During the second season of the English dub, Ash and Misty also encountered Tracey, who owned a Marill Lugia, the game mascot of Pokémon Silver, was the focus of the second movie, in which Slowking also appeared. Snubbull and Marill made their first appearances in Pikachu's Vacation, and Donphan appeared at the start of Mewtwo Strikes Back. Later, Togepi hatched from an Egg Ash himself found, and Misty became the first main character to own a Generation II Pokémon. Ho-Oh, the eventual game mascot of Pokémon Gold, appeared in the first episode. The anime also provided early peeks at the new Pokémon. Sprites of Donphan, Ampharos, Slowking, and Ho-Oh were also released, using the Super Game Boy palettes.įour of the "new" Pokémon that would be included in Pocket Monsters 2.
It also conducted an interview with him for the magazine: he described the cover art as a Pokémon-like, but non-Pokémon, separate world he implicitly forbore shaping the destiny of those designs, however, by adding that his creativity would often arise from the revisits of his own works.
The communication abilities of the games were also to be improved, and backwards compatibility with the Generation I games was also announced.Īn April 1997 issue of MicroGroup Game Review showcased some Pokémon-esque designs of monsters and characters that Ken Sugimori made specifically for that issue. Though this never appeared in the released game, other things announced, such as the time system with its real-time clock, as well as 100 new Pokémon, including new evolutions of old Pokémon, and new TMs and HMs containing new moves, were included. One of the many notable additions promised was a skateboard that could be used in addition to the Bicycle of the previous games, and which would allow the player to travel to "unusual places". The games were intended to be released at the end of the year for the original Game Boy, while supporting the Super Game Boy enhancements that the Generation I games have. In 1997, Nintendo announced the first details about the then-next generation of Pocket Monsters games, to be titled Pocket Monsters 2: Gold & Silver (Japanese: ポケットモンスター2 金・銀). Pre-release First mention of Pocket Monsters 2 2.15 Status prevention hold item effects.1.5 More information revealed and additional delay.