>Releases on a platform weaker than an NES that has been dead for almost 10 years with no budget and one C-tier development team
>Unironically becomes the largest franchise in the history of mankind
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the single greatest success story in vidya? How the fuck did they do it?
made a cartoon about it
Localizing it for the US was simultaneously its best and worst decision.
this. Pokemon was cool when it was Bio-punk
The game literally felt like an adventure, which isn't an easy thing to do.
The whole "catching monsters" stuff was just cherry on top of the whole "children go on an adventure through the world", I still have fond memories of playing it as a child and just that feeling of wonder every time I reach a new location, explore the sea, enter buildings, meet new people...
It was like an open world game before open world existed. HMs allowed you to explore areas of the world that normally should have been sealed off, giving you a similar feeling to open world games where "everything" is accessible and explorable. It also gave you reason to explore every area because they had unique pokemon. Everyone who is old enough to have played this as a kid remembers how incredible the feeling was when you unlocked surf and could cross over all the water you thought was just empty space until that point.
it was spookly high accurate at targeting his age and generation audience
>The game literally felt like an adventure, which isn't an easy thing to do.
They managed to hype it up so fucking good. This poster was in every magazine, and it just screamed, "look at all this awesome shit you'll get to experience if you play this."
in the west is was the anime that sold it
Lightning in a bottle, did a lot of things right at the right time
None of you have mentioned the Red & Blue Version thing so far, which probably was one of the best marketing decisions for a game release in the history of ever, it was tailor-made for a game like this
Everyone and their grandmother owned a Gameboy. It's the most successful platform on all time.
collecting things, children cartoons with super powers, and adventure was really popular in the 90s and they combined everything
It was the other way around in japan, the game selling the anime. Fucking weird.
Even 18 years later I can still recite the names of every one of these pokemon lol, I played the TCG, played the N64 games, played every single mainline game besides XY and SWSH.
I admit that playing through SUN/MOON felt so empty, not at all like I remembered. Then I played crystal on my 3DS and it was just as cool as I remembered, the atmosphere of the game is completely diferent.
Yeah, it gave kids a reason to interact and trade pokemons, so it even sold link cables lol.
I absolutely loathed Sumo, but I actually really enjoyed X/Y. Felt like a return to form to me, with (most) Pokémon having good designs and the region having some interesting locations, like that mushroom forest and swamp road.
would you recommend to me then? I dreaded playing it a bit because I heard the battles were really lagged.
Yes, it's nowhere near as laggy as Sumo. Get a romhack for the full experience, like Wilting Y.
not the same guy, but it really varies from person to person. I started playing pokemon red when I was like 11, and stopped playing with ruby when I was around 15. I came back to platinum in my 20s and it was a fucking blast, mostly due to trading and battling people on Zig Forums, there was always a pokemon general up, this was before /vp/. I still have the save with the dots in the world map from interacting with Zig Forumstards from all over the world. I was super hyped for gen 5, and hated it. Came back for 6 and loved it, but havent played anymore since then. Lots of people hate gen 6 though
Should have had a SNES version. Could have been built using a shell like the Super Gameboy to allow the GB games to be plugged in.
The N64 needed that transfer pack more to leech off the gameboy's success.
>It's the most successful platform on all time.
that is the 3DS, user
did you see gen 7? it was the first gen where I didn't like any of the starters, most of the pokemon are very unapealling as well, look more like cartoons nowadays.
The hype for gen 5 was unreal. Like when people started posting smugleaf on every board. And the copy protection shenanigans. Too bad the finished product was a disappointment.
The "elegant" color scheme being exclusive to japan is so funny to me for some reason.
kill yourselves
I had icy snow and I still only remember Vivillion by that color scheme.
>all but 3
>be snownigger
>get trans rights vivillion and not polar
what the fuck.
I probably was the only kid at school without a gameboy cause my father was anti consoles but I still bought the figures, the cards and played it emulated, never got pass the cave though, pokemon was everywhere.
you are absolutely right, a kanto pokemon with chrono trigger graphics wouldve been amazing, they couldve put even more pokemons
>a kanto pokemon with chrono trigger graphics wouldve been amazing
They had their shot with the GBA and they blew it.
Imagine your game looks bad even by GBA standards. Like, the gamecube was out there, people were playing REmake.
The Game Boy wasn't really dead in 1995. It was at the end of its lifespan, yes, but it wasn't dead.