The Making of Pokémon Gold & Silver: New Staff Interview Unearthed & Translated!

[GlitterBerri]

Did you know...

1. More than 200 new Pokémon were designed for GS?
2. NPC trainers were originally put in the game for people who didn't have friends?
3. It was Miyamotos idea to have multiple versions?

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[MizuTaipu]

Cool stuff! Thanks for translating!

 

[Ghetsis-Dennis]

I wonder what become of those 200 new Pokemon? Were some of them eventually used in other gens, or were they completely shafted, never to see the light of day? They would've been great choices for Gen VI.

 

[Silktree]

I wonder what become of those 200 new Pokemon? Were some of them eventually used in other gens, or were they completely shafted, never to see the light of day?

I asked Junichi Masuda that very question over Tweeter. He refused to answer, which makes me suspect that most of them have yet to be incorporated.

 

[LuckyMyu]

I wonder what become of those 200 new Pokemon? Were some of them eventually used in other gens, or were they completely shafted, never to see the light of day? They would've been great choices for Gen VI.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Prototype_Pokémon_and_characters

Some have never been used, but it stands to reason that at least some of the unused Pokémon made it into the following generations in some form.

Ho-oh was seen in the very first anime episode, so it was probably one of the original cut ones.

 

[Silktree]

Ho-oh was seen in the very first anime episode, so it was probably one of the original cut ones.

If you mean that it was removed from Red and Green, Shigeki Morimoto happened to rule out that theory. It was always going to be one of the mascots of the sequels; the anime episode aired in 1997, and later that year this interview was done and many other Pokémon were revealed.

Note that Morimoto also said that the reason for the removal was that the team had decided to save those designs for later. However, since they made a more significant cut for Gold and Silver, we can't be sure how many of the scrapped Generation I Pokémon ended up in the games, let alone the Generation II ones.