Pokemon FireGold on YouTube!

Yes, FireGold now has a YouTube channel!  Just search "PDAFireGold" and our episodes will also be posted there in case some weird stuff occurs with the podcast feed.

Episodes 1 and 2 Write-Ups

Hello, peoples!  PAPAYA here, and welcome to the write-ups of the first two episodes of Pokemon FireGold!  So let's start with the first one.  Yeah, about that surprise in episode 1...uh, well I might as well tell you what happened.  You see, originally Alex from the great Red Squirtle was going to provide the voice of Oak for us.  Unfortunately, he and the rest of the guys have been really busy as of late and I had to do the voice of Oak after all.  I feel I didn't do the character justice but it is what it is.  Now, to the plot. 

Had to start accordingly to the game with the introduction featuring Oak and Gold.  I remember that in this game, you didn't have a potion in your PC waiting for you like in Red, Blue and Yellow.  As you'll find out later, there was a reason why.  I decided to include that Fat Guy in New Bark because I remember those times when you went up to him and all he ever said was "YO, Gold!" As you can probably tell, all the voices up to this point have been me except the Narrator, voiced by Arch Canine.  I'm Gold, Mom, Oak and Fat Guy.  Then we get in to Elm's lab and introduce to you Draftmaster's voice!  Self-explanitory shtuff in the lab, DM also voiced Elm's assistant.  Then we get to ???, also voiced by DM.  At first, we were gonna have him sound like a normal dark person but when DM started talking like Steve-O, I thought that would be better, as it would be serious and funny at the same time and DM agreed.  When ??? kicks Gold, that sound effect was of the fighter Jago from Killer Instinct, one of my favorite fighting games of all time.  In an unrelated note, PAPAYA wants Killer Instinct 3, Rare!  Anyways, we get through a battle where we show your newly acquired Pokemon always had a berry with him and have the tour with the Old Guy, voiced by DM.  After meeting that berry guy who always gave you a berry even after you got one from his tree and youngster Joey (who sounded a little too old for a youngster,whoops), Gold meets Oak and gets the egg from Mr. Pokemon.  Again, I felt Alex could've done much better shtuff but life tends to catch up with everyone when you don't want it to.  Anyway, I did what I did and didn't think it was too bad.  Then Gold's PokePhone rings with a funny ringtone provided from DM's cell phone, he had a bunch of sample tones in his phone and we decided to use that one.  Elm calls Gold like in the game, setting up the cliffhanger for Episode 2!  Yeah, editing wasn't the best in this episode but it would improve in the next one.

We find that Gold is in no hurry to help Elm and can we blame him?  No, because we have to know who wins the battle between youngsters Joey and Mikey.  Mikey wins and off Gold goes to find ??? coming up to him.  So, then ??? sends out his Totodile...wait, WHAT?  Did he actually...NO, he didn't.  YES HE DID!  Something we always wished happened did!  ??? stole the Pokemon Gold can easily kill, Chikorita!  It was AC's idea to have Silver do that, killer idea.  After Cyndaquil gets angry having being tackled, he used his back flame to kill Chikolita!  He doesn't need Ember!   Hahaha...yeah, anyway, back at Elm's, Gold finds some red stuff on the floor.  It turned out to be the Assistant's fruit punch spilled on the floor and all over him thanks to Silver.  All this was DM's improvising and I felt it was great.  All the shtuff from the game occurs, including the officer letting you name your rival what you wanted.  The plan always was to name him Silver so no, we didn't consider any other possible funny names.  Hmm...how did we send Mom money from far away, exactly?  Well, she'll never tell us.  Gold then meets the lispy-voiced Dude and catches a Hoothoot!  Lucky for him it was nighttime, otherwise it would've probably been another Pidgey...maybe.  And so, Gold sets off on his loooooong adventure on the road to Johto.

So yeah, that's pretty much it!  As far as Episode 3 goes, I admit that I haven't written it yet!  I should get started soon.  Until then, enjoy the first two episodes and I'll talk to you all again later!

-PAPAYA

Anniversary Write-Up and A New Prototype (unofficial)

Welcome to the Pokemon FireGold blog.  If you're here, then you must be a fan of the classic Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal games.  Where do I begin?  The fact that my partner in crime Draftmaster and I won the Anniversary contest back in September 2010 and were inspired by the great Red Squirtle to begin a sound abridging series ourselves?  Uh, wait.  That's the only thing that happened.  Since the Red Squirtle guys didn't know what we were thinking writing that script, I figure I might as well give you an idea of what it was like coming up with it.  First off, we thought of bringing up classic material from that series as much as we can.  That being said, we made sure we had that funny cave music they used in it when Red entered the Diglett Cave.  Figured Oak could be there in the cave since Pallet isn't too far from the Diglett Cave.  From there, we paid homage to Oak's character in the series and had Lt. Surge appear since he isn't that far from the cave, either.  We thought Surge would be pretty upset he never faced Red in an actual battle and lost two game shows that cost his team the Thunder and Rainbow Badges.  Paid homage to the series in the battle and had many Dugtrio appear since it was rare for Dugtrio to appear in the cave.  Then Brock ended up in the Viridian Forest after his Onix dug to the wrong location.  Since Red met the three awesome guys in Celedon and Brock just happened to be delivering pizza in the same city an episode later, I figured it'd make sense having him deliver a pizza to the guys and then they would've told him to deliver a pizza to Red for the anniversary party.  From there, we brought back some other great characters to celebrate, including Annoy, Misty, Blue, Oak, Erika, and her posse of grass girls.  From there, Red gets irritated with everyone saying he's a year old when he thinks he should be 11.  Only thing we regret not including in the script is Erika singing.  Then Red would've had a legit reason to have Dead Pidgey use Fly.  So yeah, that was pretty much the thought process.

Now onto our own material.  The official first episode is coming real soon.  Believe you me, we have a nice surprise for you guys in it that should get Pokemon FireGold kicked off in a big way.  Until then, enjoy the prototype episode showing you where we're headed.  Yes, Red Squirtle is gonna be a heavy influence in our series so you'll hear many similarities.  But in no way will we be trying to just copy them.  We'll try to be as original as we possibly can.  So yeah, until next time, Episode 1 is coming soon.  Talk to you all later!

-PAPAYA, Draftmaster, and Arch Canine (The FireGold Guys)