There are limits to oral transmission, so magazines and such.

Mew can be obtained from the sea.

I think if there was an internet, it might have spread from a brother who was a bit of a nerd.

Even in a remote area of Tohoku, everyone knew how to get Mew.

Yamada from the class was selling it for 100 yen.

I heard it from a friend and found out.
I didn’t know where he got the information from.

I somehow hear it from the older kids…
Like a classmate’s brother…

The way to summon Mew was spread by fortune-tellers using something that seemed like it, but it didn’t go well.
Everyone knew about level 100 and item duplication.

Rumors spread like a multiplying game.

Basically, an older brother who is further apart in age from my classmates.

There were people who contemplated about Ketsuban.

There was a rumor that in Gold and Silver, Pokémon could get infected with a virus, and that the infected Pokémon would eventually disappear.
I never thought there was actually something called PokéRus.

Older brother’s friend or friend’s older brother.

A level 100 Pokémon made with a trick is really weak.
I kind of sensed it, but it has become certain that the Pokémon that hunted weaker ones are stronger.

I thought I got infected with Pokérus as a punishment for cheating while messing around with various cheat codes.

The conclusion is either “Great Techniques Forest” or “Wide Techniques Garden.”

I wonder what exactly was passed down so accurately through word of mouth.

It was featured in some suspicious magazines, right?
It seems like a magazine that teaches how to enjoy games for free.

I didn’t have any friends, so I learned about it from the Great Technique Forest.

I felt that something changes when I press select.

The order and steps for the medicinal ointment are quite complicated.

During the time of Pokémon, flip phones were already quite common.
Consider it back to the black telephone era.

I keep pressing the select button in the elevator, you know?

I remember Ketsuban, that brings back memories.

It was common in my hometown to create Water-type Pokémon by glitching.
I cried when I was sent back to the club after bringing it to the Pokémon Stadium.

I bought Red on the release day, but it felt like cheats were spreading pretty quickly.

I think it spreads more and more as children who learned about it from relatives during New Year’s or summer vacation visit their parents’ hometown and share it.

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When it was first released, it was still okay, but I remember seeing proper ways to fish without bugs when it first came out.
It’s somewhere in the now-defunct Geocities.

It was definitely too much for the kids at the time to introduce mobile communication with crystals.

Those who knew the tricks were like heroes, so rumors and bugs probably spread rapidly as a result.

I think it was wrong to spread the rumor that Rockman X3 had the Tornado Spin Kick back then!

I wonder how I knew about crossbows back then… there were no personal computers.

Because I’m a BW kid, I want to experience that era.

Someone in the class knows for some reason.

Select BB

When Red and Green were first released, it was only a few months after the launch of Windows 95, so families that owned a personal computer were quite rare.

I was having it copied with a communication cable.

I think it’s impressive that you were able to memorize that procedure as an elementary school student.

I wrote it on paper and put it in the cartridge case.

I feel like it was in the reader’s corner of Shinken Seminar, but my memory is hazy, so it might be different.

Wasn’t there an experiment that showed how rumors can spread nationwide?

I used to look at cheat sites with a dial-up connection during the Pokémon days.

The text appears to be a combination of katakana characters, but it does not form a coherent word or phrase in Japanese. It may be a typographical error or a non-standard expression.

There are probably more than just one route, right? Rumors.

I was mass-producing shiny Celebi using Pro Action Replay and distributing them to others.

There is something called the internet at the NTT booth!
I remember creating a Pokémon website and explaining it.

I feel like our local area wasn’t well conveyed.

I think it’s admirable that you reflected on your actions with Mikaruge.
That aside, the mysterious place bug has spread a lot…

There was a similar topic about where the resurrection of Aerith spread from, but looking at that, it seems that oral tradition was quite strong after all.

I remember laughing so hard at my friend’s Rafflessia’s God Bird, it was nostalgic.

My cousin was printing out Pokémon strategy sites and bundling them together.

I wonder where the source of information for Kōgien comes from.

The internet wasn’t around yet.
It was all passed down orally.

The urban legends about the slit-mouthed woman are well-known nationwide.
Urban legends are amazing, aren’t they?
It’s often understood that you shouldn’t talk about hidden things with others.

Seeing them verify rumors from the Famicom era
Magazines have quite a significant influence, don’t they?

I was in elementary school, but it felt like I could use the internet in the computer room.

I remember using the internet around the time of Iluluka.

For what it’s worth, there was even a rumor that spread about the shrine in Ubame’s forest, involving gold and silver (even though it was false).