Tag: pokemon
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Pokemon Battrio – A look at the first ever Pokemon arcade game!
In April of 2007, Tomy Interactive announced it would be bringing Pokemon to the Japanese arcades. This was a big deal as Pokemon has generally been a portable gaming franchise, with the occasional foray to the Nintendo GameCube and/or Wii. Even more interesting was the claim that this new Pokemon game was not only the…
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Review: Pokemon Battle Revolution (Nintendo Wii)
(Alex’s Note: Sorry guys. No screenshots. This was supposed to go up yesterday but then I got a call and broke some really bad news to Glazer, Hatton and the rest of IP’s IWC guys. After that the site got so much traffic that the image loader still isn’t working today.) Pokemon Battle Revolution Developer:…
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Pulse 10: Top Pokemon Games of All Time!
I was a little bit weirded out that Widro asked me to compile this top ten list for IP readers. Pokemon may be 11 years old now, but there have only been 26 Pokemon games released, 32 if you count the colour variants of each RPG, 33 if you count the original Pokemon Stadium which…
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Review: Pokemon Diamond & Pearl (Nintendo DS)
This is actually the first of three reviews I’ve done for the print media on Pokemon D&P. This one is about two or so months old. I’ll upload the more in-depth 4 page one later this week. Anyway, even with the US release on Sunday PD&P had been a lot of fun. the GTS and…
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Review: Pokemon Ranger (Nintendo DS)
Pokemon Ranger Publisher: Nintendo Developer: HAL Labs Genre: Action RPG Release Date: 10/31/2006 This has been an excellent year for Pokemon. Although it started off with a mediocre game in Pokemon Trozei, it was then followed up with an excellent twist on the turn based RPG format via Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon. Now we have our…
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Review: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team (DS)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon – Blue Rescue Team Developer: Chunsoft Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Dungeon Crawl Release Date: 09/19/2006 Hey, I won’t lie to you. This is essentially the same review as the Red one, but it covers the differences between the two games, there are different screenshots, and the scores are a bit different. If you…
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Review: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon – Red Rescue Team (Game Boy Advance)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon -Red Rescue Team Developer: Chunsoft Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Dungeon Crawl Release Date: 09/19/2006 Chunsoft is best known for releasing dungeon hacks and only dungeon hacks. This isn’t the first licensed dungeon hack they’ve done either. They made the Torenko (Dragon Quest spinoff) dungeon hack for the SNES and PSX for example. Now…
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Review: Pokemon Trozei (Nintendo DS)
Pokemon Trozei Developer: Genius Sonority Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Puzzle Release Date 3/8/2006 Ah yes, another Pokemon graces the Nintendo DS. It’s funny, but there has yet to be a Pokemon game released in the US in the RPG format that Pokemon usually comes in. Japan managed to get “Squirtle’s Mysterious Dungeon,” which I desperately want,…
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Review: Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (Nintendo Gamecube)
Developer: Genius Sonority Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Turn Based RPG Release Date: 10/5/05 Can you believe it’s actually been ten years since Pokemon first came out? In a mere decade, this turn based RPG filled with cock fighting seizure monsters has became the best selling game franchise of all time. It’s even replaced Mario as Nintendo’s…
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Review: Pokemon Emerald (Game Boy Advance)
Pokemon Emerald Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Turn Based RPG Release Date: 05/01/05 Okay. I’m worried about the future of Pokemon. Game Freak appears to be hitting “Street Fighter 2” Mentality by releasing rehash after rehash with little to no improvements now. And Emerald has officially ticked me off. This isn’t the first time…
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Pokemon Rocks America Report!
It’s the middle of October, the 16th to be exact. It’s 30 degrees out. It’s 10am. But most of all, it’s Minneapolis. And that explains why, instead of slumbering our weekend away, Matt Yeager and yours truly headed down to Bloomington, Minnesota and the Mall of America to take part in POKEMON ROCKS AMERICA This…
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Review: Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green (Game Boy Advance)
Ah Kanto, land of my youth. Where I was first forced to make a decision between Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle (Charmander, duh). When my first Pokemon team consisted of Charizard, Marowak, Raichu, Articuno, Gyardos, and Butterfree. When I didn’t care about type advantage or trainer vs trainer battles or anything hardcore in the realm of…
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Review: Pokemon Box (Nintendo Gamecube)
Pokemon Box (Nintendo Game Cube) Tagline: Just because something is rare doesn’t mean everyone will eventually be clamoring for it on Ebay in 5 years… Pokemon Box Developer Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: 07/12/04 Genre: Storage Device Systems Released for: Nintendo Game Cube Ah Pokemon Box. A Japanese Exclusive for so long, but now it is…
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Review: Pokemon Colosseum (Nintendo Gamecube)
Pokemon Colosseum Developer: Genius Sonority Publisher: NOA Released On: 03/24/04 Right. Well I’ve had the US copy of this game for quite some time now, and have beaten it to the point where I could probably tell people how to beat the game while wearing a blindfold. I’ve been running around watching people say, “Look!…
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Review: Pokemon Channel (Nintendo Gamecube)
It was the summer of 1996. Still a full year and some change before it came to the States, when it completely changed the face of video gaming, merchandising and with modest still in tact, the world. I’d finished my Freshman year of college and while my ex was visiting relatives, I ended up going…
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Review: Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire (Game Boy Advance)
Game: Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire System: Game Boy Advance Genre: Pinball Developer: Jupiter Corp. Publisher: Nintendo Released: 08/28/03 I love handheld Pinball. Sonic Pinball Party. Pinball of the Dead. Pokemon Pinball for the GBC. It’s cute, easy to learn but hard to master, and requires very little thought process once you get the physics…