102 Pickup – A Look at the Prototype TCG
Much like the games themselves, the Pokemon Trading Card Game also seems to have gone through quite a few changes in its development process, perhaps not as drastic (there’s no unused Pokémon on the cards…
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Kage no Mushi: Profile of a Fakemon
A note before we begin: Please do not harass anyone mentioned in our article. This is intended to celebrate the making of and history of of Kage no Mushi. Every time a new generation of…
What Dreams May Come: Prototype Data for Pokémon Red and Green
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. -Hamlet, Hamlet So… you may have watched the Pokéthon broadcast, and read the…
How the Capumon Stole Christmas
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,…
Walking That Fine Line Between Gen I and II
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…
A History of Pokémon through the Internal List
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…
An Index List Hiding In Plain Sight
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…
A History of Pokémon through the Internal List – Lost Pokémon
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….
A History of Pokémon through the Internal list – MissingNo. Descriptions
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…
A History of Pokémon through the Internal list – 5
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…