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.

Mew (?), n. [AS. mw, akin to D. meeuw, G. mowe, OHG. mh, Icel. mar.] Zool.

A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

 

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Mew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mewing.] [OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr. movere to move. See Move, and cf. Mew a cage, Molt.]

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.

Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

 

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Mew, v. i.

To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.

Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

 

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Mew, n. [OE. mue, F. mue change of feathers, scales, skin, the time or place when the change occurs, fr. muer to molt, mew, L. mutare to change. See 2d Mew.]

1.

A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.

Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer.

Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser.

Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

2.

A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.

 

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Mew, v. t. [From Mew a cage.]

To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.

More pity that the eagle should be mewed. Shak.

Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. Dryden.

 

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Mew, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.]

To cry as a cat.

[Written also meaw, meow.]

Shak.

 

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Mew, n.

The common cry of a cat.

Shak.

 

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