The Secret Mario Game in Saffron City

Josh: recorded by the host.

Host 1 Okay, you guys, in a Pokemon game, there's a Super Nintendo upstairs in a house in Saffron City. And it's playing a Mario game. A game with Mario wearing a bucket on his head. I'm serious.

Host 1 This is random Pokemon facts. I'm Josh. It's Tuesday, so it's video games. Today is all about secret shout outs, hidden inside the games. So that house belonged to Copycat. Go upstairs and the Super Nintendo is playing a game with Mario wearing a bucket on his head.

Host 1 That's a real game. It's called Mario and Wario. It came out in 1993. Only in Japan it was made by Game Freak the company behind Pokemon.

Host 1 Pokemon Creator. Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri designed it. In the game Wario flies over in his plane and drops a bucket onto Mario's head so Mario can't see where he's going.

Host 1 Bro that's so mean. Okay next shout out Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has a history midterm question five says those seeking blank need to look no further than the fruit of Paldea.

Host 1 The three answer choices are power, courage, and knowledge. Do those sound familiar?

Host 1 They're the three pieces of the Triforce. from the Legend of Zelda a Zelda joke in a Pokemon test and the fruit in the question depends on your version oranges in Scarlet crepes in violet Now, go way back to Pokemon Red and Blue.

Host 1 The TV in your house shows four boys walking on railroad tracks. That's a nod to a 1986 movie called Stand By Me and in Fire Red and Leaf Green a girl player sees something else on that TV.

Host 1 A girl with pigtails walking up a brick road can you guess the movie?

Host 1 The Wizard of Oz! Almost every game has its own movie joke in the TV. In Ruby and Sapphire it's two men dancing on a giant piano keyboard that's from the movie Big Story two Pokemon Sword and Shield look at the jersey numbers The Galar gym leaders wear their secret Japanese puns Each digit stands for a Japanese syllable so every number spells a little word about the trainer Milo's a grass type leader Milo wears eight three one That is Yasai and Yasai is Japanese word for vegetable.

Host 1 Nessa is the water type gym leader Nessa's number is zero four nine and that spells swim and the fighting type leader wears one nine three that reads as battle every number is a hidden joke wild facts

Host 1 um Pokemon Go set five Guinness World Records in its first month in 2016. It was downloaded 130 million times. And it was number one on the download charts in 70 countries at the same time.

Host 1 And Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Hitmonlee is a kicking one Hitmonchan is a punching one In Japan their names honor two Japanese fighters Kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura and the world champion boxer Hirohiki Riddle time this one's about Ash in Japan Ash has a different name and it comes from a real person here's a clue Ash was meant to show what the person was like as a kid when they were obsessed with catching bugs

Host 1 In English the name became Ash Ketchum Ash was one of the default player names in Pokemon Red and Blue and Ketchum plays on gotta catch em all So, who is Ash named after in Japan?

Host 1 The creator of Pokemon or the creator of Mario? Here's the biggest clue Ash's Japanese name is Satoshi

Host 1 Okay, ready? Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon. And Ash is rival Gary is called Shigeru in Japan after Tajiri's idol and mentor Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto that's the show for today tomorrow is Wednesday so it's battle day I can't wait pick your side see you tomorrow this was Josh