Talk:Missingno./@comment-108.8.237.41-20120304230700/@comment-71.64.116.24-20120306172032

Or read this: http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Missingno_%28Glitch_Pok%C3%A9mon%29

Specifically the second paragraph that reads "n the early Pokémon video games, the programmers had to use variables to refer to different Pokémon by number. Variable sizes must be powers of two. The smallest variable they were able to use was the size of one byte -- that is, capable of holding any value from 0 to 255. (The next smallest size could only hold 0 to 127, which would not have been enough for all 151 Pokémon.) Because 255 is greater than 151, this left several unused "slots". MISSINGNO. and other glitch Pokémon fill these empty slots, with different forms of MISSINGNO. actually using several". So he is a glitch, not necessarily a true, or even intended, pokemon.