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Pokemon Gold
Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver are two 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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Publisher: Nintendo
Features
Pokémon Gold and Silver introduces 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; other new features include the Pokégear, Berries, special Pokéballs, and breeding Pokémon to produce Pokémon Eggs from which baby Pokémon hatch.
The player has the choice of starting with three different Pokémon, as usual. Chikorita is the Grass-Type starter that evolves into Bayleef and Meganium. Cyndaquil is the Fire-Type starter that can evolve into Quilava and Typhlosion. Totodile is the Water-Type the player can choose, which evolves into Croconaw and Feraligatr. The player may only get the other two Pokémon he or she did not choose from Professor Elm by trading with another copy of Gold, Silver, or Crystal.
The rival is much different from the one presented in Red and Blue. This time, he 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 has returned with a new attitude, since the disappearance of their leader 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.
The player has the choice of starting with three different Pokémon, as usual. Chikorita is the Grass-Type starter that evolves into Bayleef and Meganium. Cyndaquil is the Fire-Type starter that can evolve into Quilava and Typhlosion. Totodile is the Water-Type the player can choose, which evolves into Croconaw and Feraligatr. The player may only get the other two Pokémon he or she did not choose from Professor Elm by trading with another copy of Gold, Silver, or Crystal.
The rival is much different from the one presented in Red and Blue. This time, he 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 has returned with a new attitude, since the disappearance of their leader 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.
