kill you and faints all of your pokemon, but is unable to cause Mew to faint. You then have to fight him with Mew and if you win, he retreats to Unknown Dungeon. You must then fly to Cinnibar and surf up and down the coast with Mew in the first slot, and encounter a Missingno. Upon finding one, Mew uses it's power to "save it from the curse placed upon it by Mewtwo" and reveals it to be a Togepi, which joins your party. My friend claimed it worked like a charm, and even had the Mew to prove it. (though when I was at his house and noticed that he had only played for 93 hours, he admitted that he gamesharked the Mew, and that he was going to try it when he got 100 hours.)

I seem to remember something about the Pokegods as well, but I can't remember what.

I also remember that there was supposedly a way to catch the ghost from Lavender tower and reunite it with her crying cubone child. (I really wanted to do this one and kept trying constantly as I really liked cubone and wanted to make it feel happy again because I felt sorry for it.)

 

[Kutie Pie]

Rumor has it, depending on your person's name, depended on the Missingos you'd meet at Cinnabar

Actually, that rumor's true. I think TRsRockin' mentions that.

I could see how someone could've believed that Togepi was a legendary pokemon back then. He was a rare, new, unknown pokemon, with unknown attacks, and wasn't apart of the original 151 set.

I think a lot of kids believed it, at least up until the Orange Islands.

Pikablu is the name that the internet fandom had come up with for Marill around early 1999 before his official English name had came out. A Japanese picture of Marill was leaked somewhere around that time thus making Marill the 3rd official Johto pokemon to be known about after Ho-oh & Togepi. Unlike those two though Marill hadn't gotten an appearance in the anime yet (as we were in mid-Kanto by that point in the anime at the time), so in a sense he was the most mysterious out of the 3. Thus wild speculation had occurred and since he hadn't made a debut appearance in the anime yet the fandom had absolutely nothing to go on at all but his physical appearance from that leaked picture of him. Because Marill is a mouse pokemon and he physically looks like a fat, blue, Pikachu that's how he got his name Pikablu from the fandom. Many months later during the Fall of 1999 promotion was going on for Pokemon: The First Movie. I remember seeing a new picture of Marill (alongside some other new pokemon) in either my October or November Disney Adventures magazine. The article of that magazine was about how there were 3 brand new pokemon! Two of them were going to be seen in a short before Pokemon: The First Movie, and one of them was going to be seen in the opening of that movie. Those 3 new pokemon were of course: Marill, Snubbull, & Donphan, and it was in that article that had revealed Marill's official English name for the very first time. Lol, I remember as a kid that I was so used to calling him Pikablu all the time for sooo many months prior to that Disney Adventures magazine coming out that I had actually thought that the magazine had made a mistake when they had called him Marill .

That's a funny story ^_^. We saw Marill in the TV Guide as a puzzle cut-out. Lol, we could not pronouce its name whatsoever, and we believed the movie was going to have a "Who's That Pokémon?" moment and everyone was to shout it out in the theater XD. It sorta happened.

I could also somewhat see how someone could think that Mew & Mewtwo were aliens. In the theme song during Kanto we see the two pokemon flying in space, so it makes perfect sense to come to the conclusion that they're somehow "alien" pokemon.

Remember that Clefairy episode where it was made to look like they came from space? The alien costumes Jessie and James had looked like they could have been Pokémon, so I thought THEY were Mew and Mewtwo (Nyu and Newtwo lol) at one point.

I just remembered this one other thing a kid told me. It was first or second grade, and this boy told me that to defeat Mewtwo in the game, you had Mew go behind him and pull out his tube. And I believed it :/.

I don't remember, but did someone mention the "leave a Magikarp in the Daycare for a year and get it back as a Mew" rumor? Yeah, that's another one I remember doing, lol. I don't think it even lasted three months for me.

 

[The_Boss_Giygas]

Everyone used to tell me my Holographic Charizard from the base 1 packs, would be worth 200+ dollars if I kept it for 10 years and sold it later on. It's been 10 years and I barely sold it for $30.00 less than it was worth back them.

 

[Kutie Pie]

Everyone used to tell me my Holographic Charizard from the base 1 packs, would be worth 200+ dollars if I kept it for 10 years and sold it later on. It's been 10 years and I barely sold it for $30.00 less than it was worth back them.

What? We still have our Charizard card along with other cards Mom is going to sell one of these days. Ten years is still too soon. Had you kept it, you could have sold it for better value when you're old. That's what Mom is waiting for.

This is seriously the only reason why Dad constantly bought the cards because Mom knew they'd be valuable in the future. Same with the Burger King toys and these Pokémon pez holders (minus the PokéBall-shaped candies we ate) we collected.

 

[The_Boss_Giygas]

What? We still have our Charizard card along with other cards Mom is going to sell one of these days. Ten years is still too soon. Had you kept it, you could have sold it for better value when you're old. That's what Mom is waiting for.
This is seriously the only reason why Dad constantly bought the cards because Mom knew they'd be valuable in the future. Same with the Burger King toys and these Pokémon pez holders (minus the PokéBall-shaped candies we ate) we collected.

Actually now would be a good time to sell. See with things like Ebay and such, what was once rare is not rare anymore. Many collectors by now already have the rare cards from the olden days thanks to us eBayers, and new card players won't spend high prices on cards they can't use in current competitive battles so I think it will get tougher to sell old cards.

 

[munchlaxboy]

Not really a rumor, but I thought that the S.S. Anne really did come back once a year IRL time.

...It never came back.

 

[TDCass]

The rumors had to be the best part. That, and finding codes to the "pokegods", gamesharking them in, hybridizing them, etc... It was fun for me, and I finally had my Spooky(Tsubotsubo) in the end ^_^

 

[Misty Lover17]

I remember a rumor when someone said that a pokemon can get higher than level 100. It wasn't true, of course.^

The worst was when someone said it's possible to catch a Togepi.

 

[ShadowSplash]

Not really a rumor, but I thought that the S.S. Anne really did come back once a year IRL time.

...It never came back.

Omg that's so depressing LOL.

I loved the rumors about the first gen games. I also loved how hard it was to obtain Mew, but that also made it so easy to make people believe rumors about it.

I heard all the rumors, and believed *most* of them back in the day.

I think the "Mew Under the Truck" rumor is the most universally known and also most believed (I actually believed it to be true for the longest time, despite never trying it).

The worst ones were the ones like PokeGods, Togepi, Pikablu/Pikared/Pikaflare/etc, Yoshi, and some of the more impossible ones.

 

[XD Mewtwo]

Kinda suprised to see no one has mentioned the fabled Mewthree and Mewfour.
I read about a rumor from Nintendo Power about if you go back to the room Mewtwo was in, Lugia be in the same spot Mewtwo was at.

 

[Cryptic Blaze]

I remember hearing the "Mew under the Truck" rumor, except the one I heard had a lot of differences from the original one.

The rumor was that you had to get a level 100 Lapras that knows Surf and a Golem that was at exactly level 90 and knows Strength. You would then go to Vermillion and walk to the sailor blocking the way to the S.S. Anne. You had to press A and the start button at the exact same time to bring up the start menu where you had the Lapras use Surf. After that you would be able to pass right through the sailor while surfing and get into the S.S. Anne area. You would then surf to the right a ways until you got to the edge of the area where there was a peice of land and the infamous truck. You then have Golem use Strength on the truck to move it aside and it reveals a teleport pad. When you walk on to this pad, you are teleported to a jungle (I think it was called "The Lost Jungle" or something like that.) with Mew right in front of you. Mew would get startled and start running and you would have to chase it around in the maze-like jungle until Mew finally stops in a wide clearing area. You then battled Mew and if you caught it, then you could move forward into another area with a Mew statue in the center. The Mew you caught knows teleport and if you use it in front of the statue, it would teleport you into a field (I think it was called "Garden of Legends") where you could catch all 151 pokemon (even the legendary pokemon that you already caught, like Mew).

I believed it...but I was only 7 at the time. I was disappointed that I could never get it to work, but I think the "Lost Jungle" part was created from the journal entries you can find in the Cinnabar mansion. I don't know where the "Garden of Legends" came from though.

 

[Swampert_trainer]

The best one was the rumor about being able to catch Mew by using the Cerulean bridge glitch (because it was true ). The worst rumor had to be the one about beating the Elite 4 a certain amount of times after getting all 150 Pokemon and then talking to Bill who would take you to his secret garden where you could catch Togepi.