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Published: 2010-02-03 13:57:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1405; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 3
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Heheh, I suppose you just had to be there at the time I guess. Anyone other than me remember this dude? I hated him.For those who can't remember or don't know, in Red and Blue, a guy in Cinnabar Lab will trade an Electrode for a Raichu of yours. After, he will say " THE RAICHU YOU TRADED TO ME WENT AND EVOLVED! " This was because of a translation error from Japanese versions, where you gave him a Kadabrs or something, where the evolution makes sense.
Meh, aren't translation errors the best things ever?
So, since I was like six at the time, how the hell was I to know it was a translation error? So I believed it; this guy was so evil, because, not only did you get an Electrode called DORIS, but he also rubs in the fact he's seen a Raichu evolve and we'd never get to see it. Which triggers players everywhere trying to imagine said Raichu evolution. The one in Red's thought bubble was close to how I imagined it at the time.
Yeah, I guess it's only funny if you've been through the experience. Back then a possible Raichu evo was incomprehensible, hence Red's shock.
But still. Doris!?
Oh, and also I tried inking the lines instead to try and give them more life. The colouring style is also based on the "whoopsspiltthewaterpot" style Sugimori used to use, mainly in Generation one.
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No, its cos the Raichu evolved into Pikablu! Don't you know anything? Lol, joking XD. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 
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Haha wow, I'd actually forgotten all about the whole Pikablu thing until now 
And thank you very much for the fave too!
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OMG! if I laughed any harder, you'd be able to hear it, no matter where you are compared to me! I remember playiing the game and just thinking "?" about the whole thing. I think I tried everything to get my other Raichu to evolve. I thught I would never get a full pokedex (I did, though! yay for friends who wanted to stop played when you didn't! xpesially when they went to the Mew event and you dint....)
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Yay, I made someone laugh and simultaneously brought back nostalgic memories! And thanks for faving! ^^
Yeah, when I "realised" Raichu could evolve, supposedly, I wondered if we'd ever get to see this thing later in the game. Because I just couldn't imagine it happening, yet since it was in the game I took it as fact. It spawned loads of bizarre ideas on how to actually get this Raichu thing. It was so fun to trick friends into doing ridiculous stuff to try and get it.
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ah... the wonders of wandering down amnesia lane...
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lolol! I loved the glitches and errors in red and blue~ I liked the missingno The most, I got loads of characters level 140 XDDD And the guy stuck on the roof one, When I saw that I was just staring at my gameboy for ages, thinking wha...?
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Lol yes! The guy on the roof was crazy. In fact, the whole of cinnabar island was practically just a giant glitch. It was the most fun place ever. Trying to find all the glitches and mistakes in those games was half of the fun.
Thanks for the fave too!
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XDDD yeah, I bet it only took nintendo a week to make cinnabar island XD did you ever try the level 5 mew glitch in cerulean city?
and no problem
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If it took them a week to make Cinnabar it must've taken them about 3 hours to make all the PokΓ©mon sprites (they were worse >_<) Hmm... I don't beleive I tried the Mew glitch. All the ones I can remember off the top of my head were Cinnabar related. I do remember trying saving on top of a cut tree to stand on top when it reappears. A bit pointless though.
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yeah, they were pretty awful XD dont the cut trees reappear when it goes off the screen?
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I think the cut trees reappeared when you left the area/route. I think if you cut a tree, stood on the spot it was and saved it, if you reset you would be standing on the tree. It was just one of those random glitches.
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I still think Ch'ding is a worse name... I mean what does it even mean??
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Yeah, good point, Ch'ding was a bit random. At the time anyway. But some people take the CH part of Ch'ding to be short for Critical Hit (and Farfetch'd can get more crits with it's Stick which makes sense.) That, and Ch'd- were the last three letters of its name. An Electrode called Doris just doesn't make any sense at all. @_@
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lol i was like WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY RAICHU!!!
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Yuhuh! I so wanted to find out if it could actually evolve somehow. Although I never understood how one man had the mysterious capability to evolve Raichus. He must've done something horrible to those Raichus; it's probably why Cinnabar Island erupted. To get rid of him!
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lol maybe it erupted because of him. his crazy experiments went too far! those poor raichus!
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Lol @ pokegag! Gah. I wished I'd played Red and Blue the whole way through... I got it after I got silver, so I wasn't all that interested. But Lol anyway! Red's expression is ace. Definitely cartoon/comic material.
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What, srsly? You havn't lived until you've got your own Doris.
Lol, I thought that guy was the most annoying thing in the game, more or less.
I still think Red's expression could've been better, but at least it's an improvement over the one in my scraps (and to a degree, the one of Brendan in that comic I did a while ago.)
Did you leik my old-Sugimori mock? Or wasn't it similar enough to notice?
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I did, but I always thought that sugimori's old style wasn't a colouring technique per-say, more... a lack of it. He left loads of big white spaces. Did you use a ref?
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Yeah I know, I was trying to take the mick out of it, but I don't think I left enough patchy white bits. I didn't really use a ref, rather, I looked for loads of his old Gen 1 artwork to get a feel for the style. Thing. But yes, I used a pic of Red for the colours and gen 1 outfit.
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I did think they were spot-on. Love the cap... and the little squiggly spiral. I liek those
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What, the squiggly thing to the left of Red's head? Yeah, it works I guess, but now I think about it, it looks stupid on its own. I either should have made all the puffs into spirals, or removed the spiral and putt another puff there.
Either that or its not big enough
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Yay, biggerer! You can has cookie.
:iconcookie3plz
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Lol, either you took a bite out of the corner or that was an
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That wasn't me, teh internet nommed some of ur cookie b4 i cud share it. *bad internet! Don't do that again!*
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Well, 8/9ths of a cookie is better than no cookie. Although even a little bit missing is sad... *thinks about it* ...NOOOOOOO!
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...but I don't wanns share wif link... sowwy link.
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Well, at least you didn't eat it before he had a chance to break out.
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...ewww. And the sword'd get stuck in my teeth. (I know I don't believe in random, but this is about a close as it gets)
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THAT disturbs me on levels I didn't even know I had... yikes. Facemelt away. (there'd better not be a plz for that!)
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There's a plz for everything...MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
cough
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Is there? I'll check.
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..
...
There is a plz for "everything", but it's not an actual plz, just a page with links to a few more plz'. And plzplz doezsn't even have an avatar... So I guess there isn't a plz for everything. aww.
Sick? Can't cure that cough of yours... there's no medicine plz either. Maybe a doctor plz can help.
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*Hides from all the plz's*
OMG THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!
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...there's no everywhere plz. And the nope
plz sucks hard. But at least there's a donut plz. Yay.
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Well nopeplz is the same as noneplz or transparantplz.
BUTOMGDONUTPLZ?
OK this is RNDM now.
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OMG RAICHU CAN EVOLVE???!!!
NeoSanaDammit. We should have kept that one... I wasn't going to eat it.
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Lol, apparantly so!
Wait, if NeoSana was going to eat it, it would suggest that he can eat things that don't even exist o_0
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Heeheehee.
I so rememmber this. I was SO mad.I was little when I first played this game too. xD
Your thought of an evolved Raichu was WAY kooler than mine though. xD
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Heh yeah, when your little, your brain can't even imagine such a thing was even possible >_< which is why you kind of had to sit there trying to imagine it, heck I bet some kids even shared their ideas of it with each other. Because everyone believed this evil, evil person.
And Doris. @_@
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Haha. Furreal. I had a whole little group at school and we all played pokemon games and we would help each other and stuff. I can STILL remember a big group discussion about Doris and the non exsistant Raichu evolution. We called it Impchu. (IMPpossible) Lol. We were lil nerds.
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Hah, Impchu! But still, that was half of the fun with the old games. Everyone used to talk about it and throw around wild theories and speculations and everyone would beleive anything, so people would start bragging that they'd done stuff they hadn't. Like, found a way to get said Raichu evolution o_0 And it was fun to disprove and create your own random theories. Aah, good times. The little kids don't do that now...
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Yeah!
And I totally know what you mean. But then, I dont think little kids have the ability to do that anymore. If you look at the new pokemon series and (dare I say it) even some of the new games, their so watered down and lacking in anything original, theres nothing for them to really spring ideas FROM. @.@
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Uhuh, that's true! I mean, back in the first generation while it was relatively new, it was easy to believe in stuff that you'd never thought of before. That's why there were so many, say, Mew rumours. But now the series is four generations in, all the older fans know what to expect, while the younger ones can assume things from the huge number of monsters there are now. Yeah, they can't really spring any wild ideas because, say, a Raichu evo now wouldn't be as crazy as it sounded over 10 years ago, what with just about everything getting stupid evos now. And yeah, I agree its pretty watered down too; it makes certain pokemon less "valuable" meaning no stupid rumours show up a la mew.
And that's why it's easy to take the mick out of it.
It pretty much went downhill since the start, to a degree.
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*nods*
Although I will say; I went to a gamestop to rebuy the yellow version (I had given my other one away to a friend who just couldn't stop playing mine xD) and I got a used version because by then they weren't selling color games new anymore. I checked out the profile that was already on there and they had the standard pikachu, a pidgy, and a level ten mew.
Hm. I'm not sure that it went downhill since the start. I truelly believe that it started to go downhill when Pokemon became famous. It became less about the joy, the plot, the characters, and more about money money money. In the begining, it was genuine. It got famous and they lost it all.
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I guess the Mew on Yellow was because everyone thought it was cool to hack/glitch mews >_< people ended up finding lots of ways to alter the game to get it. And it was half the fun too.
Well, okay, I guess it didn't go downhill from the start. The first two generations were fine. I think Gen 3 ruined it. As you said, I think that's when they started milking the series to get everyone's money. They totally rebooted the series by making it incompatible with older games, so they could release remakes of the old games so you had to buy them to get the old PokΓ©mon. And then they made the "third versions" that hardly changed anything yet made people compelled to buy what was virtually the same game (Yellow and Crystal were fairly different, yet Emerald didn't bring anything particularly new to the table) o_0
Most older gamers hated the heck out the the third generation, so yeah, that's where it all went wrong. As you said again, it couldn't beat the fame of the orignal four base games.
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