Pokémon Gold and Silver Walkthrough: Chapter 1
When you first turn on your game, you should be greeted by the beautiful color intro. Much nicer than the previous incarnations. After that, if it is a new game, a small box will appear at the top. Click the first option to start a new game.
Then, set the clock. First, select the hour. Then, select the minute. This sets the internal clock which effects the type of Pokémon you catch and other timed events.
Now, the intro will play much like the previous versions. When Oak asks for your name, you can select the preprogrammed names or make your own (the first option in the name screen). If you don't speak Japanese, it might be wise to choose a name that you can recognize. Such as "!!!!!!"or I like to make words in English from Japanese characters that look like English letters. This way, you'll know when someone is talking about you.
After you select your name, you are transported to your room. Walk downstairs, talk to your mother, and make your way to the big building next door. This is where professor Utsugii resides. Once you talk to him, he will allow you to choose which Pokémon to get. You can choose between Waninoko, a water alligator Pokémon, Hinoarashi, a fire anteater type Pokémon, and Chikolita, a grass type Pokémon. I chose Chikolita because of its grass type attacks and because it's pretty itty cutey...*ahem* Moving on...
Professor Utsugii will tell you to go and find another professor in a cottage to the west. Leave the building and got to the west and out of town. You might want to skip on the battles with wild Pokémon for now since the nearest Poké Center is in the next town. Keep going west until you find the next town. There you can heal any Poké wounds and buy some healing potions for burn and poison. You can also buy some potions.
Next, you can either take a tour of the town by talking to the old man standing at the front gate, who'll give you a map for your Pokéwatch (very useful), or you can skip the exploration and get to the main mission, to find Prof. Oak. From the center of town, go north until you find the second cottage. Inside, talk to the man to the east of the room, he's prof. Oak. He will talk and run out of the cottage in a hurry. Leave the cottage and return to the first town, the one where you first started. On your way from the second town, you will be forced to fight the mysterious red haired person 
that was standing outside the first professor's building. Apparently he has the opposite starting Pokémon as you. It should be a fairly easy battle, just keep up with the tackle attacks until his Pokémon is down. Once you whoop him, he'll run away, much like Gary. Continue out of the town and go to the Professor Utsugii's building in the first town and there will be a scene where officer Jenny (I presume) is talking to professor Utsugii. Something has happened and the other Pokéball of Utsugii's is missing, strangely, it's the ball that the red haired guy had.
After you talk to Utsugii, exit the office. On your way out. the professor's assistant should stop you and aid you with 5 Pokéballs. Now, you are ready to catch Pokémon and your journey begins! Exit the town and on the path just outside the town, a boy will stop you and teach you how to catch Pokémon much like the old man did in the Red/Blue versions.
Make your way to the next town to the west and go north. Now, you can go on the route that was previously blocked by two dueling trainers. Here, you'll find one of the best and underrated Pokémon around, Caterpie. Though it may not seem very tough, once you train it and evolve it into butterfree it will be an invaluable asset to a new trainer.
As you make your way past a number of bug trainers, all wanting to challenge you upon sight, you should break way and find a cave. It's too dark to go in and you won't be able to go far in it unless you have both flash and strength. Instead, go west and enter the town. There, you should heal your wounds and start training up your Pokémon if they are below Lv. 10. If you caught a caterpie, it should have evolved into a metapod by now and with a little more training, it should evolve at level 12 and learn Psychic. If you have Chikolita, it should have learned a powerful attack much like razor leaf and by level 12 it will learn barrier.
Once your Pokémon are well prepared, you might want to invest in some potions which you can get at the store.
Finally, you can challenge the Kikyou city Gym leader Hayato 
residing near the Pokémon center. You will have to beat the two trainers before you can challenge Hayato. The first trainer uses a level 9 spearow and the second trainer uses 2 level 7 pidgeys. He's fairly easy to beat if your Pokémon are trained enough, in fact, he's about as hard as the two trainers. He only uses a level 7 Pidgey and a level 9 Pigeotto. Mainly, use your strongest attacks like razor leaf and if you have Butterfree, use psychic for an easy victory. Once you defeat him, you will gain your first badge, TM 31 and $900.
2
You can go to the Poké center and talk to the guy at the counter who looks like the professor's assistant. He'll give you an egg that for now will not be able to fight or do anything. Now that you have defeated Hayato and collected the egg, you can go up north of the town to the temple. Inside, you will find 6 trainers and wild ratattas. The trainers all use level 3 bellsprouts and are easy victories. Make your way to the top floor of the temple. You will find many items along your way to the top including awakens, potions, and escape ropes. Once you arrive to the top and final floor, make your way past the final trainers. Once there, you will see the red haired kid talking to the temple leader and the red haired kid will escape. After that, the temple leader will fight you. He mainly uses bellsprouts and is fairly easy. After you beat him, he will give you HM5, flash. You can go ahead and equip flash to a Pokémon now if you want. I used it on the new owl Pokémon Hoo Hoo, so that I wouldn't take up a valuable space on one of my good Pokémon's attack list.
:Side quest: This side quest offers a little amount of challenge and the rewards are good. If you go west, past the gym, and go past the check-in station, you should reach a mini town with some caves. Go to the cave furthest north. Enter the cave and you will find a small alter like contraption. Step in it and press A. You should be playing some sort of ancient puzzle. Basically, just make the puzzle look like a Kabuto.
Once completed, the floor should open up and you should be dropped below. If you're having trouble making the puzzle complete, make sure the two bottom middle pieces are in the right position. After dropping to the cave floor below, you will encounter a strange and mysterious Pokémon called Enon. It takes many forms, but it is the same Pokémon. You can catch one of them or just escape the cave to come back later. Exit the mini town and continue on your quest. :End Side quest:
Now, go west, past the gym and right before the shop. Take the path below and take the right hand shoulder path. You will have to fight off some trainers and some wild Pokémon hiding in the brush, but continue down south. After a while, you should reach the Poké center. Enter the Poké center and talk to the man standing near the counter, in the hat 
. He will give you his old pole. Above the Poké center, you will find a lake where you can use your newly acquired fishing pole to capture a magikarp and other Pokémon. Once you are done, continue south until you reach a dead end.
Enter the cave to the left. Inside you will find numerous trainers and some wild sandshrews, onixs and zubats. You can also find defensive up and TM39. Continue south and fight the last trainer at the exit. You will now be at another town called Hiwada. Go west, passed the open well blocked by a Team Rocket agent and enter town to rest. Your egg that you have been carrying around in your Pokémon line-up should hatch and Togepi is born. Though a bit weak, he has a wicked metronome spell that can K.O. any opponent in one blow. It might be wise to start training him.
After you are refreshed, go to the house to the right of the Pokémon center and talk to the guy sitting on a pillow 
. He will talk briefly then run from the room. Now, make your way east from the house and enter the well that was previously blocked off. Follow the path in the underground caverns until you find two slowpokes and two Team Rocket members. Fight off each of them and the man from the house will come and talk to you. You will then fade off and fade in at his house. For your reward, he will give you a Pokéball that helps capture water Pokémon.
You might want to heal your Pokémon because the upcoming gym leader is fairly hard. Once you are ready, go to the gym in the center of town. There, after fighting some trainers, you will encounter the leader Tsukushi 
. Her first two Pokémon are a breeze. She uses a level 14 Metapod and Kakuna and a level 16 scyther. The scyther is the toughest in her arsenal. His slash moves are particularly harmful. Just keep up the attacks and you should be able to defeat her. Once defeated, she will hand over her badge and TM49 (slash) and the ability to use cut, which you'll get soon enough. You can also control Pokémon up to level 30! Time to go back and rest up.
3
You will encounter the red haired kid again. He uses a level 12 Gastly, a level 14 zubat and a level 16 Pokémon that is the opposite of your starting Pokémon. For example, in my case, it was Hinoarashi. He is fairly difficult, but if you have well developed Pokémon, you should be able to defeat him.
Go west of the Pokémon center and enter the check-in station. Once passed, you should now have entered a dark forest. Make your way around until you find a bird 
. Talk to it and it will fly away. Keep following and talking to it until it brings you to two people. Talk to the guy on the left 
and he will give you HM1 (cut). Now you can cut down bushes like the one blocking the path. Once you have taught cut to one of your Pokémon, you can cut the bush blocking the path and access the rest of the trail. Follow it up where you can talk to a kid to get TM 2 or just continue past until you get to to the building. There, you can get TM 12 from the girl sitting with the butterfree. Continue north into town.
It is a maze shaped city called Kogame city. You can get a bicycle from the bike shop to the left of the Pokémon shop or go to an underground tunnel to the left of the Pokémon center. In that underground passageway, you can acquire a coin purse so you can gamble at the slot machines in the town. You will find a tower to the upper right of the town. If you enter and talk to the lady with the green hair at the counter of the first floor 
. She asks you questions and you have to answer them correctly. After some trial and error, I think the pattern is, 1st option, 1st option, 1st option, 2nd option, 1st option, 2nd option. After that, you can access radio stations on you watch!
There is also a breeding center in town.
To breed, you need to capture a male and female of one specie with the same sign in their pokedex entry (dittos are wild cards). Give one to the old man and one to the old woman. Then, start walking. After about 800 steps, go back to the building. The old man should be gone. Go out back and talk to him. He will give you an egg. After about 5,000 steps, it should hatch! You can get new pokémon this way. If you breed two pikachus, you can get a Pichu!
You should also buy a soda from the top floor of the Pokéshop for further use. This is a great place to raise your Pokémon's levels and earn some cash by challenging the trainers hanging around. Once you are rested and stocked up, you can head north to the gym to challenge the gym leader.She is called Akane . Once you enter the gym, you will find it sort of maze like. Follow the trail around and fight off the trainers until you come upon a red haired girl . She will not provoke you for an attack, instead, you have to talk to her first. She has a level 18 Jigglypuff and the pink cow aptly named milktank. Jigglypuff is fairly easy and should be defeated in only a few moves, but don't be fooled by milktank's appearance. It has some nasty attacks and it will replenish its HP with a bottle of milk when low. It might take a while, but keep up a strong offence and it should be defeated. After you win, she will talk to you, when you check your badge index, you will notice that she has not given you her badge. Talk to the blue haired girl below Akane and then talk to Akane again. This time, she will hand you the badge and TM45
