So ya, I forgot to record and count the Friend Ball, Park Ball, and Max Repel, but I DID collect them during the playthrough, so there is actually 199 items. As I said, math is hard 😅

Fun fact: pokémon were able to start holding items in generation 2. Berries were introduced because it wouldn't really make sense for all pokemon to be able to hold and use spray bottles

Love how ~50% of people here including me are flabbergasted by the fact that you don't understand the existence of berries.

The purpose of the berries is so that your Pokémon can heal or recover from a status automatically without burning a turn.

Artificial things like potions won’t do anything if you give one to a Pokémon to hold.

You can get a gold berry by trading for the Machop in Goldenrod (it holds a gold berry). This is probably faster than the bug-catching contest.

Getting that great ball early on in the game makes it that much easier to catch the ghastly in the tower.

Rollout and Defense Curl are TMs in Gen II. Those moves go very well together.

The pidgeotto isn't illegal, you can catch level 9 pidgeotto in viridian forest on pokemon yellow. It just took him 3 years to use it

Berserk Gene.

Did you really say you don't understand the point of berries? Bruh

(bit late to reply to this i know but i just found out about your videos hehe ) 1:46 they're to heal a very specific condition during the fights!! on normal playthrough they're kinda whatever but the best example is the chesto berry for sleep- you use it so your pokemon immediately heals from sleep after using rest so it's basically a free heal! And you use the chesto berry over the lum berry cause that way, if your pokemon get say paralyzed you dont "waste" your berry on it over a free full heal!

1:40 because Pokémon can use natural items (like berries) no problem and you can cure poison and such on the fly rather than blow a turn on a heal item

I saw this other video where someone was collecting all of the room decals, and they used a glitch to run arbitrary code execution from the computer to collect the decals that were in the game data but impossible to get, like the safari ball here

Any gen 2 content is loved 🥰

Berries eliminated the need to use up a turn to use a full heal! with the downside of course being that the berries only healed specific status conditions until the lum berry was introduced in the third gen

Berries heal without using a turn like regular items

Berries heal you without wasting a turn

Crystal has one extra item as well, the Clear Bell.

something that always bothered me as a kid going from red/blue to gold/silver was the difference in getting the evolution stones. crystal made it somewhat faster but still tedious!

PSNCureBerry, PRZCureBerry, etc. exist because they can be used as held items, eliminating the need to spend a turn healing with antidote, etc.