I think many people figured out the Missingno shoreline kept some form of “last encounter table” in it, so I wouldn’t be surprised some people may have tried to go there right after Mewtwo to chance themselves at more.
Unfortunately we do have that info nowadays, and we know that doesn’t work.
Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.
That’s incorrect. AOL chat rooms, web forums and of course simply visiting gamefaq. Gamefaq…
The site every kid would visit at home, school or public library if they wanted information on a game besides buying a magazine.
This is just to give you an example of what it looked like, not necessary related to the original post.
Version 5.8 (6/23/99):
Updated some FAQ questions as well.
Added Mew to the Pokedex (after forgetting
all this time)
You say that like it proves something? A lot of schools had access in the 90s even if the kids’s homes did not. Library’s were very popular. TV shows and news started displaying their web URLs. Home DSL and Cable internet started to become a thing.
Half of what I used the internet for in the 90s was video game walkthroughs, hacks and cheat codes.
In 99 we only had crappy dialup and I didn’t really know how to browse the web, even if I sort of understood the basics (and I would have been six, admittedly). My dad would look up cheat codes at work for games I was playing and download the Web page onto a floppy drive to bring home to me. It was wild times.
That to say, the infrastructure was all there, but it’s hardly guaranteed as a kid that you’re browsing the web and know where to find all the best glitches.
You could do it with one copy probably. But this was pre-internet so harder to know about the glitches and such.
I think many people figured out the Missingno shoreline kept some form of “last encounter table” in it, so I wouldn’t be surprised some people may have tried to go there right after Mewtwo to chance themselves at more.
Unfortunately we do have that info nowadays, and we know that doesn’t work.
Don’t forget to try and move the truck, there’s a Mew under there I promise, my cousin got it!
The internet 100% existed in 1999 lol
Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.
Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.
That’s incorrect. AOL chat rooms, web forums and of course simply visiting gamefaq. Gamefaq… The site every kid would visit at home, school or public library if they wanted information on a game besides buying a magazine.
This is just to give you an example of what it looked like, not necessary related to the original post.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030626130425/http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/faqs/pokemon_b.txt
AOL alone had 18 million subscribers around 1999. Were you online in the 90s? It was incredible.
That’s a whopping 6% of the american population in 99.
You say that like it proves something? A lot of schools had access in the 90s even if the kids’s homes did not. Library’s were very popular. TV shows and news started displaying their web URLs. Home DSL and Cable internet started to become a thing.
Half of what I used the internet for in the 90s was video game walkthroughs, hacks and cheat codes.
Were you using the internet in the 90s?
why are you taking this so seriously go outside and touch some grass boy
You are the one spreading bullshit and doubling down on it. And what you just experienced is someone calling you out on it. That’s how it works.
But yeah great move on your part. A subject change and then a personal attack. Instead of just admitting that maybe you don’t know everything.
Here’s a great example of what it used to look like finding glitchs for games in the 90s and early 2000s: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs/9961
In 99 we only had crappy dialup and I didn’t really know how to browse the web, even if I sort of understood the basics (and I would have been six, admittedly). My dad would look up cheat codes at work for games I was playing and download the Web page onto a floppy drive to bring home to me. It was wild times.
That to say, the infrastructure was all there, but it’s hardly guaranteed as a kid that you’re browsing the web and know where to find all the best glitches.
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