Not much point in mentioning this, but since you did bring it up in the video, whatever- predictably, the strongest unboosted attack is now Lickilicky Explosion.

I like Haunter's design a lot, much moreso than Gengar, though it was mostly thanks to Stadium's animations, which had him flipping around and whipping his tongue far out for various attacks.

Piplup got a lot of heat over its name? Hell, remember the uproar over Drifblim?

At least Piplup wasn't two badly hacked words stuck together (I wasn't crazy about the name myself.) At that point though I stopped looking inside the many name rants that popped up so I guess I just didn't notice who was hated on the most.

Consider this: it's just a game. Even if Wal-Mart has a penchant for stocking mainly cheap, low quality shit, the games on the other hand are no different than what you'd find at Best Buy or Electronics Boutique. And with that in mind, my belief is that if I want a game, it doesn't matter who sells it, as long as they haven't marked the price way up (for antique games I mean.) Never mind that Wal-Mart in general is just a crummy store that treats its employees no better than any other crappy job.

If a bum smelling like piss is selling a plastic-wrapped CTDS that he stole from a delivery truck to get some money for booze, and I happen upon him, then Mr. Piss Stench is going to enjoy a good buzz that evening. So, yeah. Buy your video games wherever you can manage to find them.

You were still defending your purchase (or choice in this case, or lack thereof, whatever way you want to look at it) so I thought I'd mention that. The people that get their panties in a bunch would do well to remember that also. They're just games. Even if Wal-Mart is the scum of department stores, I doubt they violate anyone or their morals.

Your comments about censorship of death makes me wonder if people consider that any child taking a (mandatory) social studies or history class will be more than exposed to stories and descriptions of wars between coutries, assassinations of presidents, beheadings of kings, and so on. No US schoolbook pretends that Lincoln magically stopped being president. Or Japan surrendered after a long and bitter debate (my 6th grade schoolbook actually went so far as to describe the effect the nuke had on the buildings.)

The average sixth grader is between 10 and 12 years old, also prime candidates for watching the shows and playing games where this stuff is taboo. Whereas earlier that day they learned about the Boston Massacre. What's more, consider all the children that were old enough to be very aware of 9/11 and the insurgent beheadings that were highly televised, which certainly made their way into history books.

While I'm on the subject of textbooks (well, US textbooks, but now for something different), a long time ago my dad was telling me about the Chinese being furious that Japanese schools were not teaching their children about Japan's involvement in WWII, namely the despicable things they did while invading China. I got to thinking how Germany handled WWII with their schools.

I thought the edit bug was fixed... probably because it was, but after I made that last post. People found my sprite rant on their own though, which is good.

Anyway, here's two Ken's Labyrinth videos to start the game off! Here I cover the first four levels, to the exception of the last room of level 4.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUI3mRyYcJ8
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_MqcEkpnI

By the way, there are a few videos among the five that were there before I started this thing that document the history of the game - and by that I mean, what it looked like before it became what you're seeing now.

Walken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cjQJhPtXiE

Recognize those walk-through walls? I do! Also, the second level of this version made it into the final game... it's level 5, which you'll see in part 3.

Version 1.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_pNdanRHA

Very similar to the final version, though there are quite a few differences (walls, enemies). The music that plays here on level 1 appears on level 19 in the final game. Level 2 music plays on both levels 2 and 3 here.

For reference purposes, what I'm playing now is version 2.1, which is the retail version. Rather, it's a port of version 2.1 to modern computers, but otherwise it's completely identical to the game I knew as a child.

Edit: Part 33 of Pokémon Red up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUhKHYVvLac

Clear Body doesn't block status, only stat drops attempted by the enemy. I assure you Metagross and Registeel are just as vulnerable to paralysis from attacks as much as anyone.

As for Gastly & Co being poison type, when you consider that they were originally (well, Gastly at least) based on- whaddya know- gas, I can kind of follow the logic. Not for Gengar though. It has no reason to be poisonous.

It would be nice if Wonderguard did it. Sheddy could use the help. Make it incorporate the properties of Magic Guard too so spikes, sand and Stealth Rock aren't a problem anymore. It'd certainly help it out considering it still has an extremely basic movepool. STAB Bug, STAB Ghost doubling as priority move (though I think it legally gets Shadow Claw), Swords Dance, and Confuse Ray. That's Sheddy.

Actually, I don't believe the glitch would be too hard to find. All it requires is a coincidental pause of the game right before the trainer spots you, and a Pokemon that can Fly. Once you're on the pause screen, the idea could occur to anyone to just fly away, and see what happens. Once it was found, it was easy to implement it again, and do tests to see how the glitch effects the game.