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Anniversary Pokémon FireRed And LeafGreen Turn 20 Years Old In The US

Fans would love to see them return

Try not to get too excited, but the official Pokémon social media account has this week acknowledged North America's 20th anniversary of Pokémon FireRed Version and LeafGreen Version. These Game Boy Advance titles originally released in September 2004 in this region, and were remakes of the original Pokémon...

• Wed 11th Sep 2024
• Game Boy Advance
• GBA
• Pokemon
• Game Boy
• The Pokemon Company

Gallery Pokémon Art Project 'Kanto Redrawn' Is Complete, And It Looks Incredible

Over 100 artists contributed

Remember the stunning Johto Redrawn project that we covered way back in 2021? You might also recall that the team behind this beautiful pixel art recreation of one of our favourite Pokémon regions, Retro Redrawn, was also working on a reimagining of the Kanto region. Today, Kanto Redrawn is finished, and it

• Tue 27th Feb 2024
• Pokemon
• Art
• Gallery

Anniversary Pokémon FireRed And LeafGreen Are 20 Years Old Today

Can you Diglett?

Get your appropriate ageing GIF at the ready (Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan, the Tenth Doctor, that Titanic one — the choice is yours) because we have to break it to you that Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are now 20 years old. While we let that sink in, let's run through some facts. Released on the Game Boy Advance on 29th...

• Mon 29th Jan 2024
• Anniversary
• Pokemon
• GBA
• Poll

Talking Point Do You Want To See Colourful Cartridges Return For 'Switch 2'?

A bright future

The gaming industry is going digital. Chants of "it's easy," "it uses less plastic," and "it's cheaper... sometimes," fill the streets and, after dark, tempting eShop sales let out their siren song to pull in any weary traveller after a boxed copy with sweet calls of "Oooh, ahh, up to 80% off". The times may be a-changing, but...

• Sat 27th Jan 2024
• Talking Point
• Features
• Nintendo
• Switch 2
• Nintendo Switch

News Looks Like Pokémon Trading Already Works On Switch Online's GB & GBA Emulator

Linking up

With Nintendo Switch Online now having Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games, and Pokemon Day fast approaching (27th February), it's got a lot of people speculating — will Gen 1, 2, and 3 make the jump to NSO? YouTuber and content creator Austin John Plays is one such person who's been pushing those ideas forward, and over the weekend,...

• Mon 20th Feb 2023
• Pokemon
• Nintendo Switch Online
• GBA

Feature How The Quintessential Essence Of Pokémon Games Inspires Gen After Gen

Insight from Pokémon World Champions and Temtem’s Director

In 1998 my Canadian elementary school banned everything to do with Pokémon. The games, the trading cards, and discussions about the anime – all of it was off-limits as Pocket Monster fever swept through North America like a swarm of Rattata, distracting us from our in-class reading of...

• Sat 4th Jun 2022
• Features
• Pokemon
• Retro
• Interviews

Random Pokémon Fan Finishes Challenge To Play Every Game Without Using Pokémon Twice

It took two and a half years to complete the series

Pokémon fans love making things harder for themselves. There's the Nuzlocke Challenge, in which you can only catch the first Pokémon you meet in every area, and fainted Pokémon are considered "dead" and must be released. There's the original Twitch Plays Pokémon, which keeps popping up with...

• Mon 25th Jan 2021
• Random
• Pokémon

News We Almost Got A Pokémon MMO Back In 2005

What could have been...

In case you missed it, there's been a recent leak which has offered up all kinds of Nintendo stuff, such as early prototypes of famous games. However, information has also been uncovered relating to games which never made it into production, the most exciting of which is a proposed

• Mon 27th Jul 2020
• Pokemon

Random Don't Forget to Celebrate Mewtwo's Birthday

For he's a jolly good genetically engineered lifeform

February 27th is a big day for Pokémon, marking the series' 20th anniversary since its début games in 1996. However, information contained within those games mentions another special day too - February 6th is Mewtwo's birthday! Players of Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow/FireRed/LeafGreen will...

• Sun 7th Feb 2016
• Retro
• Mewtwo
• Pokemon

Feature A Pokémon Retrospective: Generation 3 - 2002 To 2006

A period of evolution

As we build up to the 20th anniversary of Pokémon in February 2016, and look hotly ahead towards brand new things including the new Zygarde forms, we're continuing our monthly journey through each generation of Pokémon, this month we cover the generation that many ignored, the one that came after the Pokémon "fad" ended, but...

• Thu 5th Nov 2015
• Retro
• Features
• Pokemon