@Anonymous: Illuminati mind control tones in that video. Closed.

@Anonymous: Why am I watching this? Oh my gosh.

Did you phags know Obabao iz first blak prez?

This thread is pretty funny.

@Dangus: I usually use a heart in situations like that.

@Dangus: I only use happyface and monocle. Nothing else.

@hamslice: I'm glad at least one person realized how meta I was being.

@Anonymous: I wish I cookie the person who cookied you.

@Anonymous: That's not how missingno works. You encounter Missingno or 'M or any of the hundreds of other possibles because when you talk to the tutorial Old Man dude near the beginning (the one who teaches you how to catch pokemon) it briefly changes your name to "Old Man" so it can show the catching animation in a battle. The game needs to store your name somewhere so it won't be lost, so it puts it in an encounter list nowhere near the current area (cinnabar island).

The glitch happens because the game doesn't put your name back into the right spot until you leave that area via the normal exits. If you leave that tutorial open until you have Fly, and then Fly away to cinnabar (where your name is stored) you can run into YOUR NAME while surfing the coast. It forces whatever your name is into the pokemon battle template and all hell breaks loose. The type of missingno you get depends on your name.

Long story short, missingno or any of the glitches associated with it have nothing to do with a pokemon being removed at the last minute. Our friend Okk a few years ago detailed the glitch in this gamefaq: http://www.gamefaqs.com/gameboy/367023-pokemon-red-version/faqs/38434

@Anonymous: Ooooooo Shut up! The story in /b/ was great.

@Anonymous: Not to mention that Kangaskhan isn't the only Pokémon in Red/Blue not to have an evolution.

@Anonymous: How else will you know how to use a calendar?

@Anonymous: only in THIS universe...