How did you make it past the first gym in yellow?

[Chili]

Reason I never caught one is that I could never find it.

You couldn't? I could. It was this route right before Brock.

[sweetie]

spamming quick attack. i wept.

[CrystalNinetales]

I caught Mankey and leveled it to about 17. quite rigorous work to do that, especially in gen 1.

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

Mankey or Butterfree will help you. But, I traded Pokemon over to train, so they helped me win.

[SIaaP]

Either psychic on butterfree, double kick with nidoran, or mankey

[PkmnTrainer_GothicNerd]

When I was kid, I used Mankey like the Players Guide said(I was 10 so Pokemon was a hard game for me).

Now that I'm older and really know how to play the game, I used male Nidoran with it's Double Kick because Nidoking fits my team's elemental theme.

[blackterminator3]

I don't know if I posted in this thread.

I trained my Nidoran, Pikachu, Pidgeotto, and Butterfree up to level 25. Yes, it was a pain to do it while they are dealing with low level wild Pokemon. I used Nidoran's double kick to win my first badge.

[Crasher]

I have horrible nightmares of my Pidgey using Quick Attack in a futile attempt to take down Onix... I was young at the time.

But then I saw sense; I caught and trained a Mankey.

[Cutty]

Like everyone says... Mankey did the job well.

[RainaXainne]

I used Butterfree. I also caught one of each kind of pokemon possible at that time to back it up.

[ChloboShoka]

I did a Pikachu solo challenge in yellow. I trained pikachu up until it learned double team and them spammed tackle. Took me a while, but Pikachu didn't get that much damage.

[Gothic-Gothorita]

I caught a Nidoran (I think) and just finished the Gym with that.

[Mew_2]

I got the game yesterday and caught a caterpie, then trained until it was a butterfree then spammed confusion. But when Brock's onix used bide I used confusion one more time, then switched out for a pidgey and used it as a sacrifice. It was pretty easy.

[pacman000]

I didn't have Yellow, but my cousin did. She got stuck on the first gym, and asked me to help. This was years after she got the game; I'd read about using Butterfree on the internet. I tried that, but it was hard. I don't rember exactly how I did it; there was no special strategy. It was a team effort which required every Pokemon. Pikachu wound up bearing the brunt of the attack simply becaust it had more hit-points. I had to buy poitions, if I remember correctly.

Later I got a copy of Yellow, but it wouldn't save. Once I got as far as Mt. Moon; I got past Brock using the same desperate methods.

[Aakash98]

I raised a Mankey and chipped Brock away

[BNator92]

I did things the hard way.... Raised Pikachu up to Level 20 so it could learn Slam. Took forever...
Fortunately through my second playthrough onwards, I discovered Mankey.

[CaterpieMaster]

Just played against this gym yesterday and used confusion with Butterfree on all the Pokemon

[Klizcool]

I just caught a Mankey and used that.

[Vatti]

Mankey. I'd keep it around until I needed the space for something else. He helps for Gary's Eevee aswell.

[pokemonjake1996]

Like a boss http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=plcp&v=Yswtlaau1zo