Pokémon Gold and Silver
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| Developer(s) | Game Freak
<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Publisher(s)</th><td>Nintendo / The Pokémon Company</td></tr> |
| Release date(s) | Image:Flag of Japan.svg November 21, 1999 (JP) Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 15, 2000 (US) Image:Flag of Australia.svg October 16, 2000 (AU) Image:European flag.svg April 6, 2001 (EU) |
| Genre(s) | Console role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer
<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Rating(s)</th><td>ESRB: Everyone |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color
<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Media</th><td>Cartridge</td></tr> |
Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver are two Super Game Boy and Game Boy Color enhanced video games for the Nintendo Game Boy. Released in 2000, these games started the second generation of the vastly popular Pokémon video game series. These games feature a new region called Johto, 100 new Pokémon and many more additions. They are also backwards compatible with the first generation of games (Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow).
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[edit] The new region of Johto
Pokémon Gold and Silver were the first to introduce a separate region from the one in the original Pokémon titles (Kanto). This new region, named Johto, offers one hundred new Pokémon for players to capture and discover with a new version of the Pokédex; plus, there’s also the addition of the Pokégear, Berries, special Pokéballs, and breeding Pokémon to produce Pokémon Eggs from which baby Pokémon hatch.
The rival is much different from the original one presented in Red and Blue. This time, the rival steals a Pokémon from Professor Elm (the person who gives players their starter Pokémon) and becomes the player’s rival throughout the course of the game. His name is unknown at first; eventually, like in previous games, the player names him. His rough personality and lack of love for his Pokémon shows players what their attitude should not be like.
Team Rocket returns with a new attitude, since the leadership of Giovanni, and once again tries to take over the world, starting with the Johto Region. They begin with petty things (such as cutting off the tails of Slowpokes) before becoming more devious, such as a plan to use radio frequencies to artificially induce evolution in some Pokémon, as well as trying to contact their missing leader using radio broadcasts.
[edit] Additions
More specialized Pokéballs were introduced in this game. A Lure Ball is more effective if used against a Pokémon caught with a fishing rod, for instance, and a Friend Ball will make a Pokémon more comfortable and friendly to its trainer much quicker. To obtain these balls, Aprikorns must be picked from special plants found throughout the game. Kurt in Azalea Town will fashion these into the different balls based on their color. However, Kurt can only make one ball at a time, and players must wait until the next day for Kurt to finish the ball. Although these specialized Poke Balls and Aprikorns were not in future generations, there were other specialized balls.
The game introduces shiny Pokémon, i.e. Pokémon which have a different coloring than normal Pokémon of their species, and which appear very rarely (it has been estimated to be a 1/8192 chance). In this second generation of games (though not the third generation which followed on GBA), these Pokémon often have better stats than regular non-shiny Pokémon. There is one exception to the shiny Pokémon system: a red Gyarados can be found at the Lake of Rage. Since it is part of the storyline, it is impossible not to encounter this Pokémon.
The Pokérus (Pokémon virus) was introduced. The virus is even rarer (About a 1 in 32768 chance) to get than a “shiny” Pokémon, and raises the amount of stats that the player’s Pokémon gain each time the infected Pokémon levels up.
There are also three Legendary Pokémon (Raikou, Entei, and Suicune) that wander around Johto after they have been “awakened” at the Burnt Tower. These have been informally called the “Legendary Dogs” or “Legendary Cats” (a point of hot contention among fans, though Nintendo usually refers the them by their individual names or as “Legendary Pokémon”, only once having called them cats) and “Legendary Beasts” (by those wishing to avoid sparking debate). They change locations every time the player goes in and out of a building or cave, though they can be tracked with the Pokédex once sighted. If encountered, they instantly attempt to run away, and they use Roar attack if you attempt to use the "Mean Look" attack used by Gengar or Golbat. Because of this, many players catch them with a Master Ball to avoid the hassle of attempting a battle.
In addition to the above three legendary Pokemon, Gold and Silver contained two new "Legendary Birds": Ho-oh and Lugia. Of the two, the one depicted on the game cartridge would be encountered at level 40, while the other would be found at level 70.
Several new moves were also added and as a result, a move deleter was introduced. The move deleter can be found at Blackthorn City. Its main purpose is to delete these new moves from a Pokémon in order to make them ready for trading to the older generation games. The move deleter can remove any move including HM moves.
[edit] Time
A time system has been introduced. At the beginning of the game, Professor Oak is woken up by the player before the traditional intro sequence. He asks the player the time, then the day of the week. The game’s clock is set accordingly. Afterwards, the protagonist’s mother will ask about Daylight saving time.
Throughout the game, Pokémon appearances are influenced by time of day; i.e, morning, day, and night. Hoothoot, for example, only appears at night (since it’s an owl-like Pokémon). On specific days, people will appear at specific locations. Some will give the player a Type-boosting item, like Sharp Beak or Hard Stone. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the bug catching contest is held in the national park. Lastly, in the Goldenrod Underground, there are shops and stalls where people appear at specific times on specific days.
[edit] Changes
Two new types were introduced, Steel and Dark. These two types serve to balance the Psychic type, whose two weaknesses consisted of Bug and Ghost type moves; however the bug type lacked any powerful offensive moves in past games. Now, the Bug type has the powerful Megahorn (120 power move with 85% accuracy), learned by Bug/Fighting-type Heracross. Psychic is now also weak to Ghost-type attacks, like the new Shadow Ball (80 power move with 100% accuracy) move. It can be learned naturally by some Pokémon and also can be taught with TM30. In addition to the Psychic type, Steel and Dark also balances the Fighting type, whose only strong against Normal, Ice and Rock types; Steel and Dark are both weak against Fighting. Steel Pokémon are known for their very high defenses; they are highly resistant to many types and their moves are strong against Ice and Rock Pokémon. Dark types are the opposite of the Psychic type, due to Pokemon of the type being immune to Psychic-type moves and the more physically malicious moves. Dark types are also strong aganst Ghost-types, them being the only type that have an attack advantage over Ghost Pokemon besides Ghost-type moves themselves.
Another major change from the original series was the splitting of the Special stat. Instead of one Special stat, they were split into Special Attack and Special Defense. Again, this increased the strategy, for Pokémon were now more specialized; some were good special attackers, while others were better physical attackers. Same now held true for Defense and Special Defense. Players had to remember and keep in mind what Pokémon were better for a certain task (such as a strong physical attacker against a physically weak Pokémon). For example, Cloyster has a decent Special stat in Red/Blue/Green/Yellow, but in all later games, has a decent Special Attack, but low Special Defense.
Some Type match-ups were changed as well. In Red and Blue Ghost-types had no effect on Psychic-types; this was changed to super-effective as it should have been. Poison-types originally were effective against Bug-types and Bug effective against Posion; this was changed to Poison doing normal damage to Bug and Bug becoming not very effective against Posion, seriously limiting the effectiveness and usage of Bug-types. Ice-types were also made not very effective against Fire-types (previously they did normal damage). In this version several moves had their type changed. For example the move Gust was a Normal-type in the first generation games but is now a Flying-type move.
Pokémon can now hold items; this new addition raises the bar for strategy, because players can use hold items to outspeed their rivals (Quick Claw), heal ailments (berries) or restore HP in battle (Leftovers), boost element-specific attacks (Miracle Seed), or increase happiness (Soothe Bell).
Another new addition is that if you trade a Pokémon from Red/Blue/Yellow, it may be holding an item. For example, trade a Kadabra/Alakazam and you will obtain a Twistedspoon. This is the only way to obtain this item and it is the only psychic-type damage boosting item in the game. In Yellow version, if the Pikachu that is given by Oak at the beginning is traded to Gold or Silver, it will be holding an item which doubles Pikachu's special attack power. Many other Pokémon hold items too, such as Leftovers from Clefairy and Lucky Punch from Chansey.
[edit] Breeding
With the breeding feature, now Pokémon not only belong to one or two elemental types (fire, water, etc.), but also belong to one or two breeding group from this list. It is important to note that Legendaries cannot be bred; they are genderless, and will not work, even with a Ditto.
A baby Pokémon will be born when day-caring a male Pokémon along with a female Pokémon that share at least one breeding group. In the case of Pokémon that are always male (Hitmontop, Nidoking, Tauros, etc.), or Gender Unknown group Pokémon (Magnemite, Voltorb), the only way to produce a baby from these species is by day-caring a parent with another Pokémon of similar apearance or breed them with a Ditto.
A baby Pokémon will inherit the species of its mother (or the non-Ditto parent in the case of a Ditto breeding) and inheritable moves from its father (when it’s not a Ditto). Fathers always pass down TMs that the baby’s species could learn, which are valuable (since some are only obtainable one time). If both parents know a move that the baby can learn by increasing its level, the baby that comes out will automatically know that move as well. Fathers could also pass down special moves called “Egg Moves” to the baby that it would not normally be able to learn by leveling or evolving, if the move was indeed one of the baby’s Egg Moves. At one time players discovered a glitch in the game which could enable you to make a clone of the Pokémon and the item it was holding. For example, if a Pokémon holding a Rare Candy (an item allowing the Pokémon to gain another level) is cloned, the clone also holds a Rare Candy. [citation needed]
[edit] A different Kanto
After beating the Elite Four at the Pokémon League, players can travel through Kanto, the region from the previous games, and see how things have changed over the past three years:
- The player can meet and battle many of the characters from the previous games, including the rival of the original games, Blue (Green in the Japanese versions). After completing the quests in Kanto, the player can access a new area in Johto and battle Red, the protagonist of the original games. Another quite notable difference is that Koga, gym leader of Fuchsia City (now Elite Four member), has been replaced by his daughter, Janine.
- Most of the music from the first generation games are used and have had some minor remixing done to them.
- Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres are no longer here, partially because they can already be caught in Red/Blue. The Unknown Dungeon and Mewtwo are also gone, though an NPC does mention the dungeon and an item called a "Berserk Gene" (presumably a gene from Mewtwo) is found in the water near where the Unknown Dungeon once was.
- The Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town is replaced by a Radio Tower, similar to the one in Goldenrod City. However, the Pokémon's graves were moved into the recently-built Soul House.
- The Power Plant has also been altered, and it is now in use. This may be a reason why Zapdos is no longer there. Its use is to power the newly-opened Saffron City Magnet Train.
- Copycat still lives in Saffron City, but has moved to another home. Her old house is now the Magnet Train station.
- The Safari Zone is closed while the warden is "on a vacation". Some have speculated that the Safari Zone was not included in the Gold and Silver games because of the presence of the Glitch City trick. Others believe that it has been removed because no space was left in the cartridge to store it. Another reason is because all the rare Pokémon that used to be there can be found in Kanto and Johto. Instead, the Johto Bug-Catching Contest at the National Park takes its place. A map was found of the Safari Zone in the game's data; it was not used. <ref>Pokémon Gold and Silver Beta, Bulbapedia.</ref> A portal to the Safari Zone in Fuchsia City is also found, but is also not used.
- A volcano has destroyed everything but the Pokémon Center on Cinnabar Island. Blaine has moved his Gym to the Seafoam Islands (which could be why Articuno left).
- Pokémon seen in the wild are different: many Johto Pokémon exist in the grass. Some Pokémon that were previously restricted to the Safari Zone, such as Kangaskhan, can be caught in the wild.
- The Bike Shop in Cerulean City has been closed down, due to the owners moving to Goldenrod.
- Gym Leader rosters are updated to include Johto Pokémon.
- Blue, the rival in Red and Blue is now the leader of the Viridian City Gym. Giovanni is nowhere to be seen, though he is mentioned. Red, the player’s character from Pokémon Red and Blue and Yellow shows up in Johto, in Mt. Silver and serves as the game's true final boss battle.
- Victory Road’s length has been drastically shortened (which may have led to Moltres’s departure).
- Viridian Forest has been reduced to that of a small group of trees seeable outside the forest entrance.
- The tunnel from Celadon City to Lavender has been closed, ostensibly due to "vandalism" The game cites local complaints about battles in said tunnel. It was not needed because Saffron was accessible as soon as the player could reach it.
[edit] Glitches
There is a well known glitch in this game as to clone Pokémon. It involves switching going to a computer and saving, then placing the Pokémon that the player wishes to clone into a box in Bill's PC that has room for at least one more Pokémon. When switching to the next box in the PC, when the game says that it is saving and not to turn off the power, the player turns off the game. When the player turns the game on, they should find the Pokémon in their party and Bill's PC. This trick can also be used to duplicate items by giving the Pokémon that item to hold. This is most helpful for capturing rare monsters, as the player can use it to copy Master Balls. The process above, however, is risky, because if it is done improperly, it can erase a saved game.
This glitch was removed from the the third generation games (Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire), but was later discovered that the glitch could be performed in Pokémon Emerald.
Another glitch involves listening to the cry of the Machop stomping on the ground in the construction area in in Vermillion City, then immediately looking at their Coin Case. This will either freeze or reset the player's game. Upon restarting, the game clock will be permanently frozen in that exact time, and all time-related events will malfunction.
[edit] Version-specific Pokémon
There are 20 Pokémon which are only found in one version.
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Celebi can not be found in any version of the game, and must be obtained via a GameShark or Action Replay or through a Japanese Crystal version. In the past it has been accessible from Nintendo promotions.
In addition, there are 18 Pokémon that can only be obtained by trading with the Red, Blue or Yellow version.
Mew can not be found in any version of the game, and must be obtained via a GameShark or Action Replay or through a Japanese Crystal version. In the past it has been accessible from Nintendo promotions.
[edit] Legacy
For many current and former players, these two games represent the pinnacle of the video game series. While these games advance into a new region, they maintain the feel of the original games, especially with the artistic style of the 100 Metal-era Pokémon, the ability to go to Kanto after beating Johto, and the ability to trade Pokémon to and from R/B/Y and G/S/C.
However, they also introduced new ideas and precedents for later games. The day/night cycle was profusely praised, because players liked the added strategy of catching different Pokémon at different times of the day. Its removal in the third generation was met with much criticism, but it has been restored for the fourth generation. The inclusion of the “radio” for listening to different music while not in a cave was also missed in the next generation. Additionally, the concepts of item holding, breeding, an internal clock, special “shiny” Pokémon (though without the inheritance of the trait through breeding), an EXP bar that shows how much EXP a Pokémon has to obtain before leveling up, Pokémon genders (male and female) and others have carried over to later games.
However, the battery used to power the clock is not rechargeable, and so the battery will inevitably fail and the save file will either be deleted or corrupted. This was first noted in emulation of the game. Now, many players have already reported the battery failing.[citation needed] It can be replaced with a standard CR2025 watch battery, although this requires opening the cartridge, removing the old battery, and soldering the new battery to the battery tabs.
[edit] Pokémon Gold and Silver Beta
In 1997, Nintendo put the first details and screenshots of their next Pocket Monsters game online. It was initially named "Pocket Monsters 2 Gold & Silver", and was developed for Game Boy and Super Game Boy and was planned for release at the end of the same year. Following a year without press releases, the official Nintendo site has updated new information on Pokémon Gold and Silver. It gave information on the revised release date (June 1999) and It was stated to be compatible with the as-yet-unreleased Game Boy Color. The Pokémon in Pokémon Gold and Silver were just a few of many different designs that Game Freak created. Only 100 new Pokémon were added, and even those often went through redesigns before making it into the final product.
[edit] See also
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