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  • 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,

  • whichmade 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 theright waybut 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, were 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 cutelil 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 nowlost

  • 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 trackem 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 isimpressive.

  • 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.

Hello. I know it’s… been a little while.

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