/vr/ - Retro Games

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>In an interview, Sugimori stated that the design team puts out twice the amount of Pokémon they release for the games. With what we know from Gen I/II, it's likely that there are some Pokémon only now revealed that were alongside Rhydon and Lapras.
>Genders were likely a planned feature. Nidoran is probably the end result of what they could get to work at the time.
>Another old pictures shows Weedle's line with a beetle as the final form, a scaled Dragonair and Poliwag's line. The scaled Dragonair could have been an alternate design or even an evo. The Poliwag line has a bigger Poliwhirl with a crown and closed eyes. The crown would be used for Slowking and Politoed. Those two may have been planned Gen I Pokémon, but the latter was reworked into Poliwrath and Politoed came in resembling an actual frog in Gen II. The beetle resembles a beta picture of Ledyba, which stood upright and had angry eyes.
>On bugs, the concept for Pokémon alone was inspired by Tajiri's love for catching bugs as a kid. This is why the Bug Catcher along with Bug-Types in general are prominent early on.

Overall, I think that's it. It's been a while and I'm not able to find my original retelling on this subject, but most of it is plausible to an extent.