Red from Pokemon - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Dazz (Nintendo)

before we get into the video we just like to mention that we're doing an entire series on the normal boots YouTube channel discussing what the best generation one Pokemon is click the link in the top right corner or description to check it out [Music] did you know bread the main playable character from the first generation of Pokemon games was originally known as Satoshi in Japan however this wasn't the characters first name thanks to the Pokemon fansite Hilux chamber.com information from prototypes that the original Pokemon games have been published this includes graphics and a name for the game's playable character yuuichi multiple sprites for yuuichi have been found including his intro animation from full - overworld sprite interestingly you eat cheese full sprite depicts them with a whip similar to the Team Rocket members in the original games the prototype data also reveals a previously unseen early back sprite for red as a quick aside there's also unused sprites for read in the firered and leafgreen remakes the player was originally intended to write a Lapras during their surfing animation instead of the simple blob the player rides in the final game in the final build of the Japanese game the character was implied to be named Satoshi this was an omage to Satoshi Tajiri the creator of the Pokemon franchise and co-founder of Game Freak this is also reflected in the Japanese versions of the original games which include the name Satoshi among the default player names similarly the protagonists of the anime series was also named Satoshi in Japan but was renamed Ash Ketchum overseas Satoshi was subsequently localized as ash in the names list by the time Pokemon Red and Blue reached western shores despite their similarities red and ash ketchum are not the same character while there is early concept art of ash wearing a hat very similar to Red's this was ultimately changed in Ash's final design and the two would continue to drift further apart in the following years one especially noteworthy difference between them is that unlike ash red has visibly aged over his appearances in the video games most notably being portrayed as an adult in Pokemon Sun and Moon this version of red has its own little Easter Egg as well red shirt and Sun a moon reads 96 which is likely a reference to 1996 the year that pokemon red and green first released in japan the character wouldn't be officially named red until the release of pokemon gold silver in 1999 where players could fight red in a climactic final battle at the peak of mount silver this battle holds a number of distinctions such as being one of the highest leveled trainer battles throughout the entire series this is especially true in the pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver remakes in fact Red's level 88 Pikachu is the highest level pokemon owned by an NPC that a player can normally face in mainline Pokemon games another interesting fact is that each member of Reds pokémon team consisting of Pikachu charizard blastoise Venus or Snorlax and either Espeon in the second generation games or Lapras in the remakes reflects a part of Red's journey through pokemon yellow the connection with yellow is further supported by the fact that red sprite and pokemon gold silver and crystal is a mirrored and slightly altered version of his sprite in yellow furthermore the Snorlax does originally blocked route 16 and the first generation games is missing entirely from the second gen titles and their remakes this has led some fans to speculate that thread captured this missing Snorlax explaining its appearance on his team meanwhile although Espeon obviously can't be obtained in the original games a pokeball containing s beyonds pre-evolved form Eevee can be found in celadon City nevertheless Espeon was ultimately replaced by Lapras in the remakes possibly to round out Red's team with exclusively first generation Pokemon however fans have recently found evidence that red may have been planned to have a bigger role in these second gen games this evidence comes from an early prototype build of pokemon gold and silver known as the space wild 1997 demo this prototype of gold and silver was showcased back at Nintendo's 1997 space while tradeshow a full two years before the game's initial release although the demo is thought to be lost for over two decades on May 26th 2018 an anonymous user uploaded it to the Pokemon reverse engineering tools discord Channel thanks to the efforts of a dedicated fan group known as team space wild the demos long hidden secrets of being revealed among them is the discovery that players can't name their character in the demo and instead the trainer is always named Soto she Reds cannon aim at the time while this could suggest that the main character of pokemon gold and silver was originally intended to be the same trainer through the first generation games team space walt has found evidence to the contrary it turns out the space world 1997 demo was a carefully curated slice of the game that included many aspects that were touched up or completely altered specifically for the show however by editing a single bite of the game's ROM it's possible to see the actual build of pokemon gold and silver gamefreak had at that time pulling back the curtains on even more surprises did you know gaming reached out to Samuel obscure Messner one of team space world's leading Hakkasan translators for an explanation Messner stated the fact that the player can't name their character was thrown together specifically for the space world demo if you disable demo mode you get to name your trainer as usual the default names you can choose from for the player are gold Satoshi and Jack and for the rival they are silver Shigeru and John my educated guess of why they chose Satoshi and Shigeru for the demo is that they wanted to ride the hype of the anime which had been airing for a few months at the time on top of that there's definite evidence that the player character in the early Gen 2 wasn't meant to be the same trainer as in Gen 1 this evidence can be found when the rom is edited when players walk into the tall grass at the start of the game they are stopped by their rival blue and taken back to the lab after the player receives their starter pokemon blue hands them a pokedex saying i used to want to be the world's best pokemon trainer when I got too arrogant there was one who showed me humility somehow you remind me of him thanks to him I was able to mend my ways if that isn't enough a debug mode can be accessed in the space while 1997 demo by pressing select on the title screen this debug mode includes a number of unique differences that set it apart from the other versions of the demo the plays default name is set as Koji whereas their rivals name is red this may be in reference to Koji Nishino a designer at Game Freak who is also the inspiration for the pokemon snorlax Messner told us this could mean that at even earlier stage in pokemon gold and silver development red was slated to be the rival however it's more likely that the program has just chose some arbitrary names secrets have also been found in the debug modes of other Pokemon games - even those that reach store shelves for example the debug mode of the English versions of Pokemon red blue and yellow changes the players default name to nin 10 and the rivals name to Sony a reference to Nintendo's bitter rivalry with Sony's PlayStation at the time those aren't the only hidden player names in the original Japanese games when debug mode is enabled in pokemon red and green versions the players named Yamaguchi this pays homage to Wataru Yamaguchi who received a special thank-you in the games credits meanwhile the player's rival is named Ishihara referencing suna Kazu Ishihara who is now the president of the Pokemon company in the Japanese blue the players named get furry an abbreviated play on Game Freak and the rival is called curry Chow a nod of the game's co-developers creatures Inc Red's reputation as a silent protagonist has become something of a staple within the series often only responding with ellipses when spoken to in encounters from the second gen games and onwards despite this there's evidence that red has in fact spoken in a Pokemon game before one example of this can be found in the original games in saffron city where the player meets a character known as copycat speaking - copycat reveals a peculiar conversation where red says hi do you like Pokemon no I just asked you huh you're strange then the copycat says hmm quit mimicking but that's my favorite hobby the distinction between the player characters dialogue and copycats indicates that red did indeed speak more over copycat needs something to mimic in the first place with tens of thousands of gaming accounts being hacked every month and people falling victim to credit card fraud online security is a real concern to lower the risk of having your credit card information or private data 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Channel: DidYouKnowGaming

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Keywords: pokemon, red, red pokemon, pokemon red, pokemon games, nintendo, ash ketchum, pokemon facts, did you know gaming, didyouknowgaming, dykgaming, dykg, gaming

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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 06 2019