Buy a Bicycle? In this economy? Lets not do that… Instead, come and learn the Game Design reasons why Bicycles in Kanto are bizarrely overpriced.
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0:00 Opening Gag
0:24 Introduction
2:19 To you, Dear Viewer, try and think like a Game Designer
2:33 Required Information: Impossibility of Purchase
4:02 Intermission
4:32 The Bicycle is a Sidequest
5:13 Evolution of Sidequests Across the Years
7:04 Player Response to a One Million Dollar Pricetag
8:23 Case Study: Gold & Silver’s Million Dollar Slowpoke Tails
9:48 Case Study: Super Paper Mario’s Million Rubee Debt
13:18 Furina
13:26 The Bicycle’s Failsafe
14:00 The Optional Nature & Function of the Bicycle
15:36 Bicycles in other Pokémon Games
16:25 Recap / Closing Thoughts
17:37 Outro
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