A beefier version of Pokémon was proposed to Nintendo shortly after its original Japan release, to make it more appealing to western markets, a recent interview with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata reveals.
Iwata spoke to Japanese website Toyokeizai.net. Though the full interview hasn’t been translated yet, according to Kotaku, Iwata said, “We were sent a proposal of muscle-bound characters to use if we wanted to do well in the U.S.” Obviously, that idea never saw the light of day.
While I’m still curious what these "musclemon" would have looked like, I’m sure some of you will send me a fan art renditions of them to give me an idea.
Our friends over at Sprite Stitch just posted this interesting cross stitch cross over of a pokémon trainer running into a wild Yoshi. If you are interested in making one yourself, check out the link below for the pattern!
In what may become a regular feature, I’ve collected these funny, interesting or simply whacked out Pokémon tweets from Twitter. Any bad grammar is their own dang fault. Follow any of these people at your own risk… more…
The first trailer and pictures from the upcoming Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver games were released this week.
While I’m as interested as any of you to see this footage, the commentary by the cast of the Pokémon Sunday show in Japan seems to be a bit overdone - especially when you consider that the trailer (while in HD) is just the main character pacing back and forth with a Chikorita behind him. Still, the graphics certainly are pretty, and you can see a shimmering light effect on the screen which leads me to believe that we can expect more visual effects to come.
Confirmation that Pokémon Yellow’s mechanic of having your starter Pokémon as your walking buddy is good to see, and spurs speculation about what else may be added.
If you want to see more, Pokébeach has a few nice scans from Japanese magazine CoroCoro, including pictures of the main characters in their new duds.
Nintendo has confirmed the Gold and Silver version remakes. HeartGold and SoulSilver are due out this Fall in Japan; that’s ten years after the games’ original release in 1999. Pokemon Japan has a page up announcing the games. Ho-oh, here we come!
There have been reports that there is a major announcement coming on next week’s Pokémon Sunday episode. The screenshot from this week’s episode that’s attached to this post may lend a hint as to what the announcement might be about. Notice those two party balls on the ceiling, that happen to be colored GOLD and SILVER?
This is a pretty clear hint that the moment we’ve all been waiting for has come: Gold and Silver Version remakes are on the way! More information to come as it becomes available.
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A beefier version of Pokémon was proposed to Nintendo shortly after its original Japan release, to make it more appealing to western markets, a recent interview with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata reveals.
