How did you deal with the Lavender Town theme in Pokemon RBY?

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ATfire567
11/06/2025
11:52 AM
#1
I remember being spooked by it as a little kid.

I either turned the volume way down or activated the bike so that the bike theme would replace the Lavender Town theme.
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ellis123
11/06/2025
12:07 PM
#2
Mostly just listened to it and played the game.
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BlueBoy675
11/06/2025
12:08 PM
#3
I turn that shit up because I love it
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NoxObscuras
11/06/2025
12:11 PM
#4
It didn't spook me out, so I didn't have to do anything. There was a game on PS1 that same year called Brave Fencer Musashi, that did scare me. My solution there was to take a break from playing it
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ai123
11/06/2025
12:12 PM
#5
Just thought of it as spooky music in a spooky town.
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Jupiter
11/06/2025
12:34 PM
#6
ellis123 posted...
Mostly just listened to it and played the game.

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deathguise950
11/06/2025
01:04 PM
#8
I like Lavender town because we get to see doucheba- I mean Gary lamenting over his dead Raticate.

j/k but not really
JeDDyD
11/06/2025
01:05 PM
#9
ellis123 posted...
just listened to it and played the game.

BucketCat
11/06/2025
01:06 PM
#10
I didn't mind it. the low health dinging was SUPER annoying so I'd always turn the volume down for that
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AceMos
11/06/2025
01:07 PM
#11
ive never understood why people found it creepy or unsettling to be honest
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FL81
11/06/2025
01:12 PM
#12
The spooky memes came about a good 10-15 years after I actually played the game.
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rexcrk
11/06/2025
01:20 PM
#13
Whats there to deal with? Songs an absolute banger.
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Zikten
11/06/2025
02:10 PM
#14
I was in highschool when that game out so......

Not much. It was just a game to me. I don't know if I'd have been bothered if I was younger. Impossible to know
GrandConjuraton
11/06/2025
02:11 PM
#15
ellis123 posted...
Mostly just listened to it and played the game.
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Evening_Dragon
11/06/2025
02:12 PM
#16
I didn't even realize it was spooky when I was a kid. I only realized it when Lavender Town subject matter blew up on youtube.
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ATfire567
11/06/2025
02:13 PM
#17
I remember being spooked by it as a little kid and that fear felt validated by the memes that sprang up online several years later.
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Shadowbird_RH
11/06/2025
02:22 PM
#18
I didn't find anything wrong with it. Maybe I was too old to be effected by it, I was at least 16 by then. I remember when I was very young, my mother was a fan of this Colecovision game, The Heist, and there was something about the sound that played when you died that just drove me up the wall. I could hear it across the house with the volume turned low and it would set me screaming. It was more than physically painful, it was more like someone running an industrial drill through my skull.
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FurryPhilosifer
11/06/2025
02:22 PM
#19
I took no notice of it whatsoever.
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Limelol
11/06/2025
02:24 PM
#20
ATfire567 posted...
I remember being spooked by it as a little kid and that fear felt validated by the memes that sprang up online several years later.
Can't say I felt the same. To me, it was just a theme, maybe a bit different from the happy go lucky nature the rest of the towns gave.
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Lordgold666
11/06/2025
04:07 PM
#21
AceMos posted...
ive never understood why people found it creepy or unsettling to be honest
This. Sounds like every other chiptune track
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Shotgunnova
11/06/2025
04:10 PM
#22
I listen to it, of course. It's disrespectful to the mother Marowak otherwise.
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rick_alverado
11/06/2025
04:37 PM
#23
As a kid I would generally play Game Boy with the volume turned all of the way down anyway to get the most time out of my batteries. Not sure how much of a difference it actually made, but it at least felt like I was doing something. So I didn't actually know the theme until I was older, but I can't imagine I would have had to do anything to deal with it even if I had listened to it as a kid.
Trumpo
11/06/2025
04:47 PM
#24
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Relm_Arrowny_87
11/06/2025
04:47 PM
#25
It's creepy, but, tolerable.

Btw, a while back I tried the JP version of gen1, specifically Pokemon Green.
From the original Red/Green to later versions there were definitely a few interesting minor changes, like reducing really bad screen flashing during the Thunderbolt move, or fixing the accuracy of Swift, or changing the names of the "Boy Scout" and "Girl Scout" trainers (eventually campers and picnickers, even in JP releases).

But I couldn't figure out if the infamous "JP Lavender Town theme" was actually any different, or if that's just a rumor.
Tonally I think it's the same. The quality might've been worse, more grating? It was uncomfortable to listen to, but maybe that's just Lavender Town. I'm not sure if it was *actually* any different, or just me looking too hard for something.
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Hayame_Zero
11/06/2025
04:52 PM
#26
I was 13 when it came out so I didn't think anything about it.
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MrFingers07
11/06/2025
11:36 PM
#28
FurryPhilosifer posted...
I took no notice of it whatsoever.

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Uta
11/07/2025
12:12 AM
#29
ellis123 posted...
Mostly just listened to it and played the game.
Yeah it was pretty normal to me.
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snake_5036
11/07/2025
12:23 AM
#30
I just played like normal.

It didn't blow up as being creepy until around the time stuff like Ben drowned became popular, tbh. None of my friends thought it was creepy, either. None of us thought Blue's Raticate died either, just that he replaced it for something better. Blue makes a snarky comment about making your Pokemon faint and then admits to filling out his Pokedex after you beat him. All these theories are fan fiction that became popular and weren't thought of by players back in the 90s.
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Tora_Sami
11/07/2025
12:28 AM
#32
Shotgunnova posted...
I listen to it, of course. It's disrespectful to the mother Marowak otherwise.

This, it made me sad more then spooked.
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11/07/2025
12:29 AM
#33
I heard it. What else

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OniLink5000
11/07/2025
12:31 AM
#34
I believe I was 13 when I played the game so I wasn't bothered by it.
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rexcrk
11/07/2025
05:55 AM
#35
Wait are people genuinely legitimately scared by it?

I mean, I first played the game probably when I was 10 but its a music track ffs lol
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MrResetti
11/07/2025
07:53 AM
#37
I turned the volume all the way down. I was 7.
BlueBoy675
11/07/2025
07:53 AM
#38
SerperiorThanU posted...
You saying there aren't terrifying music? A lot of horror media puts good use to its music.
When I think of scary music my mind always goes to Virtual Mima from Perfect Blue. Shit is unsettling

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BlueAnnihilator
11/07/2025
07:56 AM
#39
This is another one of those "zoomers think everything is scary" things, isn' t it?
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