Mew, the 151st
pokemon, was the ultimate in game
glitches. The goal of the game (besides catching them all) was to get this pokemon, and in the
US version, you could not actually ever get it (normally). The idea was that if you got all of the other 150
pokemon, you would go to this certain
building and boom, someone would give it to you. However, it did not work in the US version. Someone found a weird
workaround with a pile of steps to get it, involving a glitched pokemon called
MISSINGNO. There is of course turning to the dark side, and using the aide of our evil friend, the
GameShark, but that is a whole moral discussion in itself.
They never created another
revision of the game to fix the
bug, and thus it has gone down in
history. Perhaps the myth behind it all is what kept
kids intrigued to make the
1999 holiday season as totally pokemon-ed as it were.
And to the comment above; yes, i don't care how "ky00t", it is, I still love it when my kitten makes a cute little mew for no reason.