Hello. I know it’s… been a little while.
I didn’t want to dedicate an entire video
to an update but I feel like I should acknowledge
how long I’ve been gone as well?
If you don’t care you can skip ahead but
I’d like it if you listened, it brings up
my watch time and I have an announcement in
like... 14 seconds.
Between not being the best at juggling my
two channels, I made two Luvie videos, even
more recently I’ve been making TikToks,
I broke out in hand eczema for an entire month,
which… made drawing very hard.
And the announcement.. I launched my first
ever merch store on Luvie!
I got a lot of cool stuff there so please
check it out, I wanna do CandyEvie themed
merch as well but it kinda depends on how
well this launch goes.
I kinda let go of the ball a little bit for
this channel. I had a video I made about Gen
2 that was about 90% complete but as I got
busy with my other channel, I started to not
like it so I didn’t finish it.
I worried so much about coming back the “right
way” but then I realised it would be far
easier to just make what I feel like making.
I know it’s kind of been radio silence on
here so I’d recommend following my other
social medias like Twitter or Instagram where
I do post stuff.
Also, you might notice that my character has
changed. I do like the design I’ve been
using up until now but I just haven’t been
able to connect with it for a while? This
new one is just a little bit easier for me
to work with and most importantly, the hair
is shaped like an Eevee tail. Genius, I know.
Tell me how good it is.
But today, we’re gonna have a look at a
recent casualty of the Pokemon franchise.
A loss felt so deeply within my being I felt
so compelled to bring it to your attention.
I am of course, speaking of the pokemon.com
minigames.
In Janurary 2010, pokemon.com went through
a massive revamp, and with it came three new
minigames: Turtwig’s Target Smash, Pachirisu’s
Click Clack Attack,
I’ve said that like ten times and I still
can’t get it to sound right.
and Munchlax’s Berry Bonanza.
From here they continued to release new games
around once a month. They weren’t anything
groundbreaking, just cute ‘lil Pokemon themed
games to pass the time.
This was ten years ago and I was a very easily
entertained child. By the time I found out
pokemon.com had minigames, there was already
a huge library to choose from, but I always
ended up gravitating toward Snover’s Desert
Drop.
I’ve barely even been playing this for a
minute and the music is already making me
want to take the rest of the year out.
This is how I chose to spend my formative
years. Surrounded by Pokemon and falling kiwi
fruit. I know I’m analysing a minigame but
why do they even have kiwi fruit and not berries?
...Do kiwis even exist in Pokemon?
You could earn Trainer Tokens from these games
which you could use to buy items for your
avatar or even to buy stuff in the online
Trading Card Game.
Did I pay attention to this? No.
I was dead behind the eyes, laser focused
on a bowl of ice cream.
I suppose not much has changed.
Hah, never mind, I’m gonna go play Bejeweled-I’m gonna
go play Sableye’s Gem Journey instead.
I only really played these games for a few
months or so, but they continued releasing
more all throughout Gen 5. A few of these
would be Excadrill’s Tunnel Trouble, Berry
Barrel Blitz or Gothita’s Portrait Panic.
Even Maractus here got his own minigame.
I’m surprised they kept this up through
Gen 5 with the Pokemon Dream World
(which had its own set of minigames) in full swing
by then.
One of these games: Play to befriend a Pokemon,
was only available for one month. You could
only play it if you had a Trainer Club account
because it was connected to the Global Link.
After it was taken down, people who had played
the game were able to receive an Eeveelution
in the first ever Global Link event.
I know it’s kind of a long shot, but if anyone
still has one of those Eeveelutions, you should
send a picture of it to me.
But it doesn’t stop there. They kept making
more minigames up through Gen 6 and 7 too.
Chesnaught’s Spiky Shield, Floette Float,
Alolan Volcanic Panic! They were still releasing
new games nearly 3 years after the Dream World
shut down. I never even knew about these!
All of these games were still live on pokemon.com
up until April of last year, when they were
finally taken down with another website update.
My timing is impeccable.
And so, they are now… lost…
Kind of? Some of them are still kicking about
online (probably not legally)
But it’s also worth remembering that a lot
of these games are Flash based. And Flash
support is going away forever in December,
so even if only for history’s sake, we might
wanna track ‘em down and get them archived.
There are actually some more online games
that are truly lost though. Remember how I
said that they started adding new games after
a certain website revamp in 2010? Well, there
actually were some games on there before the
update.
We know what they were, but the games themselves,
or even any images of them seem to have been
completely eviscerated from the internet.
There was Grassmatass (is that how I say that?)
which was a Pokemon crossword puzzle,
Tricks of Trainer was a quiz where you would answer
Hoenn themed questions, Deep Sea Diving where
you’d have to find the names of Water-Type
Pokemon, and two more which are pretty interesting.
These two are Tic Tac Toe, and an unnamed
game with Shuckle in it. Not only are these
two more complex than the other three games,
but they were never actually publicly available.
You had to know the right URL to even find
them.
But once pokemon.com had its revamp... they
were gone.
Do you know what’s not gone? ME.
I won’t take a break again. Ever.
No, that’s a lie.
I am very grateful for those of you that have
continued to support me while I’ve been
doing other things. Your patience is… impressive.
Don’t forget about my merch. I’m allowed
to be a little excited about it, ok. I have
been doing YouTube for far too long and this
is the first time I’ve done any kind of
merch thing ever so… I’m excited :)
~all the links you need are below~
Thanks for watching, it’s 2am, I’m gonna
go to bed now, bye.
