It was the Wednesday before Christmas (or your choice of December holiday), and all through Japan,They were watching TV, eating scrumptious Oat Bran;The set was tuned to morning NHK,For Tsunekazu Ishihara had something to say.Matter-of-factly,…
Where does Generation I end and Generation II begin? This seems like a simple question. Most (if not all) Pokémon fans run on the logical assumption that the second “generation” of Pokémon started with Gold…
Some of you may have heard that there were originally 190 Pokémon planned for the original Japanese Red and Green versions, 39 of which (perhaps 40 – more on that later) were scrapped because of…
Anyone who has seen the sprite sheet in the recently published Satoshi Tajiri manga may have tried to make sense of those strange numbers that each Pokémon was given. Some have numbers preceding their names, some have…
We are listing here the Pokémon that we can’t confidently put in the MissingNo. list, but that might belong in the additional circa 110 scrapped designs that have been referenced several times by the creators….
Finally, we arrive at one of the most speculative and experimental parts of researching Generation I. In this article we will summarize the MissingNo. patterns and also list a bunch of hypotheses for each, from…
By the time that Period 5 started, the Kanto overworld was most likely similar to the final game. The drastic change, both in the games’ environment and design choices, began in Period 3; many of…
We left off at Period 3 and its vastly expanded concept of evolution and experiments with the methods through which Pokémon could evolve and be obtained, like evolutionary stones, branched evolutions, and fossil revival. We…
It’s been generally reported that Pokémon production was put on hold again in 1993 for a whole year, although we couldn’t find any first-hand source to back up this claim. The internal list suggests that a drastic…
In 1990, Satoshi Tajiri pitched Capsule Monsters to Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto was very impressed with Tajiri’s previous work and became his mentor, so Capumon was approved and the initial release date was set for December 1991. …