If you’re an avid Pokemon gamer like me, you’ll be very familiar with MissingNo, a Pokemon that originated in Pokemon Red & Blue. It was a glitch in the game that revealed a Pokemon with no data, and an image that looks like a modern day QR code. This glitch went viral amongst school playgrounds […]
  • CaesiumEnglish
    251·
    2 days ago

    well that’s a stupid title. this is just a beta design with no legit ties to any other pokemon

  • missingno
    201·
    2 days ago

    I’m not seeing a link. Missingno.'s sprite is just the graphics decompression routine attempting to parse data from elsewhere in the ROM due to a wrong pointer, this obviously can’t be concept art for that sprite. The idea that they might’ve considered making it canon in later generations is far too unlikely as well, we know they hated that this glitch got found and never ever ever would’ve wanted to acknowledge it.

    The article’s conjecture is just “it’s blocky and it has writing on it, and if you squint really hard, you could pretend writing is like glitchy pixels.” Too much of a stretch.

    • caseyweedermanEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      It’s the latter if anything (a more recent canonization). And cut because that’s too weird, and not the interesting kind of weird.