A Naming Revolution
Pokémon Battle Revolution doesn’t particularly stand out nowadays, despite being one of the first ways to Wi-Fi battle in full, beautiful 3D. It has no story mode, mini-games, or trade functionality, but it does have…
Category: Mysteries
The Many Prototype Maps of Red and Green
Introduction It has been five months since the Gen 1 prototype assets were released. Today, we can finally bring you a full and proper analysis on the biggest and most detailed section of the assets:…
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…
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…
A History of Pokémon through the Internal list – 4
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…
A History of Pokémon through the Internal List – 3
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…