Why Pokémon Bicycles cost $1,000,000 (1 million dollars) [Game Designer Explains]

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. Also yes, I know it's Yen. Channel Discord:   / discord   ---- Chapter Timestamps: 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 ---- Music Timestamps: 0:24 - Cerulean City [Pokémon Red & Blue] 0:48 - Bicycle Theme [Pokémon Black & White] 2:40 - Dance of Deduction (Type A) [The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles] 4:34 - Trucy Wright, Child of Magic 2013 [Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies] 5:14 - COMPLICATION [Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective] 8:23 - Trance Logic [Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice] 9:51 - Merlee's Mansion [Super Paper Mario] 11:58 - Mimi Battle 1, "I'm Not Nice" [Super Paper Mario] 13:19 - Distorted Day in Paris 13:26 - SUSPICION [Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective] 16:25 - Thought Route / Revisualization, Resonance of the Synapses [Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice] 17:37 - Trucy Wright, Child of Magic 2013 [Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies]