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POKEMON FACTS
5 3rd-gen moves couldn't be used when R/S where released (4 became usable in Fr/Lg and the last (volt tackle) was unusable until emerald) Icicle Spear, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, Hydro Cannon, and Volt Tackle.
POKEMON FACTS
The move Kinesis was listed in RBY, but no pokemon could learn it.
POKEMON FACTS
Poison attacks were based off of your special stat in RBY.
POKEMON FACTS
In the Japanesse version of Colosseum, there was a bonus disc that allowed you to catch Celibi.
POKEMON FACTS
The only Pokemon RPG that you can't catch/receive a Pikachu without trading is Colosseum.
POKEMON FACTS
Red and Blue collectively are the best selling (non-bundled) game of all time.
POKEMON FACTS
In G/S/C, if you use the radio inside the Unown Temples you could pick up an extra station and hear them making eerie sounds.
POKEMON FACTS
Arceus' Pokedex info says that it shaped the universe with its 1000 arms, yet it can't learn any moves involving punches or hands.
POKEMON FACTS
Fighting is the only type that has never been paired with Flying.
POKEMON FACTS
Charizard and Rhyhorn have the same cry.
POKEMON FACTS
Originally, Pikachu had a dark patch on his stomach and was a lot chubbier. This was changed to make him easier to work with in the anime.
POKEMON FACTS
Female trainers in-game flirt with the main character in the same way regardless of gender.
POKEMON FACTS
Porygon 2 is the only 2nd gen. Pokemon never to have appeared in the anime.
POKEMON FACTS
Mew was the first trademark received for the series (even before the word Pokemon)
POKEMON FACTS
That the first purely metal type pokemon in the pokedex is Mawile.
POKEMON FACTS
New Bark Town in G/S/C is the only starting town where you don't head north from to leave at the beginning of the game (You go west instead)
POKEMON FACTS
In DP, if you evolve your starter before catching anything, you can't continue. Since it counts as a new Pokemon, it thinks you have the Dex
POKEMON FACTS
Lance's Aerodactyl had Rock Slide in GSC when you couldn't get it normally.
POKEMON FACTS
Stadium2's Lt. Surge had a Surfing Raichu with Reversal. That's impossible to get because Reversal is a GSC egg move and Surf is Yellow only
POKEMON FACTS
According to his Pokedex entry, Machamp can through 1,000 punches in two seconds, yet is in the bottom 50% on speed numbers.
POKEMON FACTS
If you use "the mew glitch" in R/B/Y but fight a different trainer and get Magmar instead, it removes the Snorlax by Celedon city
POKEMON FACTS
Poliwrath's D/P Pokedex entry talks about the Pacific Ocean, one of the first mentions of a real world place.
POKEMON FACTS
Despite being Generation II Pokémon, Houndour, Murkrow, and Slugma are actually native to Kanto in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
POKEMON FACTS
Jynx originally had a black face with blue hands. Nintendo had to edit Jynx when people complained the design resembled Black stereotypes.
POKEMON FACTS
Back in R/B/Y, it was impossible to get a non-nicknamed Jynx by its real name. A guy in Cerulean trades it to you, but he nicknamed it Zynx.
POKEMON FACTS
Smeargle's Sketch attack cannot sketch Chatter.
POKEMON FACTS
Azurill can change genders when it evolves.'
POKEMON FACTS
A genderless parent that can breed with Ditto acts as both the male AND the female in the breeding pair as does Ditto
POKEMON FACTS
Sableye and Spiritomb have no type weaknesses. The only way to expose it is by making it weak against fighting with the move Odor Sleuth.
POKEMON FACTS
Out of all the Pokémon whose pre-evolved forms require a move to evolve, Ambipom's is the only one that needs to know Double Hit.