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Pocket Monsters Pikachu Stadium

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This article is about Pocket Monsters Pikachu Stadium. For other games with a similar title, see Pocket Monster.

Pocket Monsters Pikachu Stadium, erroneously referred to as Pocket Monsters Stadium King of Fighters (Bronze) and also known as 怪物競技格鬥王(銅) and Pokémon Stadium (not to be confused with the SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive games of the same name), is a bootleg game for the Game Boy Color centered around the Pokémon franchise. It was developed by Good Life and first released in the year 2000. The game is completely undumped in any form as of writing. It is currently unknown if this game is a hack of an official game or if it was built from the ground up.

Plot[]

The game's story is a bizarre take on the Pokémon franchise, with no trainers present and with all Pokémon being capable of complex thought and speech in complete sentences. It starts off with Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Charmander, who are friends in this game, in their home country of Japan, walking in a forest setting and then talking about how much fun they had. At least the background graphics in this cutscene are taken from the original Game Boy Pokémon games. Charmander and the rest of the group then tease their friend Squirtle for slowly catching up with them. As the friends laugh amongst each other, Aerodactyl flies in and kidnaps Squirtle, remarking that "tortoise meat is my favorite food" and then taunts the group to try to find him. Before leaving, he summons three henchmen (who are also Pokémon) to deal with the group. The group then decide to fight the henchmen before setting out on a journey to rescue their kidnapped friend.

Gameplay[]

Unlike regular Pokémon games, this game is a turn based 1-on-1 fighting game, with characters appearing on the same plane side by side. Gameplay can be compared to the bootleg Pokemon Stadium game for SNES and Sega Mega Drive, with the player and opponent Pokémon having a set of attacks that match the regular attributes of their official game counterparts. A bar at each fighter's side of the screen keeps rising then resetting back to its starting position when it is their turn. Depending on where the bar lands, a Pokémon's attack will be stronger if it is closer to the bar's peak. For the player, the A button has to be pressed to set where the bar stops. Each attack has a set amount of usage points, and once a Pokémon has used up all these points, they can not be restored. In addition, any moves in general will cause a second "skill" bar to go down, and once it is depleted, the Pokémon can not attack anymore unless they take out a turn to replenish it. In this game, the player also has the ability to switch Pokémon during battle. In one player mode, this is done by holding Select.

The game's basic setup involves the player's team confronting and threatening Aerodactyl's henchmen in a cutscene, demanding to know where he is and throwing insults at them. Then, the team ends up in battle with the group of Pokémon involved in Squirtle's kidnapping. The game appears to take place in the real world, as when all enemies are defeated, they will cave in to the group's demands and tell them a real world location that Aerodactyl is headed to. In each new area, the player will typically come across a new Pokémon that decides to join their team (it is currently unknown if this aspect is included in the English version). After each battle and cinematic, a map comes up that depicts real world continents, and a small plane is shown flying from the team's current location to their destination.

Releases[]

Three unique versions of this game are known to have been released, with two being in Chinese and one being in English. The two Chinese versions bear different titles on their title screens: 神奇宝貝2000 - Super 皮卡啾 and 神奇宝貝2000 - Super 格鬥王. In addition to the different titles, the appearance of Pikachu also differs between the two versions, with the "Super 皮卡啾" version featuring normal Pikachu sprites in the intro, title screen, and battle screen, while the "Super 格鬥王" version edits them to add ear patterns, whiskers, a stomach pouch, and a slightly different tail shape to Pikachu. The "Super 格鬥王" version is confirmed to have been released on a standalone cartridge. The "Super 皮卡啾" version is included on the Super Color 25-in-1 multicart, where it is named "Pokemon Stadium" on the menu, although it is unknown if it ever got a standalone cartridge release.

The English version of this game is known to exist on the Super Color 40-in-1 and Super Color 100 in 1 multicarts, where it is also named "Pokemon Stadium" on the menu. This version uses the name Pocket Monsters Pikachu Stadium on the title screen, and all text is translated into English. Also of note is that this version features a normal Pikachu sprite like in the "Super 皮卡啾" variant of the Chinese version.

All known releases of this game are currently not dumped and are unable to be emulated due to them using strong copy protection that as of writing, has not been understood.

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Trivia[]

  • Both the Chinese single cart and English multicart version of this game are compatible with monochrome Game Boy systems.
  • The dialogue in the English version of this game contains a decent amount of swearing, including strong language such as "shit", as well as milder language such as "damn" and "hell".
  • Based on the map that appears before entering a new location in this game, it can be inferred that Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle reside in Japan. This is possibly a nod to the fact that Pokémon is a franchise created by a Japanese company (Game Freak).
    • Since an airplane is used to show where the player's team is about to go on the map, and it is depicted to travel between different continents presumably separated by water, it can be assumed that Pokémon in this game's world are capable of traveling on air flights by themselves.
  • The box art used for the standalone Chinese release of this game is an edited version of the cover art for the Japan-only Nintendo 64 game Pocket Monsters Stadium (not to be confused with the game released as Pokémon Stadium outside of Japan), which makes various edits to the Pokémon to distinguish them from their original counterparts.
  • This game uses music from Jinsei Game Densetsu for Game Boy by Takara. This soundtrack is also used in Good Life's Monster Dragon Tactics Card.

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