Pojo's Pokemon site is still up after all these years
http://www.pojo.com/pokedex/pokedex-Original.html
Who wants to go on a nostalgia trip withe me /vp/?
dumping Sovan Jedi renders
I thought these were the coolest when i was a kid
I miss when Masuda didn't exist
These are such high quality they'd be printed on pokecards if they were made today.
How is he still paying hosting for this site after all these years without updating it?
>>26610399
Hosting isn't that expensive depending what hosts he uses and renewing your domain costs like $20 a year I think.
so bad but so good
>>26610465
new reaction image coming through
>>26610422
This is my favorite, since he turned it into a fire type anteater almost a decade early.
>>26610498
Literally my mom's inflated condom.
>>26610496
if you want a reaction image, get a load of this
http://www.pojo.com/VideoGames/GoldSilver/Lugia/LugiaShiny.html
This is amazing.
>>26610525
>Shiny Pokemon are VERY RARE. But they are not just rare, they are stronger than the average Pokemon. If you look closely, you'll notice that all Shiny Pokemon have three (3) plus signs (+) next to their gender. The plus signs stand for "stronger Pokemon."
Man the early days of gen 2 were magical, i want to go back
>>26610521
Magcargo is just as good
>>26610399
It's still being updated, it's just more or less TCGonly these days:
http://www.pojo.com/COTD/index.shtml
http://www.pojo.com/VideoGames/GoldSilver/Journal/journal3.html
>Shortly after this gym my rival appeared and challenged me again. This time it isn't Gary Oak, but a girl! And she's tough.
oh, a nostalgia thread
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202180143/http://pokemon.com/
>>26610552
>>26610625
This is strangely innocent and sweet. How old was he at the time?
>>26610625
>getting someone that didn't know a word Japanese to do a game journal
Were these nobody in the fandom that had any understanding of the language at the time?
>>26610625
>Next, I worked my way to the second Gym. This one was lead by a girl with a number of grass Pokemon, including the evolved version of the one I could have picked from Professor Oak.
Chikorita evolves into Scyther now.
>>26610283
These were the glory days of Pokemon hype. Back before the internet was all that common, Pojo's magazine gave people like me a glimpse into Gold and Silver months before they were localized into English.
>>26610674
Did he assume Elm was Oak?
>>26610689
If you can't read any of the text, I guess it's a bit hard to know who's who.
>>26610689
Yup. Maybe he just lost weight and got glasses.
>decide to grab a Pojos compendium in like 1999
>has every japanese card and promotional item collected up to that point.
>that still unreleased in the US Team Rocket set. Those Rainbow Island cards, That birthday Pikachu. Imakuni. Gen 2 Neo set. This fucking card.
I think this book got me really into Pokemon instead of it being a fad for me. also a weeaboo.
>>26610705
That makes sense. Especially when it's Oak that appears in the intro.
http://www.pojo.com/pokedex/Advancepokemon/volbeat.html
The pages in the pokedex for new gen 3 pokemon are hilariously misinformed
>Grass/Electric
>This pokemon is rumoured to be a a pre-evolution of ledyba.
>This pokemon is supposedly a grass and flying type and most likely electric too.
http://www.pojo.com/pokedex/Advancepokemon/Yomarawu.html
>Ghost/Fighting
>Some people believe this to a pre-evolution of Misdreavus.
>This pokemon is most likely a ghost pokemon, but it looks like it may be a ground type too.
and the best one
>Today i got an e-mail from a fan saying that Yomarawu may be a pre-evolved form of Koffing. On the back of the pokemon there is a bone similar to the bone on the front of Koffing. The pokemon's body looks like it may be made up of gas, hence the gas that appears from Koffing.
>>26610829
Why would Duskull be part Fighting? This is strange but adorable.
>>26610829
>This pokemon is supposedly a grass and flying type and most likely electric too.
what
>>26610521
>>26610564
They look like Banjo-Kazooie characters.
http://www.pojo.com/pokedex/AdvancePokemon/Bashamo.html
>This may be a fire legendary and might be number 351.
Many people believe that this pokemon is the stage 1 evolution of Latias because of their similarity.
>Where are all the fire pokemon? I guess I should have started with the Fire Pokemon because so far the only Fire Pokemon I had a chance to catch was a Growlithe. I've fought Charmander and Charmeleon in trainer battles, as well as a Magmar… but that's it!
Where indeed.
>>26610887
So it's a legendary pokémon that evolves? Um...
>>26610887
>accidentally nailing the original concept of both pokemon
>>26610907
Zorua
>>26610929
>Zorua
>legendary
>>26610899
I wonder what this guy would have thought about DP's lack of fire types
holy fucking shit this face
I need a reaction image now
>>26610564
I find it hillarious that neither this guy nor beckett could figure out what the hell Macargo's shell was supposed to look like from the sprite.
you would think Porygon2 would be the easiest one to make a 3d render of
this one iscute, CUTE
why was Spinarak's sprite purple in GS?
>>26610283
is this bait?
there's only 251 pokemon.on there
>>26610932
yes
>>26611071
it's a site from the gen 2 days you idiot, there only WERE 251 pokemon back then
>>26611077
wasn't serebii back then too?
it has all the new ones too
>>26611090
Pojo is slow with their updates.
>>26611071
...Why would it be bait?
>>26610367
dat fart
>>26610552
hahaha there was so much misinformation back then
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rec.games.video.nintendo/ENQL23WCdjw/discussion
>also, there will be a night and day system (like zelda i think) with nocturnal
and diurnal pokemon, so some you can only use in day, ande some at night.
>>26611139
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video.nintendo/oyHFn_z_c98
>NIGGER 64: THE RETURN OF TYRONE
The really hasn't changed since back then
>>26611139
>>26611170
meant to say the internet hasn't really changed since back then
>>26611090
SPP was just a random fansite in a sea of them back in the day, while Pojo was one of the biggest sites. Pojo expanded to other stuff when the fad began to fade.
Serebii didn't become more than a blip on the radar until early gen 2 when there was less competition. One of the big reasons it got as big as it did was because he found an obscure Japanese fansite with detailed summaries of future episodes, which he had his staff run through babelfish and clean them up a bit to make them seem like he wrote them (then had the balls to stick a "Do NOT translate into your own language and claim as your own" disclaimer on them because people kept stealing them). Since it was the only real source of future anime information, the site naturally got popular.
>>26611208
>>26611170
Shitposting has been traced to as far back as Pompeii.
Normal/Flying legendary
This guy and his compendium made me get into pkmn gold and silver and the TCG back in the day
>>26610997
That Delibird. Holy shit.
>>26610997
I just noticed that Slowking's pokedex page on there lists it as an evolution of Slowbro
Fucking lord the site is still being updated.
>>26610997
>>26611361
At least Beckett managed to put a face on Corsola
if anyone wants a good laugh just read this: http://www.pojo.com/videogames/GoldSilver/Tips.html
>>26611494
>If Lugia continuously keeps escaping from the Poke’ Ball, use a Great Ball, NOT AN ULTRA BALL!
But why?
>>26611494
It's not like most things there are wrong, it's just kinda badly written.
>>26611552
They're GRRREAT!
>>26611075
pojo pls go
>>26611494
>When playing Pokemon if you are in tall grass and do not whant to fight Wild Pokemon and one of your Pokemon has use it. It will cut the grass in front of you ,but you can't do this in the safari zone.
I mean
Technically I don't know if that actually works because I've never tried it.
>>26611684
It worked in Gen 3, I know, but I haven't tried in gen 2.
>>26611684
It works.
>>26611702
It works in Gens I-III but I never tried it in Safari Zone so I don't know if that's true.
>>26611755
why would you not want to encounter pokemon in the safari zone anyway?
>>26611755
>>26611792
>>26611684
The Safari Zone isn't really a location in Gen 2 though.
>>26611494
>I found a interesting fact.(I don`t know if this works in r/b/y but it does in g/s) Here it is:IF YOU HOLD DOWN THE "B BUTTON"WHILE WALKING YOU GO FASTER. BRIAN, PEACE
He's so excited about it, too.
>>26610738
I had that book too, it was amazing. All my friends thought I was the coolest for knowing about all those unreleased Japanese cards.
>>26611833
>>26611946
>Azurill
>is obviously Normal/Fairy
It's typing is still stupid
>>26611248
And he really didn't stop doing shit like that until just recently.
Pojo has a forum which includes pokemon which is still in use. The last pokemon post was earlier today
http://www.pojo.biz/board/
>>26611494
>But the thing is if it becomes Espeon it has to be in the day.
>If you want a Umbreon you have to do it in the day.
>Hope it makes sense:)
Pojos mag was THE SHIT for information back in the day though. I had pic related until I totally wore out the spine of the mag. 10 year old me was so hype for Gen 2.
>>26612200
OH SHIT!
I have this exact magazine on my shelf right now, i should scan it and dump on here sometime, the gold and silver section is interesting.
>>26612224
Please do.
>>26612224
Second, I'd love this nostalgia trip
>>26611090
Joe Serebii posts faulty information without questioning it. Pojo waits until information is for sure for sure FOR SURE confirmed before updating.
>>26612130
I noticed this too! Who the hell is an active Pojo forum user?
>>26612274
Pojo never really died. Hell, there are almost a million yugioh threads there not counting however many are in the archived section.I check pojo's forums pretty much every day, just not for pokemon news
Those were simpler times.
who is pojo?
Explain me desu
Please tell me there's more of these goofy looking fuckers.
I feel old just by looking at the layout of Pojo's website. I love it.
>>26612274
Unless things have changed drastically in the last 4 or so years Pojo's Forums are still the biggest and most widely used competitive YuGiOh community on the internet.
I always assumed Pojo was a YGO website.
>>26612414
there's one for every gen 2 mon, just go on the pokedex and go to the "other" section on each one
>>26611974
Pokedex entries for the whole line say they're can't naturally live underwater, and that Azuril can't even swim but likes to hang around ponds. It's learning to become a water pokemon. I think it's kind of clever for a stage 1 pokemon you're not going to see after some levels anyway.
>>26612292
>>26612494
Ah, that would explain it. I'm just a Pokemon player so I had no idea. It's still eerie to see such active forums alongside the old, untouched webpages.
>>26612592
Yeah i looked and there's a Pokemon Sun and Moon news thread up in their Pokemon forum too, which in itself looks really active.
While ultimately entirely wrong, a frost dog would've been an ice idea.
>>26612636
>an ice idea
>>26612342
hes talking about those 4th evolutions like if theyre accepted fact, but ive never ever heard of that shit before. was that restricted to his autism or was there actually a buzz about 4th evolutions? what the fuck did they think they looked like?
>>26612665
probably something like this
>>26612636
If it was ice type my opinion would have completely changed on it. I'd love for ice types to be allowed to feature in the early game.
>>26612592
On the bright side, it's pretty much the only remaining archive of information about the early TCG formats, for those who play them on simulators.
>>26611016
i feel like this one contains all the innocence of the world
>>26612665
The internet was a very different place in the late 90s. There wasn't a streamlined system for getting info about Japanese shit like there is today, so there were a lot more rumors circulating around and nobody knew what to believe. The fourth evolution of the starters were one of the more popular rumors, because it seemed pretty logical at the time (the series hadn't been around long enough for the "Pokemon only have three stages" thing to be a hard rule yet).
It's like how if you mention XY's tipping system, it'll always trigger an argument over whether or not it raises style points (it doesn't). Imagine how much worse it was back when datamining was rare and nobody knew which sources were trustworthy. Hell, as you can see in this very thread, even the "trustworthy" sources were usually full of shit.
>>26611282
I can't take this nostalgia anymore! it's too good!
>>26611016
It feels so pure, so innocent
>>26610997
God damn man me and my mate as kids huddled by the magazine rack in blockbuster freaking out over that list, trying to memmorize those weird ass names
>>26610738
I got 2 of those books from different family members for my birthday one year. I loved them.
>>26610829
If I remember correctly, Serebii also identified Volbeat as Ledyba's pre-evolution, and also that Duskull was a split evolution from Sunkern.
>>26612342
>Blastoise, Charizard and Venusaur evolutions
>Slowbro Evolutions
>Mewtwo evolutions
Mega Nidoking confirmed for SM?
>>26612665
Oh, for sure, I remember being in elementary school and the whispers about needing a mist stone, which could only be gotten by finding mew after beating the elite four 1000 times, and fighting him with missingno, etc.
I went to check the message boars for fun... they still update the forums.
>>26614593
I remember this mist stone rumour.
>>26610283
>>26610305
>>26610320
are all these and the others made by the same guy who did those shitty Beckett magazine covers/posters?
>>26610628
A 1999 site with a 2016 date being displayed. Now it's like nothing has ever really changed.
>>26611016
this looks like it couldve been made in roblox
>>26614832
Pokemon and micro scooters, you couldn't represent my childhood any stronger in one image.
>>26610498
>>26611044
Because you could only find it during night time, that's why its purple, its supposed to be the low light in those hours.
>>26616371
Hoothoot's sprite didn't do that though, and spinarak was still purple during the day
It was green in crystal at least
>>26610320
top quality render
>>26610283
Holy shit it's not only up, it's still being updated! The pokedex seemingly isn't though.
>>26611248
I remember when I had a pokemon fansite in MSN groups. I wish I could put so much passion into something these days. I'm dead inside.
>>26617245
Their anime section says "Advance Challenge is currently airing in Japan". I think everything apart from their TCG sections have been abandoned ages ago.
>>26617281
I'm glad it's still alive, I didn't know much english back in the pokemania days so I mostly used sites in Spanish which have all died out. Maybe I should register in pojo if it's still active, I miss that kind of forums, leddit facebook and to a lesser extent this very site killed so many of them.
>>26610887
To be honest, it was an educated guess...
>>26611096
Anyone remember the age between early Gen IV and XY where Mariland's primary site was stuck on covering the D/P?
>>26612342
>Just please, don't evolve Mewtwo
:'^(
>>26617492
I wonder if this is what Blaziken and Latias split from or if they were planning fusions in gen 3 at some point
someone make an expand dong out of this that says "owl cock" or something akin
>>26617583
So they didn't cover gen V?
Good.
>>26612342
this dude still active in pokemon? would love to see his reaction to the current number
I found an entire gallery of Sovan Jedi renders, including all the gen 1 pokemon too
http://www.poketown.net/public/poketown/Sitozzo/galleria/3d/sovan%20jedi/
>>26618446
sweet jesus
>>26616546
Maybe it's the poison typing?
>>26618461
What ancient horror have we unearthed?
>>26611248
>One of the big reasons it got as big as it did was because he found an obscure Japanese fansite with detailed summaries of future episodes, which he had his staff run through babelfish and clean them up a bit to make them seem like he wrote them
Man I used to do the same with my Beyblade fansite, but it never took off
>>26618597
Just think, in another universe you could have been /bey/'s Joe Merrick equivalent e-celeb to drool over.
>>26612342
Named the Squirtle Sycamore gave me Rainer.
fug
>>26610283
Damn, Pojo was one of the first sites I used to browse for Pokemon and Yugioh news. Also enjoyed reading the Cotd there. Wonder if those are still archived.
Also, somewhat related, but I think this is the oldest Pokemon video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tk8LcQMhAI
>>26620334
imino9 years ago
did you delete ur lvl 100 blaziken's blaze kick?wat a noob my lvl 100 blaziken noes blaze kick,overheat,double kick,fire punch
>>26619732
fug indeed
>>26618129
Some time ago /a/s digimon tri thread/ found a digimon shipping fansite that was last updated in the year 2000. Through some digging I found that the author is still active online and she's still apparently a bit of a weeaboo and is still into games and anime.
I love me some internet archaeology. It seems that a lot of the people who had websites early on have become quite influential nowadays in their fandoms, though that's probably survival bias, the sites that didn't get much of a following eventually disappeared.
I, personally, made the mistake of creating my site on MSN groups. The platform didn't last long.
>>26622392
I wish I wouldn't have spent my time solely on image boards.
>>26611946
>pokemon 4
>>26610521
I actually really dig this. Looks like claymation.
>>26624348
The 4th movie, you dumbass. Azurill, Kecleon and Wailmer appear in it as early gen 3 hype
>>26624348
N-now y-you're just trying to trigger me, anon.
