Pokémon Gold and Silver turns 25 years outdated this month. The Recreation Boy Colour RPGs introduced followers to the Johto area, launched 100 new monsters, and are extensively thought of among the finest video games within the franchise’s lengthy historical past. To commemorate the anniversary, The Pokémon Firm is releasing a brand new line of merchandise that includes Pokémon and artwork from the video games, and there’s some actual tempting stuff within the assortment.
A number of the merch is game-neutral, whereas just a few objects have been made to highlight characters and colour schemes for both Gold or Silver. The highlights embody plushes of sport mascots Ho-Oh and Lugia, jackets with a reversible inside design of the Johto area map, and a trash can with the Japanese in-game message you obtain when analyzing trash cans that roughly interprets to “Nope, there’s solely trash right here” printed on it.
Proper now, the road is simply occurring sale by the Japanese Pokémon Heart web site, which at all times appears to get the very best stuff. Nonetheless, they are going to little question find yourself on reseller or import websites shortly after the road goes stay on November 21. For now, you may click on by to see all of the merchandise set to go up subsequent week.
Today, the best solution to play Gold and Silver is thru the 3DS ports launched in 2017. I’m nonetheless preserving my fingers crossed that Nintendo will someday put the outdated Pokémon video games on Swap after which make a concerted effort to maintain these video games accessible shifting ahead, however the firm’s lack of care on that entrance is well-documented.
Because it’s the twenty fifth anniversary of Gold and Silver, which means it’s additionally the fifteenth anniversary of the Nintendo DS remakes Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, which launched in the course of the unique video games’ tenth anniversary in 2009. These remakes are nonetheless in all probability the sport I’d put on the prime of a rating of the mainline Pokémon video games…oh, wait. I did that!
