/vr/ - Retro Games

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>Notice how Heracross and Teddiursa love honey? Honey was meant to appear in Gen II. They instead waited until IV to implement it into the games. You probably weren't going to just headbutt trees for Pokémon. Honey would make sense as well.
>The Lass was intended as a player trainer, going by the name of Blue. Not Green, but Blue. Remember, Green version was first in Japan.
>Mew was intentionally hidden by Tajiri by the dev team. You could eventually gain it in Japan but in America, glitches had to be exploited to obtain it. I don't remember, but I believe before Gold/Silver, you finally were able to get Mew in an event tied to Yellow in the west.
>Rhydon is the first Pokémon ever created. Notice how the substitutes/statues all over resemble it? Some say the subs resemble an infant Kangaskhan as well and I agree. It's also likely that Rhyhorn was added for balance reasons.
>The original concept for Pokémon was Capsule Monsters. They couldn't trademark the name so it was dropped. Slowbro was shown in a picture with a different shell and Gastly's original design was also featured, which made it into Red/Blue/Green.
>English names were intended to be different. Lapras was Ness, Gyarados was Skullkraken, and Kakuna was Kokoon. Koffing and Weezing were NY and LA, respectively.
>The designs seems strange in Red/Blue/Green, don't they? Well, those were the original envisions of them. Some of them were retweaked for the anime and they became the definitive versions for them. Even Gen III's Pokémon have had some minor revisions as well.
>On that note, there's a Pokémon that's a mix of Latias and Blaziken. A girl is riding it. She looks similar to Kris, probably hinting that it was meant for Gen II, as a legendary. It got split up into the two mentioned for Gen III. While not related to Gen II, Torchic had flaps on its head originally.

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