A Naming Revolution
These names shed some light on the interesting process of naming Pokemon, and inspire a lot of questions about how these Pokemon were thought up in the first place. Monsters with particularly intriguing name changes…
Category: Mysteries
The Many Prototype Maps of Red and Green
And without further ado, the entire regions perfectly aligned and cleaned up to the best of my ability: V1 V2 These maps appear to be from a period of map creation that some call “blockout,”…
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…