Pokémon: Real Life & Emulator

As we promised, we'll give you a link to download an emulator so you can play the oldschool Pokémon on your laptop.

But first, check this 'Pokémon' out!



Emulator

Well, here is the link to download Visualboy, the emulator : Click here!
Now you've only got the emulator, so here you can download the roms to play: Click here!

Have fun !

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Pokémon: The games

Over time, Nintendo created a lot of Pokémon games for several handhelds and game consoles. The games on the handhelds are more famous, so we’ll focus on them. Most of you are probably familiar with the aim of the Pokémon games (we all know the Pokémon song and the slogan ‘Gotta catch ‘m all!’). For you who don’t know: the aim of the Pokémon games is to catch all the Pokémon the game contains and be the best Pokémon trainer in the world. However, not all Pokémon can be catched in a game. You’ll have to trade Pokémon with other players, like your friends.

The very first Pokémon game was Pokémon Blue for the Gameboy and was created in 1996, Japan. Other Pokémon games of the first generation for the Gameboy are Pokémon Red (1996), Pokémon Green (1996, only in Japan) and Pokémon Yellow (1998). In Europe, some of the Pokémon games were released some years after their release in Japan. Several characteristics of this first Pokémon series are the starter Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Charmander, 

Squirtle (Red and Blue) or Pikachu (Yellow). Of course, you’ll start your journey in Pallet Town.

The second generation of Pokémon games were released on the Game Boy Color, the successor of the Gameboy. Games that were available for this handheld were Pokémon Gold (1999), Silver (1999) and Crystal (2000). The starter  Pokémon of these games were Chikorita, Cyndaquil and Totodile, which you’ll all remember. One of the additions to these games are that  you were able to choose your gender in the beginning of the game.

Although the Pokémon games of the third, forth and fifth generations were released after the nineties, we’ll still discuss them because it’s Pokémon (and therefore worthwhile to discuss). The third generation is on two handhelds. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (2005) is on the Gameboy Advance and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (2005) on the Nintendo DS. These games are different from the earlier games. Instead of being a Pokémon trainer, you are turned into a Pokémon. Which Pokémon you’ll become differs  from the answer you’ll give on questions in the beginning. In both games you can be a Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Chikorita, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Pikachu, Eevee, Machop, Cubone, Psyduck, Meowth, and Skitty.

Generation four consists of a lot of games for the Nintendo DS: Pokémon Diamond (2006), Pearl (2006), Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (2007), Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (2007), Platinum (2008) and Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (2009). These games differ from each other in playing modus: either you are a Pokémon trainer (such as in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum) or you are turned into a Pokémon (as in the Mystery Dungeon series). The starter Pokémon in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum are Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup. You are probably a bit unfamiliar with these, because they aren’t a part of your nineties memories. In the Mystery Dungeon series it depends on the answered questions which Pokémon you are: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Meowth, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Skitty, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup and Munchlax. As you might have noticed, you can’t be Eevee, Machop, Cubone or Psyduck anymore.

The fifth and so far final generation of pokemon was released on the nintendo DS. In this generation there is only Pokémon Black (2010) and White (2010). If you haven’t played Pokémon anymore, you  probably don’t know the Pokémon you can choose in the start: Snivy, Tepig or Oshawott.

We think the first generations are the best generations of Pokémon. Charmander and Squirtle are much cooler than Woobat or Garbodor!

Tomorrow we will give you a link to an emulator so you can play Pokémon on your laptop.

Next week we’ll talk about series of the 90’s!

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Pokémon: Series

The Pokémon series are a Japanese anime based on the Pokémon video games and is part of the Pokémon franchise. Pokémon started airing in Japan on April 1^st 1997, so it is running for almost 15 years now! The fifteenth season of Pokémon is currently airing in Japan, and those 15 seasons are divided into four series or generations.  Seasons 1 to 5 belong to the Original Series, seasons 6 to 9 to the Advanced Generation, seasons 10 to 13 to the Diamond and Pearl Series and finally season 14 and 15 belong to the Best Wishes! Series.

The Pokémon anime series are about a boy named Ash Ketchum, he travels the world with his friends (human and Pokémon) in order to win Gym badges which are an entrance into tournaments, battle other Pokémon trainers, and catching new Pokémon. During this he also encounters Team Rocket, part of a criminal organization, who are trying to steal his Pokémon, and especially his Pikachu. Unfortunately for Team Rocket they never succeed and they end up being blown away, episode after episode. The anime relates to the Pokémon video games quite a bit, for example, just as in the video games, Ash cannot carry more than 6 Pokémon at a time.

Check here the very first episode of the Pokémon series!

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For each season of the main series there has been a movie made featuring the main characters of the season,  currently there are 15 Pokémon movies and one feature length TV broadcast (Mewtwo Returns).  Each movie features a Legendary Pokémon; this is mostly done to promote them in new version of the video games and in new series. Aside from the anime series and the movies there are also different Pokémon specials. In English they are called the Pokémon Chronicles or Pokémon Sunday series, alongside the Legend of Thunder! special and several Pikachu shorts.

Some Pokémon episodes were removed from the rotation, the most infamous of these episodes is “Electric Soldier Porygon”, this episode was removed because hundreds of children experienced seizures or seizure-like symptoms after seeing repetitive flashes of lights in the episode. Even though these flashes of light were caused by an attack by Pikachu, the featuring Pokémon Porygon never appeared in the anime again and neither did his evolutions Porygon2 and Porygon-X.

This was all on the Pokémon series; we hoped you have enjoyed it! Next time we will discuss the several games of Pokémon and we will gave an emulator to play it on your computer. 

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Pokémon: History

You all know Pokémon, right? If you don’t, shame on you!

In 1996, the media franchise Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri and owned by the video game company Nintendo. Ever wondered why Pókemon is called Pokémon? Well, it is the romanized contraction of the brand Pocket Monsters and such contractions are quite common in Japan. Pokémon is originally released as a Game Boy Role-playing game and it was interlinkable between Game Boys, this means that you can trade Pokémon with other Game Boy Pokémon players. This is extremely handy, because Pokémon Red and Blue have different Pokémon and by means of this trading system you are able to still have all Pokémon.

Pokémon is the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind Nintendo’s Mario series, which we have blogged about earlier. Because of the success of Pokémon, there are anime, manga, trading cards, toys and books about it.

Over time, five generations of Pokémon were created. However, only the first two generations were released in the 90’s: the first generation (Red and Blue) was released in 1998 and the second generation (Gold and Silver) in 1999. The first generation of Pokémon consists of 151 Pokémon, the second of 251 Pokémon. You can check all Pokémon out here: Click here!

Next time we will talk about the series of Pokémon. To create a nostalgic feeling, we will post the link of the first Pokémon episode ever!

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