Charmanth

My Pokemon Creepy Story

We all know how glitchy the first generation of Pokemon games were, right? Come on, face it. Swift did damage to even Pokemon who’ve used Fly, or Dig. Hyper Beam didn’t have to recharge if the other trainer’s Pokemon fainted. Missingno, which was supposed to be a fourth legendary bird but was taken out, supposedly, appeared in certain instances on all three games. The most common way of getting Missingno to appear only happened on Red and Blue. They “fixed” it when it came to Yellow. However, on Yellow there was a backdoor way to find Missingno, and therefore duplicate your items (as it’s just running into Missingno that duplicated your items).

I stumbled upon this backdoor way when I decided I was bored, and experimented with the Mew Glitch. For those unfamiliar, it was a glitch that involved a certain Gambler on the route between Saffron and Lavender and a youngster north of Cerulean with a Slowpoke. It was the Gambler next to the underground path. I always saved before trying the glitch, because it was tricky getting the timing. Anyways, you would press “start” just as you step up into the Gambler’s line of sight. Select a Pokemon, Fly to Cerulean, go north and battle the youngster with the Slowpoke. Between Flying and battling, you cannot press start. After defeating him, you would then be able to press start, and then you Fly to Lavender. You go west out of town, and as soon as you leave town you encounter Mew.

Well, in my experimenting, I found if you fight a trainer other than that youngster, a different Pokemon may appear. Intrigued, I kept experimenting. I found Missingno, eventually, and noticed my items in the sixth slot (just like the regular Missingno glitch) duplicated. I was ecstatic. I heard online that there was a way to make Wild Pokemon trigger the same effect as trainer battles in this glitch, but I never figured it out.

Well, eventually I decided to chronicle each trainer and what Pokemon is tied. I’d found a couple of Mews, but I don’t remember the exact trainers anymore. Also found some Gengars, Staryus, and several other Pokemon. And Missingnos. I’ve found quite a few of those. It was a long process, though, but I wanted to have done it and posted it on the internet. I never finished. In fact, shortly after what happened, I stopped touching my Yellow version at all.

See, I had gotten cocky with my ability to abuse this glitch. I had been abusing it for a while, and Missingno never bothered me on my Blue. But I messed up. I used an item in the middle of the glitch, which apparently messes the glitch up, further than the more harmless results if instructions were followed.

At the end of the glitch, I ran into Missingno. But it was different this time. The music started playing weirdly, lower octaves and like the battle theme got scrambled. The glitch sprite didn’t seem so innocent anymore. A little freaked, I ran from battle as always. But going back to the overworld, nothing is as it should be. My character sprite was having clones slide in all directions. The overworld map was definitely glitched up. But my Pokemon needed healing, so I tried to bear with it and got them healed at the Pokecenter. Inside the Pokecenter wasn’t much better, and the clone sliding was worse. Text wasn’t readable. The music was really freaking me out, being all jumbled and at lower octaves.

I saved, stupidly, and shut the game off. Turning it back on, it seemed fine. I continued my chronicles, remembering not to use items anymore, and eventually ran into Missingno again. Except the game glitched, the pixels scrambled, as soon as it appeared on the screen. And then froze. And on the screen, barely legible because of the pixels, was the word “Die”. Freaked, I turned the game off. Tried it again, thinking it’s just some weird coincidence. The same exact thing happened.

Convinced it’s just a corrupted file, I restarted the game. Ran into Missingno to duplicate some rare candies. The game glitched to the “Die” screen. I stopped abusing the Mew Glitch after that. Two weeks later, my mom had a heart attack. She still lives, but I never touched my Yellow version again.