This time, the Pokémon Anime came first. A commercial was sent out via VHS, as well as Nintendos own Website, on a new fangled thingy, called the “World Wide Web”
The show premiered to much success, getting millions of views, and airing every day. The show starred Ash Ketchum(Based On Red, and is a pun on Catch Em) and his Pikachu, traveling the Kanto Region. After 15 episodes of success, the games came out two weeks later.
Around this time the pokemon manga realesed in America, after years of running in Japan. However, instead of Pocket Monsters, it was Pokemon Adventures. A series staring Red and Green adventuring Kanto, there where many differences……Evil Gym Leaders, See through Pokeballs….and more. It was quite a hit, with multiple issues. Cool!
Also at this time, new pokemon games were coming out. In Japan, a new version staring Satoshi called Yellow had came out in Japan, and a sequel named Pocket Monsters 2(later changed to Pocket Monsters 2: Gold and Silver) was in development.
At this point however, pokemania had really took off!!!!!
All Kinds of CRRARRARAZZY merchandise like
But the people were becoming just as out of control as the merchandise!!!
Not to mention, Pokemon Stadium came out on n64, and it allowed you to battle monsters on the big screen in 3-D.
Finally, the new fangled INTERNET was not ready to handle Pokemons success….it all started when someone discovered if you did a weird series of steps and glitched the game, you could find THIS MONSTROUSITY!!!!!!!!
A face only a ZZAZZ could love.
It messed up your Hall of fame, it gave you 128 master ballz, it was a Bird type, it had many weird glitch friends(Including ‘’M’’ Who could replicate itself infinitely) , it was glitched out, and It came in several forms.
THIS ISNT EVEN MY FINAL FORM!
The Missingno species was first discovered by Nintendo in the original title “Pokémon Red Version and Blue Version,” which was published in the May 1999 issue of Nintendo Power. Describing the phenomenon as a “programming quirk,” Nintendo warned the gamers against encountering it,
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I hope you really, really, really, really, really, really...love Pikachu