ITT: Fan theories

>>4080936
>I wonder what the person who came up with this ruse is doing right now.
Wasn't it an official nintendo guide? I'll see if I find scans

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>>4080940
Found it. He says "there is a special gift" under the truck. This is an official guide, btw.

>>4080936
Forget the person who came up with the ruse, what about the person who decided to put that truck there in the first place.

It's a completely unique sprite, not seen anywhere else in the game and not even accessible under normal conditions (without cheating or trading in a Pokemon that already knows Surf, or doing some other kind of trick). It's such a bizarre thing to just have sitting there that it's not surprising it inspired rumors and theories.

And then they even went and put it in the remakes. What is up with this damn truck?

>>4080952
Official?
Isn't that just some UK strategy guide that has all sorts of misinformation about it? And stupid tips like "use a masterball on fearow or tentacruel"

L is real 2041

>>4080959
I don't know, I might have misremembered.

>>4080952
>Hyper Beam is dragon type
>Cut in Viridian Forest
>Fly behind buildings
>Bill's Secret Garden
>Get Mew for completing the Pokedex
>Pikablu
>Down+B when throwing Pokeballs
I refuse to believe this was official.

>>4080953
Having an unusual sprite not in/on the player's board isn't new. A unique sprite isn't all that uncommon. Stuff just gets left behind.

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The truck actually was a Pokémon. You had to play the poke flute 9999 times and buy 9999 poke dolls to trade for some gasoline toke it up.

>>4081030
>getting enough gas to fill up a truck costs the equivalent of almost ten million pokebucks
Is the Pokemon universe an alternate reality where the oil crisis went way worse?

>>4080952
Those "Oak says..." look like straight up bullshit or modern fakes. The Poke Tips simply sound like they were written by someone with at best a very basic knowledge of the game, and perhaps some might have actually been true in earlier iterations of the game - I know that sometimes box screenshots are actually from pre-release versions of the game and don't necessarily match up with the finished product. However, given the large gap of time between the JP release and the US release, I'd imagine that anyone writing a guide would have been using a final game ROM with perhaps unfinished localization as opposed to unfinished gameplay, so who knows.

>>4081170
You just shot down your own theory, man.

>>4081170
I've played the Japanese v1.0 releases of Red and Green, and no, it's still bullshit.

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>>4081179
Weird shit happens, like how the US box for SMB3 shows screenshots that originate from pre-release promotions of the Japanese version, despite the Japanese version releasing more than a year before the US version. Two of the three screenshots do not match up with the final game, Japanese or US, and yet they were apparently available for use and deemed fit to pop on the box. But yes, of course the most likely explanation is that the guy writing it didn't know what he was doing.

>>4081208
I think they just don't really give a fuck about the box. Not retro but one of the screenshots on the back of the twilight princess box had link with a magic meter. Also the cover of the wii port of Okami where you can see the ign watermark

>>4080936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCoQm8bIyyw

>>4080953
My guess is that it had some kind of use planned originally, but they ran out space or dropped the idea and they didn't remove it from the game like the surf table or the missingno data.