Meanwhile, on the retro-nostalgia front, Nintendo is bringing more old school Pokemon games to the 3DS today in the for of Pokemon Gold & Silver.
For the GameBoy Color
Back in 2016 Nintendo re-released Pokemon Red, Blue, & Yellow for the 3DS Virtual Console as part of the Pokemon 20th Anniversary celebration. I went in on Pokemon Blue to discover how things went way back in the day, and I was surprised by how nearly fully formed the first generation of Pokemon games really were.
Now we have the second generation available, and with that comes some rounding out of the Pokemon standard features including:
- Pokemon breeding
- Held items for Pokemon
- Dual-type Pokemon
- Steel and Dark type Pokemon
- Shiny Pokemon
- Pokemon experience tracking
In addition the games are in full on color, no longer having to support the original monochromatic GameBoy hardware.
Virtual cartridges for the Virtual Console
As with the first generation releases, Pokemon Bank will be getting an update to allow players to move their Pokemon from these titles to Pokemon Sun & Moon, or to Pokemon UltraSun & UltraMoon when the latter ship this coming November.
So I am much more likely to spend time this weekend playing retro Pokemon than anything else, and all the more so since the 2009 remakes of these titles, Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver rank very highly on my list of favorite Pokemon titles.
The only quest is, do I go with Gold or Silver?
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