Here are 5 of the strangest Pokémon glitches

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The Pokemon series has endured for so long that those of us who witnessed its beginning can already tell our tales to the younger trainers like we were community elders. Don’t blame us, though, as the world of Pokemon really did use to host some of the weirdest glitches in the history of gaming.

There’s no better tale of terror set at sea than an encounter with MissingNo. That’s not a mysterious or edgy name the developers came up with for an intentionally mysterious Pokemon, but rather a cry for help from the game itself.

MissingNo. Stands for “missing number”, meaning that the game spawns that tetromino-shaped eldritch abomination when it doesn’t know what Pokemon to put in front of us. The results of the encounter with this anomaly will vary depending on the version of the original game trainers are playing. He can either mess up our Pokemon stats for a while or completely ruin our save file. We’d advise players against capturing MissingNo., but if you do, never store it in a computer, as that’s logically how he’ll take over the world.

The scariest part of it all? MissingNo. doesn’t inhabit the far seas of the Pokemon world. You can find him by the coast of Cinnabar.

Ok, we don’t want to sound like total past-our-prime people who exhausted all the “fun” one could possibly have in the past. We’re happy to tell younger players that they too can find horrific glitches that might scar them for life. Look no further than Pokemon Legends: Arceus, one of the most recent entries in the franchise. In Arceus, a battle glitch might render players stuck in an endless ocean they cannot escape from.

What kind of chemicals are they discharging in the seas of the Pokemon world?

We’re assuming that since glitches have always been a